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> 1 m ...BANK gpr__ > r ===== rnruivuw O wuovw umavvy has been steadily climbing ever since the sales werestarted, reached dissy heights Monday when 674,868 pounds of the golden leaf sold for #888,638.02, an average of #66.85. Sales through Wednesday totaled 17% millions pounds and averaged #47.60 per hundred, according to Fred C. Moore, sales supervisor. Supervisor Moore sflso stated that Famville’s seven big warehouses have plenty of space and that there will be few crowded sales from now until the end of-the season. Fanners are invited to sell their to bacco on local floors, where compet ent warehouseman and plenty of buy ers guarantee a square deal for those who patronize the.market. Interestir^ News. Items From Ballard’s The Ballards Presbyterian Sunday School was delighted Sunday when it ' had a reoprd-breaking crowd of 117 at the Sunday School’s Bally Day program. The topic for the program was “What Can I Do as an Officer, Teacher, Adult, Youth?” Hen^y Dunn, Sunday School super intendent, presented each topic and was assisted by Sue Worthington, . Mrs. William H. Crawford, Eva Lee Dunn and Mrs. G. S. Nichols. At the close of the program the congregation sang “Have Thine Own Way, Lord,” and was then dismissed . with a prayer by J. C. Corbett . The Balkuds Home Demonstration club will meet Wednesday afternoon at the E. A. Moye dub house. All mnmhawi om waniibafrul Virnn dr their annual reports, filled out, at this meeting, so the club secretary can send her report in to the county sectary. The club is trying to have all the reports in on time. Every member who has a perfect attendance record is urged to be pres ent as this is the last meeting of the club year. Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Childress, Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Joyner, Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Bateman, Mrs. Verna Joyner and Harold Joiner attended the fun eral of Mr. Lawrence Anderson in LaGrange Sunday afternoon. Durward Tyson, student at ACC in Wilson, was a week end visitor at home. Friends of Mrs. Boy Smith will be sorry to learn that she has been 101 in a Greenville hospital. She return ed home Tuesday, Mrs. James C. Stokes and little daughter, Linda Gayle, of Washing ton are spending the week with Mrs. Mamie Ruth Holloway. Miss Lillian Harris of Halifax was a week end visitor at her home, Mrs. L. R. Jones and Mrs. G. S. Nichols attended a home demonstra tion club meeting at the Sweet Gum Grove community building last week. Friends in the community extend sympathy to the family of Mrs. Ma mie R. Holloway in the loss of their mother and grandmother, Mrs. W. A. Pollard, Sr., who passed away-at her home- Friday night. Mesdames Josie McArthur, Ray Crawford, G, S. Nichols, Annie Flan agan and John Flanagan, Mr. and Mrs. C. €. Harris attended Mrs. Pol lard’s funeral Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Elks visited friends in Durham Sunday. Walstonburg P. T. A." Has Called Meeting Fi™t And Fourth Gradies Tie For Largest Percentage Of Parents - Present; Project Will Be Selected On Oct. 6 ■ swjg.* . Jm-£ Principal J. R. P-eeler of the Wal * stonburg school presented the follow ing suggestions for « local project at the called meeting of the Ifee|& Teacher association on Tuesday, Sept 20, in the autditertom: (1) Rewiring and lighting the old building with fluorescent lights ('estimated cot^ $8,000); (2) Purchase of a bus tot events, fairs and far timated cost, $3,000) for the autdAtorium $800). One of these selected when the FT, At rne notary uihd The program at the Rotary club Tuesday night proved to be both en tertaining iind educational when ver satile Walter Jones presented a de tailed outline of the football officia ting business. For a new man en tering the field, said Mr. Jones, it would take probably a minimum of five years to get on the so-called eligible list Hie four officials ne cessary for each college game must thoroughly qualify before being plac ed oh tiie preferential list for ulti mate assignment to various games, through tiie Southern Conference Booking Office. The club heartily endorsed the sug- , gestion of Arch Flanagan, district , chairman of the Boy Scouts, that the • Farmville district unite with tiie j Edgecombe district, to further scout- ; ing interests and achievements. '] George Davis, chairman of the i youth committee, stated that two i high school boys would be invited to < tiie. Rotary meetings each month, and this project was accepted with rwch i enthusiasm. 