FOUR OAKS SOCIETY
JUNIOR CLASS
GLEE CLUB
CLUB MEETINGS
PERSONALS
ENTERTAINMENTS
C. H. Wellons, Jr., and small son
Hugh William, of Charleston, S, C.
and Frank Wellons of New River,
spent the week end with their pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Wellons
Sr.
Mrs. Robert Hodsre or Kaleiirh, is
spending several days with her moth'
r, Mrs. Martha Lassiter.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Denning of
Norfolk. Ma., and Charles Edwin
Denning of Baltimore, Md., visited
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Massengill on
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Brennon Holt and
children of Seven Springs, spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Mas
sengill.
Mrs. M. L. Price and Mrs. Ed Mat
thews spent Thursday in Raleigh. .
Miss Delia Ford of Oxford, and
Cpl. Orvid Earl Harris of Virgilina,
Va., and Fort Riley, Kansas, spent
Monday and Tuesday with Rev. and
Mrs. N. W. Harrison.
Mrs. Hubert Massengill and son,
Alfred, spent the week end in Selma
with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Denning, Chas.
Edwin Denning, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert
Massengill, visited Mrs. Robert Jones
in Benson Tuesday evening.
Mrs. George Kovestenis and son,
Charles, of Washington, v. C, are
spending some time here with rela
tives. Pete Moore of the U. S. Coast
Guard, Morehead City, is visiting his
mother, Mrs. Lula Moore.
Mrs. Richard Lewis and daughter,
Pat, of Selma, spent Friday with
Mrs. W. J. Lewis.
Homer Brown of Norfolk, Va., U.
S. Navy, is visiting his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Clay Brown.
Howard Gaylord of Greenville, vis
ited friends in town Friday.
Mrs. Herman Stevens of Jackson
ville, is spending several days with
her mother, Mrs. W. A. Collier.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Driver, Miss
Virginia Unchurch, Miss Ruth Stan
ley and Mrs. E. R. Watson spent
Sunday at Fort Bragg and Manchester..
Glenn Barbour and John Alderman
of NewDort News. Va.. spent the
week end at home.
Miss Marv Frances Keene of Dunn
spent the week end with Miss Mary
Jean Barbour.
Brs. Ed Matthews spent the week
end in Anjrier with relatives.
Mrs. Reid Harris and son, Vicky
spent last week with relatives in Rox
obel and Seaboard.
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Woman's Society
Holds Meeting
The Woman's Society of Christine
Service met at the home ot Mrs.
Charles Wellons on May 11th, with
Mrs. Albert Keene as joint hostess,
The subject for the evening was
"In Concern for Children." Mrs. Lon-
nie Keene gave a most interesting
talk on the subject, stressing child
labor, safe guards in wartime. Mrs.
Paul Steed save the Scripture, and
Mrs. Albert Keene dismissed with
prayer. - .
During the social hour refresh
ments were served.
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Dr. Stevens Preaches
At Barbour's Chapel
Dr. Theodore P. Stevens, President
of Aurora College, Aurora, 111., spent
several days last week with Rev. N.
W. Harrison and H. P. Honeycutt.
Chapel church on Wednesday even
While here he preached at Barbour's
ing, ana taiKea to tne graduating
class at the school Thursday morn
ing.
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Wesleyan Guild
Met Tuesday P. M.
The Wesleyan Guild of the Four
Oaks Methodist church met at the
home of Miss Frances Steed Tuesday
evening. There were nine members
present, and an interesting program
on Child Labor was given, at the con
clusion of which the hostess served
lemon pie and tea.
