THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BI OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE VOLUME LII—NUMBER 86 Williamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, November /, /919 THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK ESTABLISHED 1899 Several Injured In Road Wrecks In This Section Man's Legs Badly Mangled When Run Down Just Beyond River Fill Several persons were hurt, one badly, in a series of automobile truck accidents on the highways in this section during the past few days. In addition to the highway acci dents there were three minor ones within Williamston’s town limits Last Monday afternoon, Rev. Henry W. Tickman of Roper, driv ing in from Oak City at hardly 12 or 15 miles an hour, failed to negotiate the turn into Hamilton's Main Street and tore into Elwood Boyd's Ford truck parked across the street. The Ford truck was knocked into Bob Sidenstricker's Dodge truck. No one was hurt. A survey of the damage made by Patrolman R. P. Narron listed $200 on the retired minister's 1941 Plymouth, little or none on the Ford truck, and about $25 on the Dodge. Wednesday afternoon about 4:00 o’clock, a front tire blew out on a truck-trailer and the vehicle went out of control, tearing into a cornfield between Hamilton and Oak City. The truck, owned by the Baltimore Lumber Company and driven by a colored man, was heavily loaded with lumber. No one was hurt and damage was es timated at $200 by Patrolman R. P. Narron who made the investi gation. Wednesday night at 11:00 o'clock the 1939 Chevrolet driven by George Bowers and a 1937 Ford driven by Gus Lynch's son crashed headon between Hamilton and Palmyra on the River Road. The left sides of the cars were torn away, but no one was hurt. Damage to the Chevrolet was esti mated at $125 by Patrolman R. P. Narron and that to the Ford at $50, the smaller amount repre senting just about the full value of the car, according to the inves tigating officer. William T. Bonds, 40-year-old colored man, was run down and badly hurt by an automobile shortly before 3:00 o'clock last Sunday morning about three-1 quarters of a mile east of the end of the river swamp fill on High-' way 17. Few details could be! learned, but one report said that i he was lying in the highway, that | a young man from Windsor, driv ing east on the highway ran ovei him. The driver picked him up j and carried him to Brown's Hos-1 pital. It was reported that his1 right leg was broken and that the i left knee was crushed and i mangled. Patrolman J. T. Rowe made the investigation. About two hours prior to that time, Frank Robert Bemis, 19 ycar-old Navy man stationed on the U. S. submarine Amberjack in a Florida port, was blinded bv the lights of an approaching car and ran his 1938 DeSoto into a 'ditch just cUts'ide of W-'iliaifiston’s i town limits near Sunny Side Inn on Highway 17. He, nor his pas senger, Maurice D. Roman, was b11 r' buta^^oTrnarffM V. Puiv^s making the inves*:gat;an, said about $100 damage was done to the car. Cpl. T. Fearing, holding the fort while other patrolmen were sta tioned in Tarboro, was called to an accident on 17 just south of Wil liamston at 4:00 o’clock Mondav morning. No one was hurt and damage was slight. -<*. , Laymen’s League Will Meet Here - o The Laymen’s League of the Christian Church of Eastern North Carolina, will hold a quar terly meeting in the Woman’s Club building here tomorrow eve ning at 6:30 o’clock. Dr. Mark Rutherford, director of laymen’s work throughout the brotherhood, will address the meeting. The ladies of the church will serve dinner, and a goodly number of visitors from other towns in this part of the State are expected to attend along with a large representation from the local church. Eastern Carolina Beauty At Festival Here Pictured above is an array of eastern Carolina beauty that fea tured Williamston's second annual harvest festival parade and har vest ball last . Wednesday after noon and evening. One can und erstand why the judges called for more time in choosing the queen. The young ladies are, left to right, Misses Faye Walker, Scotland Neck; Lib Cherry, Bear Grass; Leona Hardison, Farm Life; Anne Willoughby, Ahoskie; Rachel Chesson, Williamston; Queen Shirley Graham, Windsor; Reba