Growers Paid $26.18
Average For Tobacco
During Current Season
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Warehouses Close For
Holidays; Will Reopen
Monday For A Period
of One Week Before
Season Comes To An
End on December 3.
Sales were extremely light on the
Farmville market for the three days
prior to the Thanksgiving holidays,
with averages being forced steadily
downward as the low grades on the
end of the crop continue to predomi
nate.
Tobacco planters, selling their crop
during the auction season here, have
received $6,020,508.01 for 22,908,624
pounds of the weed, an official aver
ago of $26.18.
Local tobacconists declare, and the
records support their statement that
this season has been the most satis
factory from the points of quality
and price in the history of the mar
ket. Records of sales in one -day
have been broken again and again
during the past few weeks, and only
once before in its history has the
amount of money paid out been
equalled?that memorable season was
some eighteen years ago.
THRIFT CAUSES SPY HUNT
Providence, R. I.?When John Ken
ton, Brown University freshman,
sent the following telegram, he not
only saved 32 cents, but also started
a spy hunt: "Jovck megis ha akarod
yonattal erkeznek tizenketrotizenne
gykor vegyel egy jegyet Brown sec
tion megfizettem." When an agent
called on Andrew Bato, at Orange,
N. J., a student at Yale, it was found
that Kenton's telegram read: "I can
come after all if you want me to. Will
arrive by train at 12:14 ("tizenketto
tizennegykor" in the message). Please
buy ticket in Brown section. Will re
pay." In English, the telegram would
have cost 64 cents.
Booster Oub Prizes
Drawn Wednesday;
Thirty^* In All
$200.00 In Cash Goes To
John Dudley of Swans
boro; The Other 35
Prizes Distributed
Over Wide Area
Thirty-six different people were
made happier Wednesday afternoon
when the Farmville Booster Club
individual merchants here presented
appreciation prizes to those patron
izing the Farmville tobacco market
during the season.
Below we list the prizes given, the
firms giving the prize and the win
ner of each prize:
yh*$
GRAND PRIZE?$200.00 m cash
given by Farmville Booster Club?
John Dudley, Swansboro.
$50.00 R. C. A. Battery Radio, Farm
ville Furniture Co.?Willie Barrett,
Farmville.
One Ton High Grade Fertilizer,
Farmville Oil ft Fertilizer Co.?War
ren Lewis, Fountain.
Twenty-five Dollars in Trade,
Belk-Tyler Company?J. W. Holmes,
Seven Springs.
$25.00 John Deere 2-Horse Plow,
Holmes Bros. St Co.?Charlie Artis.
Farmville.
$12.50 Automobile Tire, E. & F.
Motor Company?S. W. Wooten,
Macclesfield. -
One DeLuxe Auto Heater, installed,
v $25.00 on Purchase Price of any New
or Used Car, B. &. W. Chevrolet Co.?
J. W. Robertson, Pollocksville.
- $10.00 in cash, The Bank of Farm
ville?A. D. Johnson, Turkey.
$&00 Set of stool chairs; $5.00
* Rack, Pitt Furniture Co.?
J. R. Tugwell, Sr. Walstonburg.
$6.00 Pait Friendly Shoes, J. H
Harris?Robert Webb, Macclesfield.
$5.00 Trade Check For Cleaning &
Pressing?Rollins' Cleaners St Dyers
?Ike Eubanks, Trenton.
$5.00 Coster Wagon, Hicks Hard
ware?Richard J. Bryant, Kenan*
ville.
$5.00 Worth Tickets to show, Para
mount Theatre?A. X Proctor, Rout
4, Wilson.
$6jOO Veal Ticket, City Cafe?H. A
Mingoa, Stantoneburg.
One Barrel Bitter Champion an
one Spfller Axe.?The Turnage Cc
-^J. W. Stancffi, Route 1, Winter
VlllSe v'Zr SfP **'?" ' " '
$6.00 Ladies, Dreea, K. Cannon?W
5. Newton, Fountain.
$5.00 worth Cleaning and Fiess
ing, ftrwrille Laundry ft Cleaners.
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PROCLAMATION
Whereas, We are now entering
upon the Christmas holiday season
with its joy and gladness, which
joy ""I gladness are more fully
realised when we can make others
happy and
Whereas, the nation-wide effort
to raise funds through the sale of
Christmas seals for the purpose
of controlling tuberculosis is be
irig carried on at this time, and
Whereas, statistics show that
tuberculosis is very prevalent
among our people and can be
checked, only by the united effort
of our citizens,
Now, therefore, I, George W.
Davis, Mayor of the Town of
Farmville, do hereby call upon the
citizens of this town and commun
ity to support as liberally as is .
within their means, the tubercu
losis Christmas Seal Sale to the
end that we may prevent further
spread of this disease among our
people.
GEORGE W. DAVIS,
Mayor.
Tyson-May Reunion
Friday Theme Of
Program of Peace
F.ev. J. N. Bynum To
Preside; Exhibit Of
Heirlooms To Attract
Many.
Scores of descendants of two of
Pitt county's distinguished pioneer
famalies, the Tysons and Mays, will
gather here for their annual joint
reunion on Friday after Thanksgiv
ing, at 10:30 o'clock in the Christian
Church, with Rev. J. N. Bynum, of
Raonoke Rapids, presiding and mak
ing the principal address of the day.
The theme of the reunion program
will be "Peace," a timely subject.
Rev. C. B. Mashburn, an adopted
son of the reunion organization, will
offer the invocation and greetings
will be brought by the former presi
| dent, Attorney John B. Lewis. Miss
Tabitha DeVisconti will give the gen
ealogical report and the round table
discussion will be conducted by an
other ex-president, Attorney W. G.
Sheppard, of Snow Hill. A memor
ial service for those who have passed
siince the last meeting will be held,
and vocal solos will be rendered by
Mrs. John D. Holmes.
Featuring the program will be an
exhibit of prized and highly treasu
ed heirlooms from both^ the Tyson
and May branches which were united
in colonial times by the masnage of
\n?g Mary Tyson to Major Benja
min May. Charles A. Tucker, of
Warrenton, who is deeply interested
in antiques and is a collector him
self, will be in charge of the exhibit
A basket lunch will be served in the
basement of the Church following
the meeting.
Store.?Lee Jones, Hookefton.
$5.00 Pair Fortune Shoes, N. Can
non.?McKenley Sheppard, New Bern.
$5.00 Man's Felt Hat Warren's
Young Men's Shop?James T. Cor
bett, Rt 1, Greenville.
$5.00 Trade Check, City Drug Co.,
?R. E. Hart, Snow Hill.
$5.00 Trade Check, The Bargain
Store?W. J. Fleming, Fountain.
$5.00 Trade Check, Williams Gro
cery & Market?Note Bryant, Vance
boro.
$5.00 worth of Fruit and Ice Cream
E. J. Baroody?John Fefaer, Ashoskie.
$3.50 Permanent Wave, The Vanity
Boxe?Mrs. Mollie Cobb, Macclesfield.
$5.00 Meal Ticket, Hill's Cafe?Will
Monzingo, R 5, Snow Hill.
., $2.50 Worth Fruit or Candy,
. Crumpier's Place? James Tyson,
Farmville.
$L50 Hot Oil Hair Treatment,
Doris Beauty Shop?William Woo ten,
? R. 3 Walstonburg.
$6.00 Pair Freeman Shoes, Dupree's
Dept Store?John Evans, Shelmer
- dine.
. 100 Lbs. Corn Meal, M. V. Horton
?Walter Hart, R 2, Farmville. ^
24 lb. Bag of Flour, Roebuck's
| Home Grocery?George McMillan, Rt
> 1, Farmville. -
5 Gallons Sinclair Gaeoline, Farm
villa Service Station?W. M. Carrie
I Route 1, Farmville.
u Series Parker-Herbex Scalp Treat
. menta?$5.00 Value, Quality Beadt;
Parlor?L. L. Parker, Rt 1, Mayes
r. vffle.
i, U lb. Bag of Flour, Home Caal
h Grocery, E. R. Dixon, Rt 1, Farm
- New or Used Gar Bought from ua
f Ok^
WE WHO LIVE in a nation that gives its people
freedom, equality, and justice .... we who
know but little want?yet enjoy many luxuries . . . We.
to whom every day brings new opportunities . . . and
whose land is one of peace . . . join our hearts in giving
thanks on this day. Commemorating the spirit of thank
fullness our forefathers evinced for their new land is sorely
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an occasion well worth our celebrating on this day.
