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Thomas Eli Joyner, prominent "bas
inets man of FaxmviBe, has been ap
pointed a member of the Pitt County
board of commissioners, to fill the
vacancy created by the death of W.
W. Dawson of Qitfton.
Announcement was made last Fri
rf the court. J. F.
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?J Harrington.
Mr. Joyner is a man of considerable
executive ability, and his elevation
to the board of commissioners no
. doubt will be received with keen in
terest in all pc(to of the county.
With the county of Pitt saddened,
bat endeavoring to recover from the
abode in the loaa of one of its most
valued and beloved citizens, Dr. W.
W. Dawson, of Grifton, comes the an
nouncement from the clerk of the
court, of the appointment of Thomas
Eh Joyner cf this city, to fill his un
expired teem of comity commissioner.
Mr. Joyner, second son of Mrs. Ber
tha Bteww Joyner and the late R.
L. Joyner, a native of this section,
and a citizen of Farmville since 1912,
when he accepted the pbsition as
manager of the FarmivDe Furniture
Co*, which position he still occupies
has ever been active in enterprises
for^the upbuilding of his community,
county and state.
He received Us education in Chapel
Hill, studying business and execu
tive sppeirs pertaining to a business
carerr at Poughkeepsie. He" married
Miss Agnes Barrett soon after com
ing to Farmville to live and has a
son, Eli, Jr. and two bright young
daughters;
Mr. Joyner served six years the
local board of town aldermen as
clerk, secretary and treasurer, during
one of its most critical periods finan
cially, one txf Street improvement
and paving. He* tpok his father's
place as director of the Citizen's bank
about ten years ago and is serving
his second term aa president of the
Farmville Bmkfing and Loan Asser
tion. A charter member of the local
Rotary dub, he te atiS active and has
Among Fannnlle's younger busi
ness men in point of age, Mr. Joyner
is very efficient and of considerable
executive ability, and is considered
by friends here as exceptionally well
qualified fear the position as an over
seer of the county's business.
This section and town has been
well represented on the county board
in past years by R. L. Davis, B. M.
Lewis, McD. Horton and J. W. Holmes, j
AMERICAN LEGION POST
OF PASMYILLE REVIVED
A meeting of Farmvilie Post No.
151 of the American Legion was held
on Friday evening in the basement of
the Christian church. Twenty-eight
ex-servico men were present. State
Commander George K. Freeman and
State Adjutant J. M. Caldwell were
guests of the post, and made very
enthusiastic addresses. The Farmvilie
post was re-organized ard officers
elected for the ensuing year. Com
mander, John Hill Payior; vice conv
manders, J. W. Joyner and B. L.
Stokes; adjutant, G. E. Beckman, Jr.;
finance officer, A. W. Bobbitt; ser
vice officer, H. F. Owens; shild wel-j
fart officer, C. F. Jiaucom; historian,
A. F. Joyner; athletic officer, W. D.
Bryan Jr.; publicity officer, R. D.
Rouse and sergeant at arms, Geo. W.
Gates. Every ex-eerdce man in the
community it invited to poin the local
, post of the American Legion.
JOINT HOSTESSES AT CARDS
One of the most delightful and
elaborate parties of the new year was
that of Taaaday evening when Mrs.
W. X. Will* and Mrs. M. V. Jones
anta-tained at bridge at the hand
some new home of Mrs. Willis on
Wilson street
The hoose was lighted with bridge
lamps and made lovely with potted
plants, hawthotne and pussy willow
branches and1 eight tables bom ap
pointments carrying out a color ef
fect of pink and green. After the
ptadag of guests by means of wild
rose iaBka, almond wafers and Rus
sian tea-were passed, and after sev
en! progressions, frozen marshmai
Idw salad, ribbon sandwiches, pfcklss,
centerpiece* of Japanese, quince^
ther accenting the note of Spring.
presented tjT Mrs. G. A. Jones for
top score and ? novel piece of briea
jkae wee gtem Mm. J. M. Christman
msnt of Conservation and Howlop
members who a fefOr
The annual meeting ocf the stock
holders of the Bank of Esrraville was
held last Friday afternoon in the di
rector's room of the bank with alarge
number of the stockholders present.
