THE KIDS all know where the
schoolhouse is, but just the same
the school bell rings. Many people
know where your business Is; ad
vertising is the bell you ring.
VOL. LXIV.
Parents Urged To
List Communicable
Diseases At Once
At Camp Croft
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Cpl. William Herbert Bray, Jr„
of Semora, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Bray. Sr., and husband of
Mrs. Ethel Whitt Bray, is station
ed at Camp Croft, S. C., where he
has been for most of the time
since he entered service on Au
gust 22, 1944. A graduate of Beth
el Ilill high school and formerly
a farmer, he has one son. Wil-
liam (Billy) Robert, three years of
age.
Geo. M. Harris
Reported Dead
Serjjeant Dies After Battle
In Mindona Area.
A message received here Monday
from the War Department reports
that S. Sgt’George M. Harris, 24,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Harris
of Timberlake, Route 1, died in a
hospital on Mindoro Island. April
3 15th, due to serious wounds In the
chest. •
Sgt. Harris entered the Army Air
Corps, April 2, 1941, serving 32
months overseas. During that lime
he served in Active Combat in the
Hawaiian Islands, Australia, New
Guinea, and the Philippine:. His
squadron was known as the Jolly
Rogers Unit.
Other than his parents, survivors
3 include a brother, Pfc. William Dor
sey Harris, now stationed at Starke
General Hospital, Charleston, S. C.,
who returned to the United States
in December, 1944, after serving in
Europe for 29 months.
Three other brothers, T. J. Har
ris of Rowland, N. C., J. E. of
Blackstone, Va., and Paul H. of
the home; three sisters, Mrs. O. S.
Brooks, Route 2, Mrs. A. B. Dick
» erson. Hurdle Mills, and Miss Min
* hie Harris of the home, also his
maternal grandfather, John S.
Wrcnn of this city.
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Riley T. Wade
Completes Course
Pvt. Riley T. Wade, 23, son of
Police Officer and Mrs. Charles
f Wade, Sr., of Roxboro, has been
graduated from the AAP Training
Command's aircraft radio mechan
ics school at Truax Field, Madison,
Wis., where he studied the servicing
of radio equipment used on U. S.
bombers and fighter planes, it was
annoynced today by the post com
mander.
Depending upon needs of the
AAF, he may be assigned to an ad
• vanced school or to another center
1 as an instructor in radio mechanics.
At Mitchell Field
Pvt. Elmore Sherman, son of Mr.
and Mrs. L. P. Sherman of Rouge
ment, has arrived at New Can
tonment Hospital, Mitchell Field,
N. Y., and expects to be transferred
nearer home soon.
. Pvt. Sherman has been overseas
since January 7th, 1945 and since
January 15th he has been in a hos
pital with frozen feet.
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SERVICES SUNDAY
Services at Theresa Baptist
church will be held Sunday night
at seven and eight o'clock, accord
ing to the pastor, the Rev. B. B.
Knight.
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J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
Increase Seen. With Four Os
Scarlet Fever, One Diph
theria. Clines Berne Held.
Four cases of scarlet fever, one of
diphtheria, eighteen of whooping
cough and one of tubercular men
ingitis, have been reported to the
Person Health department since
April 2, according to Miss Evelyn
Davis, who says
that staff members have also in
vestigated twelve other suspected
cases of communicable diseases. The
total number is much larger than
usual, it is said.
Discussing these cases, Miss Davis
urges that children be immunized
early when at all possible, that doc
tors should be called in promptly
and the Health Department noti
fied at once, if and when communi
cable diseases develop. At the Health
Department vaccines, except for
measles and scarlet fever, are avail
able on Mondays from two to four
p. m., and on Saturdays from nine
to twelve a. m. Rules of quarantine,
which will be gladly explained by
the Department, should be observ
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Butner Program
Being Arranged
Younjr Women Wanted For j
Friday Informal Dance I
At Camp.
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Roxboro and Person young wo
men who are interested in attend
ing a Camp Butner dance, an in
formal affair to be held there on
Friday night. May 4th, in a Recrea
tion Hall for convelescent soldiers,
-.Mrs R. H.
