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G. A. ROUSE, Editor.
VOL. VI l
AXJOUST 20, 1915
Merchants I Get Wise
Let Us Write You an Ad.
and we'll open your eyes
WITH INCREASED BUSINESS
MORE THAN 25 MESS
MEN SIGN CREDIT BtiWKS
Credit Association Gets -Enthusiastic Welcome From
Farmville Merchants ? Will Be Fine F*lan.
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About 25 local merchants and
representative business men of
Farmville have signed the coQ'
, trad of organization for a credit
union aqd arc cooperating to
belter t|ie local credit and trade
conditions. Hearty endorsement
has been given the organization
and partically no opposition of
any kind has Win voiced aftvinrfi
the pro]c<fl. ''A meeting is to be
held in the near future when
k permanent plans of organization
will be adopted.
K. U. KcnLricl;, ^late ofjjan
ittt who has associated with
;t him J. "t. Henry, has been work
ing' up interest in the local
organization and will remain
here until every business man
and professional man has 'co
operated in the work. They will
theft; visit every merchant in
Beaufort, Pitt, and Martin coun
ties, getting their support in
making ouc'of (he be& Credit
Experience Guides of the &ate
in this district.
Mi'. Henry was in Raleigh Fri
day, where he addressed the
Raleigh Merchants Association.
Great tacere& was shbwn in the j
matter in ibat city. NVhole heart
ed support of the plan' was
pledged.
In Goldsboro, where the work
o ? getting up a Guide has ju4t
been completed, over, severity
five business men cooperated,
and in Wayne county 1 3C Signed
themselves as favoring the
proposition. The Guides Qf
Goldsboro and Raleigh, its Well
ns all other North Carolina
towns, are furnished the Farm
villc officc. In this manner a
quick rating may be obtained on
fill new comers within a radius
of 150 or 200 miles from this
dty- ' '? '?
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Year Through TMr Inability to
Oat Product* to Market.
$ ? - ! V ????[ f . #!,* Jgi
"Bad roads tn Wut Vtr?Wa crud
the auto tM.QM.000 a yaar." declared
A. D. Williams of Morgan town, state
road engineer, to a Washington Post
? representative tha oOtT day. "1 mean'
r by this that a *)east that much money
la wasted every year by reaaon of the
inability 'of the farmers to get their
products to market Th on tan 4* of
tons of apples and other fralt, garden
track and food puppUaa .U* allowed
to rot la the orch&rda and gardena
became (he roads are tdo bad to haul
It to taarkat Just to Illustrate, Joe
Bwope. editor of a county paper, noted
that he Was paying one dollar a bush
el Mr apples. A neighbor la en a*
Joining couaty, sixteen mUea away,
<V. ?-?
oendoua economical problem, sot
merely one of convenience. The *u
tomobllo undoubtedly hu been largely
I bkatrumeqtal in bringing about Die
good roads movement, or rather In
giving 'mpetaa to It. That and the
high coat of Uvlng are principal fac
tor* In tha general campaign now go
ing on In' many states foa good roads.
West Virginia this year will a pond
J5.O90,C0ft In Improving her hlghvayi,
tha different counties having voted
bbnda to that amount, and In tha
whole United States the amount aptnt
I foi good load* this year will probably
reach J360.000.000. Last year wo apent
about 1200.000,030, and tha increase
thla year will be fully 20 per cent. I be
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Millinery for the Late Summer
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Just now. whan It Is Ute for summer
and fan early for autuuo wlUlnffry,
the buying of a hat Is Intereatloc-rand
districting. But a good millinery max*
Im m*y t??tle one's m'.r.d, ir.dUiat ts,
when la doubt, choose a sailor. With
this abapo It la Impossible* t<? go
wrong, for they are made and trimmed
In such great Variety that everyone
may-.be anlted.
There Is a perioral widening of
brims In the latest uillon and much
efficient millinery work In finishing
them. Crowna are moderato In size
or small. . K Is to the management of
trimming tnat pne must look for origi
nality.
