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VOfcH H*11 CQtN^pyoRTH CAROLINA, DEC. 21st,, 1S23. ^ > *"?? ^4^- j 1- ? BinqneU Dance ColW.C. R?iHUD, of Wjsh '"tfs* .ftiflW sP?ker Uatfait, (fci^tri Fur npjfc* Mpsk One of the most brilliant affairs of the eariy vihter season was a banquet given Thursday eveping in the base ment' of th* High school by the local Post of the American Legion. The gufests included members of the local Post, their wives or sweet-! hearts and CoL Wiley C. Rodman, of Washington. Dinner was served at 7:00 o'clock, covers being laid for sixty. The color [ scheme used throughout was red and | green- Flags, long-leaf pine and j palms served as a background and the i long banquet table was artistically j decorated with holly, poinsettias and red candles in silver holders. Tne place cards were ornamented with sprigs of holly and an air of holiday spirit permeated everything. A beau tifully appointed three course dinner was served by Misses Dippy Baker,! Mae Joyner, Louise Smith and Eliza- [ beth Fields, during the progress of which informal and laughable toasts j were given by the guests, and ex-j quisite music furnished by the Italian j Serenaders. Post Commander John Hill Paylor j acted as toastmaster and introduced i in an admirable manner Col. Wiley I C. Rodman, of Washington, State! Post Commander, the principal speak er of the evening. Col. Rodman made a splendid and inspiring address on the achievements and aims of the Legion. After the banquet the gay party retired to the dance hall, which had been decorated with flags and Christ mas greens for the occasion. Here dancing was enjoyed 'til a late hour. I I Third Flogging I in Nash County . | ^ ' *7; " ;-T . ' j. y ' ""' ':? Rocky .Mount, Doe. 10,?The third flogging to be administered to per sons in and around Nashville occurr ed but night, report reaching this city today indicate, when J. Y. Barnes, Nashville citizen, was taken from his store, carried in an automobile to a point in the woods which he claims to be near Wilson, and flogged. Reports indicate that the flogging took place early in the evening as several men, it is stated, came for Barnes at his store shortly after 6 o'eloek. He is quoted as saying that there were seven or eight unmasked men in the party which carried him some distance and then administered a flagging. He is understood to have been brought back to the county seat shortly after midnight and to have said that he did not recognize any - of the members of the band. Advice* from Nashville say that Bums claims that approximately $2f(t^was taken from him by the btod. "Whether or not he was lec tured or given & warning could not bp'learned. Barnes is the father of tiW young woman with whom asso ciation is alleged to have been the eiiase of the first whipping adminis turfed at Nashville, several weeks ago to a young married man employed on highway construction work. At that time a warning if reported to have been left at Ms heme by the band. < .m* second flogging activity oc cgped about aMNek after the first whfn Aether young man Was caught at the heme of a woman some dia? twe from Nashville and given a iftki! in the presence of the woman iwftbe case, and last night's affair bjrings the total fcwwn floggings up iSmniay school 4t 10 a. nt, classes | ?rait? I ^BB^??n ;lli''' ?li'ffrafti ' liriill t ?.JI I - ? CropValucs Exceed Those of Last Year , ' 1,474,786.000 Pounds of To bacco Are Raised, Being Valued at $298,936,000 , Washington, Dec. 19.?Larger acre yields and better prices generally of most of the. important farm crops of the country combined with an increase of about 600,000 acres in the aggre gate planted area, lifted the total val ue of this year's crops $872,891,000 above last year. Value of this year's crops was placed at $8,322,695,000 to- . day by the department of agriculture in its final crop report of the year. The values were based on the farm price of the crop on December 1. Corn is the nation's most valuable crop with a value of* $2,222,013,000. Cotton ranks second with an aggre gate value of $1,768,885,000. Hay was the only other crop whose value exceeded a billion dollars, its to tal being $1,390,967,000. The value of the nation's tobacco crop was placed at $298,936,000 with a production of 1,474,786,000 pounds. Rotarians Have Cbristmas Tree Each Member Receives Toy With Appropriate