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VOL. 15 ~ FARMVILBE, PITT COUNT^^^TH CAROLINA, AUGUST 22, 1324 ^ No. 18
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FAW SraBu
Trip Tn Market Easy Over Hard
Surfaced Reads; Stay la City
Pleasant and Profitable, Due
to Highest Averages Paid For
Your Tobacco; Merchants and
Banks Courteous and Accomo
dating at All Thaon
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To the farmers who come to 9ell
their tobacco, Farmville offers many
advantages which should be taken into
account in the marketing of his crop.
The gross price per pound does not
represent the entire interest of the
farmers, but many other elements
enter into successful marketing. The
cost of getting the crop to market,
the ease and dispatch with which it
is handled and the facilities for pur
chasing at reasonable prices, should
be considered by the farmer, for they
mean dollars and cents to him.
When a farmer leases his home to
ward Farmville With a load of tobac
co the chances are that he travels the
entire way on sand-day or paved
roads, where his team can make good
time without straining themselves.
Soon they are at their destination ,
where obliging men see to it that
they are well taken care of.
The warehouses all have large,
clean, comfortable sleeping quarters
where the farmers can spend the
night free of cost They are provided
for- the comfort and convenience of
their customers and are a distinct ad
dition to the Farmville market
After the tobacco has bees sold
there are banks in the city that are f
willing to serve the Interests of the
farmers who sell tobacco. They are
always obliging and courteous, and do
business upon a basis at fair dealing
that is a great help to those who
sell and trade in this city.
Farmville's meacbanta are progres
sive, and their stocks are fully up to
the standard in every respect A farm
er and his whole family can be fitted
out here with articles that exactly fit
its
whom the fanners come in tooth, ate
affable and willing to oblige. They
have a kindly feeling for the fanners
of this section, for. their prosperity is
linked with the prosperity of the far
mer people. Host of Farmville's bus
iness men are farmers, or the sons o?
farmers who have left the farm and
engaged in the business sphere of life,
and their feelings are nothing but
kindly toward those who live in the
country. r ; -s
Farmers in Farmville are among
friends and neighbors, who wish them
well, and are always ready to pass
the good word and help them when
possible ' -
Bring your tobacco to Farmville
and sell it among men whom you
know to be willing to treat you right.
Farmville's growth as 8 tobacco
market in the state has been a stea
dy one, due largely to the excellent
type of men running and managing
its warehouses.
Farmville has been fortunate in
deed in this respect, and it is doubt
ful whether any other city can boast
of men that are better experienced
in tobacco or have a better reputation
among the farmers than L. H. BeQ,
R. E. Belcher and J. T. Haiyfa. pro
prietors of Knott's Warehouse, sad
J. Y. Monk and J. M. Hobgood, pro
prietors of Monk's WarehaJ|j^ Md ??
further substantiate the mtet that
these men are real judges-wftebaeco
and not afraid to push eu?)?r p3o to
its top limit is shown
over a period of eight at tea years.
Farmville has averaged (rem one uhd
a half to three doBars mote iter hun
dred for tobacco sold an its floors
than any oi the big Ave of its com
petitive markets. :
are the Bert hi tit Mrtery of the
Farmville market, doe^laryely to the
pw ample xaautiaB w we prompt
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House Committee On Roads Re
ports Measure To Force Road
Building lit Greene County
Unfavorably.
Raleigh, Aug. 20.?"As a lawyer 1
am accustomed to appearing before
juries and not sitting upon them, as
a member of the General Assembly
duties are legislative and not judicial.
This measure you have brought here
raises a question of fact that should
be passed upon by a judge and jury.
If the law does not permit you re
course to the courts, we could pass
such a law, but this bill has no busi
ness before the General Assembly."
