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ASSOCIATED PRESS aND CENTRAL PRESS High School Enrollment Reaches To All-Time High Total For Four Classes Now Registered Is 498 An Additional Ten In Post gradoate Work Runs Figure To 508; Freshman Cl ass Numbers Even 150; . Juniors At 96 Small est Os Four Groups Enrollment of the Henderson high school reached an all-time high mark coday with a total of 508 registered as the neW term got well under way. Up per'classmen attended today for the first time after only freshmen were -eceived on Thursday, the date for *he start of all white and colored schools in the city and county. The 508 enrollment includes ten do ing postgraduate work in the com mercial department, leaving 498 in the *our high school grades. The new senior class is the largest the school has ever had, with 128 registered, and is 32 larger than the junior group, which numbered 9S today, smallest of the four classes. Sophomores are 124 and freshmen an even 150. 'Special exercises were held at the school today in connection with the full opening. Carolyn Duke as presi dent of the Student Council, spoke a greeting, as did the presidents of the three upper classes. Rev. A. S. Hale was in charge of the devotionals, and a brief talk was made by Superinten dent E. M. Rollins. Announcements and instructions were made by Prof. W. D. Payne, principal. No additional statistics were avail able today for the elementary schools o| the city, which were reported on CAN YOU ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS? See Page Four i. In which country is the state of Guerrero? 4. Who is governor of Iowa? 3. Where is the United States Military > Academy? 4. Who won the recent Cleveland Open golf championship? 5. What are cattalos? 6. Did George Washington sign the Declaration of Independence? 7. For what news and feature syndi cate do the initials N # E. A. stand 0 8. What is the General Land Office of the U. S.? 9. How is 1930 written in Roman num erals? 10. What term is used to designate the department of plastic art which comprises all objects made of clay, porcelain, and other forms of pot tery? BBHVPHVHPVHh 24-llourß ■■ m i 4 ■ Service I Loughlin City Taxi One Child In Five in our grade ::V schools has defective vision! (Average IBb \ U. S. figure.) That's why light-condi . ’ tioning is so important in every home HHH where there are growing children. ||l||| • "m, %m jSSmi * :>: 1 :!SS»«?lMg! : : : : : v;:;^^^^^888888g8888g^8^^^^^^<::;: 9& y 'y&2' •■ s;' * : jpi? SCH ? e rf L vo3 l^ldren ’ 8 eYeSI those precious eyesl Give incor- ErSrEr^rrf TIONEDI BETTER LIGHT . . • V s * It is easy cmd inexpensive to ptovi Maz das bulbs in tebt ££ all ft* needed are Ihe oorteci t in« iixtures and one or more ■ Electr ical Dealer or us or a supplementary light ••• V1 ' ‘LIGHT-CONDITIONING sistanc© hi providing Y OUI provides the right amount and the „ liaHtl light kind of lighting for seeing prop© l comfort and beauty, wherever eyea are used for work or play. Carolina Power & Light Company Sight is Priceless . . Light is Cheep ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■*• Thursday. All students have now been supplied with their books and lesson assign ments have been mad 6, so that active class work and full-length daily ses sions will begin on Monday through out the system. Attendance records at the high school this year and last are: Class 1938 1937 Seniors 128 114 Juniors .. . 96 117 Sophomores 124 93 Freshmen 150 134 Totals 498 453 TUB NEWTTOS County Itself Buys Another Car For Transportation Os Children Two new school trucks allotted to the county by the State School Com mission went into service in trans porting children to and from school when the fall term opened Thursday, it was learned today at the office of County Superintendent E. M. Rollins. Another new truck has been provided also, but this one was provided by the county itself. A total of 30 trucks are in use this session in carrying the children to and from the schools every day of the school week. Obsolescence of some trucks necessitated the addition of the three new ones. Those furnish ed by the State did not cost the coun ty anything at all, but it had to pay for the new one it provided. I D. N. HUNT GRAVELY ILL AT OXFORD HOME Information from Oxford today was that D. N. Hunt, retired rural letter carrier of Granville county, who Is widely known in Vance and many other parts bf the State, is critically ill at his home in that town. He has been abed most of the time for a month, largely from the infirmities of age. He was 79 his last birthday. Little hope for his recovery is held by the family. Mr. Hunt was for many years chaplain of the district rural letter carriers association in this section, and also of the State association. He is known to carriers over the State. He has been in feeble health for sev ral years. He retired from active duty a number of years ago, but attended the meetings of th carriers as long as his health permitted. Hmltetfsim Haily Btspafrlj ™Sded Revs. Barnette And Biddle Bring Inspirational Mes sages To Students With record attendance, the school term was launched at Charles B Ay cock high school yesterday, with 438 pupils enrolled. Many patrons of the school were present for the opening exercises. Greetings