Th* City of Hospitality 1 if | H ll M | j|/|v|l | LHIHIjE I Extends You Wefcemt I IM i Mj<-V'??iX rJ] 1 ??; ?I ....,,_ ??? ^=gA.-. VJr| , ' '' ' .V - ? - -? ?-. ? - - . ggg !> --J- i 'HI Local School Completes Successful Year's Work "?. -sj V^jf *'?? " '*? . f - - ' .? 'f 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. '? ' 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 ' ^ 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 ? * ? r *? j I 9?H? ? ?I 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 *? y-* . ? H 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 I f\? _ iL? PAiintvi } M .| yJi- vMiUaC, U?y Ig ||yV 8*1 y 4 " ~ tV*fM wnnil he *? A L *j.ia tv.x .i . , _ Farced Men labor By Threats Death ? Bat Federal Jury Finds King Not Guilty Upon Hearing . Evidence '' * ? \ j7 .0- ' 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. T 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 -? * - I m (^a"? ^ ?.* P^*?tI 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 ?_ ?:- T1 . . We nonunap .gepator #*pj|eed fo? ???'?,u ?*?-" ' - ?V, . ? . . . ? w." .. $ , GST tjjjS' mi op 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 ??l ? ^ ^ > , 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, - pi ??. 1??. -. u i in n 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 . f Hooteh, Hoggin,Haste t Cause Most Accidents t ? ? 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 I!-- ?" 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 ? ifc " ? ? e I - 5 j] ? .' ?.- :'/ >; ?" > ? .- ' ? -v. V. - ??.' - ntSHMBuflff?. ?*?'". ^ ...'" - ?: ? ??*?.- ?? 1 ii*f r ? - ? ? r r Ajfi T T- ; - I &mss Unfpers^ j ! 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 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. ? ' - ? '? V# 1 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 ". a 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. ? . ; A h> -if- -? ?; ? 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. VJ 4UtVi 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 ? j - u TV L ?'?? '* f ?, ?- . ? ~ ?* 9 P^bBB