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JUNIORS Reading from left to right, front row : Edith
Underhill, Mary Elizabeth Byrd, Golda Phillips, Jackie Parish,
and Helen Parrish ;
Second row: Eugene Grice, Defean Murphy, Dalmon Sullivan,
Marguerite Batten, Nathan Creech, Arlon Creech;
Third row : Gordon Howell, Gertrude Hudson, Lonnie Bar
bour, Virginia Parrish, Letha Phillips, Stanley Armitage and
Clarence Brown;
Fourth row: Billy Johnson, Max Creech, Wilson Radford,
Janie Belle House, Evelyn Brown, and James Yelverton;
Fifth row: Melvin Barnes, Maytlon Radford, Mary Lou Dun
can, Margaret Vann, La Verne Driver and Mildred Pleasant;
Sixth row: Wade Woodall, Clifton Johnson, Bill Black, John
Jeffreys, Jr., and Paul Dunn.
staple of suprerior grade. According
to Holler, all of these improvements
in
growing and handling cotton put
extra dollars in the grower's pocket
at practically no extra expense.
Morgenthau Praises
Work of Newspapers
Washington. With the success
ful completion of the 13-billion-dollar
war bond campaign, the treasury de
partment this week paid tribute to
the major role played by the nation's
press in finishing the biggest financ
ing job ever undertaken by any gov
ernment in the history of the world.
vln the - closing days of the cam
paign, Secretary Henry Morgenthau,
Jr. sent a telewam to Frank Tripp,
chairman of tBe :'Allied Newspaper
council, to be reaid at the annual con
vention of the American Newspaper
Publishers' association. The telegram
Baid:
"May I ask you to express to news
paper publishers our thanks and ap
preciation for the truly remarkable
contribution they are making to the
second war loan. We feel quite cer
tain that never before has any cause
received such complete and effective
support from the newspapers of the
' country, and we are grateful for it."
Two months ago the Allied News
paper Council, representing the lead
ing associations of publishers, met
here with Treasury officials to make
plans for the campaign which opened
on April 12. At that meeting a reso
lution was adopted urging both the
daily and weekly press to go on an
all-out basis for the second war loan
drive.
Immediaite Response.
The response was immediate. Tn
news and feature stories, in editor
ials and in picture displays the news
papers carried to the people of Amer
ica the urgent necessity for provid
ing the staggering sum of money
necessary for Victory.
New Cotton Plan Gives
Growers Extra Dollars
Buy U. S. War Bonds and Stamps.
The new one-variety cotton im
provement program and the cotton
classing service under the Smith
in the grower's pocket, says Dan F.
in the grower's pocket, says Dan F.
Holler, Extension Cotton Marketing
Specialist at N. C. State College.
He cites the experience of Yates
Spurling of Cleveland County? who
belongs to the Waco One - Varie
ty Cotton Improvement Association.
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last year and soldi' it as he piaked it,
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unui ne came 10 tne last seventeen
bales. He took his green classification
cards on these bales and decided to
compare the prices offered him in the
open ' market with the government
loan values.
Spurling reported that the best
price offered him on the seventeen
bales was $19.50 per hundred pounds,
or $1,657.50 for the lot of cotton. The
Farm Storage Loan program was
made available in Cleveland County
at this time and the grower obtained
a loan of $1,866.60 on his cotton, it
being left in storage on his own farm.
Later he sold his equity in the seven
ten bales for $125.
Spurling said the cost of insurance
and the cost of inspecting the farm
buildings in which the cotton was
stored averaged about $1.00 per bale.
When the grower sold his equity in
the cotton, the buyer assumed the in
terest charge.
In the one-variety cotton improve
ment work, Spurling gets pure seed,
better ginning (the ginner being vi
tally interested in the program), bet
ter yields of cotton, and a free class.
ing service. He and his neighbors are
also encouraged to handle their cot
ton better and to produce longer
Men With Technical
Training Are Needed
The Wilmington District Office has
recently announced that Uncle Sam
needs men for technical training and
needs them badly.
raceu witn tne greatest war con
struction program in history, this old
and vital branch of the United States
Army is in need of trained and ex
perienced technical men and con
struction workers, between the ages
of 18 and 45, to fulfill the many con
struction assignments being given
the Army Engineers, both in this
country and overseas. Under a plan
to recruit specialists in all skilled
trades, the U. S. Army Engineer
Sore it's fun to dat!
Corps, trough its Enlisted Specialists
Program, is accepting voluntary en
listments of automobile mechanics,
carpenters, electricians, operators of
neavy construction equipment, weld
ers, truck drivers, machinists and
practically all types of skilled labor.
