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
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VOLUME LII—NUMBER 34
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Williamaton, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, April 2H, 1919
ESTABLISHED 1899
Badly Injured In
Highway Accident
JN car Here Tuesday
j
"Four Vehicles Involved In
Costly Accident Near
Lilley’s Station
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Two persons were hurt, one of
them believed badly, in a four-;
vehicle accident near Paul Lilley’s
service station about two miles ;
from here on U. S. Hignway 17
last Tuesday morning. Property
damage was estimated at $2,425 by
Patrolmen M. F. Powers and J. T.
Rowe who made the investiga- 1
tion.
Benjamin F. Owens, suffering
two black eyes, cuts on the nose
and lips, and his sister, Mrs. Mary
Dawley, suffering chest and pos
sibly other internal injuries, were
entered in the local hospital for
treatment.
According to Patrolman Powers,
Moses Lee Anthony, colored man
of RFLi 1, Williamston, was driv
ing south on the highway on the
right side of the road and stopped
his 1938 Ford coupe to allow a
ecu cJiid Licultri, traveling north,
to pass so he could make a left
turn into the station. Henry L.
Taylor, RFD 2, Williamstin, was
driving behind Anthony and stop
ped, explaining that he did not
have time to give a stop signal.
Owens, 74-year-old man of Lon
don Bridge, Va., was driving with
his sister behind Taylor’s pick-up
truck, but instead of stopping he
turned into the approaching traf
fic and plowed almost head-on in
to the 1941 Pontiac car and house
trailer driven by Steve J. Martin,
of Florida and Brooklyn. After
ripping off part of the left side of
the Pontiac, Owen's 1948 Chevro
let coupe tore info the house trail
er and damaged it beyond repair, j
coming to a stop after battering a j
fender on the Taylor pick-up and
just before crashing into Anth
ony's old model Ford.
Martin, his wife and their two
small children, Freddie and Mar
lene, were not hurt. A cook for
the Brooklyn Dodgers at their j
training camp in Vero Beach, :
Florida, he was returning with his
family and many of their belong
ings to Brooklyn. He rented a
truck and continued the trip north
later in the day.
Patrolman Powers said the dam
age to the Pontiac and house trail
er would approximate $1,700, that
to the Chevrolet about $700, andi
that approximately $25 will re
pair damage done to the pick-up1
(Continued on page eight)
Special Venire
Drawn For Court
Running short on jurors, Judge
W. H. S. Burgwyn in the Martin
County Superior Court Tuesday
noon, ordered a twenty-member
special venire drawn for service
on Thursday.
The names of those drawn are:
Linwood Brown and A. R. Har
dison of Jamesville, N. P. Rober
son of Williams, James Oscar Wig
gins, Hugh B. Griffin, Ben Ira
and D. Andrew Griffin
of Griffins, Mrs. Geo. H. Harrison,
S' . W. E E
Jr, L. P. Lindsley, Frank S.
Weaver of Williamston, W. K.
Ward and J. Alton Harris of Beal
Grass, V. R. Taylor, Hattie Wil
liams and Nathan Bullock of Cross
Roads, Henry Thomas and W. J.
Beach of Hamilton, and Cecil N.
Brown of Goose Nest.
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May Sponsor Concert
By IS. ( ■ State Band
A called meeting of the Band
Parents Club of the Williamston
High School will be held at 7:30
o’clock tonight (Thursday) in the
Band Room of the new building
to take up the matter of sponsor
ing a concert by the N. C. State
College Band here on May 10 or
11, it was announced yesterday by
President John Henry Edwards.
Director Jack Butler of the
Green Wave Band, says that the
meeting will be very brief and
will leave plenty of time for those
planning to attend church services
to do so. The band will be in this
section during the week of May
9th and has offered to come here
for a concert if arrangements can
be worked out.
