The Enterprise
Published Every Tuesday and Friday by the
ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO.
WILLIAMS TON, NORTH CAROLINA
W. C. MANNING |
Editor ? 1908.1938
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
(Strictiy Cash in Advance)
IN MARTIN COUNTY
One year $1.
Six jnonths 1.
OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY
One year $2.
Six months 1.
No Subscript^in Received Under 6 Months
Advertising Rate Card Furnished Upon Request
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gress of March 3. 1878.
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Tuexday. May 2d, 1 V.<9.
Indifference and C.ureletinei*?
Prone to overlook our own indifference and
carelessness, it has been the custom to charge
the drunken driver with most of the slaughter
and nearly all the property damage on the pub
lic highways. No brief is held for the drunken
driver, but to get at the main source of trouble
and effect a reduction in the highway death
toll and accident record it is vitally important
that every automobile driver recognize his own
indifference to the laws of the road and check
on his own careless acts with an earnest desire
to start doing something right at home, so to
speak, in curbing a death toll and property loss
that are small compared with actual war rec
ords.
Three lives have been snuffed out on the
highways of the county so far this year, and
the drunken driver, reports maintain, figured
in none of them No attempt is made to assign
a definite cause for those deaths and the num
erous accidents that have followed in the course
of time, but it is quite reasonable to say that
carelessness anil indifference, one or the other
or both, were contributing factors to nearly ev
ery one of the deaths and most of the accidents.
Engrossed with our own thoughts, we hurry
along the street or highway giving little atten
tion to our driving and gambling with the
chances that multiply with each turn of the
wheel. With the shocking death toll laid before
us each month and at the close of the year and
with the knowledge that the automobile can
accomplish so much good and bring so much
pleasure behind the careful driver day in and
day out. it is difficult to understand why we so
often throw reason to the four winds and lose
ourselves in indifference the minute we get
under a steering wheel.
It isn't necessary to visualize the horrors of
the road or to travel expecting death to over
take us at the next curve, but it is necessary to
be conscious at all times of the rules of the road,
to exercise reason and remember there are 29.
999,999 other motorists who are just as much
entitled to the rights of the road as we are.
It is high time that we stopped talking so
much about the drunken driver and start do
lng something right at home to make our streets
and highways safer. There's the stop sign, oc
cupying just a small space and offering a mute
warning against impending danger, but enter
taining the all-important idea that we are the
only motorist on the road, we drive right on
through it We take issue with the speed limit
posted on the curve sign, and see if we can't
raise the figure a notch or two. We look with
distaste upon the rules and regulations of the
f-ii'i entertpining the unfounded and selfish
idea that they were imposed upon us to inter
rupt our inherit liberties and freedom rather
than throw a cloak of safety about us.
For Clean Sport
It is encouraging to those interested in clean
sport to note that Ray H. Goodmon, newly
elected president of the Coastal Plain Baseball
league, is taking action to curb cursing and
fighting at games in the circuit and to promote
| the game as a sport and stamp out the racket
1 feature.
While' it is all right for a team to strive for
i victory and for fans to support a team in its ef
j forts, it is unfortunate when they do just that
and overlook the sportsman-like features which
after all, are really more important than a mere
victory.
The Williarnston club is holding close to the
top in the league standings and while that feat
is important, it is really more encouraging to
; know that the club owners, manager and play
ers are appreciative of clean sport. Already, re
ports are cominig back to the town telling of
; the favorable comments the club owners, man
| ager and players are receiving from fans over
a wide area. ,
Fairness on the part of the club owners has
been expressed in actual deed when rain Checks
were honored at two games a few weeks ago.
While operating the club on a strictly business
like bases, the owners are mindful and apprecia
tive of all favors, small or large, and they are
striving to give full value for every penny re
ceived
When a league president values the sport in
the game and when operators of a club show
the interest in their patrons as the Lilley Bro
thers have shown then one can expect baseball I
to develop into a valuable asset for a town and
its people.
The new league president is to be commend
ed upon lus stand, and in return for their inter
est in bringing to the fans of this section a good
team and at the same time promoting fairness
and decency, the operate 1* of the Williarnston
club are deserving of a loyal support.
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t.ornlrmn tin? (.ausfs
To maintain the freedom and liberties which
make America different from other countries
111 the world, it will be well for everyone who
cherishes that freedom and those liberties to
condemn the causes that made those other
countries different from our own.
We can make little or no progress in main
taining our freedom and our liberties if we ig
nore the causes and fight the disease after the
death grip is fastened about us.
