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Rcm Cress 5>eeks Here For 'Low Countries' The An ei :> ;in Cod Cross has ad vised !«nal chapter officials from Washington that Vance county is re quested to raise a quota of S 1.000 tot the fund for relief work in Holland and Belgium, recently invaded by the Germans Mrs. G. (>. McPhaii recently was elected chairman of the Vance county chapter, but is forced to be out of the city for several days, and in her ab sence. Mrs. K. K. Austin, former chairman, is taking charge of the drive temporarily to raise the SI.000 asked at this time. A meeting was called for late this afternoon at the IVrry library ol Errj! Fiynn and M: Hopkins in •"Virginia City" Ste\o;>.>n T:'ursdav end Friday. ! members of the Red Cross chaptei committee to hear the appeal ti"" Norman H. Davis, director ol tin* na tional organization, and to mala plans for the campaign that is be ing put on. In the nation as a whole the sun of SI0.000.000 is asked for reliel ii I the war-ravaged countries, especially i the smaller nations, and Vance c»«im I tv has been ^Hotted a quota of I 0*00. Mrs. Austin said today further de I tails of the campaign would be avail ! able after the meeting this after j noon, which was set for ii o'clock. A motion picture film is In ins I shown at the Stevenson theatre it I connection with the present cam | paign. showing the work of the Kci | Cross in war service. I. J. YOUNG, JR. TO ARRIVE FRIDAY I. J. Young. Jr.. who for the pas four years has been connected wit! the British American Tobacco Com pany in China, docked last night i' San Francisco. Calif., on hi> 1 ir> trip home since he went to tlu Orient. He took a nlane in Sac Francisu v. Ill arrive here to morrow. to be at the bedside of hi: father. I. J. Young, who is ill ai Maria Parham hospital, following at operation there yesterday morning IS Children Are Examined At Clinic Fifteen children, ;ill from Vance county, were examined Wednesday afternoon at the regular montoly nipple clinic held at Central school, under auspices of the Vance County Health Department. Dr. A. 1). Gregg, health superintendent, said today. Dr. \V. F. Cole, of Greensboro spe cialist. was in charge. During the three years the clinics have been held here. Dr. Cole has missed only one. \liss Huth Hopkins. of the State IVar.l oi" Health, was also in attend ance. Seven of the children were present I,iv the first time, three of them white ;.tul four colored. Kight had been t xamined previously, including five white and three colored. Treatment was recommended where considered necessary, and : >upports suggested for those con sidered to be needing them. RED MEN TO MEET ON FRIDAY NIGHT All officers and members of the local tribe of Improved Order of Ued Men are urged to be preseift at meeting of the tribe Friday even ing at K o'clock. There will be degree work, and .!. P.. Gee will give a report on the council meeting in Wilmington. 1 (, t o.to 7 £</ 11 < Oren (Arnold WKITTKN FX'K A.NT> KK1.KASEI* BY CKNTKAL PKKSS ASSOCIATION SYNOPSIS THE CHARACTERS: BENJAMIN MERRIEIELD. aged capi talist. IllU'S GAYLE DIXON to make love to bis grandson. JEREMY TUCKER, a shy student of aivtu'oloey. BILL BAILEY ana six pretty girls ere employ-"! to fceip brinjr lite ac>i youth to ihe Merritield mansion. YESTERDAY Bill finds ntmselr grow ing jealous over tlie fart that Jeremy had kissed Gayle, even though it was part of a &iay rehearsaL CHAPTER ELEVEN WHILE HE glumly ate a sand wich and a glass of milk for lunch —declining to sit with tne seven girls who had been so peremptorily hired in the Merrifield mansion Bill Bailey made his plans. Right after lunch he would go to old Mr. Merrifield and confess that circum stances had made him change his mind about working at this strange job. Then he would devote his life to courting Gayle Dixon— a free man to do whatever was accessary. Tn his mind he had magnified Jeremy Tucker as a rival of tre mendous possibilities, a condition brought about by Jeremy's back ground of wealth. The $1.40 in Bill's pocket—all his earthly as sets—was symbolically, as well as actually, small. However, Bill had barely drunk the last swallow of milk when old Mr. Merrifield himself came onto him, beaming. "Well, well, young sir. I was