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VOL. 14
FARMVILBE, PITT COl/Nf RfORTH CAROLINA, NOV. 30th, 1923
NO. 30
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Parent-Teachers Association
Hold Interesting Session
itirs. J. M. Hobgocd Gives Good
Report of State Convention
in Winston-Salem. Lunch
eon Greatly Enjoyed.
The Parent-Teacher Association
held its November meeting on Friday
last in the school auditorium with a
large number of members and visitors
present
The president, in a few well chosen
words, welcomed the teachers of the
county who had attended the Teach
ers' Demonstration previous to the
meeting.
A delightful luncheon was served
at twelve o'clock by the Association j
to the High School faculty and to the
visiting teachers, and a few words of ;
appreciation were given to the chair- j
man of the luncheon, Mrs. C. L. Bea
man, and her assistants. The mer
chants who were kind enough to help
furnish the menu were also mention
ed. These merchants included Mess
ers. J. W. Joyner, D. F. & R. 0. Lang^
W. L. Smith, John Davis, and Mrs.
T. E. Joyner who donated milk.
The Memorial bed at the State
Sanatorium, which is supported by
the Federation, was discussed and
letters read on this subject The As
sociation wishing to co-operate with
the State Federation in this voted to
send five dollars.
Miss Taylor, teacher of the fourth
grade, received the highest percentage i
in the regular room roll call.
The Association enjoyed a splendid
and instructive talk on "What the
Community can do for the High
School," by Miss Evelyn Russell.
This was followed by a community
study hour during which Mrs. C. A.
Lawrence made a most interesting j
talk on Library work in the school j
and town.
Supt. G. R. Wheeler thanked the
Association on behalf of the teachers
for the delightful luncheon served
them. -
A most interesting and full report
of the State Convention of Parent
Teacher Association and Congress of
Mother, which met at Winston-Salem
on the 6th of this month, was given
hy Mrs. J.~M. Hobgood, the delegate
sent by the local body. Mrs. Hob
good was very proud of the report
which she carried to the Convention
and she was requested to lend it to
delegates from some of the other
towns represented in order that notes
might be taken.
The meeting which lasted, from j
Tuesday until Thursday night was
held in the ball room of the^Robert E. j
Lee hotel and the entertainment and j
hospitality of Winston-Salem was J
in keeping with the splendid repu
tation which that cify bears. Mrs. I
Hobgood beautifully expressed the ob
ject of the convention when she said j
that it considered and discussed the j
most important things on each. "Not j
your child, nor my child, but all chil- |
dren; their training and development j
mentally, spiritually, morally and phy
sically." She also exhorted the teach
? tn httln nivanke an as
0*0 W w-o?
sociaton in their schools assuring
them that it would solve majiy of
the problems which confront them.
The Convention adopted the "Five
Peace, Protection of Children, Phy
sical Education and Protection of the
Home. Mrs. Hobgood gave the growth
of the membership of the Asso- <
ciation as seventy thousand in the j
past year and numbers 600,000 this I
year. Ia North Carolina there are 133 !
j
A splendid suggestion on increas- i
ing the attendance at the meetings
was brought back and put into action
at this time by the president. A num
ber of tickets were handed out to the
parents present to be worn by their
child as a reward for their attend
ance. Theae.tickets read, "I brought
my mother*(or father) did you?"
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.In closing her talk Mrs. Hobgood
closed with this beautiful poem and
appeal to the parents and teachers as
follows: "I have a little poem, beau
tiful from point of style and rythmn,
but that is not why I want to read it
to you. The meaning, I want to sink
deep into the heart and mind of every
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What strength, what purity, what
"?''* self-control; v
What love, what wisdom should be
long to them, f VO - K
Who help God fashion an immortal
1 jwul" &
I think this refers to all who help,
fashion the soul of a child, and qjoth
I era and fathers is there any other
I ?partnership > which you give as lit
tle ttibe, as to this one ? You men who
I ??mm- bus*ness> do you think your
business would contunw to improve
meeting? And yet we fall down on
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rebuke to the community from which
it comes. We must see to it that this
is the last generation to hold an il
literate adult."
