Small wood Recalls Boyhood Days Here (Continued from page one) Whitley, when in town; Mr Weath ersbee. and others from the country as well as town, whenever they had time to really enjoy life's harmony of association, and I loved to be pres ent to fill my imagined niche. It was my conception that after the death of Mr. C B. Hassell. which occurred before I went to Williams ton to live, the discontinuance of his mercantile business left J. D. Biggs and Co. the leading general merchants of the town. It was a big business, and lots of the young men clerked there. Mr. Dan Simmons. Mr Tennis Simmon's nephew, was bookkeeper Joe LaNier w.i,- a lead ing office man Out in the store and elsewhere were Walter demons. Will Harrell. afterwards Dr. Harrell; Joe Everett. Sam Ellison, and others. Will Ellison and Claude Keith clerked for Carstarphen ( Mr W II.), another large business of the town. There was no bank in Williamston and Co. accommodated all the mer chants with checks for cash when they wished to transfer their funds abroad. They probably carried a Norfolk or Baltimore bank account, these two points being Williamston's chief wholesale trading points, es pecially the latter All goods were re ceived via river-steamers, plying be tween points mentioned The J D Biggs and Co ?n. W H Kober son. N. S Peek . State Goddard, John Groves. George (" Williams and numerous ' other smaller establish ments. Mr Joe Sitlers"M kept the' hotel on S.W corner of Main and Academy streets Sam New b. rry's liverv sta bles stood just, opposite .on S E cor ner. Mr Thomas H Houghton was Episcopal rector (all his life. 1 pre sume) Mi John E Cook was the principal painter Mr John Thrower, the principal builder Mr James H Ellison, v'coroner, undertaker and deputy sheriff, the only man who Could arrest the high sherd! also cabinet maker aid u he? Wright In those days all'kinds of fart, >n< wan far distani from \\;i i i ;artton. in. re fore it. kni w nothing et burial ca> kets." all "sorrowful 1\ dec. a > d ' were put away in coffins of home made design, and Mr Ellison was apt to be the maker and designer, then - fore w hen the customer was "nigh on to his own sT/c.-' atTd his fast abode eomplete."M"r.. EHimm Would lav' him self dow n therein to see if it would likely fit the Broth, i " Across the' stnet from Mr EHi sons wood shop (in New Town) stood Mi John Hatton's .'blacksmith shop, where most liarn Peele. J D Woolard Eleventh' grade: Evelyn Griffin. Joseph Gurganus. Commercial David Hardison. Honor Holl II First grade Hugh Lindsley, Jim my O-steem Jimmy Peelf, Mary Ann Manning. Sadie Pate. Second grade Cecil Bowen. Crav en Gardner. Hazel Jones, Selma G. LiUey. Janie RobersOn, Patricia Tay- i lor, Bobby Goff Third grade John Cherry, Doris Andrews. Rose Marie Hattem, Ru by Savagei Betty G. Watson, Harriet ' Ward. Sarah E Manning. Helen! Chesson Alice Peaks. Joseph Nich olson. Fourth grad< Elizabeth Whitley. Frank Wynne . Ronald Levin. Fifth grade Zack Piephoff, Doris Rogers ^ Sixth grade Lucy Robertson, Bar m.-ir[*/iiShirley Jones. Mary Hadleyw.Lucille Griffin. Se venth grade Richard Levin, DofoRy Leggett. Ella Fay Roger son. High School Tenth grade Richard Margolis, Julia Clyde Waters. Eleventh gradt Theron Gurgan us Madelyn Taylor. Commercial: Edith Andrews, Le ona Davenport, Warren Pope. Eve lyn Wynne. Tnneral Services Today Tor Aged Colored Woman ~TDTuTal services for Rase Rogers,] aged colored woman and respected citizen who died at her home here ; on Pearl Street last Monday, are be- j ing held this afternoon by her pastor ' at 3 trefoek. Interment will follow in the Odd Fellows Cemetery. ex Smith, and others including Mr , Will Morton, another Washington-1 lan who moved to Williamston. Mr Marion Burroughs owned and i operated the Weathersbee farm to' the east of town. Adjoining on the I S K was Mr. John Watts. To the soirth was the Hassell Field, and w < 1 was Mr Frank Rhodes, father of pi" Rhodes, all of which have con tributed much territory to the now i/.able city, for building lots. Mr Hatton's blacksmith shop was j equipped with an old style forge, blown, up by the hand bellows with a long ley i . upon which the operatorv laid a hand and forearm, and bore down with head and shoulders to 11 lievc the arm strain. - Arthui Keith was chief righthand ii of the kettle and big i drums They seemed to operate with. ? a ?