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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,090 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE VOLUME LII—NUMBER 75 Williamaton, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, September 22, 1919 THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK ESTABLISHED 1899 Grand Jury Files Quarterly Report In Court Tuesday o Note Improvement In Con dition of School Prop erties In County —— Completing its work Tuesday afternoon, the Martin County Grand Jury, under the direction of Foreman Marion Cobb, filed its report with Judge Leo Carr in the Superior Court and adjourned for the term. The report follows, in detail: We the Grand Jury of Martin County for the above mentioned term of Superior Court submit to you our report as follows: All bills of indictment present ed were passed on by us. We examined the office of the clerk of court and found it to be in excellent condition with no guardian reports or accounts not filed as required. The Sheriff's Office and Tax Collector’s Office were visited and records examined and found in very good condition. We found the Register of Deeds Office in very good condition. The reports of the Justice of Peace were checked and found filed with the Clerk of Court and all fines submitted as required. We found the County Jail clean and in good condition. There were two (2) white inmates and four (4) colored inmates. The County Home was visited, found to be in very good condi tion and past Grand Jury recom mendations complied with. The County Prison Camp was visited, found to be in very good condition and past Grand Jury recommendations in process of correction. The office of the Superintend ent of County Schools was visited and found to be in very good con dition. We visited the schools of the county (both colored and white) and found them greatly improv ed since the last exmination by the Grand Jury. There were a (Continued on page srx) Jos. B. Barnhill Funeral Monday Funeral services were conduct ed last Monday afternoon at 4:00 o’clock in the home at Everetts for Mr. Joseph Berry Barnhill who died there after a long illness last Friday evening at 6:10 o’clock. Itcv. J. M. Perry and Rev. J. L. Goff conducted the rites and in terment was in Woodlawn Ceme tery here. '‘I1® Iff Surviving are two children, Miss Edna Barnhill of the home, and Jos. B. Barnhill, Jr., of Wil liamston; one grandchild; a sister, Mrs. Nathan Rogers of Bear Grass; and a brother Mr. Jule T. Barnhill of Willimaston. The funeral was attended by a large number of friends from the county and several states, includ ing the following from out of town: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jor.es and Mr. Percy Jennings of Eliza beth City, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Barnhill, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Roebuck, Mr. and Mrs. John Knight, and Mr. Earl Barter of GreeftVii'le,-Mr. and Mrs "i Jackson of Washington, Mrs. Rob ert Hollar of Roanoke Rapids, Mr. • and Mrs E. C. Bookman, Misses Phyllis Owens and Maye Lamgan of Richmond, Mr. Russell T. Roe buck of Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Noell Dunn of Newport News, Va., Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Pollard of Bethel, Mr. Robert Abram Barn hill of Baltimore, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Mallory of Oak City, Rev. E. R. Stewart of Hamilton. | COTTON PICKERS \v A call is going out for 25 or 30 workers to pick cotton in the fields of this county, Kel ly Gay, manager of the local employment office said this morning. It is likely that there’ll be a heavy demand for workers in the peanut fields very short ly, and any unemployed are asked to contact the office on the first floor of the Tar Heel building in Williamston. Tobacco Sales Pass Seven Million Mark Here Today Following one of the biggest days so far this season, tobacco sales shrunk considerably Tues day and yesterday, but the offer ings today carried the total to the seven million-pound mark with high prices still prevailing. The market through yesterday had sold slightly in excess of 6, 823,000 pounds for an average of $47.54 per hundred pounds. Individual averages reached a new high figure yesterday when Beacham and Rogers sold 854 pounds for $657.12, an average of $77.00 per hundred. The sales were recorded officially, as fol lows: 46 at 55 cents, 92 at 65 cents* 74 at 66 cents, 146 at 70 cents, 148 at 80 cents, 96 at 84 cents, 162 at 87 