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Mrs. VanderDiit
Again is Slated
For Presidency
North Carolina Agricultural So
ciety Will Meet December 11
To Review Work of Last
Fair and Take Account
of The Future.
While no one apparently has been
authorized to speak for her, the as
surances are that Mrs. Edith Van
derbilt, who has just completed three
terms as president of the society and
head of the State Fair, will again be
proposed for the presidency when the
society meets in annual session in
Raleigh December the 11th.
At that time Mr. W. V. Walborn,
manager of the Fair, will lay before
the organization the financial state
ment of the exposition of 1923, show
ing that the Fair paid itself out.
With the exclusion of gaining con
cessions and additional money allowed
on premiums, this was the most that
the Fair management expected.
A total of $38,000 was taken in a"t
the gates during the four days of ^he
1922 Fair and this was about $5,OOU
better than the banner year directly
after the war.
More Prizes Given
By Farraville Furn. Co.
Saturday, November 24, was an
other day of history for the Farm
ville Furniture Co. On that day this
progressive firm gave away three
more of the contest prizes.
Interested spectators and partici
pant^ blocked sfteet in front "of '
their store, when the ballot boix con
taining the trade receipts was
brought out. Then a silence like that
preceding a storm prevailed as the
box was being shaken and the first
name drawn.
Mr. Z. V. Smith, of Walstonburg,
drew first prize, a handsome Axmin
ster rug.
Mrs. B. 0. Taylor, of this city, won
the second prize, a lovely silk com
fort. ? '
Mrs. Cora Meeks, Farmville, R. F.
D., won the third prize, a matting
box.
Never before has such interest been
shown in the prize drawings and
never before has the public seemed
so satisfied with the method of giv
ing away prizes.
The last drawing will take place on
Saturday December 1, closing day of
the sale. On that day the $150.00
Edison, the cedar chest and the ma
hogany bed.
Conductor is
Thrown From
Moving Train
Has Narrow Escape When Push
ed Fronl Platform By Drunk
en Negroes
New Bern, Nov. 24.?Capt Sam
I Moore, conductor on the Norfolk Sou
I thern passenger train from Beaufort
I to Goldsboro, had a narrow escape
I from death or serious injury when
I he was thrown from his train near
I the end of the Trent river bridge by
I drunken negroes he was attempting
I to hold for local officers late this
I afternoon.
I - Three drunken negroes boarded
I Captain Moore's train at Baveloek
and on the way; to New Bern became
disorderly, ijer wired for an officer
to meet the train at the New Bern
end of the trejrtfc, but the bladfcs
learned of it, and attempted to leave
I&he train. Captain Moore seized one
on the platform, but a second one
caught his arms and pushed him off
j -the moving .train. ^ 1-*. p'
The porter found his cap. On the
I platform ahd stopped the train after
lit had run a block or moje. ipoptain
[ Moore had recovered from the shock
of the fall and was picked up. His
injuries amounted to a bnusedr knee
to the Union Station under guard of
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Senator lt:r,m^ [ojinjon of California (at agam>t
President Coplidge for the 1924 Republican non^Proj^?foppc<] off in
Chicago on Ids way to Wellington for a cmfc^ffpl^^'til. VVrigicv,
chewing gum magnate. From their bearings df ^
16th Annual Seal
Sale Begins
Thanksgiving
North Carolina Tuberculosis As
sociation Only Organized
Agency.
Beginning November 29, Thanks
giving day, the North Carolina Tu
berculosis association will launch its
sixteenth annual Seal sale. This as
sociation is the only organization in
the state that is authorized to sell
and appoint agents for the sale of Tu
berculosis Christmas Seals. It is
financed exclusively by the' hie of
Tuberculosis Christmas Seals and
spends these funds to fight tuberculo
sis in accordance- with the program
adopted by jts board of directors,
ent&b state. As* matter of fad, tbe
North Carolina Tuberculosis associa
tion is the only organized association
in the state engaged exclusively in
the fight against tuberculosis. It is
officially, recognized by the National
Tuberculosis association.
