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Watch The Label On Your Paper. Aa It Carries The Date Your Subscription Expires THE ENTERPRISE Advertisers Will rind Our Col umns A Latchkey To Over 1.800 Homes Of Martin County. VOLUME XLIV?NUMBER 84 ffilliamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, October 21, 1941. c ESTABLISHED 1899 Food Prices Hold To High Level In War-torn England ?" Britishers More Hopeful with Increased Aid From the United States * Food prices apparently continue high in war-torn England, but ac cording to the following letter re ceived by Elder E. C. Stone a few days ago from his sister in Coven try, England, the Britishers are more hopeful now that aid is being in creased by this country Apparently the mails are not moving quite as fast as they once did, for the letter was mailed in August. It follows: August 10, 1941. My dear Brother, It is some time since I wrote to you but our lives seem so taken up these days The shopping takes a lot of my time I have done most of it since the war and one has to go sev eral times very often just to get one thing. The shopkeepers never know when their goods will be delivered or whether they will be at all. Of course, we are always sure ulour ra tions but we like a few things be sides and there is never enough to go 'round and one has to be on the spot to get them when they come in. We never see any fruit now or very | little. Before the controlled price came in there were just a few desert gooseberries in the shops at 4 shill ings (approximately $1 00) a pound, and raspberries 3 shillings 6 pence (about 82 cents) pound, currants 2 shillings (50 cents). I never saw any black ones. Walter is going to save up his small allowance of petrol to take us to Wantage to see if we can get some apples. Fred has just said that he saw some small green plums that we should have bought for 2 pence (four cents) a pound in normal times pric ed at 2 shillings (50 cents) in the market yesterday. On Monday the controlled price comes into force and then they will be 6 pence to 8 pence (12 to 16 cents) a pound. If there is a good crop we may get some, if not when the price is controlled they just disappear from our shops. Being in the midlands I "think transport is very often diffi cult and other markets seem to get them. , . People who went to London tor week-end would put letters in the paper about the things that were so scarce here and yet could be easily procured there We always see long queues (row) outside the tobaccon ist I get Fred's allowance from our grocer or he would never get the chance to get any. I am still doing my work at home and have put in a good bit of time these long eve nings. Our summer was very long in com ing and seems to have gone early^ Just the end of June and most of July was lovely but the last three weeks have been cold and wet. Au gust Monday was most disappoint ing Fred had a week's holiday the end of July. He got fixed up with some glasses and new teeth and got up late and went for some country walks and generally enjoyed a free time from factory routine and black outs. Amy and I go to Gloucester for a week before this month is over (Continued on page four) Joseph John Modlin Died In Jamesville Early This Morning Funeral Services for Respect ed Citizen-Farmer Tomor tow Afternoon Joseph John Modlin, highly re spected citizen and farmer of the Jamesville community, died sudden ly at his home there this morning at 1 o'clock. In declining health for sev eral years, he was in his usual health yesterday when he spent most of the day digging his sweet potato crop. His condition became suddenly worse and before a doctor could be called, he died. The son of Mr. H. C. Modlin and the late Mrs. Modlin, he was born in Jamesville Township, about 45 years ago. In early manhood lie wag mar ried to Miss Dare Mae Benbridge who survives with two children, a son, Jarvis, and a daughter, Farrell. He also leaves besides his father, six half brothers, Messrs. Arthur, Wil lie H., Rexie, Dennis, Arnold and Wendell Modlin, and two half-sis ters, Mrs. Joe A. Hardison, and Mrs. Willie Mayo Gardner, all of James ville community. He was a devoted member of the Baptist Church at Cedar Branch, holding membership there for a long number of years. He was an able far mer, and was held in high esteem by all those who knew him. Despite failing health, he, with a strong de termination to do his bit in life, car ried on until the end. Mr. Modlin was a thoughtful husband and a kind father, and found time to help oth ers. Funeral services will be conduct ed from his late home tomorrow af ternoon at 2:30 o'clock by his pastor, Rev. W. B. Harrington, county Bap tist minister. Interment will follow in the family cemetery, near the home. "What's the trouble in this coun ty with your compulsory school at tendance law," Safety Examiner Mc Leod asked yesterday afternoon af ter refusing to issue drivers' li censes to six young men, three white and three colored. Most of the group could neither read nor write, while one or