NEARLY 1000 MARTIN COUNTY
SERVICE MEN NOW READING
THE ENTEPRISE IN ALL PARTS
OF THE WORLD EACH WEEK.
THE ENTERPRISE
NEARLY 1000 MARTIN COUNTY
SERVICE MEN NOW READING
THE ENTEPRISE IN ALL PARTS
OF THE WORLD EACH WEEK.
VOLUME XLVII—N UMBER 72 William stun, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, September 12, 194-1.
ESTABLISHED 1899
Nearly Million And
ji
On Market To Date!
Little Or No Change Noticed
In General Price Trend
Since the Opening
Sales on the local tobacco market
are nearing the one and one-half
million-pound mark today, an offi
cial report stating that the sales
were in excess of 1,400,000 pounds.
Prices are holding fairly firm despite
a slight reduction for a few of the
nondescript types, but close obser
vers declare they can see little or no
change in the general price trend
since the opening of the market two
weeks ago. While some of the in
ferior types are a bit weaker, the
better grades are showing added
strength and the general price aver
age continues well above 42 cents a
pound.
Block sales are general and there
is no immediate relief in sight. It is
still rumored that further sales re
strictions will be invoked, but for
the present, at least, markets are
holding to the three and one-half
p.our day, or a maximum of 1,260
piles and a maximum of 250 pounds
per basket. About everything pos
sible has been done to limit the
sales without declaring a holiday on
one or two days each week. It does
seem the limitations now in effect
would remedy the situation and help
relieve the labor shortage.
Despite the heavy influx of tobac
co to market, local warehousemen
have worked out a system that is
proving popular among the growers.
For a first sale, the house accepts no
more tobacco than can be sold dur
ing the day. In other words, the far
mer can put his tobacco on the
floors today and know it will be sold
tomorrow. In some cases, it is pos
sible for the farmer to deliver his
tobacco and sell it the same day.
However, warehousemen do not
guarantee a sale the same day the
tobacco is delivered.
It is believed the crop will be
harvested in its entirety this week,
but farmers are expected to start
harvesting peanuts within the next
few days. Ordinarily the peanut
harvest delays the delivery of to
bacco, but it will not be generally
felt this season, many believe.
An official market report for the
belt follows:
Eastern North Carolina flue-cured
tobacco prices during the second
week of sales remained steady at
opening week levels for the majority
of grades. However, averages for
a few grades showed declines wich
were mainly from $1 to $4. Accord
ing to the War Food Administration
and North Carolina Department of
Agriculture .most of the losses were
in primings, green leaf and lugs, and
nondescript. The sharpest decline
was $6 per hundred for best thin
nondescript. Prices for medium to
best qualities were mostly between
$40 and $46 while a few baskets sold
up to $48, but averages for many of
(Continued on page six)
!
Seventy-Six Tires
Allotted Bv Board
Seventy-six tires — 53 passenger,
seven for small trucks and six for
large trucks—were allotted by the
Martin County War Price and Ra
tioning Board last Friday. The large
truck tire allotment was the first
reported in the county in recent
weeks.
Grade I- tires- feicieii "ter~Uie
following:
David B. Searight, I. L. Alexan
der, Louis J. Whiles, Sr., J T. Allen,
Mrs. Daisy A Lewis, E. C. Harri
son, Louise H. Parker, Heber Peele,
Marcellus Coltrain, Mrs. Lizzie Grif
fin Taylor, Mrs. S. W. Mendenhall,
H. U. Peele, J. L. Whitfield, Tim
Black, A. R. Johnson, Ben C. Peele,
Dallas Mizelle, John B. Roberson,
Robert A. Barnhill, Edward Griffin,
J. C. Eubanks, F. P. Raynor, Claude
Simmons, Clyde Ward, Perlie M.
Ange, Bill McNeal, Mrs. Nora D.
Grimes, John A. Hardison, Cecil
Brown, R. R. Thompson, A E. Pur
vis, John Gray Core”, Simon Rog
H nj^nett, P T' Rogers^^^,
worth Ch«ts.
