THE ENTERPRISE
VOLUME XLVII—NUMBER 25
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, March 2H. 194-1.
ESTABLISHED 1899
Red Cross Campaign
Is Almost Complete
~ In the Chapter Now
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B^CnairinanSpivey*"
Lale Monday
The drive to raise $6,200 for the
American Red Cross War Fund in
this chanter was announced just
about complete late yesterday by
Fund Drive Chairman V. J. Spivey.
Up until that time a total of $7,
374.43 had been raised, the amount
exceeding the assigned quota by $1,
174.43. All quotas have been met ex
cept one, and the colored citizens in
the combined five townships com
prising the Martin County Chapter
are expected to file a complete re
port within a short time.
The following figures offer a fair
ly complete picture of the campaign
as of late yesterday:
Quota Amt rais'd
Jamesville
Williams
Griffins
Bear Grass
Macedonia S. S.
V/illiamston
Colored Citizens
$ 600
150
500
500
3650
800
S 692.70
153.57
544.35
533.85
25.00
5181.85
243.11
$6200 $7374.43
According to Chairman Spivey, the
drive is complete in Jamesville, Wil
liams, Griffins and Bear Grass. One
report is awaited in Williamston, and
the colored citizens are yet to sub
mit a complete report.
Some delay in preparing the names
of the contributors was experienced
at first, but they are now coming in
by the thousands. The gifts will be |
acknowledged down to the last pen
ny, but it will take time The follow
ing contributions were made in Wil
liamston
Mrs. Sadie W. Peel, $5; Mrs. W. R
Glover, $1; Helen S. Roberson, $2.50,
Mrs. Mabel Peed, $10; Wheeler Mar
tin, $15; Farmville-Woodward Lum
ber Co. employees, $25;
Clifton Manning, 10c; M. D. Bare
foot, $2; Henry Jones, $1; Bunk Bur
roughs, $1.50; Mrs. Joe Taylor, $1;
Minnie Winberry, 25c; E. R. Ches
sori, $1; Ira Peed, $1: J. H. Cuulpher. \
25c: Bell Wallace, $1; J. W. Bland, j
$1.50; Henry Mizell, Jr., $1,50; Mr i
and Mrs. A. L. Harrison, 50c; Mr.
and Mrs. Lester Bland, $1.30; Mrs. C.
B. Bonds, 50c; Robert L. Mizzell,
10c; Mr. and Mrs. Ira Price, $2; W.
S. Bailey, $1; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Modlin, $1.50; Mrs Gaston Savage,
$1; Mr. and Mrs. George Gardner,
$1; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Biggs, $1;
Mrs. Alfred Griffin, $1.50; Mrs. Car
rie Peaks, $3, Willie Delmar Rodg
erson, $1; Mrs. Mollie Whitehurst,
$1; Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Bowen, $2;
Mrs. Dennis Biggs, 25c; Mrs. Mollie
Biggs, 50c; Theodore Bowen, 10c;
Pattie Price, $1; Mrs. R. S. Price, Sr.,
$5; Mrs. Leona Mizell, $1; Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Latham, $1; Mr. and Mrs.
Chester Nicholson, $1; Mr. and Mrs.
John Wobbleton, $2; Mr. and Mrs.
M. A. Price, $5; Mrs. N. C. Green,
$10; Mrs. Annabelle Brown, $1; Mrs.
Oscar Anderson, $1; Oscar Ander
son, $1; Mrs. David Davis, $1; Bet
sy Davis, $1; Mrs. C. B. Clark, Sr.,
$1; Mrs. C. A. Harrison, $2; Mrs. C.
B. Clark, Jr., $1; Mrs. J. C. Cooke,
$1; Geo. L. Brown, 25c; Mrs. C. E.
