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VOL, TWENTY-SIX FARMVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 19S? NUMBER SEVENTEEN
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FARMERS READY TO PAN EAST CAROLINA'S GOLD
... Business Men and Citizens Extend The Right Hand of Welcome To All Tobacco Growers,..
PLANS NOW COMPLETE FOR FARMVIUTS BIG OPENING" SEPT.l
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The Best News of the
Season: "Tobacco Prices
Are Exceptionally Good"
FarmviUe Warehousemen Are Ready For Open
ing Next Tuesday
The soldiers have receivd their bonus; the marriage bureau
records are showing an increase in marriages; interest is keen
in the Presidential race; manufacturing production is growing;
buying and selling charts are upcurving fast; all of which means
that business is. better generally, but the best news for people
in the Farmville community is that "The Farmville Tobacco
Market Will Open September 1st and PRICES ARE GOOD."
And so the warehouses have been shined up inside and out?
freshly painted interiors, trucks stacked and standing in line,
new signs outside indicating the houses and informing the far
mer which sale is to be held there, warehouse forces have their
new office supplies in their proper niches, and the new pencils are
sharpened . . . everything is in readiness and awaiting the open
ing day of the Farmville market. ^ . ..
And a big day it promises to be,
for while sales may be light for the i
how his crop is going to and m)
he is ready to "sample" the market
right at the beginning.
Occuping the TOP position in
AVERAGES of ANY market in any
belt of the State for the past seas
on, the Farmville Tobacco market
has drawn the attention of the
whole tobacco world, and it now
adds to its descriptive title of ''The
Li vest Market in the State, the
most coveted adjective used in con
nection with any market, "The High
est Market in The State."
During the 1935 season the Farm
ville market sold 28,411,786 pounds
of tobacco for an average of $21.72
per hundredweight, an increase in
poundage of 30 per cent.
And so Farmville will go to the
bat this season with a position and
reputation which must be kept at
all costs, and which Farmville to
bacconists are determined to retain.
Monk Brothers
Thirty years ago this summer,
two young and ambitious men, the
Monk brothers, A. C. and J. Y., na
tives of Durham, arrived in Farm
ville and went about establishing
themselves in the tobacco business.
Farmville at that time was just a
sleepy little village made up of
farmer folk, who liked to live close
together and have a Main Street of
their own. It was the universal
opinion that Farmville was too
small for a successful market, and
it was freely predicted that the to
bacco business here would fail, the
warehouses being small and doing
little. . There were, however, sev
eral among the business heads, who
were able to catch the vision and
spirit of the young Monks and they
lent them their hearty support, fi
nancial and moral.
For years the larger markets
round about sought the "sales"
scalp of the Farmville market and
much credit is due these brothers
for retention of that valuable as
set to its business head, for it was
a hard fight, this one of the survival
of the local market, and it took
great fortitude, courage and unflrg
ging faith in the future of Farm
ville to continue struggling for ex
istence. The Monk brothers were
always in the thick of the fight
against the many forces which from
time to time threatened the secur
ity of this market and finally suc
ceeded in closing promising markets
in neighboring towns.
.A C. Monk, who bought the first
pile of tobacco sold on the Farmville
market, and who has rendered dis
tinguished service to the tobacco in
dustry is president of the A. C.
Monk Tobacco Go., with many mod
ern plants in this and other sections
of the country.
Monk's Warehouse.
J. Y. Monk, popular proprietor
Monk's warehouse and his excellent
record in increased patronage is
known all over the State, and hearty
recommendations as to price and
service are given this house by its
thousands of satisfied customers,
who come for miles around to sell
with "J. Y."
This warehouse was established
by "J. Y." who has been proprietor
and active manager and the moving
spirit for 29 years. Just in the
prime of his life Mr. Monk expects
to continue to advance the interest
and accomplishments of his own
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business and the market as a whole.
Monk's warehouse rounded out its
twenty-ninth year of valuable aer
customers and many sew friends
! this season, being better prepared
I than ever to take care of the mil
| lions of pounds, which the firm is
expecting to sell.
Associated with the veteran ware
; houseman again this season will be
| his son, J. Y., Jr., Johnnie Carlton
and R. D. Rouse as proprietors, all ex
perienced tobacconists with their
main objective the upbuilding of the
Farmville market.
Assisting in the office this seas
on will be: J. B. Joyner, cashier;
Mrs. M. V. Jones, assistant cashier;
L. P. Thomas, bookkeeper; A. E.
James, book man; W. J. Teel, ticket
marker; W. A. Goolie and J. N. Ed
wards, auctioneers; and Curtis
Flanagan, head weigher.
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Knott's Warehouse.