WORKING FOR RETTER MAIL BOXES
RURAL MAIL BOX
IMPROVEMENT WEEK
MAY FTO MAY 7th
Three Men Serve a Third of
Rural Postal Patrons
In Martin County
Pictured above with Postmaster
W. E. Dunn are the three rural
free delivery carriers — left to
right, Arthur R. White, J. Robert
Leggett, Mr. Dunn, and John A.
Ward—who are serving one-third
of the entire population of this
county from the local post office,
In keeping with ‘ Rural Mail Box
Improvement Week”, May 1-7,
they are grouped around a conser
vative mail box display which has
been posted in front of the local
office for several weeks. The pos
tal employees and Postmaster
Dunn are calling upon all rural
postal patrons to join in the move
ment to dot the countryside with
better and more attractive mail
boxes.
An improperly placed mail box
is not so bad, but when the car
riers are inconvenienced at all or
most all the 1,620 boxes served by
thenf, the task becomes an unne
cessary burden and slows down
the service. At the present time,
the three carriers are handling
mail for 8,736 patrons on the three
routes, covering 184.10 miles. Each
carrier has an average run of
more than sixty miles each day,
and since that mileage is mighty
high it is absolutely necessary for
the patrons to cooperate in every
way possible. On main highways
the boxes should be located on the
right side of the road, but on lit
tle-used roads, the boxes can be
placed on the left, but convenient
ly installed in either case.
The rural mail service was in
augurated in this office forty
eight years ago with Duffy Hines
serving as the first carrier. There
has been a marked improvement
in the system and more and more
patrons are taking pride in meet
ing the postal requirements and
installing and maintaining ade
quate and attractive mail boxes.
Averaging about three hundred
stops on a,prcVi carrier
rnally delivers eight hundred
.i.i ,. LV ij day The vflPPP
carriers have a combined service
record of eighty-two years, Mr.
Ward and Mr. Leggett, 29, years
each, and Mr. White, 24 years.
They are hoping to be able to re
port marked improvement in the
mail boxes they serve during
"Rural Mail Box Improvement
Week,” and they’ll appreciate
their patrons’ cooperation.
I FAMILY IN COURT
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The whole Peel family
wound up in court one day
this week, opt on charges, to
be sure, but as witnesses and
lawyers.
Elbert Peel, the papa, was a
witness along with his son,
Bill Bob, in court here, re
ports declaring that Bill Bob
made a much better witness
than his daddy. Elbert Peel,
Jr., new member of the coun
ty bar, was in court in Vir
' ginia, and Mrs. Peel attended
to business tor the law firm
in Federal court at Washing
ton.
Calling Special Election
In Two School Districts
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Special elections are being
booked in two Martin County
school districts for Saturday, May
28, according to information com
ing from the office of the Board of
Education. In Bear Grass the
qualified voters will determine
the fate of a 20-cent special tax
proposed in the name of better
schools, while in the Oak City dis
trict the voters will decide on a
15-cent special levy.
Books for a new registration in
both districts will be opened- on
three Saturdays beginning on Sat
urday of this week by LeRoy Har
rison in his garage for Bear Grass
and by Nat Johnson, Oak City,
Wade E. Everett, Hamilton, and
Dewey R. Edmondson, Hassell, for
the Oak City district. The books
in both districts or at the four
precinct polling places on Satur
day, May 21, will be open foi*chal
lenge only.
Native Of County
Died In Plymouth
Early Yesterday
1 Fnnerul This Afternoon In
Plymouth for Guilford
Herman Ange
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Guilford Herman Ange, native
of this county, died at his home,
210 West Third Street, Plymouth,
yesterday morning at 5:30 o’clock
after a long illness. A victim of
heart trouble, he had been in vir
| tual retirement for twelve or fif
teen years, spending the last six
months in bed.
Mr. Ange, the last member of a
large family of children, was born
in the Angetown section of James
ville Township 77 years ago on
Ju 'e 15, 1871, arid spent most^oL
itUfJ.if itar.ls Ml.r»
the late Malachia and Harriet j
Davis Ange, and when a young
1 man was married to Lyvia Ange,
later locating in Poplar Point
Township where he continued to
farm for a number of years. Fol
lowing the death of his first wife
he was married to Frances Lee
and they made their home in New
York City for about a year before
returning to this county and lo
cating in Williamston. Three years
ago he and Mrs. Ange moved to
Plymouth.
