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FASMVILLE
EVERY DAY!
WILL
OF
The convocation of _ i
prising half of the eh arch? Of the
Diocese of North Carolina will meet
here Wednesday, October 22, at Em
manuel Episcopal chunk, of which
Rev. J. R. Rountree is Meter.
The meeting will open with the cel
ebration of the Holy Communion at
10 o'clock that morning after which
separate meetings of tfc? clergymen,
laymen sad womed's auxiliary will be
behL
Miss Helen Smith, president of the
Farmville Women's Auxiliary, will
extend a welcome to the delegates
and guBstsiho am expected to num
ber more than 100.
The theme of the meetings will bfj
"Ye Shall Be Witnesses?through
Building Christian Homes, through
the Christian World Missions."
Mrs. Sidney Ward of Plymouth,
president of the Warns*'# auxiliary
of the convocation, will preside over
the women's meeting. She will be a
guest of Mrs. G. Alex Rouse while
in Farmville. ?
-A luncheon will be served at the
D. A. R. chapterhouse at the noonj
hour by the home economics depart
ment of Farmville high school of
which Miss Ruth Parker is head.
During the spring and summer
Emmanuel church has added a com
plete oil heating system and water
facilities and during' September a
new Hammond organ was given to
the church as a memorial to faithful
departed members and honoring
several present active members.
Fountain School
Notes
The tobacco drive in the Fountain
echool ended Thursday, netting the
school $224.80. There was much in
terest in this drive as a prize was
offered to the boy and girl bringing
in the best grades of tobacco and
also the largest number of pounds.
Prizes were awarded in the primary
department to Horace Gletm' Corbett
and Janice Johnson for the beat
gradef and to Beth Baker and John
Vernelson for the most pounds. Prises
were swarded in the grammar grades
to Hugh Pierce and Ann Vernelson
for best grades and to Jimmy Bell
and Phyllis Corbett for the most
? ?jjjip
Practice for the Wotnenlesa 'Wed
ding sponsored by PTA and directed
by Mrs. R. A. Fountain, Jr., is com
ing along nicely. The cast is
posed of 90 men and will be present
ed Oct. flp. Admissions will be 15i
25 cents. ~
o ? ? ?
The filling of the Bed Caoes boxes
has caused much interest as a result
ot a buildup with the study of cur
rent events concerning th
conditions in Europe.
PITT FARMERS URGED TO
? PLANT MORE COTTON IN '4?
Pitt county farmers wen urged
nek by George T. Ashford of
Red Springs, president of the Cano
i Gfamerm Association, to plan
to plant cotton to some of the
M&3 acres that will be idle next year
in Pitt county by redaead
tobacco allotments.
With an expected 20 per cent 1
ket ndoethss in floe-cured
i in IMS, Pitt's tobacco allot
will be reduced from 44,264
acree to apprwgfcaetely 36,411 acres.
Tobacco fmnaeim. lie would be
a yyocvu iMiuo*e| ~ ' wwuiv
wise to investigate the possibility of
hater up a goad partte of the re
only to tobacco
in North Carolina,
be
in
At The Kiwanis Club
A pr
tional En_
capped-'Week" was
Kiwanis club Monday
officials of
whose aetivitie#
projects. Raw.
the program hut he was unable to be
present and Vieo-pi?SHla?^ Louie
Williams made the
Mrs. MeCrary, interviewer with the
State Employment Service,had some
thing to say about her work and then,
introduced Miss Ratte Fraae, who has.
recently takesi special work at
Maryland asnter where blind vetesar
arc taught to use a cane in finding,
their way about. Miss -Fhaae had a
film showing the method employed
by blind veterans.
Third speaker on the pcqgram was
Mr. Hendrbt, with the Federal-State
rehabilitation agency who told o{
his work and cited instances in which
handicapped persons had taken
active place in society.
