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Farmville Enterprise FARMVILLE, N C. A G. ALEX ROUSE; Owner & Mgr. EVA HORTON SHACKLEFORD Society Editor ? Published by ? ; THE ROUSE PRINTERY Subscription Price: One Year $1.50 ? Six Months 75c. ADVERTISING RATES: Display (Minimum) 30c Per Inch. \! Readers, Per Line 5c All Legal ad vs. 5c a line per week. Published weekly and entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the ! ; Postoffice at Farmville, N. C., un der Act of March 3rd, 1878. SIGNS OF THE TIMES - A national business statistical or ganization has recently collected re ports from 98 different lines of busi ness, showing where they stand by comparison with a year ago. The only lines in which business is better, nationally speaking, are the manufac ture and retail sales of men's clothing. Business is good as it was a year ago in twenty-five different lines, includ ing all kinds of women's wear, shoes and millinery, men's underwear, bread, drugs and chemicals, groceries, fish and laundering. It is poorer than a year ago in the automobile business and seventy other lines. The clear meaning of these figures is that people are eating as much of the staple foodstuffs, except meat, as they did a year ago, but that their principal other expenditures so far are for the replacement of perisha bles. TTie increased business in men's clothing suggests that there are more men who couldn't afford a new suit last year who are buying one this year; either that or the old suit, car ried over a season, has at last worn out. The ladies have the advantage over the men in that almost any wo man can"fix over her old dresses in an emergency, but it is a pretty tough job to make a man's old suit look presentable. The upturn in one industry, how ever, is the herald of others. It is something of an achievement that twenty-five different lines are doing as well as they were at this time in 1930. That is pretty good evidence that the general business decline has got to the bottom of the grade. In a good many lines it probably will run along about on the present level for some time to come, but one line after another will begin to pick up, with the luxury lines naturally being the last to recover. The most disquieting thing about present business conditions is the talk heard from many industrial centers about wage reductions. The policy of keeping workers on part time at the full daily wage has been pretty well adhered to so far, where the reduc tion of expense was essential. .There is no room for doubt that this policy has averted a great deal of suffering. It is better for all concerned to have a hundred people working on half time than fifty working full time and fifty earning no wages at all. But it would be a tragedy if, just as the employment situation begins to look better, those returning to work and those who stayed on the job were to have there earning power reduced. The economic crisis through which the nation has been passing is the first one in our history that has not been marked by serious labor dis turbances. Such disturbances would unquestionably be widespread were there any general move at this time to cut wages. STUDY SUPERSTITIONS Turning entirely to the negro, wLo^e superstitions have been much better preserved than any other race, for a study of this subject, a splen did program under the topic of "Fri day the Thirteenth, Rabbit Foot, and the Like," was presented by Mrs. J. Y. Monk and Miss Annie Perkins, at a meeting of the Literary Club held on Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Madeline Rountree. Spring flowers were used in profusion. Several songs raiting to this sub ject were rendered by Mrs. J. W. Joy ner and Mrs. J. L. Shackleford, and charm and variety were added to the program by dance numbers given en costume by little Misses Novella Capps, of Raleigh, and Darlino Capps, of Wilson. Reports of the Federation meeting in Greensboro were given by Miss Perkins and Mrs. A. C. Hodges; a discussion of correct pronunciation of words was led by Mrs. W. C. Askew, of this committee, and a new member, Mrs. G. S. Vought, was cordially wel comed into this group during a short business session. Ices were served following the pro gram. Especial guests of the host ess were: Mrs. Frank Capps, of Ra leigh; Mrs. Margaret Capps and Mrs. Carl Capps, of Wilson; Miss M. Hodges, of Washington; Mrs. Bert Taylor and Mrs. L. T. Pierce, and Mrs. M. V. Horton. ' , Two eggs, (me standard size and other smaller, connected by a stem of shed, were laid by a hen that is owned by Jade Beckham, of Kelso, Wash. - ? Mrs. Grace Evans who owns and operates a large stone quarry em ptying 52 men, at Monbn, Ini* can equipped.