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Advertisers Will Find Our Col umns a Latchkey to over 1,<M Homes of Martin Oomsty. Watch the Label ea Yaw Paper, as It Carries the Date Your Subscription Expires VOLUME XLI?NUMBER 72 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday. September 9. 1938. ESTABLISHED 1899 Did Landmark Gives Way To The March Of Progress Here Site for New Postoffice Has Interesting Historical Background The old Bagley home, the last of the old historical landmarks on Wil liamston's main street, will bow to the march of progress within (he next few Mays when workmen will clear the site for a new $78,000 post office building. A deed to the prop erty has been transferred to the government by Frederick Hoyt, the late owner, who has thirty days to clear the old structure from the lot. Mr. Hoyt plans to move the house within a short time and locate it on the Knight property on Watts street. The transfer of the property re calls to record many historical events of wide purport thattrans^ pired during the greater part of the nineteenth century. Coming here from one of the counties across the sound at the turn of the eighteenth century, Doc trin W. Bagley entered into the var ious phases of community life About 1820 he built the old home, and it was the canter of progress for a long number of years Mr Bag ley, a great churchman and busi ness leader, operated one of the lar gest mercantile establishments in the county for some time near the old home. He was a pillar of strength in the Methodist church, and was one of the founders of the old Williamston Academy about the year 1818 A son, William Bagley, was an in telligence officer in the Confederate army, and a greater part of the spy records were brought here by him and packed away in a small out house About 1902, the late W T Ward had some tobacco stored in the small building and unofficial re ports maintain that the structure was fired, destroying the building and all the contents including the spy records Walter L. Main's ejr cus was showing here that night and the fire almost broke up the show, according to Warren H Biggs, the county's present unofficial historian Mr Bagley later moved to Tarboro He died about 1897. A daughter. Helen Bagley, mar ried Captain Clements, and two chil dren were born to that union, the late Walter Clements who left here and located in Battle Creek, Mich., and the late Mrs Bettie Clements Simpson, widow of John Simpson Mrs. Simpson died at the old home just a few years ago, breaking the continued occupancy by members of the Bagley family About 1880, Henry B. Short bought the property, but the heirs contin ued to live there, and when Mr. Simpson married Bettie Clements, he purchased the property Follow ing Mrs Simpson's death the heirs sold the property to Frederick Hoyt Just before or during the Civil War, Margaret Hopkins came from Arkansas to visit the Hagleys, Mr. Warren H. Biggs, recalling the story of the unusual visit, stating that she planned to remain only a few days, but at the end of forty years she was still a guest in the house When she died she was buried in the family lint near the railroad adjoining the p.no^ierty on the rear Elect Leaders In Methodist Church The roilUUihg were?elcetud leadership in the local Methodist church at the session of the fourth quarterly conference Thursday: Mrs. D. N. Hix, general superin tendent of the church school: Mr. Wheeler Manning, superintendent of the adult division; Mr. D V. Clay ton, superintendent of the young people's division; Miss Martha Leg gett, superintendent of the chil dren's division. The trustees of the church property are composed of the following. Mr. J. S. Whitley, Mr. J. E. Pope, Mr R. A. Critcher and Mrs. L. B Harrison. The stewards are as follows: Mr. R. S Critcher, Mr. J. E. Pope, Mr. J. E. Boykin, Mr. D. V Clayton, Mrs. Tom Bran dan, Mum Martha Leggett, Mr. Wheeler Manning, Mr. J. H. Dixon, Mr. Wheeler Gardner, Mr. D. N Hix and Mr.,William Harrison. The missionary committee is com prised of the following: Mrs. L B. Harrison, Mrs. W. J. Watts, Mrs. Marvin Britton and Mrs J. H. Dix on. The local board of-christian edu cation is composed of the following in addition to all superintendents in the various departments of the Sunday school: Wheeler Gardner, i. E. Boykio and W. A. Daniels. Miss Martha Leggett was re-elected di rector of the Golden Cross hospitali sation work. Mr. Wheeler Manning was elected recording steward and Mr. D. V. Clayton was elected dia tricl steward for the ensuing year. Plan Exte?isive Tuberculosis Sui*vey in the County Schools I Approved by the county board of health and the Martin County Medi , cal Society, an extensive study of < school children for tuberculosis will I get underway in the high schools | next week, county health authori ties announced today. | Children above 12 years of age and those who have had tuberculo 1 sis in their families and those who ' have suspicious symptoms will be eligible for examination. All such I children except those whose par l ents or guardians make written re quest that their children be exempt ed are studied as follows: First the tuberculin test (which is entirely harmless) is given to each child to be studied Nothing further is done to those children whose tests are negative. On those who give a positive tuberculin reaction, a fam | ily and personal history is obtain ed and an x-ray picture of the chest is taken. This will be made possible ! through the extension department of 1 the North Carolina Sanatorium in I cooperation with the local doctors. The tuberculin tests will be made ' in the schools. After all the x-ray 1 pictures are read a report on each child will be furnished to the health officer, who will send a notice of the finds to the parents as to the presence or absence of tuberculosis. ! The parents are urged to take the child to the family physician for a general (examination and for final advice. All parents who are able to do so will be asked to pay $1.00 for their child's x-ray This will help pay for the film, the use of the x-ray ma chine and other incidental expenses. Martin Farmers Plant In Excess Of Quotas I MORE CONTROL "They reduced my acregr considerably, and the weather reduced my production even ntore," a tobacco farmer said here this week. Continuing he explained that while some were t rumbling about control, he was in fivnr <?t mam nnntrnl tHnt eae? m v xsa xra ittvtr wttriini lunt he would be (tad to reduce his plantings to two medium-length rows if he thought it would make the buying companies real anxious to buy his tobacco. "Apparently the companies are fighting control, and if they are, we farmers should fight bark by supporting control, and making control more complete," the same farmer reasoned. Cafe Grades in This County Are Showing Much Improvement General Ratings Are Now Ten Per Cent Higher Than in February Cafe ratings in Martin County , I continue to improve .the August re- j port just released by Sanitarian] Charles Leonard showing a rank 10 pei Tent higher than the One for last] I February. "It is interesting to note ! that the average grade for the res taurants of the county is now 84 5 as compared with 73 last February." ] Sanitarian Leonard said, express ing his appreciation for the coopera tion given by the cafe proprietors in a concerted effect to maintain high standards of sanitation a/id efficien cy iyi their establishment! Five cafes arc included in the "A" group for August, the Welcome Inn ! maintaining a rate of 93.0 to lead the county for the second consecutive I month. Ratings of 90.0 were record ed for Leggett's, Paul Jones', Rober son's Cafe and Pug's Mill Cafe The ratings in the "B" group are as follows: Jim's Quick Lunch (Roberaon ville), 88.0; Big Apple Cafe (color ed. Robersonville), 825; Sparrow's, 61.5; Sunny Side Inn, 81.0. Jim's Place (Robersonville warehouse cafe), 81.0, and Bullock's Lunch, (Robersonville), 80 5 Grade C: Atlantic Hotel, 78.5; Bul lock's Cafe (Robersonville), 76.5; Glass Lunch Room (Jamesville), 72.0, and Rumba Dream (colored), 74.5. j.?Rating a grade of 50,0. the White hurst Cafe in Robersonville was ask (ed to close until State regulations were met, the inspector explaining I that improvements there are being made Renovations are being made to the Dunning Place, George Reynolds Hotel and Williamston Cafe, and no grades were released for the per iod 1 New Type Slot Machine Appears In This State The 1939 model of slot machines has made its appearance in the State reports coming from Wilson stating that the new type machine is going strong there. Described as a machine without a slot, the new type contraption is ex pected by some to defy the law. Pat terned, according to the report, af ter the pin machine it la operated through the owner of an establish ment. The owmer accepts the oper ating fee and handles the pay off t / Compliance Check About Completed In Martin County Tobacco Production Small Despite Excess Plantings The marked reduction in current tobacco production in Martin Coun ty is not due to any appreciable ex tent to the government's control program, it was' unofficially learn ed this week following the near completion of compliance checking by supervisors in all of the ten town ships It is apparent, judging from the supervisor's findings that the marked production decrease is at tributable in the main to unfavor able weather conditions, but many farmers are expressing the belief that the control program is respon sible for it all. No official tabulation has been made o^the land measurements, but it is reliably estimated that the Martin County farmers exceeded I their tobacco acreage quotas by ten per cent. Instead of stopping when they planted their allotment of about 11,000 acres they continued the work and harvested a crop of slightly more than 12,000 acres The increased acreage will newer be felt in the production records because unfavorable weather exacted a heavy toll in poundage, few farm ers raising more than Oil pet cent of a normal crop. Planting their peanuts, many far mers overstepped their allotments a row or two, and it is estimated that the acreage will exceed the allot mpnta hy ahont five per cent Ihe county had a total peanut allotment I of approximately 18,324 acres, and it is estimated that more than 10,000 | have been planted to the crop. Pea nut production is uncertain, most i farmers explaining the outlook is for a small crop, farmers, while doubtful about the quality of the crop, state that they have found very few peanuts on the vines. One farmer stated he made a count and found only ten on a number of vines. Splendid cooperation was found when it came to cotton allotments, the unofficial reporu indicating tnai