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Watch The Label On Your Your Subscription E z p i r e a. Paper, As It Carries The Date THE ENTERPRISE Advertisers Will Find Our Col Homes Of M ? r t i a County. umni A Latchkey To Over 1.600 VOLUME XLIII?NUMBER 35 WUliamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tue$day, April 30, 1910. ESTABLISHED 1899 Two-Weeks' Term Of Superior Court Ended Here Friday Deed Upheld by the Court in Case of Williams Versus J. H. Harrell The special two*weeks term of the Martin County SupenorCourV caU ed for the trial of civil ca?f ?"ly (^'" SvarS the tribunal after getting .? to ? Slow start the 'tn'^eek accomplish ed much during the second week"* removing a goodly number of cases '^i.'rolTh.rd-fought cases and delayed decisions by the jurymen featured Z activities of the court cases hokhng the )urors^n session for against J. H Harrell, the jury, after deliberating five hours decded m favor of the defendant. Its verdict was accompanied by recommenda Uo", offered in behalf of the plain tiff however. In the first issue, the plaintiff have sufficient mental capacity on March 25, 1939. to ex ecute a deed to the defendant?' the ecuie a , the second jury answered Yes. 1 issue "Was the execution of homeland garden nowtKTup?d< hv the plaintiff. The jury recom provt^ t'heVa^ntiHw^h'mrtteiSnt a note by deed of trust or by cash settlement. and a mistrial ordered in the case of A. E James against Mrs Minnie Leggett 3"in"the"case of Fannie Hassell against J E. Pope, administrator of William Hassell. the court approved settlement of the estate by payment lb the plaintiff Reporting to the court that full ^ttlement could be effected at once, the administrator explained that a claim to a portion r Mctate had been tmtered toy <? B Williams, allegedly the mate son of William tffe Rdl^uate. reputedly valued at sets,1! mln^^'noT^he ? land versus Beliflower case, the to receive *284 eacn, j s-ii??heth aon and Ora Johnson and Elizabeth fngsagainst Leonard Holliday and M D Wilson was non-suited as to plaintiffs, a settlement having been reinhthebcater^mpanul D. Roberson rassse&s er^Cthe,Cplamt.ff to sell certain rhe cases '" p uJifferV Two Hurt In Truck Wrecks In County Two persons were painfully hurt and one or two others slightly scratched and bruised in two road accidents in the county last week end Property damage was listed slightly in excess of $150, Kenneth Harris, young grandson of Rev. Tom Harris, suffered a brok en collarbone last Friday afternoon when the car driven by the minister and in which the boy was riding, was struck by a Standard Oil Company truck driven by Theodore Gurgan us. Mr. Harris was driving from his home into North Haughton Street when the truck came over the crest of a hill and plowed into his car. Damage to the car was placed at $137 and that to the truck at $15. Last Saturday afternoon Mrs. Jane Perry, aged white resident of Wil liams Township, was painfully hurt when she was thrown from a horse drawn cart to the highway near Sweet Water Creek. She was able to be up yesterday, but it was said that she was suffering right much from the injury. Mrs Perry was thrown to the ground when the cart in which she was riding was struck by a log truck driven allegedly by W C. Bedwell. The truck driver did not stop and when he was arrested by Patrolman Whit Saunders, Bedwell declared that if he hit the cart he did not know it. Going in the same direction, the truck driven by Bed well is said to have sideswiped the cart on the curve just beyond the creek, the driver declaring that he could not have heard the impact as the truck was rattling badly. At a hearing before Justice Has sell here yesterday, Bedwell was bouhd over to the superior court for trial under a $100 bond. Reserved Juniors After Tomorrow After tomorrow evening, the 46 young girls and boys pictured above will be recognised as a group of reserved Juniors. The 1939-40 sophomore class is one of the largest In the history of the school. Seated?Joseph Gurganus. Robert Jones. Joseph Warren, James Car row, Theron Gurganus; J. B. Taylor. Jimmie l,eggett, fiennie Weaver, Frank Lil 'ey. Second?S. K. Edwards. Fatsy King, Alice Belle Jenkins, Betty Hoard, Nannie Manning, Beatrice Cherry, Sarah Grimes. Madelyn Taylor, Audrey Hardison. Mary O'Neal Fope. Annie Gurganus. Kena Howard. Evelyn Griffin, Mrs. S. R. Edwards: Third?Daisy Straw bridge. Betty Rose Gurgan us, Elisabeth Ward. Bessie Newbern; Fourth?Josephine Daniels, Mary Warren, Millie Biggs, Garnette Swanson, Nellie Gurganus, Mamie Coburn; Fifth?Emma Belle Ward, Myrtle Jones, Jack Sul livan; Sixth?Gelmer Gardner, Clarence Revels, Ellis Chesson. W. A. Roberson; Last?James Manning, Jim Critcher, George