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-. ,w;* THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,300 MARTIN COUNTS FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1 OVER 3JO0 MARTIN CGw^TX FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES VOLUME LVII—NUMBER 80 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday. October 12, 1954 ESTABLISHED 1899 Charles H. Mizelle fatally Inured In ?irfinia Amdeni Funeral Held In Commun ity Church Near Wil liam^ton Monday Charles Haywood Mizelle of j near Williamston was fatally in injured in an automobile accident J at 4:00 o’clock Saturday morning; on Highway 60 about thirty miles west of Lynchburg. Virginia. A sailor whose name could not bq learned here immediately, was said to have been driving Mizelle’s 1953 model Pontiac. The sailor was reported to have been criti cally injured and was removed to a Lexington hospital. Complete details of the accident could not be learned, but one re port said the two men left Ports mouth last Friday evening for an mouth last Friday evening for the sailor's home in West Virginia, that the car ran off the road in ai curve and wrecked. Mizelle is be-1 lieved to have died almost in-1 stantly. The wreck was discov-| ered a short time later by a truck driver, who was quoted as say ing the county man died before help could be called. Mizelle. the son of the late Wil liam Wiley and Lucy Wyatt Mi zelle, was born near Williamston 46 years ago on November 25, 1907, and spent has early life on the farm. He also engaged in the building trades and was an elec trician. More recently he opened and operated a store near Abbitt’s mill on Highway 125, accepting a ♦ job in Portsmouth about two1 months ago. Surviving are his widow, the former Miss Irene Rogerson; two daughters, Bettie Jean Mizelle of! Rocky Mount, and Joan Carol Mi - j zelle of the home; tw< sons. W'll-1 ham Chas. and Victor Ray Mi-, zelle, also of the home; and one sister, Mrs. W L Lassister of near Williamston. Tht funeral services were con <Continued on Page Five) Willie B. Everett Died Early Today Willie B. Everett, well-known I 0 Martin County fanner and tobac conist, died suddenly at his home in Bobersonville tin* morning at 4:00 o’clock, the victim of a heart attack. He suffered an attack about fifteen years ago, but ap parently had recovered and was in his usual health when he retir k ed last evening. The son of Mrs. Lester Everett and the late Mr. Everett, he was j born near Robersonville 49 years' ago, and spent his early life on the faim. Locating in Roberson ville some years ago, he engaged i m the tobacco business, but con- j tinued his farming interests. He was graduated from Ran dolph-Macon Academy and the University of North Carolina. He was a Mason and Shriner and w as active in the civic affairs of his ; community and county. Surviving are his widow, the | former Miss Annie Louise Taylor, his mother, two daughters, Eliza beth Ann and Mary Winifred j Everett; one son, William Benja min Everett, Jr.; one sister, Mrs. William Warren Taylor, Jr.; one niece and one nephew. The funeral service will be con ducted at his late home Wednes day afternoon at 4:00 o’clock. In terment will be in the Roberson ville Cemetery. i'.hoir RoOin funded Here Sunday Morning The choir room at the new Christian church here on the cor ner of Smith wick and Liberty ef.; was raided during the morning service Sunday and $10 was carried away. Two or more youngsters were heard in the room and they ran when someone went there to cheek on the noise. Makes Quick Tri/t To Neic York last Week-end Mr W W Griffin of Williams Township made ,a quick trip on 1m- first visit, to New York last week-end. The 86-year-old farm er boarded a train at Rocky Mount Friday evening, went to New York, and after visiting his daughter for an hour, he boarded a south bound train and was back home Sunday morning. Hunting Season Opens In This Section October 15th i tie nuntrug season for soffit' [games opens in this section on i F iday of this week. and the fish1 in th* streams will get a respite. Sportsmen, after going after the the fish in a big way day after day are now planning to clear out the woods. Several big deer hunts , are planned for the end of the; week, and there'll be a race on , among hunters to see who gets to the v. jods first Friday morning in search of squirrels. The season opens for deer. I squirrel and bear on a bag limit, Opossum and eoons may be taken with dogs, but not with traps. I Preliminary reports heard this 1 week point to a fairly plentiful supply of game in the woods this j season. One fisherman counted; eleven