1 Coach Elbert Moye, representing ' the high school athletic department, < explained that there would be a min- t imum of 26 home games this season, i comprising football, basketball and baseball, and that season tickets vo < these games would be offered at go ] each. Jack Turnagevand Nell Har- \ ris, high school students ang guests t of the club, spoke briefly in behalf pf 1 the season ticket*sales. t Paul Ewell held ticket no. 417 and 1 received the attendance prize. Four i members were absent, and since noV Fellowship Prize was awarded on the night of the 20th, both Plato Bass and Rev. E. S. Coates were awarded tickets to the theatre. Charlie Fitzgerald, the club presi dent, presided. DISTRICT DAR MEETING TO BE HELD HERE OCTOBER 8 The Major Benjamin May chapter, Daughters of the American Revolu tion, will be hostess to the nine other chapters in the eastern section of the state at a district meeting in the chapterhouse on Saturday, October 8, at 11 o’clock. . Around 75 delegates and visitors are expected. Among speakers on a well-planned program are Miss Ger trude Carraway of New Bern, former state regent and newly-elected vice president general, Miss Virginia Horne of Wadesbozo, state regent, and Mrs. Moland of Hendersonville, state vice regent Mrs. Ellen Lewis Carroll is district director and Miss Tabitha DeViscohti is secretary-treasurer. Luncheon will be served at the chapterhouse, which was dedicated in ApriL . Chapters in the district include Mt. Olive, Goldsboro, Elizabeth City, Tar boro, Wilson," Edenton, Farmville, Snow Hill, Washington and Halifax. •60% OF PITT’S PEOPLE WERE X-RATED FOB TB IN JUNE Miss Tabitha DeVisconti attended A meeting of the Pitt County Tubercu losis association Monday night in Greenville. Among the information Contained in the report of Dr. Thomas Basnight, health officer, on the x-ray] 1 survey made in Juntf was that 26,616 people, or approximately 60 per cent of the county’B population, were x- ] . - - .'--Sa-m-aBMi* i fied to return for another x-ray. More than 800 hayerp&infted for the second x-ray. Farmville has a large num ber of cases of active ,tubercidosis< Dour hundred beds are being added to the Eastern Carolina Sanatorium at Wilson. Before the x-ray there were .approximately 60 Ktt countians waiting for admittance to a sanato DENTAL CELEBRITIES _. _ Dr. Paul E. Jones, a past pret ■ the Nor% Carolina Dental So Jd Mrs. Jones had es their i Beets Sunday a holt bf dentisti ie prominent in their professk is group were Dr. Clyde E. M dr ROBERT G. The first year-round Baptist Hoar rill go on the air over a convention ride network of 182 stations on Oct. ! with Dr.' Robert G. Lee of Mem ihis, Tenn., president of the Southern laptist Convention, as the speaker. )r. Lee’s theme will be “The Way rom Want to Wealth” and his first object, “Sin and the Sinner’s Savi or.” Dr. Lee, who is pastor of the Belle ue Baptist Church in Memphis, will e the speaker during October, No ember and December, S. F. Lowe, irector of the Radio Commission of he Southern Baptist Convention in Ltlanta, announced. The Baptist Hour will be broadcast very Sunday from 3:30 to 4 p. m., 1ST,. and will be financed wholly hrough voluntary contributions. StA ions carrying the program which nay be heard by Farmville people ire: Kinston, WFTC; Rocky. Mount, VEED; Raleigh,1WNAO; and Wash ogton, WRRF. Projects Planned By Local PTA To Benefit School Girl ^Scouts will present skits and •lays in commemoration of the birth !py of their founder, Juliette Low, at he October meeting of . the Farmville ’arent-Teacher association Thursday vening at 7:30 in the high school uditorium. The executive board is endeavoring o make this meeting A family affair, ’arenta are urged to Come and bring he children. Mrs. J. W. Miller, president, pre ided at the first meeting; for the >ew school term held in the audito ium Thursday afternoon, September. 2. She read the objectives as plan ted by the national association. Miss Alma Whitley, accompanied by ire. Haywood Smith, led the group o singing “America, the Beautiful.” The devotional’ was given by Rev. 3. W. Holmes who based his talk on lassages from Matthew 6, Psalm 23 lid Philippians 4:19. N. C., Maenhout ilayed several selections on the xylo phone and piano. A balance-of 383.60 was reported y Mrs. L. P .Thomas,-treasurer. To ueceed Miss Annie L. Jones, who tow holds the posiiton of county su lervjsor^lfrs. Joseph Batchelor was IScted secretary. Following the reading of the stand Ug committees, the recommendations rom the Executive Committee were ead and adopted. Meetings will be teld the first Thursday of each school nonth and every other meeting will e held at night, at 7:30. The PTA rotad-tit continue navinsr the salarv if a maid ind to-pay$250 an the sal try of the librarian, with a budget of 1660 being adopted to meet the ex tenses