THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY
OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK
THE ENTERPRISE
THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY
OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNTY
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, October 11, 1946
ESTABLISHED 1899
VOLUME XLIX—NUMEER 82
..Jk-m Jsrymen For
November Term of
Court In County
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No Judge Been Assigned To
Preside Over Two
Weeks Term
Thirty-six Martin County citi
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zens were drawn by the board of
commissioners in regular session
this month to serve as petit jury
men during the two week term of
superior court convening on Mon
day, November 18. Eighteen of
the men selected are to serve the
first week and the other eighteen
are to take over during the second
week.
No cases of marked interest
m have been scheduled as yet for
trial during the term. Thanksgiv
ing comes the second week and
the term is likely to last only a
short time.
* No judge has been assigned to
! preside over the sessions, but one
will be named by the governor’s
office within the next few days,
Clerk of Court L. B. Wynne said
tnis week.
Names of the jurymen called to
serve during the first week:
Jamtsville: Leo Gardner and F.
C. Stallings.
Griffins: George E. Peel,
George E. Roberson and T. C.
Griffin.
Bear Grass: Thurston Wynne,
Wheeler Rogerson and George M.
Peel.
Williamston: D. V. Clayton,
George T. Gardner and W. Ed
ward Cox.
Cross Roads: J. B. Wynne.
Hamilton: J. H. Knox, J. G.
Forbes and Edgar Davis.
Goose Nest: G. W. Barrett, R. E.
Turner and Jesse Harrell.
Second Week
Jamesville: D. E. Davis and
George B. Barber.
Williams: Henry F. Williams.
Griffins: W. D. Daniel and
Miles R. Lillcy.
| Bear Grass: Roy Harrison,
i Clayton Cowin, Leonard Bennett
f and William Chesley Jones.
* Williamston: W. G. Thomas, C.
L. Norris and J. E. Asbury.
. Rcbersonville: John G. Taylor.
Poplar Point: Latham Bland
and R. M. Taylor.
Hamilton: Fred S. Barrett, L. B.
Fleming and W. J. Beach.
! At least one of the jurors has
moved out of the county and it is
said that one or two of the others
have only recently completed a
year’s service on the grand jury
here.
Six Called For
Induction Test
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•Six young white men were call
ed by the Martin County Draft
Board last Wednesday to report
to Fort Bragg for pre-induction
tests. James Wade Whitd of Wind
sor and Tempo, Arizona, failed to
report, possibly because he did
not receive instructions.
Names of the men answering
the call and their addresses:
Hatrf- • Millis Reddick, Jr.,
Greensboro and Williamston. He
was transferred from Greensboro,
James Edward Moore, RFD 1,
Williamston.
Bill Mobley, RFD 1, Oak City.
Arthur Frank Harrison, RFD 2,
Williamston.
Moses LeRoy Merritt, RFD 1,
Jamesville.
One of the five answering the
call is married. Four are listed as
non-farmers. The ages of the
group range from 19 to 27 years.
Most of the youths had received
prednduction tests previously.
Three other Martin County
white men have been notified to
report for final induction on Oc
tober 17.
It is understood that nine coun
ty colored men are to report Oc
tober 31 for final induction.
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Mrs. Brown Heads
Junior Red Cross
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Recently named chairman ef
the Junior Red Cross for this
chapter, Mrs. Victor E. Brown this
week drafted a plan of action for
advancing the work of the new
organization. The new president
is enrolling the schools at a fixed
fee of fifty cents per room.
The chapter has been without a
junior organization tor some time,
but under the direction of Mrs.
Brown the juniors are planning
an active unit and a progressive
program.
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Records On Local Market
Averaging right around $55.00 ;
per hundred during the first four I
selling days of the current week,
tobacco prices broke all previous
records on the local market, to
bacconists pointing out that sev
eral factors prepared the stage tor j
the record high figures. The
block, it was pointed out, has
been cleared and fairly definite
ly broken for the season after
long weeks during which one of
the worst gluts ever known here
gripped the market. Good quality
tobacco was offered and the price
trend seemed to be slightly up
ward, it was added. All three of
the factors acted to boost the mar
ket price average which now
stands at slightly above $50.00
per hundred pounds for the seas
on through Thursday, October 10.
Individual averages pushed j
right to $67.00 per hundred this I
week, a number of farmers sell
I mg fairly sizable quantities at 67
| cents and none lower than 06
I cents a pound. A few piles went
to G8 cents this week for the first
time this season.
