Noell Bros., Proprietors. Home First:! Abroad Next. $1.00 Per Year in Advance ' VOL. XXXI ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, Wednesday Evening, March 18, 1914.. No. 11 A GOOD IDEA. Sand Clay the Streets of the town is Suggested by a Commis s,oner' , ! Va- and chairman of the Banking The Purpose of This Plant is as ,lt:issoonasthe weather o- Committee of the House hasac" Follow: ,, so that work can be clone cepted the invitation of the Com- First. To prepare the raw to- ,, ,, ,v,'ts. that is the side walks, mercial Club to deliver an address bacco for storing, that it may' be' ' '"' '"" Z "T f T the n6W MBCy and ljanki k without molding, rotting, or ,,, .,,,-ots. hde there has been law Thursday evening, March 20. being eaten by insects. !, ,mPlaint a t the time this The club has been sending out a! Second. To enhrance .the in--,!, has required, or rather the series of letters to the farmers and , trinsic value of the tobacco by be ,,wtlu: contractors have taken to other people in the county telling coming more uniform in flavor '" ,,,1L !!" are J"st r0llt ,con-; them something about the banking ! and color thus adding to its agree- vinrrd ti.at it uas tn oest tn.ng wl,., has over been done for the Mivii. llmse who have the walks would not no without them tor any price ami those who have not got i . . i . ,m will never be satisfied until t they are provided with them. j n tar so gooil. Hut now, while; ; town is at this kind of work ,.v heartily agree with one of the umuI..'1-s (.f the Board of Commis-1 sinner- that they ought to go ahead! about five thousand dol hii's niiuv and sand clay every stivct where they have put down si. , walk-. Certainly the amount nit'iitii'iiiMl would be ample and there h nothing the Board could do which would i)e more appreci ated. Oh. we know they have not gt t the money, neither have they the money to complete the work mapped out for side walks, but they are going ahead with it, and viely we think, knowing the town has good credit and can get :dl the money necessary, dust as well while they are at it spend the other amount and fix the town rilit. About throe blocks of Main Street is in fine condition, but the remainder is something tierce and will continue to be so unless some work of a permannent nature is j buildings in town, and will be one done. And now is the time to do it, ! of the most desirable store build while it is all torn up. ings to be had. These stores at Go ahead and spend this necess-; present are occupied by Mess. T. ary amount and you will find the ; W. Pass & Son, exclusive furni peoplo will back you up in it. It is hire dealers and Mess. J. M. (V not niTOssary to talk about an elec. Briant & Bro., grocers, tion. you are going to have to issue hond-to pay orl' the indebtedness 1W work already done, so a add in thi ot her amount for sand ela v- llig the Ml't ts outside o. l lire th.- :iMrie!. Villi h-ive t e )).', and :;ll lav ; Yo, ) vjd: ' ,"in ot.'M.e... (; ;,1(.hes dee). at ij li ; to WILL'S jtu-ir. isw'-i' .- .1 z.tl ;j ii.iJi na.il'.iSt ffia A I FOR BOSLOERS. M if -At CARPENTERS; f OR THE BEST TOOLS THAT WILL HOLD THEIR EDGE. COME TO US. BUILