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IT YOU WOULD KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND YOU READ THE PERSON COUNTY TIMES—IT IS A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF PERSON AND ADJOINING COUNTIES.
VOLUME VnL PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1936 USE PERSON COUNTY PRODUCTS
Annual Red Cross Roll Call Is
Staged For Help Os Needy
Red Cross Draws No Distinction of
Race, Creed of Color; is an Or
ganization Designed to Help Those
Who Are in Need.
This is the time of the annual
Roll Call of the American Red
Cross. Its continuing program of
relief to disaster sufferers, of im
mediate care for those injured in
the home, on the farm and along
the highway, and the splendidly
human work of its devoted nurses,
—these things compel more than
admiration, they demand active
support through membership. Join
now through your local Chapter
and keep this army of mercy at full
strength. James C. Harris is county
chairman and will appreciate your
support.
The Red Cross draws no distinc
tion of race, creed or color. The
organized resources of its services
are restricted only to need. In its
eyes all people are equal who need
help. The Red Cross does not dis
criminate, it simply aids. This is as
true of tte| local Red Cross serv
ing this community as it is of the
national organization. If you want
to help your less fortunate neigh
bors the underprivileged every
where do so by joining forces
with this active agent for the re
lief of suffering through member
ship. The Red Cross calls the roll,
invites your membership, from
Armistice Day to Thanksgiving.
During the past year the Ameri
can Red Cross brought permanent
help to more than 131,000 families
by disasters which struck 39 states.
Onq hundred and five times the-
American Red Cross rushed train
ed and volunteer workers hun
dreds of nurses into the field in
the wake of flood, firt), wind, earth
quake and other catastrophes. The
hungry were fed, the homeless
sheltered, the destitute clothed and
the injured cared for as the “Great
est Mother” your Red Cross
stayed on the job until all persons
unable to hqlp themselves were as
sured of a livelihood. The Red Cross
was able to accomplish these things
only because you pledged your sup
port through membership last year.
Join now to enable the Red Cross
to relieve human distress in 1937.
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For Immediate Results
All Signs--
point in one
direction—
UP!
Not since ’29 have signs been so en
couraging. Automobile production is
up. Steel production is up. Machine
tool production is up. Car loadings
are up. Retail business is up. All the
news of the day points in one direc
tion—UP. City, town, and country—
it looks as tho this is going to be the
biggest fall since ’29.
Headlines point, but they can’t think!
You must draw your own conclusions,
jit is time to think soundly and step
up plans courageously.
It is part of our business to help, fi
nancially, sound business production
programs.
We will be glad to discuss your fi
nancial problems with yon.
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THE PEOPLE S BANK jifik
Roxboro, N. C.
flersonsMimes
Dorothy Dix
Says
“It is a criminal thing for any
man witn a wife and children not
to carry all the insurance he cam
afford. Especially it is criminal for
a poor man not to do so, because
that is the only possible way he can
protect tHepn from want in case of
death.
“Picture the despair of the widow,
who, weeping above the coffin of
her husband, has her heart grow
cold with fepr as she wonders how
she is to feed the hungry mouths of
her little ones, now that the bread
winner is gone, and how she is to
kefep a roof over their heads and
clothes on their backs.
“Surely any man must be lack
ing in every natural human im
pulse who would deliberately pre
cipitate such a fate; on his wife and
children. Surely if the dead can
know what goes on in this sad old
world of ours, hell itself can offer
no greater torment than for a man’s
spirit to sejq that, as the result of
his carelessness in not taking out)
insurance, the wife that he has kept
soft and comfortable is perhaps
scrubbing an office building on her
knqes and his children are running
barefooted and ragged, hawking
papers through the streets.”
THOMPSON INS. AGENCY,
Roxboro, N. C.
JIMMY CURRIER IS
WINNER OF CONTEST
Garland Pass, Jr. Won Second
Place in Baby Contest;
Other Winners Patsy
Carver, Bobby Burns'
and Shirley Long
Little Jimmy Currier, son of Mr.
and Mrs. G. R. Currier, and spon
sored by his brother, Ray, was the
winner of first place in the baby
contest put on by the Roxboro
Chapter of the Eastern Star, while
Garland Pass, Jr., sponsored by
Marian Pass, placed second. Third,
fourth, and fifth places respective
ly wer e held by Patsy Carver, Bob
by Burns and Shirley Long.
