LUltKBCKG COTTON Cotton was worth 9 1-2 rent"* pound iu L*uf?burs ?? ye?l?rday. The Times THE COUNTY v THE STATE k THE UNION STOP MONEY 1-i-oiu LraTing I.nui-buig By AdveHiaiiig la The TIMES YOLUMN LX1X SIBS< R1PTION $1.30 a Tsar COUISBURO, X. CAROLINA KK1DAY. APttllj 211, 1U38. (EIGHT PAGES) NCMiJKR II COUNTY CONVENTION MAY 14TH PRECINCT MEETINGS SATURDAY, MAY 7TH State Convention Thursday, } May 19th in Raleigh At City Auditorium? Chair man Griffin Makes Official Call ? List of. Delegates Allotted, to Each Town shiP . Chairman Edward F. Griffw of the Franklin County Democratic Executive Committee announces the call for a County Convention to be held In the Court House in Loulsburg on Saturday. May 14th at 11 o'clock a, in. ? Preparatory to this convention all townships in Franklin County are urged to hold their precinct meetings on Saturday afternoon. May 7th. at 2 o'clock and elect delegates to the County Convention and to elect a township committee. The number of delegates to the Coun ty Convention will be found iu a t?ble given below. The towuship committee is composed of fi.ve men and five women. This com mittee will meet immediately af ter the precinct meetings and name a chairman, a vice chairman and a secretary ? the vice chair man is supposed to be named from among the lady membfers. Each township is entitled to name an alternate for each dele gate and the number of delegates the township is entitled to in the County Convention is based on the Dotal vote cast for Governor in ihe last general election. In the table will be found the division of the State delegation by townships which may be adopted by the Convention. The table fol lows: 19:56 Delegates Vote Co. State Dunns No. 1 .121 13 2 Dunns No. 2 259 10 2 Harris 275 11 2 Youngsville 409 16 3 Franklinton 806 32 5 Hayesville 99 4 1 Sandy Creek 327 13 2 Gold Mine 355 14 2 Cedar Rock 459 18 3 Cypress Creek 114 5 1 Louisburg 1009 40 -7 This is the time foe the people to take a part in making the par ty platforms and activities what they wish it to be by going out and taking a part first in the pre cinct meetings, then through their delegates the County Convention and the State Convention. At the County Convention the delegates will be selected for the State Con . vention to be held in Raleigh at 12 o'clock on Thursday, May luth, ill the City Auditorium. Don't fall to attend your pre cinct meeting, elect your delegal es and alternates and your town ship committees and send these lists in to Chairman E. F. Griffin immediately. MRS. ALLEN ENTERTAINS The Current! Literature Club met at the home o f Mrs. T. K. Al len on Tuesday afternoon. ? The study topic for the after noon was "Village Annals." Mrs. V. R. Kllby gave a sketch of the life and village of Charlotte Pren tiss Browning. The life of Mary Ellen Chase* with a background sketch of the village in which she lived was presented by Mrs. M. S. Davis. _ The members present _ were: Mrs. W. H. Pleasants. Mrs. Mal colm McKinne, Mrs. L. F. Kept, Mrs. M. C. Pleasants. Mrs. T. ,C. Amick, Mrs. M. S. Davis, Miss Mary Yarborough, Mrs. Mac Fur gerson, Mrs. V. R. Kilby and Mrs. T. K. Allea. Mrs. P. C. Pdftue was a guest at'the meeting. WT Mr. M. S.% Lancaster and fam ily, Miss Leland Matthews and Mrs. ThilmaX'ook. of Ooldsboro, visited his parents', and friends in and near Louisburg the past week end. Program At The Louisburg Theatre The following Is the program at the Louisburg Theatre, begin ning Saturday. April 30: Saturday ? Double Feature ? 3 Mesquiteers in "Call Th^ Mes quiteers," and Buck Jones in 'Hollywood Roundup." Cliao. 