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This banking instution has just
passed its quarter of a century of
service to the people of this section
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or tee State, ana aaa stcttMjijr ,*M
eneased in volume of business since
its organization. .
The report of the cashier, D. E.
Ogiesby, showed the bank's condition
to be in excellent shape with earnings
very gratifying considering the fi
nancial condition of this section of
the state. The bank's net earnings
for the year 1929 were $12^80.10 ac
cording to the report, as l?2S per
cent. Out of this a 5 per cent divi
dend was paid the stockholders. This
institution also added $5000,00 to its
surplus and charged off ' another
$5,000.00 from its building; leaving
$6,793.23 in its undivided profit ac
count as of Dec. 31st. /.
After receiving the report by the
cashier favorable comments were '
made by several of the stockholders, j
and old board of directors, composed ,
of R. L. Davis, J. R. Davis, W. A.
Pollard, J. 1. Morgan, C.. L. Hardy,
A. C. Monk, D- P. Lang, T. M. Dail, ,
W. J. Turnage and D. E. Ogiesby
?were unanimously elected.
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TAMN IVBKAWi;
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Army Officers Studying Re- (
moval of Artillery School <
From Fort SiH i
? 1
Washington, Jan 12?Fort Bragg 1
may get the field artillery school, 1
jarMch. has been located since 1910 4
jPfar Jg^riey has ^a^boMd
| upon the most suitable ;pennin*Bt k? 1
cation of this school. >, '
Representative Jed Johnson, in >
; whose district the present school is 1
located, charges that a "whispering '
campaign* is being conducted against <
the Fort Sill site by those who .want
i to bring the school east His charges 1
recall the wide open attacks by an 1
Oklahoma newspaperman on Fort 1
Bragg, after a visit to the North Car- *
ohna military reservation last year- 1
Fayetteville became greatly ? <?s- <
turbed over the attacks nntil its was 1
leaned why they were being made. 1
Then things calmed down in the Cum- *
berland capital Even if the field aj> <
tilery school remains at Fort Sill, 1
there is no likKhood that Fort Bragg |
will be closed down. Since 1927 Con* -
gress has authorized appropriations 1
for housing at Bragg to the amount (
of $2,,300,000, of which 1800,000 is 1
carried in the bill now pending in
Congress. Only $72,000 has been an- <
thorized for the same period at Fori 1
SOL 1
It is understood that Fort Bragg 1
Ioif/> tinder consider- '
La MIP yiujr ? VMIVA ??-???- ? ?
ation. The field artillery hoard is
now located at Fort Bragg. It is un
derstood that this board win be |
moved to Fort Sill unless the school
is moved to Bragg.
Those appointed to the board are j
Brigadier General W. K. Cruick- >j
shank, commandant of the field artQ- .
lery school; Brigadier General L H. \
Bash, assistant to the Quartermaster ;
General, and Lieutenant Colonel Wa.
Bryden, acting chief of Artillery.
MRS. BRYANT FUNERAL |
IS HELD WEDNESDAY
a _ ?" : ,
Half a mile from Saratoga in the \
home where she spent her life, funer
al services were held Wednesday *f- h
temoon at S o'clock for Mrs. Susan
Scarborough Bryant, prominent and j
well known in Wilson and adjoining*
counties.
Mrs. Bryant had been in ill health \
for several months, having suffered j
two strokes and many heart attacks,
tbough her death occurring on Tues
day afternoon resulted from pneu
rmmm 3
> & Funeral services were conducted by
I Wflso^who
was made in the Wilson cemetery.
20, Jarae* YL Bryant, who preoedaa
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LURE# AMERICA
ALWAYS BIG WAGE
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Labor Department Throws
Light On Earnings Here
Three Hundred Years Ago
Ask the man who was born in Eu
rope why he came to America. You
know the answer before he speaks.
Nine- times out of ten it is the simple
me, "To earn more money."
Ask the- immigrant's son why his
father came over. The answer is the
tame. Go back a hundred years, ask
he same question and you get the
lame answer. Two hundred years, or
hree hundred year" ago, the same
reason was the principal cause of our
forefathers leaving their native lands'
md braving the treaefcerous ocean to
let themselves up in an unknown
country.
