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MEETING HELD TUESDAY NIGHT AND AN ENTERTAINMENT
COMMITTEE APPOINTED. PLANS SUBMITTED T9 RAL
EIGH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR THEIR AP
PROVAL. PROGRAM NOT YET COMPLETED
AWAITING 0. K. FROM THE VISITORS
Let the People of FannvHIe Take Advantage of This Opportunity
to Get Better Acquainted With the Real Live Boosters of Our
Capitol City. They are Scheduled to Reach Farmvitle
Wednesday Morning July 26th at ft :35. A Brass
v Band Will Accompany Them - /
At a called meeting by Mayor
Ben. A- Joyner Tuesday night,
in the city ball, of the represent
alive men of Parmville, a com
mittee of five, consisting of May:
or Ben. A. -Jojner, Jno. T.
Thorne, Walter G. Sheppard, J.
Loyd Horton and J. B. Moore,
Jr., was appointed from the floor
on arrangements for the enter
tainment of the Raleigh Cham
ber of Commerce and Sociability
Club; after which the committee
;t in special session and per
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In lheir published schedule,
the stop over in Farmvitig in
eluded only fifteen minutes, but
the committee hopes to be able I
to have them arrange'to spend a
much longer time than this a
mong us.
The commitieee ??? putting
forth every effort and will leave
notk?* undone for their enter
tainment while in Farmville.
Iris to be hoped that every one
called upon by ammittee
will lend' rtieir hearty co opera -
tiOi^^waiD^itttfq: eveiy detail
of t|e arrangements a great sue
source from which the Mexiclh
go vermeil t can secure the finan
cial assistance of which it stands
so distressingly in need. That
is from the U. S. And we,
strangely enough, seem to be
witting to furnish the gold that
will enablethem to regain their
position and ultimately turn their
guns against us again.
No sooner had Carranza an
nounced his desire to re-open
diplomatic relations with U. S.
that thel information was allowed
pto filter out tbat he was in the
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tion of another slice of
"bacon," There patriotism ;ap
| pears to begin at one end.of the
pocketbook and end at the other.
, The Mexican is an adept at
playing good Indian when h?
has something to gain, and the
first chief greatly desires Amen*
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can gold. ? } ? v % ;%? ? g
He may get it,but if he does
we will probably soon be receiv
ing bullets in return for it instead
of interest money.
Keep both eyes on the good
Indian, and dof't let him come
too close to you tn the dark. ' %
Tbeepideic of infantile
ate tvhioh Viae kaon ram
July 8,
Thirteen Deaths, Property
Aggregating Fifteen
Dollars. Many Houses
Manufacturing Plants
ed. Seven Bridgi
Away and Oops
Tell the Story of the ]
Western Carolina.
The followiSBa brief
mary of the food losses for
past few days: *
Thirteen persons dpad, at least
ten . missing and property esti
mated at around $15,000,000, is
the known toll of the floods
which have raged in five South
ern States for the past 48 hours.
Although the waters are re
ceding in nearly all -di^lHcts and
railrcad and telegraph communi
cations are demoralized and re
ports from towns and villages
now isolated may increase the
number of deaths and the proper
ty loss.
North Carolina, South Caroli*
na, Virginia, Tennessee, ; and
l^esfigreinia alt suffered heavy
damage from the overflowing
streams, swollen *
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Att but one of the dead- were
white.
? The mining:
Ten Southern Railway con
struction men who went down
with the Southern bridge near
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manzed
y damage is sum
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as follows:.
North Carolina: ' Asheville?