3. "Lcne Ranger," also Prize win ning technicolor, short. "Thf> Man Without a Country." Sunday ? ? Grace Moora and Melvyn Douglas in '?I'll Take Romance." Monday ? Victor McLaglen. Louise Hovick and Brian Donlevy in "Battle of Broadway." Tuesday ? Kay Francis and Pat O'Brien in "Woiiien Are Like That." Wednesday ? Will Rogers in The County Chairman." Thursday and Friday? Dorthy Lamour and Ray MiUand in "Her Jungle Love." Sea well Is Named To Supreme Court Attorney (irnrral Tukes Seat of ljate Justice Connor ? Mc.Mul lan Elevated Raleigh. April 26.? Attorney General A. A. P. Sea well was ap pointed by Governor Hoey today to succeed the late Associate Jus tice George W. Connor on the Su preme Court bench. Harry McMul lan, assistant attorney general, was eleviated to Seawell's post. Plans have not been announced | (or administering the oaths ot of. flee. McMullan indicated, however, that he and Seawell might be t sworn intat a single ceremony. McMullan will name his own j successor as assistant attorney j general at a later date. The governor's appointments j came as no surpise to many state j officials, a large number of whom had indorsed the attorney general and his assistant for the posts. 1 One official even had gone so far t as to send a rabbit's foot to Sea well and McMullan. More than a score of other per jsons also had been recommended: for appointment to succeed Jus tice Connor, who died unexpected- \ ly of a heart attack Saturday. "A large number of worthy and | capable men were presented, but ! I could name only one man, and I finally decided to select the attor- j ney general," Governor Hoey ; commented. Seawell and McMullan will serve in their new capacities until the November general election. The Democratic and Republican executive committees will nomi nate candidates, whose names will be placed on the general election ballots. If precedent is followed, how ever, Seawell and McMullan will be nominated by the Democratic committee, which is tantamount^ to election in North Carolina. Seawell. despite his 73 years, is J one of the most active slate of ficials. A native of Moore county, j though his place of nativity now is in Lee. county, he comes from . the central portion of the state ? a section not represented on the court. After serving five terms in the general assembly, he was ap pointed assistant attorney general 1 in 1931 and attorney general in 1935. McMullan is 53 years old and a native of Hertford. He has served in the state senate, as head of the j sales tax division of the depart- 1 inent of revenue and as chairman ! of the industrial commission. He; was appointed assistant attorney general two years ago. Registrars And Poll holders At a meeting of the Franklin [County Board of Klection held ill l.ouisburg on April 16. 1938. the j following were named as election officials for the coming primaries laud election: The first named in! each township is registrar and thel 'last named is the republician, member: Dunn. No. 1 ? J. O. Williams. J., F. Perry, J. R. White. Dunn. No. 2? C. E. Pearce, A. D. Mills. Obie Baker. Harris ? Oscar Hagwood, J. B. Wilder, W. R. Young. Youngsville ? C. C. Winston. G. E. Winston, E. M. Mitchell. Franklinton ? Ernest Moore, J. B. Kearney, B. B. Pruitt. Hayesville ? R. G. Wynne, Jr., J. H. Goodson. N. H. Ayscue. Sandy Creek ? G. B. Egerton. John Foster, Walter Ball. Gold Mine ? Austin G. Fuller. T. R. Gupton, John Lanier. Cedar Rock ? Ira Inscoe. Arch Wilson. J. C. Bartholomew. Cypress Creek ? J. A. Boone, J. M. Harris. A. N. Wilder. Louisburg ? John W. Strange, Cary Howard. Sr., Hugh Hight. Mrs. John A, Tucker left this week for Philadelphia, to enter a hospital for treatment. She was accompanied by Miss Pearl Pearce. Harold Cooley To Deliver Address At K?lw?rd Best High School 'Commencement? Dr. I.. K, Kent To Preuch Biic<'uliiureute Ser mon, Sunday, May I Principal R. E. Tlmberlake an nounces the following program for Commencement exercises at Ed ward Best School: Baccalaureate Sermon May !. atL 11:00 o'clock. Preached by Dr.'f Kent, of Louisburg. Class Day exercise. May 3 8 : 00 1 o'clock. Graduation Exercise. May 5. 