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THE JOHNSTONIAN ■ SUN, SELMA, N. C. — THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, 194L
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Fashions On Parade
By WILLIAM A. STANCIL
Hollywood, California, Sept. 1—
Maybe Mussolini started it, I dunno,
but quite a discussion is going the
rounds of the press of this town. The
question is the propriety of women
■wearing slacks in the downtown
shopping district. Hedda Hopper
FOUR
OAKS
Bill Canaday, accompanied by Ray-
I mond Sugg of Princeton, spent a few
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famous actress and radio columist days last week in Char o e,
and mo"vie actress Marlene Dietrich
have written their ideas of this prac
tice pro and con. And Bill Henry,
famous war correspondent and radio
commentator and newspaper pundit
rose up to say that from his view
point slacks looked alright when com
ing in his direction but when viewed
on a receding figure, especially some
figures, they were not so hot.
In my opinion slacks are not so
terrible as some seem to think. In
these days when the market places
are crowded with women whose chief
coverage consists of shorts and a
brassier with the midriff exposed, a
neat suit of slacks is, by comparision.
Well dressed. There are instances
where the exhibitions are shocking to
the sensative observer. It is not un
common to see a young woman at
tired in shorts walking the streets
smoking a cigarette and leading a
small child. This always brings to
mind the effect of such acts on the
young generation. These styles of
dress bring to mind the contrast with
those of an earlier day. Back in the
gay nineties a women appearing on
the street wore a dress with a long
train that swept the ground as she
walked and to so much as to expose
an ankle was considered bad and to
even intimate that a woman possessed
a leg was terrible. I often wonder
what those bold bad men of that era
Who used to stand on the street com
ers on blustery days watching the
passing throng hoping to catch a
view of an exposed .ankle, would do
now. As is usually the case many im
provements have come with the ob
jectionable. In this fast moving age
how would a woman get along dressed
as custom required in the nineties, for
instance ?
The probable shortage in silk
stockings has brought about a serious
crowding in the store and shops
hereabouts and milady is finding run
troubles on stockings as well as in
them. Maybe the silk shortage will
acquaint our people with the fact that
cotton can supply its^ needs both in
Utility arid fashion.
Well, it looks as though the future
demands for clothing will be greater
in this area than ever before. Accord
ing to vital statistics recently releas
ed there is quite a boom in babies. In
the first six months of 1940 21698
babies were born in Los Angeles city
and in the same period of this year
the number was 23605. With this
natural increase in population added
to the great influx from other states,
which the state Division of Motor Ve
hicles recently estimated averaged
around 50,000 per month, will soon
make this one of the greatest con
suming centers in the world.
This section has been enjoying a
lot of its unusual weather this sum
mer. For some time it has been cool
and cloudy a great deal of the time.
It even j'ained a little a week or so
ago which is indeed unusual for
August. Never the less, the freedom
from excessive heat has been most
welcome.
Miss Geraldine Coats is spending
some time with relatives in Wash
ington, D. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Johnson, of Ral
eigh, spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Valton Barbour.
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Denning, ac
companied by a party of friends,
spent several days last week in Wash
ington, D. C., and Baltimore, Md.
Miss Faye McMillan returned last
Thursday from a visit with relatives
in Darlington, S. C.
Rev. R. L. Councilman visited
friends here Tuesday.
Mrs. Della Smith, of Burgaw, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. P. G. Keene.
Mrs. Albert Kene and baby, of
Maxton, is visiting Mrs. J. A. Keene.
Mrs. T. J. Cobb and Miss Blanche
Bradley spent a few days last week
with relatives in Lumberton.
Miss Ethel Mae Stanley spent last
week end m Roseboro.
Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Thornton, of
Goldsboro, were guests of Mrs. R. C.
Canaday Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Johsson, Miss
Peggy Johnson and Mrs. R. E. Stew
art visited Rev. and Mrs. R. L. Coun
cilman, near Rocky Mount, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Alton Massengill
visited their son, Roy Massengill, at
the Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh Mon
day.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sanders, Mr.
and Mrs. B. B. Creech visited Herman
Creech and family, in Tarboro, Sun-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Creech and
daughter, Anne, and J, B. Creech
spent Sunday in Rocky Mount with
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Gibson.
Thurman Massengill, of Camp
Wheeler, Ga., and Carlton Massengill,
of Charlotte, spent the week end with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Alton
Massengill.
Miss Mary Jean Barbour spent the
week end in Fayetteville.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Barbour, of
Fayetteville, spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. N. H. Barbour.
Mrs. R. E. Stewart spent Monday
in Raleigh.
Roy Barbour is improving nicely
following an operation.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Steed, Jr., vis
ited Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Steed, Sr., in
Maxton, Sunday.
