News As Reported In The Enterprise j Forty Years Ago MAY 19. 1911 Williamslon gladly ■'welcomes to IJk> lojia 1 fraternity Mr. Edward Bond, of Edenton. who has re cently passed the State Board. Mr. Bond is the son of Honorable William Bond, of Edenton, and a brother of William Bond, Jr., of Plymouth, two lawyers of recog W/.ed talent and ability in the' eastern part of North Carolina. Mr. Bond is an alumnus of the University and a member of the I). K. E. Fraternity, and his pres ence in Williamston will add much to the young manhood of the community. Augustus Williams, who lives about three miles from Roberson ville, reports that there have been between four and five hundred rats killed at his home for the past Now Is The Time to go to COURTNEY’S For FURNITURE forty-five days. He estimates that they have destroyed ten barrels of corn for him this year. J. C. Andrews, of Robersonville, received the sad news Tuesday that his son. Jasper, who is a stu dent at the A. & M College is very ill in the hospital. His many friends hope that he will soon be in school again. The new Board of Trustees of the Robersonville Graded School met Monday night. They are R E. Grimes. Chairman J. L. R< b erson. Secretary. J. H. Roberson, Ji . Treasurer, Miss Bettie Roberson is visiting Miss Selma Everett near Gold Point. Mrs. D R Roberson and daugh ter, Lizzie, of Robersonville. spent Wednesday in Greenville. Mrs Ida Parker, of near Oak Grove, is visiting Mrs. J. E. Con gleton in Robersonville. A. E. Smith, of Robersonville, is making great improvements in his home. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Bailey, of Bear Grass, spent Sunday in the country. Conoho Farm has been recently purchased by J. G. Staton for $4, 500. v Among the things to be noted under the present town adminis CLEAN FUN BLUE STAR CLEANERS Martin ('oiiiity'4 Largest and Most Modern Cleaners l.v/tcrl illrralion am! Ityvine — Iftiff (Iraninv; SVI’ISI MITION <;|!\|{\!NTKKD Washington Sired —:— Telephone 2552 ill ( Lillirs Insninl igaimil lira ami Thefl STRAIGHT BOURB ON WHISKY CHP HICKORY DISTIUINO CORPORATION. RHILADUPHlA. PAtJ BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Black Lace Negligee, Little Lie Pleases Dying Woman L_—By BILLY ROSE The other day I got the following letter from a lady who Is con valescing in a Montreal hospital: Jear Mr. Rose: Three weeks ago I was operated on for a leg Infection, and since then ’ve been tamng It easy, a little too si"k to leave the hospital and a little oo well to keep from having the fidgets. Consequently, I've been some* Jung of a busybody, wandering around rooms and corridors and passing lie time of day with other patients. Doting mv wheelchair travels I lappened to come across a at ary which you might like to use In your ■olumn. It has to do * black lace • negligee that I got for Chriftmas a couple of years ago—one of those ovety bits of peek i-boo that every voman adobes. Un ortunately, how *ver, I'm more he pajama type, md so ever since got it it’s been licked away in a nireau drawer. When 1 was nslied to the hos lilal last month, ny sister stuffed everything that looked like bed-ap iarei into a valise and brought it iround to my room, and sure oiough, on top was the negligee. \nd sure enough Kgain, it went ight back into a bureau, this time i white one. • • • RECENTLY. HOWEVER, • fi ilily got to use toe negligee, and ht way'Jt happened was like this. V few doors down the corridor from ' ne there was a Mrs. Bcnoise who jvas suffering from a disease with i long Latin name tliat I can't 1 ven remember, but what it mounted to was a creeping par lysis which had started at her oes, worked its way up to her ab omen and was steadily moving to ward the heart. And as if that reren’t enough trouble, shortly fter the woman had checked into .he hospital her husband had been ! adly hurt in an auto crash—he had riven iiis car head-on into a truck rhich was parked without lights. lass! week u he i the paralysis got nft to within ini lies of Mrs. lienoise't heart the doctors de cided lo let the con file see eails other lor that would probably he the last time. I was in Mrs. lieu one s room when they told her about the visit, but instead ot : pepping her nft it seemed to make her more miserable than ei rr. IVben I ashed her what teas the matter, she said it si as probably silly but she knew she looked a light and she haled lot her hus band lo see her in hospital dollies with her hair and face not fi.'ed. Billy Rose 1 had a talk with the nurse, and with the permission of the doctor we brushed back Mrs. Benoise’s hair and put some make-up on her face, and for a final touch I got out my black lace negligee and slit it up the back so we could put it on her without having to move her around. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that when the dying won\in saw herself in a mirror she looked happy for the .first time in weeks. OF COURSE, we all skedaddled when her husband was wheeled in. his head bandaged and most of his body in a cast. And a couple of hours later the doctor came and told me that Mrs. Benolse wanted to thank me for the use of the negli gee. Well, she could hardly talk, stgfc was that excited. Her husband, it seemed, had complimented her on how lovely she looked and told her that as soon as he got out of the hospital he was going to buy tier a dozen ‘negligees like the one she was wearing. And Just before they wheeled him out he promised her that he would ba around the next morning, and asked her to please wear ttie negligee again. He didn’t get back, however, be cause that night Mrs. Benolse died, and everything considered I gues* it was just as well. Yesterday, when the doctor came In to see me, we got to talking about Mrs. Benoise. "I'm glad I finally found toma uit for lhot silly negligeo," I said. "At least Mr. Benoise will always remember how pretty his wile looked the last time he saw her." "I hate to disappoint you" the doctor said, "but Mr, Benoisa couldn't see her. lie lost his sight in that car smash-up, and Oe/ore I brought him into h:s wife's room I carefully briefed him on her make-up and hose she looked in your negligee." Anyway, that’s the way It hap pened, Mr. Bose, and perhaps if you shuffle the facts around a bit it might make a story. Sincerely, Charlotte Ferguson. tlation Mic the working of ;i split log drag by Sticol Commissioner J. D. Biggs and Constable White, and the appointment ol S A. Ne well to be Attorney General to j-look af*er the legal business of i , the town. | Mrs. Frank Britton, .who lives j near Skewarky Church, accident j i.v swallowed some carbolic acid i Monday. She was sick and Mr. I Britton gave her a dose ol medi jcine as he thought, out of the pro - per bottle, but it proved to bi poison. Drs. York mid Saunders were summoned and applied re medies to counteract the el feet. Friends ' __. . J\ in demand > ( ^first in ^a,u* first in sa/eS Choice of 12 Colors k ‘ MORF CHFVROLETS IN USE THAN ANY OTIITR TRUCK1 Co. — Williamston