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Tyson-May Descendants
Continue To Give Thanks
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Gathering Today To Be
Replica of Yesterday;
Dr. Deal to Address
Descendants Pioneer
Families
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Deacendents of the two pioneer fam
ilies Tysons and Mays, wfll come here
from all parts of North Carolina to
day to continue their Thanksgiving
holiday in a reunion event, which
will mark the 19th annual meeting of
the Tysons, and a reunion of the Ty
sons and Mays, who were again join
ed in an alliance several years ago
upon the celebration of the 160th
wedding anniversary of Mary Tyson
to Major Benjamin May having since
developed into one of the strongest
family groups in the state, with a
justified pride in their heritage of a
good name a firm determination for
its perpetuation, a reverence for tra
dition and devotion to their faith in
their forefathers and country.
The meeting will be held in the Ma
jor Benjamin May Chapter House, lo
cated on what is felt to be sacred
ground by the desendants of these
two families. J. S May of Kinston,
will preside, Rev. C. B. Mashburn, an
adopted son will give the invocation
and conduct the memorial service
Dr. R. C Deal, an instructor at
East Carolina Teachers College, will
be the main speaker at this time.
Introducing the speaker will be John
T. Thome, one of Farmville's earliest
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educators, teaching here in the year
1890, and being deeply interested and
closely allied with' the cause of edu
cation in Farmville and Pitt county
since that time. -
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Mayor Davis and Mrs. T. C. Turn
age, D. A. R. regent, will extend a ,
welcome to the assemblage, and offi
cers, who will speak briefly will in- .
elude W. G. Sheppard of Snow Hill,
Dr. M. L. Carr of LaGrange and .
Mrs. a S. Eiifkai" j
Dr J. Y. Joyner of LaGrange, and (
Andrew Joyner, of Rocky Mount, who (
are given special honor on these oc- ?
casions wffl conduct the family round
table discussion, and Miss Tabitha i
DeVisconti will have her usual fine (
genealogy report to present
The lunch a basket affair, will be
served in the banquet room of the ^
Chapter House.
FREE ClJNIC FOE CRIPPLES j
DEC. let nt GREENVILLE ,
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We wish to remind our readers of ,
the Statp. Orthopedic Clinic to be held }
Friday in Greenville, December 1st ]
from 12:30 to ,4 P. M. \
This clinic tikes all types of crip
ples, hath, white and colored* free, of j
charge who are unable to afford pri- ,
vate treatments. It is desired, though ]
not required, that patients he referred \
by a physician or the Welfare officer, j
and that the patient bring such note ,
to the Clinic.
The Clinic is sat up to serve especi- t
ally the Comities of Beaufort, Carter- <
et, Pamlico, Pitt and Tyrell, though ;
patients from other counties who de- :
sire to come may do so.
The CHnk in conducted by Dr. H.
A. Thompson, orthopedist, Raleigh,
North Tfcfc ttibfc has been
running for something over three
years and ? now serving a large num
ber of cripples, adults as well as
children, in this area.
The Pitt Comity Health Depart
ment Offices are located at the cor- j
ner of Third and Greene streets, in
Greenville, and it has recently ex
panded fts office facilities.
LOWERED
New railroad rates on cottonseed
cake and meat, which went into ef
fect recently, mean havings of close
to 50 percent on hauls of lees than
100 m2m, aad nearly 80 per cent
on distant en gUjftrij greater.
' INCWASE
consumption^ American tobacco fax
the export market, fit indicated by t|e
1940, with a aSbetmntial reduction in
U. & Bureau of Agricultural Econo
mics.
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WHO KNOWS T
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ir now many waraups nave me
Alliet Out an fast enough to ffrtr*
emnany'* pocket battleships ? "--;?
the same time?
State* to compel an rnmrtdual to ob
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REMEMBER
Santa Clans will visit Farmville
Friday night of next week, Decem
ber 8th. He is expected to arrive
about 7 -.30 o'clock and everybody is
invited to be np the street to greet
him. He will have something for
aO the young folks.