Martin farmers fell as much as 20 per cent below the assigned quota. Instead of planting 7,134 acres to cotton, they, planted less than 8,000 acres, it is estimated In most of those cases where the plantings ex ceeded the allotments, farmers hur ried to their fields with stalk cut ters and plows to bring their acre I ages into line with the program re j quirements. A story maintaining that one farmer hated to stop the j destruction work after bringing his | plantings into line has reached the office of the county agent "There'll be very little cotton produced in the ] cfninty this year." farmers report generally While the excess plantings of to bacco and peanuts are not expected to effect production increases, they are likely to be felt by farmers when time comes for making soil conser vation payments. .j Supervisors, with the exception of a few scattered farms, have complet ed the compliance check-up. The supervisors received a splendid co operation from farmers, it was pointed out. Only three farmers in the county refused to have their lands measured, the agent's office withholding those names. Those far mers will receive their regular to bacco allotments, but it is likely they will have trouble marketing their cotton tax free, it is understood. Schools Of County About Adjusted To Operating Schedule Some Have Too Many and Some Haven't Enough Students Completing the first week of the new term on Wednesday, the Martin County schools have just about ad justed their activities to the oper ating schedule, but various reports i reaching the county superinten dent's office here show that several I of the principals are still having their ups and dowrts. some worrying because they have too many chil dren and some troubled because they haven't enougli The schools, while proceeding with a regular schedule of instruc tion, are marking time while attend ance averages are built up during the first two weeks of the term. It is likely that an gddiUfmei teacher, will be made available in the James'ville school where the second grade has bubbled over with a rec ord-breaking attendance. Starting off with 63 pupils enrolled, the num ber of pupils had passed the seven ty mark when Principal Jim-Uzzle filed a last report An appeal has already been made to the State commission, urging Chairman Lloyd Griffin to take immediate steps to remedy the situation "Record your attendance averages during the first two weeks and we will do the beet we can for you at the end of that time," Mr Griffin advised the school ! authorities. 1 No late reports are available, but Martini to the last information ] coming out of Hamilton, the school ; there may lose a teacher | Oak City, losing a few pupils to Hobgood temporarily, reports slight I increases in its attendance Busses operating out of Hobgood inlo the Oak City territory during the first few days of the term have been stopped, it was learned yesterday Moderate increases in attendance have been reported in most of the schools throughout the county in cluding a majority of the plants for colored children Rubersonville re ports a gain of 22 pupils?14 in the high and eight in the elementary de partment. 1 Incomplete reports coming in from a number of the colored schools in dicate a substantial increase in at I tendance figures for the first sever al days Williamston, with 560 en rolled. reports an increase of nearly 100 over the attendance for the first five days of last term Cotton pick i ing is likely to effect an attendance I decrease in some sections shortly, and if the decrease is too great classes will be suspended in a num her of the colored schools, but so fat the schools continue crowded in 1 most instances Critically Hurt In Fall From A Mule Noah Roberson, about twelve years old, was critically hurt when he fell fr'?m a mule n*M?r of his parents, Mr and Mrs. Lewis Roberson, in the Farm Life com-j munity of Griffins Township last! Wednesday morning about 8 o'clock.. Removed to a Washington hospital j after receiving first-aid treatment] here shortly after the accident, the] youth was said to have suffered a slight sfjbi?rk vpgtprHay?afternoon when he had a chill. He was report ed to be holding his own today, and is expected to recover if no com plications set in. Riding on the back of a mule, the boy fell off into the path of a to bacco truck hitched to the mule. Some part of the truck struck his head and fractured the skull NO POISON I Experimenting with three guinea pigs, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported this week that it found no trace of poison in the home-made medi cine concocted by Geo. Barnes, Tarboro colored man, and given to Chancy Williams, colored wo man, near Hamilton, about the middle of last month. It is pos sible that the "medicine," giv en under certain conditions, caused the death of the woman, . but on the strength of the F. B. I. report, officers will strike from the warrant the poison charge and give Barnes a pre liminary hearing in October on the eount of practicing medi cine without license. Barnes, said to have "practic ed" on a large scale in Edge combe Connty, Is at liberty un to a IX,*M bond. Local Employment Agency Finds Jobs for 1,187 People Since opening last fall the local office of the N C. State Employment i service has placed 1,187 people in .jobs*..both public^nd private. These I figures represent job