i accurate, terse I TIMELY I lyOUMNXXXlFl I (Sty schools] I OPEN thursday I )|ore Than Twenty-five HunI dred Whi,fe Children ExI , pected to Re Enrolled I a 5 PER CENT INCREASE I More than 2oou wmw I children arc expected to V gather in school houses over I the county next Thursday I morning when the schools embraced in the Warren I Mcounty system begin theirI work for the session 1933-1 I Colored schools began! operating several weeks ago. J M Superintendent J. Edward! Allen said yesterday that the! 2550 white children and the! 4800 colored children ex-l pected to be in school rep-1, resented an increased en-!' mrollment over last year of I ^approximately 5 per cent. I I There has been an unusually! small change in the teaching force.! it was learned. The greatest change! takes place at Norlina wliere half! a dozen new teachers will be cm- | ployed. The set tip in the other j schools are largely as they were j Blast year, although there has been | considerable switches in principal-1 ship. Paul Coo;hv, last year at | BAtton-EIberon. riiis year succeeds ( 'Bill Early at principal 01 uif uiltleton school. J. C. Stabler, formerly at Drewry, is at Afton-Elbcron this year. Walter L. Wilson replaces Mr. Stabler at Drewry. Agriculture will be taught at Warrenton. Norlina. Littleton and Macon as well as in the two negro s high schools. A new feature of i study in the lour white schools this < year will be commercial and busi- : ness courses tor upper grades. 1 One teacher remains to be elected t at Warrenton. who will also be foot- I hall coach. There may be some : change at Norlina. according to Principal S. G. Chappel, due to one or more teachers having failed to sign final contracts, but these positions are expected to have been filled by next Thursday. The Littleton school will open on Monday and recess for the teachers meeting to be held at the John Graham school at Warrenton on Wednesday. There will also be a meeting of truck drivei s at the court house on Monday afternoon it 2 o'oclock. A list ol the faculties of the ImtMfVttt. n A U 1 _ _ I- n A suiuuis oi me couniy mi; as Mows: H Watremon-J. B. Miller, princiHiai: Mariam Boyd, Helen ThomplContinued on page 2) Mrs. Julius H. Olsen I Dies Macon Home I Funeral services for Mrs. Julius Olsen were conducted from her m Macon Monday afternoon 3 30. Services were conducted by E. C. Dutham, pastor oi Matron Methodist Church, oi which ^ 'rs. Olsen was a member. Rev. J. B> Marshall, local Baptist minister, ^Kisted. M^ali bearers were J. L. Coleman, M. Coleman. P. M. Drake, J. W. Boards, A. L. Nicholson, and N. Thornton. Interment was in the plot in Macon cemetery. ^BMrs. oisen's death was sudden. ^ Mowing a heart attack Sunday jtning at seven o'clock. She is ^Jj-vived by her husband. Julius H \two children, John ?M ttersburg, Va., and Mrs.l ite ot Wise. T Annie Thompson, daugh-1 n Thompson and Ann I 'lives ot Warren County.l married on Nov. 23, 18861 Olsen. a native ot Copen-1 lenmark. who located ml i 1882. I e number of relatives and! 'ceompanied the body to its | place. 1 i Hurt When I Motorcycle Skids! ert (Booster) Pope is recov-l 81 the home ot his brother! tleton irom a broken collar-1 and bruises he received near 1 mion on Wednesday night 1 ' 9 o'clock when he was thrown I a motorcycle. Although pain-1 hurt, his injuries are not re-1 led as being ot a serious nature. 1 ^ cause ol the accident could! ' ?e learned here yesterday aft-' *** but it is thought that as 'Continued trom page 8) WARI BOARD VETOEST1 COUNTY AGENT Department of Agriculture Representative Asks Appriation of $900 BRIGHT'S WORK PRAISED y u The Board of County b; Commissioners in regular ei meeting here on Monday S? vetoed the suggestion of a representative, of the State tc Department of Agriculture hl that a full-time county agent be employed for Warren w county. oi The representative ex plained to the board that Robert Bright, teacher of k: Vocational Agriculture in tt the John Graham Highly School, who has been in1 p! charge of the cotton reduc- cc tion campaign in the county, p1 would not be permitted to ^ carry on this work after n, school opens on next Thurs-(D day, neither could he look,sl tt after the tobacco campaign J w that is expected to be put n on. This work would prob- t* ably be carried on for sev- u . 