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SELL Your TOBACCO In FARMYILLE And GET The TOP Dollar! ? ' J : x anil r ^ ^ ------ ?.?. ?._ _______ ^ Patronize Our Advertisers, For ' i *?* They Are Constantly Inviting Yon To Trade With Thea. VOL. TWENTY-FIVE ? *./ / ^^';' ? .-^ ? ' - ????? FARMVILLE, PtTT COUNTS NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVMMm.K is, i*>? NUMBER TWENTY-EIGHT Farmville Furniture Co.To Open New Funeral Home ??????? ?!???! ? . ? Spacious and Ornate Establishment With Handsome Three Story Furniture Build i n g; Public Invited To In spect One of Carolina's Best Appointed Homes; Is Source of Pride To Owners The Farmville Furniture Company is this week issuing invitations to customers and friends, among whom are the six thousand members of the Farmville Mutual Burial Association, to visit the firm's new funeral home upon the occasion of the opening on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, November 19-22, and view under the guidance of members of the staff, this beautiful funeral estab lishment, which now stands complete in every detail and ready for the in spection of the general public Plan Of Home. Of the spacious colonial type, the building is constructed of tapestry brick and trimmed with stone, having an open iron balcony-like grille and porch rail to match. Tall columns add dignity to the structure. The plan of the Home itself, drawn by an expert on this type of build ing, is dignified, correct and pleasing on the interior and exterior, and all of the rooms used in this service are connected and conveniently situated on the first floor. Upon opening the double entrance doors, which are heavily leaded in a handsome palm design, one is im pressed by the homelike atmosphere of the spacious reception room, furn ished in quite the style of a modern living room in North Carolina manu factured furniture, with considerable taste displayed in wood and color ef The first door on the left opens into the office of the funeral direc tors and mortician, John D. Gates and Charles S. Edwards, the second into the slumber room, where the body awaiting the last rites, may remain in perfect quiet overnight. Walking straight through the re ception hall one enters the beautiful and artistic display room, which is equal to any to be found in the South, designed as it is with a com plete and special lighting system to effectively exhibit the varied line of handsome caskets in a soft snd sub dued light. In a small connecting showroom are the children's caskets. Back of these are the preparation rooms, fitted with the most modern and best equipment obtainable, and so arranged as to afford the utmost privacy in carrying on the embalming and other work related to this par ticular branch of service. Storage and supply rooms are situ ated in the extreme rear end of the building. The home is steam heated and has well furnished rest rooms. The second floor is used by the furniture firm as display space for its huge stock of quality home furn ishings. Funeral Directors. John D. Gates and Charles S. Ed I wards are the efficient funeral di rectors. Mr. Gates, a native of Dur I ham county, has been connected with I the Farawille Furniture Company in this capacity for the past twenty-two I years, and is widely known and high ly esteemed. He is a member of the board of directors of the Farmvilk ? Building and Loan Association, a deacon and secretary and treasurer I of the local Primitive Baptist church Mr. Edwards is a native of Edge I combe county and a graduate oi South Edgecombe high school _andl of East Carolina Teachers College, I Greenville. He graduated from tha American Academy Embalming - and I Mortuary Ttonasrch, in Now York! I receiving while there intensive train! log in the latest methods of plastfcfl I surgery. Mr. Edwards had experi! eace in funeral directing also whilJ I in. New York, and was connected witlfl Williams Ftneral Home, Greenville I while attend ng E. C. T. C. He hoUbl I **certificate from the Conference ofl I Emhalmers Examining Boards of thfl I United States, and passed^eJtorM I ah its last meeting. He is a membeJ I of the Episcopal church and of thfl Farraville Rotary Club. I literally* at the telephone day anfl night, and prompt, safe, and efficien aar^Sco if available I 1 lakes it possible to more easily^l vey the sick and wounded, than eve I b#fui!d ^ ^ A ^ I Several years ago people bec&m V'.V:?,/" toci