Shelton, social activities chairman
for this city, at once.
Second dance event scheduled at
Camp Butner to which Roxboro
women are invited will be a formal
dance to be given on the next Fri
day night, May 11th, at Service
Club Number 1, according to Mrs.
Shelton.
Planned for this week-end (May
sth and 6th) in Roxboro at the USO
Service Center is a regular open
house under Group Three of the
Entertainment committee, headed
by Misses Lucille Oliver and Faye
O’Briant. Regular hours will Ire
observed at the USO Center Satur
day afternoon and night.
Scheduled for Sunday will be a
special program for a group oi
twenty-five Camp Butner convel
escents, w'ho will come at two in
the afternoon and will then go to
Long's cabin, Chub Lake, for sup
per, vespers and water sports. So
cial hour will follow that night at
the Service Center, with Group
Three in charge of all arrange
ments.
In addition to Misses Oliver and
OBriant, members of Group Three
arc: Misses May Love Chambers,
Elizabeth Day, Naomi Blalock, Mary
Winder Green, Jean Kirby, Ruth
Hall, Frances Oliver, Margaret
O’Briant, Louise Singleton, Helen
Latta, Dorothy and Ruby Oakley
and Louise and Anna Katherine
Moore.
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Revival Continues
At Baptist Church
The revival at Roxboro First Bap
tist Church, which has been in pro
gress since Sunday, will continue
through this Sunday, with Rev. J.
Boyce Brooks preaching and A. E.
Lynch leading the song service.
Large crowds have been in attend
ance at each service.
Sunday morning at 11 o’clock the
pastor's subject will be, "Our Great
est Need." At the evening service at
8 o'clock the subject will be, "Look
ing for Jesus." The public is cor
dially invited to each of these ser
vices. The evening service will be
the last one of the meetings.
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Has Purple Heart
Mrs. Walter Chadwick received
the Purple Heart Thursday that
was awarded to her husband, Mas
ter Sergeant Chadwick, for wounds
received in action on Leyte, Novem
ber 28th. Master Sergeant Chad
wick is now stationed on Okinawa.
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Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day will be observed at
the Hurdle Mills Methodist church
Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, ac
cording to announcement by the
pastor, the Rev. Floyd VUlines.
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Amaid Burning Buildings, American parachute troops advance thru the important German city of
Munster alongside a Churchill tank of the famed Scots Guards Regiment. These Yanks of the
American Seventh Airborne Division, rode the British Guards’ tanks much of the way. the soldiers
of the. two nations functioning as a perfect team. If German infantry baared the way, the British
tanks roared in and dealt with them. If the Germans brought up guns, the Americans dismounted
and outflanked them. Thus General Eisenhower's method of welding the top commands to be reach
ing the foremost Allied spearheads.
Child Dies In First Person Traffic
Fatality Os Year Near Concord
j Negro Child Dies Shortly As-j
ter Being Struck By
Ambulance.
First traflic fatality for Person.
County in 1945 occurred Tuesday j
morning on the Roxboro to Dan- \
, ville road near the farm of Mrs. j
. Jeff Long, Olive Hill, when a Dan- |
i ville, Va, ambulance driven fori
1 Wrenn's Funeral home by the Rev.,
I Andrew Thomas Soyars, 40, of Dan
i ! ville, struck a Negro child, Mary
1 1 Ruth Person, age, seven years.
. | daughter of Faucette Person, a (en
.! ant on the Long farm.
' j Hearing for the Rev. Mr. Scyars,
charged with manslaughter, will
be held in Roxboro on Tuesday.
1 May 8, according to Person Sheriff
1 M. T. Clayton. The minister re
' turned to Danville after posting a
I bond.
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. | The accident occurred about i
eleven o'clock in the morning and j
the child died shortly afterwards
; at Community hospital to which the
; child Was immediately brought by
. the Rev. Mr. Soyars.
