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Now- in the missis When a fanner has {Raked his | hopes ott one crop lor producing: "h the money necessary forhim:o * live andkeep his family in com fo?t, he is taking a gambler's i chance, according to Mr. C R. ?4 Hudson, who, through the med iant of the County Agricultural Agents, is planning a "Safe Farm I iaf campaign. It is not safe to . plant one crop any one year. given this crop, it may bring a - IG&taKaHBi* ? . # rF- Svrgg m f - r Saturday evening unless the rail Irjads grant their eigfct hour day demands were ratified here today by local u nion leaders from south eastern teritoiy,' and by a simi lar conference of representatives of the southwest held atSt Louis. The brotherhood heads will tell the railroad conference com mittee in New York Thnrsday that if an agreement is not reach ed this week for the e^ablish mfcnt of an eight-hour basic day with time and a half for over time firike orders already issued to local organisations will be come effective. Th? demands are just what they were ia& fall, when" President Wilson averted a ^rike after the call was out by iadacing Congress jo pass the Adamson law,' which never jias been put into effect, pending a decision on its constitutionality by the Supreme Court, ? *? m ' w ? -?We '' ?: <g? "?<?'' , , Dance tunes are said to hdp penmanship. Now if some one will invent a pocket phonograph we may be able to read some^of the letters we get. in Eastern North Carolina and serve also, to break down the old time prejudice against the Sock law, will be held in Wil mington March 28 29 when there will be a gathering of those in* teresled in &ock raising to wit nessan exhibition of breeding. n arrang ment Sta vice, the of Gom sra Settle ? Washirigton,_M for more or tew ] among the neutra broke with ledto m Wilson'fec brtakbrji bring forth 1 officials belli several of the 11 nations would WHson re disclosed t?^ atorsforAmeri 10 Wave iutereSs ? wilithfunited n ?1 Paso and * jbAye jgven linsoverMfe^ rranza*6wani? ilson. S-'V || You Bentstorff s Opmioifc- j Lonjiont March 13?In the' course Of a# interview granted to the Copenhagen corre?pon anExchanfeeTelegrsph despatch, Count von Ber^orf^ interrogat ed as whether he thought there depends on our U-boat !. If we sink an Amcri i> we shall get war. If not feed me correspon ly sinks any British American citizens this Count von Bera&off >d: 4<That kali the same." New York, March 12.? Accord ing to reports current in the fssssznax of ^l?f? S the entente powers. The $41,000,000 which came la&' Saturday from Canada was said to hare contained.aconside rable amount of gold shipped from Petrograd by way of the Trans-Siberia^ Railroad from Vallfvo&ok to Vancouver. Some French gold also figured in this particular consignment, accord of police under command of Major Joseph Norton was sent tonight to Boonton, N. j? % the Jersey City authorities to guard the seven billiop gallon reservoir which forms the water supply of J ersey City. The lesevoir has a shore line of eight niiles. ' ?1 This &e'p was taken immediate* ly upon the disclosure of an al leged German plot to dynamite the dam of the resevoir which holds in check enough water to flood the entire^ Rocka way and Passaic valleys. So argent did the Jersey; City commissioners corisiderljhesitua tion that they telephoned to the governor ani implored him to send the militia for guard duty. | They toldihe governor that if the dam were dynamited the : waten rpleased.would wipe out military service. He then order ed the comander of the national guard-to furnish the men with rifles and other military accout rements, as a preliminary &ep toward protection of the dam, until father measures could be taken. Spreadihg Out tite Civil Service. Po?ma?er General Burleson has announced that the president hos decided to put all first, second the civil service by an execative order to become effective on the fir? of next month: President Taft before he left his office placed the fourth class poU ma$er within the rule* and if the president Clicks to hid determi nation all po&rna&ers hereafter
The Farmville Enterprise (Farmville, N.C.)
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