squirrels in a single spot. Another fisherman counted nine. Deer possible are mu quiie as numerous this season as they were last, the old-time hunters explain ing that many of the larger ones were killed out last year when the swamps were dry. Right many small deer are in the woods, it was said. No report has been received from County Game Warden, Har old R. IJail, but it is believed that there has been little-preseason hunting in the county this sea son A few broke the law and jumped the gun, but the game “hog" has been limited, it has been pointed out. It is possible the season will be delayed on account of the dry weather. In the event it is open ed, hunters are urged to exercise every care in preventing forest fires. Death Traced To Polio In County Friday Morning Several Ca*e* Of Polio Re ported In County During Pant Few Week* Martin County’s first 1954 polio | death was reported last Friday ! morning. Joseph Stokes, six years old died in N. C. Memorial Hos pital at Chapel Hill, at 7:00 o' clock. The son of Ellis R. and Letha I Stokes, the child fell victim of poliomyelitis in August and was j removed to a Greenville hospital ! for treatment llis condition gra I dually improved and he was re ' turned to his home, RFD 2, Ruber ! sonville. on Tuesday of last week i Suffering a relapse, he was re- . : turned to the Greenville hospital 'Thursday and doctors there ad | vised the removal of the victim to Chapel Hill Complete do tails of the case could not be learned immediately, but one re-1 : port stated that the child hail suf ; • feted with headaches prior to the : onset of the disease in August An autopsy was performed, but the i | findings have not been learned. ! It js possible the six-year-old t child had a brain tumor The funeral service was con ducted at the home of his grand lather. Henry Brown,.Sunday af ternoon. Interment was in the i Chance cemetery near Parmele. So far five cases have been rie i finitely diagnosed as polio in the | j county. There were two suspect cases last week. No definite re | port has come from one, but po | lio was ruled out in the other case j which turned out to be “hemor-' ; rhage in the bone”, according to ; unofficial reports received from , the hospital this week. The latest child, William Biggs' Howard of Williamston, to fall victim of the disease and who was removed to Duke Hospital last week, is reported improving. The i three-year-old tot suffered paraly sis of the throat and breathing! ] was difficult for him for a short (Continued on Page Five) | Th o !\eiv Teachers Hireil I Tor II illiamston Schools The signing of two new teach- | ! ers for the Williainston schools | was announced this morning. Miss Harriett Wald, a Wiiliums | ton gil l, will take up her duties as teacher in the second grade . ' after the Thanksgiving holidays at which time she is graduating ! from East Carolina i Greenville. She succeeds Miss ! Emma Blanche Warren who is re I turning to her home in Snow Hill 'because of the tailing health of ! h, ,• , vyf h,, r Unlit M , - ■ Wyrd can take over ivies. Belly Coui tncy is to serve as substitute teaehei for Miss Warren. Mr. George Sturgeon of Ken tucky is taking over the agrieul- i ture department in the school on 1 November 1 su-feeding Charles | Hawley who is becoming assistant! county agent in Pasquotank | County and moving to Elizabeth City. Mr Sturgeon taught in the' schools of North Carolina tor sew- | oral years before returning to his] native state to become manager of a Baptist orphanage farm near Louisville. He nas a daughter, Mrs. Streeter Tugwell, who is liv ing in Farmville. Mr. Sturgeon is to move his family into the old Maynard apartment in the teach erage. f KOI M>-1 I There \v:is comparatively little activity on the crime front in this county during the past week-end. Only six persons were arrested and detained in the county jail during the period Three were charged w ith public drunken ness, one each with violating the liquor laws, operating a motor vehicle without a dri ver's license and one for an assault. All six were colored and the ages of the group rang ed from 21 to 3 It years. Hamilton Tests New Fire Truck Making a spinal run here to got a ready water supply, Hamil ton voluntet r firemen last night tested their recently purchased fire-fighting equipment The tests proved sucecsslul, and the spe cial pumper produced so much pressure the hosemen could hard ly hold it, wetting several cars parked on Marshall Avenue at the time. Purchased from a Roanoke concern, the truck has been al tered to meet the needs in rural cimimumt ics. Other towns in the county arc providing file lighting