Home Agent Tells of
Activities in County
For The Past Month
Mrs Lee Hardison, Home Demon
stration club woman, made her first
talk over WPTF this month, telling
of her trip to the World's Fair. This
opportunity has been given two
years now and is a real help to the
women.
Regular meetings were held with
nine of the Home Demonstration
clubs. One meeting was missed ow
ing to illness. The meetings held
were check-ups on the work of in
dividuals over twjo years time in the
clothing project and summaries of
accomplishments for 1939. Each wo
man filling the requirements in the
clothing project receives an Award
of Merit for the two years work.
The home agent was responsible
for the program of the Federated
Club this month Mr. John Harris,
landscape architect, was scheduled to
be on the program and showed slides
of simple homes in North Carolina
made beautiful by the planting of
native and nursery grown shrubs.
Owing to illness of Mr. Harris, Mr
Peterson, supervisor of State Col
lege grounds, came for the meeting.
The grounds were planned and
planted with shrubs given by sev
eral members 01 the club.
The home agent attended the con
ference held in Greenville one af
ternoon at Eastern Carolina College
The theme of the meeting was "So
cial agencies affecting the child and
its family." The State Department
of Health, welfare and relief agen
cies and the extension department
contributed to the program
The agent spoke at the Junior Wo
man's club at the regular meeting on
"Woman's contribution toward
World Peace
Arrangements were made for or
ganizing the Red Cross drive in
five townships of the county. One
township responded to the request
A cooperative order for bulbs was
placed with Mr Hendrik Van Dorp,
of the Terra Ceia bulb farms, during
the month. The order took care of
approximately 1500 bulbs which in
cluded crocus, narcissus, hyacinths,
daffodils and tulips. There were 30
women in this cooperative and
through the order 33 1-3 per cent
was saved per order. Thirty-five dol
lars was spent by the women to
make their homes more beautiful.
Five regular sellers at the curb
market took in $99 95 during the
month. Tins was largely on poultry,
eggs, cakes, late fall string beans,
butter beans, turnips and collards
Summary The home agent travel
ed 1100 miles, visited 28 homes dur
ing the month, held 22 meetings and
attended eight other meetings, pre
pared 9 circular letters, distributed
1055 copies, and wrote 33 individual
letters
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Visiting in Winston-Salem
Mrs. J. B. Taylor is spending the
week-end with her mother, Mrs W
S. Tilley, in Winston-Salem.
Relief At Last
For Your Cough
CreomuUlon relieves promptly be
cause It goes right to the seat of the
trouble to loown germ laden phlegm.
Increase secretion and aid nature to
soothe and heal raw, tender, inflam
ed bronchial mucous membranes.
No matter how many medicines you
have tried, tell your druggist to sell
you a bottle of creomulsion with the
understanding that you are to like
the way It quickly allays the cough
or you are to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
1939 Cotton Crop Set
At ll.M5.tHNI Bales
Washington ? The agriculture de
partment estimated this year's cot
ton crop at 11,845,000 bales of 500
pounds gross weight today as indi
cated by conditions November 1. A
month ago 11.298.000 bales were
forecast. Production was 11,943,000
bales last year.
The indicated yield of lint cotton
was placed at 234.1 pounds an acre,
compared with a forecast of 235.7
pounds a month ago and 235 8 pounds
produced last year.
Acreage remaining for harvest is
placed at 24.222,000 acres, abandon
ment having been 2.9 per cent of the
24.943,000 acres in cultivation July
1. Acreage harvested last year was
24.248,000. and abandonment 1.1 per
cent of the 25,018,000 acres in culti
vation July 1 a year ago.
The census bureau repot ted that
cotton of this year's growth ginned
prior to November 1 totaled 10,085.
260 running bales, exclusive of lint
en. compared with 10.124.773 bales
a year ago and 13.160.423 bales in
1937.
The indicated yield of lint cotton
in pounds and the indicated total
production in 500 pound gross
bales by states included: North Car
olina. 292 and 475>,000.
Ginnings to November by states
with cuinpaijtiw figures for a year
ago included: North Carolina, 400,
903 and 253,445.
Business District Of
Town Redeveloped
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While Rockefeller's project was
making national headlines, another
farsighted planner, Frederick Dre
her, an architect in Ardmore, Pa.,
was making local fame for a real |
estate development equally brilliant I
in its own sphere of influence. The
merchants of that town, a Philadel
phia suburb, had been losing busi
ness to the big city stores, until Die
her got to work. He bought 20 acres
of property along both sides of the
main street. He tore down old struc
tures, put up new stores with
gleaming structural glass fronts, and
incorporated new devices for con
venient and efficient retail opera
tion. By an ingenious use of glass
and metal he had created in less than
a year a shopping center of 44 units,
which, because of its modern and
business-like appearance, quickly re
stored the townspeople's confidence
m their local merchants To cap it
afl, Dreher's leases were based on a
percentage of profits rather than a
fixed rental, to protect his tenants
during temporary business declines,
and as a further protection he
bought group insurance on his ten
ants. Ardmoire is a thriving com
munity now. .
