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Local School Completes
Successful Year's Work
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Eleven Graduate Tuesday Night*
Senator Rivers Johnson
Delivers Address
Closing exercises of the local school
got under way Sunday morning with
the Baccaulaureat Sermon by Rev. T.
H. Dimmock, Presbyterian, of Oxford,
N. C. _Rev. Dimmock preached an in
teresting and instructive sermon to the
class and audience, basing his thought
on "Getting the Vital Emphasis." j
Monday evening, the Class Day ex
ercises v ere held. Quite a large crowd
v/as present to see their sons, daugh
ters and friends render their part in
the exercises. The class roll numbers
eleven: Misses Hazel Taylor, Penelope
Lewis Lucy Johnson, Nancy Lewis,
Lucy King, Fannie Mae Bussell, Del
phia Parker, Allicegrae Flannagan,
and Messrs. Irvin Morgan, Edward
Hinson, and Elbert Holmes. The pro
gram, well rendered and enjoyed by
all present, was as follows: Saluta
tory, Elbert Holmes; Class Picture,
Hazel Taylor; Class Creed, Penelope j
Lewis'; Class Prophecy, Edward Hin- [
son; Piano Solo, Prelude in C Minor
(Rachmanihaff), Lucy Johnson; Class
History, Nancy Lewis; Class Poem, ^
Lucy King; Class Flower, Colors, and ,
Motto, Fannie Mae Russell; Vocal
Solo?"One Fleeting Hour", Elbert
Holmes; Class Giftorian, Delphia Par
ker; Class Will, Alicegrae Flannagan;
Valedictory, Irvin Morgan. Ushers
for the night > were PrisciUa Baker,
Nannie Mae Moore, Margaret Lewis,
Mary Alice Beaman, Rosa Lee Lang,
and Colvin Carraway.
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Tuesday evening oipioiiku wcic uv ?i
Iivered to the members of the graduat
ing class by Mr. J. I. Morgan; member
of the school board. Following the
presentation of diplomas, Supt Wheel- ,
er introduced Senator Rivers Joshson,
of Warsaw, who delivered the com-!
mencement oddres. Senator Johnson's
address was both interesting and in
spiring, his subject being "Training
for Citizenship."
Had it not been for the several epi
demics which- broke into the atten
dance of the pupils, the school year
just ended would have been by far the
best in the history of the schooL And,
evehjthough whooping cough, measles,
mumps and flu, did much to hinder
the success of the year, it-was as good
as any heretofore. Hie splendid corps
of teachers, under the able direction ?
and. leadership of Supt Wheeler, ob
tained splendid results from the pupils
In tbeir daily study of the text books.
It is with pleasure that we are able
to announce that pracicaHy the same
corps of teachers will direct the des
tiny of the school next school year.
Theif will be a few changes, of course,
but the majority of this year's faculty
w9t IMvn.
i In glancing back over vhe year's
work- of the different Clubs we sec.
that^the outstanding things of the
year *were, the splendid programs put
qb bp the Parent-Teaphers Associa
tion^ and the gift of the Grand Piano
by tMb Woman* Club. Each of these
organizations did much during the
l>a*t^year for the bettement of the
We the graduating class this year
is n? large, (eleven members), the
bspi^^ur, more than double this
* Fftm all indications the dream of
, 3|5 sgS&t* KM#.
purchased for that purpose on Wilson
Teafity within the J
9t three
- At J&tmiift, Oft., is ? mpnygotnt
?^4Sn% '3&k -ciSS ? - A
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Cafl To Rest In Ons
Time Bad Country
Ghosts Of Gunmen And Indians
Stalk Vacation Hills; Is
Beauty Spot. /
Rapid City, S. D., Jtpe 8.?If Cal
vin Coolidge comes back from his va
cation this summer wearing a ten-gal
lon hat, chaps and a trusty six-shoot
er, there'll be a reason,: he is going to
spend his vacation in the heart of the
country made famous by the infamous ?
yellow-backed dime novels. ?