cents, and 90 pounds at 90 cents. Floor averages were slightly under the record figure reported for last Monday, but reports state that the slight d*:op was traceable to the lower quality offerings rather than to any weakening in the price schedule. Farmers are turning to peanut digging and comparatively light sales are to be expected for the next ten days or two weeks. Then, too, a large portion of the crop has been marketed already, possibly fifty percent of the farmers al ready having sold out. ON THE AIR \__/ Several Martin County 4-H club members, including | Joyce Harris, Bear Grass; Francis Smith and William Taylor, Robersonville, and Corone Bryant, Williamston, will participate in a radio program over WPTF, Raleigh, Saturday of this week at 12:45 o’clock in the afternoon. The subject of the program will be “Better Methods Through F,lectricity,’’ Miss I Agnes Beale, assistant county home agent, announced. | Railroad Circus Here Tomorrow For the first time in several years a big railroad circus comes to Williamston, early tomorrow morning. Dailey Bros. Big 5 Ring I Railroad Circus arrives over the Atlantic Coast Line from Kinston for afternoon and night perform ances at the Williamston Lumber . Company showgrounds. Recognized as the fastest grow ing show in America, Dailey Bros, this season has assembled a most pleasing array of white top feat ures, five rings, housing acrobats, I tumblers, wire walkers, trapeze j aritsts, bare back riders, high | perch performers, teeter-board experts and a host of other top j flight features of circusdom, these j combined w/ith twenty-live per forming elephants, one hundred highly trained thoroughbred horses, ponies, dogs and other do mestic animals blend into a high ly diversified two-hour, star-stud ded program, this avalanche of , stars is headed by two sensational I wild animal displays, Capt. Max I Knudson and his polar bears and jCapt. Joe Haworth battling a t score of man-eating lions in the , big steel arena. Dailey Bros, have just complet ed a three month tour of Canada i where thousands were thrilled ; and amazed at the performances, 'circus lovers of Williamston and surrounding territory are assured that this same program will be given in its entirety^twenty-five double length steel railroad cars I traveling as a special train loaded to the gunwales wHh more than I 150 performers and tons of en j chanted cargo, For the lovers of “horse opery”, Doug Autry, his cowb©ysv ,.cn\>r ’WgSt-tiTf"Jamboree, ap j pear at each performance to give added thrills, Performances start 3 and 8, . doors open 2 and 7. Reserved seat tickets on sale to morrow (Friday), at Clark’s Pharmacy. Minor Accident On Main Street William Cherry was hurt but believed not seriously when the station wagon in which he was riding and a car driven by John Small crashed at the Washington and Main Street intersection early last evening. Cherry was com plaining with a side injury receiv ed when he was thrown against the side of the station wagon driv en by Joseph Gurganus. Investigating Officer C. R. Moore estimated the damage to the station wagpr) at $150 and said that $10 or $15 would cover the repair cost on the Small car. I Parents-Teachers Hold First Fall Meeting Monday “Come, See” Type of Pro gram Be Held In Gram mar Sehool al 7:30 -—■$— An especially attractive pro gram intended to give the parents a better idea of the where and how of their children's work in the Williamston schools is being arranged for the first fall meeting of the Parent-Teacher Association in the auditorium of the Ele mentary School next Monday eve ning at 7:30, it was announced yesterday. Described as a “Come, See" pro gram in which the parents will be given the opportunity of visiting their children’s respective class rooms, the teachers are cooperat ing in making the meeting as in formative as possible. The library, principal’s office, restrooms and playgrounds will also be visited before the meeting is closed with refreshments in the lunchroom. The various teachers and their pupils have arranged to make their places of study as attractive as possible and they, as well as the officers of the P. T. A. are anxious to have all parents repre sented at the opening session of the year. Preliminary to the classroom visits will be a brief session in the newly renovated and redecorated Elementary School auditorium with President J. C. Eubanks pre siding. Charge Man With Assaulting Female —.»