Election of new officers was dis
cussed. Ballots were distributed and
the following nominees will be vot
ed upon next Afonday night:
Vice-president'? John Parker. Jim
Hockaday.
Treasurer-?Frank Harris. Be mice
Tumage. . ,1.
Directors (four will he elected)
Edgar Barrett, Seth Barrow. Charles
Edwards, Jake Fields. Frank Harris,
Carl Hicks, Jim Hockaday, Earl
Holmes, Henry Johnson, Billy Smith,
Bernice Tumage.
Louis Williams, vice-president, will
advance to the president's chair, in
keeping with custom.
Thrift, Hard Work.
Basis Hardy Fortune
(By Jane Hall in Hw News and
' Observer)
These warm autumn days, Clarence
L. Hardy of Maury sits beneath the
shelter which projects in front of Us
big general store and watches his
world gb by. Planted firmly on a
bench, he leans slightly forward,
resting clasped hands on a cane. A
stray breeze ruffles Us thinning hair
and light reflects from his silver
rimmed spectacles.
In the drowsy heat, tenants drift
by, pausing for a moment to report
on their activities, and the village si
lence is broken by the occasional roar
of one of Hardy's huge oil tracks as
H rumbles up to drink thirstily at
the gas pump# c*> front of the store.
Customers call greetings as they en
ter the store where they ?pm huy
anything from a needle to a tractor.
Sitting there in. his shirt-sleeves
and suspenders, this great bulk of a l
man casta a long shadow across this J
state's lucrative tobpeeo industry, and]
an even longer one across the econo
mic life of Greene snd surrounding
comities.
As the holder of the world's larg
est flue-cured' tobacco sQetman^ 970
rea this year, Hardy is a figure to
be reckoned with in the world of to
eco. As a man of wealth (he admits
to a fortune of $2,060)000, but better
? some is i
mically a potent local foree.
Hardy tobacco, totaling apprwd
pounds, will flour
at Grpeo
M ,
the eligible list,
ias acting postmaster for the pd*
"veral month*"
^ Only thing standing between
grass which might prove stubborn
and insist on adherence to the "spoils
stem." S?A s move, however, is
not likely. . ? 7; '
With the postmastership virtually
settled, *?armvillt dthww are now
tor?ted in obfcuninc action on a
x* 1 as - - - ? ?
w postoffipe building. While the
present oni bw rot actuaHy been
condemned, it certakily is not an as
set.
Latest information is that Fann
ville is on the preferred list for *
new building just as soon as Con
gress resumes construction work.
The recent membership drive of
the Fsrmville Parenfc-Teacher Asso
ciation resulted in en increase over
bat year's previous high. The paid
membership* of the organisation now
stand for this year at 682, according
to the figures released by Mrs. Areh
Flanagan, chairman of the member
ship committee, and Mrs, R. T. Wil
liams, president
Grades winning cash prises for
tuning: in the largest number of
memberships were Miss Thompson's
third grade ? the primary depart
ment Miss Freeman's fourth grade
in &e grammar grades and Mrs.
Wheless' 12th grade in the high
school The individual prise was won
by Louise Loric in the seventh grpde
who brought in 86 memberships.
Others "who secured 20 or more were
Gus Bnsbflr, Wean Joyner
George -Thomas.
Dr. Dudley Will Talk
At Nest PTA Meeting
Dr. Harold J. Dudley, pastor of ? the
First Presbyterian church, Wilson,
will talk about juvenile delinquency
at the October meeting of the Parent.
Teacher Association Thursday after
noon at 3 o'clock. Well known fof
his work with' youth, particularly
with Boy Scouts and Cub Scants, Dr.
Dudley directed the North Caroling
Recreation Commission workshop ia
February- While living in Kinston,
be acquired the title of "The Build*
igPretidw." ???
All members of the association: and
friends pf the school are urged to hf
present
ATTEND RALLY
Fat Corbett, president, Janet Stan*
sill, Jen Eaatey, Frances Gray,
Elsie and EliaabethMpy.^ancy La.