In the Black Hills canyons to the .
north and south and west of the sum
mer White House near Rapid City,
are the ghosts of more two-gun men
than Bill Hart and Tom Mix together j
ever impersonated in the movies. j
Twice a month, Dead wood Dick, ?
with his one eye and his sawed off
shotgun loaded with buckshot, and
two pearl-handled six-shooters at his
belt, used to ride through this country
totting on a Wells Fargo safe filled ?
with $500,000 in gold shooting his
way clear to Omaha and furnishing in- j
spiration for the Beadle Dime Libra- '
ry.
In White Rock cemetery, ndrth of j
Deadwood, they used to bury a man
every morning before breakfast. Here
now repose the bones of immortal
"Wild Bill"1 Hickock who had forty ?
notches on his gun, and Calamity
Jane,., who threw away her woman's
clothes, dressed as a man, was a mule
skinner for Custer the Indian fighter, :
and the toughest, hard swearing, hard- 4
riding, hard drinking woman who
ever graduated from the school of ex
perience. She was a Missouri preach
eris daughter and she got her name
from the calamity she brought oh all
who got la range of her gun. She was (
most Handy with a six-shooter. Single
handed she captured MeCali, Hickock's
slayer, with a, batcher's cleaver.
Belle Fourehe,' just a few miles 1
further north, is still the scene of one i
of the best rodeos and roundups in j
the west
Only a Httle more than 50 years
ago all this country was howling
wilderness. Then one of Custer's
scouts discovered gold a few miles
south of where .Coolidge will hang his
hat this summer, and the place be
came a howling wilderness of sin.
It was a country sg bad that the?e
is a monument erected in the town of
Cister to Mrs. Anna D. Tallent, the
first white woman who dared set foot
in the region.
There-are two other famous monu
ments in the hills. Que, outside the
town of Deedwoodf is erected to Theo
dore Roosevelt in his hunting days
Teddy roamed those hills and liked
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I Th? other monument is erected to
Itfie first L.fjf pilot in Peadwood,
?Preacher Smith, who marched ttgkE
?into_"Xiits}?ell BUI*" m\oon, madgj
them clear away the bottles fr&n the
? tables while he conducted divine ser
I vices and passed 'the hat for a collec
tion of gold dust and nuggets. One day
I Preacher Smith went to Crook City
I to reform that place, and the Sioux
I Indians caught him and scalped him.
M iSven Calamity jane wept.
Not fir away from Rapid City, too,
is the city of Lead, with its famous
Homes take mine, which fta* fcpep
worked for more than 50 years and
? produces about $8,000,000 worth of
J?00^ UU1^ of V.
Bj^Harney peak, 72000 feet high,- is I
. the highest mountain wast of the I
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By some freak of nature these hills I
[ were pushed up out of a level plain. I
North, east and west stretch vast ex
And *? if the country were not per- I
git's fancy, 40 miles to tgeasf of
of South Dakota. Here, ages and eons
before the days of Wild Bill, Calamity
^ toothed tiger, the dinosaur and
? Chicago. I
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Farced Men labor
By Threats Death
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Bat Federal Jury Finds King
Not Guilty Upon Hearing .
Evidence
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Athens, Ga., June 8.?A picture of
plantation negroes hoeing corn and1
chopping cotton under threats of deaQ
and suffering personal violence when
incurring the displeasure of their
wealthy employer has heen held up to
a federal jury sitting in the trial of
Dr. W. R. King, physician-farmer, on"
charges of peonage.
Barnett Arwood, a white man who
worked on Dr.x King's Oglethrope
County farm, testified that he was
struck down with a pistol fer suggest
ing that he attend a barbecue 'on the
farm.
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Arwood said he mentioned the mat
ter to Dr. King while at a well draw
ing water for livestock. His employer
felled him with a pistol, he testified,,
and ended an argument by threaten
ing, "I'll shoot you."
