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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTT FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTT FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LIV—NUMBER 88 f Williams ton, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, November /, 1951 ESTABLISHED 1899 Vote Saturday For Farm Research Plan Large Vote Urged By Farm Leaders Throughout State -- Marlin Comity Farmers are Similarly In Favor Of The Program Marlin County farmers along With those throughout the State Will go to special polling places on Saturday in support of a plan to supplement agricultural re search work, preliminary reports reaching here from all over the county indicating that farmers will strong favor the program. It is proposed to levy five cents a ton of fertilizer and feeds to raise money for suport of an ex tensive farm research program. The amount to the individual is quite small, but the total will en able a far more effective research work in disease and insect con trol and advance agriculture in many other ways. Martin farm leaders are lead ing the way in the program, and they are appealing to all others eligible to vote to do so. Members of the Martin County Production and Marketing Ad ministration will hold the pollls open without charge from 6:30 m. to 6:30 p. m., Saturday, No vember 3, as follows: Bear Grass: Terry’s Store, E. C Harrison, H. U Peel and H G Harrison, poll holders. Cross Roads: Geo. Taylor’s Service Station, G. H. Forbes, Geo. W. Taylor and J. F. Bailey, poll holders. Goose Nest No. 1 and No. i: J. H Ayers’ Store, J L. Mi/.elle, Jasper Whitfield, Sidney Mallory, Jack Smith, Minton Beach, Jr., and 11. II Worsley .poll holders. Griffins: Manning's store (Pin t\y Grove), S. E Manning, D. C Gurkin and Lester J. Griffin, poll holders. Hamilton: Regular voting place, j W. E. Purvis, J. H. Lillard and, Roy Beach, poll holders. Jamesville No. 1 and No. 2:! Town House, A. L. Modlin, Ho-j ward Hardison, A. W. Lilley, Me L Ange, R G Coburn and Sher wood Davis, pol holders. Poplar Point-Williamston: Ag-1 liculture Building, V U. Bunting, Fisher Harris and John W. Gur wood Davis, poll holders. Robersonville No. 1 and No. 2: 11 and S Motor Company, J. R Daniel, L. L. Everett, Sam Jen kins, C. L. Keel, Cecil B Powell and J. D. Britton, poll holders. Williams: County House, R. J. Hardison, Paul Harrington and Joe L. Coltrain, poll holders. R, Flake Shaw, of Greensboro, Executive Vice-President of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, sent out an SOS today to the more than 74,000 Farm Bureau families throughout the State to "leave no stone untur led in get ting out the largest rural vote i ver cast on the November 3 Nickels For Know-How Referen dum.” Shaw said that he is calling on (Continued on page eight i Youth Struck By Car Last Evening Robert Ear! Bland, 12-year-old s<-n :{ Mr. and Mrs. John Robert Bland, wa spainfully but believed p.>t seriously hurt, when he was struck-'by a car in West End early last evening. He was removed to Brown’s Community Hospital where an examination revealed a head concussion but no broken bones. Bland and four other young sters, wearing Hklloween masks, were playing near the Ellis Giay Keel home in the dirt road lead ing off Highway 64 at West End when he was struck LeRoy Leg gett, young man of RFD 2, Wil liamston, drove his car off High way 64 toward Skewarkey when he hit the boy, witnesses declar ing that the others in the road barely escaped. Leggett slowed his car down just before it struck the lad. according to Patrolman R. P. Narron who made the in vestigation. | MOKE KNOCKS ] A top government oil ex pert warns motorists to ex pect less zip and more knocks in gasolina. C. E. Davis, direct of the refining division of the Pe troleum administration for Defense, said that lead avail able for production of tetrae thyl lead has been declining recently, in dicating trouble for motorists. Tetraethyl lead is the chemical that puts pow in gasoline. “It would be timely to ad \ise all of your friends to get ready to clean up their en gines, retard the spark set ting, and prepare for knock on the hills,” Mr. Davis said. Twenty-one Cases Heard In County Court On Monday -- Johnson I in Fiiu'h in Aiiioiint of $795 In Short Session During a session lasting hardly three hours. Judge R. T. Johnson handled twenty-one cases and im posed fines in the amount of $795 in the Martin County Recorder’s Court Monday. Few spectators heard the proceedings which were olimaxed by a young man who threatened to "get even” with