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accurate, terse timely i volume xaavii mbi I AID TO NEEDY I gjjiy-one Christmas Oppor tunities Taken To Bring I Cheer At Yuletide i lions take majority I sixty-one Christmas Opportuni .ies selected by Miss Lucy Leach I and her Welfare Department as I cases representing jrersons or famiI nes among the poor who faced the ?of a bleak Cliristmas un less the more fortunate came iu I their rescue at this season have I been taken by individuals and orI ganizations of the county, leaving I only two Opportunities late TuesI day afternoon which had not been I taken. I Miss Leach stated that these OpI portunities would likely be taken I care of but she expected that beI lore next Friday other such cases I would be brought to her attention I where the aged, the infirm, and children were confronted with no I prospects of a visit irom Santa Claus I and a joyous Christmas unless some I one remembered them with gifts. I Of the 61 cases which had been I taken up until Tuesday afternoon, I the Lions Clubs of Warrenton I and Littleton assumed responsiI bility for the majority, with I the former taking 25 and the I latter six. Other organizations oi the town and county, as well as I many individuals, have also maniI tested a splendid spirit of coopera"... r_oo^h Ctafprf. She also uon, ivu?d iA.uv? -v expressed her appreciation to the pupils of the Norlina high school for a large quantity of good clothes and food which were brought to the Welfare Office. These things sill be given to needy people coming in at the last minute, she said. Following is a list showing by whom the Opportunities have been taken and the two, Nos. 10 and 31, which have not been selected: 1. Mrs. S. O. Nunn, Warrenton. 2. Lions' Club, Warrenton. 3. Miss Georgie Tarwater. 4. Lions' Club, Warrenton. 5. Lions' Club, Warrenton. 6. Mr. W. F. Davis. 7. Lions' Club, Warrenton. 8. Children of the Confederacy in Warrenton. 9. A friend10. Invalid girl would appreciate a radio, battery set. 11. Lions' Club, Warrenton. 12. Mrs- Hugh Holt. I 13. American Legion Auxiliary of I IVarrenton. I 15. A friend. I 16. Mrs Stewart Crinkley and I friends. I 17. Lions' Club, Littleton. I 18. Miss Mabel Stroup. 19- Miss Carrie Helen Moore. 20. Lions' Club of Warrenton. I 21. Lions' Club of Littleton. 22. Lions' Club of Littleton. 23- Sunday School of Methodist I church of Littleton. 24. Lions' Club, Littleton. 25. Methodist Sunday School I class, Warrenton. I 26. Lions' Club of Warrenton. I 28. Friends. I 27. Lions' Club, Warrenton. I 29. Friends. 30. Lions' Club of Littleton. B 31. Invalid Negro woman would I like fruits. I 32. Taken by friends. 33. Mrs. Howard Alston and I friends. 34. Interested white friends. 35. Interested colored friends lr. I Warrenton. 36. Friends. 3" Lions' Club in Warrenton. I 38. Interested friends of Epwortb | Cr'urch' g j JJ I Baptist Sunday School of LitI Interested colored friends ir Littleton. I 41, Interested white friends ir I Isughan. 42. Lions' Club in Warrenton. 43. Mrs. Will Dameron. Lions Club of Warrenton. I 45. Linnet' ^ ?* ?v/mu 01 warrenton. \46. lions' Club of Warrenton. 41. Lions' Club of Warrenton. ? Lions' Club of Warrenton. 49. Lions' Club of Warrenton. 50. Lions' Club of Warrenton. 51. Lions' Club of Warrenton. 52- Lions' Club of Warrenton. 53. Lions' Club of Warrenton. 54. Lions' Club of Warrenton. 55. Lions' club of Warrenton. 56 Lions' Club of Warrenton. 5L Lions' Club of Warrenton. 58. Lions Club of Warrenton. 59. Colored friends of Littleton. 60 Lions' Club of Littleton. 64. Interested friends. 62. Sunday School Class in Whit BaPtist Church in Littleton. 63. Interested friends. QL WARE I Btalm Judge Rodwell Pleads With Drivers To Exercise Care concerned over me mourning u? of automobile deaths which he sees as more terrifying than the prospects of war, Judge T. O. Rodwell . pleads with motorists to exercise care and caution in the operation of their cars during the Christmas holidays. He writes as follows: "In the Napoleonic wars over a period of 18 years and 10 months there were 684,270 battle casualties. In the year of our Lord 1935, on the highways of this enlightened nation of ours, the National Safety Council estimates our Automobile . casualties at 1,317,000, men, women and children. "Let not Americans be terrified by thfc chance of war. He lives intimately with something more dangerous. "So during the Christmas holidays, let us drive sanely, let us drive safely, let us drive carefully all the while, for just over the hill another I is coming with his mother, his wife and child. I AUTOMOBILE DEATH TOLL SHOWS AN INCREASE Raleigh. ? R. R. McLaughlin, > traVil/ila Knroon rliranfnr qv?