of these projects and other rork of the organization. Mrs. Frank Allen, program chair nan, announced that the next meeting rould be held at night and urged a' toll attendance. •‘J * ~ 5 Mrs. Dajld Harris, subscription thMftnan, presented facts 4bout the PTA magazine. Mrs. MUler called attention to the listrict meeting to be held in Wash ngton on Oct; 19. The room roil call, conducted by ifra. John Dunn and Miss Mitred daddox, was won by Miss Margaret Lewis’ first grade. - ,r . After the introduction of the teach srs, the meeting was adjourned and a iccial hour yu enjoyed. * ' I athletic ition this association will year in the sal* Heretofore, been sold for tli but this year i sell one season schooLyear wh ball, basketball ticket will enti tend 24 athleti year. There games here, 12 or the entire include foot older to at six football tests will be played' must be presented «1 are not transferable game program, sense offered to adults fo! to school children fS Principal Sam D. feels this is a real offer is made- to n| tickets attractive witi bitive in price. Hid for football will be children and 76c for ball admission will 1 children and 36c for An attractive scht has been arranged which will bring Tarboro, Robersonville, Ayden, Wil liamston, South Edgecombe and Scot land Neck to play on the local grid iron. The basketball' and baseball schedules of the Ibcal high school will be equally attractive. Principal Sam D. Bundy of the high school stated that the goal is to in terest as many people as possible in the athletic prograin and at the same time have sufficient funds to pay the costs of operating the program. A minimum of ?l,000.00harbeen set for season ticket sale and this amount will guarantee that the athletic pro gram can continue on the high scale Thlfl ‘ nmnnnf nine Ilia wo4-a Por this 24 ckets will be . 00 each and 00 each, iy stated he ain and the the season being prohi x per game for school tits; basket * for school athletic in of and NeU receipts from visitors guarantees, referees equipment as The Farmville association under Jack Tumage, presi , ^_ _ Harris, head cheerleader, will direct the sale in the nrhmfl jhjfri llm Ki wanig club, Rotary ^Club and Bimini Chamber of Commerce have appoint ed committees to plan and push the sale in the town to the adults. Truly, this is a chance to receive • bargain and it is felt that the high school is offering something to the public rather than asking something from the public. The first game here will be played Friday night, Oct. 7, with Tarboro, at 8 o’clock, and the local band will be on hand toOnHven the occasion and put on a special ^parade between halves. Buying season tickets will help the boys and girls and will be a good investment f$r>ybu. MANY CHURCHES TO OBSERVE WORLD COMMUNION SUNDAY Church throughout America which are observing World Communion Sun day on October 2 are again being asked by Church World Service, offi cial relief, and reconstruction agency of 23 major Protestant and Orthodox churches, to dedicate their offerings to world relief needs, especiaHy those of refugee^ and displaced persons. This has been the practice of many churches during'the past i Started in 1940, World ion Sunday is sponsored eral Council of the Christ in America, and is practically every country at. the WnrM . held in Amsterdam in 1948. On this- 10th anniversary of World Communion Sunday, as in years, 'many churches will desi| their offerings for overseas 1 sending their contributions lh) denominational channels. LOCAL SCHOOL MEMBERS OP A The Pannville school h another progressive step announcement that the ati partment wiB insure the var ers on the athletic teams t case of injury the student t her parent wiB be protected jy Ufp to 8260.00. Principe Bundy and Coach Elbert delighted that this action " taken and are certain thai mean much to the moral players. Europe, bid; mittees of the Presbyterian church in the U. S., the Protestant Episcopal church and the Methodist church. Beginning October 2 The Methodist Hour will be produced in the studios of The. Protestant Radio Cener. The brbadcast may be heard at 8:80 Sunday morning; over WPTF, Raleigh. Bishop W, W.