equip ment Jamcsvillo recently bought a new truck and will equip it with a tank and special pumper. Oak City is purchasing a new high pressure truck unit. Trnek Strike# t>uy II ire inti Damn fie* ‘1‘lume i.tihle Striking a telephone* pole on West Mam Street here yesterday morning, a truck operated by the Rea Construction Company, did considerable damage to the cable, but apparently did not interrupt any service connections. Damage to the poll and cable was estimated at about $300. I FarmersToTake | Pari In Special Eleciisn F rid ay ■ Nickels for Know-How Pro-' grain Has Accomplish ed Much In Stale Martin County farmers, along! with others throughout the State, j I are scheduled to go to various! polling places on Friday of this : week and participate in the Nic | kels For Know -How election. In ! supporting the program, the farmers will enable farm research work to go forward, it was ex plained. The polls are to open at 7:00 ! a. m , and close at (1:00 p. m„ and farm leaders, serving without pay,' are to keep the polls open. While j no large vote is expected in this; county, it is believed that Martini farmers will cast a favorable vote in support of the program. Polls will be held open in this ' county at the following places by designated farmers: Bear Grass, Leroy Harrison's shop, E C. Harrison, poll holder; Cross Roads, Taylor's Service I Station, Geo Taylor and G. 11. Forbes, poll holders; Goose Nest I and 11. Ayers’ i Store, N. I. Hyman, Julian Mi 1 /elle, E. V. Smith and Jack Smith, ! poll holders: Griffins, County House, Jesse Griffin, poll holder; Hamilton, Soda Shop, J, A. Ilaislip, J H Lillard and C. W. Johnson, poll holders; Hassell, P. C Edmondson’s ston . D. R Edmondson and Wood low Purvis, poll holders; Jamesville 1 and II, Town 1 louse, O P. Wolfe; Poplar Point and Williamston, agriculture building, Mayo Hardi son. poll holder: Robersonvilie I and II, Masonic Hall, R S Everett, Irvin Keel, Dallas Keel and Howard Vand erford, poll holders, Williams, County House, Joe Lawrence Coltram. The program is supported by a 5 cents per ton assessment on feed and fertilizer. An election, in (Continued , n Page Eight) Change Made In Nail Schedules A direct mail service between | Williamston and Windsor was in [ augurated a few days age. A shut j tie route is now operating be > tween the two towns, giving ^ Windsor a late r mail dispatch. Pnoi to the inauguration of the new sente, Windsor’s hist mail i was dispatched early in the after noon. Complaints were registered and the stai1 route was granted. Handling the 'route, Mrs. Mack VanLandingham leaves Williams j ton at 4:30 in the afternoon and returns from Windsor at 0:30 o’ clock or in time to make connec tion with the highway post off ice coming up from Plymouth Board Of Health Revises Sanitary Cede F or County Duties Of Health Officer Outlined Al Recent Meeting In a recent meeting, the Mar tin County Board of Health out lined the duties of the health of ticcr and revised the sanitary law s for this county. The revised code as adopted hv the hoard follows: ARTICLE I Duties Of Officials Section 1. The Health Officer of Martin County shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Martin County Board of Health and shall be vested with full authority to appoint agents to assist in the enforcement of the laws and re gulations prescribed by the Board of Health and the laws and ; regulations of the State of North I Carolina dealing with Public Health. The agents so appoint ed shall he vested with the full i power and authority of the Health Officer in performance of the duties delegated to them by j the Health Officer. Section 2. It shall be the duty of the Health Officer to make in spections for violations of the laws and regulations of the Mar tin County Board of Health and the laws and regulations of the State of North Carolina which af fect Public Health. He and his duly authorized agents are hereby vested with full power and au 1 thority to have full ingress and egress to all schools and public buildings, commercial establish ments, places of amusement, ho tels and lodging houses, private residences, railway and bus sta tions and the physical equipment of Common Carriers for the pur pose of deteterming if any con dition exists or may exist which is or may be detrimental to the public health, and for the pur pose of enforcing the laws and regulations enacted by the said Board of Health and the laws of | the State of North Carolina af i footing public health. Section If. All persons acting as | author'zed agents under this oi - | dinance shall he known as "Au | thorized Agents” und shall be (Continued