two oth ers were ignorant of the road laws. It is quite evident that the applicant must be able to read the road signs and to know the rules of the road before he is issued a license to op erate a car on the public highways of. this State. A man who is unable to read or write has no business oper ating an automobile on the public highways, the safety examiners reas-' on. Talking about illiteracy, the safe ty examiner recalled a recent story centering around a young boy in this county. The lad, just turned sixteen, DWINDLING With sates dwindling to a low point, the local tobacco market officially announced today that the season would he brought to a close next Tuesday at the end of the sales. Hardly 25,000 pounds of the golden leaf were on the market today, and it Is believed that far mers will have ample time to complete the marketing of the crop by next Tuesday. Several markets are planning to close this week, and it is understood that the entire belt is making plans to end the season on Fri day of next week. Prices today, while not at a season's peak, con tinued high and the sales were successful. Bryant Is Charged With Manslaughter John Robert Bryant. Durham I white man and a former Martin County citizen, was placed under a j $500 bond by Justice J L. Hassell at a preliminary hearing held here last Friday afternoon when proba ble cause of guilt was found in the case charging him with drunken driving and manslaughter. Bond was furnished and Bryant's trial was scheduled for the December term of the Martin Superior court. Bryant, driving on Highway No. 11, near Hassell, ran down and kill ed Zenious Sneed, Jr., young color ed man, on Sunday afternoon, Oc tober 12th. The driver of the car was alleged to have been under the in fluence of some intoxicant, but the defense maintained that he had had nothing to drink but a bottle of beer. Carried before the justice of peace, Noah Andrews, charged with being drunk and disorderly, was fined $3.50 and taxed with the costs. ? Lolored Selectees To Leave For Army Eleven colored boys, nine selectees and two volunteers, are to leave the county on Tuesday, October 28, for induction into the armed forces of the nation at Fort Bragg. No future quota has been assign ed this county, and while it has been officially announced that no men will be called in November, it is possible^ that a call for a large num ber of men, both white and colored, will be made in December or Jan uary. The names of the boys scheduled to leave next Tuesday are: Willie Grover Mason, of Williamston R. F. D. No. 2; James Morris Cherry, Mil ton Rqllins and Richard Hyman, all of Robersonville R. F. D. 1; Shelbert Ores and Jeremiah Brown, both of Williamston R. F. D. T; Woodrow Marrow, of Hobgood R. F. D. 1; Ed mond Pierce, of Jamesville R. F. D. 1; James Curtis Roberson, of Rob ersonville; Eddie Lee Smith, of Oak City R. F. D. 1, and Milton Roberson, of R. F. D. 1, Jamesville. James Cur tis Roberson and Milton Rollins are volunteers ?4 NAVY MAN v s All Martin County men inter ested in Joining the United States Navy or the Naval Re serve may without any obliga tion whatever contact R. M. Best of the recruiting service at the Enterprise office on Friday af ternoon of this week at four o'clock. Officer Best will answer any questions and explain the opportunities available to young men, especially. It is understood that young men in line for the regular army draft may enlist in the Navy or Naval Reserve and not report until their order number is call ed. Officer Best plans to be in Williamston a short time only, and any one wishing to talk with him is asked to be at the Enterprise office around four o'clock Friday. October Mth. Illiteracy Flares Up In The Issuance Of Drivers Licenses applied for a driver's license. He could neither read nor write, and he explained his predicament to the ex aminer. "Our father kept us home to-work and would not let us attend school," the fc*oy said, adding that he had offered to work by lantern light if only he could attend school. The father would hear nothing of the plan, and now the young man. neat of appearance and possessed of a pleasing personality, butts up against his first obstacle in life as an illit erate. ILJiie compulsory school attend ance laws had only been enforced or even if more interest had been shown in their enforcement, possi bly the young man and many oth ers, too, would not be starting out in life handicapped Recently the in spector or examiner,* issued thirteen licenses and rejected fourteen appli cations. Big Fluctuation In Peanut Production Reported In Countv Production in Kant Uarolina KHlimatcd 1(H) Million Pounders Under 1914) Peanut harvesting is underway on a large scale in the county at the present time, fairly complete re ports stating that while there is a big fluctuation in the yield from section to section and even from field to field, the outlook for total production is far better than was in dicated in early forecasts of the crop. However, revised crop reporting figures released by the North Caro