Cox, B. W. Williams, James G. Bul
lock, Kenneth H. Roberson, Man
nings’ Laundry, I. R and G. H. Dav
enpoTt, Johnnie Griffin, Jim Scott,
J L. Whitfield, Elisha Dickens, Hu
bert Clark, Standard Fertilizer Co.
Small truck tires were issued to
the following: Wiiliamston Package
Co., John A. Manning, Roberson
Slaughter House. Jesse Keel, Joe
Ball and V. G. Taylor.
Six large truck tires were ^Wot
ted to the Martin County Transfer
Co., Robersonville.
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Presidential Citation
For Ninth Air Force
In a letter to his wife, Sergeant W
W. (Breezy) Beaird stated that his
outfit, the Ninth Army Air Force
T had received a Presidential citatior
4U- itc —
the invasion on D-Day. Some ol the
individuals in the Ninth wiii hav<
basketfuls of ribbons to take hom<
with them, the sarge said.
Farmers To Start Harvesting,
;ottntrim
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A tew Martin County farmers are
planning to start digging the new
pt nut crop tomorrow, but the work
is hardly expected to approach a cli
max before the latter part of the
month or early October.
The farmers are beginning the
task in the face of a serious labor
shortage, but the situation is certain
to be relieved to some extent by the
return of war prisoner labor to the
peanut fields. More than 225 farm
ers in the county have applied for
that type of labor, and ii is appar
ent that the demand can hardly be
met by the camp here. The peanut
harvest, it is understood, has prior
ity over the labor demands made by
general industry, and it is likely that
war prisoners now engaged by vnr- 1
ious industrial plants will be divert- j
ed to the peanut fields. However, it j
is rlso understood that efforts are
being made to Pet additional ptison
ers to help utliew the
mand
it was ieain«^TJm>fflcial)v shis
week that a uniform price of 11 1-2
cents a stack had been f.xeti for
handling the current harvest.
Farmers R. A. Haislip and E V.
Smith of Goose Nest and Farmer J.
N. Hopkins of near Williamston have
spoken for prisoners to start work
tomorrow. Farmer Smith said yes
terday that it was unusually early to
start the harvest, and went on to
explain that he was taking the war
prisoners when he could gel them
and that it had been so dry that the
peanuts “were doing nothing.”
Lt. Vincent Vehar, commanding
officer, and his camp personnel are
cooperating i*i every v.ny possible
to help relieve the acute labor short
age and save the peanut crop in this
section
American First Army
J
Drives Into Germany
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SCHOOLS
A series of meetings will be
held this week by officials and
teachers preparatory to the
opening of the schools in the
county next Monday.
Th'~ several principals will
meet with representatives from
Raleigh in the high school here
tomorrow morning .at 11 o’clock.
Holding a county-wide meet
ing in the high school Thursday
morning at 9:30 o'clock, the
teachers will hear health and
welfare officials and discuss
various problems.
On Friday, the principals will
call their teachers for meetings
in the several schools.
Lt. Marvin Corey
Flies 53 Missions
At a 12th AAF B-26 Marauder
Base—2nd Lt. Marvin W. Corey, 28.
Jamesville, N. C., has flown 53 com
bat missions over targets in both
Italy and southern France as pilot
of a B-26 Marauder.
Flying with the oldest medium
bomb group in the Mediterranean
theater, he has earned the Air Med
al with three Oak Leaf Clusters for
his missions, which include attacks
on Florence, Rome, Cassino, Anzio
and the Abbey di Montecassino.
Though he has twice come home
from missions on one engine, Lieu
tenant Corey ranks the attacks on
German troop concentrations and
gun positions along the perimeter of
the Anzio beachhead as the roughest
he’s seen.
“Flak was always almost unbeliev
able over Anzio,” he says. “I was ov
er there nine times and sometimes
came back with as many as 30 holes
in my plane. Luckily, they were
never serious ones.”
Lieutenant Corey brought his Ma
rauder back from an attack on Rome
with only one engine functioning in
a flight that lasted an hour apd 45
minutes—a feat once believed impos
sible for the stubby-winged B-26.