an officer if it look him twenty years. Proceedings: Pleading guilty of violating the liquor laws, King Evans was fin ed $10 and taxed with the costs. Charged with operating a mo tor vehicle while Ins driver’s li cense was revoked, Levia H. Roe buck pleaded guilty and was fin ed $200, plus costs. Burt Gorham was fined $25 and taxed with the costs for operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license. Pleading guilty, of operating a meat market without a permit, J T Laughmghnuse was fined $15, plus: costs. Adjudged guilty of speeding, James Elmer Godard was taxed with tile costs. He appealed to the higher courts. It was during the time that he was detained on the speeding charge that the defendant allegedly resisted ar rest. When faced with that charge, he pleaded not guilty. Adjudged guilty, he was sentenced to the roads for rune months, the court suspending the road term upon the payment of a $350 fine and costs, and on further condition that tin defendant remain of good behav ior for five years. He appealed and bond was required in the sum of $500 It was during his trial that the defendant declared he would “get even” with the arresting officer if it took him twenty years. Charged wuth speeding, Tom C. Hoggard, Jr., of Windsor, Willie Ray Evans of Greenville and Louis Andrews of Greensboro were each taxed with the costs. Pleading not guilty, W. Hoi ace GvIPam was found guilty <>f reck less driving and was fined $35, i plus costs. Randolph Brrvn, pleading in nocent, was found guilty ni an assault and larceny He was sen tenced to the roads 1 >r ninety day.-;, the court suspending judg ment upon the condition tnat.jhe defendant return a coat to the prosecuting witness and remain of good behavior for a year. Johnnie Brown, pleading guilty of drunken driving was fined $100, taxed with the cost and lost his driver’s license for a year. Pleading guilty of operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license, Geo. Purvis was fined $25, plus costs. Charged with violating the health laws, Hallie Andrews, Jr., pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the roads for six months. Arthur, Robert and J. T. Ed mondson pleaded guilty of violat ing the hunting laws, and each was fined $5 plus costs. It was pointed out in court that the de (Continued from page one) Funeral For Hero 01 Korean War In Evereils Sunday I’vl. Harry Paul Roberson To Be Buried Willi Hon ors Here Sunday Funeral services for '.’pi Marry Paul Roberson, hero of tire Ko rean War, will be held in the Everetts Christian Church Sun day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock by the Rev. J. M. Perry, pastor of the Robersonville Christian Church, and the Rev. E. R, Ste wart, pastor of the Hamilton and Everetts Baptist Churches, will conduct the sbrvice. A firing squad from Fort Bragg will be in charge of the military rites at tlie graveside in Woodlawn Cem etery here, and members of the John W. Hassell Post of the American Legion are to serve as pall bearers. Cpl. Roberson's body is to reach here early tomorrow morning and will remain at the Biggs Funeral Home until 3:00 p. m. Saturday when it will be carried to his late home in Everetts. The body will be moved to the church one hour before the service Sunday after noon. The Bronze Star Medal, offered for heroic achievement will be presented posthumously during the graveside rites. Cpl. Roberson was born in Eve retts on October 30, 1928, the son of Arthur R. and Lillian Wynne Roberson. He attended the schools in Eveietts and Roberson ville, and volunteered for ser vice in the U. S. Coast Guard about High school graduation time. After serving in Alaska and other stations for fifteen months, he returned home and studied for about one year in a Raleigh bus iness school. Completing his work there in 1949, he was employed by White's Sheet and Metal Works in Williamston and later by to bacco firms in Robersonville and Greenville. On May 3, 1950 he volunteered for service in the army, and after receiving his basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, he was flown to Japan on Septembei 17. A short time later he was in the Korean conflict and had been in action hardly more than five minutes before he was wounded in the hip. Recovered, he return ed to action and was wounded a second time in January. He was soon back in action and on last February 14 he was fatally wounded, dying in a hospital four days later on February 18. Surviving are his parents; a brother, Mack Alden Roberson, of Everetts, and two sisters, Mrs. Lawrence Coltrain of Everetts