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Thief Wrecks Cornerstone of Church To Steal Five Cents (Robfrsunville Herald) There's no doubt about it: the meanest man in the world isn't dead yet. About 17 years ago a cyclone damaged the colored Baptist Church in Robersonville. After a great deal of skimping and saving the poor but religious church-goers managed rebuilt their place of worship .When thp xwiervatiun work was -mmptfted. a place had been left for a cornerstone as on all modern build ings. Churchleader Dink Knight placed a nickel in the hole after ap propriate ceremonies. Then the $18 inscribed marble cornerstone was | laid. During the years people began* talking about money hidden inside ,the cornerstone Finally last Wed nesday night, somfriiie, certainly the meanest n\ar\ in the world, took a i pickaxe, and broke the nice, $18 cor 1 mrstone into three pieces and macje i I off with his lot?one little nickel. While the contemptible thief had j a lone nickel to show for his handi- i i work, all the congregation has to I show for its hard-raised $18 is a; 'broken cornerstone with less confi-I dence in its fellowman. Industry Ready For m 9r Defense Production The ability of industries to cush ion blows the defense program rains on their supply lines depends in many eases upon the foresight ex ercised in past months. For example. ' over a year ago attention began to be focused on expedients which might be necessitated by stringency of crude rubber supplies. So it's in teresting to note from a recent state ment of the B F Goodrich company which for.the past year has sold on the opmx- market automobile tires made with synthetic rubber, thai more than 100 important American companies look this cue and bought those tires, to gain familiarity with the new product Here was a con- ' sprcuous case of industry's willing-1 ness to cooperate and invest in an understanding of future needs, for each purchaser willingly paid?th** higher price made necessary by the higher cost of Amenpol Despite ef forts to build up stocks of raw rub ber. restrictions of its use art now in force, and the day may well come when synthetic rubber will hai'e to play a large role in keeping our cars and trucks moving. In the de liberations of at least these hundred or more companies, doubts as to what tin switch will mean will Jje negligible. ? Sugar The Office of Production and Ci vilian Supply lias fixed a ceiling of 3.50 cents a pound for 00 degree raw sugar, duty paid. New York RAINFALL The month of July, this year, was the driest in this section sinee 1932, while August is drawing to a elose with the smallest rainfall in several years. Despite the apparent decrease in the amount of rainfall, the show ers with the exception of a few weeks in late April and early June, were fairly frequent and forestalled a serious drought. Last month, 4.14 inches of rain fell here, the precipitation com paring with the ten-year aver-* age of 6.65 inches. Tncriaie In Exri$e Can Tax IT oulil Jaopanliza I'roftram ?$? As of January 1, 1940. North Car olina had $80,000,000 in highway bonds outstanding, which arc serv iced from the proceeds of the state gasoline tax About 28 per cent ofi the state's gasoline tax revenue is being used to pay bond interest and principal. Furthermore, the state must allocate a substantial portion of its gasoline lux revenue to meet I federal aid matching requirements) and to cover maintenance costs. Thus, the amount of highway funds available for state highway improvement is definitely limited, l and ifjuotor fuel consumption drops as a result of the heavier gasoline tux (which is almost a certainty if North Carolina's gasoline taxes are pyra mided to 8 12 cents a gallon) then the future highway progress of the! itatc will be jeopardized seriously. Tobacco Editions Given Recognition By JAMES M. PERRY Usually we take things for grant ed, but we are not going to allow the tobacco issues of the Herald and Enterprise to go without a word of j congratulations. To those who may not have seen the tobacco issues we might say, you could well afford to pay a dollar for one copy. It is full of very valuable material: History, Revolutionary and Civil War days, statistics, forestry, farming, educa tion, religion, auto history, good roads, personalities, business, com merce, Martin County shipbuilding, populations, and a score of other in teresting items. Personally I have made it a rule to save clippings of vital interest from various papers through the years, and I am frank to say that from no paper have I clipped as many I ilt nu. ul interest, and found so many things of local interest to people of Martin County. I speak for a large portion of the county,, and voice the | sentiment of thousands of our citi zens when I say congratulations for the exceedingly valuable, and in tensely interesting tobacco issues of the Roberxonville Herald and the I Wilhamston Enterprise. I Roanoke District Convention To Meet The Roanoke District