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J. C. PENNEY TO OPEN NEW STORE NEXT THURSDAY New Store Is Designed To Make Shopping Convenient H. E. Baker Will Manage Penney’s 31st Store In State Shoppers in Roanoke Rapids will enter a new era of economical qual ity buying when the doors of the J. C. Penney store on Roanoke Av enue open for the first time to the buying public at 9:00 A.M. on Thursday, November 13th. Thousands of dollars worth of new merchandise will be attractive ly displayed in modern, up-to-date surroundings in this town’s newest department store. The building in which the store is located is one of the newest and finest in the com munity. This store will carry a complete line of Men’s, Women’s and Chil dren’s Wear, Furnishings, and Shoes, Work Clothes, Piece Goods, Curtains, Domestics, Home Furnish ings and other important apparel and dry goods items. Departments have been arranged in the new store with an eye to shopping con venience. No effort has been spared to make the complete new Penney store one that will be convenient, attractive, and a welcome addition to the shopping facilities of this community—one that will also draw shoppers from surrounding commu nities. TJT Li' Dolror MrVl n OAtYlou VlOrD from Parkersburg, West Virginia, will manage the new store. Mr. Ba ker has been with the Penney Com pany since December 1927, when he joined the organization as a sales man in Parkersburg. After further training in this store, he became as sistant manager, and his appoint ment as manager here comes in recognition of his success in Par kersburg. With the exception of Mr. Baker and his assistant manager, selling and operating associates have been recruited from local ranks. W. H. Jones, formerly of Johnson City, Tennessee, will serve as assistant manager of the local J. C. Penney Store. He started with the organi zation two-years ago, and has serv ed continuously during that time as a salesman at the Johnson City store. He is married and Mr. and Mrs. Jones will make their home in the city. The new Penney store will be the 31st operated by the J. C. Penney Company in the state. The first Penney store in North Carolina was opened at New Bern in June, 1924. Gradually, as customers learned to know and like Penney merchandise and the Penney way or doing Busi ness, the others followed. “North Carolina has always been very appreciative,” states Manager; Baker, “of this Company of ours which caters to those thrifty peo ple who are vitally interested in stretching their dollars to the ut most. We promise in the new store here to carry on the Penney tra dition of selling first quality, de pendable merchandise only—always at the lowest possible price.” When the Penney store is opened here next Thursday it will be man ned by a personnel of some 35 to 40 salespeople, and the store will reg ularly employ from 25 to 30 sales persons, Manager Baker stated this week. While the new J. C. Penney Store will be "officially opened” to the public on Thursday morning of next week, city officials have been invit ed to a special "preview opening” of the new store on next Wednesday evening. The list of city officials expected to inspect the new store on Wednesday night includes Mayor Kelly Jenkins and City Commis sioners: M. D. Collier, W. P. Taylor, J. B. Gurley, V. E. McDowell, F. C, Williams and R. I. Starke. GUEST INSTRUCTOR Miss Naomi Shank, System Home Economist for the Virginia Electric and Power Co., was the guest of the Nutrition class last Tuesday night. In this lesson, she gave a thorough study of meats and pre pared several attractive meat dish es. THE FIRST PENNEY STORE, IN KEMMERER, WYOMING ' vrn/n in/rrrmri/rmnm'-vA OPENED UNDER THE NAME OF “THE GOLDEN RULE”, IN 1902 It's a far cry from the original Penney store in a small mining town to the modern and up-to-date department stores now' operated by the Penney Company. J. C. Penney Company Testing Laboratory In New York Xo insure customer satisfaction, materials are continually tested for strength, color-fastness, warmth, wearing qualities, shrinkage, moth proofing, etc., in the Penney Company’s laboratory in New York City. "Wear-Tester" in Penney Laboratory This ingenious machine subjects materials to the steady abrasive action of spools turning bhck and forth against the cloth in half revolu tions, as a means of determining wearing quality. , ENTERTAINS Mrs. W. H. Tickel entertained her bridge club and additional guests on Thursday evening. Bridge was played at three tables, with Miss Bernice Hitchens win ning top score prize for club, and Mrs. I. F. Rochelle, guest prize. Attractive Hallowe’en decora tions and tallies were used. For refreshments Mrs. Tickel served a salad plate with coffee. Guests were Mesdames I. F. Rochelle, Calvin Kcnnemur, H. C. Wirtz, and Rudolph Northington. Club members were Mesdames Jay Thompson, Graham Lynch, H. E. Cameron, J. D. Edwards, Sam Lewis, J. P. Little, H. E. Gibson and Miss Bernice Hitchens. Founder of J. C. Penney Company ■ ■ ■ ■ - ■ - 1 ■ ■ ■ J. C. Penney was bom in Ham ilton, Mo., where he later clerked in a drygoods store. He opened his first store in hemmerer, Wyoming, in 1902, as one of three partners. Out of this humble beginning grew the present'Penney Company with stores in every state in the Union. Starting with little cash, but a defi nite policy of square dealing, Mr. Penney has proved, through the phenomenal growth of the Compa ny, the soundness of his policy. GIRL SCOUTS ARE ACTIVE Helen Daughtry is the newly ”e lected chairman of the Girl Scouts’ committee for taking care of the Troop Hut here. Others present for a luncheon meeting to discuss plays for care of the Hut were Hattie May Woodroof, Gladys Lee, Troop II; Louise Doyle, Doris Sue Wilson, Troop III; Shirley Shell, Doris Fa hey, Troop IV; Lorene Wright, Troop V; and Helen Daughtry, Troop VII. Katherine Wood was appointed supervisor of all troops, and Miss Frances Newsome was also present at the meeting. Leaders for the Girl Scouts of Roanoke Rapids are Mrs. W. M. Thorne and Miss Agnes Gregory. Mrs. Mort White and Miss Ann Crawley are serving as troop con sultants in the fields of first aid md music. Officers of the Senior Troop VIII ire: Ann McNeil, president; Mar garet Bennett, vice-president; Lois Churchill, secretary; Jean MacKen sie, treasurer; and Virginia Lee rhorne and Marie Harbour, Troop tjut Committee members. 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