8 j o'clock. Address delivered by Hon. Harold D. Cooley. Elects Officers Franklin County Memorial Asso ciation Holds Annual Meeting ? Makes Arrangements For Memorial Services With quite a good number pres- : ent Franklin County Memorial Association held its annual meet-' ing on Tuesday afternoon in thei Commissioners rooms and besides' electing officers for another year, j made arrangements for the An nual Memorial Services to be held on Sunday afternoon, May 29th, at 2:30 in the auditorium of the Court House. At present Chair man C. E. Jeffreys of the Arrange ments Committee had not secured a speaker, but expects to do so and make an early announcement. All present were very enthusias tic in this memorial work and are especially interested in the en thusiastic activity of all members! of committees. The officers elected for the com ing year were as follows: President ? W, R.* Mills. ?! 1st Vice President-^-C. E. Jef freys. 2nd Vice President ? H. F. Ful-i ler. " ' 3rd Vice President ? M. E. Wat kins. Treasurer T. K. Stockard. Secretary ? Mrs. H. W Perry. Assistant Secretary ? Mrs. Ho chelle Earle. Vice Chairman Arrangements Committee? W. L. Lumpkin. ! Morton-Welch Invitations have been received as follows: "Mr. and Mrs. Robert Henry Welch request the honour of your! presence at the marriage of their daughter, Lina James, to Mr. Wil-i son Bunyan Morton, on Saturday, the twenty-first of May, at eleven o'clock in the morning. Baptist Church. Louisburg, North Caro lina." No invitations are being issued in Louisburg. The bride-to.be is the attrac tive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. | H. Welch and is very popular among a host of friends. The groom-to-be is the son of( the late Dr. and Mrs.. W. B. Mor-j ton, and has proven his efficiency j in a responsible position he holds' with the government Soil Conser vation Department. He is capable and efficient and is popular among j his many friends. The coming events will be ; watched with much interest' by the many friends of this pouular young couple. Scout Field Executive Kenneth Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Davis, who attended, the school for Boy Scout Execu-; tives at Mendham, N. J., has been' appointed Stout Field Executive: with headquarters at Huntington,1 W. Va.' Mr. Davis is a young man of exceptional ability and energy' and is well trained in this work and his many friends here feel sure of his success and extend con gratulations A VERY ATTRACTIVE POOL IN LOUISBURG This attractive pool Is from the yard of Mr. and Mrs Fred Leon ard-. In Loulsburg The pool Is made of rock Just back of the pool is a small rock garden. Any yard would be more beautiful j and enjoyable with such an attrac ttve addiMon Graduate Fellowship BlTh Oil. I. Greensboro, K. C. ? Miss Ruih Gill, of Kittrell, a senior at Woman's Collect of the University of North Caroliqu. has been award ed a graduate fellowship in Physics by Duke University, for Mie 1938-1939 session Miss Gill has been an outstanding student In Physics while at Woman's Col lege, and "Will work toward a mas ter's degree in. that subject. She is president of the Physics Club at Woman's College this year, and Is also president Qf the Sigma Chap ter of the Wesley Players. She is the daughter 4* Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Gill. | HEAQEN FOUN^ GUILTY JEFFREYS jOUND GUIL TY SIMPLE ASSAULT Adopt Resolutions In Res pect Justice Connor's Death ? Court Adjourns Saturday Afternoon. Th% April term of Franklin Criminal Courtfcame to a close 011 Saturday afternoon after dispos ing of the cases below and adopt ing resolutions relative to Justice Connors death. This was Judee Cowper's second visit to Franklin County and many of our people who recalled his former visit were glad to see him here again. He conducted his Courts in au easy and-pleasing manner, and his decisions were wisely and understanding^- ren dered. The many friends of Solicitor Bickett were delighted to see the splendid and able manner in which he handled his cases. The following cases were hand, led since our last report : Clarence Richardson plead guilty to larceny and receiving, 12 months on rqads. M. B. Jeffrey*, was found guil (y of assault and was given twen ty days in jail, Willie Williams. assault with deadly weapoqwith iutent to kill, sentence changed to suspended upon condition that defendant pay prosecuting witness $10 per month untal sufficient to pay doc tors and drug bills. Thurston Headen was found guilty of. assault with deadly wea pon with intent' to kill and was given 12 months on roads. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Whereas, during its present sit ting at this April term 1938, Franklin Superior Court, Hon. G. V. Cowper, presiding, news of the udden death of Mr. Justice George [w.,Qonnor, of the Supreme Court [of North Carolina, has just been i received * Now, therefore be it resolved" First, That this Court and the j Bar of Franklin County do hereby | express t'he deepest regret and sorrow tof the unfortunate passing of this ielor^J -ipan whose death is a to the Bench. the Bar and j the 3wUe. Second, That we extend to the I widow and family of Mr. Justice Connor, our sincere sympathy. Third, That a copy of this re solution be spread upon the min utes of this Court and suitably publication be made thereof. Fourth, That as a"* mark of re. spect and esteem for this disting uished Jurist, this Court do now adjourn for the day. CARRIES SCHOOL ELECTION Raleigh reports carrying the election tor a 17 cent school sup plement on Monday for the pur pose of extending the school tertn to nine moeUn and make other necessary supplements. The elec tion carried by a 681 ma/ority in a vote of 12,493. Responsibility breeds conserva tism Thad Eure To Deliver Address Hev. J. G. PhUli|*> to Deliver Htw laUurralr Sermon hi Uol?l Sand, i .1 Hi?h School ronmif iitrmfiil KxMdim The following announcement is made by Prin. W. O. lieed. con cerning the commencement exer cises of the Gold Sand High School: High School Play. Friday night, April 29, at 8:00 o'clock. Admls-; sion 10 and 20 cents. Baccalaureate Sermon. Sunday night, Slay 1. at 8:00 o'clock. The] Revprend J. G. Phillips, pastor Louisburg Methodist) Church, will deliycr the sermon Class Day Erercises, Monday [ night. May 2. at 8:00 o'clock. Ele mentary school operetta. "Polly Make-Belleve," Tuesday n^ght. May 3. at 8:00 o'clock. Admission 10 and 20 cents. Piano Recital and Seventh Grade graduation. Wednesday night. May 4. at 8:00 o'clock. The ' seventh grade graduation will follow the piano recital. High School senior graduation! [exercises. Thursday night. May 5. at 8:00 o'clock. Mr. Thad Eure. i Secretary of State, will deliver the address to the graduating class All exercises will lie in the au_ ditorium of the Gold Sand High ? School. The public is cordially In- : lvit?d to attend Mills Junior Senior Banquet The Junior class of Mills High ! School entertained in honor of the ! Senior class and other guests at their annual Junior-Senior ban jquet Friday night. April 22. The Home Economics department, j where the banquet was held, was arranged as a woodland scene from "Snow-white and the Seven Dwarfs." the t'heme of the ban quet. This idea was also beautiful ly carried out in decoratious, lim ericks. songs and music. The Toastmistress of the occas, ion was Miss Robbie Parrish, President of the Junior class, who 'graciously presided at the lian j quet. Immediately following the first (course, l'h? welcome was extend ed to the Seniors, the Faculty and honored guests by the Toastmis tress, who also toasted the Senior class. Frances Wiggins responded for the Seniors. The Faculty and I'nderclassmen were toasted by Clarence Bass and May Davis Res pectively. who are ot'her Junior ] class officers. During the second course of the banquet, Martha Grey King, in troduced by the Toastmistress. de lightfully told the story of the theme. "Snow-white meets the Seven Dwarfs." Other numbers on the program were the Junior .Sen ior greetings (exchanged songs), reading of liuierioks. Senior class history compared with Snow white's life, presentation of gifts to Snow-white and Prince Charm ing by Bobbie Parrish; and the school song. The menu consisted of fruit' cocktail, baked ham, creamed po tatoes. coru niblets in green pep pets, tomatoes with cottage cheese' and cucumber salad. Iced