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IMPRESSIVE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN TRENTON
Final Preparations For Biggest And
Best Jones County Agriculture Fair
Indicate Well-Balanced 5-Day Event
Five dayB of competition and
entertainment intended to please
all who attend are on tap next
week when the third annual
Jones County Agricultural Fair
throws open its gate Monday
morning, October 25th. Final
preparations guarantee not only
the biggest but the best fair yet
held in Jones County. Exhibit
ors will take home $850 in prizes
when the final judging of the
\ many entries is completed.
Judging Wednesday
On Wednesday, the zbth,
judging of the many, exhibits
will be held. Prize winners
should take note that all premi
um awards will be distributed
Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Further notice is to be taken of
the fact that all exhibits are. to
be left in place until 9 a. m.
Monday, the 31st. Program Di
rector A. V. Thomas explains
this, by saying that in the past
the exhibits have been removed
Saturday but this year Commis
sioner of Agriculture L. Y. Bal
lentine is to visit the fair Satur
day afternoon and night and the
exhibits are to be left in place
so he can see them
Farm Machinery Day
On Thursday, the 27th, the
largest exhibition 'of farm ma
chinery yet held at the fair is fb
be given. Ten distributors; of
farm equipment from New Bern,
Kinston, Pink Hill and Deep Run
are going to show off their wares
and give demonstrations of the
techniques in mechanized
Friday Big Day
Friday will be the biggest day
of the fair for the young folks in
the county. All school-age chil
dren will be admitted to the fair
grounds free on Friday and a se
ries of contests and entertain
ments have been especially ar
ranged for their participation and
enjoyment. There’ll be a greased
pig race, a pie eating contest,
bubble gum contest and the an
nual 4-H Club poultry show and
sale will be held. This sale will
provide an excellent opportunity
for poultry owners to add some
pedigreed laying hens to their
present stocks. This is a program
sponsored by Se«*rs and proceeds
from the sale will be used to
purchase chicks next spring for
ten more boys and girls who will
in turn sell the best 12 layers
from their hundred chicks next
fall.
Marines Are Coming
Friday night the famous band
from ■ the world’s largest Marine
Gorps training base at Camp Le
jeune will give a one-hour con
cert from'7 until 8 p. m. The
commanding general of this
great training .center will be on
hand with his staff and a capaci
ty crowd is expected to hear and
see this talented and colorful or
ganization.
Saturday A Full Day
The final day of the fair, Sat
urday, ^the 29th, also promises
much in the way of entertain
ment and education. There will
be a sack dress review Saturday
afternoon, a husband calling con
test, a prize for the oldest person
present and prizes for the man
and woman with the most en
tries in the fair and there will be
another prize to the Home Dem
onstration Club having the most
exhibits per club member.
Beauty Contest Finale
At 8 Saturday evening the fair
will come to a close with an all
Jones County beauty contest in
which more than a dozen home
grown beauties will compete for
the title, “Miss Jones County
Fair of 1949.
Already entered by the follow
ing 4-H Clubs and Home Clubs
are the following competitors
for this honor: Daphne Davis for
the Spring Branch home club,
Martha Byrd for the Pollocks
ville-Maysville 4-H Club, Mar
tha Turner for the Comfort 4-H
club, Audrey Phillips for the
Chinquapin Home club, Maude
Howard, for the Tuckahoe home
club, Bobby Hargett for the Oak
drove home club, Helen Whit
field for the Pleasant Hill home
club, Alice Moore for the Amer
ican Legion Post, Melba Banks
for the Maysville home club, Lot
tie Chadwick for Foy’s home
club, Doris Waters for Piney
Grove home club, Vina Fay
Smith for Maple Grove home
club, Barbara Ann Mallard for
the MaUardtown home club, Ha
zel Moore for the' Trenton Home
dub, and the Trenton Rotary
club had not chosen its represen
tative at press time. '
VANCEBORO PASTOR
SPEAKS TO TRENTON
WOMAN’S CLUB 13TH
“The Value of the Home” was
the subject of the Rev. William
Crowder, pastor of the Vance
boro Methodist Church, when he
spoke at the October general
meeting «f the Trenton Wom
an’s Club last Thursday evening.
Mrs. D. M. Griffin, chairman of
the American Home department,
introduced the speaker.
Rev. Mr. Crowder emphasized
the importance of the physical
and spiritual growth of the child
in the home so that he may be
come a responsible member of
society.
At the business session which
preceded the program, Miss Myr
tle Brock, president, spoke brief
ly on the district club meeting
which was held in New Bern on
Sept. 30th. At this meeting the
clubs accepted the invitation of
the Trenton Woman’s Club to
meet with them in Trenton in
the fall of 1950.