Front Page Seven) Ilaml ft ill Take Tar! In Itifi Tariuli1 At Hi ml sin The Green Wave marching I band of Williamston High School will take part in the big parade | at Windsor tomorrow afternoon as will the band of Robersonville High School, it was learned this morning. It is likely that a practice ses sion will be held tonight between 7 and 9 but there was no official word on this. The band has eight uniforms on order but they have not yet arrived. The band will leave after the lunch hour. The parade is at 2:00. Tobacco Sales Pass Eleven Million Mark f DEPUTY v GOVERNOR David R. Davis, Williams t«n man, was elected Depu ty District Governor of Ki wanis at a State meeting be ins concluded in Durham to day. Holmes Addresses Special Meeting documen unselfish to serve less fortu Members of the Auxiliary of the John W. Hassell Unit of the American Legion, their husbands and special guests heard a timely address by John A. Holmes, de partment, vice commander of Hertford, at a special meeting held m the Legion Hut on South Watts Street last evening. "Our membership is tary evidence of our ness, our willingness other veterans who are nate than we," Mr. Holmes said in opening his address "A major I incentive," he declared is to sup | port the American Legion’s re | habilitation and child welfare pro i grams on community, state and ! national levels. Continuing, lie said: "Our com | passionate interest in the tragic j plight of the widow's K'fftiW-yjyS^y.v. : of men whom we served in the I armed forces, our fight for ade quate pensions, is a testimonial and has given added strength to the security policies. "1 testify to your faith in the basic principles that the youth of today must be properly train ed lo assume the duties of citizen ship in the future. We are asked to give aid to the retarded child ren, to support the drive to out law juvenile delinquency. "Another important phase of our Legion program is Ameri canism for all citizens. I am a symbol of your contempt for com munism and for all other subver sive doctrines, because of your membership you are making it possible for the American Legion to fight these evils with unrelcnt (Continued on Page Five) Prices Continue To Hold Firm On The Market Here Late Report* Point To A Decrease Below Previous Estimate* In State Williamston's tobacco market • market passed the eleven mil lion-pound mark yesterday and is now within about 200,000 pounds of the total poundage handled during all of last season. Just where the sales will go from now is problematical, but observ ers are of the opinion the market will handle twelve million pounds before the season ends late this month or early in November. Prices continue to hold firm with the average yesterday top ping the last Friday figure by a small margin. Yesterday, the market sold 270, 470 pounds for $154,060, an av erage of $57.18. Up until this morning, the mar ket had sold during the forty sel ling days so far this season, 11, 092,830 pounds for $0,178,068, or an average of $55 65. In the belt, the price average was down a bit yesterday,1 the losses ranging from one to three dollars per hundred. A report on the entire flue-cur ed tohace report follows: Based primarily upon recent re ports from farmers and upon. warehouse sales data, the N. C Crop Reporting Service set itsi j October 1 estimate of the 1954| flue-cured tobacco crop at 915,-j 750,000 pounds—about 8 million i pounds less than a month earlier. The decline m expected produc tion took place wholly in Border Belt areas. The State’s total flue cured ciop as now forecast is | about 10 percent larger than the | 832,305,000 pounds harvested last year and is about 13 percent hea vier than the 1943-52 average. Ki-t: i l V - - h(. IV tiltt? y Type 1 production is presently set at 325,850,000 pounds mean ing an average yield of 1,225 pou, is per acre. Last year, pro [ dilution from the drought-stricken Type 11 crop was only 201,870,000 pounds, while the average yield per acre was 1,015 pounds. Type 12 production is expected' to total 475,950,000 pounds this I season for a yield of 1,425 pounds] | per acre. This would mean the ] second heaviest crop of record and ( (Continued on Page Five) Two Accidents On Roads In County No one was injured but two cars won- badly damaged in two! automobile accidents on the I highways in this county during | the past weekend. Driving on Highway 171, a few miles out ol Jamesvillc late last! Saturday night, Reuben Hailey; lost control of his Pontiac and. ditched it. Damage to the machine was estimated at $1100. The wreck was not too far from the scene where Jesse Coltrain was involv-1 ed in oik