Farm Program Needed
By Grower and Buyer
The consumer, whether he lives in
town or on the farm, has a three
fold interest in the agricultural con
servation program.
First, he wants adequate supplies
of food and fiber to supply his needs,
said E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive of
ficer at State College.
Second, he wants these supplies to
remain stable year after year, avoid
ing as far as possible drastic short
ages such as drought years bring.
Third, he wants to know that the
ability of agriculture to produce ade
quate supplies in the future is be
ing conserved through wise use of
the nation's land resources.
Achievement of these goals, Floyd
said, is not only in the' consumers'
interest, but it is also in harmony
with the objectives of a sound farm
program.
Production cannot be stabilized
completely, however due to varations
in weather and growing conditions
that cause yield per acre to be great
er in some year than in others.
Consequently, Flody said, for the
consumer's protection, there should be
a carry-over of adequate reserve sup
plies from one year to the next
But if this protection is going to
mean depressed priced, then agricul
ture cannot afford to give the con
sumer this kind of insurance.
For this reason, something in ad
dition to the regular 1938 agricul
tural program is considered neces
sary to provide consumers with the
protection adequate carry-overs give
without making the farmer run the
risk of ruinous prices. The ever nor
mal granary plan is a proposed solu
tion for this problem.
DIES DEMONSTRATING SUICIDE
Logan, Utah. ? Demonstarating to
on looking classmates hop^'Carroll
1 S. Anderson, 15, of Hollywood, killed
himself like a Czarist guardsman."
Charles F. Steinbach, Utah State Ag
ricultural College freshman, placed
one bullet in the revolver twirled the
L 'Cylinder and put the muzzle to his
? head. He pulled the trigger quid the
hammer clicked on an empty shell.
He repeated the demonstration and
> fell dead, a bullet through his tem
ple. i4 ?
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t NEW SOCIETY FORMED
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Oklahoma City.?In order to pro
i ,tect unsuspecting girls, the "Society
- for the Prevention of Married Men
" Posing as Bachelors" recently pro
h poeed Oat "all married men be com
i, palled to wear wedding ringa," ac
~ rr to-T "?
Decorating Prizes '
Arouses Attention,
Of Local Residents1
I
t
Decorations Appear In *
Many Homes and Busi- r
ness Houses. [
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Before the passing of another week
every home and business house will 4
be decorated for the coming Christ- t
mas season. Every one seems deter
mined to share in the generous cash i
prizes offered. If the present rise 1
of enthusasium continues, Farmville i
is headed for the most successful i
Holiday season in the history of the t
town.
City officials advise us that they <
have placed orders for over 6,000 >
colored lights to be used with thous- a
ands of yards of green Mountain i
Laurel brought here for this pur
pose from the mountains of Western 1
North Carolina. Many cedar trees
have also been purchased for deco- ]
rating purposes. This should help j
make Farmville the most colorful and j
brilliantly decorated shopping center
in Eastern North Carolina. (
We have been asked to repeat the ]
list of prizes, for those who did not ]
see last week's paper. They are as
follows: A prize of $26.00 will be |
given for the best decorated store, (
both interior and exterior to be con
sidered; A prize of $16.00 will be ?
given for the home whose interior is
the best decorated. These prizes will
be awarded by Judges carefully select
ed for their good taste, intelligence
and character. Everyone will be a (
local person.
December 10th will be the official ,
opening of the Christmas shopping
season. Santa Claus will arrive in ;
town on this day and be welcomed
with a flowery speech of welcome
by our mayor, George Davis. From
this night on all the mercantile stor
es will remain open evenings right
through Christinas Eve. Judging for
the prizes will also continue from this
date to Christmas Eve, at which time
they will be awarded.
The Mayor, City Commissioners and
merchants have pulled together as
never before to make Farmville a
real attraction for people both far
i and near during the coming Christ
mas season. Adequate Christinas
shopping facilities will be found for
people of every taste. Lets all as
Some Beautification
Contest For 4-H-Ers
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A 4-H home beautification contest
or 1938 has been announced by L.
L Harnll, 4-H club leader at State
College.
Although sponsored by 4-H clubs,
ie said, the contest is open to all
ann boys and girlB between the
iges of 10 and 20.
"I would like to see every club
nember enter this contest," he added,
'not just for the sake of the con
est but for what they can do to
nake their homes more attractive.
"Just think what North Carolina's
1-H club members could do to mak>
his a more beautiful State."
