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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ EY ~ OVER 3,00(1 MARTIN COUNTY "rJCRTEIi/i TWICE EACH W EEK THE ENTERPRISE JS BEAST 0S OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTS PAMllJfiS-TWTSE EACH TYES? VOLUME LVII—NUMBER 31 William aton, Martin County, ISorth Carolina, Tuesday, April 20, 1931 ESTABLISHED 189v ors jNeighb » »— - Jos. Lilleys Are j In Modern Home i After Costly Fire Farm Life Ruritan Club Sponsored Movement To Rehabilitate Family -- The Joseph Lilleys—Mr. and ^ Mrs. Lilley and their four child ren, Hume, 5; Sheryl Lynn, 4; Joan Ellen, 3, and Theresa Ann, 5 months, lost just about all their life savings on the morning of last January 17 when fire destroyed their home and nearly all the contents in Griffins Township. A few items were saved, including an electric stove and a few old pieces of furniture. The family was at Sunday School and the fire got a big start before it was dis covered. Working late into the night over a long period of time, the father had almost completed an exten sive modernization work on the old family home, and he was to double the insurance the Wednes day following the fire. While members of the family and neighbors and other friends from over the township watched , the fire destroy the large home, about seven miles from here, and •threaten other buildings, mem bers of the Farm Life Ruritan Club sized up the situation and soon planned a positive program of action. Hardly before the ashes had cooled, friends reported for work, raking away the debris and mak ing ready for a new structure. Other friends turned to their tim bcrlands, and before the week was ipent more than enough logs to build two houses were on the mill yard, the mill owner eliminating charges.’Cash contributions were made after a liberal and willing p* fashion, the tbtsf Tunning be tween two and three thousand . dollars. ----— - There were cold days, rainy days, but the work of rebuilding went forward, neighbors and other friends all but neglecting their own work to jend a hcdping Just recently the family, housed in the old Griffin home not too far away, move- back home and (Continued from Page Si$) Wilmer Sillerson * Dies At His Home In Winston-Salem -- Funeral Held Al Graveside In Wood lawn Cemetery Here Saturday I * i' Wilmer Matland Sitterson, na tive of Williamston, died sud denly at his apartment, 662 N. Spring Street in Winston-Salem last Thursday afternoon, the ap parent victim of either a heart at tack or a stroke of paralysis. He got up that morning and was about his work when he was tak en ill and returned to his home. A son of the late Joseph Mur den Sitterson and Emily A. Smithwick Sitterson, he was born in Williamston on the corner of Main and North Biggs Street 74 years ago on March 1, 1880. After completing the local schools he attended the old Trinity school at Chocowinity and was employed by a local mercantile firm for a few years before he went to Kins ton to work in a bank. He later cashiered for a bank in Coleram, returning to Williamston about a quarter century ago. In the early thirties he located in Winston Salem where he was a salesman. In addition to his work in the mercantile field here, he engaged in the brokerage business for a while, and opeiated a farm on the McCaskey Road for a few years. He never married and was the last member of his immediate family, leaving two nephews, Jos C. Sitterson of Chapel Hill and Simon C. Sitterson of Kinston; a niece, Mrs. Louvema Anderson, of New York, and a great-nephew, Harry Stubbs, of Windsor. He was a member of the Church of rthe Advent here, and the rec tor, the Rev. Thomas Hastings, conducted the last rites at the graveside in Woodlawn Cemetery here last Saturday morning at 11:00 o’clock. To Rescue In Time OffWfed Family, Burned Out, Moving To New Home *. ______ l XK* . Mr arifTMis. Joseph LiTfey,'pictured with their four children, Hume Bennett. 5 4; Joene Ellen, it, and Theresa Ann, 5 months, soon after their home was destroyed 1 fins Township last January 17 ; Sheryl Lynn, 3y fire in Grif V A •V; _.JCa 111 lli.H C I U D f:imilv &Uir\d in hunt of thcjr no a I tii ,'n '.'.j h^m which 7m ponsoi cd — , i -A •> • jm miTmunitv. hv Kiii'in Life When Mr Lillt-y gut behind with his farm schedule while finishing the interior of the new home, neighbors and other friends scheduled a*big field day recently, disking and plowing about ell his farm in a matter of hours. \ IDE ALE ASTER I \s Ideal weather prevailed ■ and Easier was observed in a big way here and throughout the countv. As usual, Easter j fyiery was on parade and i traffic neared the saturation I point on the county highways, i but the observance feature I was the attendance upon the various religious services. Record crowds were present | for sunrise services in several i cemeteries in the county, and churches were crowded for the programs later in the day. Fire Call Hare Early Lust Sunday Morning -- Firemen were called out here at 8:45 o’clock last Sunday morn ing when an oil heater went out of control and threatened the of - fices of Attorney Hugh G. Horton in the old Dennis Simmons Lum ber Company building on West Mom Street. Other than that caused by smoke, no great damage resulted. 