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This issue Is belli* published
on Tuesday evening. Dec. 24th in!
order to Rive the force Christmas
holidays.
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-May your holidays be pleas
ant and happy.
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? We should be thankful thai
old Santa will not be hampered by
war in the United States. '
til
? Louisburg merchants enjoyed
quite a nice business dui\big the
week before Christmas, t-hich is
evidence that they are oQuriug as
good bargains as anywhere else.
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V ?The FtRANKLIN TIMES is
requested to state that the names!
of W. C. Strowd. Mrs. R. G. Bai-j
ley. Miss Alberta Davis. Ulss Lou-;
lia Jarman and W. B. Barrow
were left out of the Red Cross list
last week. This, of course, was
inadvertent, and is regretted,
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? Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Rowej
announced the wedding of their
daughter. Annie Mae. to Herbert;
Lee Gupton. son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. H. Gupton. of Henderson. N.
C., on Friday, Dec. 20. 1940. i
They will make their home in!
Henderson. N. C. >
II HISTORICAL I
By REV. E. H. DAVIS
(A continuation of a paper
read by Rev. E. H. Davis at
a recent Memorial Service at
the Louisburg Methodist, I,
Church).
The first recorded sermon by
any Methddist minister in town of
L-ouisburg was by Vip. Ormond
who was assigned to the Tai* Riv
er Circuit with Morris Howe for
the year 1791 ? "that ancient and
Kood circuit of Tar"~as Bishop
Asbury, in his prime, called it.i
Ormond has this Entry in his
diary Sat. Dec. 17. 1791: Snowy
Season. I come to James Hunt's
and preached from "For Zion's
Sake, etc. and then came to
*- J.ooUburg and preached from "By
Grace are ye saved through faith !
etc.", and tarried at Sister Walks
When Conference met at Green
Hill's Jan. 20. 1792 (the second
Conference there) Ormond stop
ped at Col. Seawell's and was In
Louisburg. Jan. 2 1 Jan 23 he
returned to Bro. Hill's and did
some business with Bro. Bowen
the P. E. and set' out for Goshen
Circuit to which he had Just been
appointed ? in Sampson County.
A complete roster of all the
preachers assigned to the Tar
River CircuK from ite formation
in 1778 to the present day may be
found in the Minutes of the Va.
and N. C. Conferences, all of
this territory being part of t-he
Va. Conference until 1836 when
the N. C. Conference came into
being. The date of the erection
of the first/ Methodist Church in
Louisburg is involved in some ob
scurity ? though this much is de
finitely known ? its erection ante
dated that of any other church in
the town and its location was at
or near the Western turminus of
Nash Street as that street now
(1940) appears on the map of the
? town. While we have not yet
been able to find any public re
cord of either the purchase or sale
of such property so located yet
ot>her recorded deeds transfering
real estate in that section made
such references to this particular
lot and church as to leave no
doubt as to the location. To il
lustrate a deed recorded in 1840
describes a lot on West boundary
now Elm Street as being above
the Methodist Church lot. Again
Book II, page 2S8 Whltnker to
Collins- -lot on Western Rack
Hoe ( Elm St. ) opposite Methodist
Church. Again Rook 27, page 22
Battle to Raker with description
telling of Methodist Church on
Weetern Back line. The church 1
erected there ln"the early year*|
of the last century stood for a,
generation not only as u meeting j
Place fof t'he Methodist but as the
only place of public worship in'
the growing village. A movement
'or a new building on a new and
more nearly central site culmina
ted In 18S0 In the* purchase of the
lot on which this building stands.
The deed for the same lies before
me. The Grantor Is Margaret C.
Patterson and the Trustees for
the church In whom the property
Is vested are A. H. Ray, Joseph A.
Whitaker, Daniel 8. Hill, Joseph
B. Llttlejohn, John Nicholas Mas
senburg, David Thomas, John O.
King, Peyton J. Brown and Tho
K. Thomas ? their heirs and
successors ? In fee simple forever
to and for the use and benelt of
?eld society and congregation In
the worablp of Almighty God.
celebration of divine servlcs,
tfee administration of the sac re- J
m?n I and for oitwr rites and pur
P>>?i>h according to the constitution
Iuwh and usages o( the Methodist
Episcopal Church South in the
United States, Provided that at
uo time shall till* lot- or any por-l
Hon thereof be used as a private
or public burying ground. etc.1
After the securing of this lot and'
the erect-ion of the church there-'
on in 1850 and the years inime-!
diuto following the church re
mained ou the Tar River Circuit
for at least ten years The old i
church building on Elm Street aj
wooden st-ructure was torn down
and its timbers used in the con-i
structlon of u dwelling, now the
residence of Mr. and Mrs. R. H.