placements in 1 a wide variety of occupations, in i eluding men and woman and young er people, of both races. During the past three weeks the Wilhamston office has placed ap | proximately 140 people in jobs, i mostly in regular employment. These placements are distributed ov | er the five-county area served by I this office, including Martin. Beau I fort. Washit%ton, Tyrrell and Hyde Total registrations; or applications, taken in the Wilhamston office, have been about 2,900 in its period of operation since opening the office in the Town Hall building last October. With a considerable number of | public works projects now in oper | ation, together with some school buildings, improvements and muni-] I cipal improvement program, partic ularly in Beaufort County, soon to I get underway the local employment j office is expecting a large increase I in applicants for jobs being placed | in employment in the near future Registration service is given at regular intervals at the designated public placbs in each of the main community _ centers over the five county area, and on these days ap plicants for work, and plaimants for unemployment compensation appear to register and to file their claims. Increasing demands from private business, resulting in many appli ] cants being placed in private em ployment. have featured the work I of the Williamslon office in recent weeks Enforcement Biire"au Sets Up New Record Twenty Plants Are Wrecked In Comity! During Past Month r ?? . Increase in County Liquor Traffic Is Nipped In the Bud $ An all-time record for the en forcement of the liquor laws in this coupty was established by officers and special agents during the month of August, a review of the report released this week by Special En forcement Officer J. H Roebuck for the period shows. The apparent attempt to reestab lish the illicit liquor traffic on a large scale in the county met with almost complete failure before the, concerted drive conducted by offi-' cers in nearly everyone of the ten townships. Reliable reports maintain1 I that activities in the illicit liquor j trade are almost at a standstill" at the present time. Enforcement offi cers, while reporting no public ac tivities, are still on the job, and plans are well underway to supple ment .the present group of officers feder with federal agents. During the past month, the offi-1 cers captured and wrecked twenty, liquor plants. The previous record ! for any one month was fifteen stills. | I Nearly 6,000 gallons of beer, 56 gal | Ions of bootleg liquor and fifteen | gallons of legal liquor were config i cated I Nine arrests were effected, most' I of them coming at the reta'i end of j the business. Five of the nine de fendants have been convicted in the courts, three are awtrHtng trial land one was adjudged noi guilty. Since the first of the month, thei I officers have wrecked two liquor, plants, one in Hamilton and one'in Jamesville Township. Several hun dred gallons of beer were poured | out. | Handling the extensive raids dur I ing the hot month of August requir jed the services of all county officers, the special representative of the Martin County Alcoholic Beverages I Control Board and an assistant and la federal agent. ? Small Child Loses Two Fingers In Accident Four-year-old Jerry Savage, sonj of Mr and Mrs. LeRoy Savage, of near here, lost two of his fingers yesterday morning when he struck1 a dynamite cap with a hammer on the door steps of thSavagp bflmi | The palm of the little fellow's left hand was badly torn also The fin-1 gers were amputated at the first i joint. He was reported to be getting along very well today. Jerry's younger sister was receiv ing medical treatment in the offices of Drs. Saunders and Brown when he was carried there to have his hand patched up. Fellowship Meeting In Church Here Wednesday The one day of Fellowship meet ing for this district will convene with the Macedonia Christian church next Wednesday at 10:00 and con cludes at 3:30. Every disciple in this district should be in attendance for this meeting is really a bird's eye view of the total program of the Brotherhood in the state and world. ? Mr and Mrs. Sam Morford and daughter, of Kinston, are spending the week-end here with friends. I APPROVES ROAD The construction of the road from the Old Mill Inn to J. Home Corey's in the Farm Life section of Griffins Township was formally approved this week by District Highway Commissioner it. C. Barnes, of Murfreesboro Citizens of the county, visiting Mr. Barnes day before yester day, were advised that engin eers will be assigned to the proj ect within a short time for a sur vey of the route. It could not be learned when construction work will get un derway but it is thought that the project may be Included in the next highway letting. Increase In Number Of Diphtheria Cases Reported In County Activities of the County Health Department For August Finding an increase in the num ber of diphtheria cases in the cottn-. ty last month, health department forces are again urging all parents to have their children protected. ?There were eight cases of diphtheria ty last month None of the group had been given the diphtheria toxoid al though protection was offered in all parts of the county just u short time before. protection, the head of the county health department said: "Every infant should have diph theria toxoid given