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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 VOLUME LIV—NUMBER 74 Williamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, September 13, 1931 ESTABLISHED 1899 Twenty-Six Cases Handled Monday In County Court —<t>— Jiidgt* R. T. Jo! .ison Im poses Fines In The Sum Of $1,130.00 In a long session last Monday, Judge R. T. Johnson and Solicitor Clarence Griffin handled twenty six cases. Fines, imposed during the session, amounted to $1,130, a new high for recent months. In addition to the heavy fines, sever al defendants drew road terms. Proceedings: Facing numerous charges, Pete Jackson pleaded not guilty, but he was adjudged guilty of carry ing a concealed weapon .and was fined $50, plus costs. Pleading guilty of drunken driv ing, Franklin D. Winslow was fined $100, taxed with the cost and lost his license to drive a mo tor vehicle for twelve months. The cases charging Roy Ed mondson with an assault with a deadly weapon, and Floyd Whit field with aiding and abetting lar ceny, were dismissed. Jasper Council was fined $15, plus costs, for speeding. . Charged with larceny and re ceiving, Elton Taylor and Robert Bland were taxed with the costs and each was directed to pay one half the costs of goods stolen. Charged with larceny and re ceiving, Fred Builock pleaded not guilty. He was adjudged guilty and was sentenced to the roads for six months The road term was suspended upon the payment of the costs and $11.25 for goods alleged stolen. He was placed on probation for two years. Jasper Rollins, charged with larceny, was found not guilty. Pleading guilty of drunken driving, Tommie Nuckles was fined $100, plus costs. He loses his license to operate a motor ve hicle for one year. Charged witli driving while li cense was revoked and violating the liquor laws, Jesse E. White hurst pleaded guilty of driving while his operator’s license was revoked. Adjudged guilty as char ged in the warrant, he was fined $225, plus costs. Charged with violating the li quor laws, Joseph P. Corey was found not guilty. William Owens pleaded not guilty when charged with violat ing the liquor law’s. He was ad judged guilty and drew twelve months on the roads. It was hi? firgt !iqUOr j.'iw violation con vie (ion, and the court suspended tlie road term upon the payment of a $300 fine, plus costs. He i. to violate no liquor law’ during the next five years. Pleading guilty of violating the liquor laws, Mary J. Payton wa; sentenced to woman’s prison foi six months. The prison term wa; suspended upon the payment of i $50 fine and costs. She is to b( convicted of no liquor law’ viola tion for five years. Charged for the second timt with violating the liquor laws James and Eva Everett pleadec not guilty. Both were adjudgec guilty and each drew threi months in jail. Nine-month sen tences, previously imposed anc suspended, were ordered invoked the sentences to begin at the ex piration of the short terms. Pleading guilty of violating th< nquor laws, Mary Lee was sen {Continued on page six) r COWBOYS There's no doubt that this community has a willing if not too promising group of cowboys. There was a rodeo outfit, most ol which was a bit corny, to be sure, in town Tuesday evening and when an open invitation was extended to ride a donkey, the volun teers responded in numbers. The first lad had an un eventful ride. The animal re sented the huge task and quickly took charge. First, there was a single spill, then a double, and lastly, it w:as found that the donkey could spill four riders as quickly as he could spill one. But the volunteers who did not get a chance to try their riding skill, remained around until they were chased from the Tobacco Price Holding To A verage A hove Fifty Cents Tobacco prices continue to hold to a price average above fifty cents on the local market even though blocks continue and many of the companies’ receiving plants are bulging with tobacco. Selling hours are curtailed, but tobacco continues to move to market in volume. Yesterday, the local market sold 293,268 pounds for the third highest average price of the sea son. Receiving $149,669.59 for their offerings, the farmers aver aged $51.04 Through Wednesday the mar ket here had sold 4,284,042 pounds for $2,130,001 or an average right at $50 per hundred pounds. Dur ing the first