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Farm Bureau Launches Membership
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Arch Flanagan, who ia serving as
county chairman of the Farm Bureau
annual membership drive, is getting
his organisation is going at full speed
this week as he and the workers set
out to reach a county membership of
at least 8200, as compared with 2976
who joined last year.
Flanagan reminds farmers and all
other citizens of the county that the
agricultural products in Pitt amount
to more than ISO million annually
ami that the gains made in recent
years in the prices of "farm products
will* be, endangered if Pitt countians,
and-others, fail to support such or
ganizations as the Farm Bureau.
The chairmad calls attention to the
fact that 7827 fanners voted in the
tobacco referendum but that only
2976 joined the Bureau last year. He
calls their attention to the fact that
only through a united front can the
rural people continue to demand and
get a fair share of money expanded
for farm products.
Membership in the Bureau is only
$3.00.
Jack Lewis is serving as chairman
for the Farmville township. -•
Farmville township this year has a
quota of 800. Last year 488 member
ships were written here. - ■
Flanagan expects to complete the
drive in three weeks.
N. L. Robinson
Funeral Rifes Today
Noah Lacy Robinson, 81, died sud
denly late Wednesday afternoon at
Core Point in Beaafort county after
suffering a heart attack. Funeral
services will be conducted from the
home at Marlboro this afternoon at
3 o’clock by Rev. L. B. Manning, of
near Fountain, pastor of the Marl
boro Free Will Baptist church of
which Mr. Robinson was a member.
Burial will be in Hollywood ceme
tery, Farm villa.
Mr. Robinson spent practically all
of his life in Marlboro.
He was first married to Min Ab
bie Frizzelle of Greene county, who
died in 1929. Surviving this union
are a son, H. T. Robinson of Marl
boro; five daughters, Mrs. C. T.
Fomes of Greenville, Mrs. W. F. Bea
man of Stantonsburg, Mrs. J. Robert
Parker of Farmville, Mrs. M. V. Brax
ton of Snofe Hill and Mrs. J. R. Bea
man of Wastonburg. Also surviving
are 13 grandchildren.
He was married in 1932 to Hulilah
Allen of Pitt county who died last
fall.
Hear Worker
From Children's Home
Mrs. J. M. Gibbs, president, and
Mrs. W. ,C. Gamer, vice president, of
the Farmville Junior Woman’a club
attended the Greenville Junior Wo
man’s club Wednesday evening and
heard Miss Cornelia Henderson, case
worker for the Children’s Home so
ciety in Greensboro, speak. The home,
the only agency that cares for babies
from every county in the state, has
been selected as the state-wide pro
ject for Junior Women's dubs this
■year. .j
Shortly, the local club will launch a
drive for membership funds to carry
- °n the work of the home. ~
wfll be glad to taka oi
chants’ hands any dead 1
that they can'
eluding, of course, any
Edwards might ham,1
Charles Quinariy. Twi
Charles Edwards, the i
move mine.”
The extant of t&e improvements
and renovations Mrs. D. R. Morgan ii
making to her home cut best be de
scribed by a question Dan Morgan
was asked, shortly before he left
for Philadelphia to begin his studies
at the Pennsylvania State College
school of optometry, by a colored boy
who was doing some odd choree about
the home and cleaning up behind the
workmen. In all seriousness, the col
ored boy asked: “Boss, what hotel is
this?”
Air transportation gained another
enthusiast in Farmville recently when
Arch Flanagan forsook the more con
ventional modes of travel and flew to
Chicago for the national convention
of freezer locker operators. Arch en
planed at Greensboro and, with five
other freezer men from North Caro
lina, completed in a few hours a trip
that woud have required two dajre by
automobile. As for the danger in
volved, Arch ii convinced that he was
safer in the hands id the pilot than
he was in the taxi which buzzed him
from his hotel to the airport The
driver, he said, came dangerously
near hitting a pedestrian and barely
managed to squeeze by a couple of
other cars as he weaved in and out
of the traffic.
