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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTY FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE “nriniy, IfTnfii Corvitna? Vjlfvihbvr Si>; i"v->3 the enterprise is read by OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT'S FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK Superior Court Held Final Session Friday ■ , •/ Jury Gave $7,500 % H. D. Taylor 0m $25,000 Case 03,(KM) Iii /iKlginents Re ronlcil In Caw Against Wilber Cannon -<*> Before quitting for the term late last Friday, the Martin Coun ♦v Superior Court recorded sever al sizable if inadequate judgments in damage suits, and handled quite a few other cases. Judge W. I. Halstead of South Mills presided over the second of the two-week term, following Judge Clawson L. Williams of Sanford who presided the first week when the criminal cases were before the court. Long trials featured the work of the court during last week. M®re than one case required all if not the greater part of a long day. In the case of H. D. Taylor against J. S. Whitley, a jury was chosen late Thursday and evi dence was completed before the noon recess Friday. Most of that afternoon was devoted to hearing the arguments and the judge's charge which lasted for an hour and twenty minutes. The jury, de aerating about forty-five min utes, returned a $7,500 verdict in favor of Taylor. Permanetly in jured in a fall in the defendant's apartment house in Williamston' nearly two years ago, Taylor ask ed for $25,000 damages, alleging that a loose metal strip on the stair caused him to fall. He suf fered a broken hip and spent months in hospitals and in bed srt Miilrie and* Hrflftw able tft "get ' around only by limping. It was j reported that an insurance com pany offered to settle the action | with an offer of $1,000 The de fense gave notice of appeal to the j State Supreme Court and was al lowed (iO days to perfect the ap peal. Mary Wiggins, who was badly injured in an automobile accident | near Williamston on the McCas kev Road last March 7, received ' $2,000 in settlement of her $5,000 | cl^im against Wilber Cannon ! ' James Wiggins in his case against Cannon and which grew out of' the same accident, was awarded : ( $400 property damages in his suit j to recover $450. The first plain- j tiff was permanently injured. The' actions were settled by agree- j ment. A non-suit w'as ordered in the , divorce case brought by Pesse Lee 1 Daniel against Magnolia Daniel | when the plaintiff failed to ap-1 P4fn in court. A judgment entered in the re cords earlier in the week and by default, was set aside when the plaintiff, Romulous Peel, declar ed that the action took him by surprise. The defendant in the case, filling a counter claim, was given a judgment in the sum of $329. The case is set for trial at the November term. (Continued on Page Eight) Two In Court On Perjury Charges Mary S. Wilkins of 805 Wash ington Street and Sarah Bryant, 813 W'cst Main Street, were tried in Justice Cha.s. R Mobley’s court here a few days ago for alleged ly attempting to evade the em ployment securto Jaw. \#iile filing ^piiVis for employ ment eompeiwwfQfl benefits at the ed to report ttoelr‘whole earnings, ed to report their hole earnings. They were found guilty in the judgment of the court. Both were given 30 days jail sentence, sus pended upon the repayment to the Commission of $4.50 by the former and $84.00 by the latter and the costs of the actions. There are further penalties at tending such convictions. Not on- j f* is the claimant ineligible to re ceive any further benefits during the remaining of the benefit year, but all payments received after the week of the commission of the fraud are required to be repaid before any further benefits can ever be received ill the future. 5 ROUND-UP 1 v---/ Ten persons found their j way into the county jail at the insistence of law enforce ment officers last week-end. Six were booked for public drunkenness, and one each for drunken driving, driving a motor vehicle while his op erator's license was revoked, operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license and trespassing. Nine of the ten were color ed. the list including one wo man. Ages of the group rang ed from 21 to 53 years. Wm. Bowers Died Ai His Home Near Hamilton Monday • - 4? Funeral In ('linreli At Ham ilion For Retired Farm er Wednesday William (Billy) Bowers, retired farmer and highly respected citi-1 zcn, died at his home near Hamil- , ton Monday afternoon at 1:20 | o’clock. He had been in declining i health for eight years but eon- j tinued faithfully at his tasks until four years ago when he was forc i ed to retire. His condition had , been critical following a stroke of paralysis suffered September ti. He failed to respond to hos j pital treatment, and his condition gradually worsened. He was born in Goose Nest Township til years ago on August j 8, .1071, gjyd lived there most of his