The local market through
Ti. rsday of this week had sold
8,372.202 pounds for $4,191,243.52
or an average of slightly more
than $50.06 per hundred pounds.
Quite a few farmers completed
the marketing of their crops on
Wednesday and Thursday of this
week and a majority of the small
scale growers have sold out. Those
small farmers who have not yet
completed their marketing state
that they have only a barn or two
! left. The big growers have much
' tobacco on hand, but some of
! them have little more than 20 per
i cent of their crop on hand at the
I present time, it is estimated.
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LIBRARY HIM) !
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Wil’iamston’s High School
library, suffering from pa
thetic neglect during recent
years, was given renewed
life recently when parent
teacher volunteer leaders
canvassed the tow*n and rais
ed $102.75 for the purchase of
new books.
Donations, for the most
part, were limited to one
dollar, but the canvass re
ceived a willing support, the
leaders declared.
Reports Show TB
Is Not Confined
To Any Age Group
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More Than Half TB Deaths
Anions Persons Over
Forty Years
Because tuberculosis takes the
highest death toll of any disease
among young people from 15
years of age on, it is often thought
of as a young people’s disease.
Actually, tuberculosis belongs
to no age group. li may strike
any age, though pulmonary tuber
culosis is comparatively rare be
tween the ages of 5 and 15. The
fact that tuberculosis is not a dis
ease of youth alone is proved by
statistics which show that more
than half of all the deaths from
tuberculosis occur among persons
40 years of age and over.
People who dir of tuberculosis
after they reach the forties may
have contracted the disease in
their younger years or they may
have caught it in their more ma
ture years.
Tuberculosis is caused by a
germ and anyone who is exposed
to the germ may get the disease,
regardless of his age. Years do
not create immunity to the dis
ease—there is no immunity
against tuberculosis unless it is a
healthy body, strong enough to
rc^is'C ast ■When germs' .nroec
the body.
One of the reasons that so many
of the tubcrclosis deaths occur
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Opening Youth
Center Tonight
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The ping pong tables are ready,
the juke box is filled with lively
tunes, the curtains are hung and
the floor is waxed and waiting
to welcome the jitter-bugs at the
Youth Recreation Center which
will open tonight at 7:30.
The opening will be in the form
of an open-house at which time
everyone is invited to visit the
hut. At 9:00 Rev. Mr. John Goff
will introduce Mayor John Has
sell who will make a few timely
remarks. Refreshments will be
served throughout the evening.
The Center will open again on
Saturday afternoon for teen-ag
ers at 2:30 and close at 5:00. The
hours for Saturday night are
from 7:30 to 11:00. On Sunday
afternoon the center will be open
from 2:30 to 5:00 and on Sunday
night the hours are from 8:30 to
10:30.
All teen-agers are asked to reg
I liter each time as they visit the
| center in order that a record of j
the number attending may be
' kept.
|Mrs. Roberson
Died Suddenly
Last Wednesday
Funeral Friday Afternoon
For Williams Township
Citizen
Mrs. Mattie Hardison Roberson,
wife of William W. Roberson,
died suddenly at her home in the
Fail-view Community of Williams
Township at 6:30 o'clock Wednes
day evening. Apparently in her
usual health, Mrs. Roberson was
getting ready to prepare the eve
ning meal when she was taken
ill. A victim of a heart attack, she
did not consider her illness seri
ous and went to care for her
chickens before going to her room
I and lying down across the bed.
I Members of the household, assur
ed that she would be all right,
prepared supper, but visited her
during the meantime in the room
and found her resting all right. A
few minutes later she suffered a
second attack and death came
I suddenly.
j Mrs. Hardison had suffered one
or two heart attacks several years
j ago, but seemed to be in excep
tionally good health up until just
a short time before the end.
The daughter of the late Lamb
(Wiggins Hardison and Mary Ann
Lillcy Hardison, she was born
near Jamesville 63 years ago the
18th of last month. She was mar
ried on February 18, 1905, to Mr.
Roberson and with the exception
of about two years spent in Nor
folk she lived in the community
of her birth all her life. She was
a member of the Siloam Method
ist Church in Williams Township
for a long number of years, and
was ever faithful in its service.
