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Already tbe city, which ha* suffer ed the heaviest rainfall in its history, is seriously handicapped by tbe flood waters. Tbe light plant has limped along today with two its turbinescov ered with water and the emergency unit of 666 K. W. capacity taxed to out the day. Official announcement was made by I Mayor T. T. Thome that the city would be in darkness tonight except for street lights. At ?30 this after^ noon-an official reading taken at the pump station showed titftt rkr river had readied a bright of 14.7 feet* ? of a foot below the record set in 1919. Tbe stream, whivh b tax over its hnit is esnthsialRjll riee rapidly ^ uttkk ' * ' below the faefier room* of the water and Ught plant in ease it attains this level the entire plant wiB be put eat of comisrion, and tea dty will he vftfcoot either tight or water. . ? - m laBw.dmte i stream, the Rocky Mount Cotton Hills I suspended operation at the noon hour J fr^Battiebero highway and vehi?{ aiir traffic into the city from several points beyond ~IEe river is impossible. In more than orife instance marooned I' '1 Timnwn.1.4 . residents nave Men Drongnt irom t and 4|WU''?m about the eity are subsid ise although short portions of sev eral streets are still inundated and* basements are ywinamijer pools. Water flooded sevenl'business houses and industries with the resuit that they suffer serious loss aad an hadif CT*I>iea* - s? I The inundation of the dty and the rampage of Tar river followed nearly Mf*hed its peak during the U bam^ period yesterday, the report of the lo been Bttle rain today and iate this afternoon the sun peeped out for a I J* f111 lillaU Ml 0 ?m S 1 J - ? ? ? . , iOW 1-i* i LeglM J *?? :? ??1 '%me> A^Drain, ^ Waamo^toP, ? ;var .o*l ia the Span1?fc?j^58^ fii.M Wj.'.LALiU' .J V. ?'? ' " ' People Who Get Stack 02 fcaieigh,"Octk??In sofarasthew vyhypwyn ^ ?. j *& mita, and the promoter podcatjac the j^gjjg fMft No^O^ Tn?nr?nfo ^nuiMlirtltfr. ffl S st?t6-: went to tfc* press dealing with e31 exploitation in Eastern North Caroli unsafe and.the tactics of^ promot-j e*s as ^^^abM^eproach. He d?-._ boy the land offered for sale may haw a "run for their money" and ?r the -gg ee* sha$ be mfelo]*^** fcroduee the values held but to the prospect than to enrich those who would ex ploit the eredttHy of the people. ?V ;I " to oil craze, and when those'who - *?.Jz- , ' *'v i"> '" ? www^eg ? 'T*?u Mid profit immensely from an ? ploitation of aOegad oil lands are j AVIS utivu wv | , Wm-lm fnr ttrVplfc ftflr -W0{, it CT ^yf i i ,#' .li_ 1, ,i | i V j 1 I ' ? J ? n >? ,. n *' -...? I . r I, ll A } than speculation, And cannot sail' un I der false colors. It & only where the and speculation axe mixed in unde j termined proportion^ and where there fr *, .tota^y-?hid> ymlw. my be measured that-common sense de (mands protection for the peojda. If j the blue sky law is inoperative in such I eases it fails to do what its most libs rail critics would expect of it :p'|j "Literally interpreted our blue sk^ j law has fcolimitations, but interest in I when land is sold as such and ad |?f values, no such protection to the I inducement to purchase Ijksome un3 | certain and prospective value fompi ul^!tte?jf onfSbt the*son* Sd bli^ta I principles shduld be iipBed to p^ I tect the impulsive from the impostor, the enthusiast from the exploiter, for such a conveyance of land, lacking any productive factor, becomes a high ly speculative investment contract and falls clearly with the prohibitions of the bine sky law. rL&lm promoters eouid hardly claim that th? have had in mind if any time the sal* of these lands for their value as land* Jmt only as and when the prospect of oil made it possible'to capitalize a value H does not yet pa||| ? "Admitting Sit oil ewe some where in Fasteni Carolina, even in i commercial ctuuiviu65) tn6S6 VBntur^B atSt lMk the^etement of soundness the case of a stock selling corpora I eat tangible assets, that underta'^ to write into its balance sheet the good IP^fa all wdiventam where the d* l mentof risk outweighs the probabil ity ofgain, where promotion and nreseni insurance commission may be 1* 1 itfi'Mel 'I I '? iii ? i*i f a i'Y iif 111 ., anrl fkftl' . L* X bos? may bare their money, and that,. I tion of the proceeds shall be em ef the people/' ATTBNTIOK. NBW VOTERS ' M M - .re* 4 j g i^pyi I -"S^ir'*> ^VTfir. ?.TT r*_ -- " .