— Charged with assaulting a fe male, William Patterson, local fill ing station employe, was bound over to the county court for trial on October 3 at a preliminary hearing held Before Justice R. T. Johnson here last evening. Pat terson waived examination and did not discuss the charge. Re ports state that he has said noth ing to officers since his arrest about 2:00 o’clock Tuesday morn ing. At that time he told the ar resting officers that what they (wife and daughter) told on him was not true. The case was investigated by Sheriff M. W. Holloman and members »be,l.pcal police force Tuesday morning and Patterson was ordered held without bond. A doctor's examination reveal ed that the alleged victim had not been injured, and after conferring with superior court officials the* assault charge was preferred. Patterson furnished bond and following his release from jail he was said to have returned to his home, bathed and dressed and went out. Librarian Will Visit Schools Miss Eloise Camp, former li brarian in the Kannapolis city schools and now State School Li brary advisor, is working in the local high school today, assisting Miss Peterson, local high school library teacher, in discarding ob solete and unusuable books. She is also suggesting titles to be ord ered and making suggestions for improving the service in the schools.—Reported, Judge Halstead To1 Hold Court Here! Beginning Monday | , ! Court Continues Fen Crim inal Cases and Switches i To Civil Calendar -$— Clearing fifteen casts from the docket during the first three days of the current two-week term, the Martin County Superior Court to day is plodding along toward the end of the criminal docket with the possibility that several will be continued. There are no cases of a sensa tional nature, but they have been vigorously contested and Judge Leo Carr, presiding, has been very patient in administering justice. This morning the court called the case in which Herbert Thomp son is charged with breaking and entering and stealing a dollar from Oscar Frazer. The court plans to call the $15,000 damage suit of Peel, administrator, against the A. C. L. Railroad Company and possibly recess for the re mainder of the week. Judge W. I. Halstead, recently appointed to the bench, is sched uled to preside over the court be ginning next Monday when Judge Leo Carr goes to Tarboro to hear the Tarboro strike mill case. Drunken driving charges just about monopolized the court dur ing the first three days, and sev eral other similar cases were awaiting the pleasure of the court this morning. After dismissing subject to re call, the case charging James W. Ormond with carnal knowledge, the court called the drunken driv ing case at noon Monday against Lester R. Meeks. The remainder of the day was spent hearing the evidence, and the case went to the jury at 10:20 Tuesday morning. After deliberating about forty minutes, the jury returned a ver dict finding the defendant not guilty. No true bill was found in the case in which Daniel Lilley was charged with manslaughter. Charged with assaulting Nov ella Askew with intent to commit rape, Ernest Little and James Rol lins were found not guilty. Robert Linwood Hassell, who was booked for breaking into the Page Grocery in Robersonville and who allegedly broke into and robbed two other places while out on bond, was found guilty and sentenced to the roads for three and one-half years. He was sent up for two years on the Page store robbery and eighteen months for breaking and trying to rob Dink Knight's Big Apple Cafe in Rob ersonville. The case charging him with entering Ei nestine Wright’s home and choking her was nol pressed. David Mayo and Wheeler Boney, charged with breaking and entering Slade-Rhodes’ ware house and stealing three cases of gun shells, were found guilty of larceny and receiving, the court allowing Attorney Edgar Gurgan us’ motion for non-stiit as to the breaking and entering charge. Each of the defendants was sen tenced to the roads for eight months. Woodrow Jackson, alias Wood row Wilson, Lawrence Mitchell and Elwood White, the three •/sung white convicts who biokc cut of a prison camp in Pitt Coun ty and stole three automobiles during the course of an hour or (Continued on page six) Organization Fori Friendship Train Perfected Tuesday County Uriui: Vskrd To Sriul Carload of Corn to The Needy Overseas An organization for sponsoring the loading of a carload of corn as a unit of the “Friendship j Train" was perfected at a meeting held in the county courthouse Tuesday evening. Farmer W. Mayo Hardison of Poplar Point was named chairman and Messrs. Mayo Little and Sherwood Rober son of Robersonville will serve with him. Mrs. Walter Wynne is secretary-treasurer, and Julian Harrell was named shinping clerk. Township chairmen include: Jamesville, Linwood Knowles and Carl Griffin; Williams, Mrs. R. J. Hardison and (.'has. L. Daniel; Griffins, W. 15. Harrington and 15. 