The program adopted for spending
the state's seal money not only has
the approval of the board of direc
tors of the state association but It
has~<rtso the approval of the national
association. Last year a total of
$35,488.69 was raised for tuberculosis
work in North Carolina, of this
amount $21,156.98 was spent by lo
cal-associations for work in their
towns and communities. The re
mainder-of $14,331.71 was spent by
the; state association as follows:
For conducting tuberculosis diag
nostic elinics, where free 'examina
tions for tuberculosis are'made, $3,
943C85 for conducting the Modern
Health and NutritionTwork $1,573.10,
for fieki workers salaries $2,841.31,
for other sallies $1,200, for educa
tional work among negroes by means
of moving pictures, lectures, distri
bution of literature $1,103.94, for
publication of Health Bulletin $1,
394.32. The total amount spent was j
$12,065.52, leaving a balance of*
$2,275.10. j
EASY' COMMU JSAS1 UU.
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L never tylte Joe,
That ev'ryb<)dy Jly -him so;
A sunny- disposrwned chap.
And smart, too,Tjpa new steel trap.
With dever brair&kl .winning way
"He'll get ah^'Tpe used to say.
Always kiddihg?y?*y
He'd find some dAtifool joke to play.
And no one ever fciild ?et cross
With Joe: He'd efn kid the boss,
And do things th? the rest of us
Would never 4ar#*the nervy cuss.
But on the jofi ** wasn't1 strong?
The days to. him jaw much too long,
And scarcely h*<WPe day begun
But he planned * the next night's
"We only live onboys," he said;
"Remember, yoa'ijf a long time dead.1'
"So please don't s$eak of work to me,
Hard work and I, we don't agree." .
"Let others. sterMmTound and hurry;
But as for x should worry."
With girls Joealways made a hit.
"But stick with, one," he used to say,
"Not me, IU give them all a play."
And 90 he never settled down,
But was a gay dog in our town.
While other chaps that he called alow
Moved up a peg?Joe watched them
go.
You see, work wasnt Joe's long suit;
But what a game of pool he'd shoot.
He had the .dope on everything?
The ponies, baseball or the ring.
A game 9port, .cheerful loser, too;
But, oh, the money that he blew!
And seemed to think it was a joke
That he was almost always broke.
"It's easy come and easy go,"
"That's my motto, boys," said Joe.
He took to iaying off a lot,
Till finally the boss got hot, *
And one day when he didnt show,
The firm got wise and let him go.
And so I lost all track of Joe
For years until a week ago_
When up the street I chanced to be,
A seedy figure called to me. .
I knew-him not, the change was such;
But he knew me, he made a touch,
Then shambled off as though in
shame
That he had sunk thus in life's game.
Twas easy come and easy go,
'And that's the way he went, poor Joe.
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Ring Bauer
lad lad Rep
ulation With
The British
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lt is Understood That the Brit
ish Officials had Already Giv
en Their Consent to the Ap
prehension of the Vessel if
She Were Found in. Ameri
can Waters.
.Washington, Nov 27.?Complete
confidence was evidenced in official
circles today that seizure of"~tKi
schooner Tomako would not become
a subject of controversy despite the
unusual circumstances surrounding
her capture.
The state treasury gnd justice de
partments all appeared to view the
case as already a closed incident so i
far as international aspects were
concerned.
Treasury officials said .the capture
probably belonged within the classi
fication accorded the celebrated Mar
shall case in which the British gov
ernment declined to enter because .
the owners failed to establish. ' the
iroliiKtu nf fhe Marshall's Tfisistrv.
The charge against the Toniaka
was submitted some weeks ago to the
4>tate department with the" request
that it be brought tq the attention
of British diplomatic representatives.
As a result department of justice of
ficials were given the impression the
British officials would not oppose the
seizure of the Tomaka in the vciinity
of the American coast in vieW'dJf the
evidence against her. They hold the
schooner was thus placed, in a special
class outside protection accorded le
gitimate iparitime craft. Officials of
the three departments were unani
mous today in their opinion that, no
international complication would en
sue.