Jenkins, Sr., $1, Mrs. C. E. Jenkins,
Jr., $1; Levi Rogers, 5c; Allen Van
Landingham, 50c; Lizzie Dancy, 25c;
Luther Nicholson, 5c; John Nichol
son, $1; Dillon Wynne, $1; Mr. and
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Newbold Reviews
Progress of Negro
Education in State
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Educational Opportunity for
um' Colwesk
About E«|iial
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Addressing a small but interested
group at a good will meeting in the
local colored high school last Sun
day afternoon. Dr. N. C. Newbold, di
rector of the Division of Negro Edu
cation in the State Department of
Education, Raleigh, reviewed the
progress of Negro education in North
Carolina since 1938. He was quoted
as saying that today this State is giv
ing the Negro almost the identical
^^■'ional opportunity as the.I
whites are receiving.
His address followed seminar talks
made by Attorneys E. S. Peel and
Hugh G. Horton.
Dr. Newbold paid a tribute to this
community for its study of race re
lations and cited this section’s part
in state affairs. It was his opinion
that what is done in the field of edu
cation reacts closely on race relations
and he cited certain standards for
the two races in the field of educa
tion as being almost identical.
He pointed out that the Rockefel
ler Foundation, through the State
Department of Education, gives two
million dollars to the schools of
North Carolina, one million going to
the white and one million go’ng to
the Negro schools.
The length of term is the same, and
the r umber of children in average
daily attendance per teacher is about
the same. There is little difference
in the courses of study and credits
in elementary and high school and
in teacher training and certifica
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Seven County Young Men A re
Called by the Navy This Week
Seven Martin County white men
left yesterday for Raleigh where
il'_ TTv'iijLiim:B>riHi;iiTt‘;.i.'i>]
the United States Navy. They were
the first white men drawn from the
Navy manpower pool in this county,
and incidentally, the call depleted
the reserve built up prior to March
10th.
Three of the recruits are married
and each leaves one child behind.
Four of the group are in their teens
and are all single. Their names are:
Hubert A. Satterfield, Williamston;
Malcolm Thurston Simpson, Wil
liamston and Greenville; William
Leslie Riddick, Robersonville and
Bethel; Rasby Rudolph Hopkins, Ev
eretts; Floyd Dewey Warren, rob
ersonville, and Joseph Saunders
Gurganus, Williamston. These men
reported for their pre-induction ex
aminations on February 22 along
with a large number of other men,
fourteen of whom were accepter! by
the Army.
According to information heard
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ed by the Army are schetiuled to
report for induction on Tuesday of
next week.
No pre-induction call for white
men has been received in the county
for April, but it is understood that
a fairly small number of colored men
are to report for pre-induction on
Friday of this week. The definite
number could not be learned, but it
is understood that Between 22 and 35
are being called. It is also under
stood that a call for u fairly sizable
number of colored men has been
received. tho1 they are scheduled to
report for their pro induction ex
aminations the latter part of next
week, possibly on Saturday. It is
quite likely that the calls will in
clude mostly single and non-father
farmers in the 18-25 age group.
Election Officials For
May Primary Chosen
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
For the second time this year,
no accidents were reported on
Martin County highways last
week, but despite the perfect
score for the two weeks, the 1944
accident wreckord to date holds
an edge over the figures for the
corresponding period in 1943.
The following tabulations of
fer a comparison of the accident
trend: first, by corresponding
weeks in this year and last and
for each year to the present time.
12th Week Comparison
Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam’ge
1944 0 0 0 $ 000
1943 100 75
Comparison To Date
1944 13 4 1 2775
1943 9 4 2 1075
Russians Drive Rack
To Beginning Point
Of War In Rumania
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Cattsino Campaign Conceded
A Failure by Arniynien’s
Newspapers
Starting a drive fourteen months
ago. the Russians have marched
nearly one thousand miles to drive
the Germans back to the starting
point of the war on June 22, 1941, in
Rumania. The Russians have thrust
the Germans out of the greatest part
of prewar Russia tumbling them
over the Prut River on the old Ru
manian frontier along a sector more
than 50 miles wide.
During the past three weeks, the
Red Armies have driven across the
Bug and Dniester Rivers, captured
Nikolaev to the south, and are now
believed making ready for a drive
on Warsaw Poland. The enemy at
Tarnopol in Poland is surrounded,
and the march on that great rail cen
ter of Lwow is expected to roll for
ward again soon.