xn outibi associations* bh (Burial Association, which began serv ing its members on January 5, 1933. The growth of the Association has > exceeded all expectations, the mem bership having recently reached a total of six thousand. The yearly membership fees have never been more than forty cents for children under ten years of age, nev er more than eighty cents for those ( between ten and thirty, have not ex ceeded a dollar and sixty cents for members between thirty and fifty, nor over two dollars and forty cents for members past fifty. A non profit organization, payments are made by assessment, which is not requested until there are expenses of four or five funerals to be met. No person in the Association receives a salary and the organization has its books checked yearly, being under the juris diction of the State Insurance Depart ment. Ninety per cent of the income goes directly on funeral expenses and the remainder is used for postage, etc. During 1934 the Association provided funerals for thirty-nine members. Home To Fill Real Need. More and more people are demand ing such establishments as this cred itable addition made by the Farmville Furniture Co., where expert service and the use of complete facilities may be had in the event of a loved one's passing. In this connection it might be time ly to state that the funeral costs will be no greater than before for the dependable and satisfactory service of this firm, and that no charge will) be made for the use of the home when funeral services there are de sired by the family. Every conven ience is available for the conducting of funerals, and the most careful con sideration will be shown members of; the immediate family, who may oc cupy the same room in which the casket is placed, and to friends, who may be seated in the inception room adjoining. ?? ? At! Tobacco control Sign-Up Nears 190 P. C. Hero Only 16 of 2,785 Tobacco Growers I n County Have Not Signed 1 ????? Greenville, Nov. 14.?E. F. Arnold, Pitt County Farm Agent, today re-J ported that out of 2,785 tobacco con trol act contracts in the county, only 16 growers have failed to sign the agreements. This means that 99 per cent of the growers in the county have sign ed the contracts. The county agent also explained that two of the non-signers in the county, the North Carolina Joint Stock Land Bank and the Metropoli tan Life Insurance company had promised to have their tenants sign the contracts as soon as they rented their farms about the first of the year. Counting these two land own ers in the list of signers the percent age amounts to about 99 1-2 per cent He also added that some of the hold-outs were due to a desire on the part of the growers to secure ' an increase in the allotments and 1 that other farmers were absent from the county at present. In at least one case, also, that of the Standard Fertilizer company, it was understood the land had been 1 sold. This, however, had not been 1 established and the name of the pur ! ported purchaser was not known. ' This contract will probably be includ ? ed in the contracted land. According to records in the county agent's office, the following growers, ' by townships, have not as yet signed 1 contracts for 1936-39: 1 Chiod: Mrs. Marshall J. Cox, W. > Claude Smith, Lather F. Smith. ? Pactohis: L W. Elks, H. C. Clem f raona. 1 Belvoir: J. B. Bullock, Mrs. Re 1 becca H. Tyson, H. C. Joint Stock F Land Bank, Metropolitan Life Ih r surance company. i Greenville: J. L AJlen, Robert H. Tripp. s Bethel: Standard Fertilizer Com l D. S. Harper, t Fountain: Lester EL Barrett f Swift Creek: Chris P. Moore. ^ ? . Wtrtawffle:.. D. J. Branch, g/ j Carolina, Beaver Dame, Falkland, r Farmville and Ayden township* ^ SiAroold>e^aed^t nl y f ,..v v .rflSfc Mr. Theme Explains Repurchase Pool With The Shortest Crop In 26 Years Farmers Should Get Every Dol lar They Possibly Can Thousands upon thousands of dol lars "will go into the pockets of North Carolina cotton growers this year in the form of premiums provided they sell their cotton on a grade and staple basis, John T. Thome, of Farmville, said here upon his return from the November meeting of the directors. Mr. Thome said that the consensus of opinion of the ten cotton farmers on the board of directors, represent ing every section of the State, is that the quality of cotton "has been sur prisingly good this year." ' He further stated that the manage ment of the cooperative