Three Million
In Si^aymeil
N. C. and Virginia f&tgtrt timr
ers to Share in Distribution
By Big Cooperative
Three million dollars will be' dis
tribute 1 in third payments on last
year's crop to members of the To
bacco Growers' Cooperative associa
tion in Eastern North Carolina and
the old bright belt of North Caiolina ,
and Virginia. ' I
The last meeting of the board of
directors authorized the treasurer to
make this third payment in Eastern
North Carolina on December 21, ahd
in the old belt on January 10, 1924.
Recent sales of redried . tobacco
earned over from 1922 make these
third payments possible although
this is not a final settlement to
members on last year's pool. More J
than 100,000 separate accounts will
be calculated in order to make these
two piayments according^tb the treas
urer of the association.
Checks are to be distributed at
warehouses as in previous payments
and members must present their
participation certificates to obtain
their checks.
No Need For Special Session
To Keep Road Work Going
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NO TUBERCULOSIS IN v
. NORTH QAROLINA IN 1931
Let's finish the job.
It's half done in ten years.
Let's fitish in the next teg.
There vie re 4,800 deaths from tu
berculosis in 1913; there were 2,300
in 192$.
Tuberculosis cost the people of
North Carolina one hundred million
dollars in 1913; it cost fifty millions
in 1922. c
Fifty millions saved in 1922, but
still losing fifty millions annually. .
The fight is everybody's fight.
Buy Tuberculosis Christmas Seals
and help finish the job.
It can be donel
NORTH CAROLINA TUBERCULO
SIS ASSOCIATION.
Sanatorium, N. C.
"Have a Heart,"
Says Hubby; '30
Days'Says Wife
New York, Nov. 24?The old re
frain, "Have a Heart," was sung to
to a new tune in Magistrate Heilpe-.
rin's court, today.
The magistrate complained that he
was getting tired of sentencing
drunken men to jail when it made
their wives suffer, so he invited the
wives of two offenders to mount the
bench, pronounce the verdict and
pass the sentences, if any, and do
the least possible injury to them
selves.
First to face his wife was Tim
Bdnnon, who caused a row in a res
taurant by notifying the manager he
had no money, but not, however, until
he had eaten. , Mrs. "Tim," as he
pleaded to her, considering that his
escapades were rare,, squeezed suffi
cient balm for herself out of a lecture
on a husband's duty to his wife and
the community.
?111 Gorman, his eating companion,
had'to pitch his song in a different
key, for it was an old one to Mrsr
' "Bill." she said as she donned the
metaphorical ermine, "you know you
get drunk all the time."
"It's a shame," she added, absently
thumbing some papers on her desk,
"for me and the^ neighbors. The
feet is you ought to be sent up for
six months." .
"Have a heart," came Bill's refrain,
greatly modulated.
"If you kept your head, I'd have a
heart," came the judicial repartee.
"How many times have I told you to
lay off that stuff?" /
"Have a heart," came the refrain,
a key lower.
"Tell the truth, now," went on Her
Honor, "wouldn't six months do you
good ?"
"Have a heart,", said Bill, out loud.
"I will," pronounced his wife, scan
ning a calendar.. "Give him only
thirty days, judge, and see what that
$oes for him."
Whin she descended from the
bench, Mrs. Gorman reminded her
husband that the judge's sentence
ended the day before Christmas.
"There'll be a. big feed for you
Bill," she whispered.
?Exchange.
Fire Loss In State
For Odober Shows
A Large Decrease
Raleigh, Nov. 27.?The fire loss in
North Carolina in October, according
to approximate estimates of Insur
ance Commissioner Stacy W. Wade
will not exceed $325,000, as compared
with.a recorded loss for October,
1922, of $740,329. The number of
fires, however, Mr. Wade stated^
will reach 200 for October of this
year, while during the same period in
1922 there W6re only 158.
