DARLINGTON SCHOOL
OPENING ANNOUNCED
FOR SEPTEMBER 16th
School Building Has Been
Thoroughly Cleaned and
Has New Roof
WOMAN’SCLUB
CANS FRUIT
Undernourished Children To
Receive Free Lunches
This Year
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Darlington Woman’s Club has
had three School Cannings. Sev
eral quarts of soup mixture, ap
ples and tomatoes have been
canned. This food ■will be served
free by -the club to all under
nourished school children during
the coming school term.
The school building has been
thoroughly cleaned, painted in
side and out, new shingled top,
and each child will have a new,
modern desk when school begins
on September 16th. So, with a
comfortable and clean building,
hot lunches for the undernourish
ed, and the return of Miss Ethel
Mooney of Heathville, and Miss
Lilly Mae Floyd of Northampton,
our much-liked teachers, we are
looking forward to the best school
year yet.
Sheriff Warns All Beer
Licensees Of Violation
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The new law, which says all,
beer licensees handling beers or
wines over 5 per cent must do so
thru the county ABC stores, will
be strictly enforced, warns Sheriff
Johnson acting under instructions
of County Recorder Daniel.
The following letter has been
sent to all interested parties:
Dear Sir:
Chapter 493 of the Public Laws
of 1935, known as the Pasquotank
Bill, provides that “No person,
firm <A' corporation shall pur
chase or import in the Counties
described in Section 1 of this Act,
except in the manner herein speci
fied, for resale, any alcoholic bev
erage containing over 5% of alco
hol by weight from any source,
except from or through the Board
(Halifax County Alcoholic Bev
erages Control Board), and any
person so purchasing or import
ing alcoholic beverages in viola
tion of this Section, shall be sub
ject to the penalties hereinafter
provided”.
I understand that a number of
beer licencees of this County are
purhasing for sale and selling
wines and beers containing more
than 5% alcohol by weight, and
this is to advise you that begin
ning September 1, 1935, this law
will be strictly enforced.
I am writing this letter under
the instructions of the County Re
corder’s Court.
Yours very truly,
G. H. JOHNSON,
Sheriff of Halifax County.
Mr. and Mrs. Jake Lassiter spent
Sunday at Ocean View.
Mrs. Bertha Andrews is visiting
her sister, Miss Estelle Hamlet in
Greensboro.
Miss Estelle Hamlet, who has
been visiting her mother, Mrs. C.
G. Hamlet, returned to Greens
boro Sunday.
SAGAS OF THE SKIES
- By Major E. E. Aldrin- .
Manager, Aviation Department
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
A MARCH gale twisted the Atlantic into great ridges of
foam and shrieked through the rigging of tossing ships.
Huge surges of surf battered the rocky ramparts of the eastern
coast. Small craft scuttled to the safety of snug harbors and
in the wheel
houses of ships
at sea, tugging
muscles strained
at the helms. It
was no day for
flying.
Suddenly in the
Coast Guard sta
tion at Cape May,
N. J., the wireless
began to crackle.
Sharp, imperative
spurts of noise.
Ninety-six miles
out at sea the
Bull Line freight
er “Cornell a”
heaved in the
storm while anx
ious faces bent
over the still
form of a sea
man, Irvan Ar
mistead, who a
few minutes be
fore, had been
pitched headlong
through an open
hatch, to suffer
1 severe head and
internal injuries.
In Jerky, blue-flame staccato, the
radio spelled the story of the mis
hap and pled for aid.
Lt. Richard L. Burke, crack pilot
of the Coast Guard, ordered his
ship turned out into the storm.
Donning his flying togs as he ran,
be leaped into it, gave it the gun
and swung out over the flying
spume towards the storm-tossed
ship far out to sea. It was a fierce
and valiant battle. But Lt. Burke
|won as he had won several times
before. By radio, he kept in touch
with the position of the freighter
land somehow landed close to it.
Somehow, also, the difficult trans
fer of the unconscious seaman was
made from ship to plane in a small
boat. And still, somehow, Lt.
Burke lifted his plane off the moun
tainous seas back into the sky.
One hour and fifty-live minutes
after he had left the base, he was
back and the injured seaman was
in an ambulance.
That’s just one of many reasons
why Lt. Burke is considered one
of the best fliers in the Coast Guard
and why Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau speaks of him as bis
favorite pilot.
1 l>t Family of the Late Beloved Will Rogers
NEW YORK . . . Though widely separated when word arrived that the husband and father, Will Rogers,
tad been killed in an airplane crash with Wiley Poet in Alaska, the members of the Rogers family met her*
!o start the trip home to Hollywood. Photo shows, left to right, Wil] Rogers, Jr., Mrs. Rogers, her son James and
laughter Mary, as they boarded a train for the West.
WELDON
Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Stephenson,
Mrs. Lee Miller and Mrs. Emma
Jackson visited in Gumberry Mon
day.
The following citizens of Wel
don are leaving town in the near
future: Mr. and Mrs. L. N. King
and daughter-, Estelle; and Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Brown and family
are moving to Fayetteville; iVlr.
and Mrs. E. H. Brazelle are moving
to Wilson.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Browder, of
Lawrenceville, Va., were the week
end guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. M.
Browder.
Mr. Edward Knight spent last
week at Nags Head.
Miss Sara West Davis is spend
ing this week in Rocky Mount
with friends.
Miss Mildred Boone, of Jack
son is visiting Mrs. J. H. .Rowed.
Miss Sophie Hinton of Eliza
beth City is visiting Miss Eliza
beth Harvell this week.
Misses Fay Fleetwood and Doris
Draper spent last week-end at
Ocean View, Va.
Miss Mary Derieux, of Rappa
hannock, Va., former teacher in
Weldon High School, is visiting
Miss Katrine Wiggins.
Mr. Frank Howard left Sunday
night for Wilmington, where he
will attend the Fire Chiefs Con
vention.
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Brazelle and
Mrs. Alice Hudson motored to
Wilson last Thursday.
Mr. Roy Griffin spent a few
days of his vacation in Ocean
View, Va., and Potecasi.
Mr. J. T. D. Rawlings spent
Sunday with his uncle, B. F. Wil
ley, near Enfield.
Messrs. Henry and Roger Wil
ley of Halifax are spending some
time in New York, N. Y., and Bal
timore, Md.
Miss Janet Rawlings is spend
ing this week-end in Fayeteville.
Mrs. Jeck Turner has returned
home after a two weeks visit in
Elizabeth City.
Mrs. A. R. Ford left Sunday
morning for Philadelphia.
Dr. and Mrs. Sawyer of Wind
sor visited Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Pierce Sunday.
Miss Julia Turner is spending
some time in Franklinton.
Leggett’s Show the Latest for
in DRESSES
in COATS
in SHOES
COME SEE for yourself - this is
Leggett’s Greatest Fall Season !
Already - every express train is bringing
us new shipments of fine Fall Clothing
and Apparel for Men, Women and
Children. Start NOW to thinking about
your needs for Fall and Winter - - and
“think FIRST of LEGGETT’S.”
NEW - Banker’s Cloth and Demi-Suede
in Latest Style Ladies’ Fall Footwear.
NEW STORE HOURS - SEPT. l*t -
Open Every Afternoon Until 6 O’Clock
Friday Until 8 - Saturday Until 10.