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IH5EHE1 Tha Farmvitlp Itn i jjltll bu fSrEEEEl j-iz'.rrjirJ *rdiMViBC IrfiUC F ^UnTY^X FABMVUiLH PFTT COUNTY, NORTH CABOUNA, IFRIDIAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1987 NUMBER THIRTY-ONE : I : Says Rural Power Plans Face Legislative Threat Cooke Tells , Why He Opposes State Commis sion Control Of Rural Co-Ops Washington, Feb. 9.?Morris L. Cooke, federal Rural Electrification | Administrator who last week pro-1 tested to Representative Robert H. Rouse, chairman of the public utili ties commission of the North Caro lina House of Representatives, against passage of a bill placing- rural electrification co-operatives under control of the state commission, to day elaborated his reasons for op posing such legislation in a letter to United States Senator Roy M. Gillette of Iowa, where similar legis lation is now pending. In his letter, Mr. Cooke predicts that such legislation will be brought forward in practically all of the i states and that its outcome will make or break the rural electrification movement. President Roosevelt, at his press . conference today, revealed that he is appointing no successor to Mr. Cookey and that he confidently ex pects the official to return to his post at the end of a trip to Europe which he and Mrs. Cooke, who is independently wealthy, will begin this month. The President described Mr. Cooke's trip as a well-deserved holiday. Administrator Cooke's letter to Senator Gillette follows: "Thank you for your request for my views on the general proposi tion of commission control for rural electrification co-operatives. "This is a problem which is be coming acute in a number of states. I think it no exaggeration to assert that the outcome of this question may make or break the rural electri fication movement, now gathering true momentum for the first time in our history. "Under commission control as it has developed over our country, these new, non-profit co-operative attempts on the part of American farmers to serve themselves with electricity will be doomed to failure. They will wither before they have had a chance to take root. Free from commission control, there is more than an excellent chance that we shall see a large proportion of our farm homes lighted by electricity before many years have passed. "These are sweeping statements and require support. Let me try to show you why I believe them justi fied. "In the first place, commission control was designed to do two things: Commissions were set up to intervene between the buyers and the sellers of electricity in th^ mat ters of rates and to supervise the issuance of securities. Since co-oper atives do not issue ? securities for public distribution and since Ihe buyer and the seller are one and the same in the co-operatives, com mission control has, as to these mat ters, no obligation to fulfill and no rights to protect. World Day Of Prayer Today, February 12, will be ob served throughout the World aa a Day of Prayer and intercession. The joint meeting of the church ? women here will be held in the Meth odist Church at 2:15 o'clock. The program "Thou Art The Christ," The Son of The Living God," as out lined by Miss Bable Shaw, a mis sinoary to Africa, will be followed as in forty-nine other countries, with women at the various religious or ganizations here taking part. The community is cordially invited to meet at this time with the women in observance of the Day of Prayer. History Notes. In 1920, the first Friday in Lent was selected for the "Day of Prayer For Missions" when many church of many denominations in Canada and the United States joined in com mon prayer. The Call to Prayer was sent out by the national women's missionary organization, home and foreign. The theme was "The World to Christ We Bring," and the Call was for meetings to be held "in cities, towns and villages, morning, noon, or in the evening to ask God's mercy upon the troubled and confused na tions."' The thought of a day of prayer -spread ^ntil at the request of far away friends, the World Day of Prayer was first observed in 1927. The theme was "Pray Ye Therefore," and the Cillctrried a weekly , cycle of prayers t^ha need in preparation for the observance. In 1936 the re sponse to the program "On Earth, Peace-. Goodwill Toward Men" wis worldwide, &?