Skilled technicians of a casses who
have been working as civiians on en
gineering and construction projects
may, prior to their anticipated induc
tion by Selective Service, volunteer
for enlistment in the Engineers and
be advanced in grade as rapidly as
evidence of their demonstrated abil
ity justifies. Instead ,of waitingto be
inducted through Selective Service, a
potential draftee, skilled in any of
Reading from left to right, front row: Gordon Howell,
Kathleen Starling, Delia Maiden, Jane Armitage, Billy Black,
Betty Jo McMillan, John Jr. Jeffreys, Mary L. Jeffreys, Direc
tor, Miss Helena Blue;
Second row: Clifton Johnson, Dorothy Thorne, Bobby Elisi
Marjorie Garner, Jane Wallace, Hilda Braswell, Dorothy Lee
Brown, Nellie Rose, Jean Phillips, Elgie Rose, Elton Barbour ;
Third row: L. A. Grant, Bill Stallings.
These were absent when the picture was made: Ruth Wiggs,
Dorothy Anderson, Bety Jo Knott Batten, Edith Sellars.
the many phases of construction
work, may enlist in the Corps of En
gineers and do the kind of work he is
qualified to do and likes to do. Often
an enlisted man finds that his basic
pay in the Corps of Engineers is
highen than that he had in civilian
life.
Persons unable to make contact
with the' visiting Engineer Recruiting
Officer are urged to write the Wil
mington District Office for additional
information regarding the excellent
opportunities open to skilled con
struction workers between the
of 18 and 45.
Kenansville Has
Election Mix-up
Kenansville, N. C., May 17. The
citizens of this county seat town
held their biennial municipal election
on May 11, but they haven t settled
the office holding business by a long
shot. They since have discovered
that:
J. R. Grady, who was elected may
or by a six-vote majority, is not reg
istered as a qualified voter of the
town. v.
One member of the board of alder
men, E. C. Tyndall, also is not a le
gally qualified voter.
Not only that, but they held their
election a week late, according to
regulations prescribed by the State
Legislature for municipal elections.
' Now they don't know who' should
hold office, the incumbents or the
newly-elected officers.
BUY MORE BONDS TODAY!
Good Advice
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Hail! Hail!
Don't Wait Until the Hail Has Come
and Ruined Your Crop. Insure NOW
and Be Protected.
Drop In and Let Us Talk This Matter
Over. It Will Pay You.
J.C.AVERY
Insurance and Real Estate
u, SELMA, N. C.
Eiit-Sacrificfng
N on-Essential Calls Helps
Clear lines for Vital War Calls
You bet it's pleasant to talk
with friends over the telephone,
just as it was pleasant to take
those long Sunday afternoon
rides when we had plenty of
tires and gasoline.
But social calls must be
handled over the same local
telephone facilities as war calls.
There is a definite limit to the
number of calls these facilities
can handle at the same time,
and when more calls are made,
some must wait.
With telephone equipment
already burdened with war calls,
non-essential calls may delay
necessary calls, so we are re-
questing your voluntary co
operation to reduce unneces
sary calling.
Under normal conditions we
would expand our facilities to
care for the increased volume
of calls, but we cannot do that
now because the needed ma
terials are going into war
weapons.
So won't you help by making
fewer local calls? And when
you must make a call, won't
yon please try to make it as
short as possible? .'
Soother n Bell Telephdiie
:D TELEGRflFH CCPHJ
I have just returned from a tour of several Furniture Manu
facturing Plants and expect to make another soon.
My advice to you is this: if you are planning to buy Fur
niture, QO IT NOW. Come i in and make your Selection NOW.
Large stock to select from. Ped room, living room and odd
pieces.
A Small deposit will hold your suit for future delivery
as long as August or September.
To be sure you will get what you want, buy now on
HUB'S lay-a-way plan.
Come in and let's talk it over.
Economy Furniture Co.
HUB BROWN Selma, N.
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THIMBLES, ETC.
BEAN BEETLE SPRAYERS
and Plenty of ROTENONE Powder
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HARDWARE SELMA, N. C.