Women Taking To
Wasp Waist Trend
Reluctantly in sonic vases but nev
ertheless dutifully, Amei ican wo
men are taking to the wasp waist
trend Only a week after a special
type of corset (price $40) arrived
from France, leading department
stores the country over were adver
tising American versions at typical
mass production prices. And m the
town of Worcester, Mass . business
started humming -for that ^a corset
making center. Wholesale ^aluo of
corsets made there last year was $1.
190,000. In 1939. due to the wasp,
i utput is expected to reach $1,700,
000, a 50 per cent increase. That
shows how fast business in this
count;y can boom when something
new comes along and "catches" with
consumers.
TO OPEN INSTITUTE BUILDING
North Carolina senators and con
gressmen in Speaker Bankhead's of
fice in the national capital express
their appreciation for acceptance of
their invitation to meet wth State
and local offcials in North Caro
linn ut the opening of the Institute
of Government laboratory building
in Chapel Hill on Wednesday, No
vember 29. Left to right: Congress
man Carl T. Durham. Senator Bail
ey. Congressman llarold D. Cooley.
Speaker Bankhead. Congressman W
O. Burgin, R L. Daughton. Oraham |
A. Bardon. Lindsay C. Warren and
Zebulon Weaver. Congressman J.
Bayard Clark and A. 1). Folger were
unable to he present at the lime this
picture was taken
Officials of Martin County and
officials of all the towns in the conn
ty have been invited to meet with
Speaker William Bunkhead of the
National House of Representatives
the North Carolina Congressional
delogation, and several hundred rep
resentatives from city halls, county
courthouses, state departments ami
federal agencies in North Carolina
at the formal opening of the build
ing. Director Albert Coates announc
ed recently.
CHURCH
NEWS
EPISCOPAL
23rd Sunday after Trinity.
Church school, 9:45 a. m.
Morning prayer and sermon, 11 a.
Evening prayer and sermon, 7:30
p. m
CHRISTIAN
Bible school, 9:45 a. m
Morning worship, 11 a m Sub
ject Man's Cooperation."
Young People's meeting. 0:30 p. m.
Evening service, 7:30 p. m. Sub
ject, "While Men Slept "
The pastor will speak at both ser
vices.
Mid-week service, Wednesday, ut
7:30 p m.
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BAPTIST
Bible school, 9 45 a. m.
Morning worship, 11 a. m.
Young people's meeting. 6:30 p m.
Evening worship, 7:30 p. m.
Sunday morning's sermon-subject
is, "Happy Christians" and the eve
ning sermon-subject is "I Like Til' Go.
To Church." The ordinance of bap
tism will be administered Sunday
evening.
Are the suggestions below worth
your consideration?
I^ook for the church honor roll on
the bulletin board.
Invite your fellow church-mem
bers to worship Sunday
Bring someone with you to Sun
day school and church
Pray that your church might do
its little part in promoting World
peace.
Neglect not your gifts, honoi the
Lord with your whole life not just
50 per cent of it
Bo very friendly to strahgeis and
visitors who attend your services.
Stokes Road Finally Opened
ToTrafficSaturdayMorning
(Robersonvillc Herald)
The Robersonvillo-Stokes road,
under construction for months, was
finally opened to traffic last Satur
day morning, hundreds of motorists
inspecting the route on pleasure trips
Sunday in addition to the usual
heavy flow of traffic borne by the
road the yetfr around.
The last coat of tar and gravel was
applied last Friday, and traffic bar
riers were removed early the fol
lowing morning. Construction work
on the road greatly interrupted traf
fic'. but travelers and farmers living
along the route, remembering the
mud m winter and the corduroy
bumps in summer, offered very lit
tle complaint, and cooperated with
the builders 111 every way possible
The completion of the project
which measures nearly five miles,
loaves about throe miles of unpaved
surface botwern the Martin lhtt
boundary line and Stokes. Reports
state that plans are being advanced
to surface the link and make avail
able a more .direct and surfaced
route all the way from Robersonville
to Greenville.
Although the road is regarded as
a secondary route, it handles about
the largest volume of traffic of sev
eral roads designated as units in the
primary system. The construction,
handled by the North Carolina
Highway and Public Works Com
mission and not by contract, is of tar
and gravel type, comparing with
the surface on the road from High
way 17 to Bear Grass and the road
from Oak City through Hamilton.
No cost figures for tin- project have
been released.
PRESBYTERIAN
Tin* regular services will he held
at all points this Sunday.
There will he a preaching service
at Roberson's Chape! at 4 p. m and
at Poplar Point at 2 p m
A Sunday school service will he I
held in the Gold Point school-house (
at 4 p. in
Miss Lillian Austin. Missionary to
Korea, will continue her Studies in
the Gospel according to John through
Sunday. She will he at Roberson's
Chapel Friday night, Williamstoii on
Saturday night and at Hear Grass
Sunday night All the services will
he held at 7 JO p m She will speak
on Korea ^it Bear Grass
innonna? Scrvicen In The
11 us sell (hristmn Church
Sunday, November 12, is the first
woi ship service day of the new nun
islerial year Rev. J M Perry, of
Kohersonville, will deliver the
morning address at .eleven o'clock
and the night sermon at 7:3(1.