'Weapons Taken • By The Sheriff Sheriff M. W. Holloman and his' ! deputies, working until the late j j hours of Sunday morning, pos- j sibly headed off ;.t least one sliuol- j ing and possibly another Kvhen ; they confiscated rifles and guns in the Oak City anti Jamesville areas. No warrants were signed and no arrests were made, but! the trouble was cleared away I when the weapons were taken and stored by the officers. Said to have been chased away from home because he wa:j drink ing, a husband was afraid to re turn until officers went there and got a rifle, the same weapon that his daughter had used in killing a man near Oak City some months ago. A rifle and a gun were confis cated irr Jamesville during the week-end, and peace was restor ed, the officers adding that three I other weapons had been collected j in that section during the past two j weeks NEARING GOAL The annual Red Cross fund drive i« nearing its goal in this chapter, according to a semi-final report released yesterday by Fund Chairman Hugh M. Martin. One or two late reports are due, but as of yesterday the fund was a lit tle less than $50 from the quota, Chairman Martin ex plained. Returns To llos/titul For Further Treutmen —• Mis. B. C. Swain, the formei Miss Margaret Everett of Wil liamston, returned to Norfolk General Hospital Sunday after noon for further treatment, of i hip fracture suffered in a fall ai her home in the Virginia city about three weeks ago. Just out of the hospital lasl Thursday ,she was moving from i wheel chair to her bed when tht pin in the bone slipped out and she was forced to go back to the hospital. Special Term Oi . Superior Court In Second Week Court About To Set Aside* Verdict in Thompson Damage Suit Opening a special term <>n Mon day of last week for the trial of civil cases only, the Martin Coun ty Superion Court resumed its work this morning following a long Easter week-end holiday.! Only a few minor cases are on i the calendar for trial today, and the court is expected to complete its work and adjourn before the week is spent The trial of the C. Frank Mod lin will cases, after lasting a day and a half, was brought to a quick close after the jury got it last Thursday noon. Sixteen minutes later, the jury had completed its deliberations and returned a ver dict favoring the propounders' de claring that the paperwriting dat ed April 18, 1951, and over Mr. Modlin’s signature was valid. The court ordered that the costs of the case be taxi'd against the estate, including $800 counsel fees—$500 for the propounders' attorney and $900 for the attorney for the ca veators, plus $15 for an expert witness in the case for the pro pounders. The court spent the remainder of last Thursday afternoon hear ing the case of William Thompson against James Clifton Wiggins, the plaintiff having asked $5,000 dam ages as a result of an automobile accident on Highway 125 near Williamston last January 8. The plaintiff showed that he was badly injured, that he suffered lacera tions of the knees, a fracture of the maxilla (jaw bone), cuts and bruises on the left arm and that he lost five teeth when the de fendant’s car crashed into the one he was riding in. The jury awarded a judgment in the sum of $900. It was report ed that the court recognized the verdict as being contrary to the weight of the evidence, and that aside. It was also said that the insurance company had volun tarily agreed on a settlement fas in excess of the judgment. No final entry had been entered in t 'tm '■ WMWMidMM*MWIkuMp a possibility that an agreement will be reached without the aid (Continued on Page Eight) S. Jane Carraway Died Suddenly Al Her Home Sunday —«— La*I Kilr* (londiiclnl In Funeral Home Monday Afternoon Mis* Sarah Jane Carraway well-known local citizen anrl i charter member of the Bethany Pentecostal Holiness Church near Williamston, died suddenly at hei residence in the Staton home corner of Main and Haughtor streets, Sunday morning about 8:00 o'clock. She had been in de clining health for several years hut was thought to be getting along as well as usual. When she did not report for breakfast, ; visit was made to her room about . 