at six months of age Babies rarely show even the) slightest reaction from the protect ive treatment. The time between ex posure to the disease and the onset j of symptoms is usually from two to] seven days. In view"of the fact that! it requires from six weeks to three] months for the diphtheria toxoid to reach its maximum protection, chil-l dren should be given the toxoid as| soon afi possible. Barents are urged to have their babies immunized by their family physician or at the health department. "Blood tests, vaccinations against smallpox, and immunization against diphtheria and typhoid fever will be given at the health department offices on each Saturday morning from 8:30 a. m. to 12:00 noon." ?In addition to the eight diphtheria) cases, the health department in Au gust recorded 20 cases of whooping cough, two cases of scarlet fever, one measles case and one cast' of ty phoid Nearly 200, or 181 blood tests were made, the monthly report showing 38 of them to be positive Instead of holding the veneral dis ease clinic* here each Saturday morning the health department is handling that work each Thursday trftcrnooii No chaTTgir m the "BChed^ ule was made for the one at Rober-' sonville. The clinics are attracting capacity numbers each week, the| head <?f the department said. Indianapolis Man To Lead Church Conference Here I A Ifxal church conference will be held in the Wilhamston Christian church next Tuesday at 8:00 with Dr William R Holder of Indianap olis leading the conference. Every member of the church is urged to tie present 1 State Tobacco Quota Is Slightly Raised to Remove Inequalities Total of Nine Millions Is Added to Allotments In Three States The farm administration an nounced this week adjustments had I been made in the flue-cured tobacco marketing quotas of Virginia, North , Carolina and Georgia, adding an ag gregate of 9,011,000 pounds of to ! bacco on which no penalty tax will | have to be paid in those states. | Georgia, where the crop already has been marketed, received an ad justment of 3,449,000 pounds; Vir ginia, 3,406,000 pounds, and North Carolina, 2.156,000 pounds. The adjustments were ordered by Secretary Wallace because mini nium marketing allotments for small launs absorbed too great a caused inequities U> some larger firm-. Quotas in other flue-cured states South Carolina, Florida and Ala bama?were not changed. The adjustments in Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia raised the national flue cured tobacco mar keting allotment, invoked under the new farm act, from 739,068,000 pounds to 748.079.000 pounds. All tobacco sold in excess of quo tas is subject to a penalty tax of 50 ' per, cent Quota adjustments" in the three states were for farms on which to-' hacco previously had been "grown; as the national allotment of 21,150, 000 pounds for new farms in all j states was not disturbed | The increases raised Virginia's quota for all farms from 65,458,000 pounds to 68,864,000 pounds; ^Torth Carolina's from 485,678,00(J to 487, 834,000 and Georgia's from 71.052, 000 to 74.502.000 In addition, Virginia has -an es timated quota allotment of 2,257, 000 pounds for farms on which flue cured tobacco is being gTdwn for the first time and North Carolina has approximately 9,256,000. The Georgia allotment for new farms ap proximated 5,266,000. Tobacco Sales Pass Two Million Mark .With large offerings today, the lo cal tobacco market passed the two million pound mark, reports from the warehouses at noon indicating -that- the sales would continue late? into the afternoon. When the sales were halted for lunch, several rows | third sale house was more than one third full anil farmers continued to I unload. While some exceptionally good av J erages have been made on the lodal . market this week, the price average has not yet reached a fancy figure, and while the farmers are not at all pleased, comparatively few of them are turning tags Large quantities of inferior tobacco are being offered, but in most cases where the price is not over five or six cents a pound, the growers are withdrawing the leaf and cat rymg it horn* for ferti fizei The surplus poundage; gained by removing such inferior quality, can be sold for five cents a pound. Keports from other markets clear ly indicate that the price range is about the same throughout the belt, farmers declaring that the gen eral average is disappointing for the most part. Increased prices are expected and farmers are eagerly awaiting them, but most growers are selling at a rapid pace. Quite a few have already disposed of their crops. Martin FarmersTo Vote On Control Martin County tobacco and cot ton farmers will voice their approv al or disapproval of the program fur production control at a referen dum to be held on or about Decem ber 15, it was announced this week by ttenry A Wallace, secretary-of agriculture Anticipating an increased surplus of both commodities this year, the secretary of agriculture ordered the referendum held. Two-thirds of the farmers are to favor the program if it is to continue next year. Unofficial reports maintain that acreage and poundage quotas "will possibly be released to the farmers before the vote is taken next De cember. Last year, Martin farmers voted 3071 to 40 for tobacco control and 1718 to 16 for the cotton pro glHli ? .7"',-' ? ' ?
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