reported at the board meeting that grade and staple premiums of from $4.50 to as much as $6.50 are being paid on seven out of every ten bales of cotton plac ed through the cooperative this year. It was also reported at the board meeting, Mr. Thome said, that this year many large farmers are using the facilities of the "Re-Purchase Pool" in handling their cotton through the Association. Under the "Re Purchase Pool Plan" a farmer places his cotton with the Association and when he is ready to sell he asks for . a price. He can then go out to his local cotton mill or cotton buyer and ask for a price.. Should the price quoted on the outside be higher than that offered by the Association, he can get his identical cotton back and sell it to the one offering him the most money. ? ? ? % *. x ni.i. "Certainly, witn uie snonest own* crop in 26 years staring us in the face, it in up to us as farmers in North Carolina to get every dollar we can for our cotton this year, Mr. Thorne said. "The 'Re-Purchase Pool Plan' of the Cotton Association ab solutely guarantees farmers the high est price for their cotton." "And," Mr. Thorne added, "Please bear in mind that if you market your cotton on a grade and staple hasis and in such a way that your total price runs well over 12 cents a pound, as has been the case for hun dreds of farmers who have sold through the Association this year, this does not affect the amount of your equalization payment Your equalization payment is simply the difference between the average price on the ten designated spot markets for middling 7-8 cotton and 12 cents a pound, and the price you receive for your cotton has nothing to do with it." Thp rooent rise of $2.50 ner bale for cotton following the November crop report was in line with the opin ion the the ten men on the board have expressed all during the falL Commenting on the price outlook thTs week, Mr. Thorne said: "It was the consensus of the board that there is a good chance for cotton to ad vance still further, and we think It will be good business for farmers to market the remainder of their crop in an orderly manner through their own cooperative in order that they may be in position to take advantage of any rise in the market" Eastern Carolina's Leading Furniture Store Is Situated Here In Farawille _________ Large Stock of Superior Values Result in Tre-( mendous Patronage for This Firm; Ford V-8 To Be Main Prize In Annual Fall Sale Event Unrivaled in point of management,! size of stock and superior values, and meriting the tremendous patronage received from the community and a wide area of surrounding territory, is one of Farmville's pioneer estab lishments, the Farmville Furniture Company, the present firm organiza tion, composed of A. C. Monk, presi dent, Jno. T. Thome, vice president, T. E. Joyner, secretary and treasurer and general manager, being the out growth of the merging of Beaman Monl; Bros, and the Joyner Furni ture Company in 1916. The rapid progress of this firm bears lively testimony to the high type men, who are back of the com pany, and to the business ability and affable manner of the manager and buyer, T. E. Joyner. One of the largest stores in North Carolina, the firm's main establish ment is a handsome three story building with 17,500 square feet of showroom space situated on four floors and with 10,000 square feet of storage space and a fully equipped work Shop making it necessary for its operations to be extended to four buildings. n ? - on/) iin tn date carrying a cvuij/itw ?**??* ?r -- line of furniture, electrical appli ances, radio,*, etc., the five delivery trucks are in constant use. A well fitted radio repair shop with a full time service man in charge, is main tained by the firm, which also offers complete refrigerating service to its customers by especially trained men. The personnel is composed of J. P. Gates, who has been with the firm for the past twenty-two years, serv ing as funeral director, salesman and repair man; M. G. Thorne, head of the radio department, has been in the firm's employ for sixteen years, C. L. Barrett and J. G. Smith, special refrigerating service men have seen nine years each of service here, F. G. Smith, has been employed five years, Mrs. T. E. Joyner, is window dresser and decorator, and Miss Emma Dale is bookkeeper. Sam Lewis is in charge of deliveries being assisted by Alfred Lewis and John D. Hob good; Joseph R. Arthur, a graduate of Coyne School, Chicago,, is in charge of the radio repair depart ment. And last but not least is Red Dupree, who has rendered faith ful service for more than fifteen years and is together with the other members of the personnel well known and liked by the thousands of pa trons of East Carolina's leading furniture stores About 300 farm boys and girls of McDowell county have joined the six 4-H clubs organized in that county recently. ****** * * * f ? t. ,t. .tit. A4*>|? 