lina and United States Departments of Agriculture as of the first of this month point to an even greater re duction in the crop yield than was predicted some weeks ago. The re port reads, in part: "Indications now are that the crop of peanuts picked and threshed in 1941 will be slightly less than estimated on month prev ious The principal drop in the esti mated production comes in the Vir ginia-North Carolina territory. The present estimates are for a crop in Virginia of 154 million pounds, com pared with 216 million pounds in 1940, and a crop in North Carolina of 270 million pounds compared with 371 million pounds a year ago." Many Martin County farmers are reporting yields equally as large as they were last season, and it will be recalled that production in 1940 was far above normal. As many as 30 bags have been picked per acre by some farmers, and yields ranging from 20 to 25 bags per acre are fair ly numerous, according to scatter ed reports heard here this week. While some counties in the Caro lina territory are reporting unus ually poor crops, Martin has a "spot ted", crop, the production fluctuating from farm to farm and even from field to field. Farmer Charles Dan iel picked an average of seven bags of the goobers per acre from one of his fields and about 20 per acre in another field on the same farm. On the 4.3 acres where he picked seven bags of peanuts pef acre he harvest ed a total of 175 bales of fine hay. The low yield was on those lands in undated by flood waters in 1940, the (Continued on page four) Chas. Smallwood Recalls Boyhood Days In Williamston More Than Half Century Ago Bjr CHARLES SMALLWOOD (By special request, Mr Charles Smallwood, of Smallwood Place, Washington, N C? has sketched a few of his recollections of Williams ton more than half a century ago. The Enterprise offers the first in the series of sketches today.?Ed.) The Good Book says that "In the beginning, God made the heavens and the earth, and all that in them is and it has always seemed to this individual, that He sprinkled a little extra quality-Cif-momm# dew over the spot where Williamston, N. C., was eventually to grow. My connection, and identification with the town of Williamston and its coun ty of Martin, began away back in the days of my earliest recollection, and as advancing days advanced me further into boyhood, they also ad vanced these connections and iden tifications, eventually bringing me to he an actual part, for a time at least, of these communities; and it is my recollections of Williamston and Martin County and some of the people who populated them, and a few events leading up to them that these articles are intended to recall, hoping they will be of sufficient in terest to Enterprise readers to cause, at least, normal acceptance. The nar rations are from memory only, and of long standing, therefore it is hop ed that all errors and mis-statements will be taken with forbearance and condolence. The writer was born in Beaufort County, adjoining the south side of Martin, and it was early in the years of 1870 that he first became cogni zant of dear old Martin My maternal grandmother, Sallie Ann O'Cain, had been born during the year 1813, in the northwest corner of Martin County, at or near the hamlet of Pal myra, of a mother whose maiden name was O'Bryan, which plainly indicates that she was full-blooded Irish, and which may help account for her many traits of outstanding individuality, self-reliance, and ca pacity to deal with life's problems during those days of crude devices necessary to the eVery-day needs, such as open fireplace cooking, home-made tallow candles for light ing, home-woven clothing and car pets, hand-seeded cotton for the spinning and weaving, garden herbs for medicinal purposes. Doctors were not called for such ailments a. toe aches and growing pains, in fact the doctor did not appreciate such calls over dusty or muddy roads with a slow-moving horse and buggy for the scant pay he was apt to receive. He wanted a patient to be really sick when he arrived, then he would "stand by", pay or no pay, for he had a heart next-door-to-the-preacher's, and of such a doctor it will be my pleasure to tell you pretty soon. Such maneuvers of life was my grandmother's long before httle-me came into the world. The O'Cain family at some date, had moved to Washington in Beaufort County, where grandmother's father, William O'Cain, conducted a mercantile bus iness on the southeast corner of Main Street and Union Alley, where the Keys hotel now stands. Grandmother (Nannie, as all her grandchildren called her) first married Samuel Lu cas of Beaufort County, and it was the acts of their children, and their children's children, which was to tie and re-tie all of us buck so closely to Williamston and Martin County. My mother, Emily Lucas, the el der of the two Lucas girls, married John Waller Smallwood, and lived at Smallwood Place, Just north of Washington on the then mainly trav eled Washington and Williamston road. "Nannie" and her younger daughter, Sammie, had joined my