, I Bond for the Rev. Mr. Soyars has
II been set at SSOO, according to She' -
iff Clayton, who with Patrolman
. John Hudgins, investigated the ac
cident. Only witness was the Tri
i vcr. who said the child darted
across the road in front of his ma
chine. Soyars had been to Dur-
I ham to take a patient to a hos
. j pital and was returning to Dan
| ville when the accident happened.
Funeral for the Person child is
expected to be held today.
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Mitchell’s Chapel
Services Continue
Through Week
Much interest and enthusiasm
was manifested this week in the
opening service of the series of
meetings being held at Mitchell's
Chapel Baptist Church, according to
the pqstor, the Rev. B. B. Knight.
A full house greeted the Rev. Mr.
Knight at the eleven o’clock hour I
on Sunday. Mr. Knight used as j
his scripture, part of the thirteenth i
chapter of Luke. His subject was
"Humility.”
Rev. R. W. Hovis, who has sever- J
al churches in the Association and i
who is guest preacher for these ser
vices, spoke to a large congrega
tion at the evening hour. Mr. Ho- ;
vis has a message for people. Mr. j
Knight and the people at Mitchel's |
Chapel feel that they are indeed i
fortunate in having Mr. Hovis
preach for them this wees on "the
Unsearchable Riches of Christ."
T. C. Sanders, gospel singer, is j
directing the song services which j
| precede the messages.
Miss Bivens Winstead is accom
panist at the piano.
Services will continue through the
week, each evening at 8 o’clock. On
Sunday, services will be at 11 and
8 o'clock. Dinner will be served on
. the grounds at 12 o’clock. Everyone
t is askdd to bring a basket.
Mr. . Knight is especially anxious
i for those who. have ever attended
Mitchell's Chapel to .come.
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Yanks And Tommies Advance In Germany
Fall Os Berlin
Ends Nazi State
London, Thursday, May 3.—Berlin,
greatest city of the European con
tinent, fell yesterday afternoon to
tlie Russians, who quoted a higli
prisoner as declaring that Adolf Hit
ler had committed suicide along
with Propaganda Minister Goebbels
as the capital of the blood-drenched
Nazi empire tumbled around them.
Also reported dead by his own
hand was Hitler’s new general staff
Wright Allen.SO,
Dies In Watts
Wright Allen, 50, of near Roxboro,
died Tuesday morning at 12:40 o'-
clock at Watts hospital, Durham,
from a heart attack. He entered the
hospital Thursday and had been a
patient there since that time.
Funeral was held at the Allen
homeplace, five miles south of Rox
boro, Wednesday afternoon at four
o'clock, by the Rev. R. W. Hovis. of
Antioch Baptist church, of which
he was a member, with interment
in Burchwood cemetery.
Survivora-include three sisters.
Miss Maggie Allen, with whom he
made his home. Mrs. R. A. Pointer,
of Leasburg, and Mrs. J. Frank
Blakely, of Spartansburg, S. C., four
brothers: C. H. Allen of Apex. Joe
L., H. F., and C. P. Allen, of Rox
boro. Another, Baxter Allen, died
a number of years ago.
Pallbearers were nephews, Wal
lace. Carl and Joe Pointer, Herbert,
William and Nick Allen. Flower
bearers were nieces.
V-E DAY CLOSING RULES FOR
MERCHANTS HERE DRAWN UP
V-E Day recommendations of pro
cedure for merchants who will wish
to observe closing hours in the
event that a complete capitulation
of Germany is reported and V-E
Day is proclaimed, have been agreed
on by the Executive Committe of
Roxboro chamber of Commerce,
according to W. Wallace Woods,
secretary, who says that a brief
memorandum as to closing hours
is to be distributed to all mer
chants.
Present for the session Tuesday
at which recommendations were
drawn up were R. D. Bumpass,
Chamber president, J. W. Green, R.
B. Griffin, J. A. Long, Jr., David S.
Brooks, and in an ex offico ca
pacity. Mayor S. G. Winstead and
Tom Shaw.