Twenty-five industrial plants de
stroyed, including cotton and
lumber mills, machine shops and
coal and feed yards/ Sixty resi
dency in the lower part of the
city washedaway and 400 per
of
Power and gas
lers
warehouse, three
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cSLr^? T0 arra^e for get-to.
at whkh amE HELD ,n m NEAR roraiE,
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ganization That Coold Possibly be Perfected Here Would
Jfore Toward Keeping Farmville iis the Limelight as a
regressive Town TTbaq an Active Chamber of Com
zation is Now Assured. Committee at Work
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| udgiog from the enthusiastic
held Tuesday pight in
t town hall, Farmville is to or
jmber of Comm?
latter that
_ itfn by our busU
and professional men for
some titne, although no active
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have heretofore been taken
BBfi&ecting its organiza
wine a short address by
Walter G. Sheppard,
pf the town, and to also-arrange
for a. "get-to-gemer" meeting to
be held in the near future. Promi
nent speakers from this and other
States will be secured to deliver
addresses before the assembly,
after which an informal dinner
With refreshments will be served.
The committee in change is
it of Waller G. Shep-1
iairman; J. Loyd Horton,
J. W. Holmes, Dr. Paul E. Jones
T. Martin, who wiU')ose|
time in making the necessary
:ements for the initial meet
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ine organizing 01 a i_,uamuet
of Commerce lor Farmville isn!
deed a long needed step forward
for the town's future progress*
and for the keeping constantly
ill; the limelight of the State and
le, and now that a <
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Miss Fields'
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Miss Martha Fields has been
hostess of a house party the past
week at which the following
guests weje present: Misses Oli
vera Cox, Winterville; Annie
May Fuller, Raeford; "? Nfromi
Poole, Kin5ton;JBeulah Speight,
Winterville^ Cora Bell Sloan,
Montreat; Carrie Yelverton, Fre
mont, and Messrs George and
Edwin Fuller, Raeford,
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tion was given in their honor.
On the following evening much
fun was afforded by an old fash?
ioned party at which Miss Annie
May Fuller won the prize as the
most old-fashioned. Saturday
evening the merry party motor
ed to Farm ville where an enjoy
able evening was Spent attending
the movies. The guests enjoy
ed Monday evening at a camp
supper given by Miss Ila Fields
in a pine grove lighted by Japa
nese lanterns. After a pleasant
evening the guests departed with
songs to Miss Fields. On Tue?;
day e vening t?ere was a hay ride
to the home of Misses Sue and
Lydia Rasberry where fruit was
served.
. The reception on Thursday
evening was given in honor of
the house party guests, and the
Misses Trultt Thompson, Lossie
Davis and Mary Barrtfte who
were guests of Miss Ila Fields.
The house was beautifully dee
orated, the color scheme -being
pink and green.i. Candles in the
house, and Japanese lanterns on
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The Farmville Market in Better
Shape to Handle Tobacco
Than it Has Ever Been in
Its History Declares Those in*
Position to Know.? Nothing
Being Left Undone That Will
Give Aid to the Customers
of the Market.
At a recent m^etingof the To- ,
bacco Board of Trade, j|t was de
ridedtoopen the tobacco Market
for the coming season on*Aug. 15.
Never in history has the Farm
ville market been in^ as good
shape to handle tobacco as it
will be during the coming ve&r.
Many improvements have been
made in the warehouses, and the
factories and this is sure to be a
banner year with out market.
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Nothing is being left undone thai :
could be aid to the customers of
tljh market for the sale of leaf to
Ifmcco in North Carolina.
"Twenty-Third" Sam
t I. My wife is my boss, I shall
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company come, and she leadeth
me behind her up Main Street
3. She restoreth my pockci
book after she has 'spent all its
contents on hobble skirts and
theatre tickets, and she leadeth
me up the main aisle at church
for her new hat's sake.
4. Ysa? though I wal|c more
than half the night through daik
rooms with a crying baby, I will
get no rest, for she is behind mo:
her broomstick and her hatpin,
they do everything btfl Comfort
me.
5. She prepa reth a cold snack
for me, then maketh a beeline
for an &id society supper. Stie
annointetd my bead with the
rolling pin occasionally. My
arms runneth over bundies. be
fore she .is half done her shop
ping.
6. Surety her dress-maker'!
and Millinery bills shall follow
me all the da^'8 of cay life, and i
willdwell in thefh ouse of my
wife forever.? Ex.
Among those that ?vent on the
Excursion to Morehead City last
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