mother's family after losing their home in town during the un-civil war conflagration which leveled the town. And it was Aunt Sammie who wove the thread, that tied the knot, that held all of us then, and what's left of us now, back to the dust of grandmother's birth, and made it possible for me now to be having recollections of Williamston and Martin County and some folks there in during the 1870's and '80's, and if those now present can find an inter est in this attempt, then the writer will be pleased with his endeavor. Among my earliest recollections are Aunt Sammie and her bustle. Dame Fashion had devised an addi tion to created anatomy of the hu man kind, and Aunt Sammie, being yet unmarried, evidently desired to appear fh the then proper form, so, thougl^the South was in the throes of another kind of re-construction, and times were hard, she had man aged to procure and bring home a new and stylish dress with bustle to match. . (Continued on page four) This Week In Defense The Navy announced the destroy er Kearney was torpedoed while on patrol duty near Iceland. The boat was able to proceed under its own power. Ten men were injured and 11 reported missing. The President told his press conference the ves sel was clearly within'American de fensive waters when attacked Arming of Ships The House passed a bill modify ing the Neutrality Act to permit arming of merchant ships. Navy Secretary Knox told his press con ference the Navy is ready to put guns aboard American merchant ships as soon as Congress, authorizes the action. He said there are suffi cient guns for all merchantmen al though not all can be used against both airplanes and submarines. He said arming merchant ships will slow down submarines and impair their maiksmanship because they will have to stay below the surface and use their limited supply of torpedoes instead of attack with shellfire. Lend-Lease Aid Navy Secretary Knox announced two overage submarines are being transferred to Britain under the lend-lease program. The President announced lend-lease transfers dur ing September reached a record $155,000,000 in equipment and serv ices about three times the month ly average of the past six months. The President said aid is going to Britain. China. South America and the refugee Polish and Norwegian governments. Russia, he said, is paying in gold and strategic mater ials for supplies sent to that coun try The President reported only five per cent of the original $7,000,000,000 for lend-lease remains unused. The House voted $5,711,000,000 for fur ther lend-lease activities. Production Price Administrator Henderson, speaking in Detroit, said although the U. S is producing 55 per cent more than ever before?45 per cent morel than in 1929 only 12 to 14 per cent | | of national income is going into de fense. Ho said America is giving only | only one hour of eight for defense work. Although OPM schedules I show this will be increased to two out of eight hours by next June, he said, Hitler is using five of every eight hours for German war efforts. OPM Research Chief Stacy May, speaking in New York, reported spending for defense m September rose to approximately $1.347,000,000 ?$205,000,000 higher than August. He said Hitler could be beaten if the U. S shifted 50 per cent of its pro ductive capacity to armaments and suggested a $50,000,000,000-a-year defense program. The War Department announced | (Continued on page four) I'lvWl I MARKKT Entering its second week and reporting comparatively few sales, the local peanut market lias hardly determined a definite price rtend. Sales are ranging anywhere from 4 1-2 to five cents a pound with the bulk of the sales ranging from 4 3-4 to 4.90 cents a pound. It was estimated today that between 2.500 and 3,000 bags of the goobers are moving to the local market. Road Accidents Claim Another Life In Con n t y Mail Suffers Broken Neek In Auto Wreck Early Last Sunday I'alroltium Saunders Is Kc Pt Busy Handling Vlrerkn ?hr Two (loimtir* Another life was added to the high way accident toll in this county Sun day when Raleigh Raw Is. former cit izen of Martin County, was fatally injured in an automobile accident at the intersection of the Bear Grass Road and Highway 17. near R L. Perry's farm. His neck broken in two places and paralyzed from his shoulders down. Raw Is died in Duke hospital Sunday night about 10:30 o'clock. Leinan Mizclh?,-of Washington -R} F. D 3, accompanied by J D. Gur gaiius and Junior Wynne, of Bear Grass, and Raw Is. was driving out of the Bear Grass Road about three o'clock Sunday morning during a heavy fog. While he and Gurganus and Wynne escaped uninjured, they were greatly excited and could give no coherent account of the accident. Mizelle, apparently shocked, cried and shouted and had to be carried home after doctors examined him and found nothing wrong with him. Leon Hall Rawls. driving home with his chauffeur, pulled the injured man from the car and brought the group to the doctor here. Rawls was carried to the Durham hospital in a Biggs ambulance that