tea. hot .rolls, and strawberry short cake. The banquet was one of the mosti beautiful, most effective, and ino9t enjoyable ever held at Mills High, and the Junior class receiv ed warm praise for its thoughtful i planning. ; ? Mr. George Fuller, Misses Betty jCooper Davis. Adelaide Johnson, Mary Spencer and Dr S. C. John son were among those who went to Raleigh Friday night to hear |Gr)ace Moore, Thomas Dixon Speaker Frank - linton Finals Supt. (i . B. Harris announces the Franklinton Commencement; schedule as follows: Friday, April 29: operetta. Sunday, May 1: Commence ment Sermon. Kev. James A. Jon-j es. First Presbyterian Church, Henderson. Tuesday. May !!: Music Reci tal. Wednesday. May 4: Class Day Exercises on School I.awn at 4:00' p. m. Recitation . Declamation Contest*, Presentation of Seventh! Grade and Perfect Attendance Certilcates at 8:00. i Thursday, May 5: Senior Play. Friday, May 6: Graduation Exercises, Speaker Thomas Dixon. The senior class is composed of thirty members. They will leave Monday, May ft for the Nation's Capital via bus and boat, return ing Thursday. The school year has been a most successful one in all departments. I County redera tion Meets The Federation meeting of the different womens clubs of Frank, lin County met for a Joint meet ing Saturday morning at 10:30 in the Agricultural building. The meeting was presided over by Mrs. Spencer Dean. President and Mrs. Dunham Griffin. Secre tary and was opened by singing !the club songs accompanied at the piano by Mrs. W. S. Person. Rev. John Edwards gave the! j Devotional and Prayer. Business matters were taken up. and all voted on having the next Federation meeting in July in picnic form, plans to >ie made later. Reports of the different clubs were given and as many as pos sible were asked to attend the District meeting in Oxford on May 16. Resolutions of respect were paid I to tlje memory of the late Mrs. Ressie Hart Pippin who was an active member of the club at t'he | time of her death. The girls trio of Mills High i School. Misses Maxiue Bailey, Ann ' Allen and Bobby Parrish gave several selections accompanied by Mrs. O. Y. Yarboro at the piano. Mrs. E. F. Griffin, a guest of the club read a paper on "Charm" which was enjoyed. Dinner was served with the Mapleville club as hostess. After the dinner hour. Miss ( Pauline Smltd). of Raleigh, a Franklin County girl, was intro-J duced by Mrs. S. B. Nash. Miss Smith gave a talk on Flow er arrangements in the home. Mrs. R. Y. McPherson, also of i Raleigh, and President of the Ral-| ' eigh Garden clubs, gave a talk! oh out-door gardens. At the close of the session Mrs.! J. F. Mitchiner, in her graceful' manner, presented lovely corsages) to Misses Pauline Smith, Francis McGregor and Mrs. McPherson. .11,1, STARS DKFKAT C. C. The baseball season for the ! Louisburg All Stars has begun with a good start when they de feated the C C C boys of Frank linton Sunday afternoon at Frank lltUon with a score of 20-7. Edmonds pitched a very fine game for the winners. The 4ine-up for the All Stars were: Fuller and Newell, catch- j ers; Tucker, first base; Gillis and Fuller, second base; Dickson, short stop; Cameron, third base; Wall and Pearce, right field; Richardson, center field; G Ill-Is and Newell, left field. ATTRACTIVE ENTRANCE TO HOME This is the entrance to the hom e of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Inscoe, In i Cedar Rock. The flag stone steps combined with an upusUal treat ment of a rock post holding the mall box make a very attractive grouping. To t<h? left a well has been covered with a cement box. rose bushes and other shrubs are being trained to cover this. The bank to the right of the steps is planted with Iris, tulips, flox, ver blna. etc.. bMng so planned that flowers will be in bloom all the season. . ' 58 CANDIDATES QUALIFY FOR THE COMING PRI MARY. JUNE 4TH W. V. Avent, Clerk of Court Only County Office With out Opponent ? Four Con - stables Have No Opposi tion?All Townships Rep resented Fifty - eight candidates were found to be in the field tor Coun ty and Township offices when the tilings were canvassed by the County on Monday. The last) day Board of Elections of Franklin did not produce an extra ordinary run as happens so often. 