and Miss Jackie Frances Rober son of Miami. Cpl. Roberson, a promising young man and held in very high esteem by all who knew him, is the first Everetts young man to sacrifice l$is life in war during the current century, at least. Plan Art Exhibit In Woman's Club —<s>— A splendid opportunity for art education is afforded in the ex hibit of Fine Art Prints which will be on display Tuesday and Wednesday, November 6th and 7th, at the Womans Club. The collection consists of 150 master pieces of the most famous old and modern painters. The reproduc tions are of the finest type pro duced, snowing the original co or as well as brush strokes of the original canvases These pictures are being loan ed for the purpose of raising a fund with which to purchase pic tures for the school. Individuals and clubs may also place orders for these prints at this time and they may be bought in various sizes, framed, or un framed. This exhibit may be seen at 9:00 — 12:00 A. M , 1:00 — 3:00 P. M. fir 8:00 — 9:00 P. M. ' Accident Victim Moved To Veterans’ Hos/tilal Suffering a broken neck in a fall down a second-story stairway last Saturday night, John Mat thew Williams, local colored man, was removed yesterday to a vet erans hospital at Kecoughtan, Vir ginia. His condition was said to be critical. Local Tobacco Market To Close Season November 7 The Williamston tobacco mar ket will lower the curtain on its 1951 operations next Wednesday, November 7, it w^f?announced by the Board of Trade yesterday. Al ready the market has broken all previous records in the number of pounds sold and the amount of money paid the growers. Next Wednesday was fixed as the closing date when a survey revealed that just about all the tobacco in this area had been marketed. The market operators were assured by those few farm ers with tobacco still on hand that they could have it ready for mar ket on or before next Wednesday. Sales have been declining rather rapidly since Monday of 'nst week, and reached a ne w low for the season yesterday when only \v ore marketed The delivery of inferior grades and scrap in some cases has caus ed drop in the daily averages, but grade for grade, prices continue to hold firm. The sales yester day averaged $53.03. Through yesterday, the market here had sold 12,249,798 pounds for an average of $55.28 per hun dred pounds. Sales today are un usually light and there is little likelihood that the total will ex ceed the twelve and one-half mil lion mark by the time the market closes next Wednesday. ASSIGNED I s—-</ .1 inter W. H. S. Burgwyn of Woodland has been assign ed to preside over the two week special term of the Mar tin County Superior Court op ening here on Monday, No vember 19, it was announc ed today by Clerk ol Court L. B. Wynne. The assignment was made by Chief Justice W. A. Devin of the North Carolina Su preme Court. ( A. J. Hoard Dies Yesterday At His Home In West End _—*> Fmi'-ral Will Hr (IoiuIih-IimI Friday Afternoon At Home Of Daughter —<* Anarew Jackson Hoard, retired commercial fisherman and farm er, died at the home of his daugh ter, Mrs. William Durkin, in West End yesterday morning at 11:30 o’clock. He had been in declining health following a stroke suffer ed while fishing last April. He had partially recovered from that attack and was getting along very well until last Saturday when he suffered another stroke. His con dition had been critical since that time. The son of the late Wiley Jack son Hoard and Sarah Anne Gur ganus Hoard, he was born in this community fill years ago on Jan uary 23, 1883, and lived in andj near Williamston all his life. Fol lowing the death of his last wile, I he made his home most of the time with a daughter, Mrs. Sam uel Clark, in Cross Roads, moving about two weeks ago to make his home with his daughter in West! End. He was married three times, | first to Maggie Harris, then to Anne Williams and following her, death to Laura Williams. Surviv- j ing are a daughter, Mrs. Lloyd ' Lane of New Bern by his second marriage, and by his third mar- J riage, two daughters, Mrs. Gurkin , and Mis. Samuel Clark of RED, Robersonville; one son, S/Sgt.l Andrew C. Hoard of Eglin Field, Fla.; two step-sons and six grand children; three sisters, Mrs. Ruth Wells of Tarboro, Mrs. J. E. Ham mond of Bethel, Mrs, A. J. Sum merlin of Williamston; and four brothers, Samuel F. Hoard of Nor folk, N C Hoard of Pm t: mouth, arid C. E. and J H. Hoard of ’fat hom. Funeral services will be con UucU.il at his daughter’s home in West End Friday afternoon at | 3.30 o'clock and interment will be I m Woodlawn