Verse. A most enjoyable meeting of the local Rotary club was held Tuesday evening with every member present The club has 100 per cent attendance record for this month by the way. * A good supper was followed by a 1 talk on "Boy Scout work" by Ro tarian Walter Sheppard, who is Scout master here. Mr. Sheppard is very enthusiastic on the subject and so his . speech was quite inspiring. Rotarian Irvin Morgai also spoke along this line with the result that the club again renewed its pledge to support and boost the local organiza- ' tion. After a short business session the, they had no program, but that OIcTl Santa had left a Christmas tree load- 'i ed with gifts. Whereupon the tree was brought in and the gifts handed 1 out and received with much merri- i ment, for Santa evidently had for- < gotten that his friends had grown up < for each present was addressed to i little so and so, and proved to be a toy. Much laughter followed the rer 1 ception of each gift, especially that 1 of Rotarian Shorty Fox, who received i a Christmas stocking containing noth- I ing except a switch and a card which ] read: "Fc< Shorty Fox, who has been ] a bad little boy this year," while 1 Rotarian Willis received a toy watch t with these few lines from Santa, "Here's some more Time for little < Turkey Willis, who is always so ] rushed." 1 - uta* Found] I 19.?All precon I lkhamen's gold I by the sight of I for the first B>st its full pro I ral of the parti rrespondent vis I rning. . ' I 1 of this gigan B dead, Its sides, B rations of blue, ; B background of ;ings of yellow' ning. The feel I : incredibly bi B seemed utter Bee of death in Bn : I etails to catch; Bhat the golden Bps not,-as one r obtained from j I 01, slope down >ther?|$M* | which is de-t j , i ?? ? ? ?,-i ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? NO PAPER NEXT WEEK^r1 \* ? ? * Following oor usnal custom,* * there will be no issiie of "The * * Eater prise" next weekj Dec. 28 th, * * unless something now unforeseen * * should demand it. ? In giving our * * force these few days in a whole! * * year, we do so with a feeling ofi * * gratitude for the faithful services * * rendered. ' * * May this Christinas be YOUR * * HAPPIEST and the Year 1924' * * the most PROSPEROUS of your ? * career is the wish of The Rousq ? * Printery, publishers of "The * * Farmville Enterprise.** ? * * You may expect our return on * * or about January 4th,' 1924. ' * ? i Charge U. S. Of ficial With At tempted Bribery Warrants Followed Grand Jury Meeting Saturday Nigbt Mobile, Ala., Dec. 19.?Warrants charging an attempt to bribe against United States Under District Attor ney Aubrey Boyles and Harry G. French a federal officer were served this morning and were sworn to by Charles Smith, chief deputy to the sheriff of Mobile county. The war rants followed grand jury meeting Saturday night which returned 112 true bills and which, according to ru mors, indicted a county official and at least one city official. One of the warrants is. a joint one charging that Boyles and French at tempted to corrupt or bribe R. E. Hunt, a member of the state law en forcement department while the sec ond warrant served only on Boyles charges that he attempted to bribe W. H. Holcomb, Jr., former sheriff and now a deputy sheriff and member of Alabama. MEETING OF PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION The Parent - Teacher Association held its December meeting oir Thurs day afternoon of this week in the & *?* j"j Christmas program before the meet ing was called to order by the Vice President, Mrs. R. A. Fields. After the minutes the Secretary read a number of letters from the Glee Clubs ?f different colleges, and it was de rided to give several musical concerts af this kind after the holidays. j Professor G. 3. Wheeler in a short talk stated the needs of the school library and urged the parents to give appropriate volumes from their own libraries. A committee composed of Mrs. T. C. Turnage and Miss Evelyn Russell was^fljgpoiiftfed to collect such x>oks as would be donated by the , ritiaens of the town and community. A prize to the child bring the larg est number of Twoks helpful to the High School pupils was offered at this time. The shrubbery and play-ground equipment was discussed and the pre siding officer announced that Mr. J. I. had kindly offered to transplant the trees in