were brought the school by Mrs. Ayscue, president of the Pa rent-Teacher Association, and several members of the local churches also brought greetings. The speakers of the morning were Rvjvs. Biddle and Barnett, pastors of the Baptist churches in the communi ties Aycock school serves. Th e church men brought inspirational messages. Rev. Barnette, of the New Sandy Creek Baptist church, urged the stu dents not to dodge the difficulties, but to face the tasks squarely, thereby strengthening character and enrich ing themselves for life preparation. Rev. Biddle, of the Carey Baptist church, spoke on “The Abundant Life" which is not determined by th« spa-t of years, but the fullness which i 3 lived. Our horizon of life must be broadened, he . said. “W e should be able to recognize the rights and opin ions of others. We must concede that there is good in everyone. We aren’t Christians until we can rise above the ordinary temptations, petty jeal ous and grievances, and have definite convictions, live our own lives and form our own opinions. We cannot hope to live the abundant life except by prayer.’’ Glenn Satterwhite Is Service Manager The name of J. Glenn Satterwhite was inadvertently omitted from the article in the Daily Dispatch of Wed nesday, September 8, concerning the active and personnel of this con cern. Mr. Satterwhite has been connected with the Henderson Furniture Com pany for a number of years and is a most valuable man. He is in charge of their service department and in stalls electric refrigerators, ranges, radios and all other electrical equip ment sold by his firm. P. O. S. A. WILL MEET ? ON MONDAY NIGHT The local camp of the Patriotic Or der Sons of America held a very en thusiastic meeting Monday evening with Rev. D. A. Petty, pastor of a group of M. E. churches in the coun ty, as the speaker of the evening. The pastor issued an invitation to all members to attend services at Shocco church th e first Sunday in Oc tober at 3:30 o’clock, and transporta tion will be provided, leaving the hall on that day at 2:30 o’clock. All members are urged to be pres ent next Monday evening. Man Found Dead Here On Railroad Identified As State Hospital Escapee Frank Taylor, 28, Twice in Asylum at Raleigh, Where He Escaped Last Tuesday Night; Was Admitted from Wilmington, His Former Home A man identified as Frank Taylor, 28, an escapee from the State Hospital for the Insane at Raleigh, was found dead on a sidetrack of the Seaboard Air Line railroad in the south yard? here early today. His body had been completely cut in two at the waist, apparently by having been run ove" by the wheels of a moving train. Coroner Asa P. Paschall visited the scene, but held that the man clearlv had been killed by a train and no in quest was necessary. George Pierce, of the State Hos pital staff in Raleigh, came here in the forenoon and definitely identified the man. Information furnished offi cials here by the hospital was that Taylor was from Wilmington and was the son of Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, of that city. He was said to have es caped the hospital last Tuesday night. The information was that Taylor EDMUND B. GREGORY pc *T fiiiwiwn Relative Os Henderson Peo ple To Be Buried Here On Saturday Edmund Brodie Gregory, relative of prominent Hend,erson people, died Thursday at his home in Richmond He was about 50 years of age, and was a retired tobacconist, having been for years identified with the trade in China. The body will be brought here for burial at noon tomorrow in the Brodie family cemetery just off the Oxford road, west of the city. Mr. Gregory’s death was sudden, ac cording to information here. He had lived in Richmond for a long while. He was a son of the late A. H. and Lucy Brodie Gregory, of Stovall. Granville county, and was a nephew of Miss Fannie Brodie and a cousin of Mrs. S. B. Burwell and James H. Brodie, and of the children of the late B. T. Brodie, all of Henderson. MRSIAUILEY BURIED HERE TODAY Mother Os Henderson Resi dent Passes at Erwin Home After Heart Attack Funeral services were conducted this afternoon at 4 o’clock from South Henderson Baptist church for Mrs. Ida G. Oakley, 58, well-known resi dent of Erwin, who died at her home there about noon Thursday of a heart attack. She had been in declining health for sometime. Rev. J. U. Teague, pastor of the church, was in charge, and interment was made J n Elmwood cemetery. Mrs. Oakley was a daughter of the late Henry and Maggie Dixon Oaklev, and a native of Wkirren county. Her husband, John W. Oakley, died some time ago. She had lived in Erwin sev eral years. Surviving are five sons, R. W. Hamm of Erwin, Howard J. Hamm of Durham, Eugene P, Hamm of Ra leigh, Louis F. Oakley of Raleigh and Joe Oakley of Henderson; two daugh ters, Mrs. Johnnie Raines of Hender son; and four sisters, Mrs. J. B. Smith, Mrs. George Askew, and Mrs Lonnie Branch of Henderson and Mrs. Joe L. Cash of Oxford. FARMISfDiA^ Meeting At Court House To morrow On Extension of Tar River Area .Farmers from all parts of Vance coun ty are to gather at the court house here Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock to hear discussions and to discuss themselves the matter of requesting extension of the Tar River Soil Con servation District to include