Recommended rules of procedure,
similar to those drawn up last Sep
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
chief, an infantry general named
Krebs, as 70,000 German troops laid
down their arms in the surrender
which Hitler had said never would
come.
The Soviet triumph after 12 days
of history’s deadliest street fighting,
was announced last night by Pre
mier Stalin in an order of the day
and in the Soviet communique
broadcast from Moscow this morn
ing.
Stalin's order made no mention
of Hitler, who the Nazis had said
died in his shattered Reichschan
ccllery in the heart of Berlin on
May 1.
The Soviet communique, however,
stated that among the captives tak
en was Dr. Hans Fritsche, Goebbels'
chief deputy in the Nazi Ministry
of Press and Propaganda, and that
Fritsche told his Russian interroga
tors that Hitler, Goebbels and Gen
eral Krebs all had committed sui
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Flower Show
Planned to be held on sched
ule, on Friday, May 11, despite
the fact that continued cool
weather has delayed the growth
of flowers, is the annual open
house and flower show of the
Person County Public library, it
was announced today. Three
judges are to be chosen and will
be announced next week. Var
ious city and county clubs as well
as individuals.
Members of the committee arc
Mrs. R. H. Shelton and Mrs. J. Y.
Humphries, with Mrs. Ethel Wal
ler Whetstone, librarian.
(tember (when jreace in Europe was
expected, are as follows:
1. If news of victory is received
at night or during a business day,
'and before 12:00 noon, all businesses
will close immediately for the re
mainder of that day and reopen the
following day as usual.
2. If the news ts received dur
ing a business day and any time
after 1:00 p. m. business will cease
immediately for the remainder of
j that day and remain closed the
following day also.
3. If news is received any time
during Saturday all business will
; cease immediately for the remain
| der of the day and open the fol
| lowing Monday, and reopen on
Tuesday as usual.
4. If news is received on Satur-
I day night or Sunday all business
| will close the following Monday,
and reopen on Tuesday as usual.
THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1944 RSO YEAR IN ADVANCE
Person Overseas Fighters
Lead Civilians In War Loan
Snow In May
Asheville. May 3.—Snow, rang
ing from light flurries to three
inches, coveted most of Western
North Carolina north of here yes
terday.
Around an inch was reported |
at Boone, where the temperature i
was in the low 40's Rich Moun
tain was white-capped at 10. a. in.
and two and one-half inches was
reported at the ranger station on
Mt. Pisgah at 11:30 a. m. Three
inches of snow was reported on
top of Mt. Mitchell.
Two Performances
Os 'Patsy' Play
Here Next Week
Janice Rimnier. Dailev Fred
erick And Others Havg
Important Roles.
The Roxboro high school Senior
play, "Patsy Strings Along" will be
given May 7, in the afternoon for
the high school student body and
there will be an evening perform
ance Tuesday evening. May 8 at
8:15, for the general public ac
cording to announcement made to
day.
The play this year is an attractive
3 act comedy, with leading roles
played by Janise RLmmer and Daily
Frederick.
A preview of the play shows how
a vaudeville actress takes over the
running of a boys' pi'e school! Pa
tricia Heath, Janice Rimmer is the
actress who, finding vaudeville at a
low ebb. makes a visit to Lakeland
Academy, a quarter interest in which
has been left her by an uncle:
She hopes here to find a source
of income with which to augment
her dwindling salary in the theatre
—but—she finds the Academy also
at a low ebb and straight-way joins
forces with (Homer Martin) Dailev
Frederick, the headmaster and prin
cipal owner, in an effort to save the
school from the attacks of a mer
cenary force headed by the town
Shylock, George Wilson, (Charles
Proctor).
Patsy learns that Lakeland needs
a real football coach, and a winning
team to bring paying students to
the Academy. This proves to be
fairly easy for Patsy, for Ted Burns,
an All-American fullback (this role
is played by F. O. Whitt), happens
to be in love with the dynamic lady.
Through the warp of the play a
fine comedy character is spun in
the form of Jerry Malone, Bobby
Boothe, the grizzled old trainer. It
is he who supplies many of the
laughs. All of the characters are
humanly drawn.