February. In the regular room roll call, Miss Vivian Case's room won the picture for the ensuing month. KINSTON PLANNING l-X?K A BIG EXPOSITION Kinston, Dec. 19.?Plans for hold ing the Eastern Carolina Exposition here next spring will be made imme diately. The show will be the second of its kind. The first was held at ? Wilson last spring. The exposition will bring "tens of thousands of vis itors* here from several states, ac cording to the officers, of the Eastern ' Carolina Chamber ef Commerce, the parent organization. More than half of these, if last year's rule should ob tain, will bp from out of the section. Manufacturers in apany lines will . provide exhibits for (he exposition. There-will be a large display of the jj section's raw materials, according to Mewell Bartlett, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. Farm prod ucts will play an .important part among the exhibits. , timn ^ counties are embraced in the exposi tion territory,. togethe?;,i^*jnunfcy 3' her of cities and importanfjto wngj^; musical attractions will be among the entertainment features. G.- O* j|> Convention ?t Cleveland in 1924 ?' / j C.evffiSS'SS PresM Public Hall. Photo ybo)v* interior of hall H hJ<* wlH *tf *2.000. Insert la of the exterior. ^ * 1 ?" 'tfc1 \ ... - As Winners ? . -? ^ - Dr. George Pearson Speaking Before Assembly at Wake Forest Awes Picks for Pfpident ' j Wake Forest, Dec. 19.t?Cool id ge for the republicans and McAdoo for the democrats are now leading the race for the presidential nomin ation for their respective parties and seem likely to really their ambitions, was in substance the declaration of Dr. George Pearson? head of "the de partment of social science, to a mass meeting of Wake Forttet dollege stu dents. Dr. Pearson expressed the opinion ferent from the usual politician, saiii Dr. Pearson. I ; . i?-?r Cotton Co-ops Mail Checks rtjv ? r^r#r*rr' 'rrr* v -,{ ' With the striking of noon Saturday the mailing force in the offices of the North Carolina Cfl^ton Growers' Co-operative Association began mail ing of more than 20,000 checks?each check in the nature of a "Christmas Greeting," to the members of the as sociation who have delivered cotton this season. These checks will bring up the ad vance macie on the 1923 crop to 20 cents the pAund, basis middling, and ' ? ? V- if ?" ' : ? i : jS ? I | it is the second distribution made on the present crop. More than 3,000,-. 000 is represented by the checks and the mailing department expects that every check will be in the hands of the members within the next three, days. At the same time announcement was made that the' association had finally disposed, of tl$ Just pf. tbp. 1922 /pf lopg staple cofctpp ceiveji Jn. the season of 1922 was of low grade staple and it has been ex ceedihgly^ hard to sell it WfieH finalmade 9? . shorty sta^ftvsgyejal weeks ago the , members were advised that every ef i ment'i^^ow'^^or^^ni^^^ statements, on the-Jang staple. and iufit i as s&tu wr thiB'-wo*k. is 'completed, I the final settlement wlif W ma^s. 1 * ; Pit ^ ? _ ? ? MR. A. J. FLANAGAN IS BURIED SUNDAY.'1 Simply Services Held Over Remains of Substantial Citizen. ' 1 been in poor health for several months and suffered a stroke of paral-' ^ ysis on Tuesday of last week, his ( death occuring on the following Sat urday evening. He was in his 59th ? 1 . ? year. '/t The home on East Church street was filled to overflowing with friends and acquaintances who were in at (apndance on the ceremonies to show a < last mark of respect. ?? J t- Many handsonte and exquisite floral } Offerings filled the living room. ' The services were hi charge of Rev. 6. E. Fox, pastor of the CUrfotfen { church, of which Mr. Flanagan had been a-member for twenty yel^L The ?; services were short and simply as he .? 'would have desired, for he was not a : person of affectation but a man of 1 {(assuming manner, a true sincere, iend and a fond husband and father. 1 He had been a citizen of this town 1 for nine years, i Mr. Flanagan is survived by his ' wife, two sons, A. J. Flanagan, Jr., a 1 student at Wake ForeBt, and Curtis 1 H.; one brother J. L, Flanagan, and a sister Mrs. T. U. Lassiter, of $now ' ?Hill. State Pop| Over 20 Million State College Offering a Special Course ^ From January 9 to 16 ' '*?>' f^m" '?< .