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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BV OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LII—NUMBER 78 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, October /. 1919 ESTABLISHED 1899 ‘ Potato Growers See Field Demonstration Youthful Fanner ; Is First To Buy Digging Machine ShccI Potato Cornin'/Back Into Its Own In This County After dwindling to a low point j in the county’s agriculture, the' sweet /otato is rapidly coming back into its own. Its comeback is being supported by a growing interest on the part of the farm er, produce handlers, and an in creased acreage. Assured that a recognized mar ket would be established in the county, more Martin farmers planted more potatoes this year than in a number of years. Little has been said about the crop dur ing the growing season, but con siderable interest has been shown in plans for harvesting and mar keting the crop. Monday afternoon sweet potato specialists, and by specialists is meant practical and experienced fellows, and equipment manufac turers demonstrated the use of the sweet potato rotary digger on the farm of Clyde Revels in Bear Grass Township. The brief dem onstration, witnessed by possibly 75 or more growers, proved in comparison with the old conven tional methods that the yield was increased from ten to twenty bushels per acre, that there were fewer bruises and cuts on the po tatoes dug by the rotary plow than on those dug by two-horse middle buser, and that there was a 20 percent labor saving in favor of the new system. Several farmers were greatly impressed, so much so that John ny Gurkin, Jr., bought one of the diggers before the day was spent. Mr. Revels, owner of the farm where the demonstration was held, and Farmer J. Shep Holliday are planning purchases immedi ately. Following the machine demon stration by Floyd Hendrix, form er Pitt farm agent and manufac turer of the special digger, Henry Covington, State College Exten sion specialist, demonstrated field grading, showing how the pota toes should be handled and ex plaining the grades, adding that! they should be handled as if they i were eggs. He said that the No. 1 potato should measure about 1 3-4 to 3 1-2 inches in diameter and have a maximum weight of one and one-quarter pounds. “There is a lot of difference in $3 and 50-cent potatoes, just like there is in 5- and 65-cent tobacco,” j the specialist said, explaining that j the way the potato is graded and handled makes for most of the dif ference. He pointed out that a cut or broken end the size of a dime pushed a potato out of the No. 1 grade. Monday night. M. M. Levin, sec • ft Martirf Cuun!? i?ifi Growers Association, and Mr. Covington explained marketing ..methods and plans f. ing a market in this county. Mr. Covington reviewed much of the information released at a meeting held before the Bear Grass Ruri tan Club a few weeks ago. Mr. (Continued on page eight) Continues Quite III In Washington Hospital ■—<*>— Mr. Van G. Taylor, prominent county citizen and a leading farm er, continues quite ill in a Wash ington hospital. After experienc ing relapses during the week-end, he was reported to have rested better Sunday night and last night. -- Suffers Broken Leg In Fall From Auto Mrs. John Hollowell suffered a double leg fracture when she step ped out of a car and fell in front of her home on North Biggs Street early Sunday evening. Treated in a local doctor’s office, she return ed home later that evening and last reports stated she w'as getting along very well. ENFORCEMENT | v> Maintaining: a strict en forcement of the liquor laws, ABC Office J. H. Roebuck^ and his assistants wrecked right illicit liquor stills in the county last month, including a whopper of the submarine type and two copper kettles. The other plants were equip ped with oil drums. The officers poured out 2,~ 700 gallons of mash and more than 58 gallons of white li quor. Moses P. Wheeler Died In Hospital Saturday Evenin CfQ Funeral Services Conduct ed In Methodist Church Here Yesterday Moses Paran Wheeler, well known local young man, died in a Rocky Mount hospital last Satur day evening at 8:00 o’clock. He had been in declining health for several months, but by sheer de termination he continued to go until week before last when his condition became worse. He was removed to the hospital last Fri day, a week ago, and his condition had been critical since that time. He never regained consciousness after entering the hospital. The son of H. V. and Cora Strickland Wheeler, now of Tar boro, he was born near Spring Hope in Nash County 33 years ago on September 19, 1916. After spending his early life on the farm there, he moved with his family to Williamston about 1930, and after attending the local schools for a few years he entered the em ployment of the Dunn Plumbing and Heating Company, later form ing a partnership and operating the Ayers and Wheeler Plumbing and Heating Company. More re cently he was associated with the Corey Plumbing and Heating Company here, serving as its chief heating engineer. He was a member of the local Baptist church and was a popular member of Williamston’s Volun teer Fire Department for a num ber of years. Helpful and