His Marauder group was recently
cited twice by President Roosevelt
TOT* Their 'piripbiri f bombirig' "o"i" Both"
the Florence and Rome rail yards—
bombing which devastated the yards
but left nearby religious and cultur
al monuments untouched.
Lieut. Corey attended Campbell
College, Buies Creek, N C , and was
North Carolina and South Carolina
representative for the Standard Cof
fee Co., New Orleans, before enter
ing the AAF in February, 1942. Com
missioned at advanced flying school,
Waco, Texas, he has been overseas
eight months.
A brother, Electrician’s Mate 1/c
David A. Corey, 26, is in the Coast
Guard, stationed at Norfolk.
Four jfow 'Esthers
In Local Schools
Twenty-two of the 24 teacher po
sitions in the local white schools have
been filled, and efforts are being
made to complete the list in time for
tire opening next Monday. Five new
teachers, including Principal E. G.
Bourne, have been elected to date.
The faculty roster follows'.
High school, Mrs. A. R. White,
Miss Ann Golden, ‘Miss Verna B.
Lowery, Miss Evelyn Baker and Miss
Mildred Watson.
Elementary school: Mrs. Evelyn
H. Manning, Mrs. C. B. Hassell, Miss
Mary Whitley, ‘Mrs. Ruby Malone
Rejuney, Mrs. Elizabeth Eagles, ‘Miss
Lucille Belle, Mrs. Velma H. Coburn,
Miss Katherine Bradley, Miss Mar
garet Eiliott, Miss Ruth Manning,
|Cnavcton^^lrs. Mary Benson Car
i starphen. Miss Lamina Baker, Miss
I Grace Ta'.ton, Miss Frances Turnage
and Miss Kathryn Mewborn.
American Ships And
Planes Score Great
Gain In Philippines
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Great Air Rattles Renewed
Over Germany in tlie
Fast Few Days
Decisive biows that arc bound to
have their effect in hastening the
peace were delivered yesterday when
General Hodges’ First American
Army drove five miles into German
territory and carrier-borne aircraft
and warships of Admiral William F.
Halsey’s Third United States Fleet
struck the Japs a blow in the Phil
ippines Supporting the drive into
Germany are four other Allied arm
ies which are moving into position
along a line facing Germany. The
British are driving across Holland.
General Patton and General Patch
have joined forces and are now mov
ing up for the final drive.
General Hodges, moving in force
across the German border at Trier,
was reported today to be strength
ening his position, and it is reason
able to believe that the Germans
will never regain the five miles of
the Siegfried line lost by the Am
erican lightning move.
It was a black day for German
arms, for the Third United States
Army seized a great part of the old
French Maginot Line intact, and was
breaking the last German line of
defense on French soil—the Moselle
river positions.
The British Second Army broke
across the frontier of Holland and
was bound for the weakest link in
the 400 miles of the West Wall—the
thin line of pillboxes, tank traps and
forts stretching south from the Ger
man city of Kleve across the short
est route to Berlin.
Other elements of the First Army
already were fighting through the
minefields of the Siegfried Line
south of the key city of Aachen, lit
tle more than eight miles from Ger
many’s frontier, and were blasting
fortifications inside the R'-ich with
heavy artillery.
Not since the days of Napoleon has
.Germany heeu-e-Rtorcd•• -kv-sti eiTfeth
and the Doughboys who accomplish
ed this modern feat had fought clear
across the little Duchy of Luxem
bourg in one day, freeing its capital
of the same name en route.
(Continued on page six)
Spending Feiv Duys In
Con valetcen t llos pi tui
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Daytona Beach, Fla., Sept. 10. —
pfc. George W. Revels, who former
ly lived in Williamston, has recent
ly arrived at Welch Cofivalescen
Hospital, the Army’s new recondi
tiuning center in Daytona Beach. The
carefully-planned program of physi
will nolT^rdy^efp^nm very busy
but will also return him to gooc
physical condition.
Pvt. Revels was engaged in farm
ing before his entry into the Arm.’!
in December, 1942, at Fort Bragg
He has served more than nine month;
in England and France.