Cor ey, Irving Gurganus, Stephenson Grimes; Fabain Barnhili, Carlyle Langley, Irvin Cullipher. County Liquor Sales. Continue To Increase FOR COMMISSIONER -j Mr. C- C. Firming. Jamesville business man farmer, is a candi date to succeed himself ax coun ty commissioner for the James ville-Williams district. Youthful Singers Heard Here Friday Making their annual appearance in the local high school auditorium last Friday evening, members of the Oxford Orphanage Singing Class were well received by a huge and appreciative audience. Offering an entirely new program, the class of fourteen members headed by Mrs Sadie Hutchinson, executed their "parts well, especially the drills. While the attendance was large, it was not up to the mark reached a year ago when the youthful perform ers appeared here. There were com paratively few adults in the au dience, but thuse few along witn the children enjoyed the program. No admission fee was asked, but the audience and spenal .solicitations by leaders of the Skewarkey lodge, sponsors of the program, raised $90 as compared with $80 a year ago. Rev. John L. Goff led the assem bly in prayer and R II Goodmon, master of the local lodge, briefly ad dressed the audience and expressed his appreciation for the attendance and offering Making an early start the next morning, the class went to Hyde County's coastland to continue its tour of the state. Total Of $620,728.45 is Spent For Spirits Since Stores Opened l-iixl (Quarter Sale* Arc lairgt-r Were u Year Ago I.egal liqu?r consumption in Mar Triv County for the first quarter ttrtr year measured in terms of dollars was $6.312.20 larger than it was in "the?first "Three months or Itnjt), the recent sales being the second largest for any first quarter on record since the stores were opened in July, 1935 It is estimated that the four legal liquor stores sold nearly 5,000 gal lons of the liqtud during the three months or about 950 gallons more than were sold In the first three months of last year. Measured in terms of barrels, the last quarter sales stood right at 100 or 19 more than the sales for January, Febru ary and Mutch of 1939 A break-down of the audits for the first quarter in 1939 and the corre sponding period in 1940 shows the comparative sales for the two per iods, as follows by stores: 1939 1940 Williamston $13,705.25 $16,303,85 Robersonville 6,581 40 9,331.15 Oak City 2,889.10 3,364.35 Jamesville 2 231.30 2,719 90 Totals $25,407.05 $31,719 25 On tlie profit side of the ledger, the legal stores during last quarter made their second best showing for the particular period since the stores were opened nearly five year# ago The total profits now stand at $137, 585.41, the last quarter earnings amounting to $7,703.77 as compared with $5,768.68 a year ago. The last quarter profits were slightly larger than they were for the correspond ing period in 1938 when the sales to taled $33,325.62 Net profit, reported by stores, is as follows lor tne IkSl qukilel. WII liamston, $4,257.58; Robersonville, $2,207 58; Oak City, $723.29; James ville, $515.32. The apportionment of profits is shown in the audit for the period as follows: Town of Williamston, $813.35; Town of Robersonville, $485.38; Oak City, $167.89; James ville, $135.77; Martin County, $3, 183 81; Reserve for law enforcement, $529.57; State of North Carolina, $2, (Continued on page six) Farmers Make Plans to Start Setting Leaf Crop This Week Their operations delayed by unus ually cold weather during the past week or ten days, Martin County far mers today are making preparations for the transplanting of their tobac co crop on an extensive scale. Re ports from the field late yesterday and today point to a busy period in the tobacco fields beginning the lat-j ter part of this week. However, the plans now being advanced are sub ject to two possible factors of an ad verse nature. Blue mold can upaet transplanting plans and cold wea ther can cause further delays. Attacking plant beds in spots ra ther than eausing damage in whole communities, the blue mold this sea son is proving a baffling problem. One farmer, reporting an conditions in his community, stated that he had several beds, that blue mold had attacked one and had not appeared in the others. In the one bed where the mold was present an extensive damage resulted, the farmer stating that the plants were killed down to the bud, that a delay of two weeks in transplanting was certain even if the plants survived the attack. The damage caused by the mold is said to be more disastrous this year than at any time since 1931, Several farmers, starting to trans plant their crops, were forced to stop before they were half done with the task, the blue mold reducing their