* . In the V: S. A. the Day of Prayer is truly^istervehnrch both locally ami' * . hospitals, schools, mission centers as well as individual Christians partici pate. The National Council of Fed erated Church Women cooperates fn the. promotion of the. observance of the Bay of Prayer,. The Columbia Broadcasting and National Broad casting Companies and the Press also help to raafes the obeervance nation WALSTONBURG NEWS 1 PERSONALS A. J. Craft was in Wilson Monday on business. Miss Jennie Lane spent the week end at her home in Wilson. Miss Edna Dobson spent the week end at her home in Kenansville. Miss Jauneta Reddick spent the week end with Miss Lenylla Sawyer. Mrs. and Mrs. J. C. Gardner and children visited relatives in Saratoga, Sunday. Miss Dewy Craft of Wilson spent the week end with her mother, Mrs. George Craft. Miss Hazel Baker of Snow Hill spent the week end with her sister, Mrs. Ray West, Jr. Mrs. W. I. Shackleford spent Tues day in Farmville with her daughter, Mrs. Floyd Sutton. Phillip Dixon and son of Mars Hill visited relatives and friends in and near Walstonburg, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Rouse and chil dren were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bundy, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Foster Johnson of Ayden were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Reddick, Sunday. Mrs. Estelle Bailey and Mrs. Tina Mae Dixon attended services at the Christian Church in Farmville Sun day night. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Menshaw and Miss Susie Menshaw visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Hicks, Sunday. Miss Ruby Taylor, Miss Margarete Candon, Mr. M. C. Moore and Rev. Leon Crossno were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Taylor, Sunday. Mrs. F. W. Hill, Mrs. Christine Taylor, and Mrs. Lula Baker of Snow Hill and Mrs. Ben Sutton of Hookerton were in Walstonburg Monday on business. Miss Lanie Murphy, Miss Ruth Jenkins, Miss Margarette Candon, Miss Ruby Taylor and Miss Mar- i garette Davjs visited friends in Snow Hill, Saturday. TO HOLD BANQUET Greenville, Feb. 10.?The Pitt County Alumni, of the University of North Carolina, are making elaborate plans for a banquet meeting to be held in Greenville at seven o'clock on Thursday evening, February 18th. Robert B. House, Dean of Adminis tration at the University, and J. Maryon Saunders, Secretary of the General Alumni Association, will be the principal speakers. Negotiations are also being made to have Coach Raymond Wolfe attend the meeting. Dean House and Secretary Saunders accepted invitations of the local alumni several weeks ago. The plans for this meeting also call for a ladies' night affair, and it will be the first time in a number of years that the wives and lady friends of the alumni have been extended in vitations. There are nearly two hundred and fifty alumni of the University on the roster in Pitt County mailed out from the general alumni office at Chapel Hill. Judge Dink James is president of the Pitt Alumni Association, , Jack Spain, vice-president, and IV * C. Moore, Jr., secretary. At a meeting held last week a pro gram committee was appointed to make additional plans and add other features. Charles Whedbee was made chairman, with vice-president Spain, C. S. Carr, Jr., and Secretary Moore the other.members. This committee is busy at'work on the affair and will mail out to all alumni in the county the place of the meeting and other details regarding the event. They are anxious that all alumni of the University attend the banquet meeting, and if you have recently moved to the county, you are most cordially invited to the ban quet meeting. County Agent Calls Meet On Rural Power Greenville, Feb. 10.?R. R. Ben nett, Pitt County Farm Agent, today mailed letters to a number of far mers requesting them to,be present at a meeting in the court house on Tuesday night; February 16, at 7:30 o'clock, at which time D. E. Jones, extension rural electrification special ist at N. C. State college, will dis cuss the latest developments on rural electrification. - ? ? ? t :i , Farm Policy Is Oet I lined By AAA Chief Hutson Says Federal Control Best Way To Regulate Crops; Also Urges Balanced Farm ing System Goldsboro, Feb. 10.?J. B. Hutson, assistant AAA ?administrator, out lined a four-point farm program built around an "ever-normal gran ary" program here today which he said is needed to ''give us the stabili ty in supply and income that is need ed by both the consumers and pro ducers." He also said he thought the final solution of tobacco crop control would be reached only through Fed eral regulation. Hutson spoke twice to the North Carolina Crop Improvement Asso ciation. W. Kerr Scott, State Agri cultural Commissioner, also spoke. Additions to the present agricul tural program are necessary to strengthen it, Hutson said, and there is a serious question whether the program, "valuable as it is, is adequate for either the standpoint of the producer or consumer." Farmers from all parts of the country, the official said, recom mended the four points he outlined. They are: 1. A conservative program which would build the soil and would con tribute something toward ' the sta bilization of production and prices. 