For The BEST PLACES To TRADE Read The ADVERTISEMENTS In The COURIER! vite<} to attend and join in the singing. Musical Comedy Farce Promises Good Entertainment "Cicero Steps Out", To Be Pre sented Friday Night By PTA, Shows Signs Of Real Enter tainment. The many comical situations that arise when "Cicero Steps Out" on the stage of Roxboro high school audi torium next Friday night at 8:00 P. M. will provide hearty laughs for all lovers of fine acting, interspersed with mirthful situations, good songs, and some fine music and dancing. Wallace Woods, as Cicero, is one of the funniest of the cast when he cap ers around the stage as a Janitorial professor. And Miss Winnie McWhor ter does excellent work as the elderly school teacher who is devoted to Cicero creates many situations that are chock full of mirth and mock-seriousness. Miss Rachel Bradsher and Billy Mon tague, as the romantic school girl and a life-guard-professor of botany, re spectively, will bring appreciative sighs from the audience with their real ly excellent interpretative work. All other members of the cast, speaking parts and dancing alike, have been working hard to make this one of the most successful performances ever giv en before local audiences. Sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association of the Roxboro schools "Cicero Steps Out" will be given at Roxboro high school auditorium on Friday night at 8:00 P. M. and admis sion will be 10c for children, and 25c for adults. The cast of characters is as follows: Simpson ? A supposed butler ? F. O. Carver, Jr. Prudence McWhiffle ? An elderly teacher ? Winnie McWhorter. Polly Stanton ? Popular student ? Rachel Bradsher. Ruth Ripley ? Polly's room-mate ? Virginia Puckett. Dr. Henry Bohunkus ? Head of Hill andale Seminary ? Coy Day. Mrs. Henry Bohunkus ? By far the better half ? Mabel Montague. Cicero Socrates Smith ? A janitor by necessity ? Wallace Woods. Charles S. Smith ? Professor by proxy ? Billy Montague. Dora ? who has trouble with her spect ? Nancy Bradsher. Peter ? Devoted to Dora ? Matt Long, Jr. o Agriculture Students Attend State Fair Thirty six agricultural students of Bethel Hill high school accompanied by their teacher, A. G. Bullard, spent Friday, October 18 at the North Caro lina State Fair. A tour of the swine, sheep, dairy cat tle, beef cattle and exhibits were made and many of the best animals in the state were there for us to see what other counties are doing. The tour ended with a visit to the main exhibit hall. The many types of exhibits here were especially good and taught us some good lessons. Most of the students attended the horse races in the afternoon and saw some of the fastest race horses ever brought to the state fair. o Petitions Are Being Circulated Asking For An Election Opponents Asking Commission ers To Submit The Question To The People On Monday, October 7th, the County Commissioners ordered a bond issue for $94,000, same to take effect thirty days after the first publication there of after its passage unless in the mean time a petition for its submission to the voters is filed under the provisions of the County Finance Act. Under the above provisions petitions are being circulated in the County, asking that an election be called. It will require, so we are informed, a petition bearing twenty-five per cent of the voters. Just what headway is being made with the peition we have not been informed. MORGANTON VISITOR HERE Mr. J. A. Brandon of Morganton, who formerly lived here, favored us with, a call this morning. We regret we were out when he called, as it is al ways a pleasure to greet old Person County citizens. Italian Chief at Front j sffiii HOME ... Above Is Field Marshall Pietro Badoglio, Ohlef of Staff of the Italian Army, who has Just arrived in East Africa to press the Italian drive into Ethiopia. Fifty-Six Years Of Service Celebrated At Birthday Party Missionary Society Of Long Memorial Church Passes Fifity-sixth Milestone Of Service To Community ONE CHARTER MEMBER IS NOW SURVIVING The Mary HamDnck Missionary So ciety of the Edgar Long Memorial Methodist church of Roxboro celebrat ed its fifty-sixth birthday Sept. 30, 1935. The Society was organized with on ly fifteen members. Of this number three survive with only one living charter -/nember, Miss Anna Webb of Roxboro. During al) these years the society has had a continual active ex istence. At first the pastor held the meeting but after a few years the lad ies were