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THE AXIS HASN’T A CHANCE
. . . why even the Confederate
hfonument is agin’ ’em. When
Snow came to Chapel Hill and
swirled around the monument, left
a white mustache upon the lip of
the Confederate soldier, and the
mustache was in the shape of a
■ . . . the only bit of snow that
stuck.
The Confederate Monument in
Henderson has an inscription that
would be appropriate for the he
roic defenders of Wake Island:
PEACE TO THEIR ASHES
HONOR TO THEIR MEMORY
GLORY TO THEIR CAUSE
TODAY WAS A SHORT
SLEEVE-NO-COAT day, yet the
newspaper weather report reads
^Continued Cold” . . . how come?
Are they trying to deceive us a
bOut the weather, or just prevent
ing helpful information from
reaching the enemy?
DO YOU SHRINK FROM
SWINKING? I swank over this
column last night . . . and have
trvpjnken over it for nearly four
years now . . . Often I have been
tempted to seize a swingle and
swinge anyone who interrupted me
as I swank.
(Note: All that comes from
looking up the word “swirl” in
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.)
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A READER SENDS IN THESE
EXCERPTS from letters to a cer
tain relief center:
“I have tried all I could—first
God and then you—and you are
the only one I trust.”
“We are living with my sister’s
husband who died in March.”
, “My mother’s kidney is not so
good and then I will be left alone
the world.”
“They say I am living with a
married woman. In the first place
she is not married, and in the sec
ond place I am not living with
(Her.”
“I lave no father no mother,
just a poor delapidated woman.”
“I have told the relief board
about my shape and they say its
because I live on my father’s
farm.”
“I am blonde headed and try
ing live a Christian life.”
' ‘‘My husband is out of work and
don’t give enough milk for the
baby.”
‘‘Mother is very intellectual
Speaks three languages and has
written a poem nobody will buy.”
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■HERE'S A LETTER FROM
LOUISE: . . . She wrote to a
friend on a certain day in De
cember, asking questions about va
rious friends and members of the
family . . . There was one ques
tion which she wanted to ask, but
Pd not think it advisable. The
■Mend wrote a letter to Louise
ptt approximately the same date
I , . and answered . . . not the
Questions which Louise had asked,
BUt the question which had been
ijppermost in her mind at that
I NO GHOSTS for a long time . ..
not even the shade of a ghost
Story . . . Seems like they’re about
lb die a natural death . . .
WORSE than having a
feeling in your throat
the middle of a • movie, a
, or a church service ? ...
wondering whether the tickle
go away, or whether you'd
try a cough drop, or wheth
had just better get up and
before they throw you out...
A NIGHT! First an
passes by, sirens going
. . . then there’s a fire
. . . later on there’s a man
the house calling some
all sort of names, none print
because the-— wants
to pay the rent . . . Then
a female voice saying
“You lemmee alone!” . . . Your
usually Inquisitive columnist can’t
quite wake up enough to investi
gate these interesting items . . .
but the telephone rings at 4:30 a.m.
. . . “Please send a taxi” . . .
(Wrong number!)
ABC Gives
Report
For Quarter
_Gross sales for Halifax County’s
A.B.C. stores for the quarter end
ing on December 31 amounted to a
total of $201,881.35, according to an
annual report just released by E.
H. Kicks, supervisor of the Hali
fax County Board of Alcoholic
Control.
Gross profits on these sales a
mounted to $69,013.15, while ex
penses of operating the various
store units over the county a
mounted to $11,480.2$, according to
the report. Net profit on the sales
for the quarter amounted to $57,
532.87. After deduction of the state
sales tax, amounting to $17,112.36,
and provisions for law enforce
ment, which amounted to $3,406.78,
the net income for the county to
taled $42,016.94. Of this amount
the town received $6,956.75, leaving
the total net income for the quar
ter at $35,060.19.
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Mr. and Mrs. Earl Harper of
Roanoke Rapids spent Saturday
night and Sunday here with his
mother, Mrs. Richard Harper.
