T THE JOHNSTON1AN SUN, SELMA, N. C. THURSDAY, JAN. 2, 1941. TWO FOUR OAKS Miss Mary Dearen, of Lumber Bridge, spent the holidays with Miss Helen Doggett. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lewis and daughter, Ida of Greer, S. C, and Rev. and Mrs. John Lambert, of Kin ston, spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lewis. William Berkholtz, III, of Rich mond, Va., spent the holidays with his aunt, Mrs. N. H. Keene. Dr. and Mrs. Richard Bunn, of Winston-Salem, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sanders last week. Mr. and Mrs. Walton Massengill and family, of Washington, D. C, spent last week with Mr, and Mrs. Fred Coats. Miss Gertrude Thornton, of Ra leigh, visited her mother, Mrs. Donnie Thornton, last week. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Geddie, of Warrenton, spent several days last "week with Mr. and Mrs7J.T. Hatch er. - ;- Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Gibson, of Rocky Mount, spent Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Creech. Mrs. Albert West, of Greenville, and Mrs. Jack Hodges, of Elkin, sDent several days last week with Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Moore. Mrs. C. T. Hastcher, of Charlotte, spent a few days last week with the Rev. and Mrs. N. W. Harrison. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Steed spent Thursday in Chapel -Hill. . Wade Alton Massengill spent the holidays in Charlotte with his brother, Leroy Massengill. Wilson Barbour, of Raleigh, spent Wednesday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Barbour. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Liverman and daughter, Connie; of Ahoskie, spent the holidays with Mrs. W. M. Stanley and family. Mrs. R. D. Massengill, of Hardee ville, S. C, is spending some time with Mrs. Arlon Massengill. Mrs. R. G. Lewis and baby, of Selma, spent Tuesday with Mrs. W. J. Lewis. . " . . ; . Rev. and Mrs. Hugh Harrill and family visited relatives in the west ern part ot the State during the holidays. FO V v December Meeting Of Demonstration Club , The Royal Home Demonstration club held its December meeting at the home of Mrs. Walter Baker, near " Four Oaks. - A demonstration on making cake frosting was given by Miss Everett. During the business meeting plans were, made for a, dinner for husbands of club members to be given at the Methodist church in Four Oaks. The hostess served - Christmas candies, nuts, fruit, cake and coffee. The annual Christmas tree was held with all club members exchanging presents. Soldiers Are Human, After All A soldier of the 30th Division at Fort Jackson from Frank linton, N. C, sent a poem to The Record (Columbia, S. C.) asking that when you "meet a soldier, just treat him like a friend." The poem, entitled, "Soldiers Are Human," follows: A soldier is nobody, we hear people say, He is an outcast in the world and always in the way; We admit there are bad ones from the Army to the Marines, But you will find the majority the most worthy you've seen. Most people condemn the soldier when he takes a drink or two, But does the soldier condemn you when you stop to take a few? The government picks its soldiers from millions far and wide, So place him your equal, buddie, side by side. Now don't scorn the soldier when he takes you by the hand. For the uniform he wears means protection for the land. When a soldier goes to battle, you cheer him on his way, You say he is a hero when in his grave he'll lay; But the hardest battle of a soldier is in the time of peace, When people mock and scorn him, and treat him like a beast. With these few words we close we hope we don't offend, But when you meet a soldier, just treat him like a friend. British Purchasing Group Hear FDR Speech In Wilson But Britons Have No Comment To Make On "All Out Aid For Britain" SpeechClaim Situ ation in Britam "Not So Bad" Went To Fort Bragg Tuesday. New High Record Set In Construction During '40 1940 was a boom year for the con struction industry. New homes sprang up faster than in any year since 1929. Factories took shap at a record pace as in dustry responded to the call of na tional defense. So furious was the tempo at year-end that observers wondered whether the capacity f the construction industry was great enough to handle defense construc tion in 1941 and still care for ex panding civilian demands. Building costs were creeping upward. ' Residential construction got off to a slow start bepause of unfavorable weather, but contracts piled up in the final three quarters of the year dispelling all fears that the boom in home building might have run its course. Expansion to handle defense con tracts in machine tool, airplane and chemical process industries helped boost private factory building to a new high of $597,000,000 more than doulble last year and compared with $547,000,000 in 1929. This total did not include large contracts for plant expansion for the account of the government. Seven members of the British Pur chasing Commission to the United States stopped over in Wilson Mon day night but would make no com