Hitler is said to be working at a
feverish pitch in an effort to reorg
anize the transportation system in
the Balkans apparently with the in
tention of launching a counterof
fensive south of the Carpathians.
and the Cassino drive, after eleven
days of fierce fighting, has been con
cede a failure. However, it is ad
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Native of County
Dies In Norfolk
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Eli Benjamin Bowen, native of
this county, died in a Norfolk hos
pii&T&undsnHBttHB&R o’clock
He had been in declining health for
some time and had spent the past;
six weeks in the hospital.
The son of the late W. H. and
Sarah Bullock Bowen, he was born
in this county on June 29, 1891.
About 30 years ago he moved to
Roanoke Rapids where he married
Miss Mary Vinson, locating later in
Norfolk.
Besides his widow he is survived
by five daughters, Mrs. Joyce Drew,
Mrs. Sarah Worrell, Edna, Bettie and
Janet Bowen; two sons, William H.
and Reuben C. Bowen, all of Nor
folk; a sister, Mrs. State Bailey of
near Williamston; a half-sister, Mrs.
Addie Perilli of New York, and a
half-brother, C. A. Campbell of Nor
folk.
Funeral services are being con
ducted at the home of his sister near
here this afternoon at 2 o’clock by
Rev. H. N. Spence, Portsmouth min
ister, assisted by Rev. H. M. Pope,
local minister. Interment will fol
low in the Bailey Cemetery in Cross
| Roads Township.
County Board Takes
Oath of Office Last
Saturday Morn in
Not, l'.iioiijj;li Republicans To
Go ’Round; Fill Places
With Democrats
TQ
Machinery for holding the primary
election in this county on Saturday,
May 27, was tentatively set up last
Saturday morning when the recent
ly appointed board of elections met
a few days ahead of schedule and
named registrars anil judges of elec
tion for the thirteen precincts. Very
few changes were made in the pre
cinct election personnel, several new
registrars and judges of election hav
ing been named to fill positions
made vacant by resignation, death
or in those cases where former of
ficials er.t-rcd the service. No wo
men were named to the positions,
and when it was found that there
were not enough Republicans to fill
a position in each of the precincts,
the board named Democrats.
Recently appointed by the State
Board, Messrs. Sylvester Peel, of
Williamston, and J. R. Winslow, of
Robersonville, Democrats, and Wade
E. Vick, of Robersonville, Republi
can, accepted the oath of office be
fore Clerk of Court L. B. Wynne.
Upon motion of Mr. Winslow, Mr.
Peel was made chairman. Plans were
made for Mr. Peel to attend a dis
trict meeting for election officials
in Edenton on Monday, March 27,
and the board, anxious to make the
ballot available to all servicemen, or
dered publication of rules and regu
lations governing such voting along
with an application for ballots. The
board also ordered several hundred
application forms for distribution by
the various election officials.
Names of precinct officials follow:
Jamesville: Clarence Stallings,
registrar, J. L. Knowles, Democrat;
Charlie Davenport, Republican. Mr.
Stallings succeeds his brother, R. L.
Stallings, as registrar.
Williams: Lee D. Hardison, regis
trar; Floyd Moore, Democrat; C. L.
Daniel, Democrat.
Griffins: S. Oscar Peel, registrar;
W. T. Roberson, Democrat; J. C. Gur
kin, Democrat.
Bear Grass: J. Rossel Rogers, reg
istrar; W. M. Harrison, Democrat;
W. A. Brown, Republican.
""^tifiiiiurnsUiii, No. i ”T7dnn*flff!Ty*
Edwards, registrar; Joe G. Corey,
Democrat; Robert S. Price, Republi
can. Mr, Corey succeeds W. B. Watts
as judge of election.
Williamston, No. 2: Oscar S. An
derson, registrar; J. E. Pope, Demo
crat; Jesse T. Price, Republican. Mr.
Pope succeeds Reginald Simpson as
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Fir omen ('.ailed To (irann
Fire Saturday Afternoon
Local firemen were called to a
grass fire off Pearl and Railroad
Streets last Saturday afternoon. No
damage was done by the fire.
GETTIN’ GOOD
Not a single person was ar
rested and jailed in this coun
ty iast week, indicating that
we’re getting good in this little
spot of the Almighty’s green
earth. It was the first time in
months and months that not an
arrest was made.
