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MISS IVES ATTENDS MEETING OF B. AND P. CLUBS Miss Cora Belle Ives who is spend ing a month in Maine on a vacation trip, attended the National Federa tion of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs at Portland, Maine, last week, as a delegate from the lo cal club. The following extracts from a letter to the president of the local club will be of interest to some of our readers: “I went over to Portand on last Tuesday to the convention. I never saw so many women in all my life, and most of them were old women- I had the good luck to run up with Miss Rid dick (Miss Riddick represemted the Raleigh club) in the Registration Hall and she helped me a great deal- On the day I was there only 22 delegates and alternates had registered from North Carolina. Portland surely en tertained them—but I will give a more detailed account of that later.” “The weather here today has been foggy and cold. Harpswell Center is a peninsular on Casca Bay, which is salt water, and of course we get a great many mists and fogs. There are 365 islands in this bay. The other day I was at Look Out and saw a good size seal swimming nearby.” I have seen several things of in terest since I have been here that I have read about. The Shenandoah, the giant dirigible, passed over this place on July 4, on its way from Lakehurst, N- J., to Barbor, Me. Later I went over to Meade’s Point, not many miles away from here where the world av iators made their first stop in Amer ica after their flight around the world. The state of Maine has erected a stone there to these aviators.” “Other points of interest near here include Eagle Island, one of the many islands of Casca Bay, where the sum mer home of the late Admiral Perry is located. In Brunswick, Me., nine miles from here is Bowdoin College, where Longfellow, Hawthorne, Ab bot, Admiral Perry, and Elijah Kel log and others attended college. There is a church on the college cam pus about which a story is told that Harriett Beecher Stowe got her in spiration here to write “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” In Portland I saw the home of Longfellow and also the statue erected to his memory.” “We expect to leave here on the 81 st and will spend two days in New York City on our way home.” Extracts from a letter to Judge Brooks state: “We are the only Southern girls here and the people seem to take de light in doing anything for us- Ev eryone is especially pleased with Frances’ voice and she has sung in a good many places. (Miss Frances White, voice teacher in the school here is with Miss Ives.) They just make us talk to hear our “brogue.” I know you would enjoy the sea food we have, but as for me I do not care much for elams, lobsters and shrimps, and I shall be glad once again to get a good old biscuit, fried chicken and green vegetables. Here they are just having the strawberries and their gardens have just begun to grow” A Watermelon For Everybody Mr. C- L. Johnson, who guards the railroad crossing on Main street, says that last Friday five trains of an av erage of 80 cars each passed here on their way North loaded with water melons. That means 400 car loads of wa termelons going on the market in one day over one road. The melons were shipped from Georgia and Florida. Ftom that sec tion the Seaboard and Southern rail ways also haul an immense quantity of truck all this accounting for the fact that one may see plenty of Southern grown watermelons on the market in any of the northern cities at any time.—Benson Review. Affairs of First Concern “I conceive it to be the highest duty of government to see that the citi zenry is healthy, happy, intelligent*, and productive. Hence, a represent ative system of public education, an efficient program of health beter ment, rural improvement, care of tihe afflicted, adequate law protection, and the creation of sound public sentiment toward all matters touching the cit izen and the State are all Affairs of First Concern in government. They are maters of economy and not sen timent, because they conserve the State’s greatest assets, the manhood and womanhood—the realproducers— and the health and happiness of all the citizens. To see that measures de signed for such improvement of the life of the citizenry as a whole are adequately met out of the State’s finances is not extravagance; it» is the only kind of sensible, cumulative economy.”—From Gevernor McLean’s Inaugural Address, January 14, 1925. MEMBERS OF TOBACCO GROWERS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION We have ample room to handle your tobacco and can have it graded for you at regular grad ing charges. J. N. Cobb W ar ehouseman SMITHFIELD, N. C. #! What It Means to You! In three years of cooperative marketing in Virginia, North and South Carolina the average price of tobacco, exclusive of war prices, has been twelve cents higher than the average for twenty-four years prior to the or ganization of the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Asso ciation. The opponents of cooperative marketing will say that the average price of other farm products has shown an increase in the past three years also. That is true. They will not tell you, however, that the PURCHAS ING POWER of the tobacco increase has, during these three years, been greater than the purchasing power of any other farm dollar. Why will they not tell you this also? When the opposition propagandist tells you coopera tive marketing of tobacco won’t do, ask him to suggest a substitute for it. If he’s sincere, he ought to be able to offer a better plan. But if it isn’t going to be coop erative marketing, orderly marketing, What Will It Be? ~ It’s Your Nut to Crack! THE TOBACCO GROWERS COOP. ASSOCIATION rr‘The Agency of Service” 1000 Satisfied Customers / v W. W. JORDAN E. S. EDMUNDSON M. A. WALLACE JORDAN-EDMUNDSON HARDWARE CO. : CUTLERY—GUNS HARDWARE OF ALL KINDS : and AMMUNITION STOVES and RANGES SMITHFIELD, N. July 24, 1925 : Mr. R. A. Smith, Jr., " Smithfield, N. C. ~ Dear Mr. Smith: I want to thank you for the prompt and equitable way in which your Company - paid the two hail policies which you wrote me. I am confident that your Company " paid every dollar which I would have otherwise lost on account of hail. Both Mr. Strickland on on; farm and Mr. Anderson on the other farm are de lighted with the adjustment you made, and as a result of our taking out this ' insurance I feel sure what damage the hail did has been fully paid by your Company. Yours very truly, W. W. JORDAN \. .. f '■ s Kodaks Films Films Developed and Printed Morris Candies PEELE DRUG STORE PRINCETON, N. C. Perfumes Toilet Articles Itubber Goods Cigars & Tobacco Stationery July 24th, 1925. Mr. Roger A. Smith, Jr. Smithfield, N- C. Dear Roger: I am in receipt of your draft drawn on the United States Fire Insurance' Company, for full settl- ment for the loss by fire of my tobacco barn on July 17th. and I thank you for your prompt settlement. Wishing you continued success in the Insurance business as I consider it the best protection a man can carry, I beg to,remain, Yours very truly, C. S. PEELF k-_ ROGER A. SMITH, JR. Insurance : • Loans ^ : Surety Bonds Office Opposite Court House Phone 288
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