Chautauqua Week Opens With Big Lineup In Town
Chautauqua tents rise on Main street for a five day program beginning Thursday with two daily shows at 3 and 8. J A Conlin supervises, M T Duff advances, and the Womans Club handles tickets. Highlights include Sun Up, Skidding, Facts and Fancies of 1929, Burns of the Mountains, and Capt Dinnie Upton.
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J. A. Conlin
Main Street
M. T. Duff
Chautauqua
Womans’ Club
Agnes Kellerlane
Burns of
Dinnie” Upton
Carolina Mountains
New York
Carolina
Broadway
Junior Town leads Chautauqua week for youth citizenship
Wins Prix D Rome parades and contests and stunts create a gala week for children at Chautauqua. Junior Town lets boys and girls elect a mayor, marshal and town clerk and learn citizen responsibility. A capable junior supervisor leads the department today.
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Chautauqua
Marshall
Fruit Fly Search Aids Containment Effort In Raleigh
In Raleigh May 27 authorities warn that any fruit with small worms or maggots should be suspected after the Mediterranean fruit fly discovery in Florida. Citizens are urged to send affected fruit to Dr. R W Leiby or the Washington Bureau of Entomology. State leaders emphasize cooperation with county agents and local departments to prevent spread, noting quarantines and the pest’s damaging impact on peaches, plums, pears, apples, citrus, peppers, tomatoes, melons, figs, and grapes. The life cycle lasts three to four months, with females drilling into fruits to lay eggs and maggots consuming the interior.
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Raleigh
N. C
Florida
R. W. Leiby
Bureau of Entomology
Washington, D. C
Dean I
Schaub
State College
State Department of Agriculture
Courageous Child Nellie Meets a Bonnet Visitor
A four year old girl named Nellie studies a new bonnet and calmly replies that although Aunt Mary calls it a perfect fright, it does not frighten her. The observer notes Nellie’s composed reaction to the visitor’s bonnet.
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Nellie
Presence of Mind The newspaper humorist stayed late
A humorous anecdote describes a reporter working late as the old man awaits the morning paper. The humorist explains they are delaying for an important decision, and the father muses about whether the daughter and he will keep house or live with him.
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Redpath Circuit
Pat French
Balkans
Jugo Slav Tamburica
Jessie Rae Taylor
Staples the Great
J. A. Burns
Oneida College
Kentucky
Burns
T. Dinsmore Upton
Frank Elwood Gordon
Doctor Gordon
D Tor Conwell
Europe
Forest City, N.C
Rome
John M.sitton
Greenville
Sinton
Yale
Freddy
Oakland
Abcorbert
the Arrow Sales CO
Forest City, N. C
Wu YU
Nu Grape Bottling Co
Nia
Tony Gs
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