Welch at the Northern boundary
of the town ou Nort-h Main Street j
where you may still see evidences
of the church that was in the '
pitch of the rooms, the size and
material of doors aud oilier dis-!
tlncting features, l.oulsburg be-'
ing on the Tar River Circuit for
those years even after the erec
tion of the first- church ou this lot
very naturally the Preacher in
Charge lived here and there was
a Parsonage for the circuit orij
Church Street near the present
residence of Mr Ernest' Furgur
sou. On the establishment of
Louisburg Station in 1859 the
Circuit parsonage was rented for
the local pastor, the Circuit- Pas
tor presumably going to Frank
llnton which then became the cen
ter of the old Tar River Circuit
and remained so until recent
years. That Parsonage was sold
by act of Quarterly Conference.
Feb. 1863 for $1,225 and in Sept.
1863 report was made to Quar-j
terly Conference that Trustees in i
Oct. 1862 had bought- as new Par-j
sonage. the Patterson property.!
adjoining tin- church at a cost -of
$2.2fe0. All of this mind you was
during the Civil War and at one
of t-hese Conferences there is this ,
interesting Minute the Pastor was
asked , to preach oil Missions and
to take a Missionary collection.
For some reason that does not- ap
pear the deed to that Parsonage
property was not made and re
corded until 1867 and then -he
price paid was $1,500 instead of
the $2,260 at first. stipulated. In
the meanwhile James Dent "Trus
tee" for Margaret Patterson asi
stated on deed is grantor aud thet
following are named as Trustees,
for church: D. S. Hill. T. K
Thomas, X. B. Massenburg. P J.|
Brown. John G. King, Jones Ful-i
ler. X. B. Walker. Joel Thomas |
and M. S. Davis. Even in this
last and most recent list of Trus
tees most- of these names are to j
many of you only a tradition ? but
this writer knew them every one,
and could If time afford-,
ed tell you many an interesting j
incident regarding some of them.i
(To be continued I
.Mother ? After all. he's only a ?
boy. and boys will sow their wild:
oats.
Father ? Yes. but i wouldn'tj
mind if he didn't mix so much:
rye with it.
Indications are that existing
supplies of raw cotton in Italy
are likely to be exhausted by De
cember 31. since no large stocks
of foreign cotton hare been ship
ped In since the war started.
A FINE GIFT FOR
SOME
c^iK 0NE
A SUBSCRIPTION
To THIS NEWSPAPER'
EUROPEAN
WAR NEWS
Rome. Dec. 23. ? Only a few
thousand of Italy's 50.000,000 ,
people heard British Prime Minis
ter Winston Churchill s radio ?p- !
peal (or the overthrow of Benito 1
Mussolini, it was stated tonight.;
bu& Fascist quarters said it prol>- '
ably will be published in newspa
pers" alone with proper com- 1
ment."
Churchill's appeal to the Italian ,
people, the King and the armed j
forces came as the Fascist press
was assuring the people that' Italy
will obtain ultimate victory and
that "England deceives herself"
if she believes she can best Italy j
to her knees by '.he Libyan offen
sive.
Today's Italian war communi- ;
que claimed the sinking of a Brit
ish auxiliary cruiser by a Fascist ;
torpedo-carrying plane, a stubborn
defense of Italy's 3ardia base in
Libya and Italian counter-assaults
on the Albanian front which were '
said to have inflicted hoavv loss
es on the Greeks
According to Fascist quarters,
"a maximum of a few thousand
Italians" heard Churchill's broad
cast. mostly journalists and Fas
cist party leaders.
Several hundred Italians, most
ly government, military and party
workers whosfe job it is to check
all foreign radio program*, heard
the appeal, but it was said to have
been wasted insofar as the rank
and-file of the people is concern
ed.
Forbidden By Decree
The Italian people are forbid
den by decree from listening to
foreign broadcasts of any kind,
except in special instances, and
many of them regard such tuning
in on stations abroad as unpatri
otic.
London Dec. ?S. ? Prime Minis
ter Winston Churchill appealed
direcjjjy to the Italian people to
night to oast off Benito Mussolini,
whom he termed bitterly "the
criminal" who. "after IS years of
unbridled power, has i led your
country to the horrid : verge of
ruin."
Alternating between cajolery
and blunt words in his broadcast
address. Churchill said :
"We are only at the beginning
of this somber tale, x x x Pres
ently we shall be forced to come
to much closer grips Surely ;he
time has come when the Italian
monarchy and the people who
guard the sacred center of Chris
tendom should have a word to saj
upon these awe-inspiring issues.
"Surely the Italian army which
has fought so bravely on many
occasions past, but now evidently
has no heart for the job. should
take some care of the life and fu
ture of Italy."