No children were born to the
union and surviving are Mr. Rob
erson; a sister, Mrs. Minnie Hardi
son of Jamesville, three nephews,
Ralph Hardison of Raleigh, and
Leslie W. and Duther Hugh Har
dison, both of Jamesville, and a
niece, Miss Hazel Hardison of
New Orleans.
Funeral .‘(.vices will be con
ducted iwWft. Sdoarts Methodist
Church between here and James
ville Friday afternoon at 3:00
o’clock by her pastor, Rev. T. H.
House of Roper, assisted by Rev.
Mr. Davis of Lake Landing. In
terment will be in Woodlawn
Cemetery here.
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
Several persons narrowly
escaped with their lives since
the accident record last made
its appearance two weeks
ago. Despite the narrow es
capes and the resulting cost in
property loss and suffering,
the accident trend on Martin
County highways continues
upward.
The only bright spot—and
that isn't very bright—in the
record this year is the small
er number of fatal accidents.
The following tabulations
offer a comparison of the ac
cident trend: first, by corres
ponding weeks in this year
and last and for each year to
the present time.
Fortieth Week
Accidents In j’d Killed Dam’ge
1946 3 2 0 $ 1,100
1945 5 1 0 450
Companions To Date
1946 97 7a 3 25.560
1945 53 27 6 10.450
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Surrendering its lease last
year, the American Legion
will have nothing to do with
the operation of the Martin
Countj "fair" this year, a re
presentative of the legion
pointed out this week. As
far as i'. could he learned no
local organization is sponsor
ing the "fair" this year. No
premium list has beem releas
ed, and while no official in
formation could be had, pre
liminary reports state that
the "fair” will be nothing
more than another carnival.
It will he subject to taxes and
possibly restrictions more
rigid than those enforced
against those “slipping” in
under the sponsorship of civic I
organizations.
Hear Dozen Cases
In Local Justice
Court This Week
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Several Wilnesses Hound
Over To llie County
Court For Trial
Justice John L. Hassell called a
dozen cases in his court during
the past few days, clearing most
of them with the imposition of
lines plus costs. Two or three
cases were sent to the higher
courts for trial.
William Hoggard was finod $5
and taxed with $11.50 costs for be
ing drunk and down.
I John Hoggard, drunk and '
1 down, was fined $5 and required
| to pay $8.50 court costs.
Charged with improper park
ing in the business district, John
nie Jarvis was required to pay
$6.50 costs.
J. E. Hewitt, charged with dis
orderly conduct, was fined $1.50
and required to pay the costs.
Charged with parking in an al
ley and blocking traffic, Paul
Friedman was taxed with $6.50
costs.
William Raleigh Bell was fined
$5 and taxed with $6.00 costs for
failing to stop at a main inter
section on a public highway.
Judgment was suspended upon
the payment of $7.50 costs in the
case charging Horace Davis with
disorderly conduct.
Charged with disorderly con
duct. Hodge Black was sentenced
to the roads for thirty days. The
court suspended the sentence
upon the payment of $9.50 costs
and on condition that the de
fendant remain out of town for
one year.
Horace Davis, charged with dis
orderly conduct, was requiied to
pay $7.50 costs.
Bill Wright was taxed with
$8.50 costs in the case charging
him with disorderly conduct.
Phillip Barnes, charged with an
assault with a deadly weapon,
was bound over to the county re
corder’s court. Bond was requir
ed in the sum of $200.
Charged with breaking into
Roberson’s Slaughter House and
stealing a fairly large sum of
money, Richard Vines, at a hear
ing Thursday morning, was bound
over to tfie ’highcr courts for trial.
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Fire Prevention
Program Tuesday
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Fire prevention was stressed in
special programs held at the
schools here last Tuesday when
Mayor J. L. Hassell, Fire Chief
G. P. Hall and W. H. Carstarphen
of the Martin County Fire Insur
ance Exchange, addressed the
pupils. A duplicate program was
held in the grammar building
where all the little folks could
not get into the auditorium at one
time.
Mayor Hassell, explaining the
anniversary of fire prevention
week, offered a few statistics, in
cluding the number of fires and
the resulting loss in life and prop,
erty each year in the nation.
Fire Chief Hall warned the
children of the danger created by
following the fire truck on bicy
cles and getting into the street
when an alarm is sounded.
Mr. Carstarphen listed the prin
cipal causes of fires and stressed
prevention measures.
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Legionnaires To Meet
Here Monday Evening
Members of the John Walton
Ha—e!l Post. American Legion,
will meet in the hut cn Watt.,
Street here next Monday, 8 p. m.