Miss Mary Emma Walker of
Littleton and Mrs. Willie Floyd
Walker of Roanoke Rapids spent
Saturday night with Miss Alma
Walker.
Willie Gray Mitchell has accept
ed a position with Ames and Webb
in Portsmouth, Va.
Mrs. Goole of Detroit, Michigan,
is spending some time here in the
home of her son, Ervin Lucas.
Mr. and Mrs. Picot Inscoe, Mrs.
Willie Floyd Walker and Roy Ins
coe were visitors of Mary Emma
Walker Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. James Pittman of
Roanoke Rapids visited Miss Alma
Walker Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. F. W. Parks and Mrs. Her
bert Jenkins were visitors of Mrs.
Henry Faucette last week.
Mrs. H. S. Harper, who was on
the sick list the past week-end,
has rapidly improved.
Mrs. Willie Floyd Walker, Miss
Mary Emma Walker and Mrs.
Gordon Cooley were dinner guests
cf Miss Alma Walker Sunday.
Mrs. W. H. Perkinson and chil
dren of Norlina spent Sunday with
her mother, Mrs. John Myrlck.
Billy Myrick of Portsmouth
spent the week-end with his par
ents here.
Mrs. Paul Etheridge and son and
Miss Virginia King of Roanoke
Rapids were visitors of Mrs. Frank
King Sunday.
H. L. Faucette is on the sick
list this week.
MYRICK - HAMLET
Miss Julia Thomas Hamlet,
daughter of Mrs. Mamie Hamlet
Neal of near Hollister, and Shir
ley Myrick were united in mar
riage Saturday night, Jan. 17th, in
the Baptist parsonage at Norlina
with the Rev. Roach officiating.
Mr. Myrick is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. John C. Myrick of Littleton
and now holds a position in Nor
folk. The couple left for points
unknown and on their return will
make their home in Norfok, Va.
Littleton Honor
Roll Announced
The following students, by
grades, made the honor roll at
Littleton high school during the
fourth month of the school year,
it has been announced:
First grade—Kate Lynch, Ann
Robinson, Meredith Anne Puller,
Joyce Pulley, Rosa Lee Barnes,
Edith Smith, Virginia Harris,
Rhoded Shearin, Bobby Kirkland,
Alvin Myrick, Joe Beane, Richard
Egerton.
Second—Charles Abernathy, Phy
liss Huggin, Patty Jean Myrick,
Anne Parker, Maxine Walker.
Third—Vera Frances Dixon, E
lizabeth Isles, Lottie Jenkins, Mary
Lou Puller, Horace Robinson, An
nie Ruth Ryder, Donnie Stott.
Fourth—Frances Collier, Evelyn
Pepper, Barbara Ann Perry, Billy
Jones.
Fourth—Bessie Adkins.
Fifth—Merlene Cooley, Nathaniel
Jenkins, Margaret Harper, Mary
Topping.
Sixth—Betsy Anne Crawley, Har
riet Harvey, Will Myrick, Louise
Shearin, Betty Kay Wesson.
Seventh—Nell Robinson, Mary
Jane House, Edith Pegram.
Eighth-Smith—Rodney Glasgow,
Ray Cole.
Eighth—E d n a Adkins, Jegjsie
Harvey, Elnora Lambeth, M%
Crews Myrick. v
Ninth—Virginia Alston, Beulal!
Adkins, Louise Cooke, Mavis
Crawley, Nettie Dixon, Jean May,
Edith Sillery.
Tenth—Douglas Wilson, Maude
Harris, Margaret Nelson.
Eleventh—Robert Thomas Cur
rin, Rudolph Topping, Velma
Barnes, Evelyn Bobbitt, Annie
Farmer, Dorothy Johnston, Blair
Myrick.
Twelfth — Robert Jones, Edith
Harris, Louise King, Maryleer
Cole, Sally Anne House, Marie
Wilson.
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Miss Nancy Suiter of Chapel Hill
spent the week-end with her par
ents, Dr. and Mrs. W. G. Suiter.
Taylor Oakes of Duke University
spent Saturday and Sunday with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W.
Oakes.