‘ Peele of Richmond, Va.,--addressed- the members of the Fannville Methodist church at the, 'annual felowship supper hold in the church basement Monday evening. He said, “this is a power age in which we live. We need spiritual power to control scientific discoveries of power.” - He gave two reasons why the promise of Jesus should be taken into account: (1) It is a promise made by Jesus and is not to be taken light ly, and (2) Verification of promise in history of the church. “It is awful to have the power of God revealed to us through scientific discoveries and not to have tbs epirit of God to know how to use the power. “We do not have the right to ask God for prosperity beyond what we have fa mind to. use in the service of Gad. In every great age there is a mwliiiir nf nnintiml nnwnn—at. the tint* when spiritual power is needed' the moat.” "May you prosper and have health just to that extent that your spiritual lives will enable you .to use that health and prosperity, in the promo tion of the kingdom of God.” The supper opened with the singing' of "The Church’s One Foum&tio** Rev. H. L. Davis, pastor of the church, offered the invocation. Ir vin Morgan, Jr., , secretary of the of ficial board of the' church, extended the welcome and presided. , L. E. Walston, immediate past chairman of the Board of Stewards, made a report on the financial status of the church. He annotaoesd that Fatmville Methodist church and Monk Memorial had. recently received gifts from the:Monk family. , IB. A. Joyner was recognized and made several remarks. "Put first things first,” he told the assemblage. "Use the facilities that we have in each a way as to go forward.” The pastor’s report on the spiritual, life and progress of tile church re vealed that Monk Memorial, begun as an outpost, was formally organised as-a church the fourth .Sunday in February and Jhat it has made con siderable progress, including the pur chase of. a bus for transporting] people to church. Representatives of Monk Memorial were present. Miss Wills Rae Harper sang a solo and under the direction of Miss Alma Whitley a group of children from the Beginners, Primary and Junior De partments sang. Mrs. Haywood Sjhith was accompanist. -Dr. A. J. Hobbs, superintendent for the. Rocky Mount district, was intro duced and presented Bishop Peele. The singing of "Blest Be the Tie” concluded the supper. The following people were selected' tu rejuv&eut tuuerenb urgamzatioiiB on committees. Welcoming commit tee: M. V. Jones, trustees; A. C. Monk, Jr., board of stewards; T. Eli Joyner, Jr., superintendent of Sunday School and chairman of men’s publii city committee; Mrs. W. M. Willis, president of WSCS; Mrs. G. M. Holr den, president of Wesleyan Service guild and Bell Bennett class; Lath Morriss, president of John T. Thome At The Kiwanis Club 'is- . i js ■ j. ■ ’' Charles Qyinerly was program chairman at the Kiwanis dab Monday night aw| devoted part of his program to last minute plans and discussions of the carnival the club will have on Friday and. Saturday nights of this week in the school gymnasium. Nell Harris, chief cheer leader of the local-high school, and Jack Tam age, president of the school’s athletic association, outlined the athletic pro gram for the school year and request ed the club to aid in selling season tickets. % Dr. Rod Williams offered to double any amount the dub might donate to the Girl Scout Hunt fund, up to $260, a generous offer. $326.00 was subscribed'by the dub, this, added to Dr. Williams’ $600-donation, makes a total of $826 for the hut from the Kiwanis dub. Robert Goodson of New York, the guest of Henry Johnson, was a visitor at the meeting, as was J. L. Ammons, tobacconist, who was the guest of J^ack Lewis. Seth Barrow was chosen to be sec retary for 1960. Legion Fair Opens Monday in Grenville Everything is in readiness for the opening of the Pitt County American Legion Fair to be held in Greenville next week, with a preview of the' Fair to be given Sunday at the Air port, with the presentation of Jack Kochman’8 Hell Drivers, one of the finest thrill shows in the nation. The thrill feature has been presented at the State' Fair and at fairs In, Char lotte, Greensboro and Rocky Mount. Ken Maynard, the famous West era cowboy and movie star, with his well known gnd well trained horse, “Tarzan,” will be the featured at traction daring the entire week of the Flair, every’ afternoon and even ing. PreU’s Broadway shows will be on the midway, featuring 22 modem rid ing devices, 20 shows, concessions, in ly* will be the first of the Pren Broadway in this section of the State. Much interest is being shown in the pure bred swine sale to be held at the flafnistnir H■■ l. , M Q ooutnuy, v/cxodcT o> w... ....... Day, and all attending the sale tween the hours of 9 and 11 o’clock will be admitted at the main gate for 20 cents, and can remain on the fair grounds ail day. white of will present tickets to the children and they wfll be admitted at the main gate for five cents up to 7 p. m., and all rides and shows wfll be nine cents, up to 6 p. m. . Walstonburg New® was Mrs. L F. Smith of the Corinth' Holder school hear Zebulon home for the week end. Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Sedick, Mrev Carl Cobb, Mrs. Olin Mewboro, Mrs. Earl Gay, Mrs. C. T. Hicks and Mrs. B. G. Fields were Raleigh visitors Monday. ' Mrs. Richard Holloman, Mrs. E.L. Jones and Mrs. Katie Shackelford at tended, as delegates from Howell Swamp church, tl Woman’s Auxili ary convention o| j«Free Will Bap tist church, near Wintervilie, Wed Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Brooks left Stan ly to spend several days in Mon m vrifh M. - - ' were accompanied as far as Zebulon by Mm I. P. Smith, who returned to her school Miss Ramona Rouse of Greenville spent Thursday and Friday at her home hem Mr. and Mm Benny Wheeler of Norfolk, Va., were the week end guests of Mr. Wheeler's mother, Mrs. Henry Wheeler. Those from here attending the Carolina-State football game Satur day were Lather and William Whit ley, Fred Shackelford, Pud Jones, Jimmy Marlowe, R. E. Baxter and Miss Margaret Fields. Friends will be delighted to leant that Aaron Bailey, who has been quite ill in a Wilson hospital, is slightly improved. Carnival time, when Kiwanians hum hot-dog and bingo stands, turn actors for the time being with a bang up minstrel, and engage in a score of other things to entertain young and' old, is here again. The 1949 carnival, by which the ^3 load club maintains its scholarship fund and lendsmoney to high school graduates desiring to continue thefefl education, will be held tonight and tomorrow night (Friday and Satur day) in the high school gymnasium \ and on the school campus near the gymnasium. s? The carnival spirit will be helped along this afternoon, with a pmde led by the high school band and in cluding some of the main features of the carnival. An added feature of the program this year is the booths that have been erected and in which merchants and other business houses will be given an-r opportunity to display their wares. The club is trying, more than ever, to make the carnival a worthwhile ven ture,-educational as well as enter taining. Charles Quineriy, overall chairman of the carnival, and his fellow-work ers have a hard task 'in maintaining the standard of previous carnivals' but they are determined to reach the goal. Final Rites Held For Mrs. W. A, Pollard, Sr. r .. . . Funeral services were conducted from the homeJSunday afternoon at 3 o'clock for Mrs. Zylphia Caroline (Dippie) Horton Pollard, who died Friday night at 11 o'clock. Subject to “fainting speHs” caused by a heart ^VWUWVHf «UO* * V1UVU tacks Wednesday bat up was TMurs day and Friday, until about 2 o’clock when she had another. Her final ill ness lasted about two hours. Elder J. B. Roberts, pastor of the Primitive Baptist church, of which she was a member, officiated, offer ing prayer, rising John 14 and mak ing a few remarks. A quartet com posed of Mrs. M. V. Jones, Mrs. A. W. Bobbitt, i. JL Shesrin and Charlie Letchwor* sang'“How ffiar a Foun dation’’ and “Abide with Me" at the hosae and “In the Sweet Bye and Bye” at the graveside. Interment lard, Sr., who died July 13, 1P46. took place in Hollywood cenwtery be-" side her husband, William Albert Poi She was the daughter of the late J. McDonald, and Lame Tyson Hor ton. 4 Mrs. Pollard is survived by three daughters, M«j. C. F- Baucom. of Farmville, Mrs. Edward May of Route 1, Farmville, and Ibis. Mamie ' Ruth Holloway of Greenville, Route 1; four sons, Mack of the home, John 0., Mabrey and William A. Pollard, Jr., til of Farmville; 14 grandchil dren; two great-grandchildren; one sister, Jbs. Arsenia Parker of Faxm villfc. Pallbearers were three grandsons, Louis Holloway, Donald Baucom, stu dent _at Davidson college, and Frank Baucom; a nephew, Kenneth Barker of New Bern; R. L. Joyner qnd Char lie Rasberry. *•;'§ Among the out-of-town friends and relatives attending the funeral were Mi* .Zeb Cummings, Sr., or xarnoro; Mrs. Nan Hemby Moor*, Mr. and Mrs. JoMuiie Briley, Mrs. Beulah Causey, John I* Causey and Roland Tripp, Greenville; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Parker, Kenneth Willis and Nell Hor ton Parker, New Bern; Archfe Park er and Mr. and Mrs. Mac Parker, Norfolk, V*.; Mrs. Wayne A. Mitchell, Jr., Kinston, Mr, and Mrs. Floyd T. Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. Kennit Lamm, Mr*. Mollie Flanagan, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Wright, Jr., Wilson; Mrs. Su die Horton and Miss*Estelle Horton, Richmond, Va.; Mrs. W. A. Hearne, Macclesfield; Mrs. Rosa Lang Eagles, John'Ivey Eagles, Crisp; Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Andrews, Mount (Hive; Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Moye and Mr. and Mrs. Ctawnce Moye, Maury; mm Ernest C. Campbell, METHODISTS TO ATTEND ADVANCE MEETING,
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