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1 1 " 1 " I! II ' IIII I ■ II II nil Ill II . ■ ■ II > m * jlj foetal anb personate ...... . . .. ... u ^ _. j Mm. B. R. Fields mi on the ticl list this week. ; • • • Mrs. W. C. Moore is visiting rela tives in RaMfh. • • • E. S. Hobgood bias been confinec to his home this week with flu. • • • Mrs. Carrie Bell Joyner is re cuperating from a reeen', illness. • • • Miss Frances Winstead is able to be out again following a recent ill ness. • • • Miss Agnes Moore of Henderson is receiving treatment at Cuke Hos pital. « • • Mrs. W. J. Turnage, who has been on the sick list this week, is reported improved. • • • ^ Mtb. H. L. -Watson of Wilson spent several days of this week with rela tive® here. • • • Mrs. Ben Lang and daughter, Noel, spent several days of this week with relatives in Plymouth. • • • Mr. and Mrs. Billie Burke and son, Billie, Jr., are recuperating after an illness of several weeks. ■ • • Mrs. Knott Proctor and daughter, Hannah, of Greet ville, visited Mrs. Louise Harris an Thursday. • • • Mrs. J. M. Hobgood attended the Pitt County Welfare Board meeting in Greenville, on Wednesday. * • • Mrs. Charles Marsden Duke has arrived at Managua, Nicaragua, to join her husband, Major Duke. • • • Miss Nellie Butler will return Sun day from a ten day visit with her father, H. S. Butler in Milledgeville, Ga. • • • Mr. and Mrs. Harold Self of Rich mond, Va., spent several days here this week with Rev. and Mrs. M. Y. Self. • • • Mrs. R, E. Corrington of Wilson visited her sister, Mrs. V. M. Lock am y and Mr. Lockamy, last week end. • • • Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schmus re turned Sunday to their home in Nor folk, Va., after a week's visit to Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Godwin. Mrs. E. L. Russell, Miss Rosa Re id Russell and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Joyner visited Mr. and Mrs. West brook near Lizzie on Sunday. v • • • -* Don Fulford, seven months old son of Mr. and lbs. W. E. Fulford, is very ill in the Pitt General Hospital, Greenville, Buffering from mas toiditis. • • Is W. Godwin has retained from Washington, D. C., where he attend ed the funeral of his brother, Cap tain D. C. Godwin, atr Arlington cemetery. • • • Leon Lovic, who is stationed with the Army Air Corps in Georgia, at tended the funeral of his mother here this week. He will remain here for a ten day furlough. Jack Freedman spent several days the past week in New York with Us mother, who is confined with illness. He also visited the pannts of Mrs. Freedman in New Jersey on his way bade. • • • Charles Blount Qnineriy of the U. S. Navy, and stationed at Norfolk is spending: this week at his home ham. He was a Chapel Hill visitor on Thursday home by his former Coslett, who will spend the end here. jT ' ' 1 • Mrs. J. W. Parker spent last weel eigh she visited Mrs. Clyde T. Fitz SOCIAL CALENDAR Monday, February, 22 - GEORGE WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. ' 3:00 P. M.—Vivian Nowell Circle, Baptist Missionary Society, ' meets with Mrs. W. H. Duke. 3:00 P. M.— Episcopal Auxiliary - meets with Mrs. J. W. Joyner. 3.-00 P. M.—Presbyterian Auxili ary meets with Mrs. J. M. Mew born. 3:00 P. M.—dardan Club meets with Mrs. John Lewis and Mrs. Dunbar Lamar at the. home of Mm. Paul Ewell. 4:00 P. M.—Executive Board, P. T. A., meets. Tuesday, 23 3:30 P. M.—Merry Matrons meet with Mrs. J. W. Parker. 6:30 P. M.—Rotary Club. 8:00 P. M.—Junior Order. Wednesday, 24 3:00 P. M.—New Deal Club meets with. Mrs. L. E. Walston. " 3:00 P. M.—Wednesday Afternoon Club meets with Miss Elizabeth Davis. Thursday, 25 3:00 P. M.—Progressive Bridge Club meets with Mrs. L. T. Pierce. 3:30 P. M.—Parent-Teacher As sociation meets in Perkins Hall. 7:30 P. M.—Masons. Friday, 26 7:30 P. M.—Boy Scouts. 8:00 P. M. — Woodmen of the 1 Worid. Saturday, 27 10:00 A. M.—Bird Club. JONES-WOOD Joseph Hen y Jones of Ayden and Miss Grace Cox Wood of Vanceboro were married in the Methodist Church here by Rev. M. Y. Self Tuesday afternoon at six o'clock. The impressive ring ceremony was used. NOTE OF APPRECIATION We wish to express our sincere appreciation to friends in Farrville and community for their many*acts of kindness; foe flowers, notes and calls and other expressions cf sym pathy daring the recent illness of Mr. Bynum. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Bynum. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our heartfelt gratitude to the people of Farm ville and vicinity for the sympathy and consideration shown daring the recent death of oar son and brother, DeWitt Allen. Your kindness is deeply appreciated by us. Mrs. E. 0. Allen, ~ Miss Mary Allen, George D. Allen. TURN IN YOUR OLD SILK AND NYLON HOSE NOW J To help ti>e war effort all women are asked to turn in their old Silk and Nylon hose as soon as they are discarded. You are also asked to see that they are washed clean. A receiving box has been arranged in the store of Belk-Tyler Co., here for that purpose. JOINS THE WAAC WMuwfr Ctab. Mm Jesse Moye wad Mis* Tabttha DeVisoonti were hostesses to tike Woman's Club at the home of Mrs. J. M. Hobgood which m lovely with arrangements of spring flowers, on Friday, February 12. Mn. Moye, the President, presided and introduced Mrs. J. B. Joyner whoee talk on Education gam'the lives of imminent people and their influence such as George W. Carver, the great scien tist; Dr. B. W. Spilman, retired Bap tist minister, who is now devoting most of his time to boys and girls; and several of the great military leaders in the present war. She commented on a quotation by Mar shall Foch who said tlwt "bread is first and then, education,'' bringing out this thought . . . Important as bread is* something else to more im portant—more basic—God, that man requires more than^bread alone . . . Brand for the body, education for the mind but God for the whole life, for this world and the next During the business session the president gave a request from Mrs. Leslie Smith that members invite British Sailors as guests for a week aid. Mrs. R. W. Rader was welcomed as a new member. The hostess served a sweet course followed by coffee, cheese straws and salted nuts. Pretty Valentines grop ed each refreshment plate. - Literary Club. Mrs. A. B. Moore was a charming hostess to the Literary Club and special guest, Miss Edna Robinson, on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. J. I. Morgan gave a splendid talk on the "Woman's Page," dis cussing interesting facta concerning the Southern Belle, Women in the Home, Women in the Service and Women in Defense Work. She clos ed with a most fitting poem, "I Am a Woman." > Officers elected for the coming club year are Mrs. Neal Howard, President; Mrs. J. W. Joyner, Vice President; Mrs. J. L Morgan, Treas urer; Miss Elizabeth Davis, Secre tary; and Mrs. Ben Sheppard, Li brarian. - Artistic arrangements of quince were used on occasional tables in the Holden home where the meeting was held. Frozen salads were served with cookies and hot tea during the social hour. Contract Club. , Mrs. W. S. Royster entertained a delightful afternoon of bridge on Tuesday. Sprays of red hawthorne provided a lovely setting for the tables. Mrs. Wesley . Willis won the club high award of War Savings Stamps and Mrs. Harry Harper was present ed a lovely crystal salad bowl for guest high. A sweet tourse served before the play was of lemon bisque, followed by coffee and cheese straws. In add-on to the club members, guests were Mrs. George Monk, Mrs. James Lang, Mrs. S. A. Roebuck, Mrs. R. V. Fiser, Mrs. Ted Albrit ton, Mrs. R. T. Williams and Mrs. Harper. The party was held in the Holder home. Club. Mrsr Jack Smith graciously enter tained her card club and other guests, Mis. R. T. Williams, Mrs. W. C. Holston and Mrs. Hubert Joyner on Thursday of last week. Mrs. Hubert Joyner and Miss Ya bitha M. Devisconti won War Sav ings Stamp awards for top scores and Mrs. W. C. Holston received a lovely bouquet of jonquils in,conso lation. Refreshments carried a color note of red and white «nd Consisted of fruit gelatine and cakes, iced in white and bearing a V outlined in red candies. AltmM muI atuJaw quince aim ouier spring Pollard entertained c* • Jwi. g Pi II „ . ifln • ■ Mrs. Leon Jonec and Mn. Jo* Jones win hostesses to the Ballards Home Demonstration Club on Wed nesday afternoon at the home of the latter. Spring flowers were used in love ly arrangement During the social hour a delicious salkd course was served following which Mia. Ernest ■ Lee Janes, a re cent bride, was honored with a kitch en shower, a variety of attractive red and white gifts from the guests christian CHURCH i. i i ' v. | The morning attendance is on the increase at the Christum Church. The minister is preaching on some of the great themes of the'Bible, and the-people are appreciating the met Sunday morning he will speak on "The Redemptive God." Come and worship with us and hear this mes sage. — The evening wnrices are under the auspices of the Young People. They are taking great interestr in the ser vices, and are serving in singing and ushering. Let the adults give them loyal support. They are planning to give a Flay on the evening "of March 7th, to which the public is invited. ——————— THE METHODIST CHURCH Sunday, February 21st is Laymen's Day in the Methodist Church. The Laymen of the local church