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WANT ADB In thia newspaper will bring you good results. Use them to sell, buy, rent or hire. The cost Is small the results good. VOL. LXV Busy Board Hears Many Petitions For School Plans X-Ray Unit To Be Available For Person Citizens I '' ! I’er»on Residents To Have Opportunity For Tuber culosis Tests. 1 Expected to be in use in Person county and Roxboro soon is an x-ray machine to facilitate chest exami nations in tuberculosis tests. The announcement was made yes terday by Dr. O. David Garvin, of Chapel Hill, health officer of the Orange-Person-Chatham district, who said that the United States Public Health service, through the Tuberculosis Control division of the j . North Carolina State Board of j health, is loaning the district an | x-ray unit to do mass survey on j tuberculosis in cooperation with the ] Christmas Seal Sale committee of; the Kiwanis club, an organization which has sponsored the Seal Sale 1 here this year. The x-ray machine, operated by i trained technicians, will arrive in | Person County the last week in j i January or the first week in Febru ary. It will be set up in several lo cations and will stay as long as j needed in each location, according ; to Dr. Garvin. “The chest x-ray,” says Dr. Gar vin, “is not just for those who are ! ill. but for everyone.” It is hoped that everyone in Per- 1 son county will take advantage of this service, says Pr. Ge-vin. who l also says that time and place infor-1 1 motion concerning the x-ray will be announced in the Courier-Times at a later date as soon as the pro gram plans and schedule can be worked out. o Joe W. Oakley Rites Will Be , Held Tomorrow a Funeral for Joe W. Oakley. 70, of Cedar Grove, a native of Orange county, whose death occurred yes terday afternoon at three-thirty o’clock at his home from paralysis after an illness lasting two years, will be held Friday afternoon at two-thirty o'clock at Cedar Grove k Methodist church, with interment in ' tile church cemetery. Rites will be in charge of his past or, the Rev. J. B. Hurley. The bodv will be taken to the church one hour before the service. Survivors are three sisters, Miss Nannie Oakley, of the home. Mrs. Maggie McAdams, of Greensboro, and Mrs. Claudic Kerr, of Durham, and two brothers, Bob and Zeb Oakley, both of Mebane. I 0 Out Os Service Reginald B. Jones, M. M. 3-c, who has been overseas in the Pacific areas for many months, has arrived in Roxboro after receiving his dis charge. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Jones. They have two other sons in service, S. Sgt. Donald l W. Jones, of the Marine Corps, and ' Pvt. Foy E. Jones, who is stationed at Camp Pickett, Va. Nine Days Lost By Public Schools By Monday of this next week un less Person County’s public schools reopen, they will have lost In many instances as many as nine teaching days since the beginning of bad weather a few days before the Christmas holidays began, it was reported today by Person Superin tendent R. B. Griffin, who said Wednesday morning that many 1 county schools outside of Roxboro district are closed again on account of muddy roads and heavy, con tinued rains. Schools closed here yesterday and will remain closed until Monday morning, and possibly later, if weather ftjjpditions do not Improve. Many schools lost three day# before Christmas and three days last week, not counting the three of this week. i.V'r-"® -.’-.v,' J. W. NOELL, EDITOR County Board Makes Plans For Two New Sites And Hears Many Delegations. Tire Person County Board of ed ucation meeting Monday in a ses sion which lasted into the afternoon and was one of the longest on re | cord, was confronted with a number i of “wanters", i. e„ delegations from j schools seeking improvements, addi tions and new buildings and depart ments. it was reported yesterday by Superintendent R. B, Griffin, who also acts as secretary to the Board. In the wanting column may be placed those plans for approval of sites selected for a new grammar I school in Roxboro District to sup plement the present Central Gram- | mar school and for a new Negro! high school to aid the program now being carried on in Person County Training school for Negroes. In this connection members of the i Education board agreed to present \ \ to the Person County commission-! j ers in February for their approval! j sites and pr ices therefor for these! | two new schools. Figures for the i site of the new grammar school to-; tal 512,500, while those for the pro -1 posed new Negro high school are ! listed at $3,500. The grammar school i 1 site, as previously announced is on I the W. H. Long estate, property on , I High school drive, diagonally across from Roxboro high school and ad joining the W. H. Adair lands, ex ; tending to the city limits. The site for the proposed new Ne gro high school is about two hun , died yards from the present Train ing school and is owned by T. B. j Woody. Tile tract consists of ten ' acres and if the purchase is approv ed by County commissioners it will 1 ' botawfc' 1 irii u,y available for ! recreational purposes for the Ne , groes, according to Griffin, who 1 points out that there will be space 1— (See BOARD Page Eight)— o Masons Install Officers, Returning; Green As Head j Six out of eleven old officers of Person Lodge 113, of Roxboro, will serve for another year, it was re ■ vealed Tuesday night at installation . exercises held in the Lodge hail. Those re-elected and installed are . J. W. Greene, worshipful master; i Arthur H. Rimmer, senior warden; , Charles A. Timberlake, junior ward ; en; W. H. Harris, Sr., treasurer; : Marvin E. Clayton, senior steward i and the Rev. Joe B. Currin, chap lain. New incoming officers arc, Thom ■ as A. Bowles, secretary; C. A. Har • ris, senior deacon; Emory Foushec, junior deacon; J. W. Vanhook, jun ; ior steward, and Gurney Young, . tyler. Probably the longest continu , ous holder of the same office in the , group is Mr. Harris, Sr., the treas-; i urer. o- Ministers Will Meet Monday Tlic Person County Ministerial as sociation will meet Monday morning at ten o'clock at Edgar Long Mem ! orial Methodist church, where the 1 pastor of that church, the Rev. Ben j Houston, will be the chief speaker, j Devotional will be by the Rev. E. C. j Mancss, according to the chair man, the Rev. George W. Houston. Only schools not affected this week are those in Roxboro district and a few Negro schools in the county, with the last named able to work on a walk to school basis. Time lost in Roxboro high school and in other schools in the district amounts to only six days, but Grif fin points out that most schools will probably have to operate until June first to be able to finish out the re quired number of teaching days in the school year. Roads are said to be in the worst condition here since the heavy winter and snowfall of 1940, but Person is not the only county in which schools have closed and farm services been disrupted by the roads. Protests have come from Chatham county and from Halifax in North Catalina. ®he Courier-lame? HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT Jurors Chosen To Serve Superior Court One Week I Second List Also Prepared In! Event Os Longer Term. Person County Commissioners in j a meeting Monday morning approv- j ed the selection of jurors to serve 1 in the coming term of Superior court, beginning on Monday. Janu- '; ary 28. The term is scheduled for two weeks, with Judge Leo Carr, of Burlington, assigned for the first week in place of Judge J. Paul Frizcllc, of Snow Hill. Few cases arc calendared in the criminal division and it is expected that the Person Bar associatioir may meet soon to agree on a can cellation of the second week. The Commissioners in drawing up a jury list made two selections. Men i in the first list, which is published below, are expected to serve during i the first week, while men in a sec ond list, which will not be published until action is taken by the Bar as sociation. have been named as alter nates or substitutes to serve during the second week of court if there is i one. ; Jurors for the first week are as fol- ! lows: R, T. Winstead. J. B. Seat, W. T. | Gregory, O. Teague Kirby, H. J. i Perry, J. R. Huff. Danici Slaughter,, S. L. Regan, H,. M. Clay, Ben Wyche Reade, W. C. Lawson, M. S. Pool, J. J, Munday, S. P. Gentry, L. ]F. Hester, W. D. Gray, P. G. Dun nevant. W. S. Pleasant, J. W. Fou -1 shee, W. P. Dixon and G. W. Gen try. Also J. W. Allen, Richard Hole- I man, J. Sam Merritt, J. A. Fogle man, J. C, Jones, H. Dewey Dicker son, C. O. Bagby. S. R. Wilkins. J. W. Tatum, Lee A. Oakley, W. O. Averitt, E. G. Hicks, Dolian Long. R. A. Gentry. O. T. Evans, Charlie Harris. M. p. Ashley, D. H. Day, J, R. Whitt, W. L, Pleasant and W. H. Hall. o Changed Policy For OPA Given Consumers and industrial and in stitutional users of sugar in North Carolina will henceforth apply to the OPA District Office in Raleigh for their allotments, it was announc ed today by the Person OPA office. Likewise, replacement of ration books, and new ration books for ba bies and returning veterans will be made by the District Office. Appli cants may either write or call in person for such blanks at the dis trict office in Raleigh. Although Price Control Boards will no longer issue any ration books or rationed commodities, a few ap plication blanks will be placed at each board for the convenience of consumers. The Person OPA office is in the Court House, judges chamb er, second floor. ; Duck-Wearers On Home Stretch Among