XmmioJt horitiesJ.
In Regular Meet
On Monday Night
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Additional Streets Added;
$2 Tax Rate Formally
Adopted Bv Board
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Meeting in regular session last
Monday evening the local town
commissioners formally adopted
the new fiscal year budget and
levied a $2 tax rate on the $100 as
sessed property valuation. The
budget was tentatively fixed at a
special meeting held several
weeks previously, and by the time
of its formal adoption notices of
taxes due were ready for mail dis
tribution. No complaints were di
rected against the proposed levy,
and the budget was allowed to
stand unchanged.
Represented by Attorneys Peel
and Manning, Dr. Jas. S. Rhodes,
Sr., petitioned the town to take
over several new streets in the
Rhodes development in the north
ern sector of the town. The at
torneys, armed with a map show
ing the new streets and two to be
built later, explained that their
client had spent several thousand
dollars opening the streets. Ex
amining the thoroughfares during
the past few days, the officials
discussed the condition of the
streets and although possibly thir
ty or forty loads of dirt are need
ed to fill in washouts they accept
ed the added responsibility as a
part of the plan for the town’s ex
pansion. One of the streets,
known as School Drive, starts at!
Liberty Street, runs the A. R.
White home adjoining the high
school property and continues
across a ravine and curves along
the grammar school property to
Halifax Street and thence across
the grammar school grounds to
East Church Strtet. The second
street accepted by the town is
now just a block long. It has its
beginning at the eas< end of Lib
erty Street and runs to East
Franklin at the corner where Mr.
and Mrs. James Wynne are build
ing a new home. An additional
I block, added to Franklin, was also
accepted along with Liberty
I Street which runs west off Smith
! wick Street to North Haughton
| Str eet or the Hamilton Highway.
Trie surveyors map shows two
more streets—Jackson and Lee—
!>ut they are to be taken over
after the property owner builds
them to connect Liberty and
Franklin Streets.
While the officials were dis
cussing streets they gave the
name of Faulk (after Sam Faulk)
to a thoroughfare running off
Washington Road via the Odd
Fellows Cemetery to West Main
Street. One thoroughfare, bear
ing the names of Grace, Roanoke
and White, is to be known only by
Grace and White, Grace running
from School Drive via the R. Ed
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Dawson Griffin
Funeral Service
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■gu»M.ral y.-ero conduct
ed at the home in Griffins Town
ship Wednesday afternoon at 2:30
o’clock for Alonza Dawson Griffin
who died following a short illness
in a Washington hospital at 1:20
o’clock last Tuesday morning.
Elder P. E. Getsinger, pastor of
.the church at Smithwicks Creek,
assisted by Rev. W. B. Harrington,
county Baptist minister, and Eld
ers Roberts, Simmons and Cowin,
conducted the last rites. Inter
ment was in the family plot in the
Tice Community Cemetery.
Mr. Griffin, the son of the late
John Daniel Griffin and wife,
Charity Ann Hardison Griffin,
was born in Griffins Township on
June 3, 1881. He was a member
of the Primitive Baptist Church
for many years, and answered the
call of needy friends on many oc
casions. Often he had canvassed
his community for funds in the
name of needy and suffering hu
manity. always giving freely of
his means and asking little for
himself.
Surviving are his wddow, the
former Miss Matilda Margaret
Roberson, seven sons, Noah Dan
iel, Andrew, Jesse, Staton, Hugh
B, and Henry S. Griffin, all of
this county, and J. T. Griffin who
, is now stationed with the army in
Naples, Italy; three daughters,
Miss Bessie Griffin, Mrs. Marion
| Lilley and Mrs. William Griffin;
j and one si*ter, Mrs. Cletie Grif
. fin, of this county.
Meat Predicted Here
Reports Indicate
1,000 Pigs Penned
Inside The Town
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Individuals Said To Have
Taken Action To Beat
Meat Shortage
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The distressing meat shortage
now gripping this community is
almost certain to be relieved in
coming months if reports reach
ing the meeting of the local town
commissioners are true. During
the last Monday night meeting of
the local town commissioners the
ordinance prohibiting the penning
of hogs within the incorporated
limits crept in for discussion.
Extremely sympathetic with
those persons who are trying to
beat the meat shortage by raising
a hog or .wo on their premises
inside town and advised that one
or two of the commissioners
themselves had one >r two little
piggies conveniently penned, the
officials closed their eyes and the
particular topic crept out as quiet
ly as it had crept in and the dis
cussion centered on other topics.