C.J. FORD WRITES
ON EROSION
Other Farm News From Negro
Farmers Given This
Week.
“As the Soil Goes, So Goes the
Town.”
Ther e is a great deal more to
this saying than the fun of saying
the “gingle.” Using it as a title for
an editorial in a recent issue of
Farm and Ranch, the editor has
well pointed out the wide-spread
significance.
The large cities of the country,
especially those in agricultural
areas, must quickly awaken to the
fact that their interest are not lo
cal if they are to continue to prosper.
When the soil in the small town and
small city trade area wastes away,
or becomes unproductive for any
other reason, that town immediate
ly feels the loss.
According to C. J. Ford, Negro
Farm Agent, Negro farmers of Per
son County are beginning to believe
the above saying and are doing
something about it. They are, as
never before, beginning to sow cov
er crops for the sole purpose of pre
venting blanket erosion during
winter and decreasq leaching dur
ing the same period. These crops
will be turned under as green ma
nure) in the spring.
Field Meeting At Nat ViUines
Mr. C. R. Hudson, State Agent, J.
W. Mitchell, District Agent, R. E.
Jones, Negro Club worker, along
with several Negro county agents
and farmers, met at the farm of
Nat Villines on October to wit
ness and observe a com demonstra
tion. The corn from the 5% acre
plot was shucked, measured and
housed during the demonstration.
An average of 55.5 bushels of corn
were produdqd per acre. This is
The Eastern Star wishes to thank
all parents whose children were
entered in th e contest; all the spon
sors who worked so willingly to
make the contest a financial suc
cess; and Jimmy Currier for mak
ing the chapter a gift of his prize
of five dollars.
:ijf LISTEN, ffl
GOOD WOMEN
Don’t let your old man out-talk you this timte. Come
right along with him to our store and pick out the kind
of stove or range you want.
We have the most beautiful and largest variety of rang
es we have ever had to pick from, and due to the little
overhead expenses we have we can give you better prices
than you can get even in the larger city stores. We have
as good quality Stoves, Ranges, Heaters and Heatrolas
as can be had.
WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY —
COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF
Roxboro Furniture Co.
CASH OR CREDIT
Court Street Roxboro, N. C.
more than twice the states’ average,
which is 22 bushels per acre. This
is the first demonstration to be con
ducted on this farm, but according
to Nat Villines it will not be the
last one. He is going out for 100
bushels next year. Ford states that
therq are 15 more demonstrations
to be measured yet.
Believe In Terraces
All Negro farmers, who can af
ford the mepns, are advised to use
the county terracing unit in terrac
ing land. Blanks were mailed dur
ing the summer, asking farmers to
give the number of acrtep which
they wanted terraced and could not
have the work done by the terrac
ing unit. More than 400 acres have
been listed according to C. J. Ford.
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High Stake.'
WHEN YOU
GAMBLE WITH
FIRE
You gamble with your
life and all your posses
sions! Don’t gamble
play safe take out
your Insurance Protec
tion now!
Walker Insurance
Agency
J. S. and BILL WALKER
Roxboro, N. C.
Cotton yields in Cleveland Coun- 1 -guispe-iD
ty have been reduced by the recent | o; snoq Suisnno sum
tires now-get 30^more
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City Service Station
Hassell Long Wyatt Monk
Roxboro, N. C.
f£||p|S|p-p When We Please
Y°u —We Are
Pleased —Not Before.
Tobacco Is Selling
HIGH
On the Roxboro market. That fact cannot be denied and
we are making splendid averages at our house.
Here are a few
Roy Rogers sold 390 pounds for $196.36
Average $50.00
A. J. Blalock sold 738 pounds for $367.02
Average $49.50
A. Y. Clayton sold 330 pounds for $188.60
Average $57.00
J. H. Kirby sold 792 pounds for $330.40
Average $41.50
Neathery Clayton & R. sold 69,0 pounds for $418.68
Average $60.68
COME TO SEE US AND
GO HOME HAPPY.
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Pioneer Warehouse
Roxboro, N. C.
Robert Hester T. T. Mitchell
SECTION
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NUMBER SIXTEEN