9:00 o’clock and she was found v dead, apparently the victim of ar | attack suffered while she was sleeping. Miss Jane, as she was called by everyone who knew her, was borr in Cross Roads Township 79 year; ago on July 4, 1874, the daughtei of the late Joseph Cl. and Polly I Wynne Carraway. After spending i her early life there she mover: to Beaufort County about 1H9( when she returned to Martin. Site had been a member of the Jame; G. Staton household for filty-si> years, locating in Williamstor about 1908. She was devoted to hei friend; and remained a faithful membei of her church down through tin years. Surviving ■■>re a half-brother, James Carraway, of Roberson viIlf, ,,nd several nieces and nep hews. The last rites were conducted in the Biggs Funeral Home here yesterday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock by her pastor, the Rev. G. A. Cas per-, assisted by the Rev. C. J. Seuir of Vanceboro. Interment was in the Biggs-Staton Cemetery near Williamston, just off U. S. Highway 17. Eight County Contests Before Voters In The May 29 Primary Might Consider Underpass In Road Letting Next Week Delayed last month when a dis erepancy was reportedly found in the plants, the letting of a con traet for the widening of the rail road underpass on West Main Street here might be included in the list of projects to be consid ered by the State Highway and Public Works Commission next week, according to unofficial in formation received over the week end. The proposed project was not included in the last recently announced, but the report stated it possibly could be squeeezed into the contract picture at the last minute. It is beginning to apppeur that where there is a railroad even in sight, a bottleneck develops. A short time ago the town encoun tered much expense and consid .’table delay in getting approval lo pave Railroad Street which was leased years ago to the Coast Line [or $12.50. The West Main under pass has received cold treatment year after year. Now, it is possible lhat there'll be a bottleneck in the truck route project at the in tersection of the by-pass and rail road near the fertilizer plant Rough grading on the project has been completed except for the roalroad crossing near the plant. Possibly it can be handled without actually delaying the project, but to date nothing has been done to get tne highway over the rails at that point. The dirt is piled nearby for the work After the route stands a while the contractor will start work on the busy and asphalt surface. f FIRST TOBACCO I v' The first of Che 1954 tobacco | transpluntings was reported on the C. Abram Roberson farm near Kobersonville last Saturday. Several acres were planted to the crop, it was said. Most farmers, their corn planted, are turning their at tention to tobacco, preparing their lands and making ready for transplanting on a fairly large scale about next week, i So far no extensive blue mold attacks have been re ported in the county. Former County Doctor Died In —VirginirFriday -- Fum-rul Uriel Sunday hi Falkland For Doctor mm- ,z~ Jij*.i ■■ Dr Karl Eugene Pittman, a practicing physician in Oak City for almost thirty years, died at his home in Virginia Beach last Fri day afternoon at 4:00 o’clock, the apparent victim of a heart attack. He had been in declining health for several years, retiring from ac tive practice about three years ago and leaving the county to make his home at Virginia Beach. He was born in Falkland, Pitt County, til years ago, the son of the late Jessee Baker and Molly Davis Pittman Completing his i schooling in his native county, he entered college and was graduat 1 ed from ttie Medical College of Virginia, locating in this county soon thereafter. Dr. Pittman played the role of the country doctor and counsel lor, serving all those in need re gardless of their station in life. For more than a quarter century, | he answered the call of the sick m the upper part of this county, extending his services into adjoin ing Halifax County and realizing m many cases that his only re i ward would be the satisfaction of knowing that he had served hu ! inanity. He was a member of the Pres byterian church, often attending services in Williamston during his | residence in Oak City. The last rites were conducted (Continued on Page Five) Throngs Attend Fish Festival Jamesville's annual fish festi val attracted large numbers from ! all parts of eastern Carolina Mun ! day. While there was no schedul ed events program, the Easter Monday crowd made a big holiday of it, many doing their own fish mg and cooking along the shores. Special cafe arrangements \Mere effected to handle the throng, and liberal helpings were reported at the establishments. Cooking sta tions Wore set up at Gardners Creek bridge as well as at James ville and all along the banks by ; individuals. Tile event at Jamesvdte was eli ! maxed by a big dunce last night. Plan Observance Of Menial Health Week May 2 To 8 -- Mt'Hiug In Courthouse La si I'liursilay, Croup Out lines Its IVojjram -- Meeting in the Martin Count> courthouse last Thursday even ing, a small group of interestec citizens discussed plans for i county-wide observance alonf with just about all the othei ninety-nine counties in the State of mental health week May 2 ti the 8th. Organized with Mrs. Sylvit Margolis as climi man, the Martii County Health Council is a par of a state-wide organization per primitive conditions surroundini the care of the mentally ill ii this eoiuite and all the othri coiili ties m North Carolina, including State institutions in various areas exist locally and in the State wen discussed, and the group wa agreed that a program should In formulated not to point out o spotlight any particular case o cases but to get something dom about the shameful conditions sur rounding mental health and tin care of the