Cemetery. i Mother Oi Local Resident Passes Funeral services were conduct ed in the Mount Zion Presbyterian Church, Rose Mill, yesterday af ternoon at 3:00 o’clock for Mrs. Vida Savage Fussell, Of), who died at her home there Tuesday morn ing at 7:00 o’clock. The pastor, the Rev. Wade H. Allison, assist ed by the Rev. James E. Rogers, conducted the rites, and burial was in the Fussell cemetery near Rose Hill. Surviving are her husband, A O. Fussell; a son, F L: Fussell of Williamston, and a daughter, Mrs. L. J Matthews of Winston-Salem. Former Resident Died In Kinston Tuesday Morning —•— Funeral Held At Home There Yesterday for < lar rncr A. Jeffreys Clarence Albert Jeffress, form er resident and prominent busi ness man in this section of North Carolina, died at Ins home in Kin ston Tuesday mormon at 2:45 o’clock. Suffering with a heart condition, he had been in declin ing health for about three months. A native of Chase City, Vir ginia, he came to North Carolina and entered the tobacco business about the turn of the century. As a representative of the Imperial Tobacco Company, he was on the Tarboro market for a while be fore locating in Williamston in 1903. He was married to Miss Ida Hassell here in 1904, and five years later located in Kinston where he became manager of the Imperial Company’s office and operations, a position he held un til his retirement two years ago. He was also prominent in the af fairs of the town there and active in religious work. During his stay in Williamston he planned a building and operat ed a drug store in the building now occupied by the Firestone store, selling the business two years later to Charlie Chase. Mrs. Jeffress died in Novem ber, 1935, and Ins second marriage was to Til la Gill. Surviving are Ins widow; live sons by his first marriage, Clarence A. Jeffress, Jr., A II. (Bontsy) Jeffress, John L. Jeffress and Fleming Jeffress of Kinston and Thomas D. (Tim bo) Jeffress of Rocky Mount; two daughters, Mrs. Della Edwards and Mrs. Cecil Wooten, Jr., of Kinston. Funeral services were conduct ed at tin- home yesterday after noon at 3:30 o'clock by the Rev. Edwin F. Moseley, rector of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, and the Rev. Mark Lawrence, pastor of the Queen Street Methodist church. Interment was in Maple wood Cemetery, Kinston. Mr. John L. Hassell, a brother in-law, and Mesdames Jim Sta ton and Bill Glover attended the funeral. Dairy Specialist Speaks to Rotary Dr Rcdfearr', S* .!«<• Extension dairy specialist, declaim in an address to the local Hotary elub Tuesday noon that, this section held great promise as a dairy land. Spending a few days here in the plant of Tayloi s Dairy, tlu specialist said that a milk co operative in the western part of this State has 3,300 farrnei mem bers who are selling approximate ly 100,000 gallons of milk a day. It was his opinion that there is a fairly definite interest in ex tending dairying into this part of the State. The specialist is as sisting the local plant in a mod ernization program. Mr II. P. Kloeti, renresenta tivc of the General Electric Com pany with headquarters here, was accepted as a new member of the club at its meeting held in the Methodist Ciiureh annex last Tuesday noon Mr, A. L. Jameson, corning here recently as VEPCO manager in this district, was also received as a new member of the elub a short time ago. Water And Sewer Program Cost Ran Up To $203,070.60 —*— Three 11ivfflTTTO ThcHisuiul t.allnn Water lank (lost Was $52,701.51 Williamston's recently eomplct- 1 cd improvement program—iho in stallation of a 300,000-gallon ca pacity water tank and several miles of sewer lines -cost $203. 070.00. The town actually paid out $201,913.95 since it earned $1, 156.65 in interest on money in vested while work on the project was under way, The cost of the water tank it self was $49,350, but the cost of the foundation $3,351.51—boost ed the total to $52,701.51. The 59,293.4 feet or just about eleven and one-quarter miles of added sewer lines cost $135,816.66, the amount including the cost of the construction of 195 manholes and thirty-eight wyes. The engi neer's fees amounted to $11,311.06, and other items added $3,241.37 to the total. Effecting a final settlement with thi' contractor, Clark Construc tion Company, a few days ago, the town officials released the fol lowing review of the sewer line project: Eight-inch terra cotta: 38,326 feet laid at a depth ranging from a few inches to six feet at $1.37 per foot, $52,506.62; 2,784 feet laid from six to eight feet in depth at $1.90 per foot, $5,289.60; 