looking for you!" The old man looked younger. "Want to congrat ulate you and Miss Dixon on a fine start. The little impromptu dinner last evening was excellent, and I note that you have not delayed in launching your other plan—the, ah, Little Theater movement here. I like that. I like to see a plan put into action promptly." -Thank you, sir," said Bill, but—" "No buts, young sir! Modesty is becoming, but encouragement should be received where it is due. Now listen here. I have another idea that I—oh, Miss Dixon!" He called to Gayle, who had come in sight, and she smiled as she approached them. "Yes, Mr. Merrifield!" "1 was just congratulating young Bailey here. And I congratulate you, too. I expect it was your effort as much as his, in truth. The party last evening, and the immediate launching of our little—ah, private plan." He paused to chuckle. *Tt was a nice evening," she ad mitted. "Correct. So nice that I want you to do it again." "Oh! All right, surely." *T mean, young lady and young sir, that the thought of having a •welcoming party for Jeremy was an excellent one. I should have thought of it myself, earlier. We must do it yet Have a house full. Dancing and music and refresh ments. You will know how to have a party here?" He was almost pleading it now, tacitly admitting his futility in such matters. Gayle was impressed anew by his kindliness, and even Bill showed a revival of interest. "It shall be done, Mr. Merri fleld!" Gayle assured him. "Would —would next Tuesday be all right? That's hardly a week off. The in vitations will take a little time. And—" "The sooner the better, my dear. I am sure Jeremy will be pleased. He ought to be very grateful to you." "To you, sir, not us!" She watched him leave the room somewhat hurriedly, then she turned at once to Bill. "We've got to put that ahead of the play, Bill. And work fast. Goodness, I don't know anybody in his set. Jeremy's, I mean." "He hasn't got any set," "That's right. There hasn't been any society at The Oaks in many years. Of course, Bill, that's why the old gentleman wants us to do it alL He's asking us to make a •set.' To build a new social scheme i.round Jeremy. Don't you see? It's still a part of our plan. Our work." Her enthusiasm mounted rapid Gayle discovered Jeremy between two tiers of books. 1y, and Bill was lifted out of his personal gloom. In truth Bill began to feel a lit tle ashamed of himself. He wished he were not given to quick ani mosity toward another man. He couldn't remember when anybody had so aroused him as Jeremy had done this morning, kissing Gayle. Not even in football had he ever suddenly wanted to strike another man; but then, he never had faced a situation like this before, involv ing a girl. He wondered if love up set everybody the way it did him. "The floor is all clear in the two big rooms," Bill told Gayle. "Looks like a swell place for a dance right there. We can use the stage for the orchestra, and—" "Oh, surely, Bill!" Gayle walked with him back to their new "the ater" and stood with him, plan ning. "It is a perfect place. In fact, this is where The Oaks had big doings 25 yea; - or so ago, remem ber. Back w!. .1 Jeremy's parents were young. Air. Merrifield told us." "That's right. Now look—where arc the girls?" "I'll get them." The six other girl3 were rounded up by Gayle and brought to the big barren halls, and together the eight youths stood there in happy connivance. "It's another case where we have to play a game and keep mum about it," Gayle exclaimed to the others. "We want to have a really grand welcoming party for Jeremy. But there is a sort of ticklish sit uation—Jeremy has no friends here, except for us, Mr. Merrifield knows no young people much. So the guest list will have to be ours." "Goody!" Temple Hyde bubbled that. "Hush!" Bill Bailey pretended to slap her. "It's a party for big peo ple, not kids." The other girls laughed. All but the olive-skinned one, Lola Mon tesa. It was gradually becoming apparent that Lola was not given to laughter, or much talk. But that seemed not to affect her striking oeauty. ^ Bill pickcd up the conversation lead. "Now look, chillun," he was big-brothering all of them, "sit down this afternoon and make out lists of at least a dozen people each. Pick right gals