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VOL. XVII PAMtVttU, PHT COUNTY, NORTH CAKOI|NA, FRIDAY, APRIL lilt, mi No. SO
6RIC.gHOME
Repoti to Board County Com
missioners of Work Done
in Pitt During March
Greenville, N. C.,
March 31,1927
To The Hon. Board of County Com
missioners,
Greenville, N. C.
Gentlemen:
I herewith submit report of Agri
cultural Extension Work as conduct
ed in Pitt County during the month
of March:
Poultry
j
In this line the major portion of
work has centered around marketing
and locating demonstrators in the
keeping of cost records an- indivi
dual ,'ilacks. \
Stops for loading of live poultry
into cars with cash paid at door were
arranged for at Ayden, Bethel,, ami
Greenville. Some 2,000 circulars were
.distributed among the farmers ad
vertising this sale and 14,612 pounds
were loaded bringing m cash $3,225.
01. This brings the total up to 26,
342 pounds selling for $5,777.66 for
-this year. Sale stops have been ad
vertised for Farmville and Green
ville, April the 8th and 9th. In the
March sale 1^3 farmers sold poultry.
-Hogs.
We caw have 100 hogs on feed for
later shipment. The first car will |
move around-April the 20th and the j
second around the middle of May.
Quite a number of farmers are be
coming interested in feeding out hogs
for the market and I feel that this
would prove profitable and become a
common practice in Pitt County.
Dairying
Four farmers to date have indicated
that they were ready to do some
" dairying and I have an engagement
to assist in the purchase of four pure
Holsteins and the construction of one
dairy barn.
Bees
Have arranged with the,State Bee
?Mreeping^Speeiaiist to put on three
public demonstrations in Beekeeping
for the "13th and 14th of April I
find considerable interest amond the
beekeepers of the County and am an
: tieipating good attendance.
Club Work
;; Twenty-three boys have been en
listed in club work and are being
aUoted projects in poultry, pig work
and field crops.
Orchards
Thiee farmers have been assisted
in orchard work and a number hawi
been to the office , for spraying ani
pruning instructions. f ? 'I
. Limestone f '
A car of limestone has been se
cured and place-1 with the farmers of
the County free plus the freight and
arrangements are being made to place
a second- car.
Field Crops
Thru April and May I have ar
ranged for assistance of specialists
in- establishing demonstrations' in
Cottoo, Tobacco and Potatoes .
ffanw
I have spent 19^ days in field
and 7Vs days in office. 103 office
conferences have been held and 44
telephone calls, answered. Letter?
written 118, farm visits made 41,
.method demonstrations given 7, at
tendance 180, visits to result demon -
| strations 18, circulars sent 4,050.
Have traveled 1,438 miles in the in
terest of the projects under way.
If further information is desired,
. 'I shall he glad to appear in person
on notice from the Board.
'Respectfully submitted,
E. F. Amoio,
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# President's Aide <
Col. Blanton Winship '
military m'de to President Coolido&<'
starting May 1, succeeding (Si
SJtervrood A. Cheney, who returho
io field duty.
Located Near Here How Hew*
ing Completion and PtHOs
Being Made for Opening
Lexington, April 14.?The Junior
Order orphans home, located Defer
here, is now approaching comple
tion and plans are being made for
the formal opening to be held in
May. With the completion of the
plant and the swing wide of its dooM
for the reception of orphan children,
the day that has long been lookfed
forward to by Juniors throughout tiki
state will have arrived,
i A conference was held here tfe*
cently by Thomas H. Walters, na
tional councilor, J. D. Tunison, P?t|
councilor, Herbert Hunter, arehiteeti
and J. W. Stout, contractor, wtto
members of the local committee Wf
[ garding the progress of the work tat4
ready for occupancy by-the time set
Lfor the dedication.
The first unit to be placed in ttak
will include the administration ba3d
| nig, the South Carolina and Pedtf
sylvama ormitories and the centrmf
heating plant An electric line wiB j
be extended to the pant to provide'
light and other conveniences and
arrangements are also being made
for the erection of a dairy building
in which a herd of purebred Hol
steins will be kept, and a
laundry' will be provided at once^
When the work is competed, in
cluding the grading of the grounds/
the home will be one of the prettiest
places in this section of the State.
