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FARMTILLE ENTERPRISE PublialNd by Rouse Prmtery - i ? I s Entered in the Post Office at Farm villc. N. C., as second class mail svatver. - FRIDAY OCTOBER 24, 1919 RATIFICATION OF THE PEACE TREATY l/RGED By PETITION - Washington. ? A petition signed by 1,445 persons circulated by the na tional committee on churches and the moral aims of the war, asking: for the immediate ratification of the peac? tTeaty. without reservations or sucb amendments as wcu'.d necessitate it being sent back for consideration, was tranmitted to Vice-President Marshall, who resented it in the sonate. Among the sigueia "were farmer Pies ident Taft and Altcn B. Parker. Raleigh.? Because of injuries to Mrs. Vase at the ftnion station in this city during Inarch, 1918, Dr. and Mrs. R. T. Vann are seeking 112.000 damages from the. Southern railway, Unite:! c'tates railroad administra tion, aad the Southern Express com pany. English Women- Buying Farms. Women in EngLanekare buying their own farms or their own truck and gar den spaces in rather conspicuous num bers. And this is all* an outcome of the tremendous work done by women oo the land during the war. The gen eral feeling Is that there will not 5e much room for the common female farm laborer as time advances, but for the woman who has a little money and who looks upon farming as her pro fession and her. life work there is ex cellent opportunity in this direction. In the first place, on account of the compact location of the garden spaces and the cities in England transporta tion of foodstuffs Is easy. Then gar den truck and flowers do grow abun dantly and profusely there, and always find ready markets. Washington. ? John L. Lewis, presi dent of the United Mine Workers of ? America, and Thomas T. Brewster, representing the soal operators, went into conference tfith Secretary of Lo bor Wilson, who had Invited them hare in an 'effort to avert the threat ened strike of bituminous coal miners am Nevruiber 1. V The first session . was expected to Metis iw several boon Lamberton. ? ? Investigation proves that meat prices are area higher in Lamberton than in Charlotte. Local market men say Lamberton people demand the best and give this as a reason for the higher prices. ' ' - - Newton.? Belton Barringer and ton, Sinclair Barringer, were convicted is county court- of manufacturing block ade liquor. Both men were botmd over to the next term of superior court which convenes here" on October 27, theii bonds bing fixed at $400 each. Asheville. ? With Mrs. Josephua Daniels and Mrs. Newton D. Baker present, the first Y. W. C. A. hostess house ever erected at a government hospital was dedicated at Oteen, near here , Decrease in Tuberculosis. A decrease of approximately fifteen per cent in the number of deaths caus ed by tuberculosis in North Caroline during the past four ye*rs is shown in figures tabulated at the State Sana torium for the treatment of this dis ease. The totirt number of deaths from this cause in the state for the yeat 1915 was 3,710. In 1918 the total number had been reauced ^o 3,160, a difference of 550." j I inequality In Law. j A concurring opinton in the ease of State V. O'Higgins, from Cumber land, in which the supreme court found no error, gare Chief Justice Walter Clark a chance to attack the provisions of the North Carolina law prohibiting conviction of ~a _ man charged with elopiug with a married woman upon the unsupported testi mony of the woman. The opinion was one of fifteen filed | by the court, several of which were I qf local Interest The opinion was ! written by Associate -Justice Brown. Health Work for Nogroep. In forty-three counties in the state special health work is being done among the colored people by the ex tension department of the bureau oi tuberculosis of tho state - board of health, co-operating with the state department of education. Community lepgow have been organised In these counties, and the total membership i? in excess of twenty thousand. Leaders In these community leagues have pfeuged approximately $8,000 aa their quota of the Red Cross Chrlafr mas seala. This stain yield* to perborate of so dium treatment ' - After the garments have been rinsed they sbotdd be only partially dried be* fore they are pressed. Iron with mod* erately hot Iron on the wrong side and use hangars for both "coats and SHrtg wbjn they are put away. [ ' <v ??&* c !- ...v' * more money ever
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