J. D. Upchurch and Gilbert Grady
spent two days last week in Washing
ton, D. C.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Wilbanks and
emnized Sunday, August 31, 1941, at
8:30, at Washington, D. C., when Miss
Betty Pixton became the bride of
Shelton Johnson, formerly of Four
Oaks, N. C. Miss Pixton is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pixton of
Washington, D. C.
I Following a ■visit with the groom’s
family, the couple will make their
home in Washington, D. C.
— FO —
Business Mens Club
Meets At Holt Lake
The Business Men’s club of Four
Oaks held its monthly meeting at
Holt Lake Thursday evening with
the ladies of Corinth church serving
a delightful fried chicken supper.
H. B. Marrow, county school super
intendent, was the guest speaker for
the evening. His talk was on Voca
tional Training and proved to be both
interesting and enlightening.
— FO —
Home Demonstration
Club Met Monday
The Royal Home Demonstration
club met Monday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Delma Hardee near
Four Oaks.
Mrs. J. T. Greene had charge of the
program and gave a talk on “Child
Training.”
At the close of the meeting the
hostess served a salad course, sand
wiches, cakes and tea.
— FO —
Sunday School Dept.
Enjoys Weiner Roast
Members of the Intermediate De
partment of the Baptist Sunday
school enjoyed a delightful weiner
roast at Creech’s Tond, near Four
Oaks, Friday afternoon. Those pres
ent were: Miss Aids Keene, teacher;
Misses Elnora Rogers, Sarah Keene,
Virginia Johnson, Margaret Keene,
Jackie Smith, Imogene Brown, Doro
thy Stevenson, Velma Pierce, Willie
Tyner, Edna Barefoot, Zula Pierce,
and Worley Keene, Billy Berkholtz,
S. W. Brown, Jr., and Leo Johnson.
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Four Oaks School
Faculty Numbers 44
When the Johnston County schools
begin their 1941-42 term on Septem
ber 18, a faculty of 44 will take over
the immense task of teaching approx
imately 1900 pupils, who enroll in
the Four Oaks school each year. On
the opening date J. T. Hatcher, the
principal, will begin his eighteenth
year of service in the Four Oaks
school, having come here in the fall
of 1924. Miss Mary E. Kinsey, of Co
injock, will again serve the school in
public school music and Mrs. Lucile
Cooper of Falcon, is the pianist. At
present one teacher is lacking in the
high school, but this vacancy is ex
pected to be filled soon. Whoever is
also
WEEKLY
SERMON
Views From Above
By Dr. Henry Ostrom, Member of
Extension Staff Moody Bible
Institute, Chicago.
For centuries the view from above
has been cherished by men of faith.
But now the view is become wide
spread as travel in the air is popular
ized. It is good to find, as always,
that the Bible is so far ahead of the
times that even in this regard it
speaks straight home to us. I pro
pose to select three, from the many
views from above, in this miracle
book.
1. Men as grasshoppers (Isa.40:22).
Isaiah says “the inhabitants are as
grasshoppers.” This view first of all
tells of the contrast in size of men
and women as compared with worlds
and spheres. But it also compares
people to a pest. The comparison
might have been made to humming
birds or bees, but it would have been
inaccurate. Of himself man is a pest.
Uncontrolled, what ruin he can ac
complish! His discoveries and inven
tions, his intelligence and prowess,
even these can heap ruin on ruin.
2. Men as rebels (Luke 11:2). “Thy
will be done on earth as it is in
heaven,” from the prayer the Lord
taught His disciples, gives us the
heavenly view of earth, and earth is
here seen as willing what heaven
does not will. Self-will amounts to
perverse-will. From the frightened
birds and beasts up to man, the
habitual coward, whose wear and tear
upon his nerves is largely worry
about the future, you can trace this
rebellious urge. Man cannot quite
annul God’s sovereign will, but he
can oppose and personally reject it;
and unless saved from his selfwill, he
comes to the rebel’s doom.
I ask you, are you on the altitude
where your heart cries out that God’s
will may be done on earth? Do you
positively long for heaven’s way for
yourself and the earth at large ? Then
you may date your rebel life as gone
with the past; the cross of Christ has
made you nigh.
3. Men can be as seers (Isa. 40:39-
31). “They that wait upon the Lord
shall mount up with wings as eagles.
They get the view from the upper
heights, and therefore do not grow
weary. It is like the airplane in con
trast with the car or carriage. With
the latter the road ahead cannot be
seen, but in the plane the view ahead
is clear.
No matter how difficult the way, it
we wait for the Lord we may view it
from the upper level, and can thus be
sure of victory. Having the way
charted we are devoid of the weari
ness that uncertainty produces; the
view from above brings rest. We can
see through to the end of the journey,
and the end is glory.