and guys— you know what I moan. Your best friends. Tell them you and a few others of Jeremy Tucker's friends are giving him a party at his big home here next ^Tuesday night. A dance. Tell them each to invite a date. Just pretend like you are Jeremy's friends who are organiz ing the party." "Well, aren't we?" Tempe Hyde snapped. "Right, Tempe, we are!" Gayle smiled at her and put an arm around the smaller girl. "We do lille Jeremy, personally as well as professionally. But you must all help us in this immediate situation. It's not—well, entirely convention al, you know." They nodded. They did not have to be reminded that they were be ing paid $ir>0 a month each, or that their "work" sc far had con sisted entirely of what they would have called fun. Mr. Benjamin W. Merrifield was more and more a legendery somebody, however real they saw him to be. It was Gayle herself who left the group to go and tell Jeremy. She could not find him easily. For several minutes she searched, and finally Graham the butler re ported that Mr. Jeremy was in the library. Gayle realized she should have looked there first. She discovered him between two tiers of books that partially en closed a corner of the great room, and came onto him so suddenly as to surprise him. "Jeremy, I—" but he interrupted quickly. "Oh! Look, I didn't mean It that way!" he burst at once into an apology. "I was—I was going to write you a note, but I—well, look, Miss Dixon, Bailey told me to act natural, but I didn't mean to kiss you as if I—" Gayle had stopped, mouth agape, and now she burst into laughter. "Stop it, Jeremy! Don't feel that way. Everything's all right. Why— why, Jeremy—it was grand! Good ness, you needn't ever need to apol ogize for kissing a girl! I loved it!" "You—you did?" He held out a hand, pleadingly. "Of course! We were just re hearsing, and if you wanted to tease a little bit, who cared? I don't get angry easily, Jeremy. Anyhow, a girl is honored when a handsome man wants to kiss her. And somehow I think you really wanted to kiss me there. Now hon estly, didn't you?" He swallowed, staring wide eyed. "It was nice, Jeremy. Honestly," she said in a low tone, intimately, sweetly. Not flirting with him, but trying to console a man in an ob vious misery of embarrassment She bit her lip to be sure she wouldn't iaugh again. He was backing slowly away. "I have something else to tell you," she begged. He gazed fearfully at tm tor a long moment. "A-all right," he said then, wait inff" <To uo Continued Methodists End Revival Of Ten Days A revival meeting that had been in progress for ten days closed last night at the First Methodist church. There was several professions at the closing service. Rev. Mr. Keavis did the preaching throughout, with services ;it 9:30 a. m. and at 7:4f> p. m. The singing was in charge of Uev. John I'ennar, Friends church pastor in Graham. Mrs. George Holdcn, the church or ganist. served throughout the period, I and the regular church choir, aug mented by the junior choir and otii j ers. led in the singing. Mr. I'ennar usually sang a solo at each service. The pastor announced that a num i ber of professions had resulted from the meeting, and several church let ters written for. these to be admitted j to the church later. Good congregations attended most of the services, it was said, with | many from other denominations, in I chiding their pastors, attending I nun i time to time. I J. B. Gee Attends Council Meeting Of The Red Men J. B. Goe has returned from Wil mington, where he attended the Great Council of North Carolina Im proved Order of Red Men, on Mon day, Tuesday and Wednesday. B. C. Bradley, of Charlotte, Great Sachem, presided over the session. The session voted to meet in Char lotte in 1941. Mr. Gee was named chairman of the legislative committee for the next year. Officers for the year were E. W. A. Woolard, of Rocky Mount, Great Senior; M. W. Henderson, Kanuap olis, Great Junior; A. S. Hollowcll, Edenton, Great Prophet; W. Ben Goodwin, Elizabeth City, Great Chief of Records; E. P, H. Strunck, Wil mington, Great Keeper of Wampum. E. W. A. Woolard was elected as Great Sachem for 1941, with M. W. Henderson, being made the Great Junior. A. C. Cutler, of Washing ton, was elected Great Junior. Community Sing