< never 'hurrying, never worrying, never out of good humor, and never seeming to tire in their Work. \\ ail, with the red glow of the 11 hai and n> mg sparks, was ever m* ton sting and entertaining to me win never 1 happened that way. lb - ry Hatton was a more special plav i lium with me than any of the other hoys, as I went often to his hqnie his step-mother beiiig my I Cousin Bonn r Tf n .'ehn Flhson and the Clary | boys w t re just across the street, all , Whom might be counted as the New Town gang (To he continued) T Here's How Nazis Would Dismember Russia THE NA2I PLAN ^RU/TIA TO GERMANY. TO RUSSIA TO JAPAN ALL EUROPEAN RIU* ALLTERRITORV ALL TERRITORY EAST I SIA WEST OP THE EAST OF URAL WT5 OF LAKE BAIKAL AND | URALMTS. AND WEST OF LENA R. LENA RIVER ^ jm/c j"jinn? tcrpriAi* J_ SUDA H rPACt-F/Ci This map shows how the Nazis plan to cut up the Kussian bear I with the aid of Japan). Germany haa cut a big slice in the West for herself; a big slice in the East to Nippon, and what's left would bs a "free" Russia under orders from Berlin. Even the name of I would disappear from the map. This plan was elaborated in detail by Alfred Eoaci nd-his expert staff. \lleged Killer Is Given Hearing and Placed Under Bond (Continued from page one) Kicketknife from Peterson's hand. Charles Williams, testifying that le was on a baek seat in the beer ?arden sleeping despite the noise, ex dained that Robert Everett tapped urn on the shoulder and said he vanted to borrow his'knife, that he vas leaving when he saw the fight. It was not made clear how Peter ion got the knife, but ownership was' jnquestioned at the hearing Robert Everett stated that Williams threw I he knife on the table and that Peter ion grabbed it and went out to get j Jurnngton. The proprietor of the beer garden tated that he saw Peterson was irinking about lialf an hour before [ he fight took place, that he talked with Pclci>nn and?ltd him to the i ioor. He did not see Peterson just ; jofore the fight and did not know j here was any trouble in or near his j Lace of business until the fight itarted. Jeremiah James, the next witness, kdmiited that he was at Buck's place rr"to o'clock, that he was home in led asleep when the attack was said o have taken place. James was an otlra witness called at the last nYin jte at the suggestion of the defense ?ounsel Richard Mobley said he saw Peter son m Buck's place, and saw Pur ington on top" of Peterson outside, nit did not know Purrington was ut until tin victim of the knife stag gered a few feet and fell to the ?p ound. - ?? Randolph Minton said he saw Pet ?rsuii inside of Buck's place and saw Williams, the owner of the.knife, ly ing in a booth. According to the evi dence, Hinton went to get his car to Lake Willis Smith, allegedly drunk. that while lie was getting hiu :ar the cutting took place. Hinton and several others took Purrington |Q the liospital. Patrolman Whit Saunders, the ar resting officer, told how the arrest was made near Windsor to complete the evidence at the hearing. It is believed by some that all that's known about the fatal attack has not been told, but after finding probable cause of guilt," Justice Has sell did not trouble to go into more detail at the hearing. Peterson is to be tried in the super ior court convening here Monday, December 8th. A - Irg cs V) ar On Rats In Martin County According to reports the western part of the UL S. is pressing war upon rats to keep Bubonic Plague from going eastward. This being the case it seems that it would be ad visable to begin the fight against these rodents right here in Martin j County now. Iq do this without an extensive extermination campaign would be to see that our towns have ordinances (and enforce them) which would! make life uncomfortable for the ro dents and the two most important i would be: 1st?Every house holder required ' to have a garbage can with a cover j which remained on the can. 2nd?No trash allowed to acrumu-1 late in dumps These two items are the homes and the food supplies of rats Of course the barns and homes in the rural section make another problem which the mortality rate* will run the items mentioned for control are the moat important Bubonic Plague is ? disease in which he mortality rats will run to 75 per cent and we do not want this disease in Martin County.?Dr J. W. Williams. County Health Of ficer. Local Happenings In The Enterprise For if Years Ago OCTOBER 25, 1001. Williamston needs more houses Who will build them9 We under stand that several families will come to this town if they ran get houses, to live in. We would like to see some more houses going up. Some outside party would do well to come in and build a dozen or so neat cot tages. Mr. W. R. White's new house is neanng completion. Mr. Titzell has moved into the house formerly occupied by Prof. C. W Wilson. Rev. T. H. Sutton is holding a ser ies of meetings at Holly Springs Church this week. Mr. K. K Hodges is making prep arations to* build two more tenant houses in New Town. Mr. W. H. Leggett is piepaimg to build a home on Academy Street on the