men from Roxboro rc | cently discharged from military service and now at home are James Fcathcrston, son of Mr. and Mrs J. M. Featherston, and Ted Parker, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Parker. Both men have seen long periods of overseas service In the war. Also at home is Andrew W. Gentry, son of Mt and Mrs. George T. Gentry who has been at Fort Benning, Ga„ ias a staff sergeant. Also in the States but not yet at home is Sgt. T. C. Wagstaff, formerly with the Roxboro Courier, who has been in the Philippines and Japan. Like wise back at home is C- C. Winstead, Jr., better known as “Bubbcr’’, who has been all over Europe. o | Weed Sales Good i Tire Roxboro tobacco market l’c opened on Friday of this week after I being closed for several weeks for ; the Christmas holidays. Bales were ■ fairly heavy for Tuesday and Wed i nesday, the first two selling days. > Muddy roads over the county pre - vented more farmers from bringing i tobacco to town this week. It is thought that quite a bit of unsold t tobacco remains in the county and i that all will be sold within the next t several days. l Prices on top grades remained i high this week. So far a definate closing date has > not been set but it is understood that i the market will close the latter parti of next week. ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA Wet, Hot, Cold, All Within Forty Days Rain and mud and sleet andl snow and ice all combined in one! month, along with sharp ups and ! downs on the thermometer, ditto, i are headaches to the average citi | zen, but nobody worries about such wide variations in climate and cir | cumstances are more than that to i Cqllins Abbitt, City of Roxboro Waterworks man and weather cu | rater extraordinary. For instance, December was the wettest and at the same time one of the coldest months here in years. Counting in the first nine days of this year, there has been rainfall of seven ad a quarter inches since ] December 1, and on top of that ' seven inches of snow. And in De cember the temperature went down and down, to about sixteen or lower j and then just this past Monday | shot back up to seventy-five. And nobody has burned much coal or oil or wood here since Sunday. Last year here in December there was only a rainfall of 1.80, where Polio Drive Will Start On Monday Elbert Moore l Resumes Work With Credit Union Elbert L, Moore, of Roxboro. form erly of the Army, has again become connected with the Graham Pro duction Credit association anti will be assistant secretary-treasurer in charge of the Roxboro otfice, it was announced today. Mr. Moore is a .native of Person County and was employed by the association from 1938 to 1942. After serving in the army for about two years, he was discharged on Decem ber 3, 1945. He spent several months in France while he was in service. Mr. Moore is thoroughly familiar with the problems confronting ag riculture in Person County and will : be glad to have any interested farm ers discuss their credit needs with him. J. c. Moore. Secretary-Treasurer of the association, stated that the employment of Elbert Moore will make it possible for the association to render much better and quicker credit service to the farmers m Person County. The Roxboro offices of the asso ciation are located in the Hall Build ing, over the Farmers' Supply Com pany. The association is a farmers' co operative which extends short-term credit to farmers for almost any agricultural purpose. Claude T. Hall, of Person County, is president ot ; the association. _o Get Releases Cpl. Leonard Earl i Buddy* Par ham, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Par ham, has arrived at Fort Bragg after several months of overseas service in the Pacific area and is expected home Saturday. Also in Roxboro after a long stay in over seas service is James Reams, who has received his discharge, and back yes terday morning with his discharge was James (Pinkie) Bradsher. son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Bradsher. Re cently discharged was Robert M. (Tiny) Long, Jr„ after service in Italy. CONFIDENT GAMIN WAITS FOR TELEGRAM FROM HIS MOTHER Ten and a half years old and more or less on his own, at least while he is in Roxboro is “Singing Boy Louis, of Alexandria, La., and points away, who has been here two or three days waiting for his mother, Mrs. Arnold Shouis, to send him money to join her in New York. Louis, who says he came here from Alexandria with his folks, is a lit tle on the tough and knowing side. His singing voice is almost like that of a man, but at times he acts and smiles more like the kid he says he is. Louis, who says he is staying at Hotel Roxboro, says also that “Aunt Susan” lives about ten ‘miles from THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1946 