_ nounced Saturday that 112 persons died in automobile accidents in North Carolina during November to l push the year's toll to 999. This is J 95 more than in 11 months of 1936. There were 841 accidents in which 844 person suffered non-fatal ini juries during November. For 11 months year the toll is 6,649 accil dents included 7,198 injured persons. There were 113 automobile deaths in October and 101 in November 1936. Last month 12 children were killed and 42 hurt while playing in the street, 42 pedestrians were killed and 124 hurt, including 14 killed and 17 hurt while walking along the roadside, and hit-and-run drivers caused eight fatal and 47non-fatal accidents. Reckless drivers figured in 24 fatal and 125 non-fatal wrecks and speeders were involved in 33 fatal and 86 non-fatal. Intoxicated drivers were reported in three fatal and 44 non-fatal cases and two in(Continued on Page 81 Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins Lewis and e family of Jackson will spend the Christmas holidays here with Mrs. Lucy A. Williams. In- a IENTON, COUNTY OF WAR! tg f mA i r 0^" /-/ ?% C .. J k I Local Patrolman Joins In Hunt For Notorious Bandit State Highway Patrolman Parka Alexander returned to Warrenton on Monday night from Nelson, II. C., where he was summoned to join -e__i 1 r,T-.ri innoi rvffinprs in 3, leaerai, otatc anu ? ? _ search for Bill Payne, notorious criminal who escaped from Caledonia prison farm nearly a year ago and later became regarded as North Carolina Public Enemy No. 1. Patrolman Alexander, who was stationed on Highway No. 79, on the South Carolina border, said that he did not see the fugitive but that evidently he was bottled up in the vast swamp area of that section and being helped by other criminals of the state in eluding officers. PAYNE AND AIDE MAY BE CORNED IN SWAMPY NECK Georgetown, S. C., Dec. 20.?The ' *- c L~ Wo/ipowon; Npr.k. a Dig 1 Ure&tS Ul ?y av/unuiH ii ? ??, _ . strip of land between the Wacca{maw River and the Sea Islands, were combed tonight for two men believed to be Bill Payne and Wash Turner, North Carolina desperadoes. Officers said they believed the ! men, objects of many man-hunts I over the Carolinas in recent months, were hiding somewhere on the "neck,'' which is made up of vast hunting preserves and thick forests. Highways leading to Georgetown, Conway and Little River, and bridges in the area, as well as the inland waterway, were closely guarded and authorities said they believed they had the desperadoes "bottled up" on the peninsula. The waterway was watched on the theory that the men might have obtained a motor launch and would attempt to escape by that route. The latest hunt for the fugitives began in North Carolina near the (Cnntinnpii nn naee 8) EPISCOPAL SERVICES Holy Communion will be celebrat- j ed in the Episcopal churches at Warrenton and Ridgeway on Christmas day, the Rev- B. N. de Foe Wagner, rector, announced this week. The hours of the services are: Emmanuel Church, 11 a. m.; Good Shepherd, 9 a. m. On Sunday morning at 11 o'clock the Rev. Mr. Wagner will hold services in Saint Alban's Church at Littleton. The following Sunday morning at 8 o'clock Holy Communion will again be celebrated in I Emmanuel Church at Warrenton. \ ?vv f mm tEN, N. C. FRIDAY, DECEM IWIIWWI Irrrg (?ki a^^fft^WteM M1 ?r * i jStPlffiYt^jll JJ- r mKft-^g/r Children Send Messages To Old Man of Chimneys Warrenton, Rt. 1. Dear Santa: I am eleven years old and in the 6th grade at school and go to Sunday school every Sunday and like it fine. Please bring me a bat, ball and glove set and some snow pants, gloves and plenty of nice things to eat. Please don't forget my brother's little children, Macon and Alice Myrick. Lots of love, KATHLEEN WILLIAMSWarrenton, Rt. 1. Dear Santa: I am a little girl nine years old. I am in fourh grade at school. I like my teacher and my school, mates. I go to Sunday school every Sunday- I want you to please bring me some snow pants, a football, some gloves, pick-up sticks and ! lots of good things to eat. And ] please don't forget Daddy, Mother, | Grandmother and Uncle Emmett. j Be good to all little boys and girls, j T r>ic /-?f Intro ajul/o u1 , MARIE WILLIAMS, j Warenton, Dec. 1G. | Dear Old Santa Claus, I am six years old, just started to school. I make good grades and' like my teacher fine. I want you to please bring me a scooter, writing desk with a chair, blackboard, air rifle, and a few fire works. I help my mother all I can. Be good to everybodyI am your little boy, HUGH HOLT STEGALL. | Warrenton, Dec. 16. Dear Santa Claus: I am a very little girl, only one year old, but I want you to please bring me a red wagon, chair, teaset, A. B. C- blocks, rattler and a red ball. I am a good girl. Be good to all little folks ike Doris Stevenson and Hugh Holt. Your little girly, PATRICIA ANN PASCHALL. ANNOUNCE BIRTH tot,. omH Mrs. James Jones of Warrenton announce the birth of a daughter on Tuesday, December 22. Mrs. Jones was