*;'"l: 1 0;'^3f^. * ? + ? ??? '*"*** '4 *a '"V'- ' ' ? < 4 hs6 b<H*n bloiri^ here nj^J ^IOQ * Nfl In 1320 there W6P6 ^ 5^4^)00 ' Votes I ^ ^ -i i^Bc^ed ^ | ^ I vn ttttin T-? T" t _ PMAIlffiltf D pi.2 JV_ 1 i w "J w ? year ^rt^d^^Sden",1L\ ^ praised the former president, told of members for harmony- and eo-opera appointed at this time: . Ways andMeans?Mesdamea I A. Rouse and G. M. HoWem w*| I Program?MesdaiS^ Loyd Smith, Heywood Smith,-f W. Lovdae^ J; V* Morgan ana JUS8 nacner joraaiu:? Social Swvice-Me.dami*' *. B." I wner, A; W. WWUker, G ? Dixon. MombershifS^iiltedames A. S. Bynutojl P. E. Jones, D. E. Oglesby. : rSlfSjB Grounds?Mfcs Tatttha DeVisconti I find The room roll call'Was then made and Miss Annie Perkins dron the re- j reminded the aasow j oomes hew under its auspices in Oe-j her Merest and filthful and in lift 6* of the feetdty^foBo^ adjourn of 20 pi *? - over the. ing period the Aine^ aav* A h4a?maWIW A eo<whi44iMi mi ? i?> 11 Ml ail i'B rap Automobiie Association announG?| ed today upon the basis of the awlk I annual, count made by the United first six: months oltheyear 13,645,I #aiy If ISfifc Nesa yorit iwd l^SSy 362, Califox?|itd^M>0x5, Ohio 1,160, 000, and INnttylvanla 1J81&8J *?gl T*e tot?i receipts frwn registra tion:: fees, Beenses; tad permits amounted to $199,472,682, and from ,'M^ j. .' ''.f ,? A'.i* ? -y~_ *v Aj 2-M.-i-a'I ". ' AAA a Aia,'"" 410. These funds ? do not induds'iMd^ sonaL property taxes on automobiles, which are levied in 80' states. ' ri.^' . ??'. * - , I ?" ?? ? 111 iiy the office of Secretary of State ? Mft,.', other oht i stoogI sscond i * I U M A T? w4 tlrtV A it 961 A {jiyfln^oi* 31 * Allc^hsny ^X1 *' AH" 1 W Bertie 81; Bladen 28; Brunswick !?; Buncombe 256; Burke 82; Cabell ^*35; Duplin 70; Dirham 134; EtfgOr combe 85; Forsyth 229; Franklin <27; Gaston 110; Gates 28; Graham 0; Granville^ 77; Qt&ntAQil. GcJMo^i;. quotank 126; Pender 11; Perquim^W ] 58; Person 80; Pttt 107; Polk 21; Ran j 4yaen, ept 80.?Thera waa a cload-J toilet here this evenin gat 8 o'cfocW affc* rain for several days. Water] crops, property and highways. TEACHEBS GUESTS OF I .. J m, ' W . / | 15, is today a he saved from go&ginto a ^washout just east of this city are conowied. mITC^L/UvTa Mti* ?Jftf & ft*1***the Norfolk Southern railroad. According to reports the lad was walking along the tracks betweenr his home and this city when the earth of an embankment gave wayteneatH him. Climbing bade to the track, he made a hasty inspection, f&lins? that the watfeis from streams swollen by the excessive rains had cut through beneath the CO foot embankment and tw, ,?banlc$^^ though it appeared solid from above only a. shell of earth was supporting the tracks for. a distinct* of roan feet Realizing what the result might be if thf passenger train then" ajwut due US ?^^to^m>is^tratn out from tt|, of a washout ahead The engineer, cavity large* enough to eo 11' vinf UaAv, la/] p/1 Hunter^when interviewed this mon? 1 to the-detail* of the near Raleigh, Oct 1.-kludge J. Loyd Carolina has the right to imposh ah Inheritance tax upon a re-, sSS'SSSSr; state w the merits of the lse, ow? ruhhf (Mi state's contentiom^Biat plaintiff had no. right to bring tho ' advancedjfor^vl a^wdy. hearipg before .the 'fqp^^ termined in various states and hflh Y i TT T> 1. 11 Y*. ? ? i , representing the State aihd City Bari f f >kk_ Jf / * wir ' A ' The trust had been ma^ long enough to* oring it without the terms
The Farmville Enterprise (Farmville, N.C.)
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