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1\EBBUARY 16, 1817
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All of The Passengers, Eight of
Which were Americans, Are
Reported as Saved. Six other
Ships Made Up a Total of The
Day's Destruction.
As if to furnish conclusive
v proof of Austria Hungary's ad
herence to the German U boa?
decree, as Austrian submarine,
flying no flag, yesterday destroy
ed by a bomb the America^
schooner Lyman M. Law bound
from Siockhold, Main, for Pal;
ermo, Sicily.
The crew, which includes eight
Americans has been safely land
ed.
The news of the schooner's,
destruction came in dispatches'
to the department late yesterday
afternoon from Consul General
Treadwell at Rome. *
From the information that the
vessel was "destroyed by a
bomb" it is presumed that the
submarine held her up and
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Lambert do 2,195 tons, Lyman
M. Law, American, 1,300 tons,
two trawlers. Total 13,399 tons.
Previously Reported
93 ships 200,620 tons.
Grand Total
100 ships 214,019 tons.
OF F/IRMVILLE
IIP AND DOING
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The Civic Club held a very
enthosiastic meeting last Thurs
day afternoon. Though the bad
weather very little work has been
accomplished but every com
mittee has been making plans lor
the spring. The work of improv
ing our cemetary, under the ef
ficient chairmanship of Miss
DeVisconti, is going on ju& as
rapidly as the weather permits.
She has secured a care taker for
the lots that bave been taken and
the town is having the Greets
cleaned and graded and also im
proved fee street leading to the
cemetery.
Another Committee was ap
pointed to call a meeting of the
whole club to spend one day in
setting out an ever green f '
all around the cemetery.'
Club would appreciate *
"Farmville Commun
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i mmerce Publicity
To be Known as
Edition of
This Edition will be Larjily Circulated by the Cham
ber of Commerceandffhe Enterprize, and will be
Especially Designed to Attract those Making Inquiry
of Farmyille and CoftuxfoityAround. Co-operation
of every Citizen who hgtHelped to Make this Town
and Section what it is Today is Desired, and Same
is Essential in tteX&Mykl Progressive Move.
Do Wft a* wtizens, realize ti
we have one of the bes tow
io one of the be& counfyies in
be* State of the Union? ?
father realize that every prophi
of the future of Farmville ?
this section has been fulfill
and what has already been
complished is but a forecast
lies just ahead of us? Do
realize, however, that we"(
double our population within i
next few years by the prq
advertising of our community
best development arid t
what the F.ARMVIIXE
to tell of the
which this year will receive
Fifty Thousand ($50,000.00) more,
in taxes from new settlers in that
county, ai a result of ADVER
TISING that has been done
through concerted ADVER
TISING efforts of the business &
professional men and interests,
f^ij^lown in the State of North
Carolina has made such won^ier
P^deytmumcipal and gene
rfel dg$g(p&neDt during the pa&
s Farmville has made.
Her publicspirited and progres
mmteDs have contracted
future, through the proper AD
VERtlSINO of what we now
havetooffcr the Investor, Home
seeker, and Industrial Operator.
The Farmville Enterprise be
lieves Ibis is an. opportune time
totell about our expansion, to
summarize some of the big thin gs
that have been accomplished.
All this arid more* witt be herald
ed in a mammoth edition of the
Farmville Enterprise, now in
course of preparation, and which
will be called the "CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE PUBLICITY
EDITION" *>F THE FARMf
VIU.E ENTERPRISE.
U wife be a newspapef inevery
respect worthy of the splendid
community it represents and the
?ne^8gt ? fell
ment to have tne nearly co
operation of every business and
professional man and Wide-a
wake citizen in the community
in this endeavor, for the best
town in the best - county, in the
best State of the Union.
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Citizens of this country should |
realize that they are on the brink
of war. The German submarine
campaign may cause the loss of
American, ships and lives at any
time. The president has declar
ed he will go to war to proted |
America Tights on the high seas
if they are thwarted by the sub
marines.
. In )he meantime the first week'
of the new German war measure |
showed a loss of more than 100,
000 tons for the shippers of the
world. Seventy thousand tons
were the result of the) la& two
days of the fir^t week and as the
period of grace is over it seems
as if the undersea boats can be
counted upon to sink merchant !
ships faster than before the unre-|
stricted war was declared.
Their activity has caused seve
ral near "overt acts" and each
went
have
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who fsiyom war' write to their
congressman, or better &il], write
to the war department, offering
your services. Only in this way
can the activity oMhe pacifies
be overwhelmed, because, they
ate writing letters and writing
then?
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How to Better the Race.
It seems to bei; aha^*natter
for some people to underhand
that whcaxJhey1 lower themselves
they are hurting' the entire mem
bership of the race to which they
belong In the long run the race
has to pick up and carry alon$
all the bad members as well as
the good, and whatever tends to
keep down the average condi
tion of the member* of the race
tends to hurt the race itself. % ;v.
So flie nexttfrne you are tempt
khich you
edtodo sot
would not like all your fellow
men Rowing about think of
A come after you,
whfcbthey
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LARGEST IP
if
Was a Freighter with a Tonage
of 1 1 ,999. Vi&im of German
U-Boat? Germany Announced
She Would No Longer Warn
the Neutrals.
London, Feb. 13.? The biggest
freighter in the world, the White
Star Reamer Africa, of 11,999 tons
fell victim today to unrestricted
U. boat warfare. Seventeen of
the crew are missing. She is the
biggest prize exacted by the
German submarine since the
decree went into effect. Her
loss brings the total number of
ships known to have been de
^royed in thirteen days up to 91.
with an aggregate tonnage of
200,433.
The biggest vessel sent to the
bottom prior to the Africa's de
struction was the British Reamer
California, of 8,662 tons. The
third largest lo? was the Port
Adelaide, British, 8,100 tons.
The Africa had never been in
American pqrt, haying piled
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. Another vessel sunk today was
the Foreland, British; of 1,960
tons. ;
The last shreds of restriction
for neutrals 'were torn off the
"barred zone" today by the Ger
man admiralty which announced
that after midnight, Feb. 12, no
warning can be expected by any
vessel and the U-boats now reign
supreme and hold free sway. * ^
Reported Tuesday
Africa, British, 11,999 tons.
Foreland, British, 1.960 tons. | l r
Total 2 ships with 13,959 tons, "
Previously reported 186,474
tons. Grand total: ninety one
ships with 200,433 tons. '
Summary of ships sunk;,
American 1; other neutrals 33;
British* 50; other belligerents 7.
Total 91.
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; Services next Sunday morning,
and Christian Endeavor at 630,
but bo preaching scpjc&at night
Subject for Sunday morning will
the Gospe!." Your presence nrfM
be appreciated at theae services.
-W. P. Jordan, Pastor. f mUt
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