Good prices were paid growers
X5 cars of peaches bought recently
by the Surplus Marketing Adminis
tration in Surry County, reports
County Agent R. R. Smithwick of the
N. C. State 'College Extension Serv
ice.
LEGAL
stolen
QUESTION: Will lost or
cotton stamps be replaced?
ANSWER: Cotton which are lost,
stolen or defaced beyond identifica
tion can not be replaced, says E. Y.
Floyd, state AAA executive assistant
at State College. Stamps which are
only partially defaced, torn,_or char
red, but which still can be identified
as such, may be replaced if they are
packed in cotton and mailed to W. B.
Robertson, chief of the finance divi
sion, Surplus Marketing Administra
tion, Washington, D. C.
NOTICE OF SALE
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned will offer for sale at public
auction, for cash, on the 29th day of
September, 1941, at 10:00 A. M., at
his home one mile from Micro, N. C.,
one 1932 Model Plymouth Sedan,
Motor No. 1588479, Serial No. PA
19728, to satisfy a claim for storage
and repairs.
This the 28th day of August, 1941.
■WILLIE WOOD, Micro, N. C.
9-4 2t
QUESTION: Is it good practice to
seed winter legumes with a grain
drill ?
ANSWER: If the land is carefully
prepared, pulverized by shallow plow
ing and harrowing or thorough disc
ing, a grain drill can be used to good
advantage inasmuch as this practice
tends to save seed, says E. C. Blair
Extension agronomist. Seedings of 15
pounds of hairy vetch or 20 pounds
of Austrian winter peas to the acre
with a drill will return good stands.
NOTICE OF SALE OF INTEREST
IN PARTNERSHIP.
Notice is hereby given to all of the
creditors of the firm formerly known
as Woodruff & Wiggs, and to
public at large, that I, J. Ha^n
Wiggs, who was formerly a partner
of said firm, did, on the 19th day of
August, 1941, sell, transfer, assign
and deliver to Leon Woodruff of Sel
ma, Johnston County, North Carolina,
my entire ownership and interest in
and to the partnership kno'wn as
Woodruff & Wiggs, and by reason of
such sale, transfer and assignment,
said Leon Woodruff assumed all debts
of said firm and other obligations in
connection with the operation of the
same from the aforesaid date of sale;
and that I have no further connection
or interest in the existence or carry
ing on of said business.
This the 19th day of August, 1941.
J. HAYDEN WIGGS.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Wilbanks ana position will
daughter, Jacqueline Clara, of Birm-*^^^^
ingham, Ala., are visiting Mr. and
Let Go the Anchor
The politician prided himself on his
oratorical powers. He was describing
the needs of the country and used the
metaphor of the ship drifting and go
ing to pieces on the rocks. A sailor
in the audience was deeply interested.
“The waves dashed over her!” bel
lowed the speaker. “Her sails are
split! Her yards are gone! Her masts
are shivered! Her helm is useless! She
is driving ashore! There seems no
hope. Can nothing be done to save
her ? ”
The sailor rose in his seat his eyes
wide ■with excitement.
“Let go the anchor, you lubber!”
he shouted.
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Mrs. John Wynse, near town.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Speare, of
Goldsboro, visited Mr. and Mrs. W.
Alton Massengill Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Grimes, of
Coats, were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
J. R. Jones Sunday.
Miss Gertrude Thornton left Sun
day for Wilmington, where she will
begin training for a nurse at Walker
Memorial Hospital.
Miss Anne McRae and Frank Mc
Rae, Jr., and Miss Elizabeth Price, of
Charlotte, were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank McRae during the week
end.
Miss Elizabeth Heath and Jesse
Adams, of Roanoke, Va., and Miss
Ruth Royall, of Morehead City, spent
the week end with Mrs. B. B. Adams.
Miss Avis Keene spent Sunday in
Durham with friends.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hamilton and
family, of Durham, visited friends
here Sunday.
Mrs. R. B. Strickland has returned
from Duke Hospital, where she has
been ill for several weeks.
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Pixton - Johnson
An early morning wedding was sol-
The teachers are as follows:
First Grade—Mrs. Eugene Caudill,
Smithfield; Mrs. H. T. Godwin, Four
Oaks; Mrs. Jane Seagrove, Raleigh;
Miss Lois Strickland, Faison; Mrs.
Esther Fowler, Smithfield.
Second Grade—Miss Louise Lide,
Darlington, S. C.; Miss Betsy Jordan,
Smithfield; Mrs. Ruth Booker, Smith-
field; Mrs. Ella Quinn, Chinquapin;
Miss Pearl Tilley, Granite Falls.