the Saturday before. Damage to the Coltrain car and i the other in that wreck was esti-| mated at $000. Iola Cherry Johnson of Rocky Mount was making a left turn on Highway II into a driveway Sun day morning .at i(:i0 o'clock and | her car, a 1950 Mercury was: struck by a 1953 Ford driven by Dalton Lee Clark r>f RKD 5. Greenville. The accident happen ed near thi Henrv Harrell resi dence. Damagi to liu mmuij was estimated at$190, and repairs to the Ford will cost about $500, it was estimated. No one was hull, the investigating patrolman said. (.Iiiropruclor Opens Office Here Today Dr. fi. K. Engethardt of Wash ington ib opening an office here on Raltimori Street jubt back of j Davis’ Pharmacy. j A graduate of Lincoln Chiro j praclic College, Dr. Engelhardt i has practiced in Washington for the past sixteen years. He is a native ol Elgin, North Dakota. Office hours are from 9 a. m., to 5 p. m., each Tuesday and Fri day. Civil W ar Diary ol Docton Warren Bagiey INSTALLMENT IK (For nion ti»*m two weeks fol lowing the fall of Fort Hath i as, on August 29, 1861, no authentic* report had been received from the Martin County men who were captured there. On Saturday, September 14, 1861, mail came through from Governor’.- Island, New York, telling about the lo _eat e o pi the on-.,' Bagley reviews the letters in this, the 18th installment of hi- diary): "We have fust received by mail letters from Captains John C. Lamb nd 1. 1,, Clements, telling • " Ives |and companion.- taken as prison ers of war, which has thrilled our 1 community with joy and gratitude j for their s..fetv and well being as I to be,,1th and kind treatment by I their captois. receiving every at I tention that is consistent with | their loyalty to their own govern I incut, but they ate perfe etly desti I tut* of every thing, having lost j Mu ;r clothing and all "They arc or were1 on the 8th : instant, quartered .t Governor's i island with the privilege of the island. "Captain Clements reports the following men of his command as being with him, as prisoners: ■'Kadcr Abrams, J. A, Whitley. T. B. Griffin, A. T Staton, W H | Daniel, II Everitt, Jr., James ; Evi lift, John Harrell, J. ,J. Mar tin, W. II Everitt, E S. Hobbs, ! Joseph Downing, King Griffin, B. B Blown, K Hedrick, E Hollis, He/ Thompson, Joseph A. Har | j ell. Mack Manning, "J E Horton, W. A I’hi 1 pot, John Everitt, John K. Williams, T, ! B Horton. J S Bl own, William j Bland. (i W. Moore. W C Howell, *,)***( Geeu" Hobbs, J T 1 Niblett, J T. Smith, Me. H. Mitchell, J B. Matthew.-, George ' S. Hauell, J. H Johnson, Alex Haislip, li. ft Hauell, W. B. Mar t.J., Vv ;/ Al.dil El.'li.JeOliO !. i K. Brown, Josjah Williams. D. D. ; Gardner, "W G. Andrews, W A. Haislip, H. Everett. Sr., Ashley Keel, J. B. Scott, Albert Coburn, Jonathan H.vneh. Samuel S. Cherry, James O Keel, Win. M Cushion, Har mon Matthews, Stephen Kite, J. W Pope, Joseph E Philpot, A J Outti rbridge, J L. Barden, It. T. Edmondson, .loscph Bland, J J Edmondson and Cap! Clcminls. making til in all.” (It was pointed out that G. W. Moore, J J. Long, W G, Andrews, W A. Haislip, H. Everett, Sr., Ashley Keel and A. J. Outter ’ 'bridge were slightly wounded). "Captain Clements further re ported that the following are . I missing, whether he does so from — V memory or not, lie doesn't say, ! but it would seem that he did and ; had overlooked several names,; Reported missing by Captain Cle- j rnent are: "Samuel A. Hyman, F. J. I Cushion, James Price, Joseph Hal laid, S. W. Morrisett, J J. D. An ! drews, Noah Weaver, W. E. Hai j rail, Benjamin Harrell, Henry: 1 William.-. W. A Haddock, Seth i j Coburn, George Martin, Henry | Rawls, B. A. Bowers, Calvin Grif ! tm, and Dr. J. Sherrod.” (At the time of the surrender] to Commander Stringham of the S. Niivy. about eighteen men | weir on furlough from the Ham* I iHon Volunteers. Mi. Bagle.y list. t hem as follows): 'Alex Griffin, David Parker, K P Ba/.< more, J. W. Waldsworth, Andrew Weaver, William Seott, J., L. Ward, Luke Ward, Dawson Page, Meriman Weeks, William : Andrews, Rodman Harrison, Hen ry Weaver. J. II. T. Hutchins, S. B Huff, William Rawls, Baker Staton and Persey Tunstall.” (Among the list of missing men, it later developed that a few had escaped, the destiny of the others remaining unknown at the time). "The following escaped, name ly Joseph Ballard, John Hola day, Noah Weaver, Standlcy Leg gett, Henry Williams, Julius Perk ins Calvin Griffin John Salisbury, •-<* John Andrews, James Hoard, M. V. B. Johnson, Henjamin Bowen, William Harrell, Benjamin Har relI, George Martin, James Price;, Kbenezer Price, Henry Rawls, S. W. Mornsett, Seth