ns there has already fallen in this short stretch of January 1.52 inches and the end is not in sight. On top of that, the schools are closed in the county, where the roads are sticky with mud, and that mud is coming right on into Roxboro, stuck on the wheels of vehicles and fall ing off of them so there is a thin but splashy coating of mud over all the paved streets here. Mr. Abbitt avers he washed off street space of some two hundred feet yesterday. Half an hour later the spot was just as mud-coated as it had ever been, and so. he's just gqing to wait until the sun comes out. And so are many of the City's elegant dressers, male and female, who go around quite un ashamed of the fact that their shoes aje splashed or spotted. There's no use to worry about a little mud, especially if you may have to get out on a side road or a shoulder to put a hefty strong arm to an auto mired to the hubs. And don’t 1 ask a taxi to go off a beaten path. Tile Rev. Daniel Lane, Person I chairman, Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff, of j the Woman's division, Fred Bishop, Schools' chairman, Flem D. Long, of the City of Roxboro unit, O. B. Mc- Broom, committeeman and o. Tea gue Kirby, of tile theatre division. | are in Raleigh this afternoon for a Statewide luncheon rally for the j March of Dimes program of the i Polio fund drive which begins Mon day and will continue through Jan uary 31. State chairman of the drive is Dr. Ralph McDonald, of Chapel Hill. Person quota is a little oyer two thousand dollars, according to the Rev. Mr. Lane, who said today that j he feels the citizens of Person coun- I t.v will again rally to a cause to j which they have given so liberally ,in the past. Official closing of the campaign will be on Wednesday, i January 30. the birthday of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt- Other members of the Person com mittee are. RCv. George W. Heaton, i churches, A. B. Rimmer, Exchange club. Dr. Robert E. Long, Boy Scouts. Miss Dorothy Taylor, secre j tary, and Tom Shaw, publicity. o I Kiwanis Install New Officers Installation of officers, including |J. W. Greene as new president, marked the Kiwanis club program of Monday night at Hotel Roxboro. 'ln attendance, in addition to mem bers were several guests, among ! them Lt. Col. and Mrs. S. B. Sat | terwhite and Mrs. B. B. Knight, who were there on invitation of the Rev. B. B. Knight. Also a guest was Schaub Strum, brother of Kiwanian Jack Strum, who is visiting the Jack Strums and other members of bis family here. Vice president is J. M. Dempsey i with Thomas Hatchett, treasurer, and H. Dewey Young, secretary, j Sergeant at arms is Leon Wilson |and song leader is T. C. Sanders, with Robert Edgar (Buddy) Long as pianist, and Miss Bivens Winstead, assistant. Retiring president was J. A. Long, Jr. o ON BUSINESS In Roxboro today on business was j E. D. Stephens, of Yanceyville, edi- I tor of the Caswell Messenger. Roxboro and he identifies her as a Mrs. Knutsof. Right now he is mostly on Roxboro streets and in its cases, where he sings for plesure, if not for supper. And he will prob ably be here tomorrow, too, unless that telegram money order comes from his mother, who is somewhere in New York in a hotel. Louis doesn't know which hotel it is, but he does not doubt that she will send him traveling money. Then he’ll make that trip alone and think nothing of it. He has traveled that way before, he says, and besides, his mother is sure to meet that bus from the South once it hits Broadway. $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE 1.0. Abbitt Guest Speaker For Exchange Tells Club As Much Water Used In Month As Was Used In Year. I. O. Abbitt, for 21 years Super- I intendent of Water Works in Rox • boro, spoke to the Exchange Club last night. In his talk Mr. Abbitt gave facts and figures on the growth and development of the sys tem during the years lie has been here. It was brought out that monthly consumption now is about equal to that during the first year he was in charge of the system. He also outlined the processes gone through in the Alteration, pur ification and distribution of Rox boro's water supply through the 850 meters and miles of pipe that are required to furnish the City's homes and industries. In closing Mr. Ab bitt mentioned a few things that will soon be done to keep the Water department growing iii step with the growth of the city. President Ralph Tucker presided. V. A. Thomas was announced as chairman of the orchestra committee and W. B. Weatherly was announc ed as chairman of the hall arrange ments committee for the Infantile Paralysis dance which will be on or about January 30th. A definite date has not been set pending final ar rangements witii an orchestra. The dahee