2. Loans to producers to permit the storing of reserves and to pre vent undue prices declines during periods when production was mod erately in excess of normal. 3. Payments to producers for leaving the resources in the soil after supplies reached a fairly high level. 4. Direct produuction control when supplies go too high. Farm leaders from all sections discussed the ideas in Washington this week, Hutson said. The ever normal granary means the storage of reserve supplies of food and fiber for use in time of need, as an ap proach toward remedying the al ternate periods of glut and scar city which have always plagued agriculture. "This program," Hutson said, "should provide for balanced sys tems of farming that make for economical production; it should provide for an abundance of sup plies to consumers; it should pro vide for the conservation of re sources for use in later years and it should offer producers an op portunity to protect themselves from excessive supplies due in large part to factors beyond their con trol." For Federal Control. In regard to tobacco, Hutson said it was possible crop production might be achieved through State compacts such as have been ap proved inthis State and Virginia, and that every effort should be made to get South Carolina and Georgia to pass such legislation to control this year's crop. "But," he added, "after watching the trials and tribulations through which you have gone in an effort to get State statutes, I am in clined to believe that well have to strengthen the present Federal pro gram and make out attack on a Federal basis." RELIEF DONATIONS REACH HIGH MARK Contributions during this. week have brought Farmville's total dona tions to the Red Cross flood relief fund to $667.66. With engineers still busily battling sand boils and seepage but encourag ed by the levees holding the record flood crests, the rehabilitation of the flooded areas is going rapidly for ward. More and more calls come to the Red Cross each day and though peo ple in other sections of the country have responded most generously, the need continues to be great. So If you have not contributed as yet or feel that you can give more, Mayor Lewis and those in charge of the local ..fund will gladly receive your donation. vDOG GUARDS MASTER 11 ? 1 Salmon, Idaho. ? When George England discovered the body of Frank Chod, 69-year-old mountaineer in has isolated cabin, Chod's dog, emaciated and barely alive, was near by, j^xarding his master's dead body. Chod -had been dead a month, it is estimated. fcIV.ES AFTER 100-FT. FALL Dublin.?William Wright, a . steeple jack,' fell 100 feet from a factory chimney, struck and collapsed a roof, bat suffered no worse injuries than [?.broken leg and wrist, . '.j. ? ' " J ' I fflB . '; i 3VjT|Mif ??? I'lK'HI'l ?* iupn ? ?"> l?i SEEK FLOOD CONTROL NOT A LOCAL PROBLEM. GIVE UP 14,000 JOBS. WORLD SITUATION. > GERMANY HOLDS KEY. MUNICIPAL BONDS UP. PWA AND RFC PROFITS. By Hugo Sims, Washington Correspondent. A plan for unified Good control has been suggested to Congress by President Roosevelt. Last week he ouutlined a $5,011,000,000 Public | Works program for the next six years. It included something like 10,000 projects in all parts of the country and involved the expenditure of $85,000,000 in the Ohio Valley, scene of the recent disastrous high water. The amount would be dis tributed among various undertakings, with twenty-five per cent going to streets and highways; twenty-four per cent to irrigation, drainage and flood control; seventeen per cent to buildings and equipment; and the other one-third, used for soil conser vation, forest conservation and game protection, grade crossing elimina tions, water navigation and aviation aids, recreational projects, low-cost housing and other undertaking^ I Undoubtedly, the public has been prepared for some effective enter prise to avoid recurring flood dam age. The idea that such disasters are local problems and that stricken communities must take care of them selves with such assistance as might be available from the Red Cross end other similar sources, has been ; thoroughly dissipated The 1936 rampage of the Merrimac River in New England, together with the four river flood which struck Pennsylvania and West Virginia last spring, has emphasized the national character of the problem involved. Generally, for the past two hun- J dred years, river control in this coun- . try has been haphazard Early rec ords show that settlers along the Mississippi some two hundred years J ago, were required to build levees along the river banks. In 1860 Con-| gress made its first appropriation for ( a survey of that great river but, in 1937, the year