before her marriage Miss Jane Fishel of near Warrenton. INFECTED THROAT J. E. Rooker Jr. has been confined to his home for some time on 1 account of an infected throat. i i"4s. teoi [BER 24, 1937 Subscripts stmas 1, f I 10 j$@5L s Employment Office Here And At Norlina George M. Suggs, manger of the Henderson branch office of the Employment Service which for more than a month has had a man here in tne court nouse twice a mwiwj in an effort to assist persons who are out of work in finding jobs and to help those who want workers to locate employees, announced this week that after the first of the year that an office would be maintained at both Warrenton and Norlina for this service on every Wednesday during the month. The Norlina office will be located in the Mayor's office and a representative of the Employment service will be there every Wednesday morning from 8:45 until 11:45 o'clock. The Warrenton office is located in the court house and office hours will be from 1 until 4:15 o'clockMr. Suggs said that every person who had worked for a firm covered by unemployment compensation for as much as eight weeks since Janunary 1, 1937, and was at present out of work should file application at one of the offices in Warren county. Both persons who desire laborers and those who desire to work should file application at the office, he said. Swing Billies To Play At Inez The Blackwood Swing Billies of Raleigh will give a musical program at the Inez school house on Thursday night, December 30, at 8 o'clock. The entertainment is sponsored by the Inez Baptist church. Oysters will be sold before and after the performance. CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS PROGRAM AT RIDGEWAY A children's Christmas program | will be given at St. Paul's Lutheran ? -L nVirictmaff I unurcn ai iwugcwajr uu ? day, beginning at 6 o'clock in the evening, and on Sunday morning, December 26, at 10 o'clock an English service will be conducted, announcement was made this week. An invitation is extended to the public to attend. DAUGHTER BORN Mr. and Mrs. Charlie King of j Warrenton announce the birth of a daughter on Tuesday, December 22. Mrs. King was formerly Miss Betty Smiley of Warrenton. i,w ?rott*w ^ ^ B st??? i Price, $1.50 a Year Franklin Farmer Wins Car Donated By Warehousemen The Ford V-8 automobile which vas given by the proprietors of the ihree warehouses here to the per;on holding the lucky tobacco ticket vas won Wednesday morning by Floyd Currin of Louisburg. Mr. Currin was not present when ,he drawing took place on court ;quare at 11:30 o'clock after the two >r three hundred farmers present tad oeen greeted ana weicomea ay Mayor William T. Polk. The thousands of tickets, which :orrensponded in number and name vith those which had been given to ;ach grower who marketed his tooacco here, were placed in a large container and thoroughly mixed oefore Alice Venable Jones, 5-yearold daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alpheus Jones of Warrenton, pulled the ticket from the pile which corresponded with the one held by Mr. Currin. He did not have to be present to win the earImmediately before the drawing took place it was suggested and agreed to that the winner present the little girl chosen to draw the Inxlnr flim ^aIIakp A/Tioc lui/ii jr iiuuiuci hyc uuiiaxo. x-vjuoo Jones accepted the $5.00 bill advanced by warehousemen for Mr. Currin and turned the money over to the Warren County Memorial Library. Officers Launch Drive On Makers Untaxed Whiskey Two stills were captured in Shocco township last Friday, bringing the total number of illicit booze manufacturing plants seized by Sheriff Pinnell and his deputies, with occasional assistance from officers from adjoining counties and federal agents, to fifteen since the middle of October. In their raids on these plants the officers captured seven men who were tried in Recorder's court, convicted, and given sentences ranging ftuw-flfr days to atf"r&DiitJ)s;-In addition to the capture of the men and the stills, the officers also seized approximately 200 gallons of whiskey and destroyed in the neighborhood of 10,000 gallons of beer. The captures were made In Koanoke, Nutbush, Shocco, Sixpound and Hawtree townships. Five of those arrested and convicted as distillers or for the part they played In the manufacture and sale of the booze were negroes and two were white men. In their drive to prohibit the manufacture and use of unstamped whiskey, that which does not carry the ABC labels, the officers have arrested recently approximately a dozen persons with moonshine whiskey in their possession. These persons have also been carried into court where they have in most cases been convicted and taxed with court costs and on some occasions been forced to pay small fines. The two stills captured last week were seized in Shocco