1 R. Manning; Bear Grass, H. U. Peel and Sidney Beacham; Wil liamston, Mrs. Johnny Gurkin and M. Luther Peel; Cross Roads, Garland Forbes and Paul Bailey; Robersonville, Sam T. Everett; Poplar Point. Mrs. LeRoy Taylor and Dock Hollis; Hamilton, J. 11. Lillard and Calvin Oglesby; Goose Nest, VanNoy Smith and John Leary Hassell. The group is scheduled to meet in the courthouse on the evening of the 29th and complete plans for advancing the project. To avoid confusion and limit the work to a minimum, the sponsors plan to ship a solid carload of corn—40,000 pounds — but other farm commodities will hi* accept ed with the understanding that they'll be converted into corn. Wlulc the undertaking is, more or less, a rural undertaking, it is certain that townspeople will take part in the project as they did last year when the county made pos sibly the best showing of any county in the State in gathering and shipping food supplies to the needy in the hunger centers across the seas. A report on the distribution of the food shipped from this coun ty has been received, and the good it accomplished is prompting most of the old workers to get out and work again for the loading of a second car. The county has also received favorable publicity in numerous papers and magazines, for its part in the CROP (Chris’ tion Rural Overseas Program) last December. THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . The wages of speed is death, reports stating that an other life was snuffed out on the highways in this county by a car allegedly speeding. The death toll so fur this year now stands at five, more than two times greater than it was a year ago. 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. 37th Week Accidents Inj'd Killed Dam’gr Vi 0 1$ 1170 j 1948 2 1 0 350 Comparison* To Date j 1949 8? "34 5 $19,280 I 1948 90 48 2 20,100 Merchants Here Preparing For Special Booster Days Williamston's retail merchants have been busily combing the markets for the past week for bargains tcf offer the public when the stores open their doors Sep tember 29 for the first of three special Booster sale days. Everything is reported to be in readiness for the big Booster event. Approximately forty Wil liamston merchants are partici pating by offering great reduc tions in prices on a variety of mer chandise with many items to be1 sold at only a few cents above cost. i Many merchants, remembering the highly successful joint trade promotion sponsored by the Wil liamston Boosters la.-d June, are adding personnel for the three days to take care of the crowds expected to take advantage of the three-day event. To acquaint the public with a few of the many sale items to be offered by the local merchants, The Enterprise will issue a special section — a Booster section — on Tuesday of next week. Be sure to read the Tuesday edition and plun ahead to be in Williamston on Thursday, Friday and Satur day, September 2!), 20 and October ! S' i the fall Booster Days, l Contempt Case Set For Hearing Monday - Judge Leo Carr To Preside Over Tarboro Session • ■ Hours S|*«*ui More Hearing Motions In Tilt* Court Yrstrnlay Afternoon After spending more than two hours hearing motions and coun ter motions, Judge Leo Carr, pre siding over a regular two-week term of Martin County Superior Court, yesterday afternoon con tinued a hearing in the case in which 78 Hart Cotton mill work ers in Tarboro are charged with : contempt of court. The hearing j was tentatively scheduled for 2:30 ! o’clock next Monday afternoon, the jurist explaining that he will go to Tarboro at that time provid [ ed another judge is available and can be sent to relieve him here. I If another jurist is not available, : Judge Carr said he would end the two-week session here next Wed nesday and go to Tarboro for the] hearing the following morning at j 9:30 o'clock. The hearing was definitely slat ed to be held in Tarboro and ten-, tutively scheduled for Monday after Whiteford Blakeney, attor ney for the mills, and Robert Ca i boon, attorney for the defendants, sparred the better part of two i hours before Judge Carr and a | fairly crowded courtroom. The lease itself attracted very