Increasing1 in steady sales through
out the 23 years of its history,
Knott's warehouse patronage took a
phenomenal leap forward the past
season, with an increase of 42 per
cent over the previous season re
corded
R. H. Knott and J. M. Hobgood
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Play Keeps Jack from Being |
Dull Boy Here In Farmville
Recreational Aspirations Take Form in Exten
sive Program; Recent Community Improve
ment Has Been Spectacular; Citizens
Enjoy Their Vacations at Home.
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Coming: as a climax to Farpiville's ambitious program of im
provements, which has had the tendency to "go recreational",
was the recent opening of the golf course at a fitting celebra
tion held July 15, and attended by more than two hundred peo
ple- Mayor John B. Lewis presided, over the program, and dur
ing the course of the barbecue dinner, tendered by the fifty odd
stockholders of the new golf course, the links were formally
presented by State Administrator of the Works Progress Ad
ministration, George W. Coan, Jr., and accepted by George W.
Davis, president of the Country Club.
Tributes were paid at this time to B. 0. Taylor, a moving spirit
and faithful supervisor of the project and to others connected
with it. Mayor Lewis and R. A. Joy-?
ner, city clerk, received special men
tion, as well as the entire board of
town aldermen. Dr. W. M. Willis,
George W. Davis, J. W. Joyner, J. M.
Stancill and Arch Flanagan, all of
whom have been active and success
ful in their eforts to obtain and car
ry forward various public projects
here.
A review of the recent achieve
ments along the line of public im
provements in Farmville, which
would challenge those of a city twice
the size, bespeaking withal the com
bined thought of the community in
! its upbuilding, will prove interest
ing.
Swimming PooL
First, the swimming pool, one of
Eastern North Carolina's finest,
[built by CWA labor and material,
[supplemented by $2,000 in public
: subscriptions and an investment of
$5,000 by the town, first, in that it
was the very first in the State com
pleted, under the CWA program.
The Woman'8 Club has done much
i to beautify the grounds, and recent
additions of seats, awnings, a band
stand, a screened outdoor dining
room and extra tables outside, have
increased the facilities for the pleas
sure of the public.
New Paving.
Two and a half miles of sidewalks
were laid by relief labor recently,
with approximately $5,000 worth of
material being furnished by citizens
for their individual jobs.
The completion of another worthy
project was that of a concrete cul
vert through 600 feet of an open
ditch, which bisected the town, and
cost the town and property owners
$2,500. The paving of an alley 20
by 400 feet back of a block of
stores was, endorsed by the entire
citizenry, the expense of the mater
ial being "borne by property owners.
A number of drainage projects,
carried through to a successful ter
mination, have been of inestimable
benefit to the town.
" Golf Coarse.
About eleven or twelve months
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Farmville Ready To
Exchange For Coin .
Thousands of gold prospectors will begin their trek by mo
tor, trucks and "covered" wagons, into the Bright Belt mar
kets on Tuesday, September 1st, ready to pan their gold and
exchange it for coin with which to purchase many of the
necessities and some of the Smaller luxuries of life, which the
four tremendous up-to-date warehouses, two sets of highly
esteemed buyers, representing all the important and domestic
companies, with their houses and plants recently conditioned,
is all set, ready and waiting for the panning and exchanging
to begin.
N ew Zealand Bids
For Leaf Market
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Washington, Aug. 28.?A new!
bid by New Zealand growers to get'
their flue-cured tobacco on the Bri
tish market was reported today by
the agricultural economics bureau.
The information was ocntained,
bureau ofvcials said, in a report from
Vice Consul W. W. Orebaugh at
Wellington.
Orebaugh said trade comment on
the 65,000 pounds sent by New Zea
land growers for trial last year was
that it compared favorably with the
best cigarette grades received from
any other region of the empire. Ship
ments made before the 1935 season
were not well received, he said.
Payments In Pitt
by Federal Agency
Total $21,983.53
Total Loans Of $19,
961.53 made to 50 Per
sons and $2,022 in
Grants Disbursed.
Payments totalling $21,983.53 were
made in Pitt County by the Reset
tlement Administration from July 1,
1935, to June 26, 1936, it was reveal
ed here today, according to informa
tion received by R. M. Gantt, State
Director for the National Emergency
Council.
r\-P fltAnA nnniwAntn l/\n?n f rtf ollinnr
vi wicoc yay men to iv/uno vwauiii^ i
$19,961.53 were made to 50 persons I
and $2,022 of ^ants to 98 persons
were disbursed.
An additional activity of the Re
settlement, that of farm debt adjust
ments showed that in Pitt County
eight cases had been adjusted
through May, 1936, involving an or
iginal indebtedness of $31,276, with
resultant savings of $5,800. In ad
dition to the saving through adjust
ment there was one case where the
loan had been extended or where a
reduction of interest rate had been
effected. Further benefit from this
activity was noted in the taxes paid
as a result > of adjustments, which
in Pitt County amount to $2,033.