will be informal and admis sion will be the same as at other , exchange dances, Claude Whitfield and D. W, Kanoy were appointed by the presi dent to fill unexpired terms on the Board of Control. Tin cans placed in several stores !a few weeks ago for donations to the Crippled Children's Fund were opened last night. The total count ! so far is S7O. There are still several cans which have not been collected and it is believed that the total will ! :->un to better than SIOO. The uieet ] ing was at Hotel Roxboro. o Large Increase In Vet Returns Reported Here Between six and seven hundred returned veterans of World War II from Person County and Roxboro jhave put their names on record in the office of the Person Register of | Deeds, it was reported today by Mrs. W. T. Kirby. Heavy increase of ar i rivals has been noted for the past j month. It has been estimated that jas many as fifty veterans lost their i lives. This does not include count less numbers of casualties classed j under wounded in action. Thirty or more gold star certifi cates were presented to families of | men killed in the war. Presentation j was held last August by Lester ! Blackwell Post, the American Le l gion. Since that time a good many j more names have been added to the ! list and it is expected that another | presentation exercise will be ar ranged. Bishop Penick To Be Here Sunday j The Rt. Rev. Edwin A. Penick, of Raliegh, bishop of the diocese of North Carolina, will be guest speak er Sunday afternoon at four o'clock at Saint Mark's Episcopal church, where lie will also accept into the church the members of a confir mation class. Also to participate in the service is the Rev. Henry John ston, of Oxford, rector of Saint Stephen's church. o Has Discharge Pfc. Melvin James Porterfield, husband of the former Miss Chris tine Blalock and son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Porterfield, of Hurdle Mills, has returned home with an honorable discharge. He holds the Good Conduct Medal, Purple Heart, Philippine liberation ribbon, Asiatic- Pacific ribbon including three bronze stare. o Tax Crowd Offire of the Register of Deeds in Person Court house is being swamped these days by farmers seeking information on the filing of farm income tax reports, last day for which will be next Tuesday, it was reported today by officials of the office. Helping with the work is L. JW. Johnson, Jr„ U. S. Internal Revenue representative from Durham. Another busy time will come before March 15, when other income tax reports must be filed. Marine Absolved In Blackwell’s Accident Case William A. Sanders Pays Costs. However. On Charge Os Driving Without License. Absolved of blame under no prob able cause was William A. Sanders, 25. Marine, of this City and Cherry ; Point, charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of j Aaron Blackwell, 78. aged Person Negro, killed December 23, when struck on the Durham highway near Roxboro by a car driven by Sanders. Decision in the case was reached here Tuesday of this week in Per son Recorder's court. The record shows there was in sufficient evidence to hold Sanders, who was ordered discharged as a defendant in the case. On another charge growing out of the accident, that of careless and reckless driv ing. Sanders was given a nol pros with leave on payment of costs for driving without a license., Blackwell's death brought to three the. total of highway accident fatal ities for the year 1945. Sanders is a. son of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Sanders and was operating a car owned by his uncle, J. A. McWhorter. In the car witii the Marine was his cousin. J. A. McWhorter, Jr. Both men es caped with slight injuries. .Evidence at the hearing showed that Black well crossed the road as the machine approached and then turned back into its pathway when lie was struck. Listed as improving is Vance Lunsford, of the Oxford road, who has been a patient in Community hospital since Sunday night of this week when his car crashed into, a : highway culvert headpiece on the Oxford road. No bones were broken, ; but several stiches were required to close a head wound. Lunsford's com panion, Willie Louis Clayeyn. left the hospital Monday morning. Now being repaired is the R. p; Michaels residence, Morgan street; which was hit Sunday night by a : car driven by Pfc. Gordon Wilker son, of Roxboro and Fort Bragg. Mr. Michael)* said this afternoon, how ever, that no estimate of the cost, which will be paid by the Wilkerson family, has been made. There was no damage done to the foundation, according to Michaels. The enl ist ruck near a window and went be ■ tween two trees before crashing ni jto the wall, i , o Bible Background To Form Basis Os Study Course A study of Biblical backgrounds will be conducted at the Roxboro First Baptist Church next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, January 15, 16, 17. 