ROUND-UP
A, --—-—
The week-end round-up of al
leged law violators struck heav
ily at non-licensed motor vehi
cle drivers. Several, including a
14-year-old lad, were cited to the
courts and two were jailed for
operating cars without drivers’
licenses. Six persons were jail
ed during the week-end period,
three white and three colored.
booked for public
* drunkenness.
Jhe ages of the group arrested
and jailed ranged from 22 to 41
i years.
TOWN FARM
(A weekly utws digest from
the rural press section of
the OWI news bureau)
Blue Tokens, Farewell
If you’ve got some blue tokens in
your purse, better use them now
because after September 30, they will
be good only for the kids to play
with. Until next Sunday the Office
of Price Administration says, you
can use them just as you always
have used them. Beginning Sunday,
September 17ih, retailers will cease
giving blue tokens to consumers as
ration change, and shoppers will be
able to spend them only in groups
of 10. If necessary, shoppers may
pool tokens to make up groups of
10. Removal of practically all can
ned and bottled vegetables and fruit
spreads and specialties from ration
ing September 17 makes use of blue
tokens unnecessary. Beginning Sep
tember 17 point values on canned
fruits, canned juices, canned toma
toes. catsup and chili sauce will be
designated in multiples of 10.
Those Tire Inspection Records
new Mileage Ra
tioning Record form along with your
new “A- book, OPA says. Since dis
continuance of periodic tire inspec
tion last April, tire inspection rec
ords have' been kept primarily as a'
record of gasoline rations issued each
automobile, and will no longer be
necessary when the new form is is
sued. Tlie new “A” book will go in
to use in the 17 East Coast States, on
February 9th.
I.ooscn Lid on Stove Rationing
The rationing of coal and wood
stoves to consumers will end Octo
ber 15th, the War Production Board
and OPA have announced, although
rationing of oil and gas stoves will
continue. Supplies of coal and wood
stoves have grown sufficiently since
nation-wide rationing started in
August, 1943, to make continued ra
tioning unnecessary.
Shoe Rationing Still With Us
Civilians cannot hope for an early
end of shoe rationing, WPB says, un
less imports of hides increase or un
less there is a large cutback in mil
itary orders. Hide shortages con
tinue' in spite of a large domestic
kill of cows and calves. Heavy civil
ian and military consumption and
decreased imports account for the
shortages.
Please Don’t Buy Our Shoes
The Australian Commonwealth
(Continued on page six)
Earns Commission
Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, N.
M.—Aviation Cadet Arthur Ander
son, .soli of Mr. Oscar S. Anderson,
of Williamston, N. C., a recent grad
uate of the Army Air Forces bombar
dier school here has been commis
sioned a second lieutenant and
awarded the silver “wings” of the
aerial bombardier, supplementing
previously won aerial gunner’s in
signia.
Lieut. Anderson is a graduate of
Williamston High School, class of
11)40, where as an undergraduate he
played football, basketball, softball
and golf He later attended Mars
Hill Junior Colege, where he receiv
ed his A. B. degree upon graduation
in 1942. In civiian life he was em
ployed as a welder.
Prior to his successful completion
.of JAjveuks--.(-.f flight and combat
training in high level precision
bombing and navigation at Kirtland
Field, Lieut. Anderson was station
ed at Las Vegas, Nevada, where he
graduated from the Army Air Forces
flexible gunnery school as an aerial
gunner.
Now ready for active duty, his des
tination is not disclosed.
Guest Missionary
To Address Meeting
-'i/
Dr. V. C. Carpenter, for thirty
eight years a missionary of Disciples
: ofChns^n Puerto Ric^^^l^ad-'
i at Oak drove Church, four miles
south of Robers<jnville ,on Tuesday,
September 19th, it was announced
this week by Rev. C. C. Ware-, secre
tary.
j The one-day meeting, open to all
churches in Martin and adjoining
counties, gets underway at 11 o'clock
and continues into the afternoon. In
j addition to Dr. Carpenter’s address,
! Dr. II. S. Hilley, president of A. C
College, Wilson, and Mrs. H. 11. Set
tle, of Greenville, and Rev. C. C.
Ware, of Wilson, will have parts on
the program.