little at tention locally, but all the de fendants were accounted for and closely followed the proceedings along with the Edgecombe sheriff, deputies, police chief and other officers from Tarboro and repre sentatives of the mill, including j tht" superintendent and Marcus Carter, mill manager, who show ed no outward signs of an attack allegedly made on him a few days ago. The mill management attorney, referring to the order signed by Judge Walter Bone, declared that thi' 78 defendants were in con tempt of court when the deliber ately, wilfully and openly picket ed the mill enmasse on September 14, blocking egress and ingress at tlie main gate of the null. Attor ney Blakeney asked then and there that the 78 defendants be found in contempt of court and punished then and there. Defense Attorney Cahoon made a motion that the petition be dis solved and dismissed on the grounds that Judge John J. Bur ney was not a resident of the dis trict and that he was not in the district when he signed the con tempt order. The motion was de nied, the attorney apparently hav ing got his judicial districts a bit tangled. A second motion was offered, the defense stating that action in pending in the Edgecombe courts, that the pi incipal place of busi ness for the mill was in Tarboro, that none of the parties to the ac tion lived in Martin County, that all respondents except two live in Edgecombe. Ih went on to point out that there will he approxi uioti a 300 wit affd-tbsfi-the complexity of die case as to num bers and transportation would cause great inconvenience. The defense attorney explained that lie had not had time to adequately prepare a defense, ami went on to explain that it required three days to hear a similar case in Rocking ham where only eleven defend ants were involved. It was also pointed out that there was no in teption on tile part of the defend ants to wilfully violate the court order. Cahoon, speaking for the defendants, said they were in con fusion and were milling around outside the mill and in the street trying to learn what the court order was all about, that the terms of the order had been met since that time, allowing 25 to picket the plant at 150 yards. The plaintiffs' attorney denied the claims, and asked that the hearing be held, pointing out that it. had been nine days since the order had been issued and six days since it had boen violated, (Continued on page nix) CIRCUS TRAIN According to a report re ceived this morning, the cir cus train is scheduled to reach here tomorrow morning be tween 6 and 7 o’clock. The train will be stopped at the Roberson Slaughter House siding where the cars will be arranged for unloading. The cars hauling twenty elephants and more than 100 horses and other animals arc to be placed just below the Washington Street crossing. Cars, carry ing the wagons, will be placed for unloading at flaughton Street. The train master said that some few minutes will be re quired to arrange the train at the Roberson siding. J John Green Stalls End His Life At Home In Leggetts ro i ^ ~ * ■ Funeral Service For Native Of ('.oiinty To lte Held Here On Friday John Green Stalls, native of this county, died in Leggetts, Edgecombe County, yesterday af ternoon at 3:30 o'clock, the victim of a self inflicted gunshot wound. Few details could be learned, but reports reaching Iwc stated that he fired a load of shot from a .12 gauge shotgun into his face, that death followed quickly. Whether he left any note or had made an.v threat to take his own life could i not be learned here immediately | The son of the late Raleigh anc Mani/a Stalls, he was born in tht Cross Roads section of this eoun | t.v 07 years ago. After spending ' his early life on the farm, he mar 1 ried Miss Rid tie Brown and loeat ! ed in Tarboro where he was en i gaged by the Hussey Carnage I Company for a number of years j He later moved to Leggetts when I he had since made his home anc i where he was engaged in business I Surviving are three children two sons, William Edward Stall: I of Portland, Oregon, and Culler Stulls of Portsmouth; and a dau | ghter, Mrs. William Gordon ol | Charlotte. A son, John G. Stulls i Jr., who was killed in the service during World War II, was buriec (Continued on page six) Call Few Cases In J. P. Courts Several cases were handled ir the justice of peace courts hen during the past few days. In his court, Justice Chas. R Mobley suspended judgment upor the payment of $5.50 costs in the case in which Theodore Watsor was charged with