convention j will meet with the church at Maple Grove Saturday and Sunday. Dele gates from more than 50 churches in , the district are expected to attend, as well as delegates from more than a dozen churches m Martin County. Mr. Frank Loggott, of Washington, is president of the convention, and Mr. W () Ellis is secretary anH tr*?a<a-1 urer. ?KING HAGLAR TOLD OF THE VANISHING INDIAN POWER IN NORTH CAROLINA . . . When the colonial governor of North Carolina prepared his report in 1761 for the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, he in cluded an account related by King Haglar concerning his Catawba tribesmen. The governor, Arthur Dobbs, reported that King Haglar told of sickness that broke the strength of the tribe. Smallpox struck with such terror that it caus ed well people to desert the ones who | were sick, "leaving them to perish.' The Catawba Indians had number ed about 300 fighting men a few years before Dobbs sent his report to England; but smallpox reduced their population, according to King Hag lar. until there were only 60 war- I riors to be reported. This tribe was | "in close friendship with the inhab- i itants." According to Governor Dobbs | the Catawba and the Cherokee In dians were situated beyond the "pres ent settlements." The Cherokees had been "lately | esteemed to be a powerful tribe." War, sickness, and famine had re duced their number of lighting men | from 3.000 to 2,000 before the gov ernor's letter was prepared for the | Lords Commissioners. The Indians living within the set tled area of the colony were few in number. According to Dobbs' report, there wore only four remaining tribes ;or, to be exact, the "remains of only four tribes" living within the eastern section of the colony. The four named were the Tuskerora, Se- I pona, Meherin and Maramuskito." | Of the latter group of Indians there were only 7 or 8 fighting men. The I "Tuskerora" had about 100; and of | tlni "Meherin and Sepona" there were about 20 warriors each. These red men lived in the middle of the colony. A reservation of 10, 000 acres of land was provided by law for them east of the Roanoke river. Dobbs informed the Board of Trade that these Indians lived ^chiefly "by hunting" and were" fn "perfect friendship with the inhabi tants." Reservation life was not a real protection for settlers who pushed into the boundaries established for [the Indians, and the land they seiz ed reduced the area provided as a hunting ground for the red hunters. Other than the white man's diseases, ] whiskey played an important part ] in ruining the health of the Indians. Smallpox and "fire water" played as great a part as war in breaking down the power of the Indians in North Carolina. North Carolina was first settled about 1660; and Dobbs reported con- I cerning the red men in 1761. Thus within approximately one hundred | years after the first settlers came, the threat of Indian domination had | vanished. FOR RENT ?STORE NOW OCCU pied by A and P Company. Mail Street. Williamston, on Septembei 1st. See J. E. King, W. I. Skinnei Compnay. a 19-41 CLARK'S MALARIAL TONI( For Chills and Fever. Guaranteed or money refunded. Clark's Phar macy. m23-t: STENCIL SHEETS FOR SALE. EN terprise Pub. Co. a25-tf NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina Martin County. 1 The Superior Court. County of Martin vs. Peter llarre and Others. Under and by virtue of an ordt of sole and judgment made by L. I Wynne, Clerk of the Superior Cour on Monday, the 11th day of Augus 1941, the undersigned commissione will, on Friday, the 12th day of Sef tember, 1941, offer for sale for cas to the highest bidder, in front of th courthouse door in the town of Wi liamston, at twelve o'clock nooi daylight saving time, the followin described tract or parcel of land, t wit: Beginning at corner of lot No. oil the road leading from town c Conoho to Hussells Station on Rail road, running 58 E. 16 1-2 poles to branch, thence down center of sai "Branch about South 42 1-2 E. 3 1 poles. South 59 1-2 E. 6 poles to the corner of lot No. 3, thence S. 58 W. 20 1-2 poles, thence N. 24 1-4 W. 9 1-2 poles to the beginning, contain ing one acra,-more or less. Tffisthe 11th day of August, 1941. ELBERT S. PEEL, al5-4t Commissioner. NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina. Martin County. In The Superior Court. County of Martin vs. Mrs. C. P. How ell and Others. Under and by virtue of an order of sale and judgment made by L B. Wynne, Clerk of the Superior Court, on Monday, the 11th day of August,1 1941, the undersigned commissioner, will, on Friday, the 12th day of Sep tember, 1941, offer for sale for cash to the highest bidder, in front of the courthouse door in the town of Wil liamston, at twelve o'clock noon, daylight saving time, the following described tract or parcel of land, to wit: One house and lot in the town of Hamilton, known as the Chas. Mann lot, lying between Masonic Hall and the Lafayette Staton lot, containing one-half acre more