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James Lemons
Family Leaves
Mr. and Mrs. James Lemons and
son, for the past two to three years
residents of Roxboro, are leaving
today for their former home at
Galax, Va., where they will live
while Mr. Lemons is in military
service. Mr. Lemons, telegraph op
erator and office manager for
Western Union, was called to mili
tary service several weeks ago and
.will be in Galax about two weeks
before reporting to a Virginia camp
i for induction.
While in Roxboro, Mr. and Mrs.
Lemons have had residence on Oak
street, sharing a home with the
C. F. Vogler family.
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Receives Badge,
Pvt. Eric S. Garrett, of Route
Three. Roxboro, who is with the
90th Infantry division in Germany,
has received the Combat Infantry
man's badge, according to an official
War Department message received
here today. Pvt. Garrett, who has
participated in campaigns in west
ern Germany, is an anti-tank can
noneer. His wife is Mrs. Betty B.
Garrett, of Route Three, Roxboro.
Long Released
Now at a stationed in England is
Stephen C. Long, of Person Coun
ty, formerly for about two years
a prisoner of war in Germany,
according to a V-Mail letter re
ceived front him by his mother,
Mrs. J. Martin Long, this week.
Long, who is in a hospital, expects
to be there about two weeks and
is then looking forward to com
ing home, he says.
Finals Speaker
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DR. C. 11. SMITH
Dr. H. C. Smith, of Durham,
prominent Methodist minister,
will be finals speaker at Helena
high school Tuesday night. May
22, at 8:30, when nineteen stu
dents will receive diplomas. Ser
mon on Sunday, May 20, at 3:30
in the afternoon, baccalaureate
sermon will be by the Rev. J.
Boyce Brooks, of Roxboro First
Baptist church. Eighth grade fin
als will be Wednesday morning,
May 23, at ten. and the music re
cital on Friday night. May 18th.
Teacher of music is Mrs. Blanche
Dunnagan. of Roxboro.
Legion's Poppy
Day On Saturday
Youno Women Named To As
sist Mrs. W. T. Kirbv
With Prouram.
Pointing out that the idea of the
poppy as a memorial flower for the
World War dead sprang up as nat
urally as the Tittle, wild flower itself
grows in the fields of France and j
Flanders, Mrs. W. T. Kirby, chair- |
man of the annual poppy day sale
held here by the auxiliary of Lester i
Blackwell Post No. 138, the Ameri
can Legion, said today that the day
will be observed in Roxboro on this
Saturday, May sth.
Selected to assist Mrs. Kirby, who
has been chairman here for a;
number of years, have been Misses |
Ann Briggs Moore, Rachel Brooks, i
E'leanor Stewart, Mattie Jane Trow
bridge, Sally Umstead, Pat Satter
field. Ann Monk, Hulda Blanks, j
Lee Pass, Sylvia Bradsher, Rachel
Whitfield, Patsy Beam and Martha
Short, who will conduct street sales,.
. starting Saturday morning.
Full public cooperation is request
ed by Mrs: Kirby, who in announc
ing the approaching sales date, has
issued the following statement about
the symbolism of the flaming red
poppy as a memorial:
“The flower was the one touch of
beauty which survived amid the
hideous destruction of war. Along
the edge of the trenches, beneath
the tangled barbed wire, about the
ragged shell holes and over the fresh
graves it raised brave red blossom.
It seemed to be the one immortal
thing in that region where death
j reigned, The soldiers of all nations
came to look upon it as the living
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Kiwanians Have
Musical Program
Kiwanians on Monday night,
meeting at Hotel Roxboro, heard an
informal musical program prepared
:by club member Bill Minor, with
the chief feature singing by a club
quartet composed of T. C- Sanders,
Thomas Hatchett, J. W. Bolick and
Fred Bishop, who substituted for the
Gospel Four quartette, Negro sing
ing group which was prevented from
appearing because of illness of one
of its singers. Sanders also lead
the club in group singing.