of tfle great flood, j the idea permeated th^ public mind that flood control had to be handled from a national standpoint, In 1928 Congress approved a $325," I 000,000 flood control plan for the Mississippi which depended entirely on speeding into the Gulf of Mexico by building better dikes and provid ing spillwayg to carry surplus waters to the Gulf. At present, this plan will probably have to apply to thick ly populated areas, coupled with a system of reservoirs to hold back ex cessive water. Such reservoirs re quire that land be obtained and, very often, the area needed to protect some section lies in another state. Usually the other state is not so , anxious to spend its money to relieve its neighbors and, therefore, (Jon* gress, it seems, will have to change the present policy and buy the land , necessary for reservoirs. Through long usage, the 14,000 post masterships have been the prized perogatlves of the victorious j members of the House of Represent*- ^ tives. For more than fifty years, ^ the House has rejected every at- , tempt to put them under the class!- j fied Civil Service. However, late In January, the House voted to give up i these jobs in the future and thus took the first step to extend the Civil Service "upward, outward and j downward," as suggested by Presi- , dent Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt want's ' to put 250,000 positions under clasei- ] fied service within the next year. , Republicans object, claiming that by doing so at this time the President , will give life jobs to deserving Dem- j ocrats. Democrats reply that the Republicans did the same thing when , they had a chance. The world situation is gradually forcing itself more and more upon the consciousness of officials in this ? country. Some observers think that our domestic recovery and the Presi dent's administrative program is ( endangered by the threat of war abroad and some, in fact, go so far j as to say that the policies of this country in the past have had an im- ( portant part in creating the threat. Involved in the ramifications that ? envelop the world are trade, raw J materials, money, gold, new louts and armaments. The advanmg prices of raw materials are making ! it difficult for Germany, Italy and Japan to finance the purchases which are necessary for their manufactur ing plans to keep going and supply their people. Man now able to aid in "own crea tion," aaya hereditary expert IWMMem Given Approval j. _______ Rushed Through Con gress As WPA Funds Near Exhaustion; Fight Over Rider Washington, Feb. 8. ?A com promise |949,000,000 relief deficiency bill whirled to Congressional pas sage tonight after WPA Administra tor Harry L. Hopkins had been forc ed to curtail work on some emerg ency projects doe to lack of cash. Congressional action was com pleted after a bitter fight over a Congressional custom that has de veloped under the New Deal?the use of WPA workers as investigators for Congressional investigating com mittees. As finally passed the bill pro vides that 30 days after enactment Congressional committees may not use relief workers. This was very similar to the original House pro posal that no relief workers could be loaned Congressional commit tees?flatly cutting off aid that Sen. Burton K. Wheeler's railroad in-! vestigation and Sen. Robert M. La Follette's civil liberties inquiries had been receiving. After both houses had repeatedly met and recessed to permit con ferees to reconcile the different Senate and Houuse versions, the Senate accepted the final comprpr mise at 7:30 p. m. and recessed until Wednesday noon after authorizing Vice President John N. Garner to sign the bill tonight, This action was necessary pecause Hopkins claimed that be would be completely "broke" tomorrow morn* ing unless the measure were passed. The House took similar action nine minutes later. After the signatures of Garner and Speaker William B. Bankhead have been attached the bill will be sent to the White House for President Roosevelt's signatuure. The measure calls for expenditures of $159,000,000 more than the $790, 000,000 originally proposed by Mr. Roosevelt The difference is trace able chiefly to a $95,000,000 appro priation to continue the Civilian Conservation Corps and a $50,000, 300 grant for seed loans to fanners. The largest saving was a $1,000, 300 slice from the proposed appro priation for the resettlement ad ministration, Senate and House knocked out various proposals covering the use rf relief workers by investigating committees on four separate oeea lions, and accepted the final com promise only because the appro priation was desperately needed. Senator Joe T, Robinson, P. Ark., 3ajd the fight over the "rider" was not over, and that It probably would je fought out