Transport American Legion
Arrives With 800 Refugees
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Norw egian Crown Prin
cess And Children
Aboard
New York, Aug. 28.?After a
perilous voyage, during part of
which death seemed to lurk in every
wave, the army transport American
Legion arrived in New York harbor
yesterday with more than 800 Ameri
can refugees.
The voyage which began at Pet
samo, Finland, August 16, carried the
vessel through mined areas north of
Scotland at a time when Germany
was proclaiming unrestricted war
fare in British waters.
The Norwegian Crown Princess
Martha and her children* fleeing
from Scandinavia, were taken off the
American Legion down the bay by a
Coast Guard cutter.
Mrs. Florence. Harriman, U. S.
miinster to Norway, and a number of
other diplomats remained aboard un
til the vessel docked in Brooklyn.
The Norwegian royal party plan
ned to drive to Hyde Park today and
be the guests of Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt until the crown princess
can find suitable quarters.
The American Legion was picked
up 500 miles at sea by two United
States destroyers forming an honor
ary escort.
Virtually all the 897 passengers
were Americans fleeing countries
under German and Russian domina
tion.
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LOCAL TOBACCONISTS
RETURN FROM GEORGIA
The last of the Georgia tobacco
markets closed this week and buyers
and others connected with the in
dustry are arriving' daily and are
busily engaged in getting everything
ready for the opening sale here on
Tuesday, September 3. Some of the
Georgia and Florida markets closed
last week and a number of tobacco
nists came in last week-end.
PREPARING DIRECTORY.
The Enterprise is preparing a di
rectory of the "Tobacco Colony" for
the convenience of the local people
and of the "colonists" themselves,
and will issue same as soon as it
is completed. A ring and your name
and address would be appreciated
by the Editors and would be of great
assistance in this endeavor. Dial
2S3-1 while you are thinking about
this and give us all the information
you can regarding the whereabouts
of the tobacconists.
TOBACCO SOLD THIS MARKET |
ON EXHIBIT AT N. Y. FAIR
C. L. Ivey, who visited the New
York World's Fair, was attracted in
the North Carolina building by an
exhibit of several bundles of tobacco,
drapped in cellophane and marked
with a card, which revealed the fact
that the tobacco was sold on the
Farmville market Mr. Ivey stated
that he looked for similar exhibits
from other tobacco towns in the
State but could never find any
other.
RED CROSS CAMPAIGN HAD
$415.81 FINAL COUNT
The call of the destitute and home
less millions in Europe is being
echoed here in Farmville and being
heard by citizens,.who realize that
the European conflict is largely a
war against civilians. Thus many of
them are doing all in. their power
to support community efforts of the
American Red Cross and gave gen
erously to a recent campaign held
tfy the local branch, of which T.
Eli Joyner, Jr., is chairman.
Taking as their slogan "$400 by the
Fourth" (July), the campaign com
mittee, headed by Mrs. G. A. Jones,
and the committee, composed of Miss
Mae Joyner, Mrs. R. S. Scott and
Mrs. J. LeRoy Parker saw the huge
thermometer soar over the mark on
that date. A final repeat of $415?1
was sent to chairman Joyner by the
Pitt County Chapter.
Annual Meeting
Members Farmville
Country dub
.
At a meeting of the directors of
the Farmville Country Club held
Wednesday night of this week it was
decided to hold the annual meeting
elected for the warning_ year.^fuB
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R. A. JOYNER
Former Statistician of the North
Carolina Firemens Association, was
elected to the office of First Vice
President of this association at the
annual meetings held in Salisbury
this week.
ED R. NEWELL PASSES
AT CASTORIA HOME
Ed R. Newell 58, well known and
highly regarded* citizen of the Cas-.
toria section, passed away at the
Newell homestead Friday evening at
10:30 o'clock, following an attack of
angine pectoris.
Last rites were held from the
home on Saturday, at 3:30
o'clock by the Rev. Mr. Yar
borough, pastor of the Walstonburg
Methodist Church, and interment was
made in the family burial ground.