Mr. Ange, highly respected in
his native and adopted communi
ties, was a member of the Mt.
Olive Free Will Baptist Church
since he was a boy, and his pastor,
Rev. Marshall Joyner of Winter
ville, is conducting the funeral
service at the late home in Plym
outh this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.
Burial will be in the Ange Cem
etery near his old home in this
county.
Surviving besides his widow are
two children by his first marriage,
Mrs. Fred Silverthorne of Wil
liamston, and Mrs. Mattie Hollis
of Oak City; iwelve grandchildren
and nineteen great-grandchildren.
| The Bear Grass District com
I prises just about the same terri
! tory from whence the school there
draws its pupils. The Oak City
[district comprises all of Hamilton
and Goose Nest Townships.
Leading citizens in both districts
petitioned for the elections, and
reports indicate that both will re
ceive strong support, Several dis
tricts, Jamesville, Williamston
and Robersonville, already have
i special tax levies to supplement
: the State-supported schools.
The vote in Bear Grass recalls
the stand taken by the late Henry
D. Peel in a previous election. Al
though he had no children of his
own in school at the time, he
worked for better schools and in
sisted that his lands be taxed in
the name of better schools for the
children of his neighbors and
others.
GOLD STAR PINS
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Gold Star Pins authorized
by Congress as identification
for widows and parents of
war victims will be furnished
free to mothers, fathers and
wives and at cost to children,
brothers and sisters of those
who died in action.
The pins may be obtained
by filing an application with
Mrs. Joanna Martin, Veterans’
Administration Advisor. ’
Grady B. Hardy
Funeral Sunday
At Funeral Home
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County Young Man Killril
in Action In Germany
Last rites will be conducted in
the Biggs Funeral Home on West
Main .'-‘reel here Sunday after
noon at 4:00 o’clock for Pvt.
Grady Burroughs Hardy who was
killed in action near Sonneberg,
Germany, on April 20, 1045, about
two weeks before the war ended
in Europe. Rev. J. M. Perry, form
er pastor, will conduct the service
and burial will be in Woodlawn
Cemetery where a detail from the
John Walton Hassell Post of the
American Legion will be in charge
of the last rites.
A son of Mrs. Nellie Burroughs
Hardy and her late husband,
Alonza L. Hardy, the young sol
dier was born in this county on
May 10, 1914 and spent most of his
life in the county. After spending
his early life on the farm he was
employed by the North Carolina
State Highway Commission and
was working with the old Wil
liamston Package and Manufac
turing Company when he entered
the service on July 23, 1941. He
was assigned to an airforce de
(Continued on page eight)
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! Expect Municipal
| Elections To Get
Little Attention
Ki^lil Towns Are Offering
Tickets for Election
Next Tuesday
Their politics virtually settled
: in the primary and conventions
'held over a .period of several
I weeks, citizens in eight county
| towns will go to the polls next
Tuesday to officially elect their
| nominees, the action beiftg rccog
I nized as nothing more than a mere
! formality. As far as it could be
I learned there is no opposition in
I sight to the primary and conven
! tion selections, and a very small
vote is predicted.
The polls will open at 6:30
o’clock Tuesday morning and
close that evening at 6:30 o'clock.
Expecting less than a handful of
votes, several of the municipali
ties are preparing their ballots on
typewriters.
While there are a few changes
in the political personnel in some
of the towns, most of the subdi
visions are offering unchanged
line-ups.
The individual town ballots car
ry the following names:
Williamston: Robt. Cowen for
mayor; N, C. Green, David Moore,
W. O. Griffin, Leman Barnhill and
K. D. Worrell for commissioners.
Everetts: J. W. Peel for mayor;
Jesse Keel, H. S. Hardy, J. E.