Welcomed to club membership
was the Rev. J. Boyce Brooks, pas
tor of Roxboro First Baptist church.
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Ha» Purple Heart
Cpl. Auburn- A. Fowler, of Route
two, Roxboro, with the 120th In
fantry, 30th Division, in Germany,
has been awarded the Purple Heart
for wounds received in action there,
according to an official War Depart
ment message received here today.
1 Fatal Highway
Accident
IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1845
HELP KEEP IT THAT WAY
DRIVE CAREFULLY!
NUMBER 44
Boys. Manx Os Them Wound
ed. Are Not Waiting; Neith
er Are Schools.
Person and Roxboro fighters,
men in overseas units in both the
Pacific and European theatres of
war. are not waiting for the of
ficial opening of the Seventh War
Loan to buy bonds with which to
back their attacks, according to
Gordon C. Hunter, of this city,
district chairman, who said this
morning that Person and Roxboro
overseas fighters, many of them
Wounded and in hospitals, have al
ready bought over $5,000 worth of
Seventh War Loan E bonds out of
their Army and Navy pay.
Roxboro and Person q. otas this
j time, for the drive which officially
opens on May 14, are $544,000
and $248,000. inclusive with the
' sjnalier quota for. E Bonds: All
bonds bought during April, May
and June in the E bond quota are
counted in the Seventh War Loan.
Likewise, already underway is
the bona drive, in the public
schools, according to co-chairman
R. B. Griffin' who reports that, i
War Bond Penniere for school chil
dren Will be held on Thursday , af
ternoon May 10. at the Palace
j theatre, at one o'clock, with a show
ing of the Disney production,
"Bambi," to which all children who
' have by. that date bought bonds
! or been responsible for the sale
of them, will be admitted free. In
celebration of the matinee there
will be a downtown parade by the
children at 12:30 that afternoon,
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Ten Negro Home
Clubs Take Part
In Dress Tests
i Ten Negro home demonstration
'clubs of Person County conducted
Dress Contests in each club during
the month of April, according to
| Annie Mae Tuck. Home Agent. Win
ners from each club competed in a
; county wide contest which was held
| April 28. at the Rural Center in
j Roxboro.
; Mrs. Ella Woods, County Home
| Club: Mrs. Signora Nelson, Misses
, Lois and Florris Clay, Lee Clay
Club; Mrs. Ernestine Brooks and
| Flossie IVfcCoy. Lee Jeffers Club;
'jMrs. Ozzie Lawson and Lillie Law
json, Harris Hill Club: Mrs. Naßuth
iCorbett and Katie Bradsher, Hurdle
Mills Club: and Mrs. Beulah Baird
{and Inez Clay. Woodsdale Club, took
'part in final contests.
' Mrs. Naßuth Corbett of Hurdle
Mills. Club won first place. She will
represent the county at the district
I contest in Durham on May 18. Mrs.
Signora Nelson of Lee Clay Club
! won second place and Mrs. Ozzie
i Lawson of Harris Hill Club won
j third. A similar program is being
{planned for 4-H Club members, to
!be given sometime this month.
Purpose of the contest was to en
' courage rural women to do more
I sewing, to develop better clothing
practices, such as selection and con-
Jstruction. The competition was a
{very friendly one. Each lady taking
{part stated that she had gained
{much needed information from each
Contestant. The judges had no easy
1 time determining the winners.
The judges were Miss M. W.
Townes. Subject Matter Specialist
|of Greensboro, N. C.; Mrs. R. C.
! Conaway, Negro Home Agent, Or
,ange County; Miss M. I. Parham,
{Negro Home Agent, Granville Coun
ity; and Mrs. M. s. Brown, F. S. A.
Supervisor, Roxboro.
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i East Roxboro To
Conduct Clinic
{ On Wednesday morning, May 9,
from nine o'clock to 12, a pro*
school clinic will be held at East
Roxboro School. It is important
that children ready for school In
September be here on this date.
Parents are also invited to bring
any younger children from six
months old and over for one dose
of diptheria vaccination, according g
to Miss Ruth E. Sima, principal* a