the whole of Vance county, instead of only that part that lies in the Tar river basin. Tomorrow’s gathering follows a series of educational meetings that have been held over the county this week. They have been at Aycock school, Townsville, Middleburg, Wil liamsboro and Zeb Vance school. A show of hands indicative of the de sires of those present is planned at tomorrow’s meeting. C. H. Flory, of the soil conservation service, from Raleigh, is to attend the meeting here tomorrow, and will had been in the hospital twice, hav ing been admitted the first time in 1932, and then discharged later. He had been returned there in 1934, and had been there since until his escape. The body was to be sent this after noon to Wilmington. Numbers and ward designations found on the clothing led authorities here to believe that the man was ar. escapee from the State Hosptial, and they contacted officials at Dix Bill to confirm the belief, and positive identification was made when Fierce came here and viewed the body. Coroner Paschall inclined to the theory that the man had evidently tried to board a freight train, losing his grip and falling under the wheels, which cut his body in two. The body was found on the sidetrack opposite the Gulf oil plant in the lower yards of the railroad. explain the objects of the program. Meetings similar to this one will be held at Louisburg at 2 o’clock and in Oxford at 4 p. m., both tomorrow. Whether the conservation services will broaden the scope of its work to cover the entire county will be de termined by the vote of those at the meeting tomorrow, and a mere ma jority will decide the matter. The work carried on is largely of an erosion control nature. The work has been under way in the Tar river basin for the past year in parts of Vance, Franklin, Gran ville and Person counties. The pro posal now is to embrace the whole of Vance, Franklin and Granville coun ties. If the vote tomorrow is favorable to the expansion of the work, ac tivities of the organization will affect only those who desire its service which is free. Utilization of its work is wholly voluntary on the part of land owners. Grover Whalen says there will be no fan, bubble or balloon dancers at the New York world’s fair. Quite a setback for the Nude Deal. THANKS FOLKS * The response to our opening last night was highly pleasing and gratifying. We were glad to welcome so many visitors and show them our new shop. \ ■ Come Again s Roth-Stewart Woman’s Shop FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, , 1938 Roth-Stewart’s Opening Draws Big Night Crowds Hundreds Visit New Womens Store And Are Impress ed With Beauty And Attraction Os Establish ment And High Quality Os Merchanlise Hundreds of women and a liberal sprinkling of men attended the for mal opening Thursday night of the new and remodeled Roth-Stewart Woman’s Shop. The store was thrown open for visitors and tor inspections until. 10 p. m., and a steady stream of callers passed through the doors and leisurely looked over the entire estab lishment. The store is the old Roth-Stewart women's department, but it has been entirely done over inside and greatly enlarged. New decorations have been installed throughout, and a brand new stock of merchandise has been put in to serve the women’s trade in this city and section. The unanimous verdict of the visi tors was that it was one of the most medernistic and up-to-date women’s shops to be found anywhere in this section. Its arrangements and ap pointments appeared to be perfect in the last degree, with display cases, racks and booths scattered over the place filled with new merchandise for fall buyers. Besides the first floor, there is a mezzanine arrangement in the nature of a “French shop,” and this proved as popular *vith the ladies as the first floor. Employees were on hand to greet callers and to pilot them about in the new store, and indications were that numerous “mental” sales were made, to be called back for today and tomorrow. One of the things about the store CHIMNEY SWIFTS ARE BANDED HERE J. P # B. Connell, former president of the Henderson Bird Club, and R. M. Hester, local garage man, captured a hundred or so chimney swifts last night and today atop tire chimney of the Vance Theatre, and banded many of them before liberating the birds. The banding is done more or tess to check their migration track. The birds have a tremendous wing spread for such a small body, nature giving them powerful wings for long flights. A Washington artist painted an ap ple so realistically that the picture Was nibbled by’ rats. He should have painted a trap somewhere in the scene. that attracted most attention was th< window display. Both the show wits dows were fitted up with draperies and expensive rugs and showed equal ly as expensive coats and dresses fO - wear. The management was congratulate' by hundreds who called and there ar peared to be widespread general ap preciation, of the fact that so fine a shop had been provided for the trade in Henderson and thi s section. NEXT SUNDAY Treat the family to a CAPITOL DINNER Your wife will appreciate a day away from a hot stove for the children it will be an occasion for you, a real treat. Dinners: 40c —5O c 75c CAPITOL CAFE
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