Coburn, N. H. I,. Gray, Samuel B. Hyman and F. J. Cushing," (No explanation is offered, but Mr. Bagley said the following ! were honorably discharged: J H. Lloyd, Hc/ckiah Brown, J. J. Bland. And what appears to be : the first death among Martin, I County troops in the Civil War was that of Joseph R. Page. Mr, I Ba.aec.v ol! ci ed no dc I a 11 , out it I presumed Pvt. Page died on Hal terns Island). (A re view of the wrecked com pany, known as the Hamilton Guards under command of Capt. , L L. Clement, as entered hi the ary listed 04 taken prisoner, 18 on furlough, 23 escaped, three dis J charged and one dead). (Captain Lamb had not prepar ed a list of prisoners at the' time, ! but such a list was received in late September of that year, Mr. Bagley recording the names later in his diary). (In the next installment, Mr. | Bagley, apparently unable to get a complete roster of the Hamilton , Volunteers earlier, lists the names | of the men leaving the cuunty oil I June 5. 1801, for llutteriis). Joseph G. Godard Died In Hospital MondayAfternoon Funeral Service \l Home On Marshall Avenue This Afternoon Joseph G. Godard, well-known local resident end a pioneer in the development of the telephone anil electric business in Williamston, died in a local hospital yesterday afternoon at 5:30 o’clock follow ing a Iona illness. He had been in declining health for several years, undergoing treatment in various hospitals at intervals dur ing that time. His condition had been serious since he suffered an attack of pneumonia last March. Six weeks ago he underwent an operation in Duke Hospital and his condition had been grave since that time. The son of the late Salmon L. and Alice Hardison Godard, he was born in Williams Township 65 years ago on August 26, 1889, and when a child located in Wil liamston with his parents. After attending the local schools, he studied under the late Dr. Na thaniel C. Hughes at old Trinity School, Chocowinity, and con tinued his studies at Oak Ridge and State College. He was a great athlete in his day, and made a science of the study of athletics. He read extensively the classics and was a history scholar. Pos sessed of a jovial nature, he got a great deal out of living day by day, and was an able conversa tionist. Mr. Godard spent all his life m Williamston and Martin County except six months he was with the telephone company in Nor folk. He farmed near Williamston several years, and later engaged in the cafe business, retiring in 1942 Since that time he handled real estate, spending much time at Pamlico Beach, attending sporting events throughout the State anti devoting much time to reading. He was married to Miss Carrie Gay of Greenville December 3, 1908. She survives with one son, J HiP1* '' Cod.i.vd.^1^ four grand children, ancPone sTstSvOT^J-Ser tha Lassiter, of Johnston County. Funeral services will be con ducted at the home on Marshall Avenue this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock by the Rev Thomas L. Hastings, rector of the Church of the Advent. Interment will be in Woocllawn Cemetery. The family requests that no flowers be sent. Arthur Johnson Died Last Night Arthur R. Johnson, retired bus iness man, died at his home in Robersunville last night at 10:20 o’clock. He had been in declining health for three years, and his condition was critical for several weeks. The son of the late William L. and Jennie Moore Johnson, he was born near Robersunville six ty years ago on January 27, 1894. He entered service in World War 1 in Raleigh on July 22, 1917, and served overseas from June 11, !9!8, until April 11, 1919, with the 20th Division. After spending his early life on the farm, he located in Roberson ville and served the Standard Fer tilizer Company as a salesman for a number uL^ars engaging..in. the tobacco business later. He was a member of the Robersonville Baptist Church. He was married to Mi<s Lurline Ross who survives with one daughter, Mrs. John C. Watson, Jr., of Greensboro; two sons, Ron ald Johnson of Rocky Mount, and nil! Johnson of the home or,\ ,-ho tel, Mrs. bam T. Everett, of near Robersonville, and two grandchil dren. Funeral services will be con ducted at the home Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Inter ment will be in the Robersonville Cemetery. Announce llirlh 4ml Death Of Son Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Dewey George Adams of this county announce the birth and death of a son in a local hospital early Sunday night. Graveside services were con ducted in the Mills family ceme tery over in Pitt Comity yester day morning.
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