Within a short time a superintendent:
and other officials neccessary to oper
ate. the intitution in the way planned.:
Approximately 50,000 Juniors inj
North Carolina have played & part
in the erection of the home and when I
the plant is thrown open fon the re
ception of little children hundreds of
them are expected to be . present'Ire
that Kappy ocassion.
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I BEATITUDES DF CONSER
? VATION
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I Dedicated to the General Feder
ation of Women's Clubs
I Proyor, Florida
I L BLESSED they who -plant
? the long-lived tree and shrub; for
I generations-shall rise op and call them
? blessed. I
U 2. BLESSED are they who are own
? ers ofj flowers gardens, for :fa-?|
? heart of a flower may be sees its
I Creator. H
? r BLESSED are they who appr*
? dhte nature's gifts, for they shall
M be knows as lovers of beauty.' -I
B "b thCy ^iSSl
godliness,
I 5. BLESSED are they who bright
? itilvaR, WiWl r?* "> mi|llUvwHIvlr
II .?.% ,ib f , *
HHf- nMh IF
^ | be their reward. r v 9
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Pijdfiufs uto Be Made ?fiarr/ng
I theEnsuing Three Months ,
Ate Much Create r
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While the customary joint report
of .the}, State Auditor and the State
Treasurer of the condition of the
treasury on March 34, 1927, was not
available yesterday, figures made
public by State Auditor Baxter Thir-:
bam showed the State's surplus on
that date as $3,475,556.19. With the
$1,269,824.04 ? carried over from last
ff^T&li^- a*?gaii?st $3^17,386.04
during the same period the previous
year. ? V
Payments to be. made during-, jthe
ensuing three months are much
greater than were made last year!
were somewhat greater this year than j
last it is now expected that the I
surplus at the close of the biennium
on June 30 will be more than ?1,500,- j
000, in which event five-sixths of (
? Hp^^^K^flnbrations and one-sixth!
of the amount will be the result
-Of the first year of operations and
one-sixth the result of the second
year's operations. i % J
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> GotVffiiu, Anyhow
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"I hear your sister married a
struggling young lawyer."
* he did struggle, but he
didn't get ar>ay."
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Fair Enough .
ptafe:.... '? V?!' ?
He?Would you like to go to that
dart&with a good locking man?. .
She?Sure; have you a friend?
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1,B. Lewis, Who is a Student
L at U. N. C. Hakes Splen
did Marfa if '
Chapel Hill, N. C., April 11.?J. B.
Lewis of FarmvilletHK) isa student
at the University ofrNortfr Carolina,
made the honor roll in his studies ^
during the wiotey quarter .just end
The honor students are those who
make an averagMKade of B (90 to
95 per pent) or Utter, in their gtu
jffie honor roll during'theTrtnter quart
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The list comprises 68 freshmen,. 50
sophomores, 65._juniors, 51. seniors,
and 5 special students. Twenty-four
of these students made all A's,
average of 95 tp 100 per cent, T^hich
is the highest mark obtainable,
i The list for the quarter records a
(substantial increase over the shme
period last year J . .
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Sunshine Sue .
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He: "Did you ever visit- the mu
seum?"
Sher "No, It never happened to be.
raining passed it."
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There's a Difference
"Agnes has discarded the lover who
wrote such beautiful blank versejfiV
"Yes. She has accepted a man
who writes beautiful blank ?:
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Girls are leading! the i boys by a
big margin in the national "perfect
attendance" school contest now being
itor has been lead" by one parfc&fflfc
girl for nigh on to forty years now?