Officers explained the record
w'as partly traceable to a vir
tually exhausted supply of ABC
liquor tickets and the tight
watch ABC Enforcement Offi
cer J. H. Roebuck is holding ov
er the illicit liquor business. New
liquor tickets are valid this
week-end, officers said in pre
dicting a hot time in the ole
town at that time.
Former County Man
Is Fatally Injured In
Pulp Mill Accidentj
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Funeral Yesterday Afternoon'
Fov
Of Rear Grass
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James Harris, native of this coun
ty, was fatally injured in an accident
at the plant of the North Carolina
Pulp Company in the lower part
of this county last Saturday after- |
noon at 2 o’clock. Badly crushed, ;
the young man died the following
morning at 1:15 o’clock in a Rocky
Mount hospital. According to re
ports reaching here, the young man,
working in the paper machine room,
reached for a torn piece of paper
and his foot slipped. Ho fell into the
machine and w as dragged between
two rollers, one of which was de
scribed as a floating one and the oth
er was stationary. The floating roll
er weighed about 4,000 pounds and
was turning rapidly, and before the
brakes to the machine could be ap
plied by the operator, the young
man was carried through and thrown
several feet from the machine. He
was conscious for a short while af
ter the accident.
The son of Ben and Clara Rawls
Harris, he was born in this county
thirty-six years ago. In 1925 ho was
married to Miss Blanche Modlin of
Jamesville, and lived in Boar Grass
Township up until about a year ago
when he moved to Plymouth to live
with his parents and enter the em
ployment of the pulp company. Dur
ing his short stay at the mill he had
been promoted several times and
was a skilled worker and well liked.
His parents moved from this coun
ty to Plymouth about twelve years
ago.
Besides his wife and parents he
leaves three children. Jack, Alonzo
and Brenda Ann Harris, all of Plym
outh; two sisters, Mrs, Eston Baker,
of Edenton, and Miss Evelyn Harris,
of Plymouth; three brothers, Hilton
Harris, U. S. Army, missing in ac
tion somewhere in the Southwest
Pacific possibly in New Guinea since
last January 28; Wheeler Martin Har
ris, U. S. Army in Italy, and J. B.
Harris, of the IJ. S, Merchant Ma
rine,
Funeral services were held at the
home in Plymouth yesterday after
noon at 2:30 o’clock by Rev. Gower
Crosswell, local Presbyterian minis
ter. The young man held member
ship at Roberson’s Chapel, Presby
terian mission near here. Burial was
in the Mobley Cemetery near James
ville.
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Mrs. J. Kuius Larson
Dies In The County
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Mis. Mamie Ward Carson, widow
of J. Rufus Carson, died at her home
in the upper part of this county, near
Bethel, last Sunday morning at 5:30
o’clock. SIle had been in feeble
health for some time.
The daughter of the late James L.
and Mary E. Andrews Ward, she
was born in Pitt County 73 years
ago. Following her marriage to Mr.
Carson she moved to Martin County
where she had since made her home.
She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Sid
ney Carr of Farmville; two sons,
Russell R. Carson of Bethel and
Robert Carson of Houston, Texas;
a brother, W. H. Ward of Green
ville; a sister, Mrs. W. G. Keel of
Oak C.ty, and five grandchildren.
Mrs. Carson was a sister of the late
Herbert Ward of Williamston.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the
Bethel Methodist Church by the pas
tor, Rev. W. M. Howard, Jr., assisted
by Rev. L. D. Holt, Baptist minister.
Interment was in the Bethel Ceme
tery.
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HimyJLSm it h Hied
Here Last Saturday
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Henry Ii. Smith, native ot Chowan
County, died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Walter Mizelle, on
West Main Street here last Satur
day evening at 0:35 o’clock following
a long period of declining health. He
had made his home here since the
early part of the year, spending most
of that time in bed.
Moving to Bertie from Chowan,
he i tad lived in the Cape hart C^yrch
Community for many yearsTHe was
72 years on the 17th of this month.