Prosecution witnesses werjj heard
at the start of the trial as the gov
ernment laid the framework for its
specific charge that Dr. Ipng forced
Benny Dorsey, negro, to work on his ,
farm without pay. An array of more
thin thirty witnesses, sevgraj sum
moned by Dr. King, were held in readi
ness today by opposing counsel.
One of the witnesses caste from
Danville, Va., with a story of crook
ties that last week caused Governor
Clifford Wa5ker to order an investi
gation. He hid not testified. J&roes
Felton, a negro, told the Danville,
chief of polios that about fifty ne
groes worked/under armed guard on
the King plantation and that fivp
were slain. He escaped about three
weeks ago, he said, aftier working
mope than a year.
an&mc ..vll
(Mrs. Rarnett ArWood tesnfi^a tnat
?she and her husband were threaten^
Bwith Inearceration should they Je"aY?
I the farm. "Dr. King Drgp?& jog
111;26 a day." the husband testified,
?"and all I got was food and no clfltfceg
Bexpept one time he -gave m% a 9HS*
Mr."
Raymond fylm p ftfgWtj t^stifi?#
What he and four ether npgro?3 were
Whipped on.one
and a companion- Ty!?r WSfcrted gll
meHr a Clerk at Mpayere, Gm teatH
fied that he witnessed the whippfogaJ
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jjsar or "inore has been affiliated with
(he Hob Hardware Co., of thii?*fty,<
in movin gthis week- tf- PlymtrotJvJif. I
C, Where he goes to Open a branch of
A* Aftwm. I
Mr. ~Je?dan has mimeroebis friends
jiere who regret to see^Wxn leave
jtamville and-wish, him
becomes rather 1)10^^^, don't'yop
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We nonunap .gepator #*pj|eed fo?
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X President Coolidge will spend JiU tammtr Jffcfjadye it vm
room stractnre and so arranged that the latee/OH gST.news
which will accompany the diiil cxcCuHv# Can MM
idges cxpect ta be in camp
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Atlantic; To Sottas?
Fuel Gives <*ft Within BtttTS
Run Of Berlin By Air. Wives
To Joint Them Abroad
The Bellaoce Plane "Columbia"
pioleted by Clarence .D. Chamberlin,
accompanied by Charles A. Levine,
which heped off from Roosevelt Field,
New York, last Saturday morning at
6:05 landed at Eisleben, Germany, 119
miles southwest of 'Berlin Sunday
at midnigh.
Berlin, June 7.?After one of the
most spectacular flights in the history
of aviation, Clarence Chamberlain and
Charles Levine are waiting patiently
at the town of Kottus, an hours dis
tance by air from Strife,; for tomorrow
when they hope tfe.eajne sailing over
the German capital as they originally
intended when they left from New
York in their plane "Columbia."
There is disappointment in Berlin
that the flight did not end at the lo
cal field where many thousands gatlw
ered last nigh and reroaithed for
hours, watching as eagerly for the
Columbia as the peoplqf; of Paris
watched for the coming of the "Spirit
of St Iiouis."
But after reaching Europe Cham
berlin and Levine encountered diffi
cult conditions. They ran into fog and
rain and evil winds and apparently
had difficulty in Oft tain stages lining
out their course. Thus much of their
fuel was used and coming to the end
of their supply with engine trouble
loading up, they were forced to de
fend for supplies in t'he vicinity of
Eislebett-whero they put up for the
nifetf; w .? ' ^ " :? '*
Suggestions that he motor into ger
lnT or fly In on# of the Gerpjan planes
were waved aside by the trans-Atlan-1
tic flyer who 1st It be fcnown that
h? intended to complete his flight U\
his own1 plane.