Sam Lewis flew' to Ohio recently
and drove back the handsome, new
Cadillac funeral car which Manager
Eli Joyner, Jr., ordered several
months ago for the. funeral home of
the Farmville Furniture Company.
Justly proud of the new equipment
a companion vehicle to the firm's
Cadillac ambulance, Eli grplsfrm that
the new car can quickly be convert
ed into an ambulance,in case an emer
gency should arrive white the regular
ambulance is in use.
Elbert Moye, whodirected the mun
icipal recreation program daring the
gammer, reports to the Board of Com
missioners via Mayor Walter Jones
that about 8,000 tickets were sold at
the swimming pool daring the season,
in addition to a number of season
tickets. Nearly 80 picnics were held
at the park during the summer, num
bers of boys and girls participated in
swimming, softball and tennis pro
grams, and 200 or more townspeople
were actively associated with the Sun
day School softball league, all under
Moya’s supervision. The town offi
cials appeared gratified at the large
number of persons who participated
in the organised recreation program
an* taking advantage of the town’i
play facilities, unexcelled by any
town its stee In North Carolina.
During the baseball season, Farm
ville’s lighted baseball park was in
use almost every night, either by the
church team* Farmville's semi-prc
team or by teams from nearby com
munities. Semi-finals and finals oi
tte Bright Leaf Le*p» were stages
here and were completed Wednesday
At The
Genial George Creekmur, who was
program director Tuesday night, in
his own inimitable way, presented a
enjoyable* study id
most unique and
phraseology. Hr.
following three sentences, sought a
ffliufaon of the character as pictured
each fought. (1) He who knows
not, and knows Hot that he knows
not. (2) He wJjo knows net, and
knows .that he knows ; not. (3) He
Sdn> knows and knows that he knows.
The student loan fund was richer
by 13.00 since Mr. Creekmur contri
buted |1.00 for a satisfactory answer
or comment on each query; however,
from an official standpoint, accord
ing to Mr. Creekmur, the first man
ia a fool, the second a student, and
the third a wise man.
Arch Flanagan stressed the im
portance of the Current Farm Bureau
Drive and cited the responsibility and
obligation of each person to help in j
his own way, to influence fanner
friends to support theJFHwn organi
zation. Dr. Jones also emphasized
the importance of the drive.
Ed Nash Warren premized a fall
report of the progress being made by
Hie Scout Hut Committee, at the next
meeting.
Clarence Moye of Maury was Hie
guest of his brother, Jesse Moye.
Only three members were absent
and it was reported that Hie two ab
sentees of hist week had made their
meeting, giving President Charles E.
Fitzgerald a one hundred percent
attendance. ' *.
The attendance prize was awarded
to James Monk and the dub presi
dent, Charlie Fitzgerald, presided.
MARVIN HORTON, JR*
AT GEORGE WASHINi
STUDIES
3HINGTON
Martin Horton, Jr., is in Washing
ton, D. C* making plans to enter
Washington University Law
this fall.
rhi, a 1948 University of
North Carolina graduate, completed
the first year of law school thwnjRK
cently, but said he wants to transfer
to George Washington university be
cause there are better opportunities
in the capitol for him to fprk his
way through the remainder of Us
course.
I
s; A worthy cause
gather two oatsta
lins service firgai
interest of hommai
Children, the Junior Woman’B Clubs
of North Carolina have joined hands
with the Children’s Home Society of
North Carolina to strengthen a pro
gram which has long delayed the con
fidence of'the state. . . -.
fliTTflll xtt* t^flchonr
lie school, the club'feels it
*££ ‘StT’Z'1
HMijDitfi, ,W»" it is toe
HOPE of both club officer*
bera that njeny S*opte wil
was elected bishop in 1988 following
a year of service as presiding eider
of the Greensboro district He is a
trustee of Duke university and a
member of Phi Beta Kappa and Theta
Phi and is listed in “Who’s Who.”' He
is also chairman for Methodist Com
mittee of Overseas Belief. -
Tentative plans for the program,
which begins at 7 o’clock, include an
opening song by the group, the invo
cation, supper, reports >y R. A. Joy
ner, chairmen of the Board of Stew
ards, and the Reverend H. L. Davis,
pastor of the church.