Tetterton, Washington; Shirley Stevenson, Robersonville; June Gardner, Jamesville; Shirley Rob erson, Plymouth; Sybil Cayton, Edenton; and Gladys Everett, Oak City. Four Are Treated Here For Serious Accident Injuries —-*— Aluhuma-Floriila Cars In Head-on Crash Near Here Yesterday Afternoon Four persons were injured, one of them believed seriously and the others badly, when their cars crashed head-on in front of the Joyner filling station just east of the Roanoke River swamp on Highway 17 early yesterday after noon. Mrs. Hunter Brown of Pensa cola, Fla., suffered a fracture of the left leg, and Mr. Brown had six teeth knocked out and suffer ed a leg injury. Frank Haynes of Hodges and Montgomery, Ala bama, suffered fractures of both arms above the elbows, one break extending to the right shoulder. Paul Bryan of Decatur, Alabama, suffered neck and back injuries, according to unofficial reports. Given first aid treatment and prepared for travel, Mr. and Mrs. Brown were removed in a Biggs ambulance to Norfolk where Mrs. Brown will enter a hospital to be near to relatives. Bryan and Haynes were transferred in an other Biggs ambulance to Duke Hospital, Durham, late yesterday afternoon after receiving 'treat ment in the hospital here. Driving up from Alabama to attend a convention.eX N"gs Head Pontiac, turned to his left to avoid striking a third car driven by M P Joyner who was making a turn into his station. The Pontiac, ac cording to one report, and the 1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan driven by Brown crashed just to the center of the road on Brown’s right. The injured were brought to (Continued on page six) -o County Hog Sale Is Disappointing Holding their fall sale of pure bred stock at the old Martin County fairgrounds last Friday af ternoon, members of the Martin County Swine Breeders Associa tion were openly disappointed in the prices offered. Assistant County Farm Agent J. W. Sumner stated that twenty-three hogs were offered for sale, but that only twelve were sold. Prices ranged slightly abov.i market figures for slaughter hogs, it was stated. ROUND-UP After a week of much ac tivity on the crime front, the people participated in and witnessed a giant harvest fes tival here without a single person running afoul of the law. And the week-end found peace and quiet reigning, for the most part. Only four per sons were arrested and de tained in the county jail, two for breaking and entering, one on an old charge and still another . for safekeeping for another county. One of the four was white and the ages of the group ranged from 17 to 49 years. School Concert Many Years Ago A program uncovered in some old papers, lists the numbers and characters appearing in the an j nual Hamilton High School Con i cert about forty-three years ago. I The program lists Mrs. William i Edward Gladstone as musical rii 1 rectress. I The program lists such numbers ' as “Persian March", “Shepherd’s .Evening Song," “Faust”, “Gypsy I Jane,” "The Joyful Peasant,” “The i Loyal Boston Man,” “Gypsy Ron Leaves,” and others. ! Part II of the program was the . presentation of “The Moon •Queen” wuh the following cast of *WSReicTs. The Sun, - ; kins; The Moon, Estelle Moore; Noilh Star, Edward Matthews; | Evening Star, Bettie Lawrence; ; Morning Breeze, Maggie B»lle [Jones; Evening Breeze, Lily Bry lant; Summer Cloud, Maud Baker; Summer Shower, Susie Johnson; (Rainbow, Lou Mayo Brown; (Prince Sunbeam, William Grimes; Princess Sunshine, Mary Pender Galdstone; Stars, Fanny Mat thews and Fanny Gladstone; Clouds, Castine Purvis and Vir ginia Bennett; Raindrops, Maggie Peel and Reba Upton; Sunbeams, Lelia Pippen, Annie Jones, Carrie Sherrod and Lillie May Baker. Medals were presented by Rev. J. B. Gibble. County Farmer Quito III In Hospital llore -$— Suffering a stroke at his home early last Thursday morning, Mr. Jos. Holliday, well-known farmer o» Jamesville Township, was re moved a short time later to the local hospital where his condition continues serious. He is semi-con scious, and then only at intervals, it was said. Dillon Simpson Funeral Friday In Statesville Native Of Thid County Died At Hit* Home There LumI Wednesday John Dillon Simpson, native of this county and for a number of years a resident of