sixteen selling days last year, the market here sold 4,816,054 pounds for $2,758,705 or | CONFLICTING | Preliminary field reports reaching here are conflicting as to the condition of the pea nut crop in this county. Digging about one-half ac re of his crop a few days ago, Farmer Perlie Roberson of Griffins was quoted as say ing the goobers were few and far between, that the qual ity of the few was fair. Dig ging week before last, Pcr lic Rogers of Bear Grass Township was quoted as say ing his crop was good. It is the sixth straight year that Griffins farmers have had little or poor luck with their peanut crops. The reports from over the county are too limited to de termine the true condition of the crop, as a whole. Democratic Party Women Will Meet In This District —*—i— | i\lrelink in Wiirihiiip'lou On | September 19 To Attraet State Leaders j Leaders of the women’s divis ] ion of the Democratic Party in ! the State are planning a luncheon meeting in Washington next Wednesday afternoon at 12:3(1 o’clock, it was announced today by Mrs. Chas. Meakins, State chairman of Women’s Day. Tht meetings, held annually :r. Sep tember, celebrate the opportunity given the women of this State t< participate in party affairs a yeai before suffrage was extendec them by constitutional amend ment, it was explained. The First Congressional Dis trict meeting is to attract Demo rrat-ic -party leaders from variou: sections of the State, includinf Governor Kerr Scott, Comptroll er Lindsay C. Warrei Congress man Herbert Bonner, Attornej Harry McMulIan, Judge Sush Sharpe, Mrs. Roland McClamrocl of Chapel Hill, Mrs. Wm. Hatch Democratic Women’s Day pub licity chairman, Mrs. Fran! Smethurst of Raleigh, W Fran! Taylor, speaker State House o Representatives of Goldsboro Mrs D A. McCoimick, State vie*, chairman, B. Everett Jordan Chairman State Executive Com l mittee, Lt Governor Pat Taylor j Jonathan Daniels, national com mitteeman, and Mrs. B B. Ever ett and Mrs. J. B Spillman, for mer members of the State Demo cratic Executive committee. Stall senators and representatives an (Continued on page six) Caught Breaking Lights In High School Tuesday Two small boys are being car ried before juvenile court Judg L. B Wynne for allegedly break ing window lights in the colorei high school here. Vandals have been wreckin property there and breaking int the building and using it for ini moral purposes over a perioi of months. School authorise planted a watchman there and h caught the two lads Tuesda; night. The lights broken Tuesda; night had just been replaced ear | her that day. an average slightly above $57.00 per hundred pounds. Possibly quality is reflected in the price to a large extent, but the $7 per hundred drop reflects a down ward trend in the price itself. Its plants said to be bulging, the Imperial company has not been very active during the past few days. However, other com panies have stepped up a peg or two and the price average con tinues to hover around $50 per hundred pounds. Early today the sale for to morrow had been placed on the floors. Next week the markets are slated to go on a four-hour selling schedule. According to un official reports, it is possible a marketing holiday will be railed to last until the redrying plants can catch up with the deliveries. Funeral Today In Local Church For Mrs. H. H. Cowen -* Well-Known Citium Dipt! In Hospital VpMprilay After Long lllnt>n Funeral services are being con ducted in the Williamston Me morial Baptist Churcn this after i noon at 3:00 o'clock for Mrs. Jo nette Mobley Cowen who died in a local hospital yesterday after noon at 3:10 o’clock Her pastor, the /lev. Stewart B. Simms, will conduct the service and interment will be in the family plot ir - Woodlawn Cemetery. The body i: I being moved from tnc Biggs Fun I oral Home to the church one hour prior to the service. Mrs. Cowen had been in de clining health for ahout two years and had been confined to her ber for the past ten months, mun than three of which were spent ii the hospital. Her condition hac gradually worsened over a per iod of months, and while there was a marked change in her con dition ahout ten days ago, he condition was not considers grave until just a few hours be fore the end. > (Continued on page six) Local Hospital Has Celebratioi —•»— ! To celebrate the ,12th anmvoi | sary of the founding of the Brow | Community Hospital here, friend i from Williamston, adjoinin | towns and from all the rura 1 sections of the county, gatherer on the hospital grounds yesterda; afternoon to pay tribute to Dr Brown and the institution h< .; created 12 years ago. Klder Perlie Getsinger, who in troduced the speaker, Carlylr Cox, principal of the Farm Life School, paid a fitting and ap propriate tribute to the honoret guest and Mrs. Brown. Principal Cox spoke briefly but gave proper recognition 1 Dr. Brown and the services he and his institution have renderei the town and community over ; period of 12 years. The speake reviewed the history of medicine giving by periods the ever in erasing expectancy of life It the year 1950 the peak of expec tancy was recorded at 68. “Modi cine and science have made phi nominal progress within the pa> few years. Medicine is vitall , | connected with progress and al though it remained comparative j ly dormant in the early centurie I the science has reached unexpeet ed heights,” the speaker pointei out. In his concluding remarks am without personal mention of th benefactors of this humane insti :■ tution, he told of the service • rendered by Dr. Brown and hi I hospital personnel over a periot of several years. ; Following the invocation h; i Rev. W. B. Harrington the )arg< - crowd was treated to a sumptuou 1 meal, consisting of barbecue j chicken, country ham and ever; a culltnary accessory one couli / think of. The dinner and program wen - arranged and promoted by Messrt Dave Danic-l and Chris Griffin. Paving Contracts Extended To New Roads In County -<» Right Additional Miles Of Paving Included In Last Contracts Paving of Martin County rural roads is going forward in a big way, and engineers and main tenance forces arc working night and day to keep ahead and up with the pavers. The last contract, including the surfacing of the Bear Grass- Eve retts road, has beei extended to include several other projects with the possibility that the con tract will be extended to include other projects in the county with in the near future, according to unofficial information gained here yesterday. The Bear Grass-Everetts pro ject was completed last week and has been accepted by the State. With the completion of that pro ject, a paved highway now ex tends from Corey’s store on tJ. S. Highway 17 to the Hamilton-Pal mvra Road, running via Beat Grass, Everetts, Spring Green, Gold Point, Hassell (or a point near Hassell. Oak City, and Co ncho Primitive Baptist Church. The extended contracts with th( Brown Paving Company includes 3.1 miles of paving on the ok Williamston-Everetts Road, be ginning near Mickey’s Inn or Highway 64 and stopping at ar intersection not far from Beavei Dam Swamp. The project wai completed last Tuesday. Today, the pavers are startinj a 2.8 mile project in Hamiltoi Township, starting at a point oi ; N. C. 125 2 4 miles west of Ham ilton and running to what i known as the River Road or th road from Hamilton to Palmyra A one-mile project is also slat ed for immediate attention i Goose Nest Township, beginnin . in the Town of Oak City and run , ning off Highway 125 in a north i easterly direction to a junction. A second Goose Nest project i a mile of paving on a road run . ning in a westerly direction oi ■ Highway 44 at a point about 1. I miles from Oak City. Two blocks of paving in th Town of Hamilton are also ir . eluded in the extended contrac the paving, located in the mai business area, to make a strcc about 55 feet wide. One bloc will be paved in each dircctio II (Continued on page six) Fire Does Not ; Stop Newlywed: ] — — Although they were delayed couple of hours Mr. and Mr Stanley Kelts, newlyweds, wer not stopped when fire damage their KI48 Dodge convertible neu here Tuesday morning They were traveling sout from Long Island, New Yorl when a short circuit in the wirin I to the top-raising mechanist fired the upholstery in the bac seat. They stopped their car nea Conine Creek and a passing mi torist called the fire departmen I During the meantime, a highwa truck was stopped and a fire e> , tiriguisher was used to bring th fire under control. The fire true went to the end of the fill to tur around and the fire caught u again. Firemen wet the c.phol; terv and the car was moved to local garage where the wirin j system was repaired. MEETINGS With one or two exceptions, 1 the agricultural mobilization meetings in the county this I week arc being well atlended. Last night in Hamilton there was a lively discussion •> of farm problems, Ihc group i of twenty or more making 1 suggestions and offering con structive criticism of the pre sent program. Few attended at Farm Life i and Everetts last night. The last three in the series r of meetings are to be heid Fri 1 day night at 8:00 o’clock in Williams and Robersonville and in the courthouse for Poplar Point and WilHamston Townships. Forty - Seven Criminal Cases j For Trial In Superior Court Three Defendants Booked To Go On Trial For Murder —»— First of Two-Week Term Is Set Aside For Trial Of Criminal Cases Literally crowded with cases a serious nature, one of the larg est criminal dockets prepared in several years will he placed be t l 1 f 7 1 * n 5 a c cl h K n k r t. V' K P ri ! fore the Martin County Superior Court next Monday morning at 10:00 o’clock when Judge Henry Stevens of Warsaw opens a two week term for the trial of actions both criminal and civil. The first week of the term has been re served in its entirety for the trial of the forty-seven criminal eases, including three first-de gree murder cases, attomptec rape, forgery and on down thi scale of law violations. Solicitor George Fountain o] Tarboro is to prosecute the dock et, but in several cases privati prosecutors will assist him. Although an entire week ha: been set aside for handling tin criminal docket, it is possible tha all the cases cannot be cleared There are a dozen drunken driv ing cases on the docket, and tin greater part of a day, if not more has been spent trying one of then at a previous term. It is likel; that peas will be accepted in tie cases charging three defendant with capital crimes, meaning tha too much may not be required t clear them from the calendar. Thirty-four cases are on nex Monday’s calendar. Most of thor were placed there for grand jur action at that time, but it is fail ly certain that many of ther will not be actually called f< trial until later in the week. The docket carries the followin cases: Lee Bonner is charged with th baseball bat slaying of Osborn Williams in or near Everetts o August 10. Dallas Lee James, Jr , 17-yeai old boy, is charged with the fat; shooting of Grover Peel near Da dens on August 19. James Henry Williams, allcj ed professional knife wielder, booked for the fatal stabbing < his wife Harriot Mac William at their home in Williamston i August 26. All three defendan were denied bond. The case in which Prince Lynt is charged with attempted rat possibly has the most pitiful an pathetic backgrounds of any i the entire criminal docket. He charged with molesting an eigh year-old child, Diann Hawkin while the child’s mother ignon her pleas for help at their hon in Williamston on August II. Oi ly when the father returned hon late the next day did the litt victim receive any attention. R ports maintain that the child h; been beaten at least twice sim the Lynch attack because si pleaded for help and told In story. Lynch continues in ja without privilege of bond. James Larry Evans is char; ed with the larceny of Sl.U from James and Alice Wiggin aged couple, near Hamilton < August 29. it now developes til. the Wiggins couple were on tl county relief roll Charged with violating the 1 quor laws, Anna Woolard appea ed from a county court judgmci and then failed to appear for fri last June in superior court, Matthew Gurganus, violatin the liquor laws. (Continued on page six) luteal Scoulx 1‘lonninfi I hi vc For Scrap Fa pc -9 The local boy scouts will cor rluct a city-wide drive for sera paper on Saturday, September 2! it was announced today. The people of Williamston ar being asked to help support th drive by collecting all their sera papers and magazines, bundlin them and placing the bundles o their front porches on the a: signed day when scouts will ear vass the town and collect the pi per. Salt Water Fish Invading The Roanoke River Waters Fish, generally confined to salt waters, are invading the Roanoke River, Bridge Keeper Hugh Spru ill said yesterday. Quite a few harshell crabs have been taken in nets at this point, and they j have b-'en traced at least as far as a point between here and Ham ilton, Mr Spruill said. The crabs are comparatively small, but at least one fisherman has taken them in sufficient quantity to make a "mess”. Crabs have come up as far as Jamesville on previous occasions, but Mr Spruill says this is the first time he has ever seen them ! here. Low water in the Roanoke, re sulting from a long, dry spell in the river basin and possibly caus ed m part by the Buggs Island Native Oi County Dies Suddenly At His Durham Home -+ ■ Funeral Coniliiclnl Ycslcr •lay Afternoon Then* for 1 Ben K. Barnhill t i t 1 it i e e n Benjamin Raleigh Barnhill, a native of this county and a prom inent business man in Durharr for nearly a quarter of a century died suddenly at his home then Tuesday morning at 8:45 o'clock of a heart attack suffered a shot" time earlier. He had suffered witl a heart condition for almost twi years, but hi- was thought to b< getting along as well as usual un til he was stricken at his home He had visited here less than twi weeks ago, and enjoyed meetup and talking with old friends am acqu aintanees He was born in Poplar Poin Township 65 years ago, the soi il is >f n IS ! h iC d n is i H S;| U ,c l e c is c il 0 j s, n ■ t c i it il of the late .1 E. and Roxy Lan Barnhill. After spending hi early life on the farm, he locate in Williamston and engaged i: the garage business, operating th Ford agency for a number o years. More than twenty year ago he located in Durham wher he established and operated th B. and W Tire Company wit a branch in Williamston. He wa active in various civic affair here and in his adopted eommuni ty, and was well known through out this section. In early manhood he was mat ried to Miss Susan Taylor of Wil liamston. Surviving besides hi widow are five daughters, Mr: Horace Waters, Mrs. Rayrnon Mitchell, Mrs Harris Davis an Misses Frances and Carolyn Barr hill, all of Durham; three sons, . Eli Barnhill of Greensboro, lb mer Barnhill of Williamston an B. R Barnhill, Jr , of Durhan a sister, Miss Ruby Barnhill i Cherry Point; four brothers, . D. Barnhill of Durham, Fabia Barnhill of Everetts, Kadcr Barn hill r; Florida ami 4Parry Barr lull of Plymouth, and ten grant children. Funeral services were condue' cd in the Hall Wayne Funer. Chapel in Durham yesterday al tcriionn at 4.00 o'clock by th Rev. J Marshall Walker and th Rev. Leon Couch Interment wa in Maplewood Cemetery, Dui ham I County Firm 7tt Spontntr - Foot Inil I Canto It nan lea* <# — Sponsored by the Planter Warehouse, Roberson vi S If, th State-Catawba football name wil be broadcast over station WCKC - Rocky Mount, Saturday afternoor p This is the first football gam !, of state importance broadcast un der the sponsorship of a Martii e County firm. e Messrs Andy Anderson am p Herbert Highsmith, proprietors o y the Roberson vide warehouse n firm are extending a cordial we! - come to the people of easterr - Carolina to listen in Saturda' • afternoon for what promises to bi a good football game. dam, lias invited the salt water marine life into the foreign ter ritory. Mr. Spruill said that the river a few days ago reaehed a record low of right at three feet for the third time in the twenty years he had been keeper of the bridge. The water is holding to such a low point that, the tide backs it up stream, causing a va riation of as much as six or eight inches in its depth. Tuesday night, the river was running in reverse and was just about on a standstill yesterday morning, . Rafts of logs .ordinarily float ing down tiie stream at three or four miles an hour, were being pulled by a tug boat yesterday at a rate of hardly more than one mile an hour. TO SPEAK HERE ' Following repeated invitations, : It. N. Simms, Sr , prominent Bap I tist layman and leader of Raleigh, will speak in the Baptist Church * here Sunday evening at 8:0C 1 o'clock, using for his subject ' "Christians Do Not Die." s The address was first delivered 1 by Mr Simms in Raleigh five 1 years ago. Since that time, there ' have been three printings of the f address in booklet form of sev s eral thousand copies each. The I public here and throughout the ' , section is cordially invited to heai i j Mr Simms when he delivers the s j talk in person here Sunday eve s I rung. Truck Wrecked On River Fill r| A truck, can s ing several hun -j | cl red bushels of sweet potatoes . , went out of control and erashec [ : into the guard rail on this enc .jot