Cotton Quota Law
is Seingjnforced
Indictments Returned
Against Eight Cleve
land County Men Re
cently
Notice that the United States gov
ernment is enforcing the cotton mar
keting quota provisions of the Fed
eral Farm Act is contained in in
dictments recently returned against
eight Cleveland men in the U. S.
court for the Western district at
Asheville, says E. Y. Floyd, AAA
executive officer of State College.
When a farmer votes for market
ing quotas to balance production and
consumption, and cooperates by com
plying with the law, he can be assur
ed that other cotton producers will be
forced to do the same, Floyd oom- 4
ruented. "The Federal government is
ioing its utmost to make the program
one of voluntary crop control, as it is
intended to be," Floyd declared.
The eight men indicted at Ashe
rille arp all of Shelby. They will be
tried in the U. S. District Court at
Shelby on Marsh 18, 1940.
The facts on which the indictments 1
vere based allege that the defendants ]
falsified ginning and purchase rec
)rds 90 as to show that cotton pro
iuced by certain of them, which was 1
rabject to the marketing penalty, :
seas produced by others of the group
rhose cotton was not subject to pen- i
klty, thereby attempting to evade ,<
payment of cotton marketing penal- j
ties. J
Floyd pointed out that cotton <
growers will vote in a referendum ;
on December 9 to decide whether i
marketing quotas will be applied to 1
the 1940 crop. Quotas are necessary :
because supplies still exceed the av- ;
?rage consumption, he stated. <
When quotas are in effect, non-co
operators, or cotton producers on <
farms acreage aloments are knowing- :
[y overplanted, must pay a penalty, of 1
3 cents a pound on cotton marketed
in excess of the actual or normal j
production of their acreage allot
ments, the AAA officer explained.;
Rotation Bs Control -
For GranyiBe W?t
Tobacco farmtero know of the seri
ous losses incurred from attacks of
the blue mold (downy mildew) disease
m their plaint beds, and how it has
spread over the State in recent yean*
B?t Dr. Luther Shaw, Extension plant
pathologist of State* College, says
that most farmers have not had to
cope with Granville wilt, an equally
serious tobacco plant disease which
also is spreading.
"Records reveal that Granville jwilt
was 26 to 60 per cent more severe !
in 1989 than in 1938,"SMfe report!
ed. 'We cannot predict bow severe.
Granville wOt wffl be in 1940 and the
seasons to come, but we here to admit
jroblera for maay- years to come. It
aoDeanr to be less seven in seasons
that are cool and rainy."
The^^nsion spec^ 'said Aat
Effective land that contains ohm has
Omenta WM&
1789-1930
HE OBSERVANCE of Thaofcciviii* was timse
l?l/ crated when George Washington issued a Thanks
giving proclamation in 1789, the first year of his presi
dency ... thus far our earliest recorded history, Americans
"J*V
have thanked God for their blessings^ In our deepest na
tures, in our very souls, we, like all mankind, turn to God in
time of trouble and in time of happiheas. 'In God We Trust'."
Franklin 1>. Roosevelt
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STATE AND NATION ACKNOWLEDGE
PROVIDENCE OF SUPREME RULER
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Governor Hoey Issues
Thanksgiving Procla
mation in Spirit of
Washington
Governor Hoey said in his annual
Thanksgiving Day Proclamation the
seventh day of November that he was
proclaiming the traditional , last
Thursday of the month, November 30,
1939, as a legal hoiday in North
Carolina "in the spirit of Washington
and our first national Thanksgiving.