Wa Mice to think of these founders
if our nation as actuated by entirely
*oble and altruistic motives. It sounds
k> much more "classy" to aay that
Jtey came to America in search of re-'
igioua liberty or to escape the tyr
inny of kings, than iidoitf to sayttat
n the Old Country. Both motives for:
snrigrating did obtain, but the relig
MUght to escape would not have been
m unendurable- if it bad. not, in many
uses, taken the fbrm of depriving the
man who- disagreed with authority'
rf his chance to work.
What has brought the peoples of
the world to America ia the fact that
rages have always been higher here
than anywhere else in the world The
first complete and authoritative his
wrical study of wages, In terms of
ictual money, that has ever been
nade, has. just been completed by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Uni
ted States Labor Department. It not;
>nly proves conclusively that higher
?ay always has been the chief attrac
aon of America, but that from the
rcry earliest Colonial days employers
vere as impatient with the demands;
>f workers for more money as .they
ue today!
The earliest American wage figures
seem pitifully small today. In the
Kaasadmsetts Bay Colony in 1680 it
mat ordered- by the Council that "Car
centers, Joiners, Bricklayers, Sawyers;
tnd Thatchers shall not take above 2
" ?- ? v _ _a 4 /%
dulling a day (48 cents; ana 10 pence
(32 cents)'it they have meat and
irink, nor any man shall give more
under pahi of 10 shilling to taker and
pver; and that sawyers shall not*
take above 4 shilling sixpence the
hundred for boards/at six score to
the hundred, if they have their wood
felled and squared for them, and not
above 5 shilling six pence if ihefcfell
and square their wood themselves.
Laborers shall not take above 12
pence efc day for their work and not
above ^sixpence with meat and drink
under pain of 10shitting.
pared with the fl.25 an hour which
Carpentaria the Massachusetts
get today, but they #re large enough
to attract skilled men from England
as soon ? the news got -ais%a the
ocean, for they were fay;, higher than
good workmen could get in Lcmdon.
And thgfc-even those high wages were
not the maximum is indicated by the
number** old court records showing
finis imposed upon employer* for
tained that t& of pulling the
?with which wlfrfjjB thg jfoath deal
ing current did<^^^&ct his nerves
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many kinspeople.
PHYSICIAN DIES IN
DOCTOR'S OFFICE
Greenville Specialist Wa?
Receiving Treatment As
DesthCute
-r*
Dr. C. J. Ellen, eye, ear, nose and'
throat specialist, ,and one of the most
beloved citieens of the community,
died suddenly Sunday at the office of
Dr. Dixon in Greenville. He was 43
years of age.
Dr. Ellen continued to observe par
tial office hours.- This morning
about 11 o'clock he went to the of
fice of Dr. -Dixon -for treatment Af
ter exchanging the usual pleasantries,
Dr. Ellen was preparing to lie down
on an operating table when he sud
denly collapsed, and died almost in
stantly.
He was born in Nash county, Aug
ust, 12, 1886, son of Hon. Cicero F.
and Pattie L. Ellen.
He received his early training in
the public schools of Nash county,
after which he entered Mars Hill Col
lege, friam enter
ed the Medical College of Virginia,
at Richmond, Va.^ ? ?" ? H
Dr. Ellen had always been a man
of deep and abiding religions faith
and was an active member of the
Memorial Missionary Baptist Church.
Aside from being chairman of the
board of deacons, he taught the young
men's Bible Class.
During 1920, and 1921 he was pres
ident of the Ktt County Medical So
ciety. He was also a member of the
Second District Medical Society, of
the North Carolina Medical Society,
and % fellow of the American Med
ical Association.
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| there aint much hope for the fel
that knov's he's a. failure, j
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Sthe music department of the Worn
fcjuer'^tar^tro North Main
Btreet ; Mtb, Jmith, iburf
man ofgroup, conducted an ih
?terestinsr coldest, which had as its ob
pt. pijHgr <m
ory concering familiar composers at^
sroraomTO:
SAVE JVlSTURfS
Shall we have race track* for ouih
herds or pastures for profit producing.
animals l; ^ :?.; > - ><
i: Too uwehof Wisconsin's permanent
paster* land ia aa bam & a race track i
in nrfd-sanaaer. -
It provides feed for a short porioch
to the spring hot during the summer
period it fafltftP fr netien. "The reason^
is that either the aofl is run down or I
the gnsa hi. mora mtp say* I* f.\
Graber of the Wiaoqnato College of
Agricultnje, "and not infrequently,
both conditions operate to cut down
+vif> mimmpr rnrrvina flMfitr of blue
~ : ---irnimm'wm* . m.
ftUS."