the rivet till early yesterdaj j mottling, injuring no one bui . causing considerable damage tt I the machine and the rail. F. L. Boatwi iglit of 2.r> W Liber' ,'Street, Savannah, was speeding north in the potato truck belong ing to L 11 Fox of Charleston S. C., and could not make tin cure just thi; side ot the rivet bridge. He tore into the guarr , j rail, hut the machine did not tun over or go over the side of lilt ’ ! fill. ’ The truck wtts moving frorr | Fasti i it Shore with the potatoei ‘Jfor South Carolina markets. Power Failure ' Monday Evening Power and light service was in I terrupted here an hour and font , minutes last Monday evening when fire hurtled the 110,000 ■ transmission line in two just north of Whitakers. i Service was restored at 7:01! o’clock when a connection was cf I letted with the Carolina Power r anti Light Company’s system. The Virginia Electric and Pow er Company’s proposed 110,000 i volt line through here will form ■ a circuit which, it is expected, : will eliminate service interi up turns. Plans Go Forward For Huge Annual Harvest Festival -* Kvcnt I’rnniisps To Be The Biggest Kver Held In This Section -9 The time of Williamston's Fourth Annual Harvest Festival is drawing nearer anu nearer, and as one local citizen expressed it the other day, “I can almost hear the bands and see the floats com ing up Mam Street” He was re ferring to the Harvest Festival Parade which will take place at 2 00 PM. Wednesday afternoon, October 11 This year's parade will be even larger than the tremen dous one held last year when ten bands entered the event. Seven hands have accepted the invita , tion to appear this year and they include: Edenton; J. J. Clem mons High School, Roper; Scot land Neck; Tarboro; Williamston White, 'A ill,am.-, toil Colored and the Marine Band from Cherry Point Marine Base. Bands that have been sent invitations and expected to accept are: Ahoskie, Elizabeth City, Greenville, Ply mouth, Washington, and a band from either Fort Bragg or Pope Field. With the exception of the Army and Marine Bands, all the bands listed above are from the high schools at the places listed. Upwards of 25,000 people are an ticipated to view the parade. Last year's popular Marine equipment display will be replac ed with a similar display by thu Army and Air Force and it is ex pected that this will be set up on the lawn of Mrs. A. R. Dunning's residence Along the Army line, the National Guard unit of Wind* sor is planning to participate in the parade on Wednesday after noon “Royalty" is expected to be much in evidence during the Fes tival, with sixteen “Princesses” having to participate in the pa rade and at the Annual Harvest Ball to be held in the Planters Warehouse on the evening of Oc tober 3. These Princesses will come from the communities sur rounding Williamston and among those who have accepted, the name of only one has been re leased: Miss Mary Lou Voirol, who will be Princess Plymouth and represent Plymouth High School. Miss Voilro! is a member of the senior class at that school. Other schools planning to send Princesses are: Edenton, Farm Life .Scotland Nnk and WilliaifiS ton. Schools that have been ex tended invitations to send Fmi cesses but who have not yet ac cepted are. Ahoskie, Bear Grass, Bethel, Elizabeth City, Green ville Jamesville, Oak City, Tar boro, Robersonville, Washington in (I Windsor From these, the Queen of the Harvest, 1951, will be crowned at the Harvest Ball. It is expected that the reigning Queen of last year, Miss Jean Carol Griffin of Farm Life, will be present to relinquish her crown to the New Queen, but it is not yet certain she can appear is she is entering college at "treensboro and college rcgula ;ions may prevent her participa tion. Much free entertainment will be available to the general public in addition to the .• ' i;'. parade. >n Tucm.1" evening, October 2, (Continued on page six) Tin; KECOKI) SPEAKS . . . Following seven costly weeks, motorists on Martin County highways and streets enjoyed a breathing spell last week, members of the State Highway Patrol reporting only two accidents, both of which were of a minor na ture. 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. 3tith Week Accidents Inj'd Killed tlau'go 1951 2 0 0 $ 150 ] 1950 4 9 0 725 Comparii otu To Date 1951 165 73 5 $37,945 1950 100 45 2 21,990