01 eral years the representative^, said, and a county agent ie was needed. In addition to] this work, the representa- ^ tive continued, the agent pj could carry on other farm n work. 111 tr Tn tho nvont thinf. PPtnmis ;ioners would appropriate $900 an- hl nually the state department would sontribute $1100 for this work, he v said, adding that Mr. Bright could 01 je named county agent and that ai ;he state would send another man ;o replace him in the school, or a! mother man could be sent as farm tl (Continued on page 2) Telephone Conversatioi Of Establishment oi Afton-Elberon Sp Hopes of Afton-Elberon B M citizens for the establish- cj ment of a high school in di their community were defi- tt nitely blasted on Monday oi when George C. Green, ai member of the State School r* cl Commission, in a telephone g conversation with Supt. J. Edward Allen stated that A the matter had been defi- ^ nitely decided at the time c that the Wise school status u was determined and that he e: 0 did not think it profitable to u rmrsne the mattpr further, n Mr. Allen was instructed by the ' tl Negro Elementary I Schools To Recess For Cotton Picking Colored elementary schools of the Warren county system will re- s! main closed for five weeks, begin- ^ ning on next Monday, September r( 11, it was decided at a meeting of ^ the Board of Education here on p Monday. The purpose of the hoi- jr iday is to allow children to assist o! in the harvesting of the cotton jy crop. a The 40 colored elementary schools of the county opened on Sl August 7, five weeks early, in order n to allow this holiday. p ir Total Ages of Seven e? Guests At Party 588 ? rr The aggregate age of seven of the jj people who joined with Walter Allen in the celebration of his 82nd SJ birthday on September 1 was 588 (,] years. The average age of the seven, ? all of them but two having been p reared within a mile and a half of t] their host, was 84 years. h The seven of those in their S| eighties, who with a large number t] of other friends gathered at Mr. w Allen's home for the occasion, were n Austin Allen, 89; John Allen, 87; w Dr. J. T. Gibbs, 85; Sam Bobbitt, t] 84; Walter Allen, 82; Mrs. Sam t< Bobbitt, 81; Mrs. B. M. Collins, 80. w Mr. Allen was in fine spirits, it g (Continued on Page 8) lj? ffl< tENTON, COUNTY OF 7orce Attentions Upon Woman; Are Given Road Terms Forcing their attention with ireats of death upon a feminine I lember of their race who rejected I reir company resulted with two sung negro men being sentenced > the roads for eighteen months y Judge W. W. Taylor in Record 's court on Monday morning hen they were found guilty of as lult with deadly weapons. Failure on the part of the woman > allow the men to accompany er home from church was credited ith provoking profanity and stirng the would-be-escorts to such rath that they reached for weapns when their coaxing failed to in favor in the eyes of the neg>ss. "We're going to take you home or ill you," Janet Lee told the court lat Willis Lewis and Blue Fogg )ld her as they grabbed her by er arms and brandished razor and istol after she had declined their jmpany. The girl's mother aproached at that time and, accordlg to her testimony, she saw the eapons and was cursed by the egro men for her interference, 'uring the disturbance the girl ipped away and disappeared in le crowd. No shots were fired nor ere there any razor wounds inicted. Both the defendants denied lat they had weapons and said lat they did not make any threats r force their attention on the irl. They admitted asking her to t them go home with her. Without mincing words and talkig like a veteran story teller, Pike ledge gave what he termed a comlete account of the affair. Pre xing nis remains wn,n me ?uai,elent, "I'm going to tell the whole uth and nothing but the truth," e said: "We're all ben to church down at aughan. When the service was i&c the ladies came out of one sle and the men another. These vo boys came up beside Janet and iked to take her home. She replied lat she had an escort and didn't! (Continued on page 3) n Blasts Hopes F High School In >ecial School District oard of Education to telephone Cr. Green after a delegation of tizens from the Afton-Elberon istrict had appeared before that Ddy asking for the approval of1 le establishment of a high school I eleven grades in that district, nd that the superintendent aringe by telephone before the day's ose for a hearing before Mr. freen. Following the conversation, Mr. lien reported to the board that he ;arned that the member of the tate School Commission from this ongressional district was individally opposed to the project of stablishing such a high school, ??--- 1 4-Krt* itner junior or senior, 'V "A delegation of citizens from Macon district, No. 6," according to the minutes of the proceedings of the board, "requested the Board of Education to request the Macon district school committee to review i the action of said committee in I selecting Miss Emily Milam as a high school teacher in the Macon High school to fill the place formerly held by Mrs. J. T. Bell; or to ask the State Board of Education to give said delegation a hearing with respect to this mattef. A petition was exhibited, addressed to the district committee, asking the committee to give the place again to Mrs. Bell, which petition, it was represented, had not been acted upon by the committee. This peti v,n*v?nr< /\f n 1 