- ^ ^ Buqr Y?le Boy T Theodore R. Fisher, jT,.of Scare dale, N. Y., rtms three camps while working his way through Yale. Milkman Receives First Prize in Cornel Contest (continued from page 1) Ottowa, I1L, chauffeur. Gregory Luce Stone, 755 Texas street, Mobile, Ala., welder. C. L. Thomas, Mt. Airy, N. C., dentist. Lee R. Womack, 448 Tenney ave nue, Amhert, Ohio, locomotive fire man. J. Arthur Wood, 21 Burke street, Mechanicsville, N. Y., locomotive fire man. Emery Herbert Young, 266 Fairview avenue, Painted Post, N. Y., glass worker in Corning, N. Y. A total of 952,228 answers were received in the contest, which was announced in an eight day newspaper advertising campaign in which 1713 dailies, 2139 weeklies, and 426 col lege and financial newspapers were used. The only other announcement of the contest was on the Camel Pleasure Hour broadcasting network and consisted merely of an invitation to read the contest details in the newspapers. Sharkey, the winner of the first prize of $25,000, is married and is a milk route foreman at the South Bos ton plant of H. P. Hood and Sons, Inc., 'milk distributors, and lives at 101 Train street, Dorchester, Mass. He wears overalls at his work and is slender, of medium height, and has deep-set blue eyes. Born in County Tipperary, Ireland, he came to the United States alone at the age of sixteen. Landing at Ellis Island in New York, he went at once to Boston, where he did odd jobs. Eight years ago he got a job with the Hood company delivering milk. He rose to the rank of foreman and now has several milk routes under his supervision. "VlO Jc 'fitted OIklXIVCjr ltvuctw iiv 4u ?? for a salesman. It was this flair for selling, plus his own experience in getting his cigaretes wet while de livering milk that caused him to en ter the Camel contest. He was quick to note the advantages of the new cellophane wrapper on Camel cigar: ette packages, and his letter was based or. personal experiences in test ing the wrapper both as to protec tion of the fresh tobacco flavor, and to the ability of the new package to exclude rain, moisture and germs. Mrs. Sweet, winner of the $10,000 second prize, is the mother of three boys, the oldest of whom is only ten. A graduate of Radcliffe college in 1920 she has traveled with her cap tain husband to Marine Corps post in Santa Domingo, the Virginia Islands, and other out of the way places. She experienced the hurricane in Porto Rico, and was in Dover, N. J., at the time of the big explosion there. She is a sports-woman and is tremendous ly interested in child psychology. In her travels about the world with her husband, Mrs. Sweet observed how torrid and damp weather in varying climates parched or mildewed cigarettes. She noted carton after carton of cigarettes shipped to the marines spoiled and had to be thrown away, and easily realized how the protecting moisture proof cellophane wrapper on Camels would result in fresh sweet smokes for service men in distant lands. The third prize winner, Mr. Nolte, who will receive $5,000, is a real es tate dealer, and instructor in the Eng lish Extension Division of the Uni versity of Minnesota. He lives with his wife in the Du luth suburb of Glen Avon and is a Yale graduate and a member of Phi Betta Kappa, honorary scholastic fraternity. He is a typical outdoor man and bird lover, hunter and fish erman. During the war he was an aviator with the American army, and is a former deckhand and forester. He is the father of four children. Nolte based his contest letter on the many advantages offered to the outdoor cigarette smoker by the new moisture proof cellophane "Wrapper which protects Camel cigarettes in all Jcinds of weather and keeps them fresh. Telegrams of notification were sent to each of the prize winners yester day by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco com pany. Winners of the three major prizes were invited by the company to come to Winstsn-Salem in the near future to receive their checks at a formal presentation. Checks will be mailed within the next few days to the thirty-five other prise winners. A Venna store claims to have Aus tria's champion -Talesman in the per son of SOija Betty Roes whose annual income is more than $5,0000 from commission of 2 1-2 per cent on sales. ? - 's - ' ? ?-? -rr . n- . C jn.?n .TSXafti** GOING BACK TO THE FARM ?-' We have been hearing for many years about the movement from the farm to the village and the city. Commentators who have let their im aginations roam have pictured a. fu ture civilization for America in which there will be no rural life at all. Ev erybody will live in cities, and food will be produced by chemical process es in factories to which these city dwellers will go every day to work. Light and sunshine and ventilation and exercise and all othe other es sentials of health will be provided, ac cording to these dreamers, by artifi cial means devised by engineers. As a matter of cold fact, it turns out that the tide of migration from the farm to the municipality has been slackening for many years, and now has definitely turn in there di rection. For the first time in twenty years the records of the United States Department of Agriculture shows that there was a gain in farm popu lation during 1930. There are 208, 000 more people living on the farmd than there were a year ago. One rea son for this is that life on the farm is more comfortable and less stren uous than it used to be. The aver age farmer is no longer isolated from the world. Most farms today have electric light and power, access to communities in every directiion over good roads, and