Following the death of his wife
about five years ago he had made
his home with the children most of
the time.
Besides his daughter here, he is
survived by a son, Linwood Smith,
and a daughter, Mrs. Ruby Holder,
both of Bertie County.
Funeral services were conducted
at Capehart Church yesterday aft ;
ernoon by Rev. E. R. Stewart. In
terment was in the churchyard.
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Hobbers Enter Local
Commissary Saturday
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'tearing cff several pieces of wea
therboarding, robbers entered the |
F a rm v i 11 e - Wood w a rd Lumber Com
pany commissary on the Washington \
Road here some time during last
Saturday night.
The keeper, Carroll Jones, discov
ered the robbery Sunday morning,
and reported that nothing but a few
pairs of step-ins could be missed 1
Lt. L. B. Mallory Home
From The Paeifie War)
Has Several Close
Calls Over Ralnml
(loiit|ili'lnl Fifty Successful
Missions Over Enemy
Territory
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A prediction as to when the war
will end was out of the question, but
First Lieutenant Lue B. Mallory
talked very encouragingly about the
progress being made against tin
Japs while visiting here yesterday.
The son of Mrs. Effie T Mallory
and the late Will Mallory, of neai
Oak City, returned to his mother’s
home last Saturday after spending
ten long months in the Southwesl
Pacific war theater. The young man,
i pilot on a B-24 Liberator
bomber, only talked when asked di
rect questions, but it was apparent
that he had been in the thick oi
things over there during the past ten
months. For instance there was the
big raid over llabaul and an attach
on a Jap convoy which was met by
broadsides from four Jap cruisers
The odds were against him and his
crew, and Mallory declared that thi
attack was not very successful at
During the period, the lieutenanl
completed fifty missions over enemy
territory or convoys in the Now
Guinea and New Britain area. Ii
relating his experiences he stater
that he thought himself quite for
tunate to have traveled so far in
such a short time and to have the
pleasure of returning home without
injury, lie and his crew of nine men
went through the ordeals of enemy
ire and t. iiibli weather without
>erious mishap, hut he admitted that
.here were times when the way look
ed dark and almost hopeless. On oiu
trip the landing gear on his plane
was shot away, but he landed the
mighty ship without injuring a man
3n another mission, Jap warships
thot several holes through Ins plane
including one or two under his seat.
He said he didn’t learn how close
the shots were until returning to
his base.
Lt. Mallory’s work in the Pacific
has been recognized by the War Do
partin'nt in the presentation of the
Distinguished Flying Cross and An
Medal.
"lt is hard to believe, hut 1 rat
into a heavy snowstorm almost di
rectly over the equator,’ Mallory
said, explaining that he was flying
between eighteen and twenty thous
and feet at the time. The weather is
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Funeral Sunday for
LeRoy Strawbridge
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Funeral services were held at the
Biggs Funeral Home on Wi st Main
■Street, here last Sunday for LeRoy
Strawbridge, Martin County native
who died suddenly in a Columbia,
South Carolina hospital last Thurs
:lay evening at 7:30 o’clock. Rev. II
I’. Hurley conducted the rites at 5:30
/clock and interment followed in
the family cemetery near the old
tome in Williamston Township.
The son of the late Adam and Jen
tie Perry Strawbridge, he was born
tear Williamston on June 4, 1891.
He spent his early life on the farm
ind married Miss Rosa Leo Coley of
Greenville on December 23, 1913. In
1922 the family moved to Columbia
where he engaged in various busi
tesses until his health failed about
vo n clespon
letu cor about two weeks and spent
most of that time in bet), entering
the hospital hardly more than two
tours before the end.
He was a member of the Whaley
Street Methodist Church in Columbia
for about twenty years.
Besides bis wife he leaves foui
tthildren, Mrs. H. C. Dean, Elbert Le
Roy Strawbridge and Carl Wayne
Strawbridge, all of Columbia, and
Mrs Wayne Austin of Durham; out
sister, Mrs. S. C Ray of WHliamstor
and a brother, Guthrie Strawbridge
of Tarboro, and f»v>
Nancy and Billy Dean, Jerry anc
Margaret R. Strawbridge and Jud
itii Ann Austin.