Mooraand GertrudTBnsdy and Don
ald Baucom, Mrs. Cherry Easley,
dnlt adviser, Rm. "Edwin S. Coatea,
Mr. aqd Mrs. Charles F. Baucora,
Mrs. ,J. C, Corbett, Mrs J. M. Hobe
HM Ghariif
fall rally.of
outh Fellowships
in Tarbore
Sunday afternoon
Miss Sara Little of Charlotte, as*
^tant^r Synods ^ yoimir
which thTmembers *****
sion groups. Mia Easlej
GIRL ICO UTS
toirether
in the high school
Marti.
MRS. LLOYD SMITH
ed har to her patients,
hold duties demanded 1?|? of herl
time and energy in 1938, ahe has
field wu
M months
while ntill in her teens. While living
In Henderson with relatives die was
a member of the King's Daughters,
a group which nurses and cams for
charity patients.
The daughter of J. W. and Nannie
Clements, Dahlia Kearney Clements
grew 19 on a farm near Hiddleburg
and Shoco Springs, a well-known re
sort a quarter century ago, in War
ren county. Named for bar Scotch
Irish grandmother who specified that J
I Dahlia,
she mart not be called Dahlia, ahe
was nicknamed Dell.
Several yean of her childhood
ware spent at Montmorenci, aa ela
borately-decorated colonial home used
as a hunting lodge. Mr. Clements
was caretaker of the lodge, which
was frequented by Northern men and
their families who came to drink of
the water at the nearby mineral
springs as well as to kanft.
One of the guests whom young
Dell knew was John Philip Sousa, the
March King, Souaa composed some
of his marches and other songs while
staying in Warren county. Mrs.
Smith recalls that one night a mes
senger came to Mr. Sousa and re
quested some of his pieces to be used
for a special event Mr. Souaa sent
a servant for some paper on which
to write a composition, wrote the
notes, rolled the paper and handed
its to the messenger. "And how do
yov knew it rritt sound right," in
quired the young girl, who noticed
that he had not played it on the
piano. It will sound right ha asr
sured her. Two . of Mrs. Smith's
prised possessions are music for the |
tunes, "In Darkest Africa" and The
Tale of the Sea Shells," which Mr.
Sousa presented her.
Mrs. Smith received part of her
education under the- guidance of her
mother who taught both private and
public school before her death in
1892. Prim? to entering the State
Normal in Greensboro DeH had only
two other teachers. At the NqnpalJ
now the WotAah's College of ttie
University of North Carolina, one
of her professors was Dr. J. Y. Joy
ner, who was teaching' English. So
many changes have taken place at
the college that Ue only building she
recognises when pees big through is
the main building. There were only
two donhitories in 1898, at the time
of her matriculation. The Teague
house across from Dr. Mclveris home
the Warren county student's
piece of residence.
One-teacher schools weee still scat
tered throughout the state. -IfcSggs in
the neighborhood- school near her
birthplace that Mies Clements start
ed teaching everything from "A* B,
C'a" to high afcog subjects. After
two years than, she moved to thai
Sandy Crock school in Vance
where she instruc
coming to Pitt county to
the faculty of . Smi
(now Arthur). .1
One of the most
ences that ever happened to
carrod while Mrs. Smith wa
ing at Arthur. One snowy
all the pupils arrived beT
lechers. The children had their
jnds set on going rabbit hunting
lit day and were anxious to have a
has!aur>- -J': cm ' ?m*L. ?*&
Attend State
Km
On Wednesday of this week, E. P.