mentally ill The indifference on the part o the general public that has plagu ed mental health and can must In wiped out, and during Menta Health Week May 2 8 appeal will he directed to various group by ministers, club leaders uni others, urging them to reeognizj the seriousness of the presen situation and to support a plai whereby existing conditions mu; be improved. It is proposed to establish tei regional mental health centers one each in Asheville, Charlotte | Durham, Elizabeth City, Fayette i ville, Greensboro, Greenville. Ral ! eigh, Wilmington and Winston Salem, each to lie staffed by ow , (Continued on Page Eight) Former County Resident Die: Mis. Minnie MeNaughton Tay I lor, resident of this county fo a number of years, died suddenI; of a heart attack at her home ii Oklahoma City last Wednesda, night shortly after 11:00 o'clock. The daughter ot the late Georg P. and Margaret Moore McNaugh ton, she was born in Renov; Pennsylvania, about 74 years ag and moved when a child to Ever etts where her father operated big lumber mill. Following he marriage to Mr. Walter C. Taylot sin made her home in Auguste Ga., and Greenwood, South Caro lina before locating in Oklahom about thirty years ago. Surviving arc five dnldrei Mrs. Ryan Glover, Mrs. Cy Soren son and Miss Faye Taylor, all c Oklahoma City; two soils, Waite C. (Dub) Taylor of Hollyvvooc Calif., and George Taylor o Texas, and a sister, Mrs. John L Rodgerson, of Williamston. Tlie funeral was held in Okla homa Saturday and interment wa: m the cemetery there. District Senator And Solicitor To Appear On Ballot —*— Race Vs-sured For Half Dose on Offices In The Hay 29 Primary Twenty-two candidates got their names into the all-county political pot. thrci others filed for the State senate froip this dis trict and eight signed up for local or township constables before the filing dead-line last Saturday eve ning at ti:00 o’clock, according to Elections Board Chairman C. D. Carstarphen. Also appearing on the county ballot will be the names of FJbert S. Peel of Wil liamston and Hubert E. May of Nashville, candidates for solici tor in the second judicial district. Eight of the candidates were automatically declared the Demo cratic nominees when no opposi ' tion developed, and their names will not appear on the May 29 pri mary ballot. Nineteen names will i appear on the county ballot. Late developments on the po . litieal front added two new con tests in the county, boosting the number of races to be settled on I a county-wide basis to six, plus | the two district contests. Only one second district sena ] torial, Lemuel H. Ross of Wash ington, candidate has been certi fied, but two others. Martin Kel logg of Manteo and Edward L. Owens of Plymouth, are said to have tiled, meaning that the sena torial contest will be on the coun ty ballot. There’ll be three local or town ship ballots, one each for James vilk-, WUliumsten and Hamilton, j And then there will be the State j ballot i"""The”I7ve sii icfi\ ‘‘county eoiTitCYs follow: A Corey, incumbent from Jamesviilc, anti Frank Everett of Hamilton arc in the race for coun ty representative in the State leg In the sheriff’s race are M. W. (Buck i Holloman, incumbent, and W. Raymond Rawls, both of Williamston Ranking with the major county contests is the one for judge of the Martin County Recorder's Court Herbert O. Peele, incum bent, nf Williamston, and Henry S Everett of Robcrsonville art candidates for the office. A contest developed right at (Continued on Page Five) ' Critically Burned Near Here Monday , Little Miss Patsy Roberson, 7 year-old daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Elbert Roberson of Newport News, was critically burned while visiting in the home otj her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs J D. Holli . day, near Williapiston about 1:00 o’clock Monday afternoon. Suffer ing third-degree burns over a k large part of her body, she was removed by a Biggs ambulance to Duke Hospital, Dui ham, fol lowing first aid treatment in \ Brown’s Hospital. She was ac j compa.ned to Durham bj her un cle, Sammy Holliday, and Mrs. Roberson and others, including Miss Evelyn Holliday, Tom Hol ' liday and Mrs. Dick Gurganus fol lowed in a car. Accompanied by her mother, sister Betty, and a brother, Shel ton, she came down to spend Fas : ter with her grandparents on the ’ ] Rogers farm about three miles out ’ on, the Prison Camp road. lust before making ready to return 1 home, she spilled water oil her 1 dress and went to the kitchen and ’ I turned on the gas stove to dry the ’ ■ dress. While holding the dress "'j over the burner it caught fire and 1|.shc ran into the back porch and j into the yard. She gave no alarm, ■ hut other children there saw her and called for help Mr Holliday 1 rushed out of the house and burn I cd Ins hands severely trying to . smother the fire, but most of the C clothing had burned away. He . was only able to keep the fire from burning all her hair. The father was called from II Newport News and he continued I to Durham.
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