afternoon after X-rays had been taken show ing that his neck was brpken. The old model car. worth hardly more than $25. was a total wreck. Patrolman Saunders stated that the car caught on a road sign and pos sibly prevented it from crushing the four young men. Late reports state that Mizelle continues at his home, that appar ently lie has not recovered from the shock He is being formally charg ed with reckless driving and man slaughter, but no hearing in the case has been arranged, Patrolman Saun ders said this morning. The son of Mrs. Nollie Rawls and the late W. M Rawls, the young man, about 32 years of age, moved to Ber tie with the family about two or three years ago locating in the Re publican community. Besides his mother, he is survived by five bro thers, Messrs. Jay, John and Elbert Rawls* all of Norfolk, and Clyde and Willie Rawls, of Bertie County, and two sisters, Mrs. John Taylor, of Norfolk, and Mrs. Joe Henry Webb, of Bertie County. Funeral services are being conducted at the late homo in Bertie this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will follow in the Mizelle Cemetery in Bear Grass Township, this county. No one was hurt but considerable damage resulted when the cars of John Andrews and James Gray, both colored, crashed on the Roberson ville-Gold Point road during the heavy fog Sunday morning about eight o'clock about a mile from Rob ersonville. The cars, sideswipitlg each other, were being operated at a slow speed. Patrolman Saunders estimated tin- damage at about $50 (Continued on page four) CARDS ^ ? J Tobacco farmers are being asked to return their market 'n* cards Just as soon as |H>ssj ble to the office of the county agent utter they complete the marketing of their crop. The cards are checked against the al lotmcnts. the method offering the office an opportunity to check up on irregular marketing activities, if any. Soil conserva tion payments will be withheld until all the cards are returned, it was (stinted out. In those cases where the farmers haye lost their cards, they are urged to take their hills of sale and re port to the office of the county agent. All cards arc supposed to be in | the office within ten days after i the farmer completes the mar - ketuig of his mrp. So far. only about 100 out of the approxi mately l.sot) tobacco farmers have i "turned them Mrs. Si is <in Thomas Died Las! Kveiiinjj r Mrs. Susan Petcway Thomas. wi dow of the late Captain Win *T. Thomas, veteran railroad man and rural free delivery carrier in this j county for a long number of years, died at her home here on Warren Street last evening at 5:30 o'clock following a lingering illness of sev era! years' duration. Suffering from a complication of ailments, she was able to he lip most of the time until a Tew months ago Her condition he came worse about a week ago, audi hope for her recovery was abandon | I'd yesterday about noon. The daughter or (he late Redden S. arid Elizabeth Edmondson Pete Way. Mrs. Thomas was born in Rocky Mount 83 years ago the seventh of last month She spent h. i carlv life there and n, IHH1 Was married to Captain Thomas They moved to Lai tin S. C\, a few years after then marriage and in 11103 moved to Wil hatnslon where Mr Thomas eiigag ed ill the railroad business for a mini tier of years, iulei going with the postal depaitinenl for ,,0,10,1 <>? faithful ?mploynu rvt in that servic< Mis. homas jmned the Methodist church in South Carolina, and moved lo r inembei lop here nearly 11 ventury ago Her's was .,11 unpretentious life She placed a high value on honesty and hones! toil Through tin years she opt rated a boarding home, uigj i)u< wvary tiav Her. even though penniless and friendless, found u refuge there Mrs Thomas, the last member of " large family of children, leavi three daughters, Mrs T A I'eeil and Mrs K p Whitley, of Williamston and Mrs .1 t Thompson, of Roan Oke Rapids, and a son, W l| Thorn as. of Williamston. funeral services are to h, con ducted at 111,. Riggs funeral Home Oil West Mail! Street here tomorrow after,,.,,,,, at three o'clock R, v R 1 Hurley, her pastur, and Rev. J H. Smith, Baptist minister,. will (on duct the last rites Interment will follow in the family plot in tin- local cemetery. Russian Lines Are Reported Holding In Moscow Battle \)lmiiii?trutioii \\ ill Not Auk limiH'iliutf* Ht'|M'nl of iht N fii I r:i 1 il \ Act i?? Ordered by Josef Stalin to fight lint11 the last man falls. Moscow to day was reported 'holding its lines against an ever-increasing foe and despite land attacks unequalled in hisToi > and aerial bombings describ ed as even Worse than those dealt C11 veil 11 ,v ami London months agn With the aged and wonj^n and chil dren removed tev ot.hor'soctionSi Mos cow is now an armed fortress with | defense lines formed at intervals in an area extending a> far out from I the capital as sixty miles Late re ports state that the lines are holding, but that the Germans were estimated to have thrown two million men. 25, 000 tanks and about three-fourths of the air force ihto the battle German