FA8MVILLE ENTERPRISE
Publ^ged by the Rouse Prinjery
Entered in the' Post Office at Parm
ville, N. C., as second class mail
matter.
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FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1920
Secretary Post Enter* a Protect
Against Closing Investigation
Washington. ?Assistant Secretar>
of Labor Post wrote Chairman Camp
bell of House Rules committee, pro
testing against dosing of investiga
tion of his official conduct in alien
deportation proceedings without giv
ing him an opportunity to be heard.
Mr. Post charged that the house em
migration commit lee had withheld
"important and, impartial testimony
which he believed to be favorable to
me" in presenting a review. ?
Gift of $5,OCO Hat Is Declined
By Wife of President of France
New York. ? President Deschanel of
France has refused to permit Mme.
Deschanel to accept the |5,000 hat of
fered her by 3,000 American milliners
for her endorsement of the "four sea
sons for millinery."
This was announced when a letter
was read from Ambassador Jusserand
declining the American creation made
from materials 3 by eich of the
41 States and decorated, with nine
paradise plumes, each costing ?500.
f Two Years te (lapse Before All
Our Dead Can Be Brought Homi
Paris.? Two ysara will elapse be
tar* all the bodies of American sol
tiers and marines saa .be exhumee
from their graves in the battle sen?
and taken to the United States.
Nathan Straus Mskss $100,000
N v Gfft te University of Palestine
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New York*? Announcement of t
gift of 1100,000 by Nathan Straus foi
establishment for a medical research
and health service department of the
University of Palestine was macte by
Rabbi Stephen Wise.
Arrest Made of Woul4-Be 8treet
Speakers at DuQuesne, Illinois
Pittsburg, Pa.? Six men who at
tempted to apeak at a street meeting
of the National Committee of Ironr and
Steel Workers and the American Civii
Liberties Union in DuQnesne, a steel
town near here, were sentenced to
serve thirty days in the county Jail.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
I announce my candidacy for
Commissioner of V,abor
Printing in the June state wide
Democratic primary to succeed
Hon. M. i,.Shipman, incumbent,
and wilt appreciate your vote
and support at the polls. Ask
any one who knows of my ser
vices in and about the legislature
since 1909. '
DAVID P. DELI INGER.
Gastonia, N. C., April 22, 1920.
ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE
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_ Having qualified as adminis
tratrix of the estate of J. &
Moore, deceased, late of Pitt
County, North Cairolina, this is
to notify all, persons having
claims againfct the estate of said
deceased to exhibit theui to
Martin & Sheppard, Attorneys
Farmville, North Carolina, or to
the undersigned at Andrew,
South Carolina, on or before the
1st day of May 19 21, or t hi*
notice will be pleaded iiHj&r of
their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate will please
make immediate payment to
Martin & Sheppard or Mr&
Marie Parspns Moore.
This 23rd aay of April, 1920.
Mrs. Marie Parsons Moore,
Admx. of J. B, Moore, dee'd.
Martin & Sheppard, Att'ys.
Be It Ordained By The Board
of Commissioners of The
Town of Farmville, As Fol
lows:
Sec. 1. Pursuant to The Mu-I
nicipal Finance Act (Chapter
138 of the Public Laws of 1917 of
North Carolina, as ammended)
bonds of the Town of Farmville
are hereby authorized to be is- 1
sued in on aggregate principal I
amount not exceeding $15,000.00
for the purpose of enlarging the
. sewer system of the Town of
Farmville at the expense of the
Town at lar^e.
Sec. 2. A tax sufficient to
pay the principal and interest of
said bonds snail be annually
levied and collected.
Sec. 3. The following mat
ters are hereby determined and
declared pursuant to the require!
ments of Section 17 of the Mu
nicipal Finance Act:
(a) The probable period of i
usefulness or the improvements I
for which bonds are hereby
authorized is forty yfcars, com
puted from December Isr. 1919. i
(b) A st^trmon! of \h? dt'!;t if,
the i'own of. Farmville has been I
made and filed with the Town
Clerk parsuant to The Municipal |
Finance Act, and is open to pub- j
lie inspection.
(c) The ayerage assessed
valuation of property subject to
taxation by the Town of Farm !
ville for the three fiscal years in
which taxes were last levied, as
shown by said statement is $1,
36f, 869.00.
(d) The amount of the net debt
of the Town of Farmville out
standing, authorized or to be
authorized as shown by said
statement, is, $155,000.00. .
Sec. 4. This ordinance shall
be published once in each of
four successive weeks as requir
ed by the Municipal Finance
Act.
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I ?>ec. 3. l dis oruinauL'e suun
take effect thirty days after its
first publication unless in the
meantime a petition for its sub
mission to the voters is filed
under The Municipal Finance
Act, in which event it ^shall take
effect when approved by the
voters of the Town of Farm
ville at an election as provided
in said act. It is hereby deter- .
mined that all expenses to fie
defrayed by means of the bonds
hereby authorized are necessary
expenses of the Town of Farm
ville within the meaning of Sec
tion 7 of Article 7 of the Consti- (
tution of North Carolina.
R. E. BELCHER, Mayor.
T. E. JOYNER, Cllerk.
The foregoing ordinance was
passed on the 6th day of Octo
ber 1919 and" was first published
on the 14th day of November
1919, Any action or proceeding
questioning the validity of said
ordinance must be commenced
within 30 days after publication.
T. E. JOYNER, Clerk.
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^ Fish Live in Ic*. * ? -
Daring several months of each year
some of the great rivers, of Siberia are
frozen solid to the bottom, but the
fishes Imprisoned in the Ice maintain
their vitality and resume their active
life when the Ice melts in the spring. ;
CEMENT BLOCKS for-build
ing and underpinning. Cheaper
than brick and always on hand.
See or write A. B. Walter, Farm
ville, N. C.
with stomacn trouble. I wbuld
aesiSiS
sr a course erf fcesr, I would
;med to tear my stomach .ill i
good at all for my trouble I
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1920 Hart Schaffner & Man
and we'll back it
it if you aren't sat
Get good all-wool clothes ; the kind
Hart Schaffner & Marx make; the
prices are higher than those of some
clothes. The cost is lower because the
clothes last longer; you pay less per