4* 'I* For Your Convenience To simplify your purchase, we combine in one price the Casket of your selection and the Services of our establishment, which consists of the following: Personal Services Use of Funeral Home Funeral Coach and family cars Preparation of body Use of Cemetery and Home Equipment Spray of Flowers for door e Acknowledgment Cards Memorial Record \j Hie above items comprse a standard lunerai. The price, card on each Casket includes any of the Igv above services desired or necessary, together with the Casket. ife Additional charges are made for Vault, embalm ing, flowers and clothing. Our staff, working under instruction will relieve you of the many details of arrangements, and will be ever ready to suggest methods of proceedings which have proven most satisfactory. Sales Since The First Store Opened Total $84,011.41; Only One Store Has Lost Money i Greenville, Nov, 12.?Figures re leased today by the Pitt County Al coholic Control Board ievealed that liquor stores in the county have net ted a clear profit of $20,664.76 since the first stores were opened July 27. Sales during the period totalled $84,011.41, showing the profit to the county to be 24.6 per cent of the gross amount taken in. The cost of merchandise amount ed to $54,023.80, or 64.30 per cent of net sales. Operating expenses cov ering administratives expense, sell ing cost, freight, rents, etc., totalled $9,799.36, or 11.67 per cent of net sales. The Greenville store sold more than any of the other six stores in ( the county, a total of $44,116.30 worth of liquor having been sold here in the period. A net profit of I $11,563.61, or 26.21 per cent was real ized from sales in the city. The per centage of profit in Greenville, how ever, was not quite as much as the percentage in Farmville where a , net profit of 26.35 per cent was real ized. In Farmville a profit of $5, 967.S6 was realized on sales of $22, 651.81. The store located in Grimesland was the only one of the seven stores in the county which showed a loss i during the period. A loss of $22.68 ^ was showned for the store there, the percentage loss for sales being only 1 8.62 per cent. : Profits in the other six stores ] ranged from 26.35 per cent in Farm- j ville to 13.73 per cent in Grifton. Ayden had sales of $10,258.37, for , a profit of $2,001.89, or 19.51 per ( cent; Fountain, sales of $3,605.85, . net profits of $621.19, or 17.23 per ( cent; Bethel, $2,445.26, net profits of ; $440.78, or 18.03 per cent; Grifton, sales of $670.78, net profits of $92.11, J or 13.73 per cent, and Grimesland, sales of $263.01, net loss of $22.63, of 8.62 per cent. < ??? ? mm m w Ked Cross Kou call Began Here This Week 1 . < Canvassing committees, with Mayor - John B. Lewis as director, began the Red Cross membership drive here on Wednesday, and reports from the i various workers lend hope to the en- ' deavor's being a signal success. '? Appealing to all classes of people, I as the Red Cross always does, for its 1 service to humanity, the local cam- t paigners have had little trouble in enrolling a large number of Farmvide ] 'residents, and scores of homes and < business houses are flying the 100% ' strong banners. ] ] Union Services To Be Held Thanksgiving ] A Union Thanksgiving service will j be held at the Methodist church on ' Thursday evening Nov. 28, at 7:30 ; o'clock, at which time Rev. L. R. ] Ennis, of the Baptist church, will be j the speaker, and the Faitnville Unit of the N. C. Music Festival Associa- j tion will furnish the music. i The offering will be used for wel- t fare work in the community. } The public is urged to attend and join together in a great service of Thanksgiving to God for His mercies \ and blessings enjoyed during the 1 year. 1 Have You Joined The Red Cross? ia% Have Not! The membership drive for Farm vine is still on; everyone should join the Red Cross; Farmville has a population of over 2600 people; less than 126 have joined; not even 5%; our quota of 260 is less than 10%? Burely 10% of the people of Farm ville should join the Red Cross with out any solicitation whatever?If the workers miss you, just drop by the Town Hall, or Davis Store, Ed Nash Warren's store, or see Lucy J. Rum-, ley, J. I. Morgan, Jr., Edna Foust Harris, or any of the other official workers and become a member of the American National Red Cross. Do your part?and in an emer gency, it will do its part. ?