Williamston, died at his home in Statesville early last Thursday morning. He had been in declining health the greater part of eight years, and death was attributable to a heart attack. The son of the late John D. and Elizabeth Griffin Simpson, he was born on a farm between Williams ton and Everetts sixty years ago. After spending his early life there, he moved to Williamston and was engaged with his brother, the late J. Paul Simpson, in the retail fur niture and hardware business. When a young man he entered the tobacco business, buying for the Liggett and Meyers Tobacco Com pany for many years. He was mar ried to Miss Eva Vaughan of South Boston, Va., and later locat ed in Mt. Airy where the family lived until about thred years ago when they moved to Statesville. Although he left here more than thirty years ago he is well remem bered by many local people as a f. itrd urid v. .u'«k v*-r gvrst’.•••• - man. He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church and a Mason. The Rev. R. M Su'd .rd, rSWftei Jumcs Epis copal Church in Statesville, con ducted the funeral at the home last B'riday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. Interment was in States ville’s Oakwood Cemetery. Surviving are his widow; two sons, John Dillon Simpson, Jr., of Statesville, and Page Vaughan Simpson, a student at the Univer sity of Mississippi, Oxford, and a number of nieces and nephews, including the Simpson and Cobb boys of Williamston. He was the last member of the family of sev eral sons and daughters. — "■ Fifteen Thousand DP's To Arrive in 11. S. Forts Washington.—Thirteen charter ed vessels are expected this month in United States ports with 14,900 displaced persons from Europe, the U. N. International Refugee Organization (IRO) here an nounces. The incoming refugees, who have been selected under the terms of the U. S. Displaced Per sons Act of 194D, are scheduled to dock in New York, Boston and New Orleans. ! ! Jas. R. Harrison ! Died Wednesday .—*— ( James R. Harrison, retired far mer, died last Wednesday morn ing in Butner Hospital after sev I era I years of declining health. I A son of the late Mary Ann Bul loch and Reuben Harrison, he was ! born in Bear Grass Township 03 I years ago and spent most of his i life on the farm in this county, j Surviving are his widow, the fonnei Miss Mary Stokes; live sons, Frank and Paul Harrison of Williamston, Buck and Norman Harrison of Robersonville, and James R. Harrison, Jr., of Stokes; five daughters, Mrs, W, L. McFar land and Mrs. Robert Stillman <.f Norfolk, Mrs. James Hollis of Robersonville, Mrs. Leonard GUs son of Stokes and Mrs. 11. L Ray mond of Nyssa, Oregon; and five grandchildren. Funergl services were conduct ed last Friday afternoon at the Oliver Harrison home in Bear Grass by Elder A. B. Ayeis and interment was in the old Harrison family cemetery there. ■o Attend Funeral Here Yesterday Among those from out of the county attending the funeral of Miss Lstei.'v; C lawful u in Xiic . Methodist Church here yesterday j afternoon, weie: Mr. and Mr. A. O. Lynch, Mrs 1 Messrs, w 4 D. McPherson, K. R. Bradley, E. I A. Wright, B. F. Wilson and T. II. Harvey of Norfolk; Mrs. Ceeil Wilkerson and Mrs. J. H. Daven port, of Pantego; Mr. and Mrs. Robt. D. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ellison, Mr. and Mrs. J. If. Purvis, Mi's. Wilbur Johnson, Mrs. Ruth Midgette, Mrs. Lovic Taylor and Mrs. Edna Ward Jus tice, of Belhaven; Mr. Walter Gresham of Beulaville, and son, Billy, of Chapel Hill; Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Goodman of Greenville; Mrs. Leslie Turner, Mrs. Gardner Edwards, Miss Kate Murrill Boggs, Mrs. J. D. Sandlin, Mrs. Gordon Muklrow and Mrs. Lanier, of Beulaville, and Mrs. Edwin E. Holding of Rich Square. •--fr. (truss Fire In ll'est Fml Lust Friday Morning -1 Volunteer firemen answered their second call to a grass fire in West End last Friday morning shortly before 10:00 o’clock. Cen tered in a block of the old fair ground site, the fire was said to have been spreading rapidly when it was brought under control. Three Car Wrecks On Local Streets During Week-end -! and Sunday, according to re ports coming from the police de partment. Charles, two-year old son ol Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gurganus