The State of North Carolina had
received rehabilitation loans through
June 26, 1936, amounting to $1,834,
985.56, which were actually certified
for payment. There remained the
sum of $202,718.52 in unpaid com
mitments. Rehabilitation grants
during the same period were advanc- i
ed in the sum of $231,611.97. A total i
of 7,441 persons in North Carolina 1
received loans, while 9,238 persons i
were the recipients of grants. i
There were 910 cases considered
by Farm Debt Adjustment Commit- I
tees in North Carolina during the ]
period September 30, 1935, through |
May 31, 1936, of which 859 cases j
were adjusted. The indebtedness i
prior to adjustment totalled $1,151,- i
712, while the reductions made
equalled $289,983. Additional results (
include $31,799 of taxes paid and 107 <
cases of interest reductions or exten- <
sion agreements. 1
In the United States the Resettle- i
ment Administration has made allot- 1
ments in the amount of $107,075,758 t
for Rural Rehabilitation loans and i
grants. Loans and grant vouchers \
certified for payment in the period 1
July 1, 1935, to June 26, 1936, 1
amounted to $90,855,323, leaving an ]
available balance for future loans
and grants and unpaid loan commit- i
ments of $16,220,435 as of June 26, i
1936, . - 1
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Drought Victims Are
Being Freely Aided
2,000,000 Rural Folks In
Hard Luck Because of
Vagaries of Weather.
Estimates that 2,000,000 persons
on farms arid in rural communities
will require relief this winter em
phasizes the extent of the drouth's
effects in many American states.
To give assistance to so many peo
ple will take a lot of money and the
question is, where will it come from?
Accepting the drouth as a natural
disaster, in the same sense that cy
clones and earthquakes are natural
disasters, presupposes that the Amer
ican people, as a whole, will want to
extend aid to the victims of the trag
ic dry spell.
We are not much concerned with
the source of the money. Whether
it comes from the Federal govern
ment, as s strong central govern
iiient ^ ' ^" i ^ ufflirted
to pull through an era of misfortune.
Wildcat Veterans
Meet in Greensboro
Hie 7200 North Carolina Wildcat
Veterans will begin to move to the
scene of their first State Reunion in
Greensboro, N. C., September 6th and
7th.
The Convention will open on Sun
day, September 6th, with registra
tions at the O'Henry and King Cot
ton Hotels. A Memorial Service will
be held at 9.00 A. M., a luncheon
at 1.00 P. M., an outdoor gathering
and lunch at 4:00 P. M., parade at
6:00 P. M., and the reunion will close
with a Military Ball at 9:00 P. M.
At this Reunion the State Depart
ment of North Carolina of the Na
tional Wildcat Veterans' Association
will be established and the Auxiliary
will also be formed, and every North
Carolina Wildcatter and his ladies
are cordially invited to attend.
R. L. Davis Noted For His
Honesty, Square Dealing
A Man Who Has Risen
To Great Heights in
the Financial World; A
True Friend of the
Farmer.
The story of Robert Lang Davis?
"Uncle Bob" to his closest friends?
and Farmville's grand old man to
everybody, is neither an exciting tale
of spectacular ascendancy in the bus
iness world nor a succession of thrill
ing, serial accounts of hair-raising
fights and victories over competitors
as can be related in connection with
many successful financiers of today.
Early Life
His early life was laid in the set
ting of a simple but Christian coun
try home, and he has not departed
from either the simplicity of living
or the remembrance of his Creator
in the days of his youth.
His career in his varied fields of ac
tivity?as a merchant, banker and
planter, has been a measured and
gradual process; an evolution inev
itable when founded upon sincerity
of purpose and nourished with infin
ite patience and honest endeavor.
Unlike the modern youth he start
ed out with very little schooling, not
education, mind you, for he had been
educated and had a degree in cour
teous manners and honest dealing,
obtained in the schoolroom of his
lome, under the deanship of an es-j
imable gentlewoman?his aunt?(his
nother, Mrs. Mary Lang Davis, died
vhen he was 18 months old, and he
ost his father five years later)?and
;he professorship of his uncle, Bob
Lang.
His lack of schooling and funds
vas in no sense regarded as a hand
cap by him nor did it deter him froiri
lis purpose of setting himself up in
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R. L. DAVIS
business.
Business Career
His business career started when
his uncle, W. G. Lang, of the firm of
Lang and Moye, gave him a job as
clerk, which position he held until he
formed a partnership with W. R.
Home and bought a small stock of
goods, owned originally by J. W. May
& Sons. This business partnership
lasted seven years, or until Mr. Davis
was in a position to buy out Mr.
Home's interest.