Miss Brock welcomed two new
members, Miss Sallie Murphey
and Mrs. Mabel Wackerman.
Mrs. Jfimes Henderson, chair
man of the Education depart
ment, explained the plans made
by her group to entertain the
Trenton teachers at the Novem
ber club meeting.
The chairman of the Litera
ture department, Mrs. G. N. No
ble, told of arrangements her
committee had made to assist
Miss Hildegarde Brock in a
Book Fair to be held at the Tren
ton School during National Edu
cation Week, Wednesday and
Thursday afternoons from three
o’clock to five, and Friday eve
ning from 7:30 to' 9:30. Some
' books will be on
mg an aitistic Sketch o£> the
Trenton Woman’s clubhouse de
signed by Mrs. J. H. Pollock,
were distributed.
Following the meeting, Miss
Myrtle Brock, hostess for the
evening, served refreshments.
DOG THEFT CHARGE
IS BOUND OVER TO
SUPERIOR COURT
In one of the most widely at
tended hearings presided over
by Magistrate J. K. Dixon in a
long time, Floyd Johnson of Le
noir County was bound over to
Superior Court Friday afternoon
on the strength of testimony of
fered by W. A. Metts and family
in an indictment drawn charging
Johnson with larceny of Metts’
bird dog.
iNo witnesses tor Jonnson were
heard. The dog was allegedly
stolen November 2, 1948, and the
warrant was not issued until
September 1949. The case will
be tried at the December 12th
term of Jones County Superior
Court.
LOSS OF BARNS TO
FIRE IS CUT MORE
THAN 52 PER CENT
Jones County Agent A. V.
Thomas says final figures show
that loss of tobacco barns in
Jones County this year dropped
by more than 52 per cent from
last year’s 21 barns to only nine
this year.
Thomas says the biggest rea
sons for this, in his opinion, is
the-fact that farmers are getting
used to regulating properly the
automatic type curing units and
are taking more pains with the
barping and hanging of their to
POLLOCKSVILLE 6TH
gram: raises funds
FOR VENETIAN BLINDS
The sixth grade pupils of Alex
H. White School, Pollocksville,
at the start of school this year,
decided they needed Venetian
blinds to let in plenty of light
and air and keep out the direct
rays of the sun. They began im
mediately to raise the money
needed.
When the Pollocksville Rotary
Club gave a square dance at the
gymnasium, the sixth graders
and their teacher, Miss Julia
Whitty, sold drinks, sandwiches,
cahdy and cakes. Most of the
things sold were donated by the
pupils and their parents. Sev
eral parents help in the selling,
as well as a former teacher of
the school, Mrs. Annie C. Hughes.
This sale earned $16.
During this time the pupils
were bringing tobacco from
their homes. It came in bundles
of one, two, six and eight. Ev
ery morning the odor of tobacccx
was strong and there was a
weighing period. Pupils in oth
er rooms helped by bringing to
bacco, too.
John Booth of the staff of the
Big Star Warehouse carried the
tobacco to market. No floor
charges or fees were deducted
and the 6 th grade got checks for
$56.50 for their tobacco. Now
they have $72.50 and every mail
brings samples of slats and tapes
for their blinds.
The pupils are proud of their
achievement and very grateful
for the help they received. Par
ents, friends and the Big Star
Warehouse made their undertak
ing a success and have their
hearty thanks.
IN TRENTON (MV NEXT
THURSDAY, FRIDAY
For the first time in its history
the annual convention of the At
lantic Baptist Association will
be held in Trenton this year. On
Thursday and Friday, October
27-28, more than 400 delegates
from the 32 churches in the as
sociation are expected to gather
in Trenton.
The Association, which repre
sents more than 10,000 Baptists
in Pamlico, Craven, Carteret,
Onslow and Jones counties, will
transact the annual convention
affairs for the first time in Tren
ton.
On Friday the delegates will
be guests at a barbecue dinner
given by the congregation of
Trenton Baptist Church.
CATTLE CHECKED IN
JONES COUNTY FOR
BANGS DISEASE, T.B.
Dr. H. B. Nixon from the Fed
eral Bureau of Animal Indus
tries last week completed checks
for Bangs disease in all cattle in
Jones County over six months
ago. From 1158 animals checked
only four were found infected
with the disease and these were
immediately slaughtered. Con
current tests for tuberculosis re
vealed not a single case.
This was the first complete
check made of Jones County cat
tle since before the war and
County Agent A. V. Thomas says
it was a most creditable show
ing. The check also indicated
that there has been a consider
able increase in the cattle popu
lation of the county since the
time of the last check.
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