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VOL. LII.
(Monday and Thursday)
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1935
(County Correspondents Solicited)
NUMBER 68
Operator Of Flower
Shop Victim of Bold
Daylight Robbery
John Meadows, With Compan
ion Held Up Thursday
While Enroute From Rox
boro to South Boston.
Loss Was Negligible
THIEVES LOCKED CAR
Mr. John T. Meadows, owner of the
Roxboro Flower Shop, with a compan
ion, Mr. Tom Gordon of Greensboro,
N C., were stopped by two bandits
Thursday afternoon shortly before six
o'clock while within two milei of
Fcuth Boston, Va , made to drive cut
on a lonely side road, searched for
money or other valuables ana Mead
ows was left stranded, the robbers
locking his car, both switch and doorE,
while they took Goidon with t^-m as
they departed.
Mr. Meadows said that he was on
his way to South Boston from his
business establishment here and - was
nearing his destination when a car
blew its horn to his rear. Upon pull
ing to his side of the road in order
to allow the other motorist to pass,
the men in the other car pulled a gun
on him and his friend, ordering them
to pull over to the side of the road.
After the cars had come to a stand
still, one of the bandits got out of his
car and into Meadows' ordering him
to proceed up a side road nearby until
they came to a lonely wooded stretch.
There they were ordered out and
searched. Meadows had fifty cents in
his pocketbook but had ten dollars in
his vest pocket. While driving along
he had managed to slip the ten-spot
into his shoe, and the bandits, though
searching him thoroughly, overlooked
the shoe getting only the fifty cents
in the bill fold. They got five dol
lars from Mr. Gordon.
After searching the two men the
bandits took the keys to Meadows' car,
locked both the switch and the doors
and departed, taking Gordon with
them. It is understood that they re
leased him about two miles this side
of High Point, N. C. Meadows immed
iately got in touch with South Boston
officials and a wide search has been
conducted for the thieves but no clues
have as yet been revealed.
It is understood that a farmer was
robbed of $106.00 in South Boston on
the same day and it is thought that
the same parties committed both of
fenses. Meadows said that one man
looked to be about twenty-five years
of age and the other about forty. They
were driving a Chevrolet with North
Carolina tags, the numbers of which
could not be ascertained by either of
the victims because the bandits were
careful not to let them see the li
cense plates.
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Observation Day At
School Of Dancing
Is Well Attended
Around a hundred visitors called at
the Rios School of Dancing Wednes
day to observe the different classes con
ducted that day. The students were
very happy to show their friends what
they had accomplished. ?
Willie Wynn Hardman won the
prize as best student of the beginners
class while Arline Newell won honor
able' mention as second best. Of the
intermediate class, Audrey Wright
won prize as best student and Fay
Harvey honorable mention as second
best. The advance class had Mary Lou
MacDonald as best student to whom
the class presented with a prize also
whilfc Ida Pleasant won honorable
mention as second best
Daisy Thompson and Mary Lee El
more won honorable mention as best
students of the adults beginners class.
Prances Critcher won a prize as the
best all-around student at the school.
The guests were met by Mrs. Law
rence Woods, and Mrs. Mary Hunter
Long Bradsher furnished the music.
The students are working very hard
and we hope that we may be able to
give the Roxboro public a good pro
gram during the Christmas holidays.
Observation day will be held the
last Wednesday of each month and
prizes will be awarded to the best stu
dent.
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POST PONED
The opening of Mrs. Drake's Kin
dergarden has been post poned until
9:00 a. m. Wednesday, October 23rd.
You are invited to visit the class
and enroll your child. The rates are
exceptionally, reasonable.
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Ooddard .perfects rocket Stabilizer
for stratosphere flight.
Thieves Loot
Movable Store
Early Sunday
Store Belonging To King and Humph
ries Cleaned Out By Maurauders.
A movable store belonging to Messrs.
Aubrey King and Earl Humphries was
looted and practically cleaned out by
thieves during the early hours of Sun
day morning. The store was mounted
on four wheels, much like a box -car,
and was estimated to have contained
approximately $75.00 worth of mer
chandise. Everything save a few sun
dry articles was taken by the robbers.
The young men carried a line of
groceries and other various and sun
dry articles as far as is known they
were making a success out of the busi
ness.
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Quarter Million
Pounds Sold On
Market Today
__
Good Sales Last Week And
Prices Most Satisfactory
Last week was the best week of the
market so far. and the way the farmers
are here today it looks as if this will
be the banner week. Monday morn
ing, bright and early, the farmers be
gan coming in with their tobacco and .
by sale time the first house, The Hyco ;
was practically filled, and the other
three filled up before they were reached
by the buyers.
We followed the sales a while and
prices seemed to be good, very few I
complaints and few tags tucked. It j
is estimated that the sales today will i
be well above a quarter of a million
pounds, and from now on you will
see farmers here from every part of
the County, and from other counties. |
Today a large load was here from near
Dunn, and the owner said he was com
ing again.
Sales last week averaged well, many,
yes very many, averaged well up in the
thirties, while some few averaged bet
ter than forty; while Mrs. J. J. Clay
ton averaged for her load at the Hyco
$43.20. You will find a page spread
on another page telling about the
Roxboro market and an invitation to
sell here. Be sure to read it.
Paralysis Victim
Passed Away Al
His Home Friday
?
Mr. Lewis M. Paul Died Friday
Morning Following Illness
Of One Week
Mr. Lewis M. Paul, 72, died at his
home four miles north of Roxboro Fri
day morning at 3:00 o'clock after an
illness of one week's duration. His
demise was attributed to paralysis.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Molly
Paul, and the following children, Mon
roe Paul, Mrs. Hallie Russell, and Mrs.
Molly Soloman.
Funeral services were conducted Sat
urday afternoon at 3:00 p. m., at the
Paul cemetery with Rev. R. E. Pitt
mann, assisted by Rev. C. E. Sullivan,
in charge. Pall bearers were: Ber
nice Howerton, George Duncan, Joe !
Owen, Clarence Owen, Johnnie B. Wal
ker, and Claude Curren. Flower bear
ers: Mrs. Sadie Satterfleld, Mrs. Queen
ie Carver, Miss Pauline Soloman, Miss
Minnie Lee Wheeler, Miss Jewel Wrenn,
Mrs. W. C. Owen, and Mrs. Bernice
Howerton.
Immediately following the services
Mr. Paul was buried in the Paul ceme
tery.
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Wreck Victim
Brought Home
Mr. Dallas Day, who has been con
fined in a South Boston, Va., hospital
since his car turned over on
the Roxboro - South Boston
highway about two weeks ago,
was brought to the home of his par
ents Sunday. Mr. Day suffered a !
broken neck and other injuries in the
accident and it is thought that it will be
some time before he will be able to
take his neck from Its confined cast.
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COMMUNITY SING
There will be a community sing at
the community house on the Olive Hill
School grounds next Sunday after
noon, October V7th, at 3:00 P. M.
Everyone is ii>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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.