life, locating near Hamilton where he had lived and farmed for the past twenty years I He was the oldest member of the Hamilton Methodist Church for a long time, and was faithful in attendance upon its services as long as he was able to be out. In early manhood he was mar ried to Florence Everett who died in 1911 Two years later on De rembei 23, 1913, he was married | to Elizabeth Price. Surviving besides his widow are la daughter, Mrs. Leland Hardison of Kobersonville; three brothers, 'Jack and Fate Bowers of Rocky : Mount and Charlie Bowers of Hobgood; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. I Funeral services will be con I ducted in the Hamilton Baptist I Church Wednesday afternoon at 4:00 o'clock by the pastor, the Rev. ! W R. Johnson, of Robersonville. Interment will be in the Hamil j ton Cemetery. Hamilton Native Dies In Hospital Mrs. Pattit Sherrod Starr, 51, died in a Winston-Salem hospital last Friday. She had been in de clining health for several months, but was thought to be improving following an operation perform ed in the hospital last Wednesday. A daughter of the late B B. and Pattie Hyman Sherrod, she was born in Hamilton in 1901, and spent her early life there. Following her marriage twenty eight years ago to W J. Starr, she made her home in Mexico and several states of the Union where Mr. Stai r was employed as a highway engineer They had made their home in Plymouth duiing the past three years. Mrs. Stan taught school prior to her mar riage, and was a member of the Roper faculty last year, declining health forcing her retirement this term. Surviving besides her husband are a daughter, Mrs. A. R. Willis, Jr., of Plymouth; a son, W. J. Starr, Jr, of Raleigh; two bro thers, B. B. Sheri od of Richmond and Dr. W. N. Sherrod of Win ston-Salem. She was a member of Grace Episcopal Church, Plymouth, and the funeral was conducted there Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock by the rector, the Rev. E. M. Spruill. Interment was in the Episcopal Church Cemetery at j Scotland Neck. AX illiamstoon Furniture Conipany.s New Home Under the management of Messrs. Johnny Rawls and Cecil Leggett, the Williamston Furniture Company held its formal opening last Saturday morning. The company is located at the corner of Elm and Washington Streets, just across from the Carolina Warehouse. Forty Cases Called In Reeorders Court A RECORD | v/ It has been said that the wheels of justice turn slow ly but surely. Well, they turn ed slowly and surely and for the first time in years and years they turned from Mon day through Friday during each of two weeks in the re cent term of the Martin Su perior Court. Judge Clawson Williams got on the job a bit late for the morning sessions, but he remained late in the after noons right on through Fri day oi the tint week. . . Judge W. I. Halstead re- j ported here Sunday and was ready right on the minute for I work on Monday morning of last week, lie carried the work schedule right up until ! dark last Friday. Native Oi County Died In Hospital Early On Friday Funeral Held In Ayden On! Saturday Afternoon For j Adolphus I.. Griffin Adolphus L. Griffin, a native of this county, died in a Green ville hospital at 1:00 o'clock last Saturday morning. He had been in declining health for a long time and was critically ill for about two months. A sun ol the late William Jor dan and Sarah June Coltrain Grif fin, he was born in the Fairview community of Williams Township, this county, 86 years ago on De cember , 1865, He spent his early life there, engaging in farm ing and timbering operations and taking a leading part in church and community affairs. When a young man he located in Pitt County and was married in 1897 to Miss Sarah Smith of Ayden. He retired from active farming about twenty years ago on account of failing eye sight and declining health, but he continu ed interested in the affairs of the day. Funeral services were conduct ed in an Ayden funeral chapel Saturday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock by the Rev. Mr. Loftman, Baptist minister of Pactolus. Interment was in the Ayden cemetery. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Edward Brooks of Pactolus, Mrs. Ruel Jones of Greene Coun ty, Mrs. M. G. Bullock and Mrs. Alton Suggs of Ayden; four sons, Alfred of Willard, Henry of St. Louis, Missouri, Lloyd of Ayden, and David L. Griffin of Jackson ville, Florida; a brother, W. W. Griffin of this county; a sister, Mrs. Qeorge E. Roberson, also of this county; 46 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren. i Completing Basic Training Henry McCoy Taylor, Jr,, 17 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Taylor, 207 Beach Street, Wil liamston, is completing his Air Force basic training at the Lack land Base down in Texas. Fines Add Up To I $1,000 Ai Session Saturday Morning Only Our Drunken Driving Caw* Appealed To 'l'lu* Higher Courts Forty cases, including a goodly i number of speeding charges, were ! called in the Martin Recorder's Court last Saturday morning when fines were assessed in the sum of $1,000 by Judge R. T. Jonhson. Most of the defendants pleaded guilty and the court completed its work before the lunch hour. There were several drunken driv ing cases, but only one defendant appealed to the higher courts. Proceedings: The case m which Vance Price was charged with an assault with a deadly weapon and being drunk and disorderly, was nol pressed with leave. It was reported that i a new warrant was issued against | the defendant Monday. Pleading guilty of drunken driv ing, Alfred Pippin as fined $100. plus costs. He loses his driver’s license for a year. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the court costs and the amount of the instrument' in the ease in which William James was charged with issuing a worthless check. Henry O'Dell Modlin, pleading guilty, was taxed with the costs for operating a motor vehicle j without a driver’s license. Pleading guilty, James Gus Hodges was fined $25, plus costs, for an assault with a deadly wea pon. He is to remain of good be havior for two years. Horace Lyons, pleading not guilty of an assault with a dead ly weapon, was adjudged guilty and drew sixty days on the roads. The road term was suspended upon the payment of a $10 fine, plus costs, aqd a $20 doctor’s bill The case in which James T. Mabry wuis charged with careless (Continued on Page Six) Under Bond For Breaking Into Home Last Week Sylvt'tilt'r Itrown To Karo Trial In Superior Court Next Drcrmlirr Sylvester Brown, 20-year-old colored man, was placed under a $1,000 bond by Justice Chas. R. Mobley at a preliminary hearing held last Thursday afternoon for breaking into the home of Majoi and Mrs. Herbert Whitley and at tempting to break into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Burras Critcher, Jr., on West Franklin Street late Wednesday afternoon. Bond was arranged and the defendant is running loose. At the Thursday afternoon hear- i ing, Brown pleaded guiltv of breakinjr~‘iiiftv'*nrt entertttc*1trr''| Whitley home, and not guilty of! attempting to break into the Critcher apartment in the samel home. Guilt was apparent in thei second ease, and $500 bond was j required op both counts. Working on a lawn just across i the street, Brown saw Mrs. Whit- j ley leave home, and a short time later he quit Ins work, went to the back of the Whitley home and' entered the bapk door. Tarrying there only a short while, he work ed his way through the house to ward the front where a sliding door separated the Whitley and Critcher apartments. Thinking it was one of the young Whitley boys trying to open the door, Mrs. Critcher started there to lend a helping hand. Just before reach (Continued on Page Six) I <;oon SALKS V-J A patron of the local mar ket for years and years, Far mer Geo. R. Boyd reported another good tobacco sale here yesterday. Accompanied by his son, Lacy, Mr. Boyd sold * almost 1,000 pounds for an average right at $04.00 per hundred. “Our quality is only fair, but the poundage is way off,” the farmer said, joyfully add ing that he was betting on making 00 bushels of corn to the acre this year. Multiple Trouble Foliates Theft Of New Bern Auto Amos Sykes, colored man who has since disappeared, merely pulled the stopper when he stole a 1939 Plymouth front a man named Smith over in New Bern last Friday. After he brought the car to this county and left it with Lee Timmons near Oak City with definite instructions to turn it over to only a white man, Sykes, departed saying he was going to Baltimore with a weak pro mise that he would return later for a visit with his friends. Sykes had hardly cleared around the bend in the road be fore the trouble started. Timmons took the ear to launch a week end riding spree. Tiring of the wheel, Timmons turned it over to Andrew "Slim” Thomas in whose yard the car was found by Pa trolman B. W. Parker Sunday af ternoon But before the car was recovered, Nathaniel Smith chauf feured the other two around a bit. A good time was had by all. When the patrolman started his investigation, he learned the car had been left with Timmons by Sykes. The officer then asked how it got over 10 Thomas' yard. The answer was delayed until Smith, home on furlough from Camp Lejeune, spoke up and told about the riding spree The officer then called for drivers’ licenses, of which they had none. It was learned that Timmons’ license had been revoked, and the other two never had licenses. Sykes is still at large. The car is going back to its owner, and j Thomas, Timmons and Smith arej heading for the courts. Another Accident Siege On Roads In Martin County -<»- , No Injuries KeporltMl llul Property Loss Estimated In Excess Of $1,200 Motorists, using the streets and highways in this county, appar ently went on another accident siege last week-end. A prelimi nary count with members of the highway patrol and police depart ments listed