spies, saboteurs and ter rorists were reported parachuting behind tin- eits defenses, and liie * Ioscow radio was" heard warning the -population against them; bat accord ing to today's communique, the Ger man ground forces still were being -held back in tbe same- -Mozhaisk and Maloyaroslavets sectors mentioned yesterday. Those points are 00 miles 1 west and 65 miles southwets of Mos cow The communique, said stubborn fighting continued at Taganrog, on the Azov Sea 40 miles from Rostov, representing no gain for the Ger j mans in that sector the past 24 hours. J The German drive in the south now was becoming a menace to the Maueasus communications system over which much of the British and American war aid was destined to come, but the Battle of Moscow, in which approximately 4,500,000 civil ians were joining for a life-death smuggle. Was the most spectacular phase of the war to date. Latest re ports from the Moscow radio told of the descent of parachutists on the first gusts of the approaching blitz krieg storm Some parachutists were said to be disguised as Russian officers and it was believed they were trying to dis organize the citizens' army now mov ing into battle alongside the Russian soldiers. "The- enemy will now send# in creased numbers of parachute spies," the Moscow radio said "You must double and treble yoni .vigilanre Workers held mass meetings throughout Moscow, pledging -theni selves to "uphold the defense with all our strength," the radio said Olily meager reports were heard of fighting elsewhere than On the Mos cow front, although the Budapest radio was heard broadcasting that Axis troops had broken through to the rear of Russian positions in the Ukraine qnd were continuing the pursuit. The battle line fanned" out in a ha If-circle to the ruuth, west and south of Moscow. and the pivot points. Kalinin, 100 miles northwest and Orel, 2(H) miles south, were be lieved to be changing bauds repeat (Continued on page four) Local Teacher Will Leave For Service ?R. J, Stay, <?f GretmyittO, bUUdilig principal and seventh grade teach er at the Williamston Grammar school, submitted his resignation yesterday afternoon to join the arm ed forces of the nation. Come here in September with the expectation of being called to a Marine officers' training school next spring, the young man received orders from the War Department Saturday to report to the Marine base at Quantico, Va., the latter part of this week Well liked by both children and adults who came in contact with Itmv-and performing ln?rduties effi ciently, Mr. Slay leaves Williamston today with the best wishes of the lo cal community. MONEY - MONEY Few believed it, but there was money in those tobacco fields last summer as transpiring ev ents are now proving without doubt. Purchasing a $1,204 paper a few daya ago, a Martin County farmer dug in one pocket and pulled out about $50 He dug In to another one and dug out a couple of $100 bills. When he had finlahed digging he had well ov er a thousand dollars. Seeing he did not have enough cash, he called for a blank check. Asked which bank he would draw the check against, the farmer re plied, "It makes no difference." the report adding that he could write a check not only on either of the local banks but arainst any one In nearby towns. I'romiiMMit Parmer Passes AI Home Of Nephew Last Ni<rht 1 laint Kill--* I his \fieriiooii for Mrxamlrr I'rrl in (?rif fins l ow iislii|? Alexander Peel, member of a fam ily long prominent in the agricultur al, civic and religious life of Martin County, xtied ai the homo uf?his? nephew. Mr, Noah T. Tice. in Grif Iins Township, last night about 8:30 o'clock He had^Ven in declining health for five years or more, but was able to be lip and about until .i 1mmt a month -ago,?I4&- condi tiom? gradually becoming worse from a complication of ailments, was report ? d critical last week end, the end Taming gradually two days later. The son of the late Noah and Mil lie Roberson I'eel, he was born 77 years ago in Griffins Township where he lived all his life. He never married and made his home with a brother, Mr Kphraim Peel, until about ten years ago when he virtual ly retired from an active life on the farm to make his home with other members of the family. About three v i years ago he wetrt-Ut--make his home ? with his nephew, who with other members of the family made his last years on earth pleasant and eom | fortable. While he never affiliated jwi.th any church, he attended serv ices regular, attended first one church and then another and lean ed to the Primitive Baptist faith. Thoughtful of others, he was a friend of his fellowman. He walked hum bly before his Maker, and appre ciated' the finer ideals and things in life. ???? ??? Three brothers. Messrs. Sylvester, Pleny and Ephraim Peel, all of Grif fins Township, survive. Funeral services are being con ducted at his late home this after noon at 3 o'clock by Elders B. S. Cowin and A B Ayers, of the Bear Grass Church. Interment will fol low in the Tice Community Ceme tery in Griffins Township.