ol Watts Street, was bruised about the body arul had most of hit clothes torn off when he ran oui into the street and into the side id a car driven by Melvin Davis school garage mechanic. The lit tle fellow had just got out of hit father's truck and started across the street to the Marco Theater on South Ilaughton Street. He was not touched by the wheels, officers adding that the car was traveling very slowly at the time, Nannie Hall, colored woman of HFD I, Greenville, was painfully hurt when the ear driven by her husband, Alonza Hall, went out of control, ran off the street just be yond the hospital on Highway t>4 and turned over twice down an embankment. Hall, stating that loey we I« '— Funeral Yesterday In Meth odist Church for Well Known Teacher Miss Estelle Crawford, faithful teacher in the local schools for a number of years, died in the hos pital here last Saturday evening at 7:20 o'clock after a lingering ill ness. Undergoing an operation in a Richmond hospital last year, Miss Crawford suffered a relapse the early part of this year and en tered the hospital last February 15. Little hope was held for her recovery at that time, but she nobly fought to live. Although her condition was critical at times over a period of months, the de termination to live was there un til the early part of last week when she no longer could take nourishment. I The daughter of Mrs. Fannie ! Bateman Crawford and J. C. | Crawford, late sheriff of this county, she was born in Williams ton on May 26, 1903 After her graduation from the local schools, she attended Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, for two years, earn ing her A teacher's certificate at Chapel Hill in subsequent sum mer session. She first taught in the school at Hassell, transferring to Everetts ' before leaving the county to teach several terms in the schools at Belhaven. She returned homo and joined the local school facul ty in the fall of 1926, continuing there until declining health forced her retirement. More than 1,000 youths came under her care in the school room, where she unselfishly devoted every energy to their preparation for life's journey. Miss Crawford was more than a teacher for she aften acted at the expense of her time and means in promoting the welfare of her little charges, al ways stressing the importance of education and the finer, nobler ideals in life. To her task she gave the full measure of her life, and her handiwork lives today and will go on living for years to come in the being of the hundreds of young people who sat in her class es during the past twenty-seven years, twenty-three of them in the school here. Despite her infirmities, she could and did cheer those who happened by her room during the long months she spent in the hos pital. Almost until the last she wore a smile on her face and her words, although measured by weakness, were encouraging ones. She was devoted to her home, j loved ones and friends. A mem ber of the Methodist church for many years, she was regular in at tendance upon its services, taking a leading part in its work. She was a charter member of the local unit of the Eastern Star, holding one of its offices until forced into retirement. Few gave more freely and willingly of time than she did to her work and civic -ifffairy, a* pleading the cause of others and a,king little for herself. Indeed, hers was a noble life, well and un selHshly lived. ^ Surviving are her sister, Mrs. Harold Clark of Jack sonville, Fla.; two brothers, Ro land C. Crawford of Norfolk, and W. Thomas Crawford of Williams ton; three nieces and a nephew. Funeral services were conduct ed in the Methodist church yester day afternoon at 3:00 o’clock by her paster, Rev. E. R. Shuller, and interment was in the family plot . in Woodlawn Cemetery. 1 Fire Inspection Report Winners — Participating in Fire Prevention Week program, nine pupils in tho local schools came through as winners with fire inspection re ports. They prepared and sub mitted reports on fire prevention practices and precautions, it was explained. The winners were, Edgar M. Delamar, Jr., Billy Dudley, Ann Gresham, Sandra Dawn Gardner Glenda Faye Wells, Billy Wool ard, Susie Griffin, Katherine Spruill and Lois Rayne Beach,