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Entered in the Poet Office at Farm ville, -N.>? m second class mail matter. <17* ? ? ffigjfcAY, WARCfi 28, 1919 ? ? ? . ; ? - What about a Co*ton: Stoa^e Warehouse for Farroville? This ?s something that wouldybe as much benefit to the- farmer as anything we could do. b there someone looking after plans and specifications for Fannviile's newj and modern school building ' to be erected ibis summer and fall? If not this imtprfant matter should re ceive prompt attention. There is no need putting this off anoth er year. ? 1 ? 1 ? "I II > * ? rnmmmmm FIVE CEfCTS; What is a nickel worth? it Of and by itself not much, you may think. . ? tfeve.lheless, a ntckle saved gives you, without waiting, the interest earnings of a whole dol kr for a whole year. And a nickel, wanted means a dollar put in an old sock, hiduV%away, and made useless for three hund red and sixty fiv* days at least Saving is the ^ foundation of thfift Thrift stops waste, in creases wealth and builds pros perity. i These are some of Ibe things the War Loan Organization of the Fifth Federal Reserve Dis trict is frying to impress upon the people of this community. These thoughts make us who hive - ha?! . Httle respect- for nickels, dimes and dollars stop and think. They shouid make us lake a persomjl inventory and decide if there ace ways in which we caiv sa^\;They should make us cut out our It 18" merely a question 6f thinking in interest. For instance, if every person ta4he United Stales saved one little, insignificant nickel in ope day, it would 'mean (hat. at night on lhahday the veof^A wouki be |ust five million dollars richer. And then suppose the people kept this up for one month? It would mean>lhata the end of 30 days they would have saved one hundred and fifty million dollars. 1 Why not keep it up for the restoUW What woold be the resist? ?ne billion five hun dred million, founds like a lot of wowk foi?one little nickle 10 <io do#en*t iti yet therenre scor States which arfc paying big dividends on the little nickels gathered day by day. ; f This immense sum if invested in War- Savings Stamps would' earn for the savers approximiaie ly sixty four million dollars in 193ft- ? the work of "old man interest", who never takes a day off and who is continuously on the job. Just thitifc what the resgjt would be if very individual saving and investment were carried inlo dollars and hund reds of doHars. This nation must now depend upon its own .peo ple to finance its great Govern! men t projects and all of its own industrical development. To do this we mu|tf learn produce more, to eliminate waste, to save and invest wisely. Once ;What is a nidtel Learn to think u pets to eet (he $001 .-fiE&k ... -r-v The Boc the To*n Election wDlt open from March 24th, ti 18th, allthose eotiUed to traliou are reqoirea to i on or before the close, books oif cfeiDK dsrt l&ih. - ^LisL Office at W. M-Xeo* - 1 -w *>? .?? i. -.?^Vr!Ve*' : a vital of N< I m VAy:. get it for you you pay
The Farmville Enterprise (Farmville, N.C.)
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