Other than two interesting ser
mons, special music will he provid
ed Several . ?-j i; and short busi
ness announcements will also be
given concerning every inei.nl" t >f
the church.
Two slogans for this year are
The Whole Community at Worship"
ami "Double the Bible School." Both
can be ii ah/ed to a large measure,
if not fully.
Members and visitor;: are urged to
be present at these services
(.tnmly Man \iinml District
\"i'nt I or f ertilizer l irin
I'' Clarence Still lings;'-well known
county citizen and successful farm
er-business man of Jamesvillo, was
yesterday appointed to succeed Lu
ther L. ?Staiicil, of Taiboro. as di;
ti let agetil fur the American Agn
cultural Chemical (Vimpaiiv Mi
Stallings, chosen from a field of Kin
applicants, will work unite i tin Nor
folk office of the New York firm.
Floyd Explains Why
Cotton Quotas Are
Used For Marketing
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For the last two seasons cotton pro
ducers of the nation have used mar
keting quotas in conjunction with
the Agricultural Conservation pro
gram. On Saturday, December 9. they
will vote ?<n whether* they want mar
keting quotas f??r the 1940 cotton |
?rop
K Y. Floyd. AAA executive offi
- r uf State College, says that quo- 1
las are designed to forestall further
increases m our already large cot
ion supply and to protect the mar
kets of farmers who plant within
their acreage allotments to earn soil
unlding payments. Uffrestricted
marketings tend to.defeat the efforts
t those who are trying to adjust the
lemand to the amount pxoduced and
told, he declared
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
'ias set the 1,910 National cotton acre
age allotment at approximately 27 to ,
20 million acres; about the same as 1
in 1938 and 1939. Floyd said that his ,
affice is striving to work out the in ;
dividual allotment of every cotton '
farmer in North Carolina before the ;
date of the referendum. "Before a I
grovver? votes, he will know exactly ]
liow much cotton he can plant next I
year." the AAA officer s.-ml _
Quotas will be on an acreage ba
as. as is tin- case this year. A farmer
a ill be allotted a certain amount of
acreage for cotton and he will be al
towed to market all of the cotton he
produces on those acres.
Floyd said that cotton loans will
be available only if marketing quo
las are in effect. l?ans can be made
Liken M illiamnton, Hopen
He'll Never Have To Leave
Gus Matalas. quiet spoken Greek,
has returned to Williamston after a
several months' stay in Paducah and
New York Expressing a bubbling
over pleasure to be back, the man
said that he hoped he could stay
here the rest of his life. "And if it
becomes necessary and they'll let me
do it, I'll sell shoe strings on the
street so I can stay," he added.
undo the law if the average price of
cotton < i August 1. or any later date
during the marketing j^rar, is below
oer cent of parity, or if the Au
gust 1 crop estimate for cotton is
greater than a normal year's domes
tic consumption and exports:
TOCTAGON^
\7oHei Soap j|
Palmolive 3 for 20c
Super Suds (Red box) sm 3 for 25c
Super Suds (Red box) Ig 2 for 35c
Su'r Suds' (Blue box) sm 3 for 25c
Sup'r Suds (Blue box) I? 2 for 43c
Octagon Soap gt 0 for 25c
Octagon Soap sm 10 for 23c
Octagon Powder Ig 0 for 25c
Octagon Powder sm 10 for 23c
Octagon Toilet 6 for 25c
Octagon Cleanser 2 for 9c
Octagon I lakes 2 for 18c
Octagon Granulated 2 for 18c
Crystal White Soap 3 for 14c
Hollywood Beauty 3 for 14c
Klcx (Pumice) Soap 3 for 14c
Crenie Oil Soap 3 for 14c
1 niversal Soap 3 for 14c
Triple Cake Soap 3 for 10c
Farmers Supply Co
MR. FARMER
WILL YOU NEED MONEY
THIS FALL?
W e Have5,000,000
To Loan on Farms in East (larolina
(htr Iritrreiit Rule Ranges front
I \A /ter rent to ."> per cent
Our Terms ? !>, Ill ami lit years
NO PWMKNT RKQtURKI) ON PRINCIPAL
I'NI.FSS YOU ihisiri;
FOR FXAMPLK: On u !*.r?.0<M> loun al 5% in
lere*l you ooulil only pay $2.">(M)0 each fall. If
price* on your crop* arc belter lliau you anticipat
ed. you could curtail the principal .8500.00, 81,
(KtO.tttl. or 82,000.00. If price* arc lower than
you anticipated, a* Mated above, you only pay the
iuterCHl.
Iloii'l trail niilil have have Itt have money
Millie an application irnnietlialely!
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WII.I.IAMSTON, N. C.
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