Mobley, G. W. Taylor and H. M.
Ayers for commissioners.
Robersonville: II. S. Everett for
mayor; George McRorio, Dr. W. E.
Ward, V. L. Roberson, C.'R. Gray,
and Irving L. Smith for commis
sioners.
Parnicle; J. H. Roebuck for
mayor; G. C. James, T. T. Adams
and C. Fowler for commissioners.
Hamilton: G. Alligood for may
or; W. F. Thomas, W. C. House, R.
A. Edmondson, H S. Johnson and
J. A. Cherry for commissioners.
Oak City: J C Johnson for
mayor; J. H. Hopkins, J. E. Cope
land, M. C. Liverman, K. S. Bunt
ing and E. N. Harrell for commis
sioners.
In a convention held in the
school auditorium there last even
ing, Jamesville citizens nominat
ed L. W. Hardison for mayor, and
L. H. Hardison, J. Sain Godard
and James W. Long for commis
(Continued on page eight)
Hold Funeral For
Pvt. Jos. Stocks
Sunday Afternoon
RolitTnoiiville Young Man
Lost Life In llollaml
September 23, 1944
f Roberson vi lie He raid)
Funeral services for Pvt. Joseph
S. Stocks, 22, who was killed in
; ction in Holland on September
23, 19 ‘ 1, will be conducted Sunday
attern i at 3 o’clock in the Rob
erson-, die Baptist Church by Rev.
Ralph Ferguson, pastor. Inter
ment will be in the Robersonville
j cemetery where military honors
will be aeenrriwt^^j^^fjjj^^iy^^
Cargile post of the American Le
gion ■ f >’■ ;
Pvt. Stocks, son of Mrs. Pearl
Stocks Roberson o” Robersonville
was born and reared m Pitt Coun
ty, coming to Robersonville in
1941. He was inducted in the arm
ed services in 1913 when he volun
teered for service in the Para
troops. He was sent overseas im
mediately upon completion of his
training at Fort Bragg, N. C., and
Fort Benning, Ga.
Surviving are his mother, one
brother, Wiley Stock of the home,
three sisters, Mrs. Clifton Roebuck
and Miss Leneve Stocks of Ports
mouth and Miss Velma Stocks of
the home and his great grand
mother, Mrs. Sarah Haddock of
Greenville.
Pallbearers will be Hubert Rob
erson, Elmer Evans, Thurman An
drews, Henry Coburn, Noah Tur
ner Leggett and Ellis Stevenson,
Reaching Robersonville Thurs
day afternoon, the body will lie in
state at Wilkerson’s Funeral Home
until late Saturday afternoon
when it will be moved to the
mother’s home where it will re
main until one hour before the
service in the church Sunday af
ternoon.
Officers Arrest Man
For Alleged Robbery
Station Operator
Choked Robbed
In County Tuesday
Henry Harris Victim of
Mean Attack; Second As
sailant Still At La rye
Henry Harris, aged filling sta
tion operator, was attacked and
■ robbed at his station-store near
be re on the Old Mill In-J. Eason
Li 1 ley highway early last Tuesday
afternoon. Choked until he bled
freely from the nose and mouth,
the victim suffered no other in
jury from his two assailants. He
quickly recovered but not in time
j to get his pistol and stop the two
robbers. When he did recover, he
grabbed the weapon, ran out the
little store and fired after the two
men who had already disappeared
| on foot in the woods.
The sheriff’s office was notified
| by telephone and he, aided by
local officers, members of the
| highway patrol and a detail head
ed by Capt. John Delbridge from
j the prison camp, started a search.
| Blood hounds followed tracks into
I a swamp and a lead was followed
to the home of a sister of one of
the alleged robbers. Bill Wil
liams, 25-year-old colored man,
was arrested there, but denied any
knowledge of the crime, maintain
ing that he was walking up and
down the road at the time of the
robbery.