lot adjoining the property where he now lives. The editor regrets very much that he is again forced to leave out an article that one of his subscribers inked to he published. The entertainment at the Opere House Monday evening by Prof. S. M Gregory, the bid-time Southern comedian and noted banjo ist of Lee's Army, was well attended. The au dience was highly pleased with the performance. Mr. Titze'U. the general manager of the new handle mill, arrived last Fri day evening, bringing his family with him. The meeting of the cotton growers of this copnty. called for last Mon dav. was very poorly attended. Tin Towns Being Hun On Budget Flan A nationwide trend that she says | should be of immense encourage |merit to taxpayers (who surely need all the encouragement they can get now) has been spotted hv Mrs. Mel ville Mucklestone, president of the National Consumers Tax Commis sion. It's the fact that states are re quiring local city and county gov ernments, to adopt approved finan cial methods, budgeting, and the like. She finds that 31 states now make it mandatory for municipali ties to operate on the budget plan, I seven prescribe uniform accounting methods, and nine "require periodic 1 i state audits of municipal accounts. | The catch is, she warned, that tax poyers can't assume with confidence I that their towns and counties really are operating under sound budgets, just because they're supposed to do so. It mostly depends on the local fi I nance officer who administers the budget, she points out. ! majority of fanners in this section j were conspicuous for their absence, j Mr James A Everett, of this town ship. Mr A K. Smith, of Roberson vill.e. and Mr. Justus Everett, of U'almyra, were here, Mr. Justus Ev C iett was appointed delegate to at tend the state meeting in Raleigh ? last -W< dneiday ? : Mrs. John D. Biggs and daughter, , Mis A. T Crawford, and Mrs. Wheeler Martin and Miss Mattie Wa | ters left for Raleigh last Saturday, i They are attending the fair this | week. , What's the matter with our peo ple'' Don't they want the road to Ber tie" If you will let us know that you don't., we will devote our energy to something else. Russia Says Germans Are Being Worn Out In Drive On Moscow (Continued from page one) within the next ten or fifteen days they will find it necessary to repair to Smolensk, more than 200 miles away, for the winter. The battle around Moscow was said to be approaching a screaming climax. Various newspaper and radio dispatches said that the Russians had recaptured the towns of "K," "KH," "A" and "O", that they had captured the outskirts of "D" and "G," driven the Germans out of "*G" and "S", lost "N" to the Germans and that a fierce battle was underway at "P". The Moscow radio claimed that "almost everywhere our troops are counterattacking." Soviet troops were said to have advanced five miles west along the Mozhaisk high way, and to have crossed the Nara river, 45 miles west of Moscow, and advanced 500 yards before en trenching themselves. ?Tht> fVimmnnist newspaper Prav da reported that the Germans seem ed to be running out of reserves af ter having used up two reserve divi sions in recent battles. A commun ique broadcast by the Moscow radio said 900 Germans were killed at Vo lokolamsk. and that 27 tanks, 18 ar mored cars and 120 trucks were de stroyed there. Elsewhere the following situations wefe reported: Rostov?All German attacks were throw hack and Soviet troops coun ter-attacked at several points. Makeeva?The Germans renewed their fierce offensive on Monday, aided ~by reinforcements, and broke through the Soviet defenses during a fog. Soviet troops now are pour ing into the gap and have prevented the Germans from widening it, ac cording to Red Star. Orel?German airplanes based* at this town are waging an air offen sive against Moscow. Soviet bomb ers destroyed 400 trucks, a total of 181 airplanes, 58 tanks, 18 armored t ars and a regiment of infantry in this sector the past few days. The labor front, marked by con fusion and offering in bold relief the division of this country, offered a brighter picture today, the Presi dent stating that the situation was greatly improved and is better than it was before the defense program was launched. Interesting, Bits Of Business In the VS. Furniture business going strong for the first eight months of the year 22 per cent ahead of the 1940 pace, and with final quarter expected to be even bigger . . Military tanks, an industry that wasn't even in ex istence 18 mot ]t I is ago in t h is coun try, by the middle of 1942 will be a "billion-dollar" industry?it's now producing at the rate of $25,000,000 worth a month, and is scheduled to double that by this year's end, dou ble it again