ment about the reason for their trip to this section of the country or to conditions in the war in Europe. The commission left by automobile Tuesday morning for Fort Bragg and it was thought that there might be a possibility that some sort of dem onstration would probably be made for them at the fort in connection with some sort of war equipment. The commission of seven men sat around in the Cherry hotel lobby Sunday night and listened to the speech of President Roosevelt over the radio and then "got in a huddle to discuss it" afterwards. The commission members would make no comment about the speech of the president that advocated "all out aid" to Great Britain. One member of the commission commented that in the last few months he had traveled some 48,000 miles in purchasing work for the British. The commission has been in this country some 10 days. A ' comment by' a guest at the hotel about the fact that "I'm glad I live in the United States now brought comment from one member of the commission that "things really aren't so bad over there and England is a beautiful country." Members of the commission who stayed at the Cherry hotel Sunday night were: H. F. G. Letson, P. S. Gostling, B. S. Messick, A. G. Voce, J. S. Butler, B. F. Lock and D. Campion. John G. Thomas in Wilson Times. ' "How did you get your start, sir?" asked the inquiring collegiate. "Oh, I really don't like to tell," sighed the magnate. "But if you must know, I had a smart grandmother." "A smart grandmother ?" . "Yes, she bought me some stocks and pulled the strings and made me an officer of the company. When I wasn't doing so well, she bought me some more stocks and made me pres ident." Narrow Tobacco Plant Bed Is Recommended Four good reasons for constructing a narrow tobacco plant bed are listed in pre-season recommendations to tobacco erowers by Dr. Luther Shaw, plant pathologist of N. C State College. He also suggests the importance of the proper location for the plant bed. "If the plant bed is built narrow," Dr. Shaw said, "more plants are produced per square yard; the danger of trampling on plants while weed ing or pulling is avoided; the plants can be watered more easily and uniformly; and fourth, and most im portant, narrow beds can be equipped and. treated for blue mold with satis factory results than wide ones." The plant pathologist, recommends that the plant bed be 5 feet 8 inches wide to allow the standard six-foot cover to fit snugly when the fumi gation method is used to .control blue mold, A pathway 18 inches to two feet wide should be left between adjacent beds. "The benzol or paradichlorobenzene fumigation methods are the best for controlling blue mold,' Dr. Shaw pointed out. "Copper-oxide spray is also satisfactory when applied in ad' vance of the first appearance of the disease on the farm. The spray acts best as a preventative, while the fumigants will kill the mold after it has infeeted the plant bed." The State College specialist also suggests that the plant bed be located convenient to a , source if water, and preferably near the house, because constant attention is required during the development of the young plants. "It is also desirable," he says, "to locate the beds so that they will be protected as much as possible from strong winds." CALVES Harold Lancaster, Goldsboro, Route 4, and Gerald Edwards, La Grange, Route 2, Wayne County 4-H club .members, have purchased baby beef calves to feed out and enter in. the spring fat stock shows. HIGHEST American egg production in No vember was the highest ever re ported for that ; month with egg prices slightly ahead of November, 1939, prices, reports the U. S. Agricultural Marketing Service. Trade with the advertiser EMPLOYMENT Employment on United States farms declined approximately 15 per cent during the month of November less than the usual seasonal decline, reports the U. S. Agricultural Mar keting Service. JUMP United States exports of processed milk to the British market during the first 10 months of 1940 amounted to 71,000100 pounds compared with 274,000 " pounds in the same period last year. v . THE POCICETEKOOEC of ICRIOVJLEDGE MOBS Eish ape used IN THE UHtTED STATES each yEK mt. iNOUSPtlAL PHOCESSIHS turn fat fooo We MUD! WEKSHff 6, 66a ooo. ooo. ooo,eoo. - 000.000 TOMS fsi iemuiM, sttunoum anl stay (xtNTuuoH rant) GRiff INPUSrIES THE CHEMICAL consmpnoN orove NEW EH61AHD MILL TtiWU IS ESTIMATE t XlffE THAU Ml SOOTH AMERICA S M RECENT yews, A6fHCief IM TMlS COUNTRY HAWS BEEM SET UMf batf of nr .tS& AWT mi? 1 . - IHPUSTW 'CHECKS CflREftJUY- pmtins KoDocnott, me. AVEEASE U-t- A070 IS SUBJECT TO AT IEAST 2,000 APTSOUAlS BEKHE I LI 77 J I 5-U - GN i . ' rs i hi KENLY NEWS ITEMS MRS. M. E. DRAUGHON Miss Rebecca Hill returned to her home in Hookerton, Sunday, after spending the Christmas holidays here with relatives. Miss Virginia Smythe has returned to the teacherage after spending Christmas in West Virginia, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Rose, of Lu mVnn. niient Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Edgerton. Miss Bertha Edgerton