allowed to preside. The society Is named In honor of one of the most faithful and loyal members it has ever had, Mrs. Mary Hambrick, wife of Dr. W. R. Ham brick, who served most faithfully as Sunday School Supt. for about thirty years. The society has had a steady growth until today there are one hundred - seven members. Those members are divided Into five circles. Each circle hos a chairman and a vice-chairman and meets In the homes once a month. There are two young women's circles. Mrs. Margaret L. Teague has served as presiaent of the society for the past ten years. Under her splendid guidance and leadership this organ ization has done some very fine work. The society has made the Honor Roll for a number of years. At the birthday celebration a love ly cake bearing fifty-six candles was brought in. Appropriate toasts were given. The following was composed and given by one of the loyal mem bers, Mrs. S. O. Winstead. "Here's to our circles' birthday cake As we all gather around eager to par take. May we like it's candles burn Steady and Strong, When our flames flicker out. May others carry on. May we like it's candles increase every year. May the cake grow ever larger to All us with cheer. May the time never come when we pause to sup. There won't be enough of us to eat the cake up." May this society ever continue to erow and do much good and be as "A shelter of a great rock in a weary land," with the help and inspiration of our pastor and his good wife, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Herbert. Shall we go onward and up word. Mrs. J. Y. Blanks, Supt. of Publicity o ? Possesses Rare Old Blanket Mr. George Long Is the proud poss essor of an old blanket that was made by Miss Dlnsey Walker who died In 1909, and who was seventy-five years old at the time of her passing. The blanket was made before the Civil War and is thought to be at least sev- i enty-flve or eighty years old. I Wedding To Be Performed At Fair During Fair Week Ceremony Will Be Performed By The Pastor, Assisted By Flower Girls One of the outstanding events at the second annual Person County Ag ricultural Society Pair at KJoxboro will be the public wedding to be held on the free act platform. A young couple will be given a nice reward, and also a hope chest containing many valuable gifts. The ceremony will be performed by a Pastor, assisted by flower girls. This will be the most spectacular scene ever witnessed at any similar public event in this sec tion. O Scouts Help In Parking Cars At Association Meet ? Lone Star Troop Of Hurdle Mills Give Valuable Help In Car ing For Cars During The Meeting The Lone Star Troop of Boy Scouts, a group of which Mr. Banks Berry is Scoutmaster, and the only one at Hurdle Mills, lent valuable aid Wed nesday and Thursday of last week when they took charge of the park ing of cars during a meeting of the Mt. Zion Baptist Association at Ber ry's Grove Church. As the cars would come on the grounds one of the six scouts on du ty during the meeting would go with the driver and direct him to a park ing place. They so arranged the cars in a double line with a lane between that departing visitors had little trou ble getting out. It is estimated that about four hun dred attended the first day's session and about two hundred the meeting of the second day. Mr. Berry has been and is now do ing a fine work with his scouts at Hurdle Mills. He has an enthusiastic group who are ever willing and ready to help in any way that they can. -o Jalong Woman Passes Following Two Day Illness Mrs. Vaughn, In Bad Health /For One Year, Died Sun day After Illness Of Two Days. Funeral Today Mrs. Sue Vaughn, 49-year-old wife of Joe L. Vaughn of Jalong, died on Sunday morning at 4:50 o'clock fol lowing a two day illness with asthma. Mrs. Vaughn had been in bad health for about a year. Surviving beside her husband are three sons, Willie. Wal ter and Jesse Vaughn, and one daughter, Miss Ollie Vaughn, one sister Mrs. Ed. Miller, two brothers, Messrs. Jesse and Moore Long, and three grand children. . Funeral services will be conducted today at 4:00 P. M. from the home in Jalong with Rev. Hastz, pastor of the Longhurst Methodist Church, officiat ing. Immediately following the fun eral services Mrs. Vaughn will be laid to rest in Providence Cemetery. o Big Dividends We represent the Mutual Life of New York, the company that pays from $5.00 in dividends up to $30.00 per year. If you want_a guaranteed rate we can give you