Mr. Newell was the son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Newell. He
was a former resident of Farmville
but resided in Wilson for many
years, where he was engaged in the
tobacco business. His late years -had
been spent at the old homestead near
Cas toria.
Surviving are his widow, formerly
Miss Margaret Wells, of Goldsboro,
and four sisters, Mrs. C. C. Joyner
and Mrs. R. A. Fields, of Farm
ville; Mrs. J. H. Calloway, of Wash
ington and Mrs. D. W. Taylor, of
Hookerton.
Federal employees pass 1,000,000
for the first time.
Progress, Keynote
In Farmville
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cigarettes; Paramount Theatre;
Pecan Grove Dairy; Pollard Auto
Co.; Pitt County Insurance Agency;
Rose's 5c & 10c Store; Rollins, Clean
ers and Dyers; Shell Service Station;
Modern Motor Service; Turnage Co.;
Vanitie Boxe; Vogue Beauty Salon;
Williams Grocery & Market; Wheless
Drug Co.; Western Auto Associate
Store; Police Department; Pender's
Grocery Co.; City Drug Co.; Darling
Dress Shop; Shop of Charm; Baker's
Bakery; Modlin's Grocery and Pro
duce Co.; Service Shoe Shop -and
probably others.
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M V eteran Tobacconists
? Handle Sales Here
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? Greenville tobacco market, was asso
? dated with Fountain's warehouse last
? year and will greet and serve old
? and new friends here again his sea
Ison. /
Well organized office and floor
?forces will render efficient service in
? their individual niches and the entire
? warehouse personnel has pledged it- I
I self to a cooperative service that Will I
I make selling at Fountain's warehouse I
la pleasant and profitable experience I
? for every farmer who sells there. I
? Their only request?an opportunity I
? to save.
Buyers from every known company I
I and many independent 'make up the II
I two corps on the Farmville market, 0
I and are "wg the best to be found I
? anywhere. Many of these, all vet-l
?erans in fits business, have been onl
?this market for several seasons^ and
? are popular with both warehousemen!
and growers.
Every stemming, drying and sfca>B
? age plant and the larjp factories of I
lindependnt and domestic companies!
have bom pot in tipton condition and
are in readiness for the release of of- I
iferings here Tuesday morning.
| The Farmville Tobacco Board of
buver here for lAsett and Mvml I
Tobacco Cbw, is president, has func
| tioned ifclfycQ csriy dAys ?,
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market news service. Fannvill?
was Eastern Carolina's key market
for permissive government inspec
tion in 19S1 when this sevice was
first inaugurated.
New Tobacco Company.
The formation of a new tobacco
company,, the Fannville Leaf Tobacco
Company, was' announced in the
early spring, with H. Neal Howard,
j former head of the local branch of
the W. B. Lea Tobacco Co., as presi
dent. The new oompany has leased
a large and modern plant here and
will operate same this season.
Cooperative efforts of the business
interests with those of the Tobacco
Board of. Trade are being renewed
this season to further the interests of
the Farmville Market with a view of
increasing the volume of sales and
improving the market offers its pa
trons. > ?
Farmville Reviews
Community Activities
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the date of their establishment fol
lows:
First Christian church, 1864, Rev.
C. B. Mashburn, pastor; Emanuel.
Episcopal, 1888, Rev. J. R. Rountree,
1 rector; Primitive Baptist, 1900, Rev.
J. B. Roberts, pastor; Methodist
[Episcopal, 1901, Rev. D. A. Clarke,
pastor; Missionary Baptist, 1909,
Rev. B. B. Fordham, pastor; Presby
terian, 1917, Rev. H. M. Wilson, pas
tor; St Elizabeth's Catholic, 1981,
Father Laurence Newman, priest-in
j charge.
The cornerstone of the handsome
'new Baptist Church, now under con
struction, was laid May 12. Dr. M. A.