TRUCK GASOLINE
Gasoline rations are now be
ing distributed by the Martin
County War Price and Ration
ing Board at its office in the
agricultural building to truck
owners and operators in this
county. The office is asking all
truck operators to report for
their rations at their earliest con
venience. It is hoped that the
distribution can be effected al
most in its entirety before clos
ing time on Saturday of this
week. However, the rations will
be available any time for those
who are unable to make a trip
to the office before that day.
The office, it should be noted,
is closed each Monday, Tues
day and .Saturday afternoon.
Completing fifty missions in
the Southwest Pacific, 1st Lt.
Cue II. Mallory, accompanied by
Mrs. Mallory, arrived in the
county last Saturday to spend
two weeks with his mother near
Oak City.
Grand Jury Makes
Quarterly Report
To Superior Court
Krcommcmlnliuii.s !Y1;ulc. Hut
Heporl Is Fusliioiml After
A Kotiiiur Pattern
Submitted by John W. Eubanks,
foreman, to the current term of the |
Martin County Supreior Court, the!
quarterly report of the grand jury
makes a few recommendations, but j
tlie document, for the most part, is
fashioned after a routine pattern.
The report follows in detail
"We have passed on all bills of in
dictment presented to us.
“We checked justices of peace re
ports and found them all filed with
the Clerk of Court and funds sub
mitted to the treasurer.
We checked the guardian accounts
and found all reports have been fil
l'd with two exceptions:
Mariali Saunders, Robersonville,
guardian for Vernell, Channel and
Vera Whitfield, has not filed a re
port, and th(> Branch Banking and
Trust Co., Wilson, N. C., guardian
for Clyde Silverthorne, has not filed
a report since February 1(1, 1943. We
recommend that these reports be
filed immediately.
Mr. W. E. Saunders, State High
way patrolman, informed the grand
jury that the school busses now in
operation are in fail condition. Some
are in need of repairs, but in many
instances repairs are not obtainable.
Mr. Coker is doing an excellent job
with the parts available, and some
busses are stored because t^iey can
not be satisfactor ily repaired. The
i ecommendations made by the
grand jury in December, 1943, have
been complied with in most cases.
However, several busses at Oak City
and one or two busses at Jamesviile
are not being kept in a clean and
sanitary condition. The grand jury
urgently recommends that the su
perintendent of schools of Martin
County be requested to again bring
these conditions to tin* attention of
the principals of the schools invol
ved, and instruct them to have these
[conditions corrected without further
We cisited the register of deeds
..ti.-.'irtr itrbe'in «xee8nt;
condition. All records were found |
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C. C. Jenkins Dies
At Home in Bertie
Chas. Clinton Jenkins, well-known
farmer and prominent citizen of Ber
tie County, died at hi:; home near
Aubnri<" last Saturday evening • »t..
e Eighty one years of age,
he had been in declining health for
more Ilian a year. Just before
Christmas he had pneumonia and
never fully recovered.
He leaves his wife, the former Miss
Ada Mitchell, and the following
children, Mrs. G. I’. Hall of Wil
liamston, Miss Ruth Jenkins of Nor
folk. Winston Jenkins of Kelford,
Robert, Carlton and Willis Jenkins
of the home, Mrs. Roy Earley of
Norfolk, and Miss Eleanor Jenkins,
a teacher in the Jamesville Schools.
He also leaves one brother, J. S.
Jenkins, and three sisters, Mrs. Ed
Hoggard, Mrs. Joe Burden and Mrs.
Raleigh Pritchard all of near Au
lander.
Funeral services were conducted
by Rev. Lonnie Sasser, his pastor,
and Dr. W R. Burrell, local minister,
yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock in
Conaritsa Baptist Church where he
had held membership since a youth
and where he faithfully served as a
deacon for more than forty years.
Interment was in the Jenkins family
cemetery, near the home.
