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printing ink takes the mnk UU of business colic-?try it m THE FARMVIILE EMPRISE S ? ? 1 ~~ " " wu/ATfii r^puvnn Subscription $1.50 a Year in Advahce Published by The Rouse Pnntery n W9imm fSWrilli -j* i r " ' I ' ' ? VQL< 14 ~~FABMVKU*.> W CXHJNTY, 'V^t ^ 1923 ^ ' ' ' * ISO. 1^ Wind and Hale Storm Does Considerable Damage to Tobacco, Cotton and Corn Crops in 3 Counties Sunday P. M | ? ' , Heaviest Damage Apparently Done in Pitt Where Hail Damages Growing Crops For Distances of Fifteen Miles; Lenoir Also Reports Damage 1 ii From All Reports Estiamted Damages to Tobacco to Be in Pilt About 1-4 (Aillion, and Jfayte $5*9,000. Cotton and Com $50,000 In Both. Hundreds of seres of tobacco were ruined and corn and cotton damaged as the result of a severe wind and bail storm which pas sed over the Greenville section Sunday afternoon about 3:00 o'clock. The dome on the ad ministration of buildings of the Teachers College was splinter ed, two barns were unroofed, and a colored boy was stunned by ligj^oing. The ftorm was one of the sev ere# experienced in this section for tdjttral years. It folowed a cris-cross course that apparently covered an area of 15 miles con tiguous to Greenville. Accord iog to reports no damage was donahy the gale in the Bethel district, or ea# of that place. lieved that approximately 700 acres ice either a total loss or badly damaged. It is equally futiie.io place any fixed amount on th? loss. However, from re posit ifept are filtering in from the mitl>ing sections it is safe I to ptm*ct that loss in money j wilbixa well above $300,000. j The greate# loss, a cursory sur vey iRjfcates is within a radious of fiy$ jjitfes of Greenville. ^ ? - * S *?A ! ? (^grower WWkHJU JU UUlUy I of .ipkrpdid tobacco, declared I that,# was all lost. Aloig the I Aydeo fad Farmville paved I roads the damage is apparent. I Huge fields are littered with I tobacco leaves, aad in some in I straces the plants were blown I down and buried in tbe dirt. It is glso reported that tbe loss will .be particularly heavy ;o I farmers on tbe Falkland road. I Persons here say that practically ? evtmJiper in tbe sedion has ? suffesed oose or less damage. Cettoa, Corn il I Cottoaiud corn also came in I for a measure of damage. The I lost in ifcose crops, it is now I thought will exceed $50,000. .The peek homo on the farm of R. Williams, of this city, ait I noted near Falkland was struck I by fjgbtniag and subsequently turned. One bam on the farm I of A. A. Forbes was blown I down aad soother unroofed. According to reports from the I vidnty of Washington no cov I uderabte damage was done Aag^herf arse a heavy down ths si j y ri m _ Jfa&t I ' ?. a . ^ . ?jwma_ -I a, ^ - suffered by this county. M mnt Olive. Julv 23 ?Geo. .Faison, 23; Aaron Jackson, 12; and ThortThs Faison, 9, all oolor ed, were killed instantly by light ning Sunday afternoon . about 4 o'clock at a tenant bouse on the farm belonging to Y. H. Knowles, about a mile and a balf from here. Rocky Mouot: July 23?A terrific hail storm, accompanied "by showers, wind aQd a fierce electrical display visited thif section of Nash county between Whitakers and Hickory early last night, laying cotton, CQfn i and tobacco low over a stretch (of two or three miles and entail ing damages estimated by those who have visited the section to run as high as high, as $50,600 or more. | Those who visited the scene of the storm sipfe at lea& 50 acre* of tobacco sad an eggfU? large amount pf cotton w*r* . cyqytetely. dgflroyed & | siderable size shown by the ffet jthat the cotton stalks brought in were badly battered and souse instances split by the force of the hail. | '' M , "Smuggles Ten Ycsra for Open Golf Tjde >_ -? . r i .. _. _ ? ., - Jones of Atlanta. Oti. long known u the boy wonder golfer of Che United Statea baa at last been crowned National Open Champion. He won the title at New York laet week.. When 12.year* old hH won a district championship tn Jhe i Sooth, but. until thte year wae .al ways defeated in National eofi tttiou. ? f . New Telephone System Com pleted in Farmville. ? * ' ?