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Local Boy In Promoted To
Rank Of First Lieutenant
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse T. Price receiv
ed ;< letter this week from their son,
Darre'l M. Price, stating that he had
been promoted to the rank of a
first lieutenant. Lt. Price is located
i in Italy and is connected with the
I Psychological Warfare Branch of the
Allied Force headquarters.
Record Payments Reported bv\
mffm,ot/evrtrPwrL utrfffTeei\
The tie a )?44 county tax collec
tions 9re oft to a record start, at -
rordinp jo >1 report just released by
Collcctoi M. L. Peel. The new levy
—$193,280.14—has already been re
duced by more than $30,000, the col
lector explaining that the notices
had been in the mail hard.y a week.
Possibly without exception, the out
look for tax collections is the bright
est in tax history, and it is believed
that tlie unpaid amount will be quite
small by the end of the marketing
season.
The new levy is $6,735,60 smaller
than the one last year. The reduc
tion, traceable in the main to a 10
cent decrease in the general county
rate, was also influenced by - the
separate collection of dog taxes and
the elimination of a 4-cent special
road tax in Williamston Township.
It will be remembered that the dog
| tax ordinarily amounts to about $3,
i 000. the collector having accounted
1 for about that amount when the dogs
1’■■»ero vaccinated last spring and the
owners paid the tax right along with
the vaccination fee. The special road
| tax in Williamstutt last year was
roughly estimated at $1,000.
After considering the two items,
the new 1944-45 tax picture shows
a net decrease of about $3,000. How
ever, when the valuation increase of
about one mlilion dollars i:. taken
into consideration, there is, in real
ity, no marked reduction in the ov
er-all tax bill. The lax rate of $1.10
is based on a total valuation of ap
proximately $15,000,000, a figure that
is about the highest on record.
Property owners are now receiv
ing a discount on their tax payments,
and they are rushing in in a fairly
steady line to square their accounts.
County Schools Open
Term September 18th
Authorities Making
Renewed Efforts To
Fill Faculty Places
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No Formal Openings Plan
ned; Teaeliers Hold Meet
ings This Week
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Despite unfilled positions in sev
eral of the faculties, all county
schools, white and colored, will start
the 1944-45 term next Monday morn
ing at 9 o’clock, it was announced by
the office of the superintendent late
yesterday. No formal openings are
being planned, but parents and pa
trons will be invited to attend a
formal chapel exercise later in the
week, it was announced.
The first day of the term will be
devoted mostly to room assignments,
the distribution of books and lesson
assignments preparatory to a full
day schedule on Tuesday. The first
day activities should be completed
before noon.
Daily schedules will be discussed
by the principals at a special meet
ing here tomorrow and they will be
announced next Monday. It is like
ly that some of the schools will ob
serve a “short” schedule beginning
next Tuesday, but it is fairly certain
that Williamston will open each
morning at 8:30 o’clock after the
first day.
Bus drivers’ positions have been
filled, authorities explaining that a
dozen or more girls will drive this
year and that they have materially
helped to solve the driver shortage.
With the exception of a few minor
changes, the bus routes remain un
changed this year.
Parents can materially aid the
teachers by sending book rental fees
by their children the first day. The
schedule of fees follows: grades 1
and 2, $1; grades 3, 4 and 5, $1.10;
grades 6 and 7, $1.20; grades 8, 9, 10,
and 11, $3. To this amount all pu
pils taking home economics are ask
ed to add 50 cents.
Announcing plans for opening the
local schools, Principal E. G. Bourne
explained that two teacher positions
were yet,t.Q he filled, one in the ele
mentary and the other in the high
(Continued on page six)
Suffers Serious Wound
In Slutt Hun Accident
--
Fred Rogers, home on a short fur
lough from Fort Jackson for a visit
with his wife and three children,
was badly wounded in a shot gun ac
eident at the home of J. P. Holliday
on the Hamilton Road near here last
Sunday evening. The young man fir
ed the greater part of a load of gun
shot into his left wrist. Reports fiom
the local hospital where he was re
moved for treatment, stated that
possibly l.is hand could be saved, but
The young man, just a few weeks
in the service, started out to kill a
chicken. He was climbing a fence
when his foot got caught and he
lunged forward, his left wrist com
ing to a stop on the ground at the
end of the gun barret just as the
weapon accidentally fired.