As a special inducement in the
lation-wide contest, Mrs. Charles R.
Walgreen, of Chicago, offers a gold
nedal to the winner in each county,
rad a 17-jewel gold watch to the
itate winner.
A trip to the National 4-H Club
Dongress in Chicago a year from now
vill be awarded to four sectional
vinners, and the national winner will
?eceive a $300 college scholarship.
Winners will be selected according
?o the following scores:'
General record of club member, 50
Mints; list of plantings made in 1938,
20 points; list of plantings in prev
ious years, 10 points.
Snapshots or photos and scale
irawings showing how plantings have
Men made will be made to beautify
iome surroundings, 10 points.
Story giving experience of contes
tant in home ground .beautification
ftnd the benefits derived, 10 points.
The contest will close October 1,
1938.
LOCKED OUT
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Paris.?When his wife locked him
out of their home, Andre Rolland,
a mail carrier, angrily called firemen
and police. All were helpless to aid
him, however, because of a law which
forbids forcible entry of a man's
house between sunset and dawn. He
did not get in and, in the bargain
had to pay for the broken glass ix
the alarm box and the costs of the
firemen's trips.
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COWBOYS, va AIRPLANES.
Raton, N. M.?Ray E. Lewis sn<
his cowboys are thoroughly convin
ced that there is no use for th<
airplane in the herding of steers
Recently, they tried escorting a hen
of young beef across the plains b]
airplane. The steers became so bad
ly frightened, they scattered and i
^g|^^^?five cowbowsll
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Come Ya Thankful
Peaple Game
"
?A A Thanksgiving service^ in which
all of the ministers and people of
the community have been invited to
participate, witi be held in the Meth
odist Church on Thursday morning
at ten o'clock.
The pastor of the church, Rev. D.
A. Clarice, will be in charge of the
program, which will be featured with
a sermon by Rev. C. b! Mashburn of
the Christian Church, and vrith spec
ial music.
Gratitude has been one of the sore
ly lacking characterics of human be
ings from the beginning of time. Ten
lepers were cleansed; only one re
turned to thank his Healer.
May Farmville as a community join
together in this public service of
Thanksgiving on this day set apart
for the demonstration of a thankful
heart and may the hearts of her peo
ple be so filled with gratitude that
they may exclaim with the Psalm
ist, "I will bless the Lord at all times;
His praise shall continually be in my
mouth."
Parent-Tsaclier
Association Hold
Interesting; Moot
Miss Margaret Lewis's
Section; Third Grade
Gave Thanksgiving
Play.
On Thursday evening the Parent
Teacher Association held its regular
month]yy meeting in Perkins Hall of
the Farmville High School Buiding.
Featured on the program was an
entertaining Thanksgiving play, giv
en by Miss Margaret Lewis's section
of the third grade. The High School
Glee Club, under the direction of Mrs.
Daisy H. Smith and accompanied by
Mrs. Haywood Smith, sang "Thanks
giving Prayer," a Nethelands time,
and "Mariania," an Italian tune. Fol
lowing this the Junior Glee Club
sang "Whispring Hope", Hawthorne,
and "Finkle-00" Forman.
Mr. D. H. Conley, county superin
tendent, of the Department of Edu
cation of the University of North
Carolina, Mr. Phillips, who was chief
speaker for the occasion, chose as his
topic "Community Building," and in
an interesting address presented par
ents and teachers with some of the
problems confronting parents and
as community builders.
A report of the room roll call
showed that Miss Lewis's third grade
again won the prize for having more
parents and friends present. Mi3s
Russell Ward's tenth grade was re
ported as having the highest percen
tage of students present for the sec
ond school month.
At the conclusion of the business
meeting Suprintendent J. H. Moore,
acting for Mrs. D. R. Morgan, presi
dent, presented the school a crystal
punch bowl. The meeting was ad
journed and all those pTesent were
invited to a silver tea given in the
Home Economics Cottage.
Since the October meeting of the
Association, there has been conduct
ed a membership campaign. As a
result of this there are on roll 213
paid members, and a total of $53.25
has been turned in to the treasury
for membership dues. During the
campaign Miss Lewis secured 83
members and Miss Annie Perkins 45.
Miss Elizabeth Norman, with 23
members, was third.
The November meeting of the As
sociation is recorded as having the
largest attendance of any meeting
this year.