With this plain statement from
Chairman Clayton Moore, the hearing ,
of the Hill measure to compel the
State Highway Commission to pro
ceed with the construction of certain
roads in Greene county with funds to
be provided by the county came to an
abrupt conclusion yesterday after
noon. The bill was reported out un
favorably and is automatically re
moved from the consideration of the
house. c
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Greene county naa a delegation ut j
upwards of 50 people here to partici
pate in the hearing, but County At
torney Albritton had not proceeded
five minutes with his discussion of
the pending measure before he clash
ed with Chairman Frank Page of the
Highway Commission and the issue
of fact was raised. The committee
heard no more after Mr. Page had
declared that the fight was not be
tween the county commissioners of
Greene county and the State Highway
commission but a fight between two
beaks in Greene-ooenty, -.- j
paving of certain roads in the comity,
which < proposal was accepted, to be
come effective whenever the money
was made available to. the state. Thus
far the money is still held in the First
National Bank of Snow Hill, which on
the first of January changed its name
to the Bank of Greene, on a certifi
cate of deposit made to the State
Highway Commission and accepted by
the commission to be effective at
such time as the funds are available.
Thus far the money had not been
available. Factional politics appears
to have become involved in the sitna
tion, and die delay in the proceed
ings is said to have been an Issue In
the campaign in Greene county - this
year. Former Chairman Eras of
the county board of commissioners
and president of the bank in which
the. money was placed on deposit, haa
been defeated. County Attorney Al
britton yesterday denied the officials
of the Bank of Greene wore interest
ed in the political aspects of the mat
ter when Mr. Page declared it was a
fight between the two banks.
While the bank holding the deposit
of the 1380,000 is entirely solvent,.in
the belief of Mr. Page and the beak
examiners, its resources. are involved
in slow paper. Wftfr the certificates
[? deposit, person guarantee* w WW
; dared ta the committee, net to insure
loss. IT> an ?iliif
Mr. Albritton flesHce and the hear
in s: was discontinued.
The proposed law introduced by
Representative Hill would direct the
v^(^a?A aox m. - e^_ ??- -. - '* - ? - -,
mtsM w uraneoiiUi) arsw xce money
out of the bank in which it is depos
ited and-proeeed witbf--'the bofldinf
of the. road, -?ie coznmissWJhas
for needy two years delayed action
tate a crisis in the county that 3-it
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was ieareti mignt involve not only tfli
bank directly concerned-/but others
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Miu Ailecn Riggm, American swimmm* ftjK vriuf one of the
Olympic athletes to receive the New Yori^Cfty^Kpcosetian at the
hands of Mayor Hylan. Both seemed to enjoy jj^Ktecasion.
MRS. DANSCILLE OF STATE ?RD OF
HEALTH TO LECTURE IN SCWOL AUDI
TORIUM HERE MONDAtwTERNOON
At the request of the High School
Superintendent, the local Red Cross
Executive Committee and officers of
the Parent-Teacher Association, Mrs.
Danscille, of the the State Board of
Health, Raleigh, will speak on Health
Teaching in 'the High School audi
torium in Farmville, Monday after
I noon, Augnstjfifch, at 4:45 o'clock.
| Every mov' and every person
! interested in MjjFevm health or that
of othe^pdM^^nti urged to be pres
ent and takejBjantage of this oppor
tunitj'. M. be no charge of
COMMUNITY NURSE ASSUM? DUTIES
HERE UNDER SUPER TISI^pED CROSS
After much communication and a*
lot of streneous effort pat forth by
the finance and executive committee
of the local Red Cross Auxiliary, a
suitable nurse for this community has
been found in the person of Miss
Eugenia Crouch, of Johnson Ctty,
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for nurses at Memphis, completing
one year of private nursing in the
same institution. She has been en
gaged in Public Health work with the
Roane County1 Health Department in
East Tennessee this year and has re
cently completed the six Tveek's course
in Public Health nursing at Peabody
College for Teachers, at Nashville.
She has a pleasant personality and
tomes well recommended as to ability
and effldiracy,
Her work here will consist of health
work in the schools,, instructing and
training students in health habits and
hygene. She will have time to take
an interest in each individual school
child, in the jjay of a preliminary
health inspection, to be followed ;up
by a physical examination by Dr.
Outland, County Health Officer.