accom modating he nevter hesitated in answering a call to service, whether it was to a fire in the dead hours of the night or to a home where a heating plant was out of repair. Jolly and good natured, he enjoyed an extensive [friendship here and in other sec tions of eastern Carolina. Surviving are his widow, the farmer Miss Ruth Jenkins; two sons, Moses P Wheeler, Jr., and Kenneth Brown Wheeler; his par ents; one brothei, Frederick ■ Wheeler ; three i sisters, Mrs. K. V^Copeland, Mrs. Irving Moore and Mrs. Marvin Cobiwn, all of Williamston; and [•his maternal grandmother, Mrs. A. S. Strickland of Tarboro, Funeral services were conduct j ed in the Methodist Church here ' yesterday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock 1 by the pastor, Rev. E. P. Shuller, and burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery. i Sells Interest In Grocery Here — • A partner in the operation of the E and W (Edmondson and Ward) market and grocery here for several years, Jack Edmond son sold his interest to his part ner, Jas. H. Ward, last week and is moving his family to Snow Hill tomorrow or Thursday. He will be with his brother-in law, Dick Daniel, in the operation of the theater there for some months before associating with Mis. Edmondson's uncle in the operation of several farms. A member of the local volun teer fire department, Mr. Ed mondson was honored at a fish dinner last Wednesday evening. County Board Of Commissioners In Regular Meetin 'TQ Littlr Business Before The Officials On Monday Morning -® Very little business of major importance was up for discussion | at the regular meeting of the Mar- i tin Countv Board of Commission/1 ers on Monday, but the group w,hs in session all the morning hand ling routine matters and receiving reports from the various depart ments. Mrs. Mary B. Hodges of Griffin.^ asked the board to recommend the road in Griffins Township, running from a point near Smith wick's Creek church toward p. S. 17 at Batt's Cross Roads for-'stab ilization. She was ’referred/to the township committee of the/Martin County Road Committee./ Paul Bailey was before th'e board in the interest of a road in Williamston Township. Since the board had recommended the pro ject to the highway commission on two previous occasions, it was1 suggested that the plea be direct ed to the district commissioner. M. L. Peel was reappointed county tax collector at no increase in salary. Tax relief orders, based on er I rors, death or disability, were is sued, as follows: Walter Rhodes Estate, Jamesville, $2; Mrs. Lucy Smithwick, Williams, $13.80; John M. Leggett, rfear Grass, $2; W. G. Leary Estate, Bear Grass, $2; Lc Roy Godard, Williamston, $2; E. (Continued on page eight) Vernon Hardison Died Early Today In Hospital Here Funeral for Young Furnier To Be Held Wednesday At Smith*irks Creek -•— Henry Vernon Hardison, well known young farmer and a pro mising citizen, died in the local hospital this morning at 12.30 o’clock after a short illness Tak en ill on Saturday, September 24, the young man did not think his illness was serious and did not en ter the hospital until the follow ing Monday when he was operat ed on for a ruptured appendix. Little hope was held for his recov ery at that time. The son of Mrs. Mary Lilley Hardison and the late Lloyd Har dison, he was born, in Griffins Township on December 8, 1915. Except for one year spent in Washington County he lived and farmed in Griffins Township all his life. Accepting the responsi bilities of two households, he worked diligently and was unus ually industrious. He attended Farm Life school and in early manhood was mar ried to Miss Ruby Griffin. Surviving besides his mother and widow are a daughter, Mary Frances; five brothers, William ",'ft•‘♦1- 1 m r~^*~ ■ with the U. S Army; Georgie, Nicholas and Saunders Hardison, all of Plymoutn, and Garland Hardison of near Wiljiarnston; five sisters, Mrs. Paul Norwood of RobersonviUe, Mrs. LeRoy Grif fin of near Williamston, Mrs. Clarence Waters < of Plymouth, Mrs. William Rediker of Salina, Kansas, and Mrs. Howard Keel of, Williamston. The body is being moved from the funeral home here this after noon to the home of his mother in-law in Griffins Township where it will remain until Wed nesday afternoon when it will be carried to the Smithwicks’ Creek Primitive Baptist Church for the last rites at 2:30 o’clock. Elder P. E. Getsinger, the pastor, assisted by Elder Lee of Four Oaks will conduct the service. Burial will be in the Tice Community Ceme tery in Griffins Township. ■-o Firemen Called Out Here Cunt Friday Volunteer firemen were called out here last Friday afternoon when some trash in a truck caught fire near the Jamesville and Washington road intersection. Very little damage was reported. Tobacco Prices At Highest Peak Of Season Yesterday Tobacco prices reached the highest peak of the season on the Williamston Tobacco market yes terday when more than 100,000 pounds sold for an official aver age of $57.57. The price was a little more tha/i one cent a pound above the previous high reported last Friday when 290.;598 .pounds were sold for $163,809, an average of j>56.39. So far this season, the market has sold 8,140,590 pounds for $3, 1^71,107, an average of $48.78 per hundred pounds, the price figure incli/ding all types of tobacco from scrap to that selling at 99 cents a pound. Late estimates offered by farm ers and warehousemen indicate that well over 90 percent of the crop has been marketed in this section. It is estimated that more than 80 percent of the farmers have marketed their crop, that some of the remaining eighty per cent have only a few hundred puunds to be sold. It will be a close call if the market pulls on up to nine million pounds. It was1 pointed out that the customers are 1 still sticking with the market with a few exceptions. One tobaccon ist declared yesterday that more! farmers followed all the / way ! through this year than possibly j in any other year, that they were satisfied and definitely convinced j that they madf/ money bv staying nt home to market all their crop. The market lost a fairly large poundage to the borafer just be fore the opening in Jhis belt, and ' that <oss is now being reflected in the Sales. ' ‘j ME1)IUM-FA1R | v* Martin County farmers are well advanced in digging what has been described as a medium-fair peanut crop. With the exception of those areas where the crop was all but washed away and on heavy low land, the quality is said to be fair, better than it was last year. Farmer J. B. Everett, ex plaining that the quality was fairly good, estimates the yield in the Hamilton section at about ten bags per acre. Farmer Paul Edmondson thinks it will run around 12 to 15 bags ner acre in the lias sell area. Kev. W. It. Har rington says the crop is med ium to poor mi his section. Farmer Marion Hodges says the crop in this- section is better than it was last year, that he expects 12 to 15 bags per acre. Most of the crop will have been dug by the end of this week in the county, weather permitting. Native Of County ! Died On Saturday Near Greenville .- • Funeral Service Conducted In Bear Chip* Church Monday Afternoon James A. Rogerson, native of this county and a retired farmer, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John M. Fleming, between Stokes and Greenville last Satur day afternoon at 1:00 o’clock. Ik had been in declining health for five years and his condition criti cal for some time. He was born in Bear Grass Township, this county, 67 years ago and spent most of his life on the farm there. In early man 1 hood he was married to Miss Eva Estelle Webb, also of this county, and following her death in urn o. . «■ ■ w - <**«*>•> nacf made ms home with a (laugh- j ter, Mrs. Fleming, in Pitt County j He was a member of the Primi- j <Continued on paflPWBflf? Mrs. Lena Manning Died At Home In Griffins Sunday Funeral Held There For Well-Known (ati/.en Homlnv Afternoon -- Mrs. Lena Taylor Manning, well-known citizen and member of a family for many years promi nent in the affairs of this county, died at her home in Griffins Township Sunday morning at 2:00 o'clock after a long period of de clining health. She was confined to her bed for five weeks and her condition was critical during that time. The daughter of the late Eli and Sarah Virginia Mobley Taylor, she was born near Williamston 07 years ago on May 20, 1082. After attending the schools in her home community she studied at a pri vate school in Tarboro, and in early womanhood was married to ! Mack G. Mobley who died during the influenza epidemic in 1919. Following her marriage to Mr. Mobley she made her home in Bear Grass’Township, living there until she was married to John J. Manning in 1927 when she located in Griffins where she had since made her home. Mrs. Manning was a faithful member of the Primitive Baptist Church for many years. She was a thoughtful wife and mother and (Continued on page eight) Farmer Recovers Stolen Tobacco Approximately 150 pounds of good quality tobacco, stolen from Farmer W. It. Copeland's grading I house in Goose Nest Township i last Friday, were recovered the I following morning. | Slipping the graded tobacco out of the barn, the thief or thieves hid it in an abandoned watering trough. It was discovered by ac ■ •va-mHMW1 « —aSjMpJft • r *■ «■»*«(•’ j ‘ UR lit OUllfiuoy J llOll 11liy,. /\ | watch was maintained Saturday j night by the owner and Constable 1 »Viley Craft, hut the thieve.; neve; ! returned S o. • • Bureau Membership Drive Half Complete In County - - -*■ The annual membership drive,I now being conducted by the Mar tin County Farm Bureau, is about half completed, President Chas. L. Daniel reported at a meeting of the membership canvassesrs in the county courthouse last Thurs day evening. It was announced at that time that 783 memberships | had been signed and reported,1 that possibly more than 200 others | had been signed but had not been submitted to the secretary. It was indicated that an unus-1 ally heavy sign-up had been ef- | footed in Williams, Griffins and i Robersonville Townships. Can vassers declared that the drive was progressing rapidly in Wil liamston and Bear Grass Town- j ships, that possibly more mem- | bers would be signed in the two j districts than were signed last year. Canvasser;; in other areas j say they are finding a ready sup port, and it is fairly certain now that the goal will he reached and passed. Declaring that the economy is not yet on an even