The victim had described the
clothing Williams was wearing
and he later identified him as one
of his attackers. Williams had
discarded his army cap, hut it was
found at his sister's home. He de
nied it belonged to him, hut the
j sister saifl he had been wearing it
I that day, that it belonged to him.
I The identity of the second robber
| lias not been established, but of
! fleers are continuing their work
on the case.
The filling station operator said
the two men entered his store and
called for several items, that when
tie turned his hack, Williams al
legedly grabbed him and threw
him to tlie floor and choked him
while Williams' companion took
twelve or fifteen dollars off his
(Harris’s) person.
Williams, a resident of Wil
liainston, was placed in tin* coun
ty jail but no preliminary hearing
(Continued on page eight)
Plan For Better
Schools - Roads
Meeting in Raleigh last Tues
day, approximately 200 leading
North Carolinians mapped plans
for support of the proposed 200
| million dollar road and 25 million
'dollar school programs. Charter
ed as the “Better Schools and
Roads, Inc., tire organization will
attempt to organize power in sup
port of tin.- program to be vdr.ecd
before the people at the pons on
’SBTuiua.! , "*
Messis. S. L. Roberson o' Rober
sonville and W. O. Abbitt of Wil
lliamstnn were among those from
this county attending the meet
ing.
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Funeral Near Jamesville
For Infant Wednesday
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Funeral services were conduct
ed at the graveside in the Mobley
Cemetery near Jamesville for the
infant son of Currie Lee Mobley
and Fannie Dell Williams Mobley
who died in a local hospital Tues
day. Rev. W. B. Harrington con
ducted the service.
Surviving besides his parents is
a brother.
Hold laneral II ed nesday
For Infant Danffliler
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Funeral services were held at
the home near Hamilton yester
day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock for
the infant daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Fate Whitfield who died late
Tuesday night. Rev. E R. Stew
art conducted the last sites and
burial was in the Hamilton Ceme
tery.
COMMISSIONERS
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Meeting in regular session
next Monday, Martin Coun
ty’s commissioners will suffer
the first in a series of budget
headaches. The welfare de
partment is expected to sub
mit its cost estimates for the
new fiscal year, and possibly
other departments will tenta
tively mention some figures.
The board is expected to order
I delinquent tax accounts ad
vertised the following week,
and the drawing of a jury for
the June term of Superior
court is on the schedule along
with routine business.
Expect Superior
Court To Adjourn
Term Tomorrow
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Court Working on $15,000
Soil of J. B. Cherry
AguiiiMt Dennis llartly
Running into a snag in the trial
of the $15,000 suit brought by J.
B. Cherry against Deunis L. Bar
j dy, the Martin County Superior
Court, tentatively scheduled to
wind up its work today, will hard
l ly adjourn before sometime to
morrow, according to reports
I corning from the courthouse at
| noon today.
I In the big suit, the defendant
j has :• counter claim for about the
| same amount. Cherry is claiming
I rent from 1939, and the defendant
; is claiming betterments. The de
| fendant claims that he bargained
to buy the property in 1939, that
| the plaintiff delayed giving a
| deed, but on that promise he went
ahead with improvements. The
defendant this morning was call
ing out each expenditure and
there was some doubt at that time
if the trial of the case could b’
cleared by late this afternoon.
Only one other ease. Green
against Bowers, is slated for trial
at this term.
Most of yesterday was devoted
to the damage suit brought by
Clinton Industries, lnc„ against
Roberson Slaughter House. Ask
ing $438.56 damages as a result of
an automobile accident its agent
had with one of the Slaughter
i House owners, the company was i
given a judgment in the sum of j
$300. The defendant, presenting
a counter claim for $429, recover
ed nothing. The jury, taking the
case right after the noon recess,
discussed the issues almost an
hour before reaching a verdict.
Other judgments entered in the
records, several by agreement,
! follow:
Standard Fertilizer Company in
its case against B. J. McFarland,
was given a judgment in the sum
of $101.76 with interest from last
October 1.