plant beds to mere scalded spots. Individuals are certain to exper ience a shortage of plants, but this county as a whole is almost certain to have an ample supply unless the blue mold damage becomes more .widespread and more disastrous Reports state that transplanting ac tivities are fairly general over a widely scattered area in the county at this time. CANDIDATE Mr. Joshua L. Coltrain, until recently a member of the Mar tin County Welfare Board and former county commissioner, is a candidate fbr commissioner from the Jamesville-Wllliams district. Two WPA Projects Arc Still Pending Plans for enlarging the public cemetery and extending water and sewer lines -here in cooperation with the Works Progress Administration are still pending, Engineer Henry Rivers said yesterday. Maps and cost estimates have been placed in the hands of WPA district office but no report has been made by that or ganization's engineers. However, it was learned that prog ress was being made proposed project calling for the extension of the public cemetery and that its ac ceptance by the Raleigh and Wash ington offices was expected. The project calling for the extension of local watfr :inH vi.u/f.r u/n? r.nt. lined by the town engineer and en tered with the WPA office on April 12th. I A&ked ibuui the?progress being made on the street improvement project already underway in coop eration with the WPA, the town en gineer said that the workers were moving about as fast as they gener ally do on similar projects in other towns. Democrats Plan T o Participate In Conventions While no treat interest has been expressed in scheduled Democratic precinct meetings for May 4, reports state that the county convention in the court house here will attract poseibiy a record attendance on Saturday, May iL There may be no factional fight centered on a third-term movement for Roosevelt, but Martin County Democrats, if preliminary reports are to be considered, are planning to take no chance and will attend the county convention in numbers with the definite idea of sup porting a third -term movement for Roosevelt. Other reports state that more interest is being shown in organisational polities than in years. Martin County is entitled to 26 votes in the State Convention convening in Raleigh on Friday, May 17, and it Is believed that a large delegation will represent Martin County there. Local High School Closes 19411 Term Tomorrow Night Dr. Frank. Graham To Deliver Commencement \?lilre*? \i 8:15 o'C.loek The local high school w ill bring i ta a successful close the 1939-40, term tomorrow evening at 'a I o'clock when the thirty-four grad- , uates receive their diplomas and join with their parents and patrons in hearing Dr. Frank Porter Graham, nationally known educator and Uni versity of North Carolina president. deliver the commencement address The appearance of Dr. Graham on the program is to be recognized as a climax in the high school career of the twenty-one young ladies and thirteen young men. It is the first appointment for the university man m this county and a record attend ance upon the exercises is anticipat ed Members of the graduating class of Williamston High School for 1940 are Misses Virginia Williams. Lily Belle Hardison. Ray Leggett. Nancy Biggs. Maude Taylor. Caro lyn Lindsley, Katherine Manning, Marjorie Grey Dunn. Lucile Cowan, i Mary Ruth Ward. Eleanor Brown. Anne Ruth Moore. Edna Earle James. Louise Grimes, Janie New ton. Mary Gwen Osborne, Dare Perry, Marie Perry, Grace Jones, Katherine V ork, Monteria Hardison aiul Warren Pope, Raymond Rawis. Juan (. rot ton, Joseph Thigpen, J E Uoykin. Stuart Critcher. Haywood Wynne. K "T TTardTsoh. Martin Anderson. A. v M .noitiii j naiuiavui, thur Anderson. Jerry Manning. Frank Weaver, JamesJ3am?i?hchoU_ sonTXiUle Bobby Manning is mas Thts evening at 8 15 o'clock in the high school auditorium, the seniors will hold their class exercises which "will be centered around the theme. ?America's Place in the World " The program follows Introduction by class president, E Boykin; Salutatorian, Marjorie Dunn, "America's Place in the World ". Class history. Stuart Critch "Pi-ogress of school Athletics. Jo scph Thigpen: UovernnieilT.Tt Boil ics Carolyn Lindsley, Clubs. Maude Taylor; Solo, "The Trumpeti-cr. . Juan Crofton, Prophecy: Prophecy, Nancy lligg*. ? Snirit of America," Janie Newton; Agi n ulturr; Hay wnmT =Wyrmrr Church, Edna Earle James, Democ racy, Lucile Cowan; Unemployment, Dare Perry, Medicine. Ruth Moore; Last Will and Testament, Martin Anderson; Announcement of Class Gift class president; Class Song, sen ior class; Valedictorian, Katherine Manning, "The Promise of Tomor row" "God Uless America, Au dience. The program for the graduation