Dr. A. J. Hobbs, superintendent of
Rocky Mount district, will present
Bishop Feele. J. Irvin Morgan, Jr.,
secretary of the official board of the
local church, will preside.
Special music will be rendered un
der the direction of Mrs. Haywood
Smith, organist and chairman of
music.
All members of the church and
church school, their families, people
of the community interested in be-,
coming a part of the local Methodist
program, and a number of special
guests are invited to attend. ,% |f|
The membership of Monk Mano
rial, the. newly-organised church on
the Farmville Charge, has been in
vited.
It is the earnest hope of those in
charge of the annual program that
all people .included in these various
groups, will 'attend and join in this
fellowship^ i--.. ■ - i
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr, and Mrs. J^ines Leslie Joyner
of Wilson annonhee the birth of a
son, James Dwight, September 15 at
Carolina General hospital, Wilson.
Mrs. Joyner is the formed Miss Agnes
Hinton of Elm City. Mr. Joyner
formerly lived near Eanarfle,
FIRST RALE
Delayed by wet weather, farmers
in this section are picking their cot
ton this year later than usual but
the bales should roll from fins now
in fairly-rapid succession.
Irvin Morgan, Jr., president of
the Farmville Oil,and Fertilizer Co.,
says that the first hale of the season
waa' filmed at their plant yesterday
moping. The bale weighed 424
and was gitmed for J. W.
tt and George Beckman.
iere For
Interment Riles
Dr. Elbert M. Taylor
Brief Dfawao in High Point
After
Relatives and friends assembled in
die chapel of the Farmville Funeral
Some on Monday afternoon, Sept. 12,
to pay a last tribute of respect to Dr.
Elbert M. Taylor, 51, prominent High
Point dentist, who succumbed in a hos
pital in that city, to heart cothplica*
ions which devedopM during a period
)f three weeks prior to his passing.
The Bor. Z. B. T. Cox, pastor of the
ocal Christian church, was in charge
>f final rites, the theme of which was
he comfort and sustaining grace ex
ended by the Gospel to ihe Christian
n time of sorrow and adversity. The
toy. H. L. Davis, Methodist minister,
issisted in tbs service,
A quartet composed of Mrs.
3. Tumage, Mrs. C. B. Townsend, J.
ft. Shearin and Charlie LetchWi
rendered ’favorite hymns. '
Interment was made in the family
ilot in Forest Hill eemeterybeneath a
arge ana .lovely floral tribute.
Active pallbearerf were Edison and
Fred' Moore, Mack Pollard, Lath Mor
riss, C. Hubert Joyner ,and M. V.
fones. '•:* ; ' *' *?.; ‘ .3$
Hig mother, Mrs. Mattie B. Taylor
>f High Point, is 'sole survivor.
Dr, Taylor, a native of Farmville,
vas bom Dee. 29, 1897,-thieonly son
it Mrs. Mattie Belcher Taylor and the
fate James Pender* Taylor, and a des
sendant of pioneer families of this
•ommunity. He graduated from Farm
rille high school, attended Trinity col
ege in Durham, and was gradated
from the University of Maryland den
al school. He was a veteran of World
iVa; I. Prior to removal of his office
o High Point, Dr. Taylor practiced
iere. ^ —
During his early manhoo#-Dri Tay
or was married to Miss Pauline
Caudle of Asheboro, to V^MpfPSlP
m only son, the late Jimmy Pender
L'aylor, was born.
Among the out-ofetpwn friends
rad relatives attending the funeral
were: Mrs. C.. M. Burroughs and W.
» Na£r>of High Point, Mr. and Mrs.
Mollie Flan
igan of Wilson ; Mrs. J. Haskett, Miss
3el* Hyatt, Otis Smith and Mrs.
RTayne Mitchell, Jr., M Kinston; and
Hw. W. C. Murray ef Washington,
Eh C.