automobiles with which to go to town to see the mov ies or take part in social gatherings. Most of the farmers who ha vent al ready got radio sets will soon have them, while the telephone, now al most universal, brings the whole country within speaking distance. The commercial farmer, the farm er who makes a business of farming, has been affected by the present wave of economic depression even more than the manufacturer. But the great majority of small farmers, with whom life on the farm is more a mode of living than it is an industry, are the people in America who have suffered least by reason of the eco nomic slump. The drought, to be sure, has hit hundreds of thousands of these, but the drought hasn't been universal, and in the sections where nature has not interfered there seems to be little doubt that the greatest security and contentment to be found anywhere in the United States is found on the nation's one family farms. -That sense of security, of having a piece of solid ground under one's i feet from which at least a living can be obtained by whoever is willing to work, is doubtless the reason why, in a season of widespread industrial unemployment, there has been what amounts almost to a rush of migra tion back to the farm. And it seems, to us that the unemployment indus trial workers who have removed themselves and their families from the congested industrial centers to the healthful , security of the farm, have displayed a high degree of pru dence and intelligence. Uncle Sam's Trade With Chile Growing Our Manufacturers Supply One-third of Imports to That Country Chile is one of Uncle Sam's best cus tomers, according to the U. S. Depart ment of Comnfferco, Thirty-three cents of every dollar she spends abroad comes to the United States. In 1929 this amounted to sixty million dollars, or more than double the amount spent K I L ? Unloading Cargo American Made Loco motivea In Valparaiso, Chile In any other country. Chile's Imported goods amounted to $44 per capita that year. The principal products purchased from the United States Included cotton fabrics, automobiles, trucks, gasoline, and iron and steel manufactured prod ucts. Since these and many other products are manufactured in this country In excess of the borne demand, the development of markets In other ' countries .Is essential to the future prosperity of our country. In exchange for the products sold to ChJte, the United States bought raw materials, principally copper to be con verted into manufactured products and nitxate of soda to be ased by farmers in producing profitable crops. Govern ma&CS of both countries actively en courage this exchange of trade. Our commerce officials have shown that American manufacturers can enlarge their markets in South America. Near ly all these countries have raw prod acta to exchange for the goods we produce. ' - ' *" wW he was arrested on a non supprot charge at Norristown, Pa., 66-year-old F. S. Orcutt had $1,400 In cash concealed under a porou3 plas ter on his back* SIDEWALK TRADERS - Gardenias, that boutonniero of the boulsvardier, the favo.'ite flower of kings and captains, were selling for fifteen cents each in the heart of Times Square this week. They were being offered by a sidewalk peddler who was doing a rushing business. Farther down the street- another peddler was unloading sweet peas at five cents a small bunch. That these prices may be appre ciated one must realize that millions of gardenias have been sold in re-' cent years at $1 and $1.50 each. Two centries ago Beau Brummell used to buy them for half a crown in Eng land?that is sixty cents. A BROAD MARKET I. ' " ?? ? Flower salesmen do only a small part of the business that street ped dlers here carry on. One can buy neckties, gold watches (26 cents each), novelty jewelry, fruit, pota toes, fresh fish,- shoelaces and almost anything else from curb dealers. They do a thriving business, par ticularly the candy men and the small fruit men in the wholesale fur riers' district, where the operators stand around during their lunch hour and supplement their quick lunches with some succulent fruit from the peddler's wagons. The chance of getting "stung" in buying anything from peddlers is pretty heavy. Few expect the gold watches to contain much of that metal but they do expect to have I the watches tick. The best any of these quarter timepieces has been known to do is run ten minutes on one winding?if they do that. Silk articles are so loaded with tin?the chief adulterant of silk?that one can almost shake out that gross metal by slamming the neckties against a post. I It cannot be denied that some of them are quite pretty. One fifty cent tie wore almost a full week, which was pretty expensive dress ing. The 30-acre rosarium at Sanger hausen, Germarfy, contains more than 350,000 rose bushee comprising 9,000 varieties. The basket found near the bed that had been occupied by Mrs. Anne Bur ley before her death at Hillsboro, Ohio, contained $4200 in bonds, $80 in cash, 2 diamond rings and other valu able articles. ' NOTICE OF KU-SALU Under and by ?virtue of the power of sale contained in that certain deed of trust executed