Third Grade—Miss Jessie Hines,
Goldsboro; Miss Mae Ellen Johnson,
Benson; Mrs. Everette Lee, Four
Oaks; Miss Lollie Cobb, Four Oaks;
and Miss Mary Katherine Swain,
Henderson.
Fourth Grade—Miss Carrie Myrick,
Littleton; Miss Freda Parks, Smith-
field; Miss Maymie Watson, Selma;
Miss Doris Woodard, Kenly; Mrs.
Alice Peacock Smith, Benson.
Fifth Grade—Mrs. Howard Benton,
Benson; Mrs. Narron, Kenly; Mrs.
Kirby Langdon, Benson; Miss Lillian
Wilkerson, Kenly, and Miss Mildred
Johnson, Woodlands.
Sixth Grade—Miss Catherine Noel,
Burgaw; Miss Ruth Wood, Miss Cora
Wells, Kenansville; Miss Lottie Love
Bryan, Garner.
Seventh Grade — Miss Charley
King, Sanford; Miss Ava Myatt,
Smithfield; Miss Glendon Smith, Ben
son, and Mrs. Stacey Canaday, Selma.
High School—Mrs. Cynthia Adams,
Four Oaks, Social Service; Mrs. Em
ily Glass, Raleigh, Home Economics;
Mrs. J. T. Hatcher, Four Oaks, Math;
Mrs. Clarence Hollowell, Goldsboro,
Science; Miss Lois Waller, Social Sci
ence and librarian; Mrs. Jimmy
Woodard, Selma, English; Miss An
nie Bullock, Bullock, History and
Math; Mrs. Ivey Brown, French; Miss
Madge Cobb, Four Oaks, Math; Miss
Juanita Sorrell, Raleigh,. English and
Principal of high school.
QUESTION: How can a farmer
tell how much lime should be used on
the land?
ANSWER: If no lime has been used
in the last four or five years, 1,200
to 2,000 pounds should be spread
evenly on each acre and then care
fully disced into the topsoil, says
Dan Holler, assistant Extension agro
nomist. However, if some lime has
been used in the past or there is
reason to believe the land may not
need so much lime, a sample of the
soil should be sent to the State De
partment of Agriculture for test to
determine the right proportion of
lime.
Don’t Wait, See—
Proctor’s
SELMA, N. C
We Take Cotton
STAMPS !
HURRY! HURRY!
Buy all-cotton goods you
can at old prices. Don’t
■wait, see us!
Starvation
Food has becchne so scarce in many
parts of 'Greece in recent weeks that j
foreign observers predict many na
tives ■will die of starvation this win
ter.
BIG SHIPMENT THIS
WEEK OF NEW FALL
SILK FROCKS
They are lovely Silk and
Cotton Dresses. Smart new
styles, sizes 12 to 48.
To sell at these low prices-
$1.98 $2.48 $3.95
IN A CLASS BY ITSELF
KUMFORP;
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jK ; ri CONTAINS NO ALUM
THEREFORE LEAVES NO BITTER TASTE
Get Ready For
SCHOOL
To Sell Quick !
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TAX NOTICE!
To Delinquent Taxpayers
Of The Town of Micro:
THIS IS TO NOTIFY you that this paper will carry in
its next issue a notice wherein your property and | or ef
fects will be listed for non-payment of your taxes.
The purpose of this notice is to allow you to save your
self the added cost of advertising your property, by im
mediate payment.
Signed,
J.W. FITZGERALD,
Tax Collector.
C. E. GADDY, JR., Town Attorney.
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STOVES
Ranges • Radios
If you are going to buy anything in
this line it will pay you to see me!
I have been trying to srve you for the past Twen
ty years in this line of business—with this exper
ience in both buying and selling you may be assur
ed that you are getting as good as the tactory
makes for the price you pay.
I now have the largest stock I have ever
offered for your selection and the larger part
of this stack .was bought before prices began
climbing.
I’ve Always Been Accused of
Selling It Cheaper 1
When in town make our store your headquarters whether you.
want to buy or not.
YOUR FRIEND,
HUB BROWN
“THE FURNITURE MAN”
ECONOMY FURNITURE COMPANY
“The Friendly City” SELMA, N. C.
200 LADIES’ New Fall
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HATS
All Sizes and Colors in Assorted
Head Sizes
97‘ 1.98
SEE OUR NEW FALL
PRINTS
BUTTONS TO MATCH
SPECIAL THIS WEEK
SHOES!
52.00 Value — Black & Tan
Ladies’ Oxfords
and Straps
A BARGAIN!
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All Sizes - See Them!
88"
SELLING AT
OLD PRICES
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Men’s Overalls
Blue and Striped
Boy’s Overalls
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GOING UP! BUY QUICK !