ROUND-UP
v_:—*
While organized forces of the
law are rounding up alleged
violators to preserve order and
decency on the home front, L.
V. Ange, young son of Mr. and
Mrs. Levin Ange of Jamesville
Township, is rounding ’em up
over in France, presumably to
hurry up and get the war over
and return home.
An indirect report from the
young man stated that"he' wiffl—
the help of another soldier had
I rounded up nine Jerries at one
time.
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PLENTY
v
J
The Enterprise management
extends hearty thanks to those
subscribers who so obligingly
supplied copies to huild up the
paper's files for August 18th.
The supply was exhausted be
fore checking copies were filed,
but now the supply has been
abundantly replenished .giving
the publishers ample copies and
nearly a bale left over for waste
paper.
Copies were brought in, sent
in and mailed in, one finding its
way back from out in Oklahoma.
Pfc. Hubert Hardison, stationed
at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City,
sent one and expressed the hope
it will be of some help.
MARTIN COUNTY
In WORLD WAR I
(Reviewed from old Enterprise
files twenty-seven years ago)
AUGUST, 30, 1918.
A cablegram was received from
Lieutenant Elbert S. Peel on Wed
nesday announcing his safe arrival in
England. He sailed from New York
on the 16th of August with the 317th
Regiment, Field Artillery, which has
been trained at Camp Jackson.
SEPTEMBER (i, 1918.
Sergeant James A. Leggett is at
home on leave for seven days.
The local board has been called
on to send men in the limited serv
ice class, and on August 30th, Mil
lard Harrell Warren and Grady Ed
gar Smith were sent to Camp
Greene, Charlotte, N C., Today, Sep
tember 6th, Perlie J. Modlin and
Alonzo T. Roberson left.
SEPTEMBER 13, 1918.
Charles Biggs writes that he has
finished his training at Paris Island
and is stationed at the Torpedo Base,
Newport, R. I., preparatory to sail
with a Marine corps.
Jack Ws Biggs left Saturday for
Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C., to
report for military duty.
The following is the first letter to
be printed in The Enterprise from
one of Martin County’s boys over
seas:
France, July 10, 1918.
Mr Dear Papa:
It is due course in time to write
again but 1 am so blue just now that
I know I should wait a while until
I am in better spirits, but I don’t al
ways have the time when I want tc
write.
Why am 1 blue? Lots of mail came
today and I didn’t get a line. Some
(Continued on page six)
Child Badly Hurt
In Auto Accident
Elm on James, five-year-old girl
of the Dardens Community, was crit
ically hurt in front of her home there
at 5:45 last Sunday afternoon when
she dashed into the highway and was
run down by a car driven by Char
lie C. Styon of RED 1, Plymouth. Ac
cording to reports reaching here,
the child suffered a skull fracture
and a crushed hip. She was remov
ed to a Washington hospital.
Investigating the accident, Patrol
man W. E. Saunders stated that the
child was standing beside the high
way, that she waited for one car to
pass and apparently failing to look
in the other direction darted into the
road in front of the Styon car.
Styop, driving about thirty miles
an hour, stopped ids car in less than
100 feet and picked the child up and
Tai'i ieQ it lb tne ftuflPoi
! Rhode James, where he isirr-ted. The
i cniicrs lather, Hosea James, is in
overseas service.
Trying To Complete
ism: Dre^stirgr***^
By Thursday Night
Approximately 2,00<r l,ars?e
Dressinps To Be Bandied
By Local Unit
--
Faithful volunteers, reporting reg
ularly at the local Had Cross ban*
dago room here, today are rapidly
nearing the end of their August goal,
a late report from the chairman
stating that there were only 2,000
dressings to be prepared here. There
are possibly several hundred to be
prepared in each of the units at
Bear Grass, Macedonia, Jamesville
and Hamilton. While no late reports
have been received from those units,
it is understood that the work is
progressing according to schedule
and it is possible the August allot
ment of 50,400 dressings will be com
pleted tliis week and made ready for
shipment- With a reasonable re
sponse from thoughtful and patriotic
citizens, it is possible that the task
will be completed here by Thursday
night or Friday.