*hy?T { Raleigh, Dec. 19.?The value of poultry on the farms of Nprth Cnro lina.is now o^r 530,000A accj^ ing to an announcement tnhde here today by the State (&iipge authori ties in connection wlith''t3ie "s^rt courses to be offered farmere of the statfe next month. " . Because of this large interest in the 'raising of chickens a ' special course in poultry ntfsing w$? Ji{* among the courses offered from Jan ua^. 9* to 16^~th?. tfcnj: for the'special courses" in ' fafnung. This course will/be directed by Dr. B. v.: mwprpnk&ofH>r^o*ryt fiSSS J# PO?j^ "invpstig^r for t.ie state experiment station. Due to^^e1 number of womSPffid boys \ is hoppd that a 'lRrgCi pum.9et pf .them will, enroll for the course, the state ment of the college asserted. VanceboroBask ?7 ?7m.7 wbl?"rof j Wvfi %pw Y&Mhrik, Mem"1 amt4f$wpwr ! - . .. .-? ? f' V- . Hi: Heavy withdrawals following the widespread cirtiilatldn of rtjjojrt.s that of the. doors of -the- ;?wi6 etflf'ance cb^4n^ co?$ofcalro^ *'"cfeftmiission yesterday. Clarence LBtham. chief state a miner, to.. over the management of the bank late Saturday. No receiver has been appointed and ?ne will not be named until a more^ shaj^e of the books of thfl1 bftfA, and; mil make a complete report after, the audit has been completed. 'OLD SOAKS" ORJOE^ED r v TO SJS%LV'Aft*'.M^ETIKG . ? I . , T * t Washington, N, C., Dec. 19.?Re corder Vaughan and Chief Hamilton ire determined that all" "drunks" be-v. fore the court from now on to th?j: close of the Ham-Ramsay meeting; will be required- to attend each and: every service for at least ten days. These "drunks" wili not be jailed; nor fined but ordered to go to churcho Bach one convicted of imbibing too much booze will be commanded t<| report to chief ashes- of the Hum-? Ramsay meeting, his.pjeMncp.ancf.th^ recorder and the chief nouiila? Iff the "drunk".fails to show himself at a single service for ?-period: of ten ilays he's to be arrested and given a Off ?' w ?****.? in tb, $si7 tam of thg, reyrgy. Ok ne K,kt *?* FOR BETTOR PI^JNG i . ' iii 1 , ; ???? 1 *?? '??>??" ? .....??? : I I POST-q-JRISTMAS CARTCXMTTES i . ' , ?? ,? = v&Wjjm ?V ^l\'y V wsasifc y js^/] ? -T- ' ' Announces -His ?sadUner in a ? Tel^smjoW.JV.Howcs Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 19.?JKib liam Gibbs MeAdoo, war .time, direc tor of the railroads,. formally, ahr. nounced his candidacy for the demo-, cratic presidential nomination . 1$, .A. telegram to W. W. Hawes, dernpcwjUc state chairman, Eierre, S. ... . Mr. MfcAdoo's formal accep.tan^.of the platform adopted by. the'dfao cratic proposaL convention already is in the mail en route jtO.Rerre.. The telegram to the South ?akoto democratic state chairman read "Having filed, my formal acceptance of the platform adopted. hy.the, cratic proposal convention, as, .nan quired by So^th Dahota Uyr, ! .desire again to express, my. appreciation of . the honor conferred upon me by. the., convention and to. say that .1 am *riUn. ing to. fight with and for. the people of South Dakota in support of the progressive principals espoused by. the convention. "We shall get no relief from tye burdens now oppressing; us, nor shall we. progj^ss in any direction Ujrqpgh the republican policies of stand-pjsi^ ism arid wistfully. wishing foj: these, problems to solve themselves. "The. democratic party stands for progress and popular rights. It wel comes the opportunity to do battle for them." HMM/ Raleigh,; Dee. 23;?Farmers hum! county, agents1-ate beginning to loot ftWmXo the 1R(1P againhtttfe' N? Wvfl.aN investigation tol ex tension workers art! preparing fSr %e jfray. During the^ past week C. A. Whittle; AJ? hehalf of .the AsHodatiofi of Southern Agricultural Workers, has been fix Ralegh^ securing data fcftd Results no! the. Worii o? Ithe year lroto the workers in.,the divisions pt tnfAXttr, *. ology and agronomy of ,4b?.Staff CW" lege ami department, Off agDQV^tnm^ Sjrailar data: ia rto..ha secuxfed, ifQjn other southern, st^ti^.with tfytLobiect of issuing a general i^4temeilh> jdr jfindirtgs'tind PeCdmWCUdWions when the association - meets id January at 3irmfesdlK& M-i.s'i;',}.. V ?< X n k NOTICE i ??? The Post Office Department an nounces Christmas a legal holiday., I There will no R. F. D. service that clay., patrons, are kindly urged .to majl early as to reach parties be fore that time- v a 'n1 > 1 1 . .! ???]? wef? jenwuraged by workers to
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