A plan is being made to have a
teaching center in connection with the
Home Economics Department in the
High School for the purpose of teach
ing classes in Home Hygiene and care
of the rick. It is very necessary-that
we organize nutrition classes in the
school for those children who are un
dernourished and Miss Crouch hopes
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matters. In this way the health of
the babies will b? safeguarded. This
department will <o-operate with Miss
Fentrass, County Matehiity and In
fant Welfare Nune, in this work.
Miss Crpneh de tires to co-operate
'with local physteiutis and to be of
service in the home care of the sick.
This will give hfr ,ui opportunity to
know our people, and to teach some
lessen!in health or home hygiene while
in the homes. '
Our Red Cross Nurse comes ok a
harbinger of good health to this com
munity and while tho physician Is
busy with his patienta she will Be
busy teaching our people how to pre
vent disease and take care of their
health. She is tender the supervision
of the local School Board and tlie
County Health Department as well as
the local Red; Cross Auxiliary and all
these organisations will support and
encourage iter, but she will need to
know each person in this community
and have his or her co-operation in
on&r to do efficient work while here..
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Queen City Extend Formal In -
v vitation to Democratic Candi
date to Speak in That City at
BxpoaitionrThis Fall
& .
1 Washington, Ar*. 20^?Charlotte
makes a bid for an address in that
city by John W. Davis, democratic
nomfhee for president, the call for
this comihg from the board of diree
tors of the Carolina Exposition com
pany,^the address-sought for te ba^e
ii vered in the Exposition Hall at. seine
?aeretary^of the company, this nafcs
fag Senator to use his kind- i
Wilson, Aug. aw. K. Thigpfn
n. bound owr to superior court on
der J3,WO bond thin afternoon by Jus
tice of the Ptoee W. R Wood, wd
Mrs. Bessifs Letehworft. ajfeffg
bound over under $250 bond. "Cug
pen was trW on tt^ eounte aban
donment of wife and,three cWldre^.
Secretary of State Issues State
ment Showing Work of Auto
mobile Department?A Most
Profitable Bteainess.
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Raleigbr Aug; 20.?Approximately
$8,000,000 in automobile and gasoline
taxes was collected in North Caroli
na during the year 1923-24 by the au
tomobile department, under the man
agement of Joe E. Sawyer, according
to a; statement issued yesterday by
Secretary of State W. N. Everett,- un
der whose general supervision the de
partment operates.
To be exact, the figures of the sec
retary show that $7,954,000 was col
lected. Of this amount, $3,975,000
was the taxes collected on motor ve
hicle licenses and $3,979,000 Was the
taxes collected on gasoline sold. The
motg>r vehicles operating under paid
license were given as 260,667 passen
ger cars, 24,879 trucks, and 1,488 mo
torcycles.
The total cost of operating the au
tomobile department, including per
manent improvements, the cost of li
cense plates and postage used in de
livering the plates to the purchasers
was $316,561, Mr. Everett stated.
During the past year 88 branch of
fices have been established through
out the state for the Convenience of
the automobile, owners, it was stated.
The compiled report shows that these
38 offices used 162,000 license plates,
seemed 86,000 titles for cars and coP
lected $2,500,000. The total cost of
operating these branch offices was
said "to be one-third of one per cent
on the amount -of revenue collected
by them.
Referring to the automobile depart
ment ag ? whole, Mr. Everett char
acterised the organization's. business
as "the biggest merchandising propo
sition in North Carolina,' the gross
revenue of which Is $8,000,000, with!
the overhead expanse less than 8 per
cent."
AdvertisingIs ?rged
For Retail Merchants
Southern Association.
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, Richmond, Va., Aug. 19.?Advertise
?this was the keynote of today's ses
sion of the . Southern Retail Mer
chants conference here today. T. K.
Kelly, of Minneapolise, president of
three banks'there and founder of a
sales system, declared that in all the
failures of retail merchants in the
last three years "not -twenty per
cent advertised religiously."
"The public," he asserted, "has un
limited Confidence in newspaper ad
vertising, and the importance of this
feature of modern business cannot be
over estimated."