*" *-<-?? ?MM 4-KA P-jfo. ! wnen wwwM givnwii w w town section of Wayne County had 'their crop destroyed by hail this sum mer, they re-fertilized the tobacco, selected the best suckers for growth and sold some of the leaf this fall for MO . hundred. r '. H Hertford County peanut growers have received 786 chocks totaling $58,898.93 in rental payments with 808 additional checks to come from High Averages Keep Interest In Market At High Pitch Twenty-Six and a Quar ter Million Pound Mark Passed on Wednesday; Parmville Exceeds Record In Prices and Poundage This Season Sales on this market, including those of Wednesday .passed last sea son's poundage record for the same period by 8,474,118 pounds, a total of 17,906,032 pounds having been soid during the same period at $5,610,108. 62 and at an average of $30,77, as compared with the figures of the cur rent season, which reveal a total of 26,380,150 pounds, which have brought growers $5,811,382.55 and an average of $22.03. Sales on this market last week ag gregated 2,007,368 pounds, which sold for $472,085.38, ana average $23.52. The Farmville market's phenome nal increase in popularity this sea son is recognized throughout the State. The reason for this is no secret, it has been due first and fore most to its lead in prices as shown by the averages, which have daily topped those of other markets in the belt, according to the figures appear ing in the columns of current news papers. ' Farraville, leading in highest aver ages through September and missing first place in October by only one twenty-fifth of a cent per pound, de serves its reputation of being "THE STEADIEST MARKET," and has now won the right to the title, "THE HIGHEST MARKET OF THE BRIGHT LEAF BELT" for this sea son. Making a record in prices Far.n ville has also exceeded all former records in poundage sold. Good tobaccos are still bringing a fancy price here, although a large quantity of inferior grades, brought in by farmers, who are making the last roundup of their crop, are hold ing our averages down just now. The tractor terracing unit in Per son County was used to build 41,700 feet of 18-feet-wide terrances on 4 farms last week. In addition, 53 fills were made across gullies, 1500 feet of private farm road was built and three ditches 800 feet long were dug. The crop of Danish cabbage grown in Avery County this season has been sold at good prices. 1 L ? oftnT Dome uy uie aviauuu uiuuomj* When Is. The Money Wanted? Subscription of funds will begin on November 4th, the fifty-sixth anni versary of Will Rogers' birth. They will continue to Thanksgiving Eve., November 27. Contributions will be received locally by the Bank of Farm ville, the Paramount Theatre and can vassers, who will make an intensive campaign on Tuesday, Nov. 19th. Mrs. J. M. Hobgood, Local Chm. Under the direction of Mrs. J. M. Hobgood, appointed by Mrs. R. C. Lawson, chairman of tie Commis sion's National Women's Committee and president of the General Federa tion of Women's Clubs, as state chair man of women's activities to work with Carl Goerch, North Carolina's chairman of the Will Rogers Memor ial Fund, two hundred and sixty women are working as leaders "in that many towns and cities in launch ing the campaign, in staging bridge parties, teas, roping contests for boys and other civic and social affairs where the Fund may be presented and contributions taken. The campaign, which is nationwide in its scope, will continue until the eve of Thanksgiving, giving admirers of Will Rogers every opportunity to perpetuate his name. Mrs. George E. Marshall, president of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. H. W. Belk, state regent of the D. A. R,, Mrs. W. B. Aycock, president of the North Carolina Con gress of Parent-Teachers, and out standing leaders of other prominent women's organizations of the State have been appointed to serve as an advisory committee. Tuesday, November 19, has been designated in North Carolina as Will Rogers Statewide School Day, and a meeting of local campaigners will be held at Mayor Lewis' office, Monday evening November 18 at 7:30 o'clock to make further plans for offering opportunities to the people of this community to make contributions, these opportunities presenting them selves to the public in the form of Fund boxes placed in the Bank of Farmville and the Paramount Thea tre, and by personal canvaaserr on the street. V, . All the women of the State are re quested by Mrs. Hobgood to throw ' r their influence behind the effort to obtain '^appreciation contributions" to the MaMiiit .??????