Bus, head of the Farraville school's
took about 60 boyp ?f bla classes to
the State Fair in Ralegh. On Fri
day, Miss Roth Parker is taking a
bout 60 members of her home eeono
?wrthmht
adopted policy of arranging
tional trips for groups under proper
sponsorship and for educational pur
poses. Other trips ace being planned
during the year, one of them being a
trip to Washington, D. C, for the
mm
Carl Hicks
Parity's Meaning at
Farm Bureau Meet
North Carolina Aunt Bureau's
Board.of Directors last week uftai
mously adopted a resolution calling
for continuation of the excitant
price in parity and a 90 per cent rap
port price, lite board termed the
as fundamentals of a sound agricul
tural economy. At the meeting'in
Raleigh, presided over by W. W.
Eagles, Macclesfield, state presides
the board wholeheartedly approved
continuation of marketing quotas i
basic crops when necessary.
The major resolutions adopted
read:
"The North. Carolina flam Bureau
at Directors favors the continuation
of the exchange principle aa it is nc
provided for in the present parity
law." ?"
"The board favors a- support price
at 90 per cent being maintained on
c'rope that farmers an-willing to
vote quotas upon o? to operate un
it was pointed out by various
speakers that the state and national
Farm Bureau has always maintained
that parity in the market place for
products produced by the farmer is
a fundamental of a healthy farm
economy, a basic principle: Parity,
Carl T. Hicks of Walstonburg ex
plained, simply means that the price
a farmer receives for what he pro
duces will purchase his oanaumer
items of equal value.
Hicks added that as peVes go up
or down, parity will follow ?dit. Pari
ty, he said, keeps all sharing equal
Encouraging reports were received
by the board en the progress of the
campaign for 100,000 members. Rep
resentatives of various counties at
the meeting voted unanimously te>
give full support to the drive in their
home communities.
Thomas J. Pearsall, Battleboro,
gave a spirited plea for support for
the membership campaign.
"The two fundamental principles
voiced, in the resolutions passed by
the board-today," Pearsall said, "have
?l iMit Hartley '
curilftg As m
then we have
?a fair shara of
"If you don't art aumbry and
otherwteetihelpi m the campaign, you
are hurting your owe neighbor who
hps entrusted to you a dsspomsibility
represent him to the hart of you*
included: A. C,
member
R. Flake Shaw,
Greensboro, executive vice-president;
Will Ht Rogers, Greensboro, organi
zation director; John I. Eagle
Hookerton, George Farthing, Ashe
viHe, and W. G. Howry* Pinevilie,
field representatives. - - :
ECTC SETS NEW EN BO LUCENT
RECORD WITH I4tl STUDENTS
With* 1401 students now attending
East Carolina Teachers col
in Greenville has tUe fall the
enrollment for a single quar
ter in Rs history and, for the first
time since the founding of the school
do..!** ago, '?\>9MHh|
eating the ^nusual^etmolhnent hsw
Se doSi
on October 9 of the period when st
1"" im^H
A* TTlf if TIT- -* nt-^1
At lite Kot&fy UBt)
% 7, JW Joyn?r, Jr.,
club service at the
Tuesday night after which I I
Ed Naah ftmn, chairman of
tha program committee, and Arch
Flanagan, chairman of ti? fellow
ship and attendance committee, to ex
plain functions of
The club roted to go an
endorsing a meatless day
John Stansill ww? the
Ladies' night, whieh is to be
October 29, will take the place of 1
regular Tuesday meeting that week.
For
Season's Fu*t Win
The ParmviHe Red Devils ported
their first win of the aees6n last Fri
day when they defeated Wa
18 to 0, on the local field.
Coach Jack Johnson's hays played
their best game of the year hi ta
in# the win and showed, more sip i
interest than, heretofore. Scoring
touchdowns were Ed Allen on a min
ing play and Bobble Brock on a
quarterback sneak. The whole
played better as a unit than in any
The beya will be after &eir i
victory this afternoon (Friday)
they meet Clinton at 8 o'clock on the
local field.