and has learned to like it
b: '-',r a?'2n~ U
M 11I I wl I
Robert ^mg Youngest Son of
I Mrs. Suites R. Lang, wins
? Honors to Athletic Field
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Rome 6a., AprilJO.?Robert Lang,
youngest?, son of Sfr? A^tnie R. Lang,
of RattnWIe^ made abrfl
laint rectrd in his short stay at the
Darlington School for Boys which he
entered this^ast February. He won
a place en the basketball squad dure
ing the fcrst week of his stay in the
Georgia School This team won quite
a good deal of fame by garnering the
championship of, North Georgia,
^?^hiee^hfcopening qf the baseball
season he has consistency featured
ikt the bat" and in the field. He is
batting around .875 on a-team which
has not lost a game with one of the
strongest'A. and M. SchooVin this
part of the South young Lang saved
the game for his teammates when
he ran hack several yards ftfom Hie
shortstop position and leaping high
in the air, caught the sphere with his
barehand in what was universally ad
judged by the Spectatora as the most
reraartadde play ever witnessed by
them. This happened in the ninth in
ning when there were two men on
base and the score was tied. In a
recent game when the Darlington
Tigers' hung up a prep record by
downing Summervilie High 3i-i
Lang was one cf the too big slug
gers. It will be remembered by
amateur fan* iii Tar Hellia that young
Lang was a hefuiliner iih amateur ball
reports all during the past two sum
mers.
, Not. content with the fame gained
by his. wonderful qatch on Friday
Lang splKed forth to; Atlanta on Sat
urday where he starred on the crack
Darlington >880 relay aggregation
which w*>n the second place in the
greatest tAck carnival in the South.
Lang who was anchor man, received
batba. twenty yard* behind the lead
er and^Cie end of the race was only
and several other leading prepe of the
^L^y^President of the North
Csr^UttB Club of which Julian Hutaff,
of Fayettevflle is Vice-President .and
John Preston, Montreat, secretary,
Lang j8 lited by many as the most
popular boy in school.
OOfcher Farmvillians wil.be interest
ed to know that Roland B. Parker who
was an honor graduate of Davidson
Cotoege last year is head of the French
Bq5?5fienTin the DsHington School
wT&tete widely known as a leading
peep school of the South.
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/yi MORNING'S MORN3NG 'V
Gymnastics are the things to do, <tv
(Or. ought to) when you leave your
: ; bUd, "
With Sdumb-bells, preferably two,
And clubs to swing around your
I fipl&V
Then raise yourself upon your hands,
W?#?*? lying ?n the chilly floor,
Or wrestle "with elastic bands
\wmm hooks behind the door.
This brongs your muscles up in
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1 And makes you "flt for household
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I SMILE UP, FEULERS.'FAfcjRYTHFNflfy F1 - ^ fii#^1gprr n m rtn M
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| i D. ?tarriers{ Beatify |
CarF H. Howard, of St Pauls,
N. -C., President of the National)
R. F. D. Carriers' Association, has i
been driving Route No. 3 in Robe-:
son County fojr 24 years and has ?
never been "reported" to the De-:
Eartment. There are 33,000 mem- <
ers in his association which meets j
this year at Oklahoma City in Au
gust. ?
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CHILD'S DEATH
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Mprrtin Counfy Man Charged
With Kitting of His Five
Day-Old Infant
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Williamston, April 12. ? Oscar
Wynn, who lives 12 miles from Wil
liamston was arrested yesterday
charged with the murder of his five-1
day old child. The infant was found
dead in bed with its mother yester
day morning. Mrs. Wynn was
awakened by her husband with the
information that the child was dead.
.Neighbors came in and offered tb
3ress the infant for burial, but the
father would not allow any one to
touch the body. He requested his
Aother to dress the child, but she
refused for reasons of her own.
The suspicions of the neighbors
being-aroused, .Shenff Roebuck was
non Ward, of Robersonyille, who had
attended the mother, vO go out and
examine the infant, later carrying
Dr. W. E. Warren, Health Officer,
out to the home.
Babe's Neck Broken.
Dr. Warren found that the neck
of the infant had been broken and
there were other bruises on the little
body. S. R. Biggs, county coroner,
empanelled a jury and upon its find
ings Wynn was brought1 to jail to
await trial for the murder of his
child.
It developed that the first child
born to Wynn and his wife died and
was buried by Wynn after the
mother of the father had prepared
it. for burial. Remarks by tfie?grand
mother gave strong suspicion that
this child was murdered, too.
This recent affair created much ex
citement in the neighborhood in which
Wynn lives, and there was a feeling
that the man should have immediate1
punishment. But the sheriff brough';
him to jail without any trouble, arf3
he is safe from violence as the i jw
jail recently completed is one of the
strongest, in the State and is locateid
on the third floor of the annex to
the court house!