keel in this country, that unless someone is in there fighting for agriculture, ! the farmer may not come up with 1 a program in 1950. On Thursday evening of this j week the canvassers will attend | a “Dutch" supper and map plans j ior tin observance of Farm Bu reau Week in the county, October i 10 to 15th. It is planned to com plete the membership drive dur ing that period and keep Marlin at the top of the list of counties leading the way. It was reported a few days ago that Green Coun ty was nearing it goal of nearly ,2,500 members. Town’s Officials In Short Meeting Here Last Night C '.a 11 for Grade Crossing Al Slade Street And A New Underpass With little new business on their calendar, Williamston's town officials held one of their shortest regular sessions laj.;t evening in months. / Convinced that a grade crossing is needed on Slade Street, the board renewed its efforts to have the project handled. It was point ed out that a goodly number of persons could be served and that part of the colored school traffic could be handled over the street with a grade crossing. Recogniz ing the growing danger to pedes trians on West Main Street, the officials also went on record fav oring a new railroad bridge there. The matter is to be carried before both the railroad company and the highway commission. The board was advised that a court order had been issued, di recting J. B. Roberson to remove tenant houses off property in Woodlawn Cemetery. In compliance with a new State law, the board directed volunteer firemen to report to the Rhodes Harris Clinic for physical examin ations, tlie doctors having agreed to handle the examinations at cost. Commissioner Leman Barnhill was appointed to serve as a mem ber of the firemen's relief fund. An order was placed for a car load of pipe for the extension of water lines on North Sycamore Street, the pipe to cost approxi mately $3,000. A new control mechanism, cost ing about $225, was ordered pur chased and installed in the traffic t light, corner of Main and Watts : Street. During the meantime, an officer is to be stationed at the corner when children are going to and from school. I ! Town Treasurer Dan Sharpe re ported that $0(1,630.36 of the $67, 479.38 tax levy for 1948 had been collected, and that $33,134.73 of the $75,394.22 levy for 1949 had been collected. Parking meter income for the past month amounted to $647, and the town treasurer received $307.55 as its share of the utility tax for the past quarter. The amount represents one-half of one percent of the tax the utilities are required to pay the State. Friendship Train Committee Meets | Holding a joint meeting with representatives of the Martin I County Farm Bureau in the court | house last Thursday evening, the Friendship Train committee of ficers discussed plans for loading a car with corn in this county in November or early December. The Farm Bureau group pleclg I ed its support, President (’has L. Daniel stating that it offered a •m,e upp-ivmtfffe' rffnnp’TJe.tjwrTij* this county to do something direct for suffering humanity. “I sin cerely hope all our people will support it, the ollicial said. County chairman of the Friend ship Train, W. May Hardison, said that the county is bymg asked to contribute 40,000 pounds of corn or about two bushels per farm. Committees have been named for the ten townships, and the lead ers are hopeful the project can be handled in the course of a few days. Dates for the canvass will be announced later. Couple Marry In County Sunday —» _ William A. Moon, formerly of Elm City and a resident of James ville for the past fourteen years, and Otolia Raseoe, of Jamesville, were married in the Weeping Mary Baptist Church, Jamesville, last Sunday evening. Rev, A. R. Winborne, pastor, of Plymouth of ficiated. Moore is one of the few Indians living m Hus "aunty at the present time. The couple will live in the bride’s home at Jamesville. Outline Plans For Marketing Peanuts State Inspectors ^ ill Grade Crops Under Quota Plan Peanut Marketing (!aril* To Ik' Similar To Those Us ed In Selling Tobacco Representatives of the Federal and State Departments of Agri culture and the Production and Marketing Administration outlin ed plans for marketing the cur rent peanut crop to approximate ly two hundred farmers, shellers and buyers at a meeting held in the Williamston High School audi torium last Friday afternoon. G. T. Scott, State chairman of P.-M. A., presided and James Potter of the State office, Mr, Aikers of the Washington office, Harry Wescott of the State Department of Agri culture, Bob Hines, assistant dis trict supervisor, and others led the discussions and outlined the sev eral phases of the program being advanced under the new quota system. According to the department re presentatives, the government will grade all peanuts this year. While the grading system is little changed from what it was last year, the moisture content is to be considered. A penalty is provided for each one-half of one percent moisture content in excess of eight percent and peanuts with ten and one-half percent moisture will not be accepted. Peanuts containing less than eight percent moisture will bring a premium price, it was explained. Special machines are to be provided