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Crusader Makes Temperance Address Temperance Unit Once Functioned In Martin County \<!<lrc** Delivered by Late \\ . II. Lai>turph<'ii Is Found in Old Papers Little is known about the or ganization. bu: a speech deliver ed to a temperance society in Martin county hy the late W. H Carstarphen clearly indicates that there was a working opposition to liquor in this county back in the late seventies. Adverse votes re ceived by prohibition in this coun ty possibly have weakened the advocates, and the people are not as active against the admitted evil as they were when Mr. Car starphen'attacked the liquor traf fic. The speech, delivered by Mr. Carstarphen while he was home from old Trinity College about 1879. was recently found in a batch of oid papers now in the possession of Mrs. C. D. Carstar phen. of Williamston. It reads, as follows: Worthy/ Chief Templar Broth ers and Sisters. I rejoice to be with you tonight and feel some what flattered by your calling on me to make you a speech not withstanding. I feel my inability, however. I will try and say a few words in behalf of Temperance. It has been ten long months since I was here, and I assure you noth ing pleases me more than to be with you t-might, for since I have been gone I have thought often of my dear old lodge Here and have | wished many times'"that I could be with you. I congratulate you Ion your increased memberships I and may your order ever progress | with honor to you and it. We will all rejoice when tem perance- rub-s the land, and the day is ahead The time is coming, ?ior the Temperance reformation was never so vigorous and deter mined, as it is at the present throughout the civilized world j For what are vou banded to gether" For what do you meet j here week after week? Why is it 'that I se*? s-i many smiling coun It< nances before nic tonight? Is it merely to pass the few fleeting I hours more pleasantly? God for i bid. . What then is it? I answer, it is j m ?rdei?to aftvafico the great tem perance work which God has placed in our hands and of which la* will requeue us t<? give an nc j count in that "last great day. and if we have hidden our talent and ' fail to bring him a respectful in .'crease', we will not fail to-receive |-our just deserts at his hand. So let us arouse and work for thy temperance cause, so that we may receive that welcome plaud its Wi ll done thou good and faith ful servant. enter thou into the joys of thy Lord. At Trinity Col lege the temperance cause has heen very prosperous. We have initiated 40 members consisting of young ladies and gentlemen during last se ssion We have tern- i peranee working all around us. About three Mihs-from Trinity; then is going on a temperance J work which is trying to break up intemperance and I think they will succeed; for they are work ing day and night In Randolph County the sale of liquors is pro hibited and in the several other adjoining counties, which makes it a very good county to live in. There is very little liquor sold about Trinity and what is will soon..bo broken up entirely. It is made around some of the old mountains and it is very hard to find, but I would tonight that old Martin County was as clear from sol ling liquor as these counties I have just spoken of and had the prohibition law, then, we could "rejoice and tell our friends around what a great victory we have gained and then old Martin could stand among the sparkling coun ties that are rejoicing over their success. So let us work day and night until we can rejoice over our 'Success, then we can all be hap py. We do not propose to save from a drunkard's grave many of the confirmed double-chinned, red eyed inebriates with bloated bod ies convulsed with delirium tre mens. whose days of debauchery are already numbered with the days of yore and if saved would he of little benefit to themselves 01 the world. But we propose ap plying the remedy before the dis ease is at all developed, to remove the cause before the effect com cences. To accomplish tins we must establishtho principles of total abstinence and after a while we may be able to get the prohi bition law which we need every-* where. North Carolina farmers'raised an estimated 20,6711,000 chickens in 1040. reports the State Depart - lin lit of Agriculture. Representatives Of Varied Business Field Prominent in their respective fields, the group pictured above forms an integral part in the business life of this community and section. Mr. Garland Woolard (left) as head of the furni ture company hearing his name; Mr. Dred Harden (center) as owner-operator of Warden's Depart ment Store, and Mr. John llenry Kdwards (right) as manager operator of the Roanoke Chevro let Company. General Merchants Sell Your Tobacco ?In? Williamston ALWAYS AS HIGH ANI) AS GOOD AS ANY MAR KET IN THE STATE . . \nrl when wr mij (>i'iit r;il merchant* we mean jn*l that . . . nothing more or le**. Vic don't ?tock nowllie*. hilt wr do carry all llir i . .. . "???'. ' .; lirces*itie* for the home. farm ami family. Our ttirn-owr i> <|iiirkly a?iiriii|i yon clean. dependable merchandise. TR\ ( S FIKS'f. I ol{ WK HAN K IT! Special Low Prices W e alno feature npeeial low prieen on all ilenin an well an (|iiality. We luiy right and we Hell right. If U'h proof you want, jiihI try inak in^? a few purehaneH at our More. We'll hIiow you liow to make money, for after all, Having in equivalent to making money. SHOES fieceooods s III r is FERTILIZER GROCERIES I E E I) FLOWS HARNESS HARDWARE FLOW FOUNTS Work (Hollo-* Ail Kind* Seed (harden, 1 Ionic Farm Supplies Farmers Supply Co. WILLIAMSTON NORTH CAROLINA
The Enterprise (Williamston, N.C.)
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