[ Huggins, state secretary of the Bap
tist convention was speaker of the oc
casion, which marked the beginning
of the building activities. Rev. B.
i B. Fordham is the pastor. Miss Annie
Perkins, the only charter member of
the church, who is a Farmville resi
dent, placed the corner stone docu
ments. .
The church is styled in the
architecture of Colonial times, and is
being erected on the site of the form
er building at a cost of $85,000.
Building Boom.
Farmville was hit by a building
boom in recent months and construc
tion and remodeling activity in gen
eral has been increasing steadily, the
upward trend in the business dis
trict signalizing progress, and that
of residential building is encouraging
in that more people are planning
permanent residence here.
A survey reveals construction ac
tivities have gone forward at an esti
mated cost of $125,000.00 since last\
fall. These include:
? New Baptist Church; A. C. Monk,
Jr., residence, Church street; Dr. W.
M. Willis, clinic building on Main
street; A. C. Monk, Sr., remodeled
three stores on Main street; G. A.
Rouse remodeled building, Main
street; Sing Oil Co., new filling sta
tion, Main street; Harry Lang, re
modeled Wooten's filling station,
Wilson street; R. D. Rouse, residence,
Contentnea street; L. B. Johnson,
residence, Grimm ersburg street;
Creekmur lumber yard, Contentnea
street; B. A. Grant, residence, Con
tentnea street; J. R. Shearin,
residence, Waverly street; Arthur
Gay, residence, Waverly street; Paul
Tripp, residence, Wilson street; C.
Mashburn, Jr., residence; Carl
Blackwood, residence, W a v e r 1 y
street; L. T. Lucas, residence, Wilson
street; Ed Nash Warren, residence,
Home street; R. K. Pippin, residence;
A. C. Monk remodeled Fields home,
Pine street; Mrs. Henrietta M. Wil
liamson, residence, Home street; El
bert C. Holmes, addition and remod
eled home, Main street; W. A. Pol
lard, Jr., residence, Belcher street;
Mrs. Lizzie Flanagan, remodeled res
idence, Church street; Hadley Bryan,
residence, i^ain street; W. B. Shoe,
remodeling old Baptist Church into
apartment house on Wilson street;
F. M. Davis, Sr., garage to Gulf
station on Wilson street; L. B. John
son remodeling Taylor house on. Wil
son street into apartment buildings;
E. C. Carr, residence, Home Ave.;
Pitt Co., Board of Education, school
annex; F. G. Smith, room added; Mre.
J. M. Hobgood, remodel cafe build
ing; Paramount Theatre, remodeled
front; Mrs. J. L. Shackelford and
Mrs. John B. Wright, Jr., remodeled
City Drug Store front and home on
Church street
These improvements do not include
the painting of buildings but thous
ands of dollars have been spent in
this way during the spring and sum
mer, and the entire town looks as if
it had been dipped by a giant hand
into a gigantic paint bucket ?
Recreational Center.
Progress in this spbrts loving and 1
social minded community was eri-1
denced in the recent construction of
the spacious new-club house on thai
Country Club grounds, what $lf,000
was spent in building the club house,
its furnishing and in golf course im-1
provements. The club obtained a|
WPA grant of |9,OOQ in this connec
tion. A report submitted by the sec
rotary, Ike Pollard, at a recent meet-1
ing, revealed that the club is free J
of debt and has a surplus in thel
treasury. George W. Davis is presi
dent of the club. Inter club and
outside tournament series are engag-1
ed in by the members from time to J
timja
? An adequate grandstand has been I
erected this summer pn the school I
property adjacent to the golf links
and is ready for spectators at field I
sports this fall.
Since the opening of the municipal
pool, June 1, all roads have led to I
this recreational center for the
young folks. This was the first
swimming pool to be completed in
the State under the PWA. This was I
due to public spirited citizens, who
contributed towards its completion.
Pete Eason, Graydon Lilies and
Hume Pascball have had charge pf
operation of the pool this season. I
Across the street from the pool is I
the municipal park, as yet unnamed.