'From the canvas it was learned that Willie V. Avent was the only one on the County ticket without opposition and entitled to certifi cation. There were four Consta bles to be certified by the Board as there were no opponents to O. O. Renn in Hayesville. G. S. Gil liam in Gold Mine, C. E. Moore in Cypress Creek, or Fred E. Frazler in Louisburg. Kobert F. Green, aspirant for the only place on the Board of Education to be filled this year also enjoys the honor of having no oppost'ion, but cannot be cer tified because this is a certiflca tion by voters for the Legislative appointment, and not for party candidacy for election in Novem ber. Although without opposition his name will have to be placed on the ticket. Messrs. E. 11. Malone and W. L. Lumpkin will "fight it out" for the State Senate from this Dis trict. this being a year that Franklin names one of t>he mem bers. In the race for the Hoiise there are M. Stuart ilavis. architect and engineer. Col. Claude L. McGhee, merchant. Capt. C. T. Nicholson, former mail carrier, and A. F. Johnson, editor The FRANKLIN TIMES. Possibly the race that Is creat ing the most int?erest at present is that for Sheriff in which there are five candidates. The canva* showed that John P. Moore, frank W. Justice, J. Henry Cash. John W. Harris, and Arthur Strickland ' would keep this trail hot. i in the Kecorder's court Judge | ship race will be found J. L Pal mer. H. C. Kearney and Hamil ton Hobgood. while W. N. Fuller and B. N. Williamson, Jr.. will race each other for the position of County Accountant^ The Coroner's job nasu't lost its charm and will not go begging this time as there are four aspir ants for this place of honor. In this race will be Paul Beasley, Roy Holmes. Josephus Leonard and K. A. BobbiM. In each of the five Commission ers District opposition developed with the center of the fight in Dis tricts 4 and 5. In District No. lr Dunns and Harris, J. M. Stalling* and M. H. Privett will oppose each ot-her. In District No. 2. Youngs vilte and Franklinton. S. E. Win ston and J. T. Sawyer will fight it out, as will also J. Z. Terrell and" D. O. Murphy in District No. 3, Hayes ville and Sandy Creek. In District No. 4, Cold Mine and Cedar Rock, T. W. Boone, W. C. Wilder and J. J. Lancaster will wage a three corner fight. Like wise in Louisburg and Cyprus Creek, District No. 5, will jolu'Tli a three corner free for all between P. S. Foster, H, T. Bartholomew and W. R. Bass. Harris and Cedar Rock Town ships will present the biggest Con stable fights with five entries in each while Franklinton will coma in a close second with four. In Harris H. C. Ayescue. Z. C. Whee ler, Charlie Richards, P. Mr John son and Jack Strickland will Tie against each other, while in Cedar Rock P. E. Dean, H. R, Wood, Joa Smith, Clinton Swanson and T K. Arnold will be at bat. In Franklinton, JvEd High, M. B. Hagwood, J. A. Huff and J. K. Woolbright will run it off. / In Dunns,- R. P. Pearce and B. B. Brantley will light for wins, and in Youngsville, John B. Young and R. S,_ Weathers will try it out. Roy F. Wella and K. E. Joyner will stage a game in Sandy Creek. It will be 'seen that with all these names the County trtcket will be of good size and make in teresting reading if names can constitute that, It will be interesting to thfe ?oters to know however, the Stata ticket will be small as only few contests In State and District! of fices occur. 1 i < \?;i> OF THANKS W^-wisli to extend our deepest thinks and appreciations to all those who rendered so many kind nesses and sympathy during the recent death of our husband 'and father. They will be long and ten derly remembered. Mrs. Ed. Ellington and family. Mr. John W. Hinsdale, ot Ral eigh, was a visitor to Lonlab?rc the past week, (

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