-?????< I * GOLF COURSE PROJECT * * APPROVED * * . ? * A message, received by Mayor * * Lewis today, advised him that * * the WPA had approved Farm- * * ville's golf coarse project, and a * * moss meeting has been called for * Friday evening, November 15, * * at 7:30 in the Town Hall for * * making plans whereby Farm- * * ville's dream in this connection * * may come true. * * Such a chance for developing * * a recreational center here will * * probably never occur again. ? * "Come and lets talk it over," is * * the plea of the Mayor and the * * committee. ? A Memorial To Will Rogers Local Campaign to Be gin Tuesday, Nov. 19; Mrs. J. M. Hobgood State Chairman of Women's Activities ? ? * When Will Rogers died, ne leit mil lions of friends who had become in timates through the stage, radio, mo tion pictures, newspapers and maga zines. They mourned the man and his philosophy?his kindliness to mankind. Thousands of these friends active ly proposed memorials. No less than a score or organizations were formed for the purpose. These were merged and the Will Rogers Memorial Com mission was formed?a group of Rogers' nationally prominent and re sponsible friends, headed by Vice President John N. Garner. Now With all local and sectional efforts directed into one whole-heart ed, national plan, millions of Will Rogers' friends may participate in a worthy, recognized and responsible contribution to the memory of Will Rogers. ? ? ** J.l 9 What Form 01 mmunan After Rogers' millions of friends tiave had an opportunity to make their contribution to his memory, the I ?um will be totalled beside the num-j l>er of contributors, which it is be lieved will run into millions of friend-1 Jhipsw ... I Then a group including Dr. J. C. j Bushyhead, Amon G. Carter, Harry Chandler, James M. Cox, Charles! Curtis, John W. Davis, Charles GF. I Dawes, Herbert Fleischacker, Henry Ford, John N. Garner, Will H. Hays, Herbert C. Hoover, Patrick J. Hur ley, Jesse H. Jones, Mrs. Roberta Campbell Lawson, E. W. Marland,] Frank F. Merriam, Alfred E. Smith, Fred Stone, George Young, Owen D. Ifoung, and other men of prestige! and judgment will, with the help of public suggestions, decide on the ultimate form of the memorials. Naturally, the judgment must be] indicated by the total of the 3ub-| scriptions. But one thing is certain, the Commission will sponsor no cold] shaft of marble for this warm and friendly man. Rather, there will be living, con-] binning memorials projected to honor] the charitable, educational and hu-] manitarian traits which were so be-] loved in Will Rogers, the living man. | Rogers, who was kind-harted and ] sympathetic, a man of the people, in] life, must be recalled in memory as] he lived. I rr?? Will Ro Snncht? nunv AIBHVM TT?u WW 0 Money, alone, is not the goal. Nat urally, the total subscribed must Be reflected in the ultimate choice of memorials. But the real goal in the eyes of the Committee must rest in the number of friendships registered in the campaign,?the total number of people who will come forward to honor the memory of their friend with a material token of that friend ship. Millions, it is anticipated, will voice their appreciation of Will Rog ers in a contribution?millions who have laughed and cried with Rogers Si his expressed understanding of mankind. How Will The Money Be Handled? The Will Rogers Memorial Com mission, composed of responsible, re spected men and women?all friends of Will Rogers and his family?se lected without regard to politics, race or religion, but banded together by a mutual love of Will Rogers and a de sire to properly perpetuate his spirit ed memory, will handle all funds col lected Every single penny subscribed will be used for nwmorarls to Will Rogers. Jn keeping with his love of flying and those interested in aviation, the jx penae of gathering the fond are being v ? i ?: