ASSOCIATED PRESS AND CENTRAL PRESS
Excitement Os New War
Grips City On Sunday
British-French Effort to “Stop Hitler” Unan
imously Approved; Effect on American Busi
ness Speculated; Noted in Churches.
War excitement gripped this com
munity during the week-end as the
Germans pressed their drive into
Poland and there was speculation at
first as to whether or not British-
French delay in going to the aid of
the Poles meant they were pre
paring to run out on the little east
ern republic. Then when the two
western powers did take the Una l
plunge speculation shifted to li\e
lv discussions of how long it would
last.
Scenes and conversations resem
bled events of 25 years ago this
summer. At that time nearly every
one thought it would be over by
Christmas, or at least in a year.
And it went a good deal longer than
four years.
There was anxiety lest the United
States would be drawn into the
conflict, but there was general ap
proval of the Allied move in going
to the aid of the Poles. Not a ingle
kind word for Hitler was heard
anywhere. There is no doubt where
puolic sentiment here rests.
References to the conflict were
made in sermons and prayers in
churches, and thousands were
glued to radios and made inquiries
Tobacco In
East Said
To Be Firm
Unofficial reports from East
ern .Vorth Carolina and Border
Belt tobacco markets today in
dicated prices had not declined
as a result of the outbreak of
war in Europe. Newspaper men
polled in Wilson said the price
was about the same; at Lum
ber; 1 1, at Greenville and Wash
ington that apparently prices
were stronger, some guessing
the rise as much as two cents.
The reports did not indicate
whether or not the advance was
due to better types of leaf being
offered. i
A Henderson tobacco man at
home for the week-end from
the Border Belt said the export
companies were as active on his
market Friday as they had
been, if not even more so, and
seemingly more anxious to bid
than domestic buyers.
FIVE IM GIRLS
All Are In 4-H Club Work,
With Miss Lou Ella Dick
erson Leader.
By JANE S. McKIMMON
Raleigh, Sept. 4.—No one has
shown more leadership in making
thei/ own clothes and showing oth
ers how to make them than the
Dickerson girls who live on a
rented farm in Vance; county. There
are five of these girls in 4-H Club
work—Lou Ella, Magdaline, Annie
Mae, Grace Thomas and Hazel—and
when Mrs. Plummer, the home
agent was at the Dickerson home
last month, the baby girl, 2 years
cld, was dressed in a 4-H uniform
showing that in a few years there
will be six 4-H Dickerson mem
i ers.
Lou Ella is the oldest and the in
spiration of most of the good things
accomplished, and has let no ob
stacle stand in the way of pushing
h f r - i ter : r r \ herself to the top in
clothing Work.
La t fall Lou Ella put on a cloth
Announcement
Ashlin and Hutchings
Certified Public Accountants
Os
DURAM, N. C.
Announce the opening of a branch office
in Henderson, N. C.
With
w. S. COURSEY as Resident Manager
Location—Citizen Bank & Trust Co. Building
Phone 184
AUDITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND TAX
SERVICE.
|of newspaper men as to events.
But as a new business week be
gan today, more serious and prac
tical discussion centei-ed around the
effect of the war on economic con
ditions, and especially the price of
tcbacco when the market opens a
week hence. Fears were felt that
the average would sag. Today there
were many requests for informa
tion on what has happened over the
week-end in eastern Carolina mar
kets.
There were reports that leaf
I prices sagged in the oast last week,
and especially on Friday. But qilv
! Border Belt tobacco man home for
‘ the week-end reported the foreign
companies were active Friday, and
appeared to be buying more an
xiously than the domestics.
The Roosevelt radio address Sun
day night was listened to with keen
interest for an angle on the Ameri
can attitude, and, while little was
gleaned from what the President
actually said, it tended to quiet
anxious nerves in some slight de
gree. But a major war has begun
in Europe, and the fact was slowly
sinking in for those who today
still contemplated the tragedy.
ing booth which won the prize at
the County Fair for the good look
ing wardrobe she exhibited and a
few years back she, with three of
the other sisters, modeled modish
uits they had crocheted from in
expensive yarn purchased from a
near-by cotton mill. They were
beautiful suits, well made and of
becoming colors, and the crocheted
accessories, hats and bags, furnished
the finishing touch.
All of tne girls can make chic
-orn buck hats and wear them with
an air, and while Grace Thomas and
nazel have not yet learned to use
the sewing machine, the three piece
camp suits they crocheted this sum
mer from thread costing 10 cents
each, won for Annie Mae the place
of sweepstake winner for che county.
Funeral From Holy Inno
cents Episcopal Church,
Burial Here.
Miss Lessie Grissom, 84-year-old
Henderson lady, of 171 Horner street,!
died at Maria Parham hospital Sun- !
day afternoon at 5:30 o’clock after
an illness there of eight days. She
had been in failing health for about
six months. She suffered with a com
plication of diseases.
I Funeral services were held this
afternoon at 4 o’clock from Holy In
nocents Episcopal church, in charge
of the rector, Rev. Isaac Wayne
Hughes, and interment followed in
Elmwood cemetery.
Miss Grissom was a native of
Granville county, but had lived here
for the past forty years. She had
been a member of Holy Innocents
cnurch about the same length of
time. She was born in 1855.
Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Queen
Garrett, of Henderson, and Miss Ora
Garrett, a niece, and several other
nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers announced were as fol
i lows: Active, George Cunningham,
James Cunningham, C. W. Grissom,
H. A. Grissom, Stephen Grissom and
I George Ball, all nephews; honorary
Hubert flight, W. H. Windley, Dr. H.
H. Bass, Jr., Joe Satterwhite, F. B.
: Robards, H. B. Newman, Julian
Hoyle, Henry A. Dortch.
Magnanimity is a certain large
ncs:; of temper and soul.
Soil-realization is the making real
of the ideal self.
Hettftefstm Hatly Btsrpafrh
Sales Card
Is Changed
Once More
I
Plans Fast Being
Completed for Open
ing Market Nex 11
Monday; Equipment
Being Set Up.
Because of changes made in the
opening date for the Henderson to
bacco market from Thursday, Sep
tember 7, to Monday, September 11,
the sales schedule has again been
adjusted to meet requests of ware
housemen, it was announced today
by Fred W. Allen* Jr., sales super
visor of the market.
A meeting of Henderson ware
housemen, together with the sales
committee of the Henderson Tobacco
Board of Trade, was held Saturday
afternoon and the sales card was cor
rected and officially endorsed, it was
stated. A copy is being printed.
Meantime, plans went ahead rapid
ly for the opening of the marketing
season next Monday. The first load
of tobacco has already reached town,
coming from near Clayton Saturday.
Warehouses have been marked off
for sales and final minor repairs
have been made.
Tobacco companies have started
moving in their equipment from the
southern markets. Warehousemen,
officials of the market and Hender
son business men are all in read
iness for the big opening day, which |
will begin what is hoped to be the 1
greatest season the local market has
ever experienced.
The first issue of the Henderson
Daily Dispatch—its annual tobacco
edition—has been mailed and an
other will follow during the open
ing week, officials stated. The WPTF
radio program began this evening at
6:25 o’clock and will continue thro- |
ughnut the season.
Officials of the Chamber of Com- 1
meree reiterated today their request
that all who are willing to help in
the local advertising program call
that orifice and get an automobile
“bumper” sign to be attached to their
cars ior that purpose.
Further details of preliminary
plans and all other matters pertain
ing to the market are to be carried
daily from now on in the Daily Dis
patch through the cooperation with
e uoard or trade for the conveni
ence of readers and tobacco growers.
raSSfmu
E. O. Young, Principal, An
nounces Faculty for
Coming Year
Middleburg high school opens
Thursday, September 14, with all
pupils, including high school students
registering opening day, E. O. Young,
principal of the school, announced
today.
Faculty for the year has been an
nounced as:
Miss Frances Pittard, first grade;
Miss Nancye White, second grade;
Miss Thelma Duncan, third grade;
Miss Bessie Atkinson, fourth-fifth
grade; Miss Ann Drake, fifth-sixth
grade; Miss Epsie Gregg, seventh
grade.
High School.
Miss Ruth McKellar, English-
French; J. C. Boyette, history-Eng
lish; H. H. Yates, mathematics-Geo
graphy; G. B. Blum, agriculture;.
Mrs. W. M. Coffin, music; E. O.
Young, Jr., science and principal.
Horace Clopton and' Dur
wood Gupton Crarged
With Robbing Store
Horace Clopton and Durwood
I Gupton, both of South Henderson,
I are being held in jail awaiting a
hearing in county court on a charge
of breaking and entering and lar
ceny and receiving.
Sheriff L. L. Swanson said-the two
were charged with breaking into
Oakley’s store Saturday night, and
taking a quantity of tobacco, smokes,
chickens and half of a ham.
Deputies E. A. Cottrell and J. C.
Inscoe participated in the arrest ot
j the men.
I COURTESY TICKETS
TO MANY DRIVERS
Courtesy tickets to the Stevenson
theatre were awarded recently by
city police to Miss Dorothea Woodr
lief, Miss Annie Marshall LeMay,
Mrs. C. C. Loughlin, Sr., Miss Jim
mie Faucette, Mrs. Edward H. Dixon,
Mrs. Vera Clopton, Mrs. J. H. Brodie,
J. A. Huffman, Lawrence A. Davis,
of Townsville, Charles A. Breedlove,
of Middleburg, Miss Helen Kimball,
Mrs. W. C. Cheatham, M. W. Wester,
Mrs. M. W. Wester, Mrs. J. E. Smith,
W. E. Wilkinson, Mrs. Bruce Peoples,
J. E. Smith and Mrs. Gertrude Web
c
: " These tickets are given to motor
! ists who operate automobiles with
[ due regard for the rights of others
II on the city streets, and are presented
J by city police officers.
5,228 Books
Are Loaned
For August
Books loaned during August hv
the Perry library numbered 4.657
volumes, including 3,464 of fiction
and 1,193 of non-fiction, it was
shown today in the monthly report
of Mrs. H. Leslie Perry, the librarian.
At the Dunbar branch, lendings were
601, including 148 volumes of fiction
and 453 of non-fiction.
New books added numbered 64 at
the Perry library, including 51 of
fiction and 13 of non-fiction, 60 of
them being adult and four juvenile
volumes. No new additions were
shown for the Dunbar branch, which
is operated for the colored people.
At the end of the month the Perry
library had a membership of 4,376,
including 2,990 adults and 1,386
juveniles. Forty-two names were ad
ded and 39 withdrawn. The Dun
bar branch added two and cut off
seven, with a total registration of 816
at the end of August, including 176
adults and 640 juveniles.
The average daily circulation at
the Perry library was 172.5 for the
27 days the library was open. Per
centage of non-fiction books was
25.6. Total circulation of the Perry
library, the Dunbar branch and the
branches in the rural sections was
5,228.
At the South Henderson branch
315 readers were registered and 352
volumes were borrowed. The circula
tion at North Henderson was 389 and
at Middleburg 60, with 289 lendings
at Kittrell. All of these figures were
included in the totals for the Perry
library.
LIBERTY TO HOLD
REVIVAL SERIES
A series of revival services will
get underway Wednesday evening,
September 13, at Liberty Congrega
tional-Christian church, and continue
for ten days, with preaching in the
evening at 7:30 o’clock. Rev. O. D.
Poythress, of Norfolk, Va., will be
the minister.
Prayer services will be conducted
in the community this week at the
following places, the hour being 7:30
o’clock: Tuesday, E. M. Newman’s
with C. O. Eaves, leader; Wednesday,
W. S. Ayscue, with Mrs. Tollie
Ayscue, leader; Thursday and Friday
the J. O. Atkinson Missionary so
ciety will celebrate its 15th anniver
sary at the church.
The public is cordially invited to
attend.
COUNTY COURT HAS
JUST ONE CHARGE
One case was tried at today’s ses
sion of county court.
Tyree Grissom vggs guilty of being
drunk, and prayer for judgment was
continued upon payment of the costs.
It is to labor, and to labor only, that man oives everything possessed of
exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the
condition of the savage; that has changed the desert and the forest into
cultivated fields; that has covered the earth ivith cities, the ocean with
ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want,
misery, and barbarism. -McCulloch.
0 PROGRESS is not only measured in terms of steel and brick, nor
in terms of possession and wealth ... it is measured, too, in the ad
vancement of human happiness, and all else is of importance only as
i it affects this happiness.
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ELECTRICITY, the accepted ideal servant, has brought easier,
happier, more economical living to the homemakers and their families
... through its use, Industry and Commerce have reached new heights
of efficiency.
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Draw Jurors
For October
Court Term
Jurors to serve during the regular
October term of Vance Superior
Court were drawn by the county
commissioners this afternoon, with
some 40 names pulled for the first
week and 25 or so for the second
week.
Judge C. E. Thompson, of Eliza
beth City, is to hold Dotn weeks of
the court, and .terms of the last hah
of the year for this county. The cases
of more than ordinary interest. Sev
eral suits of interest are on the civil
docket.
During the forenoon session, the
commissioners heard reports and
transacted purely routine business
in an uneventful sitting. Bills were
approved and ordered paid.
Other than the drawing of the jury
the afternoon session was to be de
voted to a conversation about wel
fare and relief work in the county
with Miss Cara Mae Ellis, county
welfare superintendent.
The regular monthly meeting of
the board had no business of out
standing interest or importance, so
far as was learned.
Interesting Program Plann
ed with Students Par
ticipating
A “back to college 5 ’ program will
be had at the weekly meeting of the
Rotary Club Tuesday evening at 7
o’clock at the Vance Hotel, with the
program being in charge of B. 11.
Perry, chairman, Rev. J. A. Jones,
J. W. Jenkins and R. G. S. Davis.
All boys and girls of members of
Rotary that are going off to school
this year, and those students using
the student loan fund of the club,
will be guests at the meeting.
Rev. Mr. Jones will speak on “The
Duty of the Student to His College,”
B. H. Perry will use “Duty of the
Student to his Community” as his
subject; Miss Elizabeth Jenkins will
speak on “Preparations for College”;
Bobby Kittrell speaks on “A Fresh
man’s Idea of College”; E. V. Bunn,
Jr., will discuss “Is College Worth
while”; Ai. Wester, Jr., is to speak
on College Training for Special
Work”; Frank Legg, Jr., will bring
his views on “Student’s Idea of the
World on Leaving College”; and R.
J. Jones, Jr., will wind up the pro
gram with a discussion on “Reasons
for Going to College.”
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1939
Several 'Negroes Guilty of
Gambling; Other Charges
Minor, Also
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Mayor Henry T. Powell disposed
of numerous cases in city court to
day, all of them being of a minor
nature.
Clyde Short pleaded guilty to be
ing drunk, and was given 30 days.
Willie Johnson, Negro, guilty of
assault, was given 60 days.
Charlie Harris, Jr., Emmett Over
by, Haywood Vaughan, James Dan
iel, James Howard, Sam Brown,
Willie Harris, Raymond Brodie and
Russell Brodie, all Negroes, were
guilty of gambling, and prayer for
judgment was continued upon pay
ment of the costs.
Matt White, Negro, guilty of gam
bling, was fined $1 and taxed with
the costs.
Fred Harris, Negro, guilty of be
ing drunk, paid $1 and costs.
Clara Mann, Negro, pleaded guilty
to an assault charge, and was given
30 days, suspended upon payment of
the costs.
Martin Harris, Negro, pleaded
guilty to a charge of drunkenness,
and was given the choice of 30 days
or paying $1 and costs.
Mabel Evans, Negro was guilty of
assault, and was given 30 days on the
roads, committment not to issue up
r"r' oavment of the costs.
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IN TRAFFIC CASES
Records ?t the city ~l■
reveal that five paid si r,'
of traffic rules. ‘ !
Those who paid the si
Ned Hickson, Min j ,
P. Jones, Celestia Henri, °, f)per ’ p
Howard White. ,(; 'S an(j
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