T- E. Warrlner, Lawrencevllle, Va.,
president of the conference, also em
phasized the importance of newspaper
advertising and expressed the opinion
that business conditions throughout
the country have recorded a distinct
improvement.
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"Road Hogs" Will
Face Pine of $50.00
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Raleigh, Aug. 22.?"Road Hogs" on
the public highways must face fines
of $50 or 30 days in jail under a bill
passed by the House of Representa
tives yesterday. The bill had already
passed the Senate.
The measure provides that drivers
must permit the car behind to pass
him within the-kgal speed limit and
the wear ahead must pullover Jo give
half the load to the passlng^cdr. The
bill is entitled to check "road "hogs"
and protect citizens from the truck
nuisance. ' ,V
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Figures from authoritative sources
|asert that nearly^ ^4^0,000,000 is
oral, state and local.
goes to offidals^pd^ fanner officials,
that almo^one^^ of his taxe|pes
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Goes Ahead of Ohio For Year
Closing June, 30th, 1924; A
Total of $158,000,000 Is Re
ported Collected.
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Greensboro, Aug. 19.?The state of
North Carolina with a total of ap
proximately $158)000,000, collecter in
federal taxes for the year ending
June SO, 1924, has passed Ohio and
now ranks fifth in the entire United
States, according to a statement made
here yesterday by Gilliam Grissom, of
Raleigh, internal revenue collector for
the state'.
Mr. Grissom said that he obtained
his figures from David H. Blair, in
ternal revenue commissioner, who is
now in Winston-Salem.
North Carolina had . previously
been sixth among the states. The
high figures for the year just passed
pushes her ahead of Ohio and into
fifth position. The states are now in
this order :
First, New York; second, Pennsyl
vania; third, Illinois; fourth, Michi
gan; fifth, North Carolina;' sixth,
Ohio.
Furthermore, said Mr. Grissom, at
the rate at which federal taxes are
now coming in It appears that North
Carolina during the presentyear will
surpass the above figures. "And if
they would only quit making automo
biles in Michigan We would go ahead
of that state," Mr. Grissom added.
The federal taxes include internal
Revenue taxes on tobacco, income,
franchise and other taxes. Of the ap
proximately $158,000,000 colected last
year in North Carolina about 120,
000,000 comes from the tobacco taxes.
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The latch.string hangs on the out
side for the tobacco fanner in Faritt
ville this season. In fact, he . is gor
ing to be greeted with environments
never before his from Sept 2 to the
closing day.
All of the warehouses have had a
thorough house cleaning. Unless
something unforeseen happens this
season of the Farmville tobacco mar
ket bids fair to be a memorable onev
np matter from, what viewpoint the
outlook is taken.
The warehousemen ' are here to
greet you, the buyers as of yore, with
several new additions, will be right
on their jobs and the old town, from
the youngest tc the oldest, awaits the
coming of the tobacco farmer with
his product..
No matter on which warehouse
floor he sells his tobacco he can re$t
assured of a top notch price, and with
his check he can* go to either' bank
and get his greenbacks without com
ment or prdiest. He can either carry
back home Jfis earnings or he can de
posit same' in these financial insti
tutions for they are unsurpassed for
business acumen or treatment.
Sell that entire crop here and take
advantage of receiving a higher aver
age.; FarmviUe's envious record ' is
based on highest averages over a "pe
riod of several years.
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I In FarmviBe!
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I am glad to be in Farmville. il
Iqpne to, North Carolina because it is
a progressive state. I came to Farm
ville because it is a progressive cHjy.
. I came to work with the peep&of
Farmville in solving beal health prpji>
lemg. 11 expect to co-operate withip
Ical physicians, assisting'them in lot*]
c%re of the sick, hoping to teach
some lessons in health and home hy
giene.!