assaulting a fe viale Wlide charged with the as sault, Watson carried a three | stitch wound in his h»-ad, hut hi [preferred rid charges against any | one. In the case charging Ted I Scott with assaulting a female, tin trial justice sent the defendant tc the county court under $100 bond Justice R. T. Johnson handled the following cases: Charles H. Hassell, charged with public drunkenness, was tax ed with $0,115 costs. Grover Peek- was found not guilty iri his case. Ernest Boston was taxed with $7.05 costs for being drunk. Facing the court on two counts, Rufus Tayior was fined $10 and taxed with $5.05 costs for disord erly conduct, and was bound over to the county court for assaulting a female. The case in which Charles G. Trocschor stands charged with speeding is booked for trial in the county court. Justice Hassell handled two cases. Peter Pierce, drunk on Washington Street, was required to pay $0.50 costs, and Ransom Whitehurst, publicly drunk, was taxed with $6.50 costs. Plans For Paving Program Finished At Board Meeting —$> ■ - Board (iorlain To Call For Rail Crowing Vml !N«*w FmlerpasH -—■—<♦>-— Meeting in special session here Tuesday afternoon of this week, the local board of town commis sioners officially closed the street paving program and handled a few other “f-ush" matters. The street improvement pro gram, calling for surfacing on North Smithwiek and West Liber ty Streets and about one and one half miles of curb and gutter, was closed after petitions for improve ments on all of West Franklin Street from Smithwiek to Haugh ton were recognized and approv ed. According to plans previous ly approved, curb and gutter were to be laid on West Franklin to a point just below Lee Street. The new plan calls for curbing and guttering on the entire street be tween North Haughton and Smithwiek. The old program is nearing completion. It could not be learned when the State plans to surface the streets along with the resurfacing of Main and Haughton and Washington on Highways 17 and 64. The paving program, estimated to cost approximately $14,000, is being financed almost in its en tirety by property owners. On Smithwiek and Liberty Streets where the State is to lay the black top, the property owners agreed to finance the entire cost of the curb and gutter. On the other streets, the property owners are financing the cost with the un derstanding that they are to be re imbursed forty percent of the cost over a period of not more than five years. After conferring with represen tatives of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, The board members stated they strongly fav ored a rail crossing at Slade Street and a new trestle that would pro vide for sidewalks under the rail road on West Main Street. No ac tion was taken on the underpass project, but town attorneys were instructed to contact the State Highway Commission in an effort to have plans advanced for reliev ing the traffic hazard. Bids for a one and one-half ton truck for the sanitary department were opened and a contract was awarded to Chas. H. Jenkins for $1,441). The town attorney was instruct ed to sturt proceedings, calling for the removal of the tenant houses from Woodlawn Cemetery prop erty. A seasonal license fee of $300 was imposed on a used ear dealer who opened for business on Wash ington Street a few days ago. If the operator maintains a perma nent business there, the license fee will be reduced to $37.50. Investigating the possibility of extending North Smithwiek or Lee Streets across the branch to connect with Oak Street, a special committee declared the proposed project was hardly feasible. The committee suggested that a side walk be laid from the town limit down Haughton Street to Liberty Street and down Liberty to Smithwiek. Resfiotidiitii I'tt 11 ttUnuiif in W ashingtoii Hospital A patient in a Washington hos pital since last Thursday, Mr. Van Cl. Taylor continues to respond to treatment, lute reports stating that his condition is much improv ed but he is not yet able to reeieve company. f BHOOM SALE v-.) The brooms (he Lions will sell today, tomorrow and Sat urday are stored in the Un employment Office and may he purchased there any time during the three day period. Although the brooms are lo cated and may be purchased at the Employment Office, members of the club will make a house-to-house can vas before the campaign ends Saturday night. First reports this morning indicated the sale was off to a good start.
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