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Tilghman at
tended the furniture show in High
Point last week.
Orvid Pierce left Saturday night
for Dallas, Texas, where he will
spend some time.
George Joyner of Richmond
spent a few days here with his
family last week.
E. G. Garlick spent several days
last week at High Point.
Miss Jeanette Robinson spent a
few days in Charlotte last week.
E. L. Ballenger is a patient in
Roanoke Rapids Hospital.
W. B. Joyner attended the fur
niture show in High Point last
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Gore, Mrs.
Helen Harrington and Mrs. Lu
ther Draper spent the week-end
at Fort Benning, Ga.
F. I. Robinson Jr. of Chapel
Hill spent the week-end at his
home here.
Vincent Wyche of Chapel Hill
spent Saturday and Sunday at his
home here.
Bobbie Musgrove of Chapel Hill
spent the week-end at his home
here.
Mrs. Esworth Jones and son of
Franklin are guests of Mrs. R. P.
Morehead.
Mrs. A. L. Durham visited in
Wilson Saturday.
Miss Lilly White Boseman of
Dunn spent a few days with her
mother, Mrs. Anna Boseman, re
cently.
Fred Rabil spent a few days in
Wilson this week.
Mrs. A. J. Lassiter and Mrs
Cecil Hardy spent Tuesday ir
Richmond, Va.
Enfield Observes
Lee-Jackson Day
The Frank M. Parker Chapter,
U.D.C., sponsored a Lee-Jackson
Day program in the Enfield School
Friday at 10:30 with Rom Parker,
young lawyer, and Scout Master
of Enfield, making the principal
address on the lives of Robert E.
Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Mr.
Parker is a brother of Judge R.
Hunt Parker and is an alumnus
of the Enfield School, the Uni
versity of North Carolina, and
Wake Forest College. He was in
troduced by Elsie Randolph, pres
ident of the Enfield Blues Chap
ter, C. of C’s, who presided over
the morning’s exercises. America
was sung and flags were saluted
in opening the program.
Mrs. Egbert Barnhill, vice pres
ident of the local chapter, U.D.C.,
complimented and thanked Mr.
Parker for his splendid address.
She then presented from the chap
tei to the school library, a book
“North Carolina Confederate Mon
uments and Memorials”. Mrs. Carl
Stallings, the librarian, in accept
ing the book, thanked Mrs. Barn
hill, and the chapter, for their
interest and their contributions to
the library.
The program closed with songs
and readings by pupils of the
school.
HUGHES - GAY
The wedding of Miss Mary E
lizabeth Gay, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. B. Gay of Garysburg to
Private W. Wilson Hughes of Fort
Jackson, S. C., son of Joseph
Hughes and the late Mrs. Hughes
of aJckson, was solemnized Wed
nesday, December 31st, in the
home of the Rev. John L. Alvis,
the officiating minister, in Em
poria, Va. Mrs. Hughes has for
some time been connected with
the Carolina Telephone Company
in Weldon.
Mrs. A. H. Pearson of Bracey,
Va., is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Grover Taylor.
TO VISIT
NEW HOME '
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Any Day-Any Time/
. Hundreds of calls and letters have been pouring Into the Royal Baking
Company since the now-famous housewarming festivities of last week.
& They all have asked the same question: "Can we still visit the new
AAIIAAI baking plant, even though the opening Is over?"
OvtlvUL The answer Is "Yes"! You are welcome to visit this great new baking
_ _ _ *: plank Come any day—a ay time. It Is always a pleasure to show
n| 1QCCQ ;i;i friends of the Royal Baking Company how Hamby Bread is made—
VLHvWkV the marvelous machinery that makes so fine a loaf possible.
The Royal Bakina £■ So to the hundreds who have asked personally, and the thousands
rnmnanv la always who have wondered about the question, we say again that you are al
lighted” to show'school |:1 ways welcome to visit Boyals new home,
classes through the '*
great new plant. A
guide will be furnish
ed to classes whose
teacher calls the plant
in advance, and makes
an appointment tor
the group.
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COMPANY
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