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!l WAREHOUSEMEN WARN
AGAINST INCREASED
I TOBACCO ACREAGE
The North Carolina Warehouse As
Bsocistion, .composed of all the leading
warehousemen of Eastern North Cajr
lolina, through its beard of diretors
I in sessi' jeeently at Wilson, . uii
Banimously ? adopted the following
I preamble and resolutions:?
K^Whereas, our own interests and
Bthe prosperity of oy 't customers are
B involved in leaf tobacco prices for fee
Bcrop' f#ar 1927, and we recognise opr
?helplessness when confronted with
?conditions set up by the laws of sup
?ply and demand Now, therefore, be
? "Resolved, i. That we view wn
I alarm, fee projects of an increasejm
ves and our custo m ers to soua^l J
note .of warning to- the tobacco grow
cr63??" in T*jt 1927) whereby
LxCTinfift
Smm
All Three Defendant Hue
Served Terms to State Prissn
Have Dad Characters
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Raleigh April 13.?Three confessed
floggers of Mrs. Fannie Davis, 7l?
year old widow, through their " at
torneys appeared in Wake Superior.
tJourt yesterday afternoon and were
?given prison terms by Judge Devin.
Otis Harrison, released less than
two years ago from the State Prison
fo* killing his father in a drunken
brawl, goes back for a term of Ave
to ten years.
- Gaston Jones, 19-year old youth,
drew 18 months on the county roads,
and Sade Ray, just turned 16, was
given two years on the roads upon
condition that it be suspended dur
ing good behavior after he has ser
ved for six months.
Woman Describes Flogging,
The ageil woman/ who was beaten
up in her home in Barton's Greet
township early on Sunday morning,
March 20, also appeared in Wake
Superior Court yesterday afternoon
and told her story of the assault.
- A mere slip of a woman, she was
talkative and frequently interrupt
ed witnesses put on by attorneys tor
the defendant to testify that she was
a woman of bad character.
Several witnessjo for the defense
declared that she had been a woman
of bad character for 40 years, taut
said they spoke only from' reports
they had heard. ?
"Bad for what?" W. B. Jones, ap
pearing for the Ray youth and for
Harrison, would ask.
"Disorderly house," several-wit
nesses said. -
Several of the same witnesses
said' that the defendants had the rep^
utation of being'engaged ia moon- '
shining activities^* recent months.
Neighbors corrffcorated the testi
mony of Mrs. Davis as to her condi
tion after the flogging given her'by
the thi** defendant? in her own
home^ snd ^ftso as to the breaking
out of the window panes and the
smashing of furniture,
f'. Mrs: Davis said that she '.44
whipped because she wouldn't tefwi
a drink of whiskey. She sought ref
uge in a closet as the three de
stroyed her household furniture.
They then went out into the yard
and-fired several times.
She said that the .three had bat* ?
tared'down the door to the :, house
after she had refused to let there
come in.
No War, Thank m
H e /;?*,?.* ? *>?# *- rty'-r
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I ? Americans have a high regard for -
the rights of other people; ThMe
fore, America rejoices in the deter
mination of its President that the
United States shall not be dragged
into a war with sefish powers to otvah
the nationalistic hopes of the Chinese
people.
There is no denying that an effort
is bong made to embroil us with
other nations that have sdftah as*
pirations there. This wc hop*; is
checked for all time in PmriAent
Coolidge's peremptory instructions to
oar military representative in China
last week. ? . -
The tearing of an American; Sag
by a few war-crazed Chinese cannot
persuade- the American people that
our soldiers should be sent to farther
the game of European capital which
sees in the tremendous- rising of the
nationalist spirit a grim detemina
tion of the Chinese to assert and
maintain their sovereign rights. The
average. American of ?ood principles
is in complete sympathy with the
Chinese hopes aridi aspirations.
!? Every day we read, "More fc
Marines," "More U. S. Battleships te
China." '. AH woH and good,, bat, we
intelligently represented by its Pmi
den? will not forget that those ma- E
fines and those fcttleshipa are
for one purpose only, to protect thj?
lives of Americans?and only these
Americans* who follow > V
and advice of the American mflftatr
authorities?sent there to'protect and
J save their lives. j ?
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marry long as I Uw!"
j "Refused again*"
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