that in Ohio State. Pilot, Indianapolis or Travelers. After you have a policy with us you can deposit money at 4.25 per cent interest. We insure children from birth on with a policy Just like you can buy. It is in full force when the child passes age 5. In the average company the child has to be 10 years old, but it is not true with our good, strong com panies. KNIGHT'S INSURANCE AGENCY. O MR. SLAUGHTER WINS PREMIUMS Mr. A. C. Slaughter, who farms a i part of Mr. George E. Harris land, 1 was awarded first premiums en three grades of tobacco at the Danville To- < bacco Fair this year. Report Warriors Have Surrounded Italian . Fighters Force Of More Than 500 De scribed As Cut Off From Main Line By Danakils LONDON REPORT SAYS ETHIOPIANS REPULSED Suffered Heavy Casualties in Fighting On Southern Front; Coptic And Moslem Clergy At Aksum Surrender to Italians, Along With Minor Ethi opian Chiefs. Dessye, Ethiopia, Oct. 20. ? (Reuters) ? Horsemen arriving here today said between 500 and 700 Italians had been cut off from communication with the main Italian forces by Danakil war riors. The Danakils also were said to have claimed they had killed or wounded 200 Italians, and had captured two mule caravans which were bringing up ra tions for Italian forces. The troops reported cut off were said to be surrounded by tribesmen in hilly country about 15 miles from the French Somaliland border southeast of Mount Mussa Ali. There they have formed a square with two tanks in the center, the re ports stated. They were described as extremely short of food and water. SAY HEAVY CASUALTIES SUFFERED BY ETHIOPIANS London. Oct. 20 ? Heavy casualties occurred during fierce fighting on the southern front today, the Exchange Telegram agency's correspondent with the Italian forces reported. Italian airplanes reportedly flew ov er Ethiopian trenches at Dagnerei and Shillawe, on the northeast side of the Webbe Shibelli river, dropping bombs and spraying the Ethiopian troops with machine gun fire. Italian native troops, the corres pondent said, launched the attack and the Ethiopians resisted doggedly. Ital ians captured the Ethiopian positions only after fierce hand-to-had fighting. ETHIOPIANS SURRENDER TO ITALIAN COMMANDER With the Italian Armies on the Nor thern Front, Aduwa (via Asmara), Oct. 20 ? The clergy, of 200 Coptic and 20 Moslem churches in Tigre province and several sub-chieftains surrendered to Italian military rule today, following Gen. Emtio De Bono's proclamation that all Ethiopian churchmen and sol diers in this area who have not sub mitted within 10 days will be regard ed as enemies. The churchmen came out of the holy city of Aksum to make their submis sion. The sub-chieftains were accompan ied by their soldiers, armed with rif les. Most Important of these chieftains was Haille Marl am, whose father still is Ras Siyoum, commander of the northern Ethiopian forces. Mariam's father controlled 600 soldiers in the Essha region, later in the Mareb riv er valley on the Eritrean frontier. The priests who submitted today were dressed in purple, green and pink robes, embroidered with gold or silver, wore headpieces like loaves of black bread. They carried bishop's crooks and gilt Byzantine crosses which they offered to the Italian au thorities, some of whom kissed the crosses. Some of the priests were accompan ied by boys holding gaudy parasols over them and swishing flies with goat-tail swatters. Contingencies : being discussed a broad which ha^ve not occurred in this region include: No poisoned water wells, no emasculations, no indiscrim inate killing of prisoners and no use of gas or chemicals and no indiscrim inate bombing of civilans. Hold 500 Prisoners The Italians now have over 500 pris oners in barbed wire concentrations. Admittedly it is difficult to digerenti ate between civilians and warriors in this country where every able-bodied man carries a rifle and few warriors are dressed differently from civilians. The Italian forces steadily consol idated their positions along a 40-mile front from Aksum to Adigrat in prep aration for the first important clash with Ethiopian forces. Military sources, reviewing progress thus far, estimated that thirty or forty thousand Ethiopian troops lay in scat tered assemblages in he 100-mile area marked out for occupation straight ahead. However, the Ethiopians are believed to have 100,000 warriors be tween the borders of Eritrea on the east and An*io- Egyptian Sudan of the west.