Remove Many Cases
From Civil Docket in
Flie Superior Court
'rfoiul VI cck of the Regular
m ITMI
little Attention
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Opening the second of a two weeks
erm here yesterday, the Martin
bounty Superior Court tried only a
cw cases but Cleared a number of
)tners tnat had been in the files for
i long time, some for as many as five
>r six years. Most of those removed
■ rom the docket were either order
'd off by way of voluntary non-suits
ir when the litigants had appealed
o the higher courts and failed to per
fect their appeals.
Today the court is working on a
andlord-tenant case and handling
several divorce claims.
Very few people are attending the
sessions and the proceedings are at
racting very little attention.
Proceedings:
In tin' case of John B Roberson
md G W Maynard against W. O.
'\bbitt, the court affirmed a judg
ment giving the defendant $190.54
>lus interest from September, 1942.
rhe case was first tried before Judge
Walter Bone last November. An ap
aeal was taken and the supreme
•ourt found no error.
A divorce was granted William
Lawrence Tyner against Emma Eliza
Tyner, the action having been based
in two years of separation.
The case of Robert B. Nelson
igainst I) M. Roberson and others
ivas cleared by voluntary non-suit
A judgment handed down in a
previous session in the' case of Mar
garet Whitaker against D. M. Rob
■rson was affirmed after the defend
int failed to perfect his appeal to
Ihe higher courts. The plaintiff was
given a judgment in the sum of $500.
Non-suits were taken in two cases
brought by W. G. Peel against Elton
Andrews, one centering around a
•laim and delivery and the other
around a timber line dispute.
The case brought by Josh Pritch
ard for a divorce from Allie Mae
Pritchard was cleared from the
locket after the plaintiff had failed
to piove the allegation in his com
plaint.
A non-suit was taken in the case
:>f Standard Fertilizer Co. against S.
1). Johnson.
The case of G. N. Cowon against L.
B. Fleming involving alleged $4U
damages caused by a loose cow was
.Beared by voluntary non-suit.
Court judgment was affirmed
vhen the plaintiff failed to perfect
in appeal to the higher courts in
lie case of 1). G. Matthews against
William M. Jones.
The case brought by Allen Gos
sett against I) W. Downs and in
volving landlord and tenant was re
noved by voluntary non-suit.
A judgment allowing the plain
ill $425 plus interest from June,
1941, was affirmed when the defend
ed appealed to the higher courts
ind did not perfect the appeal.
The case ot Smith-Douglas Co.
igainst J. Sum Godard was ordered
iff by voluntary non-suit.
A non-suit was ordered in the
■asi brought by Magnolia Hatem
igainst Henry Ilateni for support
vhen it was learned the defendant
vas paying so much under a crimi
ial indictment.
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Mrs. Eli Ray Dies
In Hospital Early
Saturday Evening
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Kniicral Ik Yesterday
Afternoon at Home
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Mrs Eli Hay, highly respected wo
nun of this county and a resident of
icar Williamston all her life, died
n a Washington hospital last Satur
lay evening at 7:30 o'clock following
i long period of declining health,
she had been in the hospital for
ibout five weeks for treatment.
Mrs. Kay, the former Miss Willie
strawbridge before her marriage to
Horace Eli Hay in 1914, was the
laughter of the late Adam and Jen
-■‘v. P“:ry Struwbvidge._She was
ooiVi nr a i Wiilia'inston" offwu/y 14,
1089, and following her marriage lo
aded on the MeCaskey Road near
die fan grounds. No children were
born to the union and she is survived
by a sister, Mrs. S. C. Ray of William
iton, and a brother, Guthrie Straw
bridge of Tarboro, and several nieces
and nephews. A brother, LeRoy
Strawbridge, died in Columbia, S.
C., last Thursday evening, and the
Iwo bodies lay in state at the Biggs
Funeral Home here Sunday.
Mrs. Ray, a good woman and
thoughtful neighbor who so willing
ly interested herself in the welfare
of others, was a member of the Ver
non Methodist Church since her
childhood. She was faithful in its
service and was active in its support
until her health failed.
Funeral services were conducted
at the home yesterday afternoon at
3:00 o’clock by her pastor, Rev. T. H.
House, Robersonville Methodist
minister, assisted by Rev. B. T. Hur
ley, pastor of the local Methodist
Church. Interment was in the Ray
family cemetery near tne home.