Macedonia turned in 1,500 dress
ings this week and work on others is
still underway there.
Mrs. G. A. Peele, chairman of the
unit at Bear Grass, has made no
progress report, but she did say that
few volunteers could find time to
report for work. Up until last week,
Mrs. Sam Mobley, Mrs. Willie Gur
ganus, Mrs. Edmund Harris, Mrs.
John Ashley Hardison, Mrs. Irving
Terry, Mrs. Ruth Hazel Harris and
Mrs. Peel had reported, some of
them going twice. It should be point
ed out that the ladies in the rural
communities are quite busy with
other duties just now and it is not
convenient or hardly possible for
them to lend a helping hand. They
can be counted on later to take a
leading part in the work.
The following volunteers reported
to the local room since last Thurs
day night:
Friday afternoon: Mesdames M. M.
Levin, Carlyle Langley, Charles H.
Godwin, Jr., G. W. Lewis and Frank
Weaver and Miss Kate Philpott.
Friday night: Mesdames B. S.
Courtney, Coy J. Roberson, John
Gray Corey, Jack Hardison, Hildreth
Mobley, J. C Anderson, and G. P.
Hall and Miss Mary Louise Taylor.
Saturday afternoon: Mesdames
George Grimes, Luther Peel and Jno.
R. Peel.
Saturday night: Mesdames J. B.
Taylor and B. S. Courtney.
Sunday afternoon: Mesdames J. B.
Taylor, 11. D. Harrison, B. A. Critch
er, J. W. Watts, William Gurganus,
Theodore Gurganus, Irving Terry
Carl Mobley, B. S. Courtney and
Miss Evelyn Hope Davenport.
Monday afternoon: M"s. J. B. Tay
lor, W. C. Manning and Abner
Brown.
Monday night: Mesdames Billy
Grill in, Alex Jones, O. L. Willard,
J. C. Manning, James B. Peele, Exum
Ward, Jr., G. G. Woolard, W. B. Gay
(Continued on page six)
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Janiesville Native
Dies In Georgia
The Cairo Messenger of Grady
County, Georgia, in a recent issue
carried an account of the life and
the death of the Rev. J. W. Lilley,
Methodist minister, who died on Au
gust 13th, at his home in Cairo. He
was a member of the South Georgia
Conference and was superannuated
last December after 43 years of ac
tive ministry, having served as pas
tor at Columbus, Macon, Waycross,
Fort Gaines, Davisboro, Pelham, Bos
ton, Buena Vista and Cairo.
He was a talented musician, which
added greatly to the effectiveness of
his ministry, especially among young
people. In youth he worked on a
newspaper for part time and during
his years as a minister wrote “Lil
ley Lines” as church news for local
papers wherever he was pastor.
For many years he was active in
the Masonic organization, being a
Shriner.
The Wesleyan Christian Advocate
for August carried a picture of Mr.
Lilley with an article speaking in
ievvr.v, >'f his ■worts
^!s does the Cairo Messena
He was born in Martin County, N.
C on November 8, 1870, the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Lilley. He mar
ried Miss Mamie Connell Dec. 14,
1898. She survives with one son, J.
W. Lilley, Jr., of Los Angeles, Calif.
Other survivors include a brother,
W. J. Lilley, of Jamesville, N. C.;
three sisters, Mrs. Donie Sexton, of
Jamesville, and Mesdamcs R. B.
Brown and Gussie Ward, of Wen
dell.
The final rites were held at the
First Methodist Church of Cairo,
with the pastor, Rev. M. P. Webb, in
charge, assisted by other ministers,
and burial was in that city.
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Suit For Divorce Filed
in The Superior Court
A suit for divorce was filed in the
Martm County Superior Court this
’"Week. u v J lef 1 nim l a' tiTeWj' KoOtr
sawwir 'F
action is based on two years of sep
aration.