We may not be traveling in the right direc
tion now. but it was a well established fact that
we were traveling jnHhe wrong direction back
in the early period of this decade. With this
knowledge at hand, let us work to correct any
fallacies common to our present way of doing
things rather than fight to tear them all down
and return to a system that came very near
robbing us of our freedom, our liberties, our
everything and all but dumped us at the door
where Germans, Italians and Spaniards enter
ed
Advite Rett Method Of
Saving Tobacco Seed
In anticipation for next year'* to
bacco crop aelect the seed plants be
fore the tobacco is topped. Select
the plants that are typical of the va
riety planted with the leaves well
spaced on the stalk. Bag the selected
plants in 14 pound paper bags just
before the first bloom opens to pre
vent cross-pollution. Prune the
branches of the seed pod to three or
four in order to give room for devel
opment under the bag and apply the
bud worm bait to the seed pods be
fore bagging. One plant will pro
duce about one-half ounce of seed,
and for best results, the plants
should again be selected after the to
bacco is matured
NOTICE OF RE-SALE
Under and by virtue of an order
of re-sale of the Superior Court
Martin County in an action entitled
"Lillian Wynn et al v. Marina Wynn
et al". the undersigned commission
ers will, on the 3rd day of June, 1939.
at 12 o'clock. Noon, in front of the
Courthouse door Martin County of
fer for re-sale to the highest bidder
for cash, the following described
tract of land.
Located in Jamesville Township,
and bounded by Williamston and
Jamesville Raod, on front. Devil's
Gut on back. Smithwick land on one
side and W. C. Moore and others
land on the other side, and being
same land belonging to the late
Spencer Wynn. Containing 50 acres,
more or less.
This 19th day of May, 1939
B. A. CRITCHER.
m23-2t Commissioners.
NOTICE
I hereby prohibit any person or
persons, from cutting and selling any
timber or wood on or from the W
A. Peel farm, commonly known as
the Winbury farm, near Hamilton,
N C. Any individual found guilty
of this act will be duly prosecuted
P P PEEL.
Administrator of the
m2-4t W. A. Peel Estate.
BOND ORDER?Board of Commis
sioners of Martin County for Cross
Roads Township.
Be it ordered by the Board of
Commissioners of the County of
Martin, State of North Carolina
1. That bonds of Cross Roads
Township shall be issued in the ag
gregate principal amount of $50,
000.00 for the purpose of refunding
the following described valid out
standing bonds of said Cross Hoads
Township, to wit:
$50,000.00, 6 per cent Cross Roads
Township bonds, dated April 1st.
1921, due and payable $5,000.00
thereof on the 1st day of April, in
each of the years 1937, 1938, 1939,
1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 and
1946
2. A statement of the debt of Cross
Roads Township, Martin County,
North Carolina, has been filed with
the Clerk of the Hoard of Commis
sioners of Martin County and is open
to public inspection.
3. This order shall lake effect
upon its passage and shall not' be
submitted to the voters.
The foregoing order was finally
passed on the 1st day of May, 1939,1
and was first published on the 2nd
day of May, 1939. Any action or
proceeding questioning the validity
of said order must be commenced
within thirty (30) days after its]
first publication. -t
J. SAM GETSINGER.
Clerk of Board of County i
m2-9 Commissioners
NOTICE OF ELECTION
A special election for commission
ers and mayor is hereby called at
the regular polling place in the
town of Everetts, N. C? between
the hours of eight o'clock, a. m., and
sunset on Tuesday, the 6th day of
June, 1939, when the qualified vot
ers of the town of Everetts will bal
lot for a mayor and three
miasioners of said town for the two
yean next after their election.
James Staton Ayers, Jr., has been
selected to sit as Registrar at his
place of business in Everetts, and
S. W. Keel and Clarence Faulkner
will be the judges of election.
The registration books will be
open for the registration of any
new electors residing in the town
of Everetts and whose names do not
appear on the books, as follows:
Books will be open on Saturday,
the 13th day of May, 1939, and will
close on Saturday, the 27th day of
May, 1939
Books will be open on Saturdays
from nine o'clock, a. m., to Ove
o'clock, p. m., at the place of busi
ness of James Staton Ayers, Jr., the
Registrar. -/
Saturday, the 3rd day of June,
1939, will be known as challenge
day and the books will be open that
day for inspection between the
hours of nine o'clock, a. m, and
three o'clock, p. m.
By order of the Board of Commis
sioners of Everetta, North Carolina.
This the 24th day of April, 1939.
m2-4t Clerk.
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