Recalling that Italy and Brit
ain never had been foes until now
and were allies in the Uut war
against Germany. Churchill said
that "although the institutions
you adopted after that war were
not akin to ours a_nd diverged
xxx we liked each other, we got
along together, i
"And now we are at war; now
we are condemned to work for
each other's ruin: your aviators
[have tried to cast their bombs
I upon London; our armies are
tearing and will tear your Afri
can Empire to shreds and tatters "
Two Choices
Recounting his own efforts to
prevent tie war between Italy and
the British Empire. Churchill
told the I-tallans they face two
choices: ,
"It Is to stand up lo the bat
tery of the whole British Empire
on the sea. in the air and in Ar
rica and in the vigorous counter
attack of the Greek nation; or, on
GREETINGS
THAT YOU AND YOURS MAY ENJOY
THE MOST DELIGHTFUL
CHRISTMAS
YOU HAVE EVER HAD IS THE WISH
OF YOUR OLD FRIEND
John W. Harris
at
CASH & CARRY MARKET
Nash Street Louisburg, If. 0.
Who thanks yon for your liberal patronage
and assnres yon he will have a full and
complete line of Meats, eta, continuously, f
following the holidays.
the other hand, to call in Attila
over the Brer.nei Pass with his
hordes of ravenous soldiers and
hi* gang* of Gestapo policemen to
occupy, hold down and protect' the
Italian people for whom he and
his N'aii followers cherish the
most bitter and outspoken con
tempt that is >r, record between
the two races.
"There,!* where one tuaii and
one man only has led you: and
there I leave this unfolding story
until the day omes ? as come It
will ? whea th- Italian nation will
once more take a band In shaping
its own fortunes.
Athens. Dec ^3. ? Greek forces
tonight swept c.oser to the Alban
ian seaport of Valona after seii
ing Italy's coastal base of Khi
mara and capturing its entire gar
rison of crack Blackshirt troops
whom Benito Mussolini had e.\al
ter as "the cement of the Fascist
revolution."
An official communique an
nounced that' the little seaport of
Khimara 30 miles south of Valo
na had fallen at dusk Sunday af
ter a terrific 4S-hour bombard
ment of its defenses and an as
sault by Greek Lvzone warriors,
who swept down into its streets
with bayonets after encircling the
town
Tonight the Greeks, whose lat
est- victory in their counter-invas
ion of Albania touched off wild de
monstrations of joy in the streets
of ancient Athens, held more
than 45 miles of Albania's Adri
atic coast and were reported driv- \
ing steadily upon Valona through
a rugged mountain pass.
The battalion of Blackshirts
which surrendered at Khidmara
consisted of 80" -fyr. and 3" offi
cers. every one a picked veteran
of '.-he wars in K'liopia and Spain,
it was said
Flown ><i Albania
They had been flown to Alban
ia within the past two weeks ?
perhaps aboard German Junkers
transport planes ? to bolster t-he
demoralized Fascist forces, ac
cording to an official statement
Fierce air battles raged along
the Albanian front, including per
haps the biggest aerial dog-fight
thus far. British planes encoun
tered a force of fascist bombers
over Argyrocastron. were attack
ed by 50 Italiai. iigh:?r planes;
then shot down >-igly^ and possi
bly 11. of the ltaliah aircraft al
though the British were outnum
bered five to one. the R. A F.
said
WE WISH
All Our Patrons
And Friends
A
VERY
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
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AND
&
HAPPY NEW YEAR
t W. MURPHY AND SON
"YOUR COMPLETE FOOD MARKET"
Father ? See that you leave tlie
par. y at a reasonable hour. No
more coming home with the milk
man. young lady.
Daushter ? Of course not Had
He won't be there.
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Harold ? How's the wife.
George?
George ? She * just had quinsy.
Harold ? How many is that
you've got now
Market supplies of hogs w ill be
substantially smaller next' year
than in 1940. but supplies of cat
tie may be larger, predicts, the L\
S. Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics
Husband (snapping angrily) ?
Well, at any rate I'm .1 man of my
word 1 do f*!l a spade' a spade
Wife ? Maybe but you don't call
a club .1 i''Jb. you call it workine
late
Friend ? You're a Scotchman.
How 1* it you don't play golf?
Sandy ? Oh;. I used to but I pave
it up several years ago
Friend -Why?
Sandy ? I lost my ball
A noteworthy sitns which reads
Slow Men Working Here "
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It is our deepest desire that
every person in Franklin
and adjoining Counties may
enjoy the Merriest
and Happiest
CHRISTMAS SEASON
and a
i,
Prosperous and Plentiful
NEW YEAR
In ?
We also wish to thank you for
the generous patronage you
have accorded us during the
if
year now passing,
Again wishing you and yours
Happiness and Prosperity.
IfFFio^A^Yoini
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