I My first desire is to be-helpfi^ to
pothers in keeping *mm;: children
healthful and happy. I hope to have
health inspection of all the school
*$2should like to interest all adults
in a yearly physical examination. It
ids soar tissue, resulting .from tuber
cular infection, has be#/fonn?to
some extent In the lungs ^ef all bod
&exaXed?|p?|^^P
ball h0Ptisti Bobeem of
With Port and Ship BUI Left To
Sessbn of LegisiaJture Marks
Time While Measares are Pre
pared for Ratification; Some
Few Officers Get Their Sal
aries increased.
Raleigh, Aug. 20.?The North Car
olina General Assembly today com
pleted the work for; which it was
called into special session, paving
handled the port development legis
lation on the basis of the report of
the State Ship and: Water Transpor
tation Commission and the repeal of
an amendment tec the Constitution
dealing with the inviolability of the
sinking fund of the state and the pas
sage Of a substitute, amendment.
In the house the port commission
bill was passed as aeht ;to. it by. the
senate and ordered enrolled for rati
fication. ... 1
-. Ip the,senate; the repeal- of -the
amendment exempting gasoline atyd
automobile license taxes' from the
sinking fund was passed and the sub
stitute amendment ordered engrossed.
Both bodies will handle local mat
ters and mark time while the bills
passed are being engrossed and re
turned for final action. .
The port commission bill passed the
house of representatives today by a
vote of 98 to 0. The measure pro
vides for the creation of a port com
mission to he ;iii charge of port devel
opment and Referendum of. the
question of issuing $8,500,000 bonds
for port development and the.. pur
chase and operation of ship lines, .if
the latter step is deemed necessary.
A bill Incorporating four miles of
railroad in Surry county under the
name of the North Carolina-Virginia
Railroad company win: passed by the
house and sent to the senate by spe
cial messenger. The bill did not pass,
however, until there had been, some
debate on the constitutionality of
granting a special charter: I
'* fciiii tnMMABinv. tliR uuslnrsrinf .the
?S??is8fs
month wak passed tinder suspension
of the rules. The same, course was
f ken in the passage of a bill.provid
g -Tor a special law - enforcement
officer for Pender county and also a
Pender county bill to regulate toll
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The Vance county highway commis
sioners' salary was increased and he
was empowered to take over work on
certain roads under a bill passed un
der suspension ol - the rules, v . '
There was protest from some of
the members over the Suspension of
the rules fbr the passage of so marty
bills just introduced and as a result
the house refused to suspend the
rules to pass-a bill introduced by Rep
resentative Williams, of Craven, coun
ty, providing that any Craven county
officer whei may become intoxicated
during his term jf office shall be re
moved. The fell went to the calen
dar committee. ?
? The Cape Fear and Yadkin. Valley
Railroad resolution was. taken, up' this
morning on motion, of Representative
T. C. Bowie, of Ashe county^ A: fight
on the measure was immediately
started. The resolution which passed
the senate providing for a commission
to investigate the possibilities of buy
ing the road and pushing , certain
suits for recovery of the line by the
state which built it. v..
Representative Murphy, of Salis
bury, opposed any action looking, to
the purchase of any railroad, by the
state. While the state owns many
nffooada they are all operated by out
side of the state companies, said Mr.
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I Guilford county, declared that' the
resolution did not ;cormcit the state
I to anything. He. said it merely pro -
vided for laying, the. facta before, the
legislature of 1025 that the people
should have. Mr. Murphy said he felt
the state could await the. outcome of
I present litigations, and that he was
I disposed to anything that.might .lead
to the state trying to buy a railroad.
Mr. Wrfght-asked, that Jthe bill be .
read, explaining that, it merely pro
vided- for an investigattop. , Repre
sentative Townsend, of Harnetlv asked
if such a resolution passed in 1023
did not provide for a commissioR to
investigate and employ counsel .to sue
for recovery of the road. Representa
tive Bowk explained *b*t. this, reso- v
lution enlarges the powers of the I
commission created on 1^3,.' Repre
sentative Quiclcd, of. Lincoln spuuty,
'declared that it looked life* keeping
bad faith with the 1923 commission.
Representative Everett, of Durham, : l
declared that the north and south
linesihad done all,they; couldM shut
out. east amir
said it was always jyeU tq thready
to compromise if necessary.