or less. This the 11th day of August, 1941 ELBERT S. PEEL, a!5-4t Commissioner. NOTICE OF SALE By virtue of the power of sale con tained in that certain deed of trust executed by J. H. Knox and wife, Mamie Knox, to the undersigned Trustee, and dated August 12th, 1937, of record in the Public Registry of Martin Countyin Book P-3, at Page 340, and at the request of the holder of the note thereby secured, default having been made in the payment thereof, I. will, on the 22nd day of September, 1941, at 12 o'clock Noon, at the Courthouse door in Martin County, offer for sale at public auc tion for cash the property described in said deed of trust as follows, to wit: One certain tract or parcel of land situated in the Town of Hamilton, adjoining the lands of Florence Paugh and Harry Waldo, No. 125 Highway and others, and located on the Southwest side of Highway No. 125 leading from Hamilton to Oak City, N. C., and known as the Ida Crofton land, containing wa acre more or less. For further description see Martin County records. This the 21st day of August, 1941. R. L. COBURN, a22-4t Trustee. NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina. Martin County. In The Superior Court. County of Martin vs. Herman' Burn ett and others. Under and by virtue of an order of sale and judgment made by L. B. Wynne, Clerk of the Superior Court, on Monday, the 11th day of August, 1941, the undersigned commissioner, will, on Friday, the 12th day of Sep tember, 1941, offer for sale for cash to the highest bidder, in front of the courthouse door in the town of Wil liamston, at twelve o'clock noon, daylight saving time, the following described tract or parcel of land, to wit: A certain tract of land lying and being in the town of Oak City, being lots Nos. 1 and 2 in Block M of the plan of said Town of Oak City. This the 11th day of August, 1941 ELBERT S. PEEL, a!5-4t Commissioner. NOTICE North Carolina, Martin County. In , The Superior Court. County of Martin against Walter Moore and wife, Mrs. Walter Moore, and Town of Jamesville. The defendants, Walter Moore and wife. Mrs. Walter Moore, above named, will take notice that an ac tion entitled as above has been com menced in the Superior Court of Martin County, North Carolina, to foreclose the taxes on land in Mar tin County in which said defendants have an interest; and the said de fendants will further take notice that they are required to appear be fore L. B. Wynne, Clerk of the Su perior Court of Martin County at his office in Williamston, North Car olina, within thirty (30) days after the completion of this service of pub lication by notice and to answer or demur to the complaint of the plain tiff in this action, or the plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said complaint. This the 5th day of August, 1941. L. B. WYNNE, Cleric Superior Court of a8-4t Martin County. ADMINISTRATRIX' NOTICE North Carolina, Martin County. Having qualified as administra trix of the estate of George B. Steele, deceased, this is to notify all persons having claims against the said estate to exhibit them to the undersigned within one year from the date of this notice or this notice will be plead ed in bar of their recovery. All per sons indebted to said estate will pilease make immediate payment. This the 21st day of August, 1941. MRS. GEORGE B. STEELE. Administratrix of the estate of a22-6t George B. Steele, deceased. NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina. Martin County. In The Superior Court. County of Martin vs. Arthur Slade and Others. Under and by virtue of an order of sale and judgment made by L. B. Wynne, Clerk of the Superior Court, on Monday, the 11th day of August, 1941, the undersigned commissioner, will, on Friday, the 12th day of Sep tember, 1941, offer for sale for cash to the highest bidder, in front of the courthouse door in the town of Wil liamston, at twelve o'clock noon, daylight saving time, the following described tract or parcel of land, to wit: A certain lot in the town of Wil liamston bounded by Fleming Allen on the West, Elm Street on the North, by the Shilow Baptist Church lot on the East, and by Mercede Watts on the South. This the 11th day of August, 1941. ELBERT S. PEEL, al5 4t Commissioner. 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We Appreciate Your Patronage Expert Operators MODERN BEAUTY SHOP CITY BEAUTY SHOP ie GREENVILLE TOBACCO MARKET OPENED TUESDAY PAYING PRICES 74.5 HIGHER THAN THE PRICES PAH) ON THE OPENING DAY OF THE 1940 SEASON 1941 Increase Over 1940 - - - $213,790.07 $12.21 4OPENING DAY. 1941, 1,455,904 LBS. FOR 5416,596.50 AVERAGE $28.61 ; OPENING DAY, 1940, 1,236,590 LBS. FOR $202,806.50 AVERAGE $16.40 IttAddition lo the High Prices Being Paid in Greenville, You Are Assured a Friendly Greeting, Efficient Service and a Prompt Orderly Sale GREENVILLE "BEST MARKET IN THE STATE" RADIO MARKET REPORTS EVERT DAT W PTC 12:15 (KINSTON) W G T C 12:30 (GREENVILLE) W P T F 12:35 (RALEIGH) W G B R 12:45 (GOLDSBORO)