Among the towns that up to this
time have reported having had no fire
losses at all during October are:
Henderson, an old ^ standby, States
ville, Concord, Rockingham, Aber
deen, Louisburg, Southern Pines,
Greenville, Farmville, Graham and
Thomasville. f
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A dram end cornet concert was
given in the school auditorium on
last Friday night by. itwenty\of the
boys of Mumford's Industrial School
near Macon, Ga. It was greatly en
joyed by the large crowd present and
proved to be unusually fine,
o Although we did not ascertain the
sum jpven the school, we understand
that a gratifying amount Was con
"The Rouse Wey-The Rifhf Way"
The Rotk MMer* F?S?%
THirfy five Millions Still Not
Spent of Sixty five Authorized
Believe Seven Million a
Year Would Keep Pace
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No emergency exists or is likely
to arise necessitating a. special ses
sion of the General Assembly to pro
vide funds for the continuance of
the highway construction program
and it is yet too early to begin to
formulate a program for the General
Assembly of 1925, in the opihion of
members of the Highway Commission
in session in Raleigh Nov. 28th.
No formal notice was taken of re
cent rumors to the effect that another
bond issue of fifty million dollars
would be urgently needed. The Com
mission has available thirty million
dollars of the original $65,000,000 un
spent, half of which has not been
obligated in contracts. That amount
of money will keep work going at
capacity for the next 15 months.
Another great bond issue, in the
opinion of the majority of the Com
missioners, will not be needed to keep
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UlgUWciy CUlldtlumun auicaou wi viai
fic demands in the State, unless tHe
General Assembly elects to add 1,000
miles more of road to the system,
giving direct connection between all
county seats. This' measure will in
all probability be advocated in the
next General Assembly.
A conservative building program,
with an appropriation of from five to
seven million dollars a year, covering
the next ten years, would keep pace
with the normal traffic groth and the
normal increase in highway revenues,
based on the present ratio of growth,
in the opinion of the Commissioners,
and finally complete the system of
highways as at present outlined.
According to a statement from the
State Treasurer's office Wednesday, a
total of $34,552,600 of the authorized
bond issue of $65,(fflfo,000 has been
sold. The State has entered into con
tracts for 54 million dollars' worth of
roads, which with the Federal Aitl -
fund subtracted, leaves 15 million un
touched for new projects to be let
during the coming year." ^ Approxi
mately: 20^ouUUmi ^Ua^ worth of ..
work is under contract at the present
time.
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During the past eight months work
has been completed and paid for at
the rate of $2,000,000 a month, and
on that basis it will be October 1st,
1924, before the all of the 54 million
dollars now obligated in contracts is
due, or that length of time before the
present contracts are completed.
There will still remain, on the present
basis of rfjo.tthly expenditure, approx
imately five million dollars not actual
ly spent when the General Assembly
meets in January, 1925.
The fiscal year just closing has been
on the whole very successful year
for the State Highway Commission,
although disastrous for between 25
and 30 contractors who have gone in
to bankruptcy. Although costs have
beer, to a great degree stabilixed by
the purchase of raw materials by the
State, many contractors have bid in
jwork at figures below the cost of con
struction. Their bondsmen have taken
them over. The State has^not lost,
except in the loss of the use of roads
that otherwise would have been com
pleted earlier.
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More man zw coniracus ?c up
standing, and work is progressing
satisfactorily. Recent decline on the
cost of materials has made going
^asier for the contractors, and result
ed in the saving of several hundred
thousand dollars by the State that
will be turned back into the construc
tion fund. Construction has reached
its peak, in point of quantity. Road
programs in other states will take
away some of the contractors, and the
engineering and supervisory forces of
the State organization will be some
what reduced.
Next year's legislative program will
be shaped to no small degree by the
attitude Of Frank Page toward reap
poiatpient, in the opinion of the entire
Commission. He has recently ex- ?
pressed?his determination to retire
with the expiration of his term in
office on April, 1925, but his friends
on and off .the Commission are urging
him to stay with the work until it is
finally completed.
At this time he will have given
eight years of his time to public ser
vice, two years with the* . American
forces in France as a major in the
Engineering Corpse, and six years
since his appointment by Governor
Bicke^ to head the Highway Com
mission. His work has brought him
wide recognition as a builder and the
confidence of the. entire. State in his
administration, but he feels that he
must wo back to the Sandhills and
his own private business.
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tMnka^fi'U propose again. H| usu
ally does?hut to some other girl,
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