Y THROUGH IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES' ” L1 'A-1 - A BE' 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. RENEW YOUH SUBSCRIPTION