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i i A LADY IN DISTRESS appear ed at our door a few days ago. In the midst of a telephone con versation she had been called to the door. She told her friend to hold the phone and ran to answer the door. Once outside the door swung shut behind her and there she was. Her keys were inside. Here telephone friend was sti’l waiting. No window was unlock ed. No other door was open. Her husband was down town with the car, so she couldn’t go to her friend’s house to explain. What should she do? The problem was solved by lending her the car to go get another door key. She was luckier than- another friend who was similarly locked out. He was a professor at Cor nell University and his wife was out of town. It was Sunday morn ing and the Professor decided to have a leisurely bath. Just as he was stepping into the tub he de cided it would be nice to get the Sunday newspaper to read while he was soaking, so he went down after it. He opened the door into the vestibule and reached out. His feet were wet and he slipped and fell into the vestibule and the door swung shut and locked. Out side the vestibule was a blanket, but it was a blanket of snow. And as for the newspaper, well— a newspaper’s snow cover at a'l in "Such a situation. He called to the people next door, but they, too, were sleeping late. Eventual ly he was rescued when a friend of his wife’s came by the house and departed hastily for her hus band’s extra suit and coat . . but the Professor swears he’ll never be the same. THE SEA DEVIL is at it again. Count Von Luckner is raiding in the Pacific again, just as he did in the last war. Did you ever read Lowell Thomas’ book, ‘‘Von Luckner, the Sea Devil”? His experiences are as unusual as Jo nah’s in the whale. The book is so interesting that it’s impossible to put down for the first 100 pages, and scarcely less interest ing for the remainder. Von Luck ner (as a boy) was once saved by a bird: he fell overboard and escaped drowning by catching hold of the legs of an Albatross until the boat could tunti around and come to his rescue . . . an other time he and another boy were enticed into a strange house on the pretense of being given a suit of clothes, and found a hu man thumb lying on the window sill and caskets under the table. Then another time he stole some pancakes from the food-stingy cook and was assigned the task of catching the thief, which is one of the funniest incidents in the book. For those who like a romantic flavor to their reading, Von Luckner gives it in his ac- | count of meeting his future wife. Once as a boy he had passed a certain island off the coast of Af- I rica and had had a premonition of a beautiful young girl who might live there. Years later he returned to the island and looked for her in vain. Then one night as he was demonstrating some magician’s tricks in a show that the officers were putting on, in walked the girl and her father. Von Luckner was unable to finish his performance and was intro duced to the girl. She became his Countess, and at the same time the counterpart of the girl he had dreamed about so long before. If the sight of Irma unnerved him, it was the only thing that did, however. His courage, his ingenu ity, his treatment of prisoners, and his aversion to killing hu man beings ... all mark him as being anything but a devil. He was a devil only in the clever ness with which he planned his attacks on allied shipping. We do not wish him success in his un dertakings, but we can’t help hop ing that the end of the war will find him safe and sound and at home again with his Countess. WANTA BE A WHIFF? If so, you must be a “fellow being with a bellow feeling” . . . you must like puns . . . and you must pay !4c every time Britain downs an Axis plane. The organization “Fellowship of the Bellows” is a South American one for “raising the wind” for Hurricanes (getting money for British planes). De pending upon how many planes have been downed since your ini tiation, you become progressively a Whiff, a Puff, a Gust, a Hurri cane, and finally, recipient of the Order of the Bellows. Officers are High Wind, Whirlwinds, Receiv er of the Windfall, and Keeper of the Windbag. Here’s hoping none of them will ever be "Gone with the Wind” . . . Christie*"! Science Society 930 Roanoke Ave. Sunday, 11 a.m. Wednesday, 8 p.m. Reading Room open every Tues day and Friday from 3 to 5 p.m. The public is cordially invited to attend our services and visit our reading room. Subject Sunday: “Sacrament”. “God” was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Christian Science Churches and Societies on Sunday, January 5. The Golden Text: Psalms 65:1, 2. “Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed. O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.” Among the citations which com prised the Lesson-Sermon were the following from the Bible: “And the spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded: and he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The Lord is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you” (II Chronicle 15:1,2) Census To Give Aid To Farmers Halifax County farmers who de sire information to better enable them to plan their agricultural program for 1941 will be called upon this month to report their crop acreages, livestock and poul try population and give other in formation for the Farm Census which will be taken for the 24th time by tax listers, Frank Parker, federal statistician with the State Department of Agriculture, an nounced today. “North Carolina’s leading agri cultural authorities are unanimous in their appreciation of the farm census as a medium for intelligent planning of farm programs and as a source of accurate information that can be used as a yardstick in measuring agricultural progress,” Parker emphasized. The 1941 farm census summary will be sent to farm leaders and workers through out the State and will be available to all communities. Funeral Held For Mrs. Sarah Long Mrs. Sarah Long, 31, was buried in the Roanoke Rapids Cemetery last Thursday. The Rev. Mr. Kimball conducted the service. Mrs. Long died at her home near Roanoke Junction Wednes day after an illness of about a month. She is survived by her husband and several children. rTTLJAFFEA^OClAT^rSTORESI # CONTINUE THEIR GREAT J I Complete Sell Out SALE! Come share in the Greatest Values of the year made possible to you only because we must get rid of our surplus stock of clothing. To do this we have CUT PRICES to the Bone! LADIES COATS Values up to $19.75 $/\ 7C j have been Reduced ■ v for QUICK Clearance to the low price of - One Large Lot of LADIES DRESSES remain which we are closing out $1.95 at the low January Sale price of | MEM'S SUITS f > Values up to 29.75 in this group! All are Newest Styles and Shades A Large Quantity Of MEN’S OVERCOATS Values Up To $29.75 On Sale At Only S075 Easy Terms! John P. Long Also our large FURNITURE DEPARTMENT shares in these Great January Sale Values. You may have our 4 usual ! E-2. TERMS on all merchandise uosu'qof dilAtyuCF* I RELIABLE CLOTHIERS I 1 DIVISION OF H. I. JAFFE ASSOCIATED STORES £ Jl Suffolk — Smithfield — Franklin — Newport News — Portsmouth — Roanoke Rapids 9 I ROANOKE RAPIDS, N.C. 1
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