148 feet laid from eight to ten feet in depth at $2.3C per foot, $347.80; 12 feet laid from 10 to 12 feet in depth at $2.90 per foot, $34.80. Ten-inch terra cotta pipe: 1,641 feet laid in depth from a few inches to six feet at $1.55 per foot, $2,543.55; 1,184 feet laid from six to eight feet in depth at $2.08 per foot, $2,462.72; and 442 feet laid from eight to ten feet in depth at $2.61 per foot, $1,153.62. Fifteen-inch terra cotta pipe: 10,508.4 feet laid from a few inches to a depth of four feet at $3.25 per foot, $34,152.30; 1,605 feet laifl from six to eight feet in depth at $3.45 per foot, $5,537.25; 315 feet laid from six to eight feet at $3.75 per foot, $1,181.25; and sixty feet laid from eight to ten feet in depth at $4 per foot, $2411. Eighteen-inch terra cotta pipe: 1,215 feet laid from a few inches to a depth of four feet at $4.25 pet foot, $5,163.75; 350 feet laid from four to six feet in depth at $4.50 per foot, $1,575.00; and 188 feet laid from six to eight feet in depth at $5 a foot, $940. The 440 feet of 18-inch iron pipe was laid at a cost of $6.15 per foot or $2,706.00. To tunnel under the railroad on West Main Street cost $37 a foot for the 42 inch iron pipe or $2,775.00. The 38 wyes cost $2.30 each oi $87.40. Manholes: 118 four feet and less in depth. $85 each or $10,030; 71 manholes, ranging in depth from four to six feet, $90 each oi $6,390.; five, ranging in depth (Continued on Page Eight) County Teachers Get NA Degrees Dr. F. II Hagermeyei s, Regis trar of Teachers College of Co lumbia University in New York tin County Colored teachers that they had completed all require merits for the Mastet of Art Itc gree. These teachers are Geo. TV Hvnwn Principal of the Snlsbury School, Hassell; N. W. Slade, Prin icipal of the Robot sonv iHe Colored School, Daisy Chance Feggms, and Minnie Taylor Howell, both teach ers in the Robersonville Colored School. This degree will be officially conferred on Dec. 19, 1951. Gradu ation exercises will be held in June 1952. Shirt donut ruction Idorl% (hi I\mv llomi‘ This II cck -•-— Construction was started this week on a new home for Mr. and Mrs. 'Bruce Roebuck on Simmons Avenue and North Biggs Street near the Joe Peeles. Construction on work is near ing completion on a number of new homes at the present time, but there are plans for very few homes lust now. Make Plans To Open Peanut Market Here f- ' s I COUNTY BOARD I Mooting in rogular session next Monday, tho Martin County commissionors will have very little now business on their calendar. Clerk J. S, Ciotsingor said today. A jury is to be drawn lor the December term of court and routine business will keep tho group in session until noon. Scheduled to appear before tho board, llobt. R. Nelson. Robersonville man, advised the clerk this week that he would not bo able to attend, explaining that he would be in Virginia in tho interest of having II. S. Highway 13 ex tended through this section south. Killing Result 01 Drunken Brawl In House 01 111 Fame (laslaimia Snlloii DciihmI Itoml In Sli('|i|tanl Murder (lane —. Till' murder of Alton Lee Shep pard, young colored man, climax ed a drunken brawl in the home of Castannia Sutton near I’armele early last Sunday morning, ae- j cording to conflicting evidence of fered at a preliminary hearing held before Justice Chas K Mob ley m the courthouse here last night. The Sutton woman, the com mon law' wife of the victim ac cording to testimony offered at the hearing, allegedly stabbed Sheppard with an ice pick and Justice Mobley ordered her held without bond for trial at the De cember term of the Martin Coun ty Superior Court in December Defense counsel stated that ha beas corpus proceedings would be instituted as soon as possible to support a claim to bond. Three witnesses were called by the State and the evidence offer ed by tw'o of them was brazenly contradictory. One of the wit nesses admitted he was so drurtk lie hardly knew what was hap polling. A second one was either drinking and did not know what I happened or his memory was too short for him to offer any on lightening testimony The third witness said she was asleep, saw' nothing and heard nothing until she heard a noise just before the woman drove the pick into Shop pa! d s chest. Gus Andrews, the first witness, said he was passing the Sutton home and decided to drop in for a while, that he was with Justus Andrews in the kitchen when the Sutton woman came in Sheppard followed closely behind hei and he assaulted her in the kitchen He first said that the woman came in with her husband, but changed his