< . , k' ' ? The installing of Fprmvillp'i oew Automatic Telephone sys has been completed. The haS : been completely re wMd and .Bptomatic pboQea been placed in stead of the 0& "crank" style. The men who working on tins improvement leftMonday to bepp oa^fS log in and near Greenville. V <X | aide of I?-:-. ' 1 New Grand Exalted Ruler of BUcs , ??WPIPP"*??fff??*. ? - . . . . . - Boy Scouts Leave For Like Wkcmmw Montoj . ? V I _U I, . t ' ?/- ? * ' ' . wheid tfi# week el July 30 to August btb. They have been busy for (he past week getting things ready for the trip, and ell are looking forward to a big time. This ia the second ti ne that the Farmvilie troop hat visited" Lake Waccamaw, bavin; spent a week there last summer. About twenty-five hoys went last year, and all reported a good* time. The water is fine for swimming aiid fishing, and there are e nopgh amusements to make the time pass: pleasantly. All hoys who are going are re* quested to be at,the ScmK Hut Monday morning not, later than six o'clock. Tfcje Scoutmaster states that the State Highway Commission has very kindly furnished him a map indicating the best route for tbe trip. This is by way of Snow Bill, Kinaton, Pink Hill. Kenan* vilje and Wilmington. i - ? j ??? .I i II Anyone Hm |&lled * pi*, - Shot his wife, Got married, v Borrowed a stamp, Made a speech, v Joined the army, :J Robbed # Beak, ? Bdughi uMotd, 0 Sold a dog, Lost his wallet, j Gone fishing, , 7;i -r Broken his neck, ? Bought a house, Committed suicide, | Shot * cat, Been away, I ?. I :'7 -0 Come home, Moved bit office. :? atiAil"' ^; Been in a ' C ahadow wr tie empire ruled by Champion Jack Dempsey. V.lmHSe^eerieue, never-UuKhlug- Fir[x> Has fceeivstyled "The Wild Bull ?-mm****." His knockout out of former champion Jess Willard In 'UKmi makes him the logical opponent for Dertpsey in a' Septem .* V V v "v - i'v ? * Fitpo Confidence QempsefsDange H-?pllmf Irom South America ;.fc Our Attention and trhtynflfon tomorrow. 214 of beef?Of?214 pounds of that which the world has ail |gze upon, tabling.. 1- Eighiptji njoDChs ggo the men-; lion ofFlrypinatne meaq|,nofh l?lMPs2lA? from the "Sep, if we wait for this Firpo bitf to learn 10 figbt we'er going to jiaye Deunpsey as champion his whiskers are down to* bate," Subh was.their final sum mip?up. ikpo Had Jolt One Booster 18 Months Ago Tbe hm bulky, wllty. scowl ing smtlaless stranger was a nq body. A big. youthful and inex perienced soldier of fortune; fa) fitofm his South American home, unable to speak the language of ftipind fae w?s in; he Jum>4if; thd only person in this Queens bufy. atmosphe^ojTours yfto thpuaht hrcdufd fight/? put that was eighteen months ?*o. -jToday- pretty well fixed tir- j l^lly. ib?ok?. even though a battle with Champion Demp My does not develop. ^ut yt)^; Hash with the champion it com ing,It has to come. Public inter adfia demanding it nod public mm*- ?* W 'be price tote* it. : . j- ^ ^ t>. ? feljolhe iMMttlpfaWr Lois Angel Firpo is "sitting pret Si P^i, &>U of the dollars and cents a bout with Dempsey is gOingvtd ^ng to him. He no sp^k o^r J^mlish?but in his Buenos y/npr v^t f;v % tv-v ? ? .? i*.. as getting much money out of our American fight game as con duced by experienced managers, promoters, etc. However, Luis has given them all something to think about. It didn't take him long to decide that he didn't W^ot an American manager: He decided to manage his own af fairs. He couldn't speak Eng lish?but'he could hire an inter preter for a very reasonable sum ?Luis decided to do his own managing, : it is estimated that Firpo has collected about $200,900 for his lighting during the last