At High School Next Sunday Afternoon Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, there will be a community sing at the Henderson high school, under the sponsorship of City Road Meth lodist choir. All choirs, quartets or singing classes are invited to attend. A choir is expected from Danville, Va„ consisting of sixty voices, under the direction of M. G. Proffitt. former ly of Henderson. A Danville quar tette will also be present, along with singers from Durham, and choirs from various chin-ches in and around Henderson. The public is cordially invited to attend. MARS HILL COLLEGE WILL GRADUATE TWO HENDERSON STUDENTS Mars Hill, May 16.—fSpecial)— Miss Miriam Pinnell, daughter of Frank E. Pinnell, and H. B. Parrott, son of H. B. Parrott, both of Hender son, are to be among the 13ft students to graduate from Mars Hill junior college this season, according to an announcement made recently by J. W. Huff, college registrar. Both students are prominent in campus functions. Miss Pinnell has been president of a regional club, and has held important offices in the Nompareil literary society, a Sunday School class, and other or ganizations. Parrott has held an oj iice in the Euthalian literary sociely, of which he is a member, and is a member of the German club. ROCK SPRING WILL HAVE FAMILY DAY Rev. S. L. Morgan, the pastor, an nounced today that Family Day will be observed at Rock Spring Baptist church at Townsville next Sunday. Mr. Morgan will preach a special sermon at 11 a. m. on '"How To Succeed at Marriage , and Home Making." A special invitation is given to all married couples, and "more important still to young peo ple." "No other subject can be more important in the light of the fact that one in every six marriages ends in divorce," said Mr. Morgan. An "urgent invitation to all" was the word from the pastor, who ask ed that arrangements be made for those without cars to be provided with transportation. A mother's day i offering for the Baptist hospital is j to be taken. WARWICK FUNERAL j TO BE HERE FRIDAY Funeral services for Charles H. Warwick, of Norfolk, Va., will be held from Holy Innocents Episcopal church Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, with burial in Elmwood cemetery. Pallbearers will be the trainmen of the Virginia railroad, by whom he was employed. Mr. Warwick died suddenly Wed nesday morning, at his home in Nor folk, following a heart attack. He was a native of Henderson, and was well-known here: His widow, Mrs. Louise Warwick, a daughter, and a sister. Miss Lizzie Warwick, of Portsmouth, are sur viving. Mr. Warwick was the broth er of the late Mrs. A. J. Cheek and Ashton Wai;wick^of Hemj^rson Drewry News Miss Janet Hayes and Jack Wil liams, ol' Henderson, were the din ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Williams, on Sunday. Mrs. Alice Walston, of Burlington, spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Shade Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Dorest Nichols and son, Sterling, and Jim Nichols, of Smith Mill, Va„ spent the day re cently with Mr. and Mrs. I\T. L. Wil liams. Mrs. Fleming Watkins and daught (r, Juliarene, spent Sunday after noon with Mr. and Mrs. Asa Pas ihall, in Middlehurg. N. L. Williams. Jr., spent the past week-end at Palmer Springs, Va.. as the guest of Alston Watkins. Mr. and Mrs. Barker Watkins and family were the dinner guests of Mrs. Watkins' mother. Mrs. Vance Harris, in Henderson Sunday. Fleming Watkins, Jr., spent the night recently with Alston Watkins, ! in Palmer Springs, Va. [ Mr. and Mrs. Price Paschall an I nounce the birth of a son at their ' home in Drewry, on May 7. Mother i and son arc doing nicely. I Mrs. Fleming Watkins and daught ; er, Juliarene, visited Mr. and Mrs. i Plummor Watkins, at Palmer Springs I Va., Tuesday. Mrs. Weldon Cappr. was the din ner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert •Calmer, of Henderson, Saturday | night. '• Mr. and Mrs. Plummer Watkins, of Palmer Spring ' N. L. Williams, Jiams, and Mrs. \ , a recent evening FARABOW RESIG OXFORD COLLFX.! Oxford, May Id. city tax collector. i jug of the Ox!iii ■ i . ! ers Tuesday • lion in the oil in ; cock, director <ii ti • I board, Washington J. T. 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