Qn Wednesday Chamberlain will be
presented to Bros/dent Von Qindon
perg Who already has caigfed '$?j?
dent CoOlidge his congratulations tp
the American , nation on ttyT spftftgfr:
5 W?*? ^ptaiftj
?rh bfawftfe?
e sent a radio cqngratylating
m 0**??e? etiamterii^f ?wI
W to thf earre^pondentJ
? ft Tory $fle gieoe ?f work
^|ehp?? in the nJ?St ?.
n the day are eager to salute
ssage from the captain of the
t Rooeevelt saying that 800
tf*Ani his steamer wereeager
(mp^of Lindbergh,
xpecfed -that the vessels will
1 the American flying ace in
ten<& tO jStand, on she bridge and ?c
Voai
Chamberlain, wife of the pilot of the
"Columbia", was given a check for
tiSm today to ?rVI to her husbioo
IK^HSutoy. Mris. KviM.lrffe
of the finanoiftt^^her of the flljgt
the presentations yrau*. psade,
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w mmm mrusi dead
| Little iSerone nine month old
dawghtervcrf Mr. and R.
Cfcfef Hobgood received a faXTto the
colored section of take charge (
of She^ii; Blount, 'colored, who was
on a drunken spree. Upon deriving
at the s^nie of the disturbance^ GhifS
HobgoodAtfnd Patrolman Talyor* who
accompankd him, found tbatTilouht's i
wife had fted her homeland was then ,
at the here of her father, and Blount ,
was'on fW- pdreh of^iis-Vife's father's t
hoMm^n axe In his h&nd threat- [
, otitog to faeak down the dodr and db t
? the otffcpfthta of 'the house -<
Mm CWef Hobgood Calied to the l
negro who turned and with 'in dati
. Sd.Btobnt puv ho attedUto^ ^ |
Bdth shots took effect in the tower t
part ofBlount's abdomen. He was im- r
mediately rushed tent -Washington
hospital; where he received medical 1
attention and' at this writing is get- t
ting along o. k., and is considered-Out I
of danger. |
This is another case where 'cawn -
juice" rtin a man craay. Blount is a
negrori^tl thought ofiby most of the *
white people of Farmville and is a
leader Ufnong'iiis own race. He is con- c
sidered one of the best members of e
the local colored fire department
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Hooteh, Hoggin,Haste t
Cause Most Accidents t
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The State Highway Department of ^
Ohio ir using a number of safety slo- c
gang at: safety exhibitions in an effort j,
to ted we motor accidents, says the
North and South Guolina Public Util- e
ity Information Bureau. Several of
these, were originated by tie depart- ^
ment.and have fetmd wjdc vogue. Here c
Dorvt try to scare locomotives with *
your horn. o
A head hog roots up macadam with _
his heae. J
Our-'Toads'are wide and smooth?
don't burn them up.
Death is so permanent?take a ~
minute or two at those dangerous n
railroad crossings, ^
Tragedy in seven words: Speed in- .
creases, breath ceases r rest in pieces. e
Horse sense gq well as horse power &
should enter into the operation of 4
motor-vuhwlea,
Livf tp ride another day by obeying &
signs?they moan wMt they say.
Drive with pare?you may meet a
fool. ... ?
:'A-reeHloe8 driver i? a criminal.
'iKfcep your hands on the wheel?let
yout^iri hug herself. -
The three rtH's"?Hofttch?Hugging
?Haate?pausei ^ percent of the mo
tor tac&idfnt& ; P
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A local farmer taw. announced hi& a
lana for sale on jthe cash and dfcrry ?
plan. Pay all the cash -you OWi and 1<
carr- the, mortgage P
r. H*?hfon says blaefe and whlte com- t)
bination shall rule for the summer.
The president is right In e|rie. The v
summer WHITE House in the BLACK ?
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HoehlBterest Is
, Siwwn In Plan
County ^OfHciab And Public
Gener^brHlich Interested
In Dtiiies Or Office
Raleighf'June7fch?Ctosiderable in
vest h^a Ulfeady been shown on the
)art of county officials, newspaper
nen, arid Others, in thie connty calen
lar rtCently prepared and distributed
the Coiflity; Government Advisory
Jonunission. Severay newspaper offi
:es ha^e already Requested that 'a copy
te fcefat to tftem. ? j
This calendar sets firth on one large
iheet the various duties and.functions
required under the county laws, the
ifficers wbo' are held responsible fir
ifteae duties and functions, and .the
lates 6n tf'hich meetings are to' be
jfeW, "reports . rendered, and various
ither "fiiatt6rs^i?ttend?*l to.