exercises tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock was nil used today t? Pi"'~ el lint D. N. Hix. as follows Processional. Girls' glee club, sen iors, seventh grade, "Lullaby. Mo zart, Girls' gjee club; "Soldiers of the Captain," Spohr, Boys quartet, introduction of speaker, EU? i I *? Peel; commencement address, ui Frank Porter Graham, president Uni versity of North Carolina; Presentation of Diplomas, presen tation of certificates of merit; presen tation seventh grade certificates, an -nouuu mint uf special aw-mls. Hugh Horton; benediction. Paul Auto Supply Firm Locates Here The Paul Auto Supply Company, one of the largest distributors of au touiohlle parts and accessories in the State, is opening a store in the Bow en Brothers building hen on Wash ington Street tomorrow Mr Frank F. Siephenson, until recently head of oL the company's branch in Green ville, will be in charge of the new store here, it was announced. Handling a wholesale business only the company will stock a complete line of automobile parts in its store here and offer an improved and quicker service to local patrons and to those who can be ideally served from this, a recognized logical dis tribution center. Registrations Off To Slow Start in County SPEAKER Paul Ciradv. one of the seven democratic candidates for gov nor, will deliver the Farm l.ifc commencement address Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock Rev. Jas. H. Smiill Delivers Sermon to Local Senior ('lass Atlcmluticc Report for Sun day Schools ami livening Srrvirrs (riven REV. JOHN IIAKHY, Rector. Church Of The Advent The people of Williarnstoo were not given ^an opportunity on Sunday by the weather h> have a religious icution hut many of them took ad- I intage of the union service at thof high school to declare line 11 is the custom each year for all of the churches to dispense with their morning service on the Sunday that the baccalaureate sermon is preach 'd at the high si Inml This is a heircr tiful spirit on the part of the relig ions bodies, to honor the seniors, yet the spirit is marred by the i'uiluie of many to attend the service There was a fair attendance Sunday, the auditorium being about two thirds full. The Rev. James Smith of the Bap tist Church preached a most force ful sermon. He challenged the sen iors and the other young people pres cut with the theme of "Christ and the Young People of Today The service began with a proces sion by the choir and Seniors, sing ing "God of Our Fathers " After the procession, Miss Ellen Taylor sang the "Lord's Prayer." hv Malollc^The cHoir and congregation then sang, "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name " The scripture reading and prayer were by tin- Rev. John Hardy. For the special music the girls' trio, com posed of Misses Catherine Mewborn, Cut hi nnr Manning and Elizabeth Parker, sang Mendelssohn's "Lift Thine Eyes to the Mountains"; and the mixed, chorus sang Gevaert's "The Sleep of the Child Jesus " After thi' sermon ihe choir and congregation sang, "Fairest Lord Jesus." Mr Smith pronounced the benediction and the choir and Sen iors marched out in recession. The highlights of the service, which were well' planned ami minim led, wen? the sermon and the special music The attendance -at the scrvi'ce^-m the various churches Sunday was as I ollows ch Y.P. P.M. Baptist 125 18 49 Holiness 101 40 Presbyterian Episcopal Methodist 78 30 60 Christian 117 65* | ? -Combined Y.P. an<J P M ser ! /ices conducted by Mr. Arthur Bei - j olet. Only 1,360 Citizens Register In County Precincts Saturday Voting Sirrngtli Will Hardly lie liiiilt I p in Time For May Primary Martin County's voting power, re duced to zero by the order of a new registration, will hardly be built back to anything like a representa tive size in time for the May 25 pn mary judging horn tin- first reports coming from the precincts last Sat ui day. Before the books were closed last Saturday 1.300 citizens had reg istered. the number representing hardly one third of the voting pow er actually expressed in the June. 1038. primary. Political observers de clared the early activities at the reg istration points were disappointing, that unless more interest is shown in the registration, western North Carolina Republicans are certain to make a marked gain in the coming November election. No registration troubles were re potted last Saturday, but in William ston's Precinct No. 2 several com plaints were heard, one report stat ing that the registrar was testing the qualifications of each person re porting to enter his name on the books. 