will have charge of the service on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Mr. R. A. Joyne^, Church Lay Leader, has se cured Mr. June Rose as guest speak er for this hour. "The world crisis of the present hour demands a new sense of stew ardship and consecration of self snd money on the part of Methodists snd members of ay Christian bodies. Laymen's. Day provides the oppor tunity to the laymen of our church to make their voice heard and their influence felt for the building of a better world." A School of Mi g»inp» is being con ducted at the Methodist Church this week, sad will close en Monday night of next week. The attendance is good. The group is studying the Latin American Countries — "the Land to the South of us'—our neigh bors. On 'Thursday night of last week the Youth Choir of the Methodist Church gathered at the parsonage for a Valentine Party. Under the direction of Miss Estelle McBride and Mrs. J. P. Bntberfield, the guests boarded a train—The Cupid Special —and traveled through the stations of Valentine, Gainesville, Fortune Town, and Dark Tunnel. The last call was for the "Diner"—which call was enthusiastically answered. The following passengers were aboard; Etta Frances Hamper, Mary Leah Thorne, Hilda Perry, Margaret Wil liams, Babe Williford, Betsy Morriss, Marvin Horton, Charles Carr, Danny Morgan, Jackie Willis, Neal Howard, and Edward Lee Russell. - The Children's Choir of the Meth odist Church met -at the parsonage on Friday evening of last week. Un der the leadership at Mrs. L. J. Wil liford the group enjoyed games, a weighing contest, and reading "Val entine jayings." The children made merry during this hour of fellowship and Jtan. Refreshments were served to the following guests: Betsy Jones, Jean Boyce, Willie Ray Harper, Con nie Rollins, Carolyn Roebuck, Jessie Mack Carrawny, Bob Morgan, Emer son Roebuck, Lyman Craft, Earl Craft, John Russell Joyner, Paschall Barrett, Jackie Williford and George Monk. . 1.-;. - ■ HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUB MRS. FRANCES R. LOVIC ATTEND FUNERAL OF NIECE I Mn. Ernest: Barrett returned Wed nesday from Haines City and Pal metto, Fla. She attended the funeral of her niece, Mm Evangeline Cole Edison, who died at St. Joseph's Hos pital in Tampan Mrs. Edison is sur vived by her husband, J. R. Edison, a son, Robert B., age two and an infant daughter, Evangeline Rebec ca, born several hours before the mother's death. Mrs. Edison was the daughter at Mn. S. R. Cole and the late Rev. Stephen Berryman Cole ef Palmetto. She was an alumna of Meredith Col lege, Raleigh. BIRTHDAY PARTY little Mias Nan Williams cele brated her fourth birthday at a pret ty Valentine Party on WeAieeday afternoon. Twenty-five young friends attended. A variety of games wen enjoyed after which guests were served iee cream, cake and candies from a beautifully appointed table centered by the birthday cake which was top ped with "Happy Birthday Nan" in scribed in a red heart A shower of Valentines fell from the ehandelier to the comers of the table. Indivi dual' cakes bore miniature flags. The hostess presented her guests with attractive Valentine favors. j ACCIDENT THURSDAY Harry Albritton, son it Mr. and Mrs. Ted Albritton, suffered a brok en foot on Thursday afternoon, when plastering falling from the ceil ing at the fifth grade school room fell on his <oot The accident occur red at 8:45, just as class was being dismissed. Young Harry i* receiving treat ment at a Wilson Hospital. DAVID CLEVELAND PARKER GRADUATES AS ENSIGN I Wednesday. — Mr*. Willi. Carm way, 9 to 12 A. M. Mrs. R E, Brax ton, 12 to 3 P. HL Mrs. Rupert Pippin, 3 to 6 P. M. Thursday.—Mrs. W. L. Smith, » to 12 "A. M. Mrs. E. S. Hobgood, 12 to 8 P. M. Mrs. R. L. Rollins, 3 to 6 P. M. ' Friday—Mrs. L. T. Pierce, 8 to 12 A. M. Mr*. Peyto.-* Boiee, 8 to 6 P., M. Mrs. C. L. Ivey, U to 6 P. M. Saturday.—Miss PrctAence B axe mo re, 9 to 12 A. M link Claude Tyson, 12 to 8 P. M. Mrs. J. P. Ehrtterfield, 8 to 6 P. M. Sunday.—Miss Louise Farrior, 9 to 12 A. M. Miss Hazel Stroud, 12 to 8 P. M. Mrs. Joe Bachelor, 8 to • P. M. If you cannot take your watch please arrange for substitute. Mrs. W. Jl. Willis. •r?: MEETING TUESDAY EVENING Februry 23rd, at 7:30 P. M. Place— TOWN HALL CALLING ALL DEFENSE WORKERS including Defense Council, Regular & Aux iliary Police, Fire Watchers, Regular & Aux iliary Firemen, Medical Corps, First Aid, Red Cross and all others assigned special duty in Local Defense Program, to attend this1... • — MASS MEETING! — • Important information to be presented, please make it your business to be present and on time! GEORGE W. DAVIS, Chairman, j
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