Pecan trees shade the playground
and teimis courts. Each season the
pool and playground serve as prelim
inary entertainment for thd various
groups, which hold picnic suppers in I
the outdoor dining room.
Paper Haa 30th Birthday.
The 30th anniversary of "The
Farmville Enterprise" was observed
in May in the new home of The
Rouse Printery, as an open house
event. Several hundred people call
ed to pay honor to the day when the
printing press was brought to Farm
ville to serve as an integral factor
in its growth and development. The
500th anniversary of printing was
tied in with the celebration, and a
special anniversary edition which
' sent to thousands as a gift and
keepsake, was published commemo
rating the occasion.
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Editor G. A. Rouse, who chose tne i
printing industry as his life's work
at the age of twelve, 'came to Farm
ville in 1911 and took over the assets
of the Enterprise, consisting mostly
of goodwill, one year later. Thus the
Rouse Printery, which is a Symbol of
printnig excellence in Eastern North
Carolina, came into existence.
The advent, of the printing press
wrought a transformation in the I
town and opened the doors to three
decades of progress. , Leaders in
civic improvements and worthwhile
community movements have found
The Enterprise pages open to them
throughout these thirty years, and
an editor willing to serve any better
ment agency.
The annual tobacco edition of the
Enterprise, which was in process of I
compilation at the time this was writ-1
ten, gives opportunity to the business j
men here to evidence that united 1
spirit and concerted action, which has
long been a radition and a matter of
justifiable pride to citizens here. This
paper anticipates again this year the
same interest and support given
Editor Rouse in this special effort to
bring the market before the public.
Last year 61 firms out of a list of 63
solicited, supported the tobacco edi
tion with an ad. Thus the market as
well as the newspaper feels a great
pride in the united front presented
by the business men here in any
worthwhile movement.
Well Organized.
Clubs and organizations, aside I
from the church groups, number [
thirty five, and deserve commenda
tion for the work they are doing
along educational lines, which in
cludes sponsorship of the public lib
rary, (Woman's Club), the fostering]
of worthy movements, and a co
operative spirit in connection with
the welfare work of the community.!
The Major'Benjamin May Chapter, I
D. A. R., has the distinction of hav-1
ing a handsome chapter house of I
colonial architecture, erected at a I
cost of $12,000, made possible by a
gift of the site and a subsequent gift I
of $6,000 by A. C. Monk, prominent
tobacconist, banker and churchman. J
The Chapter House is serving Farm
ville and community as a magnificent I
cultural center. Many exquisite!
gifts of furnishings for the. house!
and memorials have been presented
in recent months to the Chapter, of |
which Mrs. T. C. Turnage is the!
regent. This is a vigorous chapter!
and has a membership of sixty.
The various women's organizations,
in additionito those connected withf
the churches include: v' - ? |
Literary: Farmville Literary Club,!
Civic and Literary: Woman'. Club
and its departments: Fine Arts;
Gardening, Junior Woman's Club;
Parent-Teachers Association.
Patriotic: Major Benjamin May
Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution; Rebecca Win borne
Chapter, United Daughters of tin
Confederacy; American Legion Aux
iliary; Spanish-American Auxiliary.
Social: Progressive Bridge Club;
Contract Club? New Deal Club; Wed
nesday Afternoon Club; Lamrad
Club, Ace of Clubs. 4 !
Men's Orgahixatione.
The men's organizations in Farm
ville are filling A useful place and
performing a creditable service in
carrying out their respective pro
grams, which have for their purpose
frate^rnalijunt, ' improving business
methods^ advancing the spiritual as
well as the business lite, and to pro
mote a mors friendly relation among
the citizens. n
These organizations are as fol
lows:
Farmvilh Ministerial Associa
tion; Masons, Rotary Club, American
Legion; Junior Order; Modem Wood
men; I. 0. 0. F.; Red Men; Boy
Scouts, Bird Club, Mayfair Club. I
The organizations with both men
and. women members include: Farm
ville Relief Association; Faxmville
Country Club; Tyson-May Reunion;
Septuagenarian Society.
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