Robert
F^High
Plans were made
jeghming the year for the
ftews," Farmville high
rhe staff will be
ftobert i Pollard,'
appointed by the
Mr. and Mrs.
diughter of Rod
week end with l|
Mrs. Ivey F. S:
Holder school, :
week end at -her
B. Taylor and
Mount spent the
Ed Taylor, Sr.
h of the Corinth
Flyths of ftocky Motw|; 1
visitors of Mr. *wTMm. i
Mrt. Alfred Murphy aw
“i I •»*;
sc® of Foun ts
Smith
and Mrs. Graham Smith and fhmfly
of Raleigh visited M .v alid Mrs. E. F.
Brooks and Bfa. %|f|F. Smite, Sun
day. "
Mrs. layman Netheroutt of Green
ville visited Mrs. Morten Rabhan on
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Holloman
and daughter, Becky, visited Mrs.
Arthur Taylor in Raleigh Sunday.
Mrs. W. E. Lang, Sr., Mrs. R. G
Fields, Miss Lillian Corbett and A. J.
Craft, attended tee Fellowship Meet
ing at the Christian chrreh in Ayden
last week.
Mrs. 0. B.' Mashburn, Sr., of Black
Mountain visited .friends near town
kat • week. She is spending some
time with relatives in Farmville be
Aaron Bailey la a patient at the
Woodard-Herring hospital in Wilson,
following aheart attack. He remains
quite ill.
Billie Marlovte and H. % Herring,
isv left this week to enter UNC. They
are members of the sophomore class.
■ Mrf and Mrs. J. P. Corey and. son,'
Jimmy, of Slisahete City visited Mr,
and ljre. Ben F. Gay, Tuesday night.
Mrs. Harold Bailey and Mrs. i. %
Reuse went to Greensboro Tuesday to
visit Miss Joyce Rouse, who was tak
en ill suddenly. MisERouse entered
tee freshman class at Greensbottl
college, this fall.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Boyette of
Norfolk, Va., Mr. end Mrs. W. ».
Edwards, Priaeeion, and Mr and
Mrs. Guy Bullock and daughters of
Renly were tee Sunday guests of
Dr. and Mrs, W. A. Marlowe.
Mr. and Mr8i:JEmes Md«riece and
son, Jimmy, of Gary, Ind., spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy
Taylor. Pf WiW
The Rev. Key Taylor is holding a
revival in Windsor this week. >
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Craft visited
Mrs. Craft’s parents, Mr. .and Mrs.
ies for children, bingo, and
rtainment, plus a minstrel
drew such favor in years
As an added attraction and to make
the events a real show-window of the
community, spawjhas been sold in
the school gymnasium to merchants
and -business people who will have
displays and exhibits of their mer
chandise or products.., f
The Kiwanis used profits from the
annual carnival to maintain a schol
arship fund from -which loans are
made to worthy high school graduates
wht» need financial help in order to
contihue their education.
The 1949 carnival will be held on
the school yard and in the gymnas
ium. _/ J..:.
Officers for the new year were
elected. Frank Allen, who has work
ed faithfully in the dub, was elected
to succeed John Parker as president.
Erneet Petteway is the new vice pres
ident mid George Allen was re-elect
ed treasurer. New directors are Al
ton Bobbitt, Jake Fields, Jack Lewis
and Glasgow Smith. Carryover mem
bers of die board ore Henry Johnson,
Lewis Allen, Cart Hicks and Billy
Smith.
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Homecoming day will
by the Farmville Christa
October 9. A cordial mv
tended to former m
friends to attend the mo
church on
tion is ex
PRESBYTERIAN RALLY
DAY PROGRAM SUNDAY
“What Can I Do?” will be the
theme of five talks to be given on the
Rally Day program at the Presbyter
ian Sunday School Sunday morning at
10 o'clock. The speakers include
John Hill Paylor, Misses Jeh Easley,
Jean Walston and Faye Mewbom and
one other.
A goal of 126 people present has
been set. Persona not affiliated with
any Sunday School are especially in
vited. The special offering will go
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