7t was unofficially reported that a dozen or more were unable to qualify to the satisfaction of the reg istrar Parly reports from the registration imwaiV thai llie LJeniucTalic Parly ' is gaining a considerable portion of the Negro voting power so far ex pressed in the registration. Last Sat urday, 1.287 white citizens declared with the Democratic Party, nine colored persons lining up with the party in Williamson's No. 2 Precinct mhis name'were listed in the Republican books. An independent registration ?reported ui Kuhrrsonvillo:?but according to instructions received by the registrars last week the name I) K l> R 117 7 0 1 45 0 0 0 80 0 0 U 91 3 0 0 137 1 . n I) 183 3 9 0 130 0 0 0 235 8 0 0 42 (I 0 0 45 0 0 0 Q 49 1 0 ?u u 55 0 0 0 1270 23 9 1 *imiv no i'ii tered in the general .election regis tration books and nothing will be heard from him in the primary on Saturday. May 25 A review ??f the last Saturday reg istrations follows, bv precincts jf, White Colored Precinct Jame.sville W illiarns Griffins Bear Grass Williamston 2 Cross Roads ttobersonville Gold Point Poplar Pomt Hamilton Hassell Goose Nest Totals y That the new registration will fall Far short of the voting strength evi :lenced in the old registration books is expected, but judging iroin the first Saturday registration the coun ty's voting strength will be reduced more than sixty per cent when com l<ared with a full count of the names on the old books. Just before the old books were ruled out by an election board order calling for ,i new registration, there were 7,479 names on the registration book.* in Pn * rountyi The number in ? dude* tin nanus of those who have moved---away and-those- who have passed on to thru reward Poasihlv? i re-listing of the voters' names would have automatically reduced the number to u figure little larger than 6,000 or thereabouts. As far as (t can be learned no new registration wis been hold in this county for a general election in more than forty years However, the !>ooks have been altered from time to time to remove the names of those who had died or moved away. The alterations did not (Continued on page six) Commerce Croup Seeks Law To Curb Peddling - Soliciting Holding their monthly meeting last evening, the directors of the local Chamber of Commerce discussed the need for a law regulating peddling and soliciting in some cases and the elimination of both in other cases. Armed with laws passed by other towns, a special committee was nam ed to meet with the local town com missioners next Monday evening for a discussion of the proposed law with the view of appealing for its passage. In the general discussion, the com merce group directors cited recent cases where numbers of local peo ple had literally been robbed in some cases and where solicitors had creat ed a nuisance for many housewives. There was the young woman who was out selling magazine subscrip tions lie re not so long ago to earn money for the purchase of a cork leg. Quite a few lost their initial pay ments. There was a man around some time ago selling common lS-cent floor-oil mixed with a cheap shellac preparation for $1 25 a quart. The problem created by the magazine sellers was discussed along with the peddling nuisance, and the board was agreed'that some action was taken to curtail this business of house-to house canvassing While it is possi ble the passage of the proposed or7 dmance will benefit local merchants to some extent, the discussion hurt evening clearly bore out the fact that the housewife and business man were in a position to ?hjoy the most bene fit. A proposed trade event with a lib eral offering of prizes was called off by the directors when it was learned that postal authorities would not ac cept advertising material promoting a lottery. Th*? commenv seeretary was di rected'to make a survey looking to a half holiday for local stores during the month)i of June, July and Au gust. Country Store Is Robbed On Friday Tin small country store operated l>y J. H. Griffin, colored, over in Williams Township on Highway No. B4 was robbed some time during last Friday night. The owner discovered the robbery the following morning and. found a goodly portion of his dork missing. An entrance was gain ed through a side door where a lock was fbrced. ' 1 two cartons of cigarettes, two boxes of candy, two dozen spools of :otton, a dozen cans of pork and beuns, a dozen packages of crackers, a pair of brass knucks and fifteen or twenty pennies were stolen. Griffin i-xplained he had the small weapon there for a purpose. It was the second time the little itore had been robbed since early last fall when cash in the sum of $18 was stolen from the small-scales?r chant. Griffin thinks he knows the guil ty party, but his suspicious be substantia tad, reports stats.
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