story. The witness said he tried to part them in the kitchen, that Sheppard threw him to the floor and the woman went to her room. He said Sheppard followed her there and closed the door, and he saw nothing more He added that he hcaiJ hoi < all for help, hut he could not get to her because the door was latched Justus Andrews said he was m the kitchen playing his box (Quit ar) when Castannia and Sheppard came in He maintained there was no light in tie kitchen, that Sheppard was mad and that she went to her bedroom with Shep pard following closely behind her He quoted Castannia as saying, "Stop slapping me in the face,” but he said he did not hear her call for help According to Justus testimony, the door to the bedroom was not closed, the witness saying that he saw Sheppard slap the woman. After explaining that he did not hear the women call for help, Justus Andrews declared that he wasn’t m physical condition to help anybody, that he was think ing about his own welfare. Altei seeing Sheppard slap the woman, Andrews said he went to the front porch and played his box, (Continued on Page Eight) Government Will Have Warehouse Open This Fall Fi*«l«*ral (>ra«liii(£ Service To Have (Iradrrs Vvailable On Tlir Markets Plans arc just, about complete for opening the peanut market here, an official report stating that some buyers are ready to go on the market now but only if the peanuts offered for sale are in good condition. As far as it could be learned this morning, no peanuts have moved at this point from the cur rent crop, and little interest is be ing shown in the crop Observ ers have pointed out that the sea son now on the eve of opening is certain to be an interesting and at the same time a confusing one. farmers who market their pea- . nuts in good condition, that is, with no more than ten percent moisture content and limited damage and foreign material, can expect a price within the 11 to-13 cent range A few tire likely to go for less than eleven cents and possibly a few will sell slightly above thirteen cents. That the market will be ''tight'’ is admitted by all connected with the business. It is predicted that the open market will hold almost strictly to support prices, not in the fields or on the farms but at delivery points. It has been cus tomary during a number of years for the buyers to haul their pur chases from the pickers in the field or farm storage. If the buy ers haul then purchases this year it will be based on a charge of about 15 cents a bag, according to one report. The federal grading service re cently established field headquar ters here for the assignment of graders to the various markets. Approximated forty graders are now available, and others will be brought in from South Carolina, Georgia and other southern states. Warned that no peanuts will be accepted with a moisture content above ten percent, farmers in this county are slow to start picking operations. A few started ten days or even two weeks' ago, hut they stopped their operations when it was found the moisture content was running too high. In cidentally, the yield was running about 22 bags per acre in the up per part of the county where the first pickings were reported. Quite a few pickers were in oper ation in various parts of the coun ty before rain started falling to (Continucd on Page Eight) Halloween Event Proves A Success —<*>— The annual Hallowe'en Festival staged by the Williamston Wo man’s Club at the Planter’s Ware house here last night was a suc cess, apparently from every angle Over 700 paid admissions were reported at the door and all the concessions and shows came up with a neat profit. Total receipt, were not avail able at press tune but it appeared eei tain the event would net sev eral hundiv 1 dollars. One of the most popular attractions was a minstrel type show staged with the help of Blue Manning and his crew and Jimmie Page and IBs Musical Knightmares. In a small corner of the huge warehouse, the show was attended by hundreds and ranked close to the top in its contribution to the cause. Winners in the costume, contest and parade were Judy Kay Bul luck, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Bulluek, and l)i Anna Cowan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ruppert Cowan Little Miss Judy Kay was presented to the audi ence as winner in the boys’ cos tume and was allowed to keep her prize after it was found the winner was a girl. Miss Cowan won the girls' costume prize. Successful parties were also re porter! at Farm Life and Robcr sonville although no details were available early today.