School will open at 8:46 o'clock .
opening day m
thereafter. Lam
'&■»*«Mi »d|
other grades at 3:16.
The enrollment figarw of last
year revealed around 726 white students
and 700 Negro students were
te school here, and the authorities
are expecting the attendance for the
43-44 session to be up to same level
The 1942-43 term, reported as one
of the most successful m the hifciory
of the school viewed from both
angles of attendance and accomplishments,
closed an Hay 26, with a graduating
class composed of 29 boys and
girls.
High school pupils will register on
Friday and Saturday, August 27th
and 28th, as follows:
Eighth grade, Friday, from 9:80
to 11:30 A. M.; Ninth grade, Friday,
from 11:80 A M. to 1:00 P. JL;
Eleventh grade, Saturday, 9:30 to
' 10:30 A. M.; Twelfth grade, Saturday,
10:80 to 11:30 A. M.
Elementary pupils, following thel
usual custom, will register at their |
respective rooms on opening day.
The Farmville graded school is one
of the largest consolidated schools in
Pitt county and is modem throughout.
It is a 12 grade school with a 9
months torn, and has the distinctive
honor of being a member the Southern
Association of Colleges and Secondary
Schools.
Heading the school faculty is Superintendent
J. H. Moore, whose interest
and activities in connection
with the many problems and the constant
mising of the school standards
merit commendation. Mr. Moore also
finds time to join hi the social, religious
and civic life here.
The list of teachers and 'assigned
grades is as follows:
Miss Russell Wand, Sunbury,
Mathematics; Mrs. Herbert Hart,
Farmville, Spanish and English; Miss
Prudence Bazemore, Windsor, English;
Miss Nina Yelverton, Fountain,
History and Library Science; Mrs.
Jack Beamon, Kings Mountain, Science;
Mrs. Robert T. Monk,. Farmville,
Commerce; Mrs. L. H. Swindell,
Jr., Manchester, Tenn., Home Economics;
J. P. Butterfield, Farmville,
Vocational Agriculture; Mrs. J. P.j
The Bank of Farmville
Holds Foremost Position
An Institution holding a foremost
position in the community, is. the
Bank of Farmville, established 87
years ago. Its ideals of offering
this community the finest service
possible has been its white banner,
giving to the leadership sufficient
courage and high hopes with which
to press forward. This iastttotioabas
assets of more than a million
dollars and is rated as being one of
the outstanding financial institutions
in the State^
R. L. Davis was president for 82
years. He was succeeded by A. C.
Monk, a former member o# the
board of directors, and president at
the A C. Monk Tobacco Co. J. I.
Morgan is vice-president; L. E. Walston,
cashier; J. M. StsnsOl and C.
C. Simpson, assistant cashiers; W.
A. Martin, teller; Mica Evelyn Gold
Gay, and Miss Marjorie Lee Parker,
bookkeepers; Miss Bettie Pearl Vsndiford,
stenographer.
Every day daring the tobaec% season
the lobby pt the Bank of Farmville
& as crowded as the warehouse
floors, and the Bank pays oat thousands
of dollars to giowei's during the
Sunday Schools ami family reunion
groups hare availed themselves as
usual this summer, of the opportunity
to participate in Farmville's recreational
ceriler at the municipal parte
and - swimming pool,
Playground equipment, the tennis
courts and the pool have furnished
entertainment and wWawme outdoor
sport for the youngsters, and the
scbmbm! dining zoom, to which an addition^
doubling the «dse at the original
building, was made last summer,
has provided convenient facilities for
picnic supper*.
One of the largest gatherings of
young pecy>)s fi the center this summer
was the Jreenville District Boy
Scoot Camporee, held the week of
August 9, under the supervision of
Field Executive James T. Uazele.
The Scooting event, at which the
Farmville troop, their Sooutroaster,
Lath Morris* and' issistent Scoutmaster,
Ed Nash Warren, were hosts,
was sponsored by tbs local Rotary
Club and was given wholehearted interest
and support by the town authorities,
the American Legion and
various individuals, who provided
camping essentials and cooperated in
the splendid Camporee piognam of
advancement In Scooting and cleto
fun. >
The Town of Farm ville was just a j
settlement when the bitter jDnw?le
between the North and Sooth began
in I860. In a decade it became a
lusty village bearing the name^ of j
New Town and was chartered by the,
General Assomfely ot North Cwolin&
in 1872 Hid given the name of Farm- j
ville by John Hfeiee, who qboie it* because
at the fact that it 4m la real-}
ity a village of farmers. In 18(to
Farm ville had a population of 111. j
The last census, 1940, gave it 3000.. |
Farm ville doea not boast of its
ago, nor glory so much in the past,
its history is in the making. It is a
young town, thrifty, progressive and
stead&y advancing *ith a happy
home loving people.
No finer type of American citizenship
can be found anywhere than in
Farmville, a large majority of the
people being dsac ended from the earJy
settlers and pioneers of this section,
and continuing to walk in their
footsteps, devoting their interests and
efforts to the cultivation of the soil
and the development of agriculture
in North Carolina.
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