township, the vicinity in which several of the other plants were taken. The plants were copper outfits of around 30 gallons capacity each. The officers also destroyed around 100 gallons of beer on this raid. On Friday afternoon the sheriff and his deputies made a raid near Manson and found around 200 gallons of beer at a site where a few weeks ago they captured a large still and a quantity of whiskey, but the still which was to turn the mash into the booze could not be located, nor were there any men seen by the officers around the spotPaschall Buys Guernsey Bull Peterborough, N. H.?A purebred Guernsey bull, Squire's Bill Felix 253144 was sold recently by E. LWatkins of Norlina, North Carolina, to W. J. Paschall of Manson, North Carolina, according to the American Guernsey Cattle Club, Peterborough, New Hampshire. No Cases In County Court This Week For the first time in many months, if not this year, Judge T. O. Rodwell found no defendants to face him when he occupied his chair in the court room Monday morning. The only business transacted by the court this week was to draw a jury for duty next Monday morning. I au Co?VthE news " ALL the time NUMBER 52 BOYS AND GIRLS" RETURN HOME |j Spell of Holidays Reigns As Young People Return From Colleges MAILS BRING GREETINGS Spell of the holidays has closed the school doors of the nation and returning to the native heath this week boys and girls of Warren are being greeted by friends and welcomed home. Youth of Warren is ready for the holly, the good cheer and perchance the mistletoe. The John Graham high school closed its doors on Wednesday afternoon and its hundreds of pupils turned to pursuits lighter than those exacted by Principal Paul Cooper and his assistants. Other schools of the county have, also recessed. And into many homes have come sons and daughters who have had their first contact with persons and conditions away from home. The families are watching with pride the alteration that association at school has brought and elder peroeo roorvinrr firct.honH ifTinrPS. sions through these boys and girls of what the educational institutions of America are meaning to youth. Mails are brining the expressions of "thoughts of another" which cheer and breathe into all life that element of broad love and understanding which hallows the walks of our brotherhoodAmong the former Warrenton pupils who are here for the holidays are Miss Rozella Dameron, Hollins College; Miss Katherine Williams, Mary Baldwin; Misses Laura Ellis, Mariam Boyd, Mary Macon and Ann Hunt Fishel, Peace College; Misses Helen Holt and. Betsy Rodwell, St. Mary's; Misses Mary Delia Davis, Finetta Gardner, Jean Williams, Emma Kelly. Moseley and Margaret Capps, W. C. of U. N. C.; Miss Ella Pinnett, Mars Hill College; M&s Edna Montgomery, Bouisbiirg. College; ton Pintlel!, Mars Hill College; Miss Elizabeth. Taylor, Weldon Hall Jr., A. C. Blalock Jr., G. H. Macon Jr., and Henry Hunter Fitts, University of North Carolina; T. K. fTazier Jr. and John and Ralph Williams, State College; Bill Ward, Davidson College; Charles Tucker Jr., Culver Military Academy; Hinton Weston, Johns-Hopkins University; Miss Jeanette Cohen, Staunton University, Pa.; Robert Baskervill, Duke University, Durham. Car Overturns On Louisburg Road Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Williams escaped serious injuries last Saturday when the automobile in which they were traveling towards Raleigh overturned at Elberon, on the Warrenton-Louisburg highway. The accident is said to have oc currea wnen ivir. wmiauu onuivM his car in an effort to avoid striking a dog which ran in the pathway of the automobile. Both Mr. and Mrs. Williams were shaken and bruised when the vehicle overturned, but neither received any serious cuts or wounds. They were en route to Raleigh to meet their daughter, Miss Katherlne Williams, who was returning from Mary Baldwin College for the Christmas holidays. 36 Students On School Honor Roll Having maintained an average of 93 or better on all subjects, 36 students of the John Graham high school made the scholastic honor roll for the third month. They are: Grade 1: Preston Parker, Daphine Miller. Grade 2: Anne Rodwell, Maryt Alice Rooker, Sarah Kearny Burton, Mary Tasker Gibbs, Lois Jean Ruth, Claude Jones. " - ? TVHriam LjTaue O. IT amy VO^JA), Height, Anne Weaver, Jane Reavis. Grade 4: Eloise Parker, Mildred Hamm, Viola Lee Skillman, Mary Ruby Lyles. Grade 6: Margaret Rod well, Betty Davis, Jane Peete, Mabel Grissom, Katherine PetarGrade 7: Vivian Harris, Doris Harris, Nancy Loyd, Nancy Moseley. Grade 8: Charles Peete. Grade 9: Nancy Peete. Grade 10: Dick Ward, Arthur Williams, James Boyce, Claude Weldon, Minnie Wilson, Hilda Lee Powell, Robert Brickhouse. Grade 11: Billy Peete, Dorothy Will Burroughs.
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