:^^^^darjnjps.frd?p'^ay 1 th>u
o the end of April, but fully half of
he items/liated-come in the first three
nonths,,that is in May, June and July.
Two,'outstanding matters were due
o receive attention in May, though
itoe.-"'Were= several entries for that
oonth. One of these was the duty of
etting up the machinery for listing
axes and other matters wih regard to
axes. In short, the bulk of the work
n May fell on 'the sheriff, though the
oinntisgioners were due to hold sev
ral meetings. It was in May also that
he heads of departments and officials
n charge of functions were required
o submit their budget estimates for
he coming fiscal year.
June is a busy month, according
o the calendar, for in this month the
ounty accountant, that official whose
uties and responsibilities have been
onsidetatfy-fncfea^ed by the newleg
slation, begins his work of preparing
. budget estimate based on the figur
s submitted to him "by the heads of
lepkrtments or officers in. chaise.
i!Ws report must be ready for the
ommissiMfets at their meeting on
he--first Monday in June. At this
jeeting, also the commissioners re
eive a report <rf all taxes colected
mceiaat report; Immediately there
fter the sale of lands for uncollected
axes begfcrn. -
In July the results of the first two
i6fXhar work under the law must be
lade public. The published statements
rill show valuation, debt, '-deficits,
liscellaneous income, uncollected tax
x, tax sales, unencumbered balances,
nd comparative tax rates for county
nd subdivisions. ? ?
Interested persons may secure a
opy Of the county calendar by writing
j Chas. M. Johnson, Executive 3?c
etary, County Government Advisory
ommission, Raleigh*
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Gkl FoundHanging
A fatal step may end the most hap
y life, the most cultured and refined
-the moat beautiful and best loved
re: no exception to the same fate. A
ather's devotion, a mother's care and
>ve, or A brother's or sister's com
anionship will not shield them when
fiat desire-comes to take the step.
Such Was the case one evening last
re^k, when one of the highest edu
athd, most. refined girls was found,
anging in the home parlor surrouruj
d by all the luxuries that go to make
happy homg.
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Late in ttuTG eningsru^^t^RiJPPr1
ihd careful search failed to reveal
ier hereabouts,
The telephone was used without re
itits. j$er friends were called to help
n the search for her, Finally the
icartbrchen mother returned to the
>a#iW land there to her sorrow and
urprise she found her girl hanging.
| Hcw that mother must have been
iffected by the sight that met her
tyes! There was her daughter,
langing to her sweetheart's neck, beg
ging hinj to subscribe for The Farm
dlte Enterprise in orderthathe be in- I
'ortned as. to the current pews by
eading the best ner/soaper published
n this auction. I
?rs. g. w. porker buried her i
The body of Mrs. g. W. Parker, of
iVilmington, was received herie Thors
lay morning and interment took place I
n the local cemetery that afternoon.
Mrs. Parker was the wife of Mr.'l
3. W. Parker, brother of our townr
nan, Mr. J. W. Parker, and was the
iu,nt of Mrs. e. s. Hobgood and Mr.
iVilile Carraway. . j
We're Seen 'Em :
He sat at the lunch counter in *
Jafeteria. He glanced at watch.
3nly ten minutes to make tr?at class.
lifrst-ffliftBkvn " I
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highway Nt>. 91, Between Wilson
And Raleigh Wffl Be'Com
pleted; Route 12 Also
'
Of special interest to the citizens
of this section is the fact that con
tracts will be let on Thursday, July 6,
for the completion of route 91 be
tween Wilson and Raleigh, 'the, com- -
pletion of route 12 to Snow Hill, and
grading and structures on ront*> 102
between Snow Hill and Goldhfooro.