r>*?rro nilm_ l/iuil UUl'C lilC Iiaxnco U1 a laigv. ber of persons, both adults and school children. "After due deliberation, the Board later resolved to ask State Superintendent A. T. Allen what its functions are with respect to reviewing: the election of teachers by its committees; and also to request the State Superintendent and, or the State Board of Education to hear the lips of the protestants if and when they shall ask that this be done and a suitable time be set." On petition of the committee in District No. 7, for local reasons, it was ordered that the Littleton High school shall open on Monday, September 11, with understanding that it shall be closed for teachers' meeting on September 13. Other white schools will open on September 14. It was ordered that one or two trucks run to Middleburg from Drewry on Thursday and Friday, September 7 ana ?, on account ui, school opening. Mr. Dillard asked that the Board request the state school commission to send the Inez school truck to Sunny Hill, he residing about two miles from the truck route on the highway. Later it was held that, (Continued from Page 3) Tax Scrolls Are At Water Office Tax scrolls of the Town of Warrenton are to be found in the office of the Warrenton Water Company. Mayor Prank H. Gibbs asks that taxpayers who have not signed these scrolls do so at once to avoid the penalty provided by law. LONG BEATS WIFE James Moss, young negro man, was fined $10 and costs on Monday by Magistrate Macy Pridgen for assaulting Agnes Allen. iRmij TEMBER 8, 1933 Subsc I Mayor Rides Rats A story of how Mayor Frank H. Gibbs has been taking rats to ride for the past weeks came j to light when he carried his car to a service station to have it lubricated and the squeaks removed. At the service station Laurie Beddoe applied oil and grease on the mayor's chariot, but the squeaks, or disturbing noise, continued. He became suspicious and started an investigation. Under the body of the car the service station man found a rat's nest with five or six young rodents squirming therein. He removed the nest and reported the matter to the mayor. Seaman Declines Serve As Melmber Of Town Board Peter G. Seaman declined to accept the appointment as member of the Board of Town Commissioners made by the city board at its regular meeting here on Monday and the board continues to be one member shy. Mr. Seaman was elected a member after John G. Tarwater had sent the board a letter from South Carolina, where he is on the tobacco market, expressing his regrets that he would be unable to serve as a member of the board. Mr. Tarwater was elected to the position after W. Pryor Rodwell resigned for business reasons. Mr. Rodwell was nominated Commissioner in the primary this summer when the entire old board, with the exception of H. W. Rodwed, was swept from office. The town charter calls for seven commissioners. Mayor Gibbs( acting as spokesman for the special hotel committee composed of himself and Commissioner .4.. A. Williams. at,, .^r, (Continued on Page 2) Masked Robbers Hole Rob Mrs. Ellis of $1 From Body In St Twa mQslfPfl wbifp mpn held up Mrs. Ella Ellis shortly after 9 o'clock on Wednesday night as she was finishing up her day's work at Ellis' store near the Box Mill and robbed her of $112. | They made their escape in a Chevrolet coupe and officers have made no arrests. According to Mrs. Ellis' story, she was getting ready to close her place of business when an automobile drove up containing two men and one of them, remarking that he wanted a pack of cigarettes, went into the store. The other followed to the store porch. The engine of the car was left running. As she turned to go behind the counter the first robber grabbed her, demanded her money and snatched a sack containing $12 in change from her hand. He poked a gun in her face and told her if she screamed he would kill her. Monkey Pulls I ^s.1 * o 1 m Check from anirt Pocket Of Hicks Tasker Hicks was robbed by a | monkey on Wednesday. I The robbery took place at Charlie Powell's service station at Wise when the animal leaped on the man, tore his shirt and removed a check from his shirt pocket. Hicks said that he was unaware J of the robbery until he reached home and looked for the check to make a deposit. Finding the paper gone, he returned to the service station and began questioning several people who had been present when the animal leaped on him. No one had seen the robbery and the owner of the monkey said that he did not know anything about it. The crowd treked to the monkey cage where the check was found torn into small particles. The monkey had to be whipped back before he would depart with the scraps of paper. Roy Long was on Thursday sentenced to the roads for a period of 30 days by Magistrate Macy Pridgen for assaulting Mrs. Long. % rin ription Pricp " V)V,v/A rp St?^? 1 T7 lGaacco l