eighteen months. His fight with Willard petted htm $80,000. ' His two other big fights of the year were hi$ knockouts of Bill Brennan paid Jack McAuliffe II?both ol which were staged in New York. 1 s '? ? Firpo vs Dempsey Now Argument. jThe discussion amongift fans all over the land now^is whether Jujpo is "ready" for Dempsey; what chance he would stand agdinst the chapimon? Is he at ail scientific? Is he game? Gan Jiertake" Dempsey's punches? et$. etc. None of those questions will be settled until Dempsey and jFirpo crawl through the ropes .nr^I fight, it out. The old saying ''a, difference of opinion makes ? jiorse race", is as true ia the land of wallops. * Firpo is not clever: He is fairly USt for a big man. He can hi. hard, Whether he can bit a /asft moving and elusive target is yet to be learned. He took all Je^se Willard and Bill Brennan Could serve out?and never falt ered once. And?this is Firpo's gr^ateC asset?the faCor that indkes him dangerous?even to tlqmpsey, FIRPO. LIKES tO FI jHT^ f , i; nterviewing Firpo today for /?he readers of The Farmville Enterprise he had thfs to say ,through his man "Friday": '>1 pever>eot into ? fight t?Ml * 1 ,-v ' . that deep down in my heart I. felt confident I was going to win! About my biggest fights recent- , ly I can only say; \I thought I could whip Mees ter Brenan; Iv thought I could , whip Mees-ter* McAuIiffe5 I fr thought I could whip that Mes ter Willard and *1 think I can whip Mes-ter Deinpsey," So there you are. If confi dence won all fights?Eirpo is.: some day going to he champion. Records show, however, that some mighty confident men have wrilted their names with their ears on the resined floors ? . la?'. of; the 24 foot ring, In conclusion, "The Wild Bnll of the Pampas" haf arrived. The ' fistic joke of eighteen months ago is giriong^ those present to day. Will Deinpsy tame him? Your guess is as good as ours, ' _ f. ? . * yi., * , ' A Mrs Harris Entertaines i ? t ? jV i ? I -i ? ~~?;. .f'*;. ? <?" "rt'5 Mrs. J. II. Harris delightfully ~ entertained a few-of the younger set Wednesday afternocu in hon or of her neice, Miss Louise Har ris of (ireenville who is htr guest this week. On tfte shady lawn three tables were arranged for rook and this game was gailv entefed into. Kt the pleasant afternoon , came to a close dt licious ice-: cream and cake were served. ?k? ' " 'ft -???i Mrs. A. P. Walter and little daughter, Margaret are spending some time it Morehead. Mrs. J. M. Edebs and daughters Florence and Margaret of Oov|#> inRton, Ga. are visiting at toe 1&-. home of Mrs. D. G. Alletis. ' Mr. god Mrs. J, M. Hobgo^d and son Billy returned 9K fiom a few da\s visit* td/.MjSS?.. heid- ?&&&?*** Union Revial Con tinues With Large Audiences ? i * / Splendid Sermons Backed by United Church Spirii The Union Revival Servicts which began Sunday, July 15lh ; and last until next Sunday are * "going strong" with sp>ndid sermons by ihe ministers,1 -fine singing by the choir and .audi- ; and ?.t spirit ci good fellow ship between the members of? ? the various churches. - Since fast week Wednesday \ the order of preaching has been \ as follows: Wednesday, Rev. A. C. D. Noe; Thursday, Rev. C. T. Thrift; Friday, Rev. C. A. Law rence; Saturday, Rev. O. E. Fox; Sunday afternoon at a special men's meeting at the Christian * Church, Lawrence again; Sun* day evening, Thrift; Monday, Noe; Tuesday, Lawrence and Wednesda, Hill. ? The order for the rest of the week is not known. On Sunday ?' afternoon there will be a ^ser vice and then the meetings . - will come to a close Sunday ev ening. : . , . /> - Young Peoples' Union Service All of the young people soci ? etiesofthe Farmville churches are to unite Sunday evening in. 2 IIIIIOQ S6rVlC6 ; 1116. vunSuSu town is invited to attend. The meeting will begin protnptly at ? ' 7 p. m. t ' , ? ? ?
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