WHO KNOWS?
I ?
, 1. Are the Haitians and Domini
t cans of the same race?
1 2. Who is the Prime Minister of
i Great Britain?
3. What changes did President
i Vargus make in Brazilian law in as
i Burning the dictatorship,
i 4. What is the pay of members
i of Congress?
5. How many members has 'the
A. F. of L. and the C. I. 0.
6: What proportion of the popu
lation of Brazil is of Italian origin?
| 7. What proportion of the loans
. made by the RFC have been repaid?
j 8. What is the size of the Jap*
. anese Navy.
1 9. Is General Hugh S. Johnson
f former N. R. A. Administrator? s
i supporter of President Roosevelt?
Beu?aWM7mUAMist
Organization of Work
ers In Progress; Var
ious Clubs Assisting
literary Club In Spon
soring Sale.
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Announcement hag been made by
the. local chairman of the Tubercu
losis Christmas Seal Sale, Miss Ta
bitha DeVisconti, that the sale will
open on Monday, November 29, with
the Farmville Literary Club, of which
Mrs. W. C. Askew is president, as
the sponsor.
The other literary, social and civic
organizations of the town, together
with the church sodetiep, have offer
ed their assistance in the sale, and
every one will be given an opportun
ity to purchase seals in this great
nation, state aid county-wide effort
to check the ravages of this dreaded
disease, which has increased 4 per
cent during the past year due to the
effects of the depression; hardships,
anxiety, low living standards, poor
and crowded housing conditions and
malnutrition.
Seventy-five per cent of the funds
raised are retained in the county and
used in furnishing milk to poor fam
ilies where there is tuberculosis, in
having X-Rays made of tubercular
suspects, in furnishing sputum cups,
and in transportation to and from the
State Sanatorium, in buying warm
clothing for patients and in furnish
ing scales to the public schools in an
effort to overcome malnutrition, and
help prevent tuberculosis in children
of school age.
H. B. Sugg, superintendent of the
local Negro School will act as seal
chairman for the Negro section of
the town.
To Present "The Mes
siah" Here Dec. 12
Rehearsals are now in full swing
by the Farmville Symphonic Chorus,
for a presentation of "The Messiah,"
Handel's most successful and best
known aratoric, and perhaps the best
loved composition in the world, in
conjunction with the other members
of the Eastern Carolinas Chorus,
numbering one hundred from Ayden,
Snow Hill and Goldsboro, on Sunday
afternoon, December 12. The Chorus
has been practicing sveral weeks for
this event, which is to be its contribu
tion to the Chrismas spirit in East
tern Carolina.
Farmville and community are to be
congratulated upon having this great
musical event here, and the Metho
dist Church, which is to be the scene
of the presentation will doubtless be
filled to capacity.
The Chorus will sing the same
oratorio in Ayden that evening, in
Snow Hill on the following Sunday
afternoon and in Goldsboro that
evening.
NIGHT MAILING HOUR
CHANGE TO 8 O'CLOCK
Postmaster Turnage asked that we
state for your information that the
schedule for night mail will be chang
ed to 8 p. m. instead of 9 p. m. on
and after December 1st.
Fish And Milk Make
A Safe Combination
The popular supersition that fish
and milk make a dangerous combin
ation is just so much hooey, said
Fred M. Haig, of the dairy depart
partment of State College.
This belief, he said, probably start
ed in days before refrigeration when
people who got sick from eating
fish that was not strictly fresh hap
pened also to drink milk at the same
meal.
No facts of food chemistry or phy
siology substantiate this old belief ,
he went on. Experience of years
disproves it.
Other people are afraid to drink
milk and eat acid fruits at the same
meal.. They say that acid fruits will
curdle the milk, in, the stomach.
As a matter of fdjpt, the first thing
the stomach does to milk is to cur
dle it sp it can be digested. And
curds fdnnid from fruit acids are
finer and easier to digest than those
formed by stomach gastric juices a
lone. i
Another, oft-told admonition is that
sipping milk' slowly instead of drink
ing it nautrally aids digestion. ?* .
search studies have shown that si)m
milk is sipped slowly, the curds are
formed bigger and harder to digest
i than those formed when it is drunk
rapidly.
Milk is no more fattening than any
other food containing the same num
t ber of calories, Professor Haig de
clared. Milk is the most nearly per
fect food. need at