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■^SLANTS By J. S. Merritt or Dub Hobgood, one or the other. Bowl Over Now that the bowl games are over for about twelve months we all can settle down and think about basketball 01 either you can start thinking of baseball as spring training will start in about thrfee months. It would have been nice to have seen a bowl game, but they all were so far away that it was almost an impossible task to get from Roxboro to one of the games and quite a bit of money and about one week’s time. Anyway, Roxboro people had seen about all of the foot ball that was neccessary. This city is close to Durham, Ral eigh, Chapel Hill and Wake Forest and you can see just as good football there as you can anywhere else in the world. If you live in this county and like football you are in deed fortunate. Christmas Golf Summer or winter its about the same as far as golf is con cerned. Last Sunday found approximately thirty golfers on the Roxboro course and although it looked like rain every minute they all stuck by their clubs and had a good time. The Roxboro course is in much better shape than it was last summer and is improving each day. By next summer it should be in excellent shape and the greens will be better. Duke’s Basketball Duke University’s cagers went back to work Monday night to make preparations for their return to the cage wars which will start when Lehigh’s Engineers come to the new gymnasium Friday night. The clash with Lehigh will be just the starter, for dur ing the week following the Blue Devils will blast into the pre tournament Conference campaign with games with David son, Wake Forest and Maryland. The Wildcats will be met in Winston-Salem Monday night, Wake Forest here Wednesday night and Maryland at College Park Saturday night. No one knows yet what Duke has in the way of basket ball. The team rates fairly good, but the boys have not yet k been exactly triedout. They will be before the season is over. We do now what the Duke freshmen have. They have plenty. ADVERTISE IN THE Time: STANFORD DIDN’T LEAVE ANY ’HUSKERS STANDING Hk P~— Pasadena, Calif.—High praise for the rival Rose Bowl teams ■?****& / came £rmo the dressing rooms Jg| / after the 21-13 Stanford victory . / over Nebraska today. i J braska man on his feet when that R Kmetovic made his touchdown R run against us,” said Coach Lavv- \ rence M - (Biff) Jones, refening to Ralfback Pete Kmetovics 40- Smart selling reaches direct yard punt runback for a score to the consumer! Let us help i n the third quarter, you plan more effective cata- Coach Jones praised the Stan 7°SS - fords for their speed and briliant 0 . P as s defenes. He singled out Quar- I ©TSOI! UOUntV terback Frankie Albert and the! rp* rest of the Stanford backs, and 1 imeS handed Palmer and Meyers com pliments for their line play. i^.»».......................... H m 111 Iff BEST WISHES | t a We have many private individuals and f i *< I business organizations among our cus- J +• sii tomers in this city and county. To them f f:i I we say Happy New Year. And to you j f; KS with whom we haven’t as yet done busi- * jBl ness, we also extend the hope that 1941 % | will serve you well—and give us a + % chance to serve you. ♦ i north End Service Station f ♦ O. W. Long, Proprietor J SPORTS OF THE TIMES Up'tO'the'Minute Sport News Solicited PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. W. A. Sergeant (Continued from Front Page) during all its years of service. The life history ot Sergeant and Clayton’s, as its two surviving | proprietors might observe, is their life history as well and is by subtle association connected with all that has happened in Roxboro during the past half-cen tury. Like his Clayton partner friend, Mr. Sergeant was born in Person county, spending his first year (1879) on his father’s farm near Leasburg. In the next year Capt. James T. Sergeant and his wife, the former Sarah Margaret Barnette, moved to Roxboro, bringing son Alex with them and establishing residence in a house on Depot street, now site of Community hospital. But Alex, although having ad- ( vantages of town life, was not a wealthy boy and his education was limited to such schooling as was offered by the Roxboro aca demy, a similar academy at Bur lington, and private tutoring a' few months at night by the Rev. E. McGee Shields, Presbyterian minister in Roxboro. This book learning, plus experience gained in business, constitutes his train ing, says Mr. Sergeant, who seems to be unaware that he is now a completely educated man, des pite earlier limitations. First gainful interruption of educational processes came to the boy at the age of 11 when he went to work in Noell brothers Print Shop, operated by the late J. A. Noell and the present editor of the Roxboro Courier, J. W. Noell. Chief pride of the shop at that time, in 1890, was an old Wash ing hand press. To the boy, Alex, who was so small that he had to stand on a box to reach the type box, that machine was a won derous thing, but unlike many ir. the business, he found that ink Happy New Year As another year approaches, we wish for you the Best of Everything. We hope that we have served you well in the past and ask the privilege of continuing to do so in the future. Our Policy has always been to sell the best foods that the market af fords-at the lowest possible prices. Clayton & Stewart SUCCESSOR TO SERGEANT & CLAYTON A. W. Clayton and W. E. Stewart did not “stick to his fingers.’’ After about a year with Noell brothers, young Sergeant enter jed Burlington academy, staying j until he was fourteen, when he I then went to work with J. .A. Long, Son and .Company, general merchants, where his father was for many years bookkeeper. With' money saved from his ! prinf-shop year, the boy Alex pbought the first bicycle in Pei-, j son county. It was a “beauty. | with larger wheels than those j now in use, and solid rubber | tires.’’ | Putting away many boyish thi | ngs, he remained for seven years , with the Long company. Mr. I Long, banker, merchant subse quently textile executive, had an j interest in the W. J. Johnson gro | eery company, doing business |in the location afterwards oc j cupied by Sergeant and Clayton, iln 1902 Mr. Johnson died and Mr. Sergeant, with A. W. Clay ton, then connected with the Johnson store, bought an interest in it, with Mr: Long continuing as silent partner, under the firm name of Sergeant, Clayton and Company. Four years later Ser geant and Clayton bought Mr.! Long’s interest and the company has continued under the name employed until this week. Roxboro people are glad to know that part of the old name will remain. New associate in the business is W. E. Stewart, who has been with the firm for two decades, and Mr. Sergeant, who wishes to thank all of his friends and patrons for past loy alty and friendship, has asked that the same courtesies be ex tended to his old partner and to Mr. Stewart, who has purchased the Sergeant interests. With the new firm will remain the present personnel, Miss Biv er s Winstead, book-keeper, and W. A. Williams and C. W. Hol man, and Charlie Springfield, Negro helper and delivery “boy.” who has only been there thirty years, all the way from horse drawn delivery-wagons to motor truck carriers. Charlie, as Mr. Sergeant says, is known to all customers and is a vital part of the tradition established by the firm. As retiring partner in the sec ond oldest grocery in Roxboro, there is much Mr. Sergeant could "tell concerning whims of custo mers and the ins and outs of trade, but gentleman-like he prefers to keep these remarks off the rec ord. Although he is a bit bald and wears glasses, he’s young looking yet and says he is going to enjoy farming and renewing health and old friendships. His first wife, Miss May Newell, of Roxboro, by whom he had one son, Henry Sergeant, of Durham, died a number of years ago, but he and his second wife, who was Miss Lucy Alice Wharton, of Ruf fin, have a home on Academy St. an dboth of them expect to see much more of their friends than they did while Alex was so much engaged in business. It is very probable, too, that Mr. Sergeant, who has strong religious convictions and believes divine guidance should be sought at all times, will devote much of his new-found leisure to Edgar Long Memorial Methodist church, where he has membership, and was for many years a member of the board of stewards. Also claiming his attention will be the Roxboro Rotary club of “which lie is past president. In former years he was master of Person Lodge 113 and was councilor of the Longhurst chapter of J. O. U. A. M. But right now, the way to get him started talking is to bring Statement v t of Condition of The Peoples Bank, Roxboro, N. C. AS AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS DECEMBER 31, 1940. RESOURCES: Cash & Due from Banks $667,387.43 U. S. Government Securities 203,603.15 N. C. State Bonds 104,230.87 Municipal Bonds 125,216.66 'lnterest Earned on Bonds 3,483.98 Loans & Discounts 603,658.17 Banking House, Furniture & Fixtures 16,525.45 Other Real Estate Other Assets ' 10 ' 85S18 209.02 $1,735,173.91 LIABILITIES Capital Stock, Common „ . t , , 100,000.00 Capital Stock, Preferred • , 25,000.00 Surplus tt ii- .. , „ 40,000 00 Undivided Profits . t> j. • 14,512.59 Reserve for Retirement of Preferred Stock Fund Reserve for Interest, Savings, Unearned Interest Tax Deposits ’ 7 ’ 36915 1,548,086.65 1,735,173.91 MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION up the past history of his county, his people and his store: it’s a long while since September 1902, but Alex Sergeant remembers it all, with the vividness of time the present, and with a zest for living such as he must have had when he bought that first bicycle. | Announcing ! 4* 4* | I wish to announce to the public after being * % with G. W. Thomas Hardware for 14 years, I * % have bought an interest in Charles Holeman & Co. * % and will assume my duties there Monday Jan 6th. * t If in any way I can serve you, it will be a pleasure 1 % * | Coy Holeman | t**************.^*.** | Happy 1941 I I (1 lhink of us — an jd °f our kin d | | thoughts of you, this New Year’s % | NEWYEAR and a,wa y s - I I * X * % + f Visit us for your service station * t % X needs in 1941—we give service * .j, *:* % and like it. * * * | Belvin’s Gulf Service j | Longhurst Road Belvin Barnett, Prop. % 4» t THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 194 f An All-American Case. ROXBORO DINER A cooperative order for more than one hundred dollars worth of fruit trees has been placed by 4-H Club members of Edgecombe County, reports P. H. Jameson, assistant farm agent.
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