again in every ap propriation bill of the session. The original House rider was scrapped by the Senate after Presi lent Roosevelt had indicated he aaw no objection to the "loaning" of re lief workers as investigators. FARMVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL HONOR ROLL?3TH MONTH First grade?Cedric Davis, Neal Howard, Charles Parker, Dora Bar rett, Faye Corbett, Betsy Willis iones, Ann Moore, Vivian Scott, ioyce Tyson, Second grade?Lois Nanney, Billy Batton, Bruce Darden, Sterling Gates, Dan Morgan, Tommy Ramey, Harold Rouse, Bobbie Russell, Maynard rhorne, Jack Willis, Sybil Barrett, Dora Speight Trevathan, Marine barren, Margaret Williams, Babs Mlliford* Third grade?Johnaie Mae Moore, Janie Kemp, Flora Dean Johnson, Hilton Williamson, Mary Leah rhorne, Harry Lee Davis, Grade Vin jon, Marvin Horton, Margaret By ium, Jane Turnage, Mary Faye Smith, Frank Baucora. Fourth grade?Bob Paylor, Bobbie Smith, Jean Beckman, Elisabeth tfaye, Fifth grade?Lois Jones, Wilma Stansil, Gene Blanchard, Cabot Monk, Miriam Gates, Nancy Gates, Frances Lewis, ' Sixth grade?Alice H. Parker, John Parker, Jack Paylor, Helen Rouse, Dorothy Clarke, Seventh grade ? Boots Thomas, Dorothy Lewis, Hazel Quinn, Mai :olm Beaman, Eighth grade?Marjorie Lee Par ker, Bill Pollard, Ninth grade?Robert Pierce, Earn est Lee Quinn, : * Tenth grade ? Lucille Cutchins, Frances Newton, Doris Rouse, Fran ces Bivens Smith, Eleventh grade?Ras Jones, Effle Lewis, Mary Lewis, Helen Willis. EK5p / ' r . ? / SHIP MONEY VIA PLANE ^ ? . Chicago, 111.?Aid to the flood stricken, in the sum of $150,00^ in cash, was sent via a Transcontinental and Western Airlines plane, from Chicago to Lmriiriile banks. ...... .. "J. * . . ??"? ' v* *- ? ,.V " | FOUNTAIN NEWS (Bj MRS. M. D. YELVERTON) PBRSONALS Miss Annie Gray Bundy spent the week end in Wilson with her sister, Mrs. Cedric Woodall and-, Miss Naomi Bundy. W. E. Yelberton spent- Sunday in Saratoga with relatives. Mrs. W. W. Yelverton is expected to return to her home in BateSburg, S. C., Friday. For the past two months she has visited relatives in and near Fountain. Mrs. W. D. Owens has been quite ill for the past few days, but is much improved at this time. Mrs. W. E. Lang of Walstonburg was a guest Thursday of her sister, Mrs. F. L. Eagles. TRIANGULAR DEBATING TEAM Hie preliminary debate was herd Monday afternoon in the high school auditorium. The query ? Resolved that the government should own and operate all electric and power utili ties, was discussed by the following students: James Lane and Mary Emma Jefferson, Virginia Summer lin, Sidney Holland, Earl Trevathan, Lilly Mae Owens, Mary Carolyn Red dick, Carol Yelverton and Carrie Lee Jefferson. The winning contestants were Sidney Holland, Mary Carolyn Reddick, Lilly Mae Owens and Carol Yelverton. HONOR ROLL?5TH MONTH Grade 1?Dorothy Baker, Allan Parker, Virginia Pollard, Bruce Neal Tqgwell, Doris Yelverton. Grade 2?Rufus Wilson Brown, Rachel Berton, Marjorie Killebrew." Grade 3?Betsy White Fountain, Bobby Butts. Grade 4?Edna Gray Edwards, A. C. Gay, Mary Parker, David Wooten. Grade 5?Jeanne Eagles. Grade 6?Guy Eagles, Janie Hol land, Lillian Little, Elsie Nichols. Grade 7?Ruth Parker, Marjorie Smith, Rachel Wooten, Grade 8?Mary Emma Jefferson, Ruth Carol Yelverton, Grade 9?Dwight Johnson, Frank lin Lewis, Grade 10^-Mary Carolyn Reddick, Nina wstelle Yelvc.-ton. Grade H?Earlene Bryant, Edgar Case, Bennet Carraway, Sidney Hol land, Helen Brown Jefferson, Hazel Owens, Mattie Frances Tugwell. Red Gross Relief Fund Reaches $15,000,ORG Many Contributions Re ceived From Foreign Countries Washington, D. (L, Feb. 5.?The Red Cross fund for the relief of flood sufferers was increased by $1,657, 000 during the past twenty-four hours. The fund total is now $15, 776,000. ? The number of Red Cross chapters in Eastern states that have reached or exceeded quotas has increased 738. This figure includes chapters in 24 states and the District of Columbia. In midwestem states 977 chapters have reached or exceeded their quo tas, and in states in the far west 124 chapters have surpassed quotas. In all, 1884 of the 3,700 Red Cross chapters have, passed quotas origin ally assigned. Maine, Connecticut and Louisana today joined the select group of state exceeding combined state chapter quota. Other Eastern states which have gone over the top are: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vir ginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. Large contributions reported in clude $5,000 from the Retail Dry goods Association, $1,500 from the Wells-Fargo Bank at San Francisco, $500 from the Pacific Greyhound Company and $3,000 from the New York headquarters of the Society of Composers, Authors and'Publishers. Admiral Grayson received