In order to improve' gross cad- in-'
creese its carrying capacity investi
gators at the Wisconsin Agricultural
experiment station seeded sweet clover
on top of of an old blue grass soil
and for four years have had excellent
I HK^^DgpSweet^clover^^jn^
iwS^^anty- of lime and ffetigr
phate in it Without these, sweet
Clover, the agronomists feel, will foil
just as it often fails in cultivated''
fields.
this treatment it requires heavy i
seeding* of 80 pounds of .seed an
aczd, and requires the removal, by
burning or otherwise, of accumula-!
tion of old blue grass.
The combined yields of sweet clover
and blue grass growing together, re
ported by the station workers, have
been twice and three time^that of
bide grass growing alone. They firuT
that a double benefit comes from this
plan. In 'its second year of growth
the sweet clover itself suppfiss ex
cellent grazing during the dry period
of the summer, and in the third year
the grass is often so stronglystimi/
lated by the nitrogen left by the
sweet clover crop the year before
that the clover could not reseed it
self.
These benefits more tnan jusuiy uit
absence of grazing the year.o? seed
ing sweet clover. This is essential in
order to get the mots of the sweet j
clover well established in -the blue
sod the first year. .
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COMMUNITY dmslMAS THEE
BRINGS CHEEk TO MANY
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Never was the spirit of Christmas I
shown here as this year. All seemed
to want to help those less fortunate
and deemed more interested in- giving
than receiving. Gifts of money, food,
fruit and clothing were much more
generour. than ever before so the-"
community tree and service were' ai\
marked sucsesa-t^e greatest during
the three years the Woman's club has
sponsored the idea. Not <mly dtfpeow
pie respond with-gifts, but their time
wis given also, - Fifteen families,
from three to nine each were visited
satsvsrsss
sassassa&s
SSHS:=WKrsSi
vmlKr iirtniiiBsli nfcTBf f lutfl. /.ft ill n win ilii '
i*tnr Wftn tlTOt, CftTHQr
pf? did not for get tie bby? it
T" ,--Aw.J:. * 'T "i *
X? **^Xa ?
:||;r. Wa4<rf?^?te?Ufe, uTftrJ
4. critical condition mid ttfree others
Fa^y "sjH^
Su^j^. -: jSf|!
Wa and hii right" im brokea *?d
tuui ox
and toaiM tat' who* eta
aitaoH not considered serious. -,t
Mtz&gssss.
Mr. liregory injuries were minor oat
Mrfc Gregory was severely cut about
automobiles wire "torn
ggtb
Sheriff Rtyeti of Wake County,' who
investigated the accident.. From i&V
Gregory it was learned that his car,.
fcWpirveh by Ml wtf^ was^eaded
toward Raleigh at a sfred whlchSe
|ald was less than 80 inflis an hour.
The otfter~cnv driven by Mr. Wade,
%as going to Fayettevilie. One or
the other did not turn off the road
and tifemit? keadfo.
Mr. Wade aaked-that'he be taken
to Fayettevilie while : Mr. Gregory
wasted tor gat his wife hrthe nearest
hoqdtaL Two ambulances weredM,j
one going one way snd' otte the-attar.
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MeettoStndf Farm Lifc ta
WojrtrGawliiiaTMtttfi#?
