18 TOWNS PARTICIPATING [
IN 1949 GARDEN CLUB TOUR
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Eighteen towns in North Carolina
will throw open their gardens and
old homes and historic places for the
1949 Garden Club Tour, Mrs. Wesley
Taylor of Greensboro, chairman of
the event, announces. {
Commencing April 1, 2 and 3 at
Wilmington and Goldsboro, the gar
den openings will progress across the
state, climaxed with showings in
Asheville in May. 1
The most elaborate tour is planned
at Edenton April 8, 9, 10 when the
old soundside town will present 22
places during “Old Home Week,” in
cluding historic town houses and
plantations. ;
Garden clubs in the following
towns have announced their intention
to participate: Wilmington, Golds
boro, Wilson, Edenton, Hillsboro,
Durham, Chapel Hill, Greensboro,
High Point, Southepi Pines, Hender
son, Newton, Reidsville, Concord,
Charlotte, New Bern and Asheville. ,
NOTE OF THANKS
I take this means of expressing
my appreciation for the prayers,
flowers, cards, gifts and other kind
nesses extended me uring my recent
illness.
Mrs. J. A. HOLLOMAN
DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio, the “Yankee Clipper," unlimbers his potent batting
swing at Miami Beach, Fla., during a benefit baseball game for the
National Children’s Cardiac Home. From where we sit in the
bleachers, it appears to be all there.
‘MIKE-IKE’ CONTEST WINS ;
AWARD FOR TURNAGE CO.
The Tumage company has received
the Eddy Arnold Award for Show
manship for the successful comple
tion of the recent “Mike and Ike”
live pig display at the store. The a
ward consists of a large picture of
Arnold, who is acknowledged as the
nation’s favorite singer of folk songs,
BUILT TO A STANDARD
NOT TO A PRICE
I Smith Concrete Products Co.,
I Inc.
KINSTON, N. C.—Phone 3412
Pre-cast concrete steps are also
, now available.
gha§6:
ances
An Ordinance Regulating Parking Of
Tracks On Streets OfThe Town Of
Farmville, N. C., To Protect The
st rccts • * nercor. .<m
R. O. Lang, Jr., moved the edition
of the following ordinance;
“Whereas the unregulated puking
of truck tractors ana truck trailers
are greatly damaging the paved
streets of the Town of FarmviUe;
“Whereas overnight parking by
said trucks in the fire district would
constitute a menace to the efficient
operation of the fire department in
case of a fire in the fire district:
NOW THEREFORE BE AND IT
IS HEREBY ORDAINED BY THE
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF
THE TOWN OF FAKMVILLE in
regular session on Tuesday, Febru
ary 1st, 1949, that:
1. That no truck tractor and/or
truck trailer be allowed to park on
any of the paved streets of the Town
of Farmville from 6:00 o’clock P. M.
until 6 :00 o’clock A. M.; that all truck
tractors and/or truck trailers are
hereby prohibited from-' puking on
any paved streets of the Town of
Farmville, N. C., between the hours
of 6:00 P. M. and 6:00 A. M.;
2. That all persons, firms and/or
corporations are hereby prohibited
from lowering the iron wheels on
truck trailers to the paved streets of
the Town of Farmville at any time,
except in case of emergency, in which
ease the operator of said trailer shall
place or caused to be placed a plank
or other suitable object under said
iron wheel or wheels so that the
streets of Farmville shal at all time
streets of Farmville shall at all time
said iron wheel qr wheels.
3. That no person, firm or corpo
ration shall puk or cause to be
parked any dual wheel truck within j
the fire district of the Town of Farm-1
ville or oq any streets immediately
adjacent to the fire district of said
Town of Farmville, N. C., nor on
any part of Main or Wilson streets
Streets of the Town of Farmville,
N. C., between the hours of '6:00
o’clock P. M, ami 6:00 o’clock A. M.
That this ordinance shall be effec
tive from and after the 1st day of
March, 1949.”
J. M. Stansill seconded the motion
and upon a vote, the same was un
animously adopted.
R. O. Lang, Jr., moved the adop
tion of the following ordinance:
.“Whereas no sidewalks have been
ppv*d alongside much of the paved
streets in the Town of Farmville,
N. C.;
“And whereas many persons culti
vate vacant properties adjoining
paved streets and in many instances
cultivate the'lands up to the curb
stones of said paved streets, drag
ging dirt and rubbish into the gutter
fines, breaking the pavement and de
priving other citizens of the Town of
the use of said tends immediately ad
jacent to said paved streets as a
sidewalk *
“NOW* therefore, -BE AND IT IS
HERE ORDAINED by the Board of
Commissioners of the Town of Farm
ville, N. C., in regular session on
Tuesday, February 1st, 1949, that
h> 'person, firm or corporation shall
rultivate, plow, plant thereon or,
itherwise obstruct any lands within
>even feet-of the concret curbing: of
my paved streets in the Town of
formville; that no person, firm or
:orporwtion shall do anything: to pre
sent the use of a strip of land out
tide of the curb stone on'any paved
itreet, seven feet in width, from use
is a sidewalk by the citizens of said
rown of Fhrmville, N. C.
“BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED
hat no person, firm or corporation
hall plow, cultivate, plant thereon or
otherwise obstruct lands within seven
feet of the apparent gutter line on
my dirt streets ih the Town of Farm
rille, N, C.
That this ordinance shall be in ef
feet from and after February 1st,
1949.”
R. 9. Lang, Jr., moved the adop
tion of the,following ordinance:
“Whereas traffic has become con
gested on Walnut Street between
Belcher and Wilson Streets due to
ocation of Helton’s Garage in the
middle thereof and the fact that the
Fast Carolina Terminal and loading
tracks are located thereon together
with fact that said street is not
normal iit width and has a curbstone
on only one side; ■
“NOW THEREFORE BE AND IT
IS HEREBY ORDAINED by the
Board of Commissioners of the Town
of Farmville, N. C., that Walnut
Street between Wilson and Belcher
Streets be and it is hereby designa
ted as a one-way street from and
after the effective date of this ordi
nance and that all traffic proceeding
Hurt; this ordi
feet from and a
C..H. Flanagt
tion and upon v
mously adopted.
VALENTINE DANCE
The Senior class of Farmville high
school is sponsoring a Valentine
dance at the Country club Saturday
night, February 12, from 9 to 12
o’clock.
Tickets—75 cent^ for couples and
50 cents for stags—may be purchased
from members of the class. Refresh
ments will be served.
Announcement!
Farmville Blacksmith Shop
has changed its name to
Farmville Woodworking
Shop
/
W. Wilson Street Farmville, N. C.
E: G. CARRAWAY, Owner
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