in first half of '42 . . . Mr. and Mrs. Alton Stalls, Mrs. Joe Stalls, Miss Emma Stalls, and Miss Louise Mobley, all of Everetts, attended a birthday supper honor ing Mr. C B. Stalls and daughter, Shelby Jean, at Bndgeton Tuesday night. Messrs. Paul Simpson, P. W. Nash and Paul Bailey, of Everetts attend ed the North Carolina Association of Lite Insurance Underwriters, East ern Carolina Division meeting?iir Greenville last night. Seven Bicycles In One County Family ? This is a traveling age all right, and John Bryant, colored farmer of Oak City, is doing his part to keep it "agoin' Bryant is not so much interested in speed as he is travel itself. Enjoying a measure of pros perity this fall, Bryant first bought five bicycles at one time for five of his seven children. Possibly the two without troubled those with bicycles, and a short time ago he bought two more bicycles to place all the chil dren on wheels. It is now believed that Bryant can save enough on gasoline to buy an automobile for his wife and him self. Local Youtht "Rate" At The Mart Hill College Several local boys through their ability, mental and otherwise, are sharing publicity highlights coming out of Mars Hill College where they are studying this term. Joe Boykin was recently elected president of the Business Club, "The Hillton." student newspaper stating, "Members of the honor clubs are the highest rating students in college." The publication goes on to say, "Membership is restricted to students with an average of B in the subject in which the club specializes and not below a C in other subjects." In football, Boykin is listed as a "good punter." Two other local boys, Martin and Arthur Anderson, share honors on the gridiron, the student publication referring to them as "line receivers.**" ~ Mrs. Hennie Ballard, Mrs. R. W. Salsbury and Mrs. Dave Matthews, of Hamilton, visited in Tarboro on Wednesday Miss Effie Waldo and Mrs. Jessie Everett, of Hamilton, visited in Rob ersonville Tuesday. Wants WANTED TO RENT ON SHARES: 2 or 3-horse crop with 6-acre to bacco and 15-acre peanut allotment. Will consider cotton too. Foster Van Landmgham, Williamston, Route 3. FOR SALE CHEAP ? WINTER peas, vetch, crimson clover. Linda ley Ice Co. o28-3t FOR SALE: ABBRUZZI RYE, WIN ter rye, seed oats. Lindsley Ice Co. o28-3t CLARK'S MALARIAL TONIC For Chills and Fever. Guaranteed, or money refunded. Clark's Phar macy. m23-tf LET US DYE YOUR SUMMER shoes, colors guaranteed. Willard Shoe Shop. s23 tf ZIPPERS REPAIRED OR RE placed in leather coats. Willard Shoe Shop. s23 tf RADIO REPAIRING Bring us your Radii* for Repairs. All work guaranteed. Reason able Charges. Western Auto Store W. J. Miller, Owner New Shipment! Ladies' Dresses Lovely Fall l)re?*ee in the wwetl colore and Vtylet. Full ran^c of IIKI, $1.98 to $6.95 Ladies' Coats; NEW FALL ami WINTER COATS in novelty tweed a and eolid colore . . . Select Your Coat NOW! $5.95 to $16.95 Children's Coats Complete stock of CHILDREN'S COATS for School and Dreee . . . See Theee Before You Buy! $3.95 to $6.95 Martin SupplyCo. What 's it got you haven 't got in your present automobile? Here stands an automobile - the automobile, we believe, of 1942. What's in it to lay claim on your attention P Well, among other things: A valve-in-head engine ? the same type of engine used in every modern airplane. FlKEBAU. compression ? specially contoured Domitc pistons that wring more good out of every drop of gas. Compound Carhurelionf - a con fAxailable at slight extra cost on Butch Spscxal models, standard on all other Series. stant check and double check on gas usage to see that you get both power and range from the fuel you buy. There are longer-lasting bearings, stouter connecting rods, broadrim wheels that steady the ride and de liver top tire mileage. There's a torque-tube drive such as you find in America's fastest fighting planes, and soft, gentle all-coil springs that never need any mother ing care. There are ruggedness, dependabil ity, frugal use of gas and oil, and as for ti/e and action and ability - why not see for yourself? In short go try out this Buick and see why it is the automobile of 1942 - and your smartest buy considering the times. Na car has All THIS SOB YOU IN '4t FISH ALL STSAIOHT- EK3HT VALVS - IN - MAO (MOM * COMPOUND CABSUSSnON ..I.nI.i I mm mmml * OH-CUSMONBD CSANKSMAFT fMS AND JOUBNAU * STUSDi-UTI CONNBCTINO BOOS A STSPON PASKING HAM * SAOADSIM WMKLI * puur AOJUSTABU STEERING POST A BOOT ST PtSHBB A WSATMeWABOW VSNTMNAISB II I BETTER BUY BUICK EXEMPLAR OF GENERAL MOTORS VALUE Chas. H. Jenkins ft Co., Ahosklo, N. C. Chas. H. Jenkins ft Co., Aulaader, N. C. Smith's Service Station, Windsor, N. C. 4 Chas. H. Jenkins * Co, Willismston, N. C.