Activities Of Local M
Church Organizations {
The Alter Guild, which met Mon
day evening, devoted moat of its j
meeting to pricing aprons and mak
ing nlana for the anion
sale which was hold Wednesday
Prayer and ropaating of the
in uniaeK wore led by the
JttoD. Dixso.
?the dismissal prayer.
A week of prayer was discussed by
memberti of the. Weslejwn Guild at I
their meeting Monday evwhg. Miss
Lola Hardy, a facnlty member of the)
high school, was welcomed as a ;
member.
The Gospel at Tomorrow's
ration" was discussed by Mn. Alfred I
Lewis. Miaa Bettte Joyuer, devo
tional loader, used the topic, "Over I
the Hills." Christmas cards and
wrappings were distributed to bc eold j
The hostess, Miss Lula Forbes,
served a sweat course. The meeting
was hold in the heme of Mm, G. M.
ffnMsn
Christian Stewardship* wrs the]
of the program study
g of Circle 4 Monday after
with Mrs. Layne Dail as hos
tess. Mrs. E. R. Clegg gave the study.
Psalm IS was used in connection
with the devotional study of
"Words'* by Mrs. J, H. Harris. Mrs.
C. BL Mozingo, chairmen, presided.
Fri# jello toppsd wite ensmn ew
riod. ThThieteas used rosed dr4'
dahifr* in her heme. Tl n
Circle 1 met with Mrs. W. Leslie |
Smith Monday afternoon
G. R. Smith presiding in
F. G.
I Love
om
RHtif J't*
levy a
services "above
cided tomorrow (Saturday)
cial election restricted to feass raters
who registered fa the period ending
pet. 4.
Town Clerk Cfavetand Baylor who
i? earring as regfatear for this eiec
tfaa has on his books fee names of
206
the vote will he
tie* 194 of those whose names are
on the books must cast, a bellpt fa
favor of the proposals. Those Jta*
row wiH be cossdtid as having fawe
ed the issues. -* '?yr%
The ballot boxes will be set up fa
the section of the town halt housing
the Use trucks. Ballots will open at
6:30 fa the morofag end will close
IS hours later, at 6:30 p. m.
Serving with Baylor as judges of
election will be Mrs. Sarah Albritton
and CeoEgwW. Davis or Mrs. Walter
Jones. J. B. Joyner, selected to asm
as judge, has requested feat one of
the alternates, Davis or Mrs. Jones,
be selected to serve in his place.
Thesa interested in fee welfare at
the local school are quite condoned
over the improvement program. The I
colored school has long ago outgrown 1
its usafMfate and it quite probabfeH
taken fee building will be condemned
forced to make some
Meet ef fee *800,000 issue will be
uaad far fee colored school but mem
ber* of
it will be to
hoping feat as much aa *60,000 will
bs left over for improvements at fee
white scheol. ? .u ?.? ??.? .
Wife fee *9.000 provided
by fee pfaftiMd 15-eent levy,
an a school district vaheitkn of. six
^uiinii dniuv, fee bohid hopes to
make improvements not furnished by
regular school funds. These im
provements ? public school music
and commercial subjects, a full-time
athletic coach?ore those which usu
ally'spell the difference between: u
good school and an excellent school.
Boo id members see no reason why
Farmville citizens should be satisfied
Wife fee former. ' ? ...
A plan to finance the *200,000-is
sue without taproastag fee fax rate
has been Worked out by bound mem
bers who would postpone retiring the
nutr bonds until old ones will be paid
completely two years hence. H? 16
eent levy will, of course, be added to
fee present rsH|' making a total of
60 oeats for the Farmville district.
PITT FAIR STARTS MONDAY
I Monday wiH
of the 12th
to bo held in Gr
will eoctiai
s
? aounty, and p* " " "
taHng $1200 in
distributed to all postal box holders
in the comity. Cash premiums and
ribbons will be awarded for many
and nMad classes of produce.
? Ofeer exhMtis
pantry pnodiieta^ and plants,
pad ffea art) ~
display their
kfimriw