for determining the moisture con tent. Mr. Potter explained that mar keting cards for peanuts this year i will be similar to those used in marketing tobacco. Those farm ers, planting within their allot ments, are to receive a white card, and those planting in excess of the allotment will get red marketing cards which are subject to penal tit s. Peanuts marketed with white cards will be guaranteed the support price, but there’ll be no support for those marketed with red cards, it was explained. Buyers are to 'execute memoran dums of sale arid make weekly reports. Penalties on excess plantings, figured on a converted rate basis and listed on each red marketing card, are to be collect ed by the buyers and are forward ed to the Raleigh office along with various reports. Aikers explained that three methods of support will be in ef fect this year. The government is I entering a contract with the shell j ers who agree to pay no less than I the support price, assuring them tsupport for shelled goods of cer tain grades. The government will again open receiving warehouses and operate them just as it did row on his peanuts and store them himself. Going into detail, Harry Wes t ott of the i* ,.| iaid that peanuts would be inspected to determine the actual grade, that the Commodity Credit Cor poration was willing to pay. what the peanuts are worth but no more. He appealed to the farmers to properly harvest their peanuts, stack them right and not to "pull" them too soon. He reviewed the inspection features, explaining (Continued on page eight) r ROUND-UP There was little activity on the crime front in this county } stating that only three per sons were arrested and tem orarily detained in the coi^ty jail. One was^fceld for »ute prison authorities, anc*' one each was jailed for carrying a concealed weapon and for public drunkenness. Two of the three were white, and the ages of the over the week-end- officers / group i years. > from 18 to 42 Superior Court In Final Session Of Term Thursday Two-Week Term Comes To Premature Close After Cases Continued The two-week term of the Mar tin County Superior Court, sche duled for the trial of criminal and civil eases, came to a premature close last Thursday afternoon aft er quite a few eases had been continued until the special ses sions are called in November. Judge Leo Carr of Burlington, the previous week, continued several ^ criminal cases until December and withdrew from the county in fa vor of Judge W. I. Halstead of Camden. Judge Carr, slated to preside over both weeks of the regular term in this county, mov ed over to Tarboro early last week to hear the contempt cases against strikers at a Tarboro cotton mil). Judge Halstead, recently appoint ed to the bench, was named to pinch hit for the Alamance jurist i in this county during the second! week. Proceedings in the court not previously reported: In the case of Jodie and Nina Haislip against John A. Griffin, colored man of Everetts, the jury found in favor of the plaintiffs, awarding each $300 damages No tice of appeal was given but there is some doubt if the appeal will be perfected. All set for a long trial in the case of Melvin Godard against L W. Hardison, the court arranged for a surlden closing when it was found after some of the evidence was heard that the defendant w'as submitting a long statement of account and that it would be “virtually impossible for the jury to remember all the figures in detail." A referee, Charles H. Manning,, was named to hear the evidence and report to the court. Each of the litigants was requir ed to make a $50 deposit with the referee, but the reference was not with consent of either the plain tiff or the defendant. Godard is j:.1 a *«u.os4.mvaUa$'* u-wau*ui. $270 for services, $200 for auto mobile use, $202 for us'1 of Chev rolet truck, $240 for use of Ford f)h for to .V • $50 credit. A judgment was entered in the sum of $2,-435.711 plus interest (Cuntin ed on page eight) Homecoming In Oak City Church The annual Homecoming Day services will be held Sunday, Oct. 9th, at the Oak City Christian Church. This church was organiz ed by the Rev J M. Perry on Wednesday, November 19, 1919, with twenty charter members. The Rev. Olin Fox, pastor of the church, will bring the morning message entitled, "Christ and The Home,” and the dedication of the new painting which has just been put on the church Special music will include selec tions by the Bear Grass Trio. Mr. Dallas Cox will give the words of welcome. The church extends a cordial welcome to all former pas tors and all members und friends of the church. Dinner will be served on the school campus. I sum* Several Marriage Licenses In The C.ounly After reporting little business during the month of September, the marriage lieense bureau %[\ this county last Saturday issued nearly half as many licenses as were issued in all of the previous month. Among the licenses issued three went to the following: William Howard Cherry of Wil liamston and Ada Elsie Peaden of Faulkland; John Arthur Sibert of Virginia Beach and Susie Eliza beth Tice of Virginia Beach and Williamston; Joseph Edward Wil liams of Aulander and Carthine Shaw Daigle, RFD 3. Williamston.
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