In the damage suit brought by
Farm Bureau Mutrud A.ttto'vofeiRv
I Insurance Company. Inc., against i
.ffttoRgit . mm i ■
was given a judgment in the aim
(Continued on page eight)
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
The sixteenth week is be
coming one nl the most dang
erous for highway travel in
this county. While no fatal ac
cidents have been reported in
the period the number of
wrecks has run to as high as
nine. Last week there were
three accidents, resulting in
critical injury to one victim
and damage in excess of $500.
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.
16th Week
Accidents Inj’d Killed Dani’ge
1049 3 2 0 $ 565
1948 8 3 0 1,620
Comparisons To Date
1949 34 17 1 $ S.690
1948 48 20 1 8,710
Fourteen Cases In
Justices" Courts
In Past Few Days
Defendant Go«*«* To Hoads
For Issuing Worthless
Check Here
There was a marked increase in
business in justices of the peace
courts here during the past few
days when Justice R. T Johnson
and Justice J. L. Hassell handled
fourteen cases.
The appearance of worthless
checks is becoming alarming, one
of the justices stating that he had
been called upon to issue fifteen
warrants in a single day and one
business man reported he had'
worthless checks written in the
sum total of several thousand dol
lars.
Justice Johnson handled the fol
lowing cases in his court:
Drunk and disorderly, David
Jones was sentenced to the roads
for thirty days.
Arthur Lee Jones, drunk and
disorderly, was fined $5 and taxed
with $5.85 costs.
frank Simmons was sentenced
to the roads for thirty days for
issuing a worthless check.
Three cases, one charging James
Everett with possession of illegal
liquor, another charging Herbert
Everett with reckless driving and
speeding and still another charg
ing H. D. Rodgers with speeding
and leekless driving, were sent to
the county court.
A fhirty-day jail sentence was
suspended upon the payment of
$j.85 costs in the ease charging
Lilly Berry with being drunk and
disorderly.
Appearing in Justice Hassell's
court, Alexander Bunch and Bill
Brown, both charged with being
drunk and disorderly, were each
taxed with $8.50 costs.
Charged w ith stealing chickens
on three different counts, James
Roosiwelt Bell was bound over to
the county court under bond in
the sum of $150.
Oscar Whitley, Gloria Tyner
and Calvin Hodge, charged with
being drunk and disorderly, were
each fined $10 and required to pay
the costs.
Charged with carrying a con
cealed weapon, Marcellos Brown
was bound over to the county
court under bond in the sum of
$150.
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Drive For Cancer
Fund Nears Coal
C ounty Chairman T. F. Harrison
said yesterday that the annual
Cancer Fund Drive is nearing its
goal in this county. Nine districts
have reported so far, and five of
them have exceeded their quotas,
one or two by sizable margins.
I he drive is not complete in the
other four, and the chairmen are
certain the goals will be reached.
The eight districts, with a quota
of $1,330 have raised $1,370.79, and
amount within $59.31 of the as
signed quota. Two townships,
Hamilton and Jamesville, have
not yet reported, and it is believ
ed their contributions will push
the drive to a successful
ion .vithin a very short time.
hams said that one more can
vasser in his district was to report,
that his people had already ex
ceeded the quota. A. B. Ayers,
Bear Grass Township chairman,
reported his district over the top
this week with a few dollars to
spare. Robersonville has raised
$347.10 ot its $800 quota, Mrs. W.
B. Rogerson; chairman, reported
yesterday. Miss Nancy Wursley,
chairman, reported Goose Nest
had raised $50 of its $100 quota,
old Cuairman .1 W Eubanks re
ported Hassell $l.aO m
the $35 quota, leaving the drive
$329.21 short of its goal,
townships reported earlier, but
review of the drive to date, fol
lows:
Quota Ami K's’d
Williams $ 35 $ 56.59
Griffins 75
Bear Grass 75
Willianiston 600
Cross Roads 75
Robersonville 300
Poplar Point _ 35
Hassell . 35
Goose Nest . 100
574.13
247.10
41.69
36.90
$1,330 $1,270.79