7:15 to 8:15 p. m. in the Young Peoples Department on the second floor of the educational building. The class will be taught by the pastor, Rev, J. Boyce Brooks and special emphasis will be placed on j this quarter's International Sunday School lessons, Mr. Brooks will use the subject “Egypt—The House of j Bondage and The Great Wilderness ; —The Land of Refuge and Wand ering;” Source material will be a portion iof the late Dr. J. McKee Adams' book, “Biblical Backgrounds". Pic j ture slides will be used to illustrate ! these ancient lands. The public is j cordially invited to attend. Some Improvement j In Coal Reported 1 Temporary improvement in the coal shortage here because of in creased allotments for this month over last, is reported by local deal ers. all of whom however, con tinue to use care in a sort of self imposed rationing system to spread coal out to those families most in need of it. One dealer asserted this morning that March is destined to be a short supply month in coal and that deal ers are obligated to try to stretch the present available supply as far as possible. Another dealer pointed out that April will see the beginning of a new coal year and that noth ing definite can be depended upon for supplies in March and April. Prospects for January and Feb ruary are better, but a local diffi culty is in delivery of coal hi rural Fatal Highway ” Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1946 LET'S KEEP IT THAT WAY DRIVE CAREFULLY NUMBER 11 Person's Score In Consolidation Gels Attention Onlv Two Hijrh Schools Here Meet Proposed Minimum Standards. What Person county has in the way ol consolidated schools and especially in view of the proposed State-wide consolidation plans ad vocated by the State Board of Edu cation. was discussed by Person Superintendent at Monday's quart erly .meet iiig of. the Person County- Board of Eduaction. General proposal for consolidation, a long range program, suggests that no high school should operate with Jess than seven teachers and that no grammar school should operate with less than one teacher for each grade,; according to Griffin, who said that Person County at the present time has only two high schools meeting the first require ment. Those two are, Roxboro high school and Person County Training school for Negroes, AH other high schools in the County at present fail to meet this standard of seven faculty members. With regard to one teacher for each grammar glade, the showing here, according to Griffin, is some what better in the white schools, o£ which only a few are doubled-up in teaching staffs. Considerable, how ever, must be done in the Negro, schools, a number of which still op erate on a one-teacher basis. No definite action on the consolidation issue has as yet been taken by the State board, but if and when the time for change comes, there will be on the basis of the Griffin re port considerable in changes made right here in Person. Person District Os Scouts Not To Meet Next Week There will be no meeting next Tuesday night, January 15, of the Person Scout district, it was an nounced today by J. W. Greene, chairman, who said today that the • meeting is being cancelled because of the coming Friday night Chero kee Council Scout dinner to be held jon January eighteenth, at Draper, i Person Scouters are urged to ob | tain tickets for the dinner from Chairman Greene, who desires aa 1 large an attendance as possible. Here Monday for a conference with Mr. Greene was Cherokee Executive John B, Oakley, Jr,, of Reidsville, who completed at that time an ap ! pointment of new- committeemen for the Person district as presented to ! him by Chairman Greene. o > Promotions 1 Pvt. Thomas I. Humphries, son ot Mrs. J. Y. Humphries, has been promoted to the rank of T-5. He ia now stationed at Tokyo. Also in Tokyo is Clarence G. Hurdle, son of B G. Hurdle, of Hurdle Mills, who lias been promoted from private ta private first class. areas and some City 'sections be* cause of mud and rain. Warmer weather of the week has In a sensei reduced the consumption of coal and will help in stretching the sup ply that much longer. Dealers her* have a feeling that inasmuch M present supplies are more plentiful, conditions later on may not be*"*# bad, but they are in agreement that all householders need to be as sav ing as possible the remainder ot winter. During the period of greatest shortage here a month or two some relief was furnished throUtX •he courtesy of E. E. Thomas, drug* gist of Hambrick, Austin and Thanh* as. who made available several loads of coal brought In from, ffirt Virginia, where he has tamOy lam icrests ill coal business.