"One hundred and fifty years ago
George Washington the first presi
dent of the United States, issued his
first Thanksgiving proclamation, at
the request of the first United States
Congress during the first year under
a Constitutional government, and de
signated the last Thursday in Novem
ber as the day, which happened to
fall on the-26h of that year. The
preamble sets forth that 'it is the.
duty of all nations to acknowledge the
providence of Almighty God, to obey
His will, to be grateful for his bene
fits, and humbly to implore his pro
Keetioa
"In the body of the proclamation,
after recounting the blessings for
which the people should jeturn
thanks, President Washington farther
states tie purpose of the day, 'that
we may then unite in most humbly
offering oar prayers and supplica
tions to the greaj Lord and Ruler of
and-beseech Him to' pardon
our national and other transgresaions;
to enable us all, whether in public or.
private stations to perform our sev
eral and relative duties properly and
punctually; it*, render our national
government a- blessing bo all the
people by constantly being a govern
ment of wise, just, and constitutional
laws discreetly and faithfully exe
cuted and obeyed; to protect and
Igtdde all sovereigns and nations (es
pecially such as have showq kind
ness unto us), and to bless than with
good government, peace, and concord;
tice of tnte and
the increase of science among them
and us, and generally to. grant unto
all mankifid such a degree of tempor
al prosperity as he atone knows to be
best"
1 "flfcgs spirit^ Washington an?
Jay of the month, November ' 80th,
1989, as a legal holday in North Caro
lina and a . ..?;.,
DAY OP OENERAL
THANKSGIVING J
in our seven! places of worship on
de^^entt uj^
thousand and nine hundred and
thirty-nine and in the one hundred
and sixty-fourth year, of our Ameri-,
can Independence."
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I^George W. Davis, mayor of
the town of Famyfflfe. * hewb/.
set aside this thirtieth day ?f ffo-:
Thanksgiving Daylesjedaty cltt
upon *11 of the dtisenry of Farm
ville and eoaunnnity to thank God
for the many blcsainfs that He has
in a great town
comjmeedof the beat people in the
entire world; therefore, let's make -
wis WJrtily Thanksgiving Day. We
! to Qod for having
spared outlives and allowed us to
live in a find of plenty with so
many fine people,
GEORGE W. DAYIS, Mayor.
iJkT^
ville Rotary Club Tuesday evening
and was gladly received by almost a
hundred percent of the membership.
Gov. "Bill" made a very intererting
Ch * d S
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The annual campaign of the T#*1
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SS^^S^SSS^isconta!
7?f#5|: L~.,-" -j yuu. J !-7*r-j'^"<.. nti
chairman of fee local Sahj^ :.^;:?j
she would meet the sponsoring or
ganisation, the Literary Club, on
g^evw^hundred thousand Tnberen
?^^isil#iid6e^ *5aldii^2ijijderi't^BeihT theiihdltX^ihtiusUEBdw^ ?? I
tins county auring tne next montn.
Of this ntunber enly, 2(Pper cent oC
ional and state ^tt?? while-the
of 74 per cent will remain
in Pitt fomty ta b. used in riddtag
ft. ^.n ?d Mp
tng those who have the disease and
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and His Father
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Robert Wadlw, 21, Be-2
lkved To Be TaUest >
vNert "
Will Be A Guest at The t
Turnage Co. Store
5:30 in I
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This is a tall, tall' story about an
AltoiS, 111., boy who is believed to We a
the world's tallest person. His name v
is Robert Wadlow and lie will be a t
spOcUd visitor 'in Farmville Thursday a
afternoon December 7ttu ? < S
- Robert, who is now 21* years of. e
age, was born Feb. 22, 1918. He was t
a normal child weighing only 8 1-2 s
pounds at birth, at six months he c
weighed 89 pounds end today he t
weighs 491 pounds. He is 8 feet, t
9 1-2 inches ^taH. Physicians who a
examine irirn^ twice a year expect o
hish-to roach nine feet, ,|n the last I
12 months he has growa^ 1 1-2 in- >
due. He wears size 87 shoes and l
a 19-jneh collar. *? His overcoat would
hide an ordinary automobile.
Hewhtts wife * cute which is 5
feet long and is traveling about the
country to * 7-passenger automobile. p
The roof of the car comes just to n
his waist* 1;
Soft, who>.? toar <rf >,
ttewunttjr will1?* j
Tbrnage Co., in Farmville, from 4:30 J
to 5:80 next Thursday - afternoon, ?
December 7th.
HkW.Sp<*et*r ]
place for Christmas but Bob's young- f
e* brother has spoken /or them.
?wyhi^l? |
?xception; handkerchiefs. Even tiei ?
are too short His gloves, made of [J
liather, look like saddle bags and at .
af glance 'you would say they would
ekdf "hold* peek of potatoes&Sii '
?At tome J
jjotel accommodations a bit cramped
J^^^under four blankets stitched '
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j nnM j . J
Eam ^FHIA^S^A CftfldAn SSava
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Hundreds of colored lights, inter
iperdng the^thousands of yardsdf ?
Streets of the business section, and
iombined with huge stars sai nutt
ers of lighted Christmas trees on
he sidewalks will provide for tho
lolidays here a gay scene and vie '
ritbjiecoratiohs of last year, said to r
e the most beautiful of any prert- ?
us .
Santa dsns will arrive from the .
rosea North Friday night, Decern*!
er 8th and will be Warmly greeted
iy Mayor Davis, other town officials,
he Lexington Band, Jr. Order U. A.
?? Orphanage and practically every -
hild in the community.^!' ; ?
Prizes for Chrfctmas DeeoratJohs
Best Store Window 0 1st prise,
7.50 cash; 2nd prize, *8.50 eash. f'
Best Store Interio^-lst Prize,
6.00 cash; 2nd prize, $2.50 cash.
Best Outdoor tree 1st prise,*
9.95 double waffle iron; 2nd prize,
4.96 five eup coffee perrtlatoir;ri
Best Outdoor Lighting Display?'
st prise, $19.75 Mixmaster; 2nd
irize, $8.25 crystal coffte hfiker. 0
Beet Outdoor Tree?1st prize, $8.95
even . cup electric coffee percolated';
nd prize, $8.96 single waffle iron.
Best Interior Home Decoration?
st prize?$16.95 doable toastmaster;
hd prize,-$6.00 table lamp.
Best Home Decorfctions Outside of
'own Limits (within radius of four
lilea) ? 1st prize-, $10.50 indirect
ay Hour lamp; 2nd pr&e, $635 elec
ric percolator (4 cups).
Decorations of various kinds and
ruletide scenes Will be found in the
hop windows, where samples of the ?
arge stocks ofr Christmas gifts are
ffectively arranged.
The merchants and City Fathers
xe cooperating splendidly . in pro
iding Farmville with a festive- set
ing for the Christmas celebration
nd when the Christmas trees inside
mi outdoors are illuminated, the
andle-lit wreaths begin to glow in
he windows and the streets to w i
ound with the joyous shouts of the
hildren,. citizens Will forget for the
ime bring their disappointments of
he past year, the foreboding future
nd all will live again in the bop*
4 reviving the spirit-of "Peace on
Sarth, Good Will To Men." ; .
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Floyd Explains Why
Cotton Quotas Used
For the bat two seasons cotton
croducers of the Nation have used
larketing quotas in conjunction with
he Agriculttttal Conservation Pro
iram. On Saturday,' December 9,
hey will vote on whether they want
aarketrng quotas for the 1940 cotton
rop.
E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive ofll
er of State College, saya that quotas
ire designed to forestall further in
naasesin our already large cotton
upply and to protect the markets of
armere who plcnt within their acre
ge allotments to earn soil-building ,
... 'L1|. TT I mnnfvt ?4 ttl J, > t ^ *
tayments. unrestriciea xnttuongB
Mid to defeat the efforts of "those
/ho are trying to adjust the demand *
o the amount produced and sold, he '.V
WSrai* -
.Sectary of Agzj^Hme Wallace
ias set the 1940 National cotton ac
eage allotment at apj??*imatt||t 27 " 1
o 28 million acres, about the same as
tr 1988 and 1989. Floyd said that ?; M
lis office is-striving to work out the $ 'l
? ??T n , A.WT;^ .-7- ftiv k;
noiviauai. allotment or evcrjr cotton ? $ ?
inner in North Carolina before &ft
low much'cottoti hte can plant nest
rear/Mhe *AAA officer siid.
retort
ie^ranff ^woarti itt its November 1
sport.
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GOOD
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