spent the week in Benson. Griffin Edsrerton, of New York, spent the Christmas holidays with his mother. Mrs. Passie H. Edgerton, Bill Hooks, of Washington, D. C, spent the holidays with his mother, Mrs. Inez Hooks. Miss Mildred Howell has returned to Pine Level to resume her work at the school, after spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Howell. - - Mrs. Edwin Jones, of Dillion, S. C, visited relatives here Monday and Tuesday. Miss Margaret Pike, of Chicago, is spending "the " holidays - with- her narents. Mr. and Mrs. F. Arthur Smith, near Kenly. Miss Pike will leave, for Chicago Thursday to resume her studies in music. Returning via Wnsfcinirton. she will visit friends there a short while. Mrs. J. S. Edgerton returned Mon day from Salisbury, where sne visited her daughter, Mrs. Worth Williamson. Mrs. Annie Rawls has returned to the teacherage after spending tne holidays in Greenville. Mr. and Mrs. J. Burke Long have returned home after spending the holidays in Elizabeth City. Mrs. W. J. Hooks and daughter, Katheryn, spent some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cobb, in Elm City, last week. Miss Uzelle Lamm spent last week in Elizabeth City. , Miss Sara Mae Woodard has re turned to Roanoke Rapids where she teaches, after spending the Christmas holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Z. Woodard. Alton Johnston has returned from Greenville, where he spent the holi days. . Mr. and Mrs. Willie Pierce spent Sunday in Norfolk with Mr. and Mrs. Junius Pierce. W. Jack HoSks spent Thursday and Friday at Bayview. k' ,Mrs,. Maybelle Draughon and, chil dren, Horace and Geraldine, spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. K. D. Perkins and Mary Faye Perkins in Pikeville. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Edgerton and Miss Bertha Edgerton spent Christ mas day in Pikeville with Mr. and Mrs. K. D. Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Draughon and children, Donald Ray, Wallace' Reid and Earl, of Durham, spent Christ mas day here with relatives. Carl Edgerton, of Fort Jackson, S. C, is spending some time with his mother, Mrs. Pattie E. Edgerton. Miss Doris Hooks has returned to her work in Pine. Level, after spend ing the holidays at home. Miss Elizabeth Hill and Miss Geneva Godwin spent Sunday after noon in Hookerton with Mr. and Mrs. Luby Hill. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Atkinson and children, Richard, Jr., and Lula At kinson, spent Christmas t day in Greenville with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Edgerton and children, Mac and Katherine, of Mebane, spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Edgerton. - J. W. Woodard, of the Glendale section, is a patient in a Wilson hos pital where he underwent an opera tion Friday. s Mrs. Passie H. Edgerton spent Monday at Woodard-Herring hospital for an examination. Mrs. B. L. Woodard is able to be out acrain after being ill for some time, v Dr. J. C. Gradv is much better after being ill a few days. Miss Debbie Bailey is recovering from an attack of pleurisy. Birthday Party. Miss Lula Atkinson gave a lovely Christmas party at her home Mon day night, honoring Miss Annie G. Edgerton, this being her birthday. The home was tastefully decorated in Christmas designs. After many games were played, which were en joyed by all, the hostess served cold cocoa, cookies, and cup cakes. Miss Atkinson gave to each guest a lovely gift. The following were present: Misses Geraldine Draughon, Polly and Jean Renfrow, Shirley Evett, Edna Earle Lamm, DeLois Kirby, Virginia Askew, Martha Ray Bunn, and Jewel Las- siter: Billy and Bobby Winborne, David Glenn Bunn, Donald Ray Wat son, Alton Johnson, Eugene Phillips, Craig. Murphy. HEPHZBAH NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Eatmon were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Peedin, of this section. Clark. Summerlin, of Washington, D. C, is spending the Christmas holidays with hisjarents, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Summerlin. Mrs. Roy Belle, of Greenville, spent Christmas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs., Gid Creech. Misses .Rachel Summerlin and Hilda Daughtry, of Princeton were visitors in Raleigh during the holidays.- ' Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Evans, of Raleigh, are visiting friends in this community. Mrs. Cynthia King spent a few days last week with her sister, Mrs. H. J. Daughtry, in Pine Level. Miss Doris Massengill visited Mias Madelene Pilkington during the weekend.- Duffle Woodard spent the holidays with relatives near Goldsboro. Miss Merle Creech, of King's Busi ness college, Raleigh, spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gid Creech. Mr. :"I never can find a thing in this house. I would certainly like to know where my hat went." ; Mrs.: "So would I. You weren't wearing it when you came home last night." Doc: 'How is the boy who swal lowed the half-dollar?" Nurse: "No change yet, Doc." Amazing Coal Heater HOLDS 100 lbs. 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