by Mrs. Nannie B. Flanagan, (widow), S. M. Flanagan and E. M. Tyson, admrs., of the estate of J. H. Flanagaif, Ruberta Tyson and husband, Elbert M. Tyson, Lynn S. Flanagan and wife, Eloise M. Flanagan, Maybell Turnage and hus band, A. C. Turnage, Samuel M. Flan agan and wife, Ora Flanagan, Myrtle D. Flanagan, Thelma Flanagan, Al fred J. Flanagan and wife, Alice B. Flanagan, Seba B. Flanagan, and Mrs. Annie Flanagan to John Hill Paylor, Trustee, under date of July 1, 1930, of record in Book N-18, Page 271", Pitt County Registry, default having been made in the payment of the in debtedness therein described, and in accordance with an order of re-sale made by Frank Harrington, Clerk of Superior Court of Pitt Comity, will re-Sell for CASH to the highest bid der, before the courthouse door in the Town of Greenville, N. C., on Saturday, May 30th, 1931, at 12:00 o'clock Noon, the following described tract of land, lying and being in Farmville Town ship, Pitt County, N. C., and more fully described as follows: Being a tract of land formerly own ed by the late John H. Flanagan, sit uated near the town of Farmville, N. C., said tract of land being bounded on the north by the Plank Road, on the east by Mill Branch, on the South by Middle Swamp, and on the West by a ditch, which forms a junction with said Middle Swamp, said tract containing 247 acres, more or less. Said sale being made to satisfy in debtedness secured by said deed of trust. This the 14th day of May, 1931. John Hill Paylor, Trustee John B. Lewis, Attorney. NOTICE OF RE-SALE! By virtue of the power of sale con tained in that certain mortgage, ex ecuted by Lula H. Joyner, on the 10th day of February, 1926, recorded in Book W-14, page 622 of Pitt County Registry, and by order of His Honor J. Frank Harrington, Clerk of Pitt County Superior Court, the undersign ed Mortgagee, will on Monday, June 1, 1981, sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, at 12 o'clock, noon, in front of the court house door, in the Town of Greenville, Pitt Coun ty, North Carolina, the following de scribed real estate, to-wit: Lying and being in the Town of Farmville, County of Pitt, State of North Carolina, beginning at Dr. C. C. Joyner's North-east corner on Pine street and runs the line of said Joy ner in a Northerly direction 70 yards; thence at right angles, in an Easterly direction, 70 yards to Parker street when extended; thence in a Northerly direction with Parker street 70 yards to Pine street; thence with Pine street 70 yards to the beginning, containing One (I) Acre. This the 14th day of May, 1981. MRS. FANNIE COBB, v Mortgagee; R. T. Martin, Attorney. "-VV:-V' vVjftSpS'*<- ? ?v CRUELTY OF A CITY One of the most pitiful tragedies uncovered here in a long time oc curred the other day when a woman of 68 was freed on a charge of shop lifting, her second affense of like character. . She is the wife of a former stock broker, a Princeton graduate who lost his all in a crash Ave years ago, and since then has been living from hand to mouth. The husband testified that until recently, he had been able ta eke out enough to enable the couple to live at second rate hotels, but even this poor sup-| port had vanished. He told how the couple had been forced to spend their nights in hotel lobbies and railroad station waiting rooms. Finally his wife, driven to desperation, stole a $56 coat from a department store. Moved by his story, two of the three justices who heard the case, voted to give the woman a sus pended sentence. CURIOUS CITY CROWDS People in the country who listen in on party telephone lines have their counterpart in the big crowds that always assemble here when anything unusual occurs. Hundreds line the sidewalks when a new sky scraper is going up, watching every thing from the first scoops to the final hoisting jobs that carry the eye almost up to the clouds. One wonders when city people find time' to do their work. Any day one can go into a moving pic ture theatre during ordinary work ing hours, and find the place crowd ed with men. Rainy days, in particular, find the show houses crowded, the usual number of spectators being aug mented by salesmen who always look on a wet day as a poor one in which to approach a prospect, and properly so. Still, there is no excuse for the loafing one notices on bright days in this city. DEPARTMENT OF STATE ? CERTIFICATE OF DISSOLUTION To sH whom tape Presents may come?Greeting:-?" WHEREAS, it appears to my sat isfaction, by duly authenticated re cord of the proceedings for the volun tary dissolution thereof by th? unani mous consent of all the stockholders, deposited in my office, that the Pitt County Insurance k Realty Company, 'a corporation of this State, whose principal office is situated at Main Street, in the Town of Farmville, County of Pitt, State of North Caro lina (J. L. Suiter being the agent therein and m charge thereof, upon whom process may be served), has complied with the requirements of Chapter 22, Consolidated Statutes, en titled "Corporations," preliminary to the issuing of this Certificate of Dis solution: NOW THEREFORE, I, A. J. Hart ness, Secretary of the State of North Carolina, do hereby certify that the said corporation did, on the 19th day of March, 1931, file in my office a duly executed and attested consent in writing to the dissolution of said corporation, executed by all the stock holders thereof, which said consent and the record of the proceedings aforesaid are now on file in my sair office as provided by law. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF' I have hereto set my hand and affixed my official seal at Raleigh, this l?di day of March, A. D. 1981. (SIGNED) J. A. HARTNESS, Secretary of State. NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust, executed by J. J. Thigpen, J. S. Thigpen, Lula Thigpen, Era Clark and Bulah Rickard, Trustees o& the United Free Will Baptist church, to John Hill Paylor, Trustee, under date October 16, 1929, of Record in Book N-18, page 7, of Pitt county Registry, default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness therein described, the undersigned will sell for CASH before the court house door in the Town of Greenville, N. C., on Monday, May 25th, 1931, at 12 o'clock noon, the following de scribed real estate: Lying and being in the Town of Farmville, County of Pitt, State of North Carolina, being lot No. 29, in a map of the Farmville Insurance and Realty Company's properties, as surveyed and plotted by iW. L. Jewell, civil engineer, on February 4, 1920, lying and being on Booker street, running with said Booker street 44 feet, thence at right angles 90 feet, thence parallel with street 44 feet, thence to the beginning. Being one of the lots conveyed to the said Farmville Land company by the Farmville Insurance and Realty Com This the 15th day of April, 1931. John Hill Paylor, Trustee. fPi! Economy Would Cut f Big Slice Off Cotton Piyfitt 1 1 ' 1 I I . ? . ? 1 '? ' It is costly to omit nitrogen on cotton, as i shown by this field on ths farm of A. a. Neville, RossvlMe, Tenn. 1?lot at Isft which received 260 lbs. Chilean nitrate per I tcra?SO lbs. at planting, and 200 Iba. as tide I dressing?produced 1290 lbs. of seed cotton, j Plot at right without nitrogen made 312 lbs. * I Omission of fertilizer m a step toward economy would cost cotton farmers about a tbird of a bale per acre, according to a summary of a large number of farm tests reported recently by EL C. Westbrook, cotton and tobacco specialist of tbe Georgia State College of Agriculture. Instead of representing economy, tbe cutting out of fertilizer tbls year would likely make tbe cost of a pound of cotton so higb that it would be im possible to show a profit with prices at their present low level. In Georgia tests in which no fertil izer was used tbe yield was 313 pounds seed cotton per acre. Where fertilizer was used tbe yield was Increased from 360 to 808 pounds. The average In crease was better than 500 pounds per acre. Figuring seed cotton at 4 cents j per pound (which brings lint to 9 cents), but valuing the fertilizer at a cost of 35.00 to $10.00 a ton above present prices, the increase was worth a clear profit that ranged from $9.90 to fl7.92 per acre. Professor Westbrook's analyst? shows that farmers can count on nearly $7 extra per acre by side-dress ing with 100 to 150 pounds of Chilean nitrate of soda after chopping. If farmers this year reduce the amou'.it of fertilizer customarily used at planting, It Is all the more Important, he says, that they side-dress with quick-acting nitrogen. STANDAHD^^^ RATING SCALE for Electric Refrigeration ? la the refrigerator manufactured by ? reliable company with proper ex perience in the electric refrigeration ? Has it plenty of food and shelf space? ? Is the cabinet itself well designed, sturdily built and properly insulated? ? Is there provision for the freezing of an adequate supply of ice cubes? (Quantity of ice rather than number of cubes, which may be of large or small size, should be taken into con sideration.) ? Will the refrigerator constantly maintain a proper temperature for the preservation of foods? ? Can the freezing of ice cubes and STRAIGHT THROUGH ? $ mm ? I mtn, "1 | ucwe I Thp K+Mmrtnr Bug inchtdfu j modal* priced from $174.50, f.o.b. factory, upward. Any one of t ham may ba pur chmaad on tha RaDiaCo Monthly ffiirffif Plan. desserts be speeded up when the I need arises? ? Can this extra freezing speed for I ice cubes be had without affecting I the temperature on the food shelves? I (Too low a temperature on the shelves I will, of couise, injure food.) ? Is there a place to keep ice cream, I meat,, fish, game, "quick frosted'' I foods or extra ioe cubes indefinitely I at a below freezing temperature? ? Are these various temperatures (a. I extra fast freezing; 6. fast freezing; I e. below freezing for storage; and a. I normal food preservation tempera- I tore) automatically maintained with- I out any attention from the owner? ? Does the refrigerating unit operate I often or infrequently? (The fewer I "stops" and "starts the longer the I unit will last and the less it costs I to run.) ? a How long will the cooling unit I oontinue to cool the refrigerator, I even though the current is shut off? 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