Before the discussion of the
particular topic was dropped, it
was reported that estimates plac
ed the number of hogs inside or
right along the incorporated lim
its would approximate 1,000. The
estimate was recognized as an en
couraging note, and it could be
that dollar-a-pound ham won’t be
needed after all. It was pointed
out that hungry souls here were
.pinion that there weren't
that many hogs in all of eastern
North Carolina and certainly not
that many in this immediate com
munity.
It is indeed certain that the or
dinance will not be rescinded,
that it will be invoked in those
cases where the conditions be
come obnoxious and complaints
are heard. During the meantime
quite a few hungry souls are look
ing forward eagerly to hog killing
(Continued on page eight)
uWrite A Letter”
Week Scheduled
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In the list of special observ
ances, “National Letter-Writing
Week” is next on schedule, Post
master W. E. Dunn announcing
today that the period, October 13
to 19, is to be given special at
tention this year for the first time
since before the war. Mr. Dunn
said:
“Prior to the War this com
mendable event was received
with much enthusiasm by the
public. Now that the fighting is
over it is believed that National
Letter-Writing Week this year
will be received with the same
splendid cooperation by the
American public and that it will
hi ing much fleams?, nnd.hflfin'-,
ness to millions throughout the
Nation, and that the resulting let
ters will serve to renew or retain
many contacts and friendships
which might otherwise be lost.
“Yes, someone is waiting for
your letter. The welcome words,
an acknowledgement of some re
quest, a chatty report on the in
consequential but delightful
things you like to talk about, that
note of praise or a bit of informa
tion, all of these are yours to give
at a little effort and expense in a
letter.
“Someone feels better
“When you send a letter.”
CONTEST WINNER 1
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For the second time in as
many years, Miss Mary Ola
Lilley, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. Eason Lilley, won high
honors in a district dress re
view contest. Competing
with representatives from
twenty-one counties, Miss
Lilley, member of the Farm
Life club, tied for first place
with Miss Dorothy Lawrence
of Gates County.
The contest was held in
Edenton last week and Miss
Lilley was accompanied by
Mt^ees Mary Lou Coltrain and
Elizabeth Holliday and the
a^s&tant horde ggeat
| DETOURING |
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After carrying traffic over
the Roanoke River here in the
hundreds of thousands during
the past 25 years, the old
draw span was swung open
and closed to traffic Wednes
day afternoon at 3:15 o'clock,
and workers are now slowly
dismantling the old steel
structure. Traffic was switch
ed a minute or two earlier to
a temporary structure about
200 feet up the river from the
old bridge where traffic is
likely to be detouring for the
next ten or twelve months.
Mrs. Jno. Bailey
Died At Home Of
Son Wednesday
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F uneral Service Held In the
Ilaptist Ghnrcli At
Everetts Thursday
Mis. Alice Bowen Bailey, high- j
ly esteemed citizen of this conn- ;
ty, died at the home of her son, j
Paul Bailey, in Everetts Wednes
day morning at 11 20 o’clock fol- j
lowing many years of declining
health. An invalid for the past
ten years, Mrs. Bailey suffered a
heart attack the 2tith of last
month and her condition had been
critical since that time. She was
conscious up until late last Tues
day.
Mrs. Bailey, the daughter of
the late Reuben and Mary Wil
lliams Bowen, was born near Ev
eretts in Cross Roads Township
j on May 20, 1868, and except for
a few months spent in Williams
ton with her daughter, she made
| her home in that community all
her life.
Mrs. Bailey was a member of
the Primitive Baptist Church at
Bear Grass for about forty years,
humbly worshipping there with
few interruptions for years or un
til her attendance was made im
possible by failing health. She
was a devoted and thoughtful
mother, a good neighbor and
friend, and her walk through life
was marked lor its Christian
character.
She was married to John L.
Bailey in 1899 and following his
death on January 15, 1940, she
had made her home wun. me chil
dren returning to Everett.-; last
June after a slay of about six
months in Williamston.
Surviving arc two daughters,
Mrs. C. B. Clark of Williamston,
and Mrs. W. L. Johnson of Bel
haven; two sons, Reuben Bailey
of the old home and Paul Bailey
of Everetts; three stepdaughters,
Mrs. George W. Taylor of Ever
etts, Mrs. M. A. Price of near Wil
liamston, and Mrs. W. O. Wil
loughby of Williamston. and a
step-son, Gordon G. Bailey of Ev
•HaCTIWm aiuy-threc grand
children. Mrs. Bailey was an oniy
child.