a letter from a D. Richardson, Sussex, Eng land, offering help. Mr. Richardson wrote, "What I should like to do if you will let me is to adopt 2 refugee boys age 8 or 9." From Columbia, South America, comes a gift of $41 from the children of the El Centaro School. The at tached letter states: "We are about 400 miles up the Magdelena river and in the very heart of the jungle on an oil lease, We have to depend upon the radio for current events. We heard yofcr appeal over the rado. There are ten enrolled in our school and we range ih age from 6 to 12." i Seem of contributions have come in from Canada. A fine expression of the true neighborliness of the peo ple of the Dominion is contained in a letter from H. E. Hatch, of Toron to, Canada: "I believe that interna tional boundaries have no bearing in such a situation as presently exists and am inclosing New York draft for $25. which I trust will be of some small service." V Buddy Guest, Canadian school boy, writes in large penciled capitals: "1 am six years old and I just earned 25c and I want to send it to you." A working girl in, Montreal sends $10. as her contribution and also in- ^ closes $2, as, the gift ,of her girl ?? friend toward the flood relief fund. From Saskatchewan comes $2 from Irene Hood, age 10, who writes: "This is not very much money bat Is all I have and will maybe help some. It is the little savings I had In my bank." William Boone, Western Union messenger boy from Boslyn, Virginia today came to the Bed Cross to give $2.35 to the relief fund. He said this sum was 10 per cent of two week's salary. ^ Next Week To Be Sponsor Week Here Symphonic Chora a Takes Step To Secure Directing Board * _V__ ."}V ? ''7 i -K*" ? The week of February 15 haa been designated as Sponsor Week by the Farmville Symphonic Chorus, which will, during that period, endeavor to enlist citizens of the community to form a board of directors for the local unit, to direct its policies, help discover and to develop th$ musical > talent here. The Eastern Carolina Symphonic Choral Association has chosen the sponsor method as a dignified means of insuring the financial security of the units, thus enabling the members to direct all of their efforts towards progress and a higher degree of development. i A creditable number of sponsors will doubtless be enlisted here, as Farmville citizens are widely known ?for their civic pride, and many hav ing already expressed themselves as desirous of furthering this worthful movement 1 The following information is given for the benefit of those who would become better acquainted with the chorus: The conductor, Lewis S. Bullock, graduated with highest honors in conducting from one of the world's finest music schools, The Westminis ter Choir School, Princeton, N. J.,; a member of the world famous Euro pean Westminister Choir, called the American Symphonic Singers, on its 1934 European tour; a graduate in public school music from the Lhen second highest rated teachers col lege in the United States, Western State Teachers College, Kalamazoo, Mich., Mr. Bullock is an accomplish ed vocalist, pianist, organist and conductor, and is doing everything possible to train and develop a great chorus in Farmville. The chorus is composed of around thirty-five busy people giving their time, talents, energies and money to make the Farmville Chorus outstand ing. The citizens of Farmville ? Of course this community wishes its Chorus to be among the best in the State. How may its citizens help? By becoming sponsors. MERRY MATRONS Mrs. Wesley R. Willis delightfully entertained the Merry Matrons Tues day afternoon. Early flowering shrubs and spring flowers were at tractively arranged throughout the home. After a short business session, presided over by the hostess, who is president of the group also, an en joyable program was presented by Mrs. R. A. Fields, who discussed "The First Heritage," and by Mrs. Alton W. Bobbiet, whose paper, un der the title of "Sweet Chariot," re lated to music of the Southern Negro. Folk songs and spirituals, illustrat ing the two papers, were rendered by Mrs. M. V. Jones, Mrs. Alton W. Bobbitt and Mrs. John D. Holmes. The refreshment plates, passed by Mrs. W. Leslie Smith, Mrs. J. W. Parker and Mrs. M. V. Horton, car ried Valentine suggestions. Sharing with the Merry Matrons in the pleasures of the meeting were - Mrs. D. A. Clarke, Mrs. Haywood Smith, Mrs. J. M. Wheless, Mrs. J. B. Joyner and Mrs. John D. Holmes. VESPER SERICES AT METHODIST CHURCH Each Sunday at 5 p. m. during the month of February, Rev. D. A. Clarke, will preach on the topic, "Our Changing Religion." Next Sunday the topic will be, "What we have lost in Religion." We most cordially in vite the public to come and" hear each of these messages.