Continuing alone for seven years
he sold two of his brothers, J. R. and
F. M. Davis, a third. interest in the
business in 1893, which they have
since operated so successfully under 1
the firm name of R. L. Davis & Bros., '
General Merchants. The firm now oc- 1
cupies three large stores and carries
a stock of everything the farmer, his
family or his farm needs. ;
Community Service i
Giving, in his gentle way, his j
counsel and advice to 4H who sought '1
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Farmville Moves Forward
With Her Alert Market
"United We Stand," Is
Theme Song of Town
?the Transformation
a Tobacco Market
Achieves In a Com
munity Exemplified In
Farmville ? Establish
ed Thirty-two Years.
The birth of a small, sleepy ham
let came about in the year 1872,
when Farmville was recognized by
the State of North Carolina with a
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cnarxer ox incorpora
tion for her popula
tion of some eighty
odd people, living in
fifteen dwellings, and
comprising an area
the size of a city
block.
Thirty^ ^ years
and growth. There
was, however, an in
crease of only 26
people in the population during the
first decade after incorporation, ac
cording to the census of 1880, which
listed ta population of 10,704 whites
and colored in the eight
townships of the county?Greenville
having 912, Bethel 127 and Farm
ville 111, '?$$?
Railroads Built
The first incentive for develop
ment rode in on the engine of the
East Carolina Railway in 1900, which
served as a freight and passenger
channel, and gave the town the
chance for the substantial growth
which can only be obtained by direct
contact with the outside world.
The Norfolk-Southern Railroad
was built seven years later, connect
ing Farmville with Norfolk, Va., and
Raleigh?the Capital city of the
State?which together with connec
tions by the East Carolina railway
made possible immediate contact with
all of the main shipping points of
land and sea and markets in all di
rections.
National and State highways have,
during the past several years, been
routed through the heart of the'busi
ness district, and" motor trucks do a
large transportation business also.
The building of better stores and
more residences began immediately
upon the coming of the railroads, and
the Bank of Farmville, which has
during its existence served as a bus
iness ally to the town, was organized
in 1904, with Mr. R. L. Davis, as
President
Farmville's splendid churches and
schools^ its fine Building and Loan
Association, newspaper publication
and print shop, the excellent hote:
accommodations provided by the old
Horton Hotel in days gone by, and
the modern Hotel Davis today; the
I extensive business done by the old
firms and the new business enter
prises of the younger establishments
as well, have all been necessary and
valuable assets, and have given.great
and 1936, and th? small vill?g$ of
farmers has growr during this peri
od into a town of broad proportions
and city-like appearance, for it was
the establishment of the Farmville
Tobacco Market?a masterful under
taking by a group of energetic bus
iness men of the town thirty-two
years ago?which quickened the
sleepy village into the radiant, pul
sating business center it is today, in
a miracle of rebirth. Unlike Rip Van
Winkle, it might never have awaken
en if the thundering of tobacco trucks
had not disturbe-i its lethargy.
Bound by Unity
The Farmville Tobacco Market has
not only been a means of achieving
a physical transfiguration, *\t which
observers often marvel, but a trans
formation is evidenced in the spirit
of the entire community. Farmville
business men, bound by the unbreak
able strand of unity, realize that they
are not isolated individuals but that
each has relationships in this busi
ness of buying and selling. They are
not interested only in sales, divi
dends, profits and losses, but in the
betterment of the community in which
they live, and in the progress of that
community.
The Tobacco Market in Farmville
is a factor which presents both op
portunities and obligations to the
business men here, who feel that they
must not be supporters only but pro
moters as well, and must give active
expression to their hearts' desire ?
the continual development of tRfe
market and the highest type of ser
vice to customers.
Round table conferences of practi
cal citizens and definite effort in be
half of the markets are often held,
when courses of vigorous action are
mapped out. Competition has a more
general scope than the business of
the individual, and the spirit of good
will and interest in the town's wel
fare and business as a whole has ob
tained for years. Consideration of
merely his own business makes a
newcomer in Farmville's business
world very unpopular and he usually
grasps the situation and joins heart
ily in fhe effort being made for the
progress of the community as a
unit.
Wholly Agricultural
Farmville is one hundred per cent
agricultural, every business here de
pending on the farmer and whether
prices for his produce go up or down,
the doctor, lawyer, merchant and
chief's final summary?in hifc \ ac
counting for the year?black or red,
finding its results in the prosperity
of the farmer. '
A large majority of the business
and professional men here are farm
ers themselves, who, in the ? cool of
;he evening steal away for a look
about their plantations. And those
svho are not actual owners, are se
cretly planning some day to pur
chase a little farm, for the "Good
Earth" soon gets into the' blood
vhen one hears little else all day
ong except crop production.
Believe In Market
Farmville people believe in and
tell on their own market^ and watch
ng its phenomenal development and
ncroaee in popularity with gratified
learts each season, saw it reach its
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