Corbean or dark navy btup with
white la a favorlto color combination
and as smart and effective ?* the ev
erywhere popular black and white.
For August, solid white, black ahd
white and dark blue awl while may be
depended - upor. as authentic good
style. These color combinations ap
peer In the body of the hat or <re
added to all-white shaifts In their
trimming.
Three sailors for the late summer
are shown In the group pictured. At
tSe left a wide-brimmed lut'of white
satin hai n white brim and dark bine
crown. The brim is bordered with a
wide flar.ge of the dark bluo satin.
A trig, spreading bow of ribban Is
made of dark bluo raolre laid over a
pluln white taffeta. It consists ot
loops that extend far beyond the
crown on which the bow la perched;
they reach to the edse of the brim at
the right aide. A look Jet pin la
thrust In the bow apparently fixing It
to the crown.
The hat at the center la In solid
white and the shape la ahown In My
oral materials, aa kid, aatln or straw
braid. Ita trimming la a band ot
heavy black and white atrlped ribbon
with tbo slmrlo.t ot bowa at tho front
eentercd with a pearl btickle.
Another all-white ahope la trimmed
with white ribbon having a wide aatln
border. Tbo almple tied bow. at the
front la mounted on the crown, wbicji
to of, the sloping variety. ' ^
Long stems, a alngle flattened daisy
in dark, rich dahlia ahadea, and om[
or two gloaay leaves in dark green
aro laid about the brim for trimming.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
z Large Jet Bsada.
There ta In many directions a pro
nounced vogue for large cnt Jet beada,
many acrvlng to finish off a doeolle
tage, placed cither In cloaa, serried
Unit, or at wide Intervals, united by
cbalna of smaller beads. Again a mass
of festooned- chaise la alung-'about
both ca-vag? and aklrt. while acquln
net frequently flguros aa a slim under
tklrt to a full tun{o of plain net.
READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS ? YOU'LL PROFIT THEREBY
UNITED STATESVVASV WEALTH
While Europe le Moving Backward
Thle Country I* Advarclng Toward
Still Greater Opulence.
Englieh economists have declared
that America's wealth grows five bil
lion dollars a year. Since the official
estimate of our national wealth three
years ego exceed* $187,000,000,000,
tho total today rauBt now have passed
beyond the two hundred billion
point. These figures ore colossal be
yond compare. They mean $2,000
of wealth for every inhabitant. They
represent more {han double the
wealth of the' United Kingdom, our
closest competitor, and they very
nearly match the combined wealth of
England, France and Germany.
' Our wealth is ten times that of
Italy, eight times that of Austria
and four times that of France. These
leading European countries aip~. now
tearing at one (mother's vitala and
destroying property much faster than
they can create it Hence alt Eu
rope is today actually moving back
ward while the 'United 8tatcs ia
sweeping swiftly forward to.* state
[of still greater opulence. Ours is
the land of plenty ; of peace and of
opportunity. These three factors are
'aiding powerfully in persuading the
individual investors of Europe to
hold fast their American securities,
since hern is the spot where their
capit&l will be freest of perils and
surest of winning a larger reward. ?
Philadelphia Ijedger. ,
LETTER8 OF WRATH,
Mother ? Cuthbert, what come*
after "R?"
Cuthbert? "S."
* Mother? And after "S?"
, Cuthbert? "T."
Mother? And after "T V
Cuthbert (with sudden anima
tion) ? Esther, and he kisses the gor
?rness. ? London Punch.
PROSE V8. POETRY.
I
Said She ? And would you be will
ing to die for me?
Said TTe? Not me ? but I would be
willing to earn a living for you.
PROMPT PAY
FAIR PAY
SLOW PAY-NO PAY
How Will You
Be RATED???
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; As every mail's credit record is of (he utmost importance to
him, we wish to ^ive every citiien amplr notice that they are being
rated? prompt pay, fair pay, slow pay, and no pay, according to
the w?y they \>ay their Do&or, Dentil, Druggie, Grocer, General
Merchant, Hardware, Coal Man, Rent Man, Jeweler, Furniture
De^erf Publisher and Printtr, and cverfone who extends them
credit As this book Is used by all business and professional, neo
of Farmvillc and vicinity is their guide in extending credit, we
. tru& that jou wtU find it to your best interest to call on anyone
o^'Wbom you may owe money and {My If you can't pay all
pay as much as you can, so > that 'tfc^^a?^ve^^^et ;^)d 'ifj
WOTHING CAN DAUNT WEST
Fihner'e Attitude a Pair Sample et
the Spirit That riaa Made the
Country Qreat.
Wearing on oilskin "slicker" and a
('60uVast" hat, a fanner of Miami
county, Kansas, mood out in th<
pouring rain on tlm edge of a lakr
af muddy water fr< in the creek thai
had overflowed anil mined his 50
aero field of corn. A aci*!;|jj: , p: --
Ing in a buggy, stopi>*d and shouted :
"Hello! Brooding over your
troubles?'1. ,. -
"Broodih* nothin'. I'm watchin'
thchi ducks. Ain't they liavin' a fine
time?" the farmer answered.
That is tho spirit that has made
Kansas ? nnd the entire West ? great.
Nothing can daunt these western
states. (J r a 8 s ho ppo rs , floods,
droughts, hot winds, tornadoes ? no
catastrophe can destroy the faith of
the' true Westerner.
Thousands of acres of crops that
promised v^cll are under water now.
But the waters will recede, leaving
a rich deposit of jilt upon the land,
u the Biver Nile enriches its lands,
the crops will be replanted, and the
added moisture in the soil will make
the yield bigger' than it would have
been; and- prices will be higher thin
they ever were.
All's jtell in the West I? Kansas
City Times.
THREE KINDS OF PUBLIC MEN
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Pavld LloydG?orge Claaalflo? Leaders
of Opinion In Military T?rni
Qulck-Flrsr Loads.
There are three kinds of men in
public life. I will tell ytSxt what they
ire, and in military terms. The firBt
is the heaTy gun. It fires slowly,
ponderously, with much effort, but if
the shells contain a good quantity of
high explosives, the havoc wrought
imongst t"he 'enemy is terrible. But
if they- don't ? and very often they
don't? they drop heavily into tho
clay, get thoroughly embedded there,
out of sight, and are absolutely- for
gotten ijntil in a future generation
some excavator picks them up as a
curiosity to point out t*\e sort of
weapon that was used in past dark
ages. That is tho heavy gun.
There is another ? the idealist, the
howitzer with a high trajectory,
pointing to the heavens, but fixing
a missile which comcs down with
crushing effect on the intrcnchmcnts
of tho enemy on the earth.
There is a third ? the quick-firing
gun, liming straight at the ranks of
the .mewy, firing unceasingly de
structive shot and shell, breaking
through the ranks and dispersing
them. ? David Lloyd-George.
ANOTHER "EXPERT" NABBED.
More light is thrown on a compli
cated situation by tLe arrest in New
York of Qustav 8 to hip, charged with
perjury; Herr Stahle, it will be re
called, evroro that tho Lusitania was
srmcd. If convicted, 99 years in a
safe institution would be about right.
Stahle is not a safe person to bo at
large in this country, and if guilty
he should be put where the wagging
of hia tongue cannot possibly do any
barm.
A "foot pound" Is the forco exerted
to ralso one pound a perpendicular dis
tance of one foot from tho earth.
The North'sOa, eorerftig an area ot
til, 000 square miles, has Us greatest
depth of 2,000 feet Boar tho Skaggor
Rak.
Wfcsui ir Yoa NwUflmul Took:
Tako Qrm's
The Old Standard Otove'a Tastelass
chm Tonic la equally valuable as a
OUMial Toole because it comaica the
n-tllkaown tonic lm>pertte?ol QUI KI^U
M^i IVct^ttu5l5oodtivca