Funeral services were conduct
ed in the Everetts Baptist Church
Thursday afternoon at 3:30
o'clock by her pastors, Elders B.
S. Cowin and A. B Ayers, assisted
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Crowds Attending
Church Services
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The special religious services
now under way in the local Chris
tian church are attracting capac
ity congregations nearly every
evening at 7:30 o’clock. Despite
the inclement weather Tuesday
evening, a large congregation was
present to hear Rev. Newton Ro
bison, pastor of the Hillyer Mem
orial Christian Church, Raleigh,
in his second address.
The meeting is scheduled to
continue through next week. A
special feature on the musical
program Friday evening will be a
number by a quartette from the
Robersonville Christian Church.
Rev. Robison’s sermons are be
ing well received by the large
congregations which are made up
by representatives from nearly
every denomination here and
quite a few from other parts of
the county.
iudjici
Hears Tea Cases
In County Court
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Filin-'. i?T'>'«izO,
('.olio* <o«l Vl Session
Fast Monday
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Judgi J. Calvin Smith heard
ten eases in the Martin County
Recorder’s Court last Monday, the
docket being the smallest sched
uled for a session in several
months. On October 8. last year,
the court had thirty-nine cases on
its docket.
Working before a very small
group of spectators, the court re
cessed just before lunch after col
lecting fines in the amount of
$320.
Proceedings:
Charged with an assault with a
deadly weapon. Lena Lilley was
adjudged guilty over her own
plea of innocence. She was fined
$20 and taxed with the cost.
James Edward Smithwick, col
ored. was adjudged guilty of as-’
saulting a female and was fined
$25 and required to pay the costs.
The case charging Joe Thomas
and Linwood Bland with being
drunk and disorderly was con
tinued for the state until next
Monday.
Navin Hawkins, charged with
an assault with a deadly weapon,
failed to answer when called and
the court ordered his arrest.
A continuance was ordered in
the ease charging Roosevelt Clark
with an assault with a deadly
weapon when the state’s witness
es failed to answer when Solicitor
Paul D. Roberson called them to
testify. The court ordered that
the witnesses be subpoeaned.
W. W. Byrd, charged with run
ning away and deserting his wife
and three small children, was sen
tenced to the reads for twelve
months. He pleaded not guilty in
the case.
Charged with larceny, S. T.
Jackson pleaded not guilty. Ad
judged guilty, the defendant was
fined $25 and taxed with the cost.
Edward Rawls was fined $10
! and required to pay the costs in
j the case charging him with care
| less and reckless driving,
j Pleading not guilty in the case
I charging him w ith hit-and-run
I driving, Edgar Lee Savage was
adjudged guilty and the court
| sentenced him to jail for three
I days, fined him $20, taxed him
with the cost, and revoked his
operator’s license for four months,
Anthony Lanier, charged with
operating a motor vehicle without
a driver’s license, pleaded guilty
and was fined $20 and taxed with
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Farmer Attempts
To End His Life
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Said to have been despondent
over the condition of his health,
Arthur Gardner, 42-year-old far
mer of Jamesville Township, at
tempted to end his life, at his
home there Wednesday afternoon.
Reports reaching here stated that
Mr. Gatd.tsvr Wmwod gun fhells
and shot himself twice. The first
load of shot was said to have torn
away his neck tie and glazed his
shoulder, and the second tore into
his collar bone. Removed to a
hospital, he was said not to have
been critically hurt.
The farmer who lost a brother,
Onward Gardner, in the service,
had been receiving medical treat
ment in a Plymouth doctor’s of
fice. He had returned from the
doctor that morning and appar
ently was prompted in the suicide
attempt because he was not re
sponding rapidly to treatment.
Mr. Gardner is married and has
several children.
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Infant Son Found
Dead In His Crib
Mitchell Rhodes Gurkin, two
months old, was found dead in his
crib by his parents early last
Thursday morning at their home
in Williams Township. The child
had been ill for three weeks and
his condition had gradually
grown worse, but he seemed to be
getting along very well just a
short time before the lifeless body
was found
Funeral services were conduct
ed at the home and burial was in
the family plot near the No. 90
service station.