With the completion of route 91
motorist of Pitt county and this sec
tion generally will have a direct hard
surfaced highway to Raleigh, Durham, ,?}."
Greensboro, and other points west.
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With the completion of route 12 to
Snow Hill we will have a direct hard
surfaced highway to Kinston, More
head, Wilmington, and other points
east.,-' ? ?
With the completion of the Snow
Hill-Goldsboro road (of which the let
ting of grading and structure work
marks the beginning) we will have a
direct hardsurfaced highway to Goids
boro and points beyond.
We give below the projects to be
let at the July meeting:
- No. 188, Pitt county 8.7 miles grad
ing and structure from the lSdgecombe
county ljne to Farmville. ^ _
No. 1580, Nash county, 10.51 miles
of hardsurface from the Johnson-Nash
line to the Nash-Wilson county lirfe.
No; 1906, Washington county,
miles of. hardsurface from Roper east
on route 90.
No. 1961, Washington county, five
miles hardsurface from Roper east on; .
route 90 and five miles from the Ty- ?'?. .
rell county line west on route 90.
Projects 1960 and 1961 cover pi'ac- ,?<
ticajly the same roadway and contract
on only one of the two will be aVard-.-vr
ed. , . ..?
No. 1995, Wilson county, bridge .>*
over, Contentnea Creek'on route 40.
No. 23^0, Johnson county, .33 miles
hardsurface on route 91.
No. 231, Greene county, 8.98 miles
hardsurface on route 12> from 8m?r A'
Hill towards Farmville to the Pitt
couhty line.
No. 228, Greene county; a gmrtijig \
and structures oil 9:10 miles frtma
Snojw Hill towards GoWsbdro to-the- r*
Wayne county line on route 102.
No. 315, Brunswick county, lS miles
of grading and structure on route 201,
from Supply towards Brunswick.
bio. 8741 jPbnder county, 13.3 miles
harilsurface to fill agbp in route 6p.
No. 4010, Chatham county, bridge
over New Hope Creek on rout^ 90.
No. 4800, Wake county, 10 miles
hardsurface on route 21 from the
Harnett county line north.
. >|o. 4890, Wake county, &82 miles .
hardsurface 'on route 91 from the
Johnson county line to the intersec- J
tiori of route 90.
No. 527, Randolph county, -4.14
milfes of top soil from Yadkin River
bridge toward Lexington. ;.
No. 5770, Randolph county, 7 miles ^ ^
of grading and structure on route 60
fro in the tluilford-Randolph county ...
line to Liberty.
No. 5840, Randolph county, 4 miles
of hardsurface on route 75 AAhboro
west.
No. 6760, Rowan-county, 5.87 milea
hardsurface on route 80 from Grants
Creek bridge toward the Davte eodh
lin.
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No. 604, Alexander county, 6.74
miles top soil road from Taylorsvitle
south toward Conover to the'Catawba
couhty line.
No. 7^80, Surry county, 17.8 miles
goatling and structure from Efkin to
Dohson, on routes 268 and 80.
No. 7780, Wilkes county, 5 Jnflesr
hardsurface on route! &0 from end d?
pavement near Wilkesboro east;
No. 872, Rutherford county^bridgfe
pv^r Cove Creek.
Noj- 8400, Henderson ctfunty,
miles harlsurfa.ce on.route 191 eafe? Of
Fiat Rock towards Saluda tothcfcA
codnty line.
No; 826,'Cleveland county, gfadirrg
and structured on 20 nules on* "route
18 ifrom Shelby to Falston.
No. 8220, Cleveland county, 7.6 miles
on h-oute 206 ffom Kings Mountain to
the South Carolina line.
ifo 9080, rfuncombe. county, .7?
mijes hard surface on route 908 Con
necting routes 10 and 20.
Mr. L^ngley is rs^irviwd bv
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