eight wrecks. While no serious injuries were reported, the property loss was placed at $1,270. One of the victims, still wearing two stitches that closed a bad chin cut received in an accident sev eral weeks ago near Whichard's Beach, went through his third record in about as many months. He was not hurt in his last ride, investigating officer said. The first in the series was re ported last Wednesday afternoon at 4:15 o’clock while (Jon Hen ry Leggett, Hassell postmaster, was driving toward Hassell in his 19411 Chevrolet Elic Powell of Oak City, driving a 1940 Pontiac just ahead of Leggett, pulled to the right shoulder and his car brakes caught quickly and caus ed the Pontiac to swerve to the left, striking the rear fender yf the Chevrolet which was passing on the left side of the road. No one was hurt. Investigating the accident, Patrolman Travis Reg ister estimated the damage to the Chevrolet at $40 and that to the Pontiac at $1100. Mrs. Eleanor Ballou and Ed Hackctt suffered painful but not serious injuries when their car, a 1952 Willys, was forced off the highway in West End and into a telephone pole about midnight last Friday. Hackctt, driving the car toward Everetts, said another ^ttoduliUtiaLdy ran. Jpm off the i road and into the pole. Investi gating the accident, police esti mated the damage to the car at about $500. The victims were treated in Brown’s Community Hospital and released a short time later. Taking Benjamin Harrell's 1951 Ford while the owner was in the Scotland Neck jail, Nathan Staton was to go off and dig up a (Continued on Page Eight) Jamesville Fair, Bigger and Belter, Opens On Friday (ionp;r«‘ft!iiiuiii Homin' Will AildiTHh Frond Friday Attrriioon Jamesvillc’s community fair, one of the largest agricultural rvent* hold in this county in re cent years, will open its 1952 edi tion on Friday of this week with a varied program and with the promise of being bigger and bit ter than ever The main exhibits will be hous ed in the high school gymnasium and there'll be machinery and livestock exhibits outside. The Woman's Club of Jamesville, ably supporting the Ruritan Club, the sponsoring organization, will open the lunch room at 10:00 o’clock when the fair formally opens and lunches will be served during the day. A big street parade, led by the Williamston High School Band, will form at 1:30 o’clock and move from near the Coast Line Station flown to Highway 04 and thence around to the gymnasium. There will be special floats in the pa rade, including one by the man agement of Whichard’s Beach, and bathing beauties. Congressman Herbert C. Bon nei will make the main address that afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the high school. The congress man will have some timely re marks and a large crowd is ex pected to hear him. At 3:00 o’clock, the Jamesville "Red Terrors” will play the Cen tral High School football team from Elizabeth City. That even ing, a special entertainment pro gram will be offered in the audi torium. Considerable work has already been completed in preparing the exhibits in the mam building which will be open to the public Friday and .ill day Saturday. Tobacco Sales Pass Seven Million Mark — | SI'ECIAL SERVICE v _ _ A special religious service, i commemorating the introduc tion of the newly revised Standard Bible version, will be held in the high school auditorium here this evening at 8:00 o'clock. The new Bi ble will be shown at the ser vice which is being sponsored by religious leaders through out the county. A special program has been planned and the public is in vited to attend. Ends Life Al Her Home Last Friday Near Williamston Funeral (anulneled Sunday Afternoon For Mrs. Jas. V. Harrison -a In 111 health for years and ter ribly despondent for two weeks or more, Mrs. Laura Harrison end ed her life by firing a .22 caliber pistol bullet into her l ight temple at the Harrison home not far from Old Mill Inn on the Griffins Township Road in Bear Grass Township about 10:00 o’clock last Friday morning. She is believed to have died instantly. Investigating the tragedy, Cor oner W. W. Biggs said that there were powder burns on her face and that a formal inquest was not necessary. It was pointed out that Mrs. Harrison had attempted to end her life by taking an over dose of sleeping pills about two weeks ago, and that more recent 1v she had taken excessive quan tities of other medicines. Failing in those attempts, she apparently planned early that morning to use the pistol which had been hidden by her in the home Mr. Harrison got up early that morning and went to his work about 6:00 o'clock. Mrs. Harrison said she was not feeling well and that she would remain in bed A sister, Miss Claudia Harris, who lives about two miles away, visited the home and found Mrs Harrison in bed about 11:30. Mrs. Harrison ex plained that she did not feel able to go and help grade tobacco, but i that she planned to get up and iron at home. She appeared to bo ; fairly calm at that time, and did I not in any way reveal her drastic plans. When Mr. Harrison return-i ed home about 11:30 o’clock lie found the body in the bedroom. Answering an urgent call to the home, the family doctor said she had hern dead an hour and a hall or possibly two hours. What was believed to have been 1 a suicide note was found along with some other papers under the | pillow It could not be decipher-I ed and apparently was not written immediately before she ended her life. Although she had suffered with! migraine headaches and exper ienced poor health m general, | Mrs. Harrison tried to keep going and contribute her part in main taining the home Mrs Harrison, daughtei ol Ma rma Lilley Harris and the late William Henry Harris, was born j in Griffins Township 42 years ago on October 1, 1909, and spent most of hei life in this county. Some time after her marriage to James Vonei Harrison in January, I (Continued on Page Seven) I Pullet Sale In County Friday Member.; of several Negro 4-11 clubs in the county will hold their second poultry show and sale at the agriculture building Fri day morning at 10:00 o'clock. Seventy-seven choice birds, all from certified flocks with an av erage of more than 200 eggs per bird last year, will be offered for sale. The pullets will be offered at public auction, and interested parties are invited to attend. Money received from the sale will be used to purchase chickens for other club members next spring, Agent R. M Edwards said. Highest Sale Of Season Reported On Local Market —$— Sales llohling Up Unusual ly Well Uoniparetl To T hose Of Year Ago ' r Alter hovering around the 50 cent figure for several weeks, prices on the local tobacco mar ket climbed beyond the 52-cent average yesterday when 285,578 pounds of tobacco were sold for ; $148,743 It was the highest sale j of the year, but trailed the eor i responding 27th daily season of last year by about three cents a pound. Prices on the betfer grades apparently pulled up the average, reports stating that there nas been little change in the I prices paid for the inferior types. Up until this morning, the local market had sold 0,977.382 pounds for an average slightly under $50 per hundred pounds. The early : sales this morning pushed the to : tal for the season to date to a point beyond the seven million mark. During the first 27 sales days last season, the market sold 7,497,938 pounds, leaving the cur rent season sales trailing by about half million pounds. The average price last year had about a twn cent advantage, on an average. The crop is rapidly disappear ing, many farmers having already completed their marketing. No re liable estimates are to be had, but some farmers declare more than ’ 05 per cent of the crop in this i section has been sold. A report on the marketing ac tivities m the etjtire belt as re leased by the State and U. S. De partments of Agriculture, follows: Steady to lower average prices 1 were paid for most grades of East ern North Carolina flue-cured to bacco last week. Volume of sales was fairly heavy, according to the Federal-State Market News Ser vice Marketings improved in quality when compared with the week before Weekly gross sales amounted to 51,642,721 pounds and averaged $51.01 per hundred. This was the highest weekly average so far this season and a gain of 36 cents over the previous week. Volume was around 3.7 million pounds less Season sales through Friday, September 26, stood at 236,833,633 pounds and averaged $5030 For the same number of sales days last year, 259,760,927 pounds had averaged $51.53. Decreases in averages were shown for over half of the grades. Losses amounted to $1 00 to $3.00 a hundred pounds generally Most grades of nondescript, lugs,“smok ing leaf and lower quality leaf declined. Gains were negligible. Season averages for smoking leaf and medium quilty leaf offerings are mostly $1.00 to $3.00 higher compared with the season aver ages at this time last year. How ever, lower quality grades arc mainly $1.00 to $3 00 lower. Most primings and better quality grades are about steady. From an overall standpoint, losses, gains, and grades remaining unchanged are about equally divided. (Continued on Page Six) County Boy Gets Rating In Navy Entering the Navy last June, James Walter Terry, son of Mr. and Mrs Irving Terry of Bear Grass, moved light along, a late report stating that he had earned the rank of Reeruit Petty Ofti eer, 2 C, and he had been made a squad leader. Following a leave spent at home, Petty Offieer Terry return ed to San Diego last week and will attend an engineering school during the next six months. His record attracted the attention of his commanding offieer, D. Thom as. All but two of the Bear Grass boys in the 1932 senior class are now in the Navy or the Air Force. Young Terry was accompanied home on his leave by De.ryle Peel, a 1952 volunteer from Bear Grass. 1
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