Is Well Attended
.Jtadjyma^|P'j^to?rf^.t?ae
held their ammal conference at the
state college daring the week ofJan
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Unity of program in each county
between the' farm men and women
ind the business and professional in
terests, the stimulation of producing
more feed and fond crops. and the
market outleet for surplus foodstuffs
produced, were three of the import
ant mattes* disenised. TKrf -i home!
agents held their regular short course'
during1 theweekvarying the-program
at' times .to enter into joint confer
ences with the mfeii, while' the farm
agents devoted most of their time to1
attending the lectures by the group of
livestock1- experts brought ixy the col
lege to attend the 17th annual meet-'
in'g of the Southern livestock Asso
elation.
t A series of lecturas-on farm leader
by Dr. Bobert <?. Poster of the
United States Department of Agri
culture ww~ one feafcre of the joint
gatherings. These leeturCs-had todo
principally with devdopin* 3ea*?*
liipiig rural boys and giris enrolled
in the 4-H dubs and Dr. Fotftef gave
methods and practices in this Work;
j Tfce farm agents had-a thorough
course in- livwtock production, feed
ing and marketing. SbmdNdWffililt
standing research and extension spec
ialists in the tisgetMrwdrMi of thd
??!.<> Jiuma<rii\ns nn +Haha
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subjects.
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WOMAN'SCLUB
The Woman's club held its regular
business meeting this week at fhy
home of Mrs. J. M. Hobgood. Re
ports ftom ti* various' committees
fedudeftht* of -Mi*> Tabitha DiWW
eonfci, chairman of welfare who told
of the Onfetiina* activities am* was'
tendered a Vtrie of thanks by the club
io* her interest in thgwotk.
The program presented by
bers of the musie department begon;
with two vocal selections by Mrs. M.
V. Jones with Mrs. Hobgood at th*
piano, followed by a paper on the lffe'i
M Oadratii by l&S. Johnnie Holmes.
A selection "The Influence of Women ]
on lives of Great Musicians^ by Mrs. |
LW. ?L UKucfi and a talk, Tne wan
ence of Watte* on Music," by tin. J.
during January and February by?x
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iilliiMBl i rffflll Of^? nwWMMl?OT?fHw ?'
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The dramatic chttT under the super
vision of Mrs. ByrJ and Miss Tnntafe P';
fctfft' thtli- ft* been Vfery successful. I'-V
Tfae dub, whteh is the flirst ofita
u0$m0m -1'
met with the a^vaH>f the entire
ijfa hope tiutW^ti^W^eschool
:" The clufel*** already presented pT
number of intwwUnir plays and we
feel that ag wim hmtato Igt
hope wffl ?<# many
In ee?f <>Fri'f(H*tTT't Many of us are'
laughed ftt* But A? still <tf
dents and we nope ttist in the future
An><tt* *fco tfcifatai tKcft i* ? for
iu going to sdUfcl, should beiT Mf.
Casoh read, "The Gingham Dog. anf
the Cdttfio CatT
; Senior das? has chapel program by
presenting the followihgr SeHjrture
reading, Lame Pufter; Orthtitrft **'
leetions, Sleepy Valley and Ttpte*
Thru the Tulips. Talk on high school
athletics, Bin Smith; musfel fead&6'
Mary Whefcss.
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Opportunity GtlMf
It was the cry of gold titf*?a?*
the Mil of V8 a semationidrksptar'
in Ametfesn history. It? is' thr ?*'
for golden voices to broadcast- over
a eohst to coastaetworfcof radio-stn
tions that is biasing a neif moSir
trail of *30. TTninsrttTi tm'
singers, urged by the pioneer spirit
of artists who have already wort sue
cess on the air, are heeding the call ^ j
pf the microphone. It is an AteS&i's
lamp that promises over night fatab V'
vO evEry mui or womiq wiio a Tom#
To the young mSid?w who croott
the latest popular sbtigs; <t wUttJW#
"come out of the Idtchta. To beys of " I
the Saturday night quartet? who
harmonise on the sorest cornsrs it
extends open arms. Even gvandepr
era singers divert their ambitions to
radio amf join ther ftrad?< ' %
Some with untrained voWs' often
attain radio *^ |*^
pta? ? great put tWUrf mwiUi '
but if a person is able to playSott*
string instrument tfcattol gtttttbelp
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one of thCsc This is tirtaijily thT ?
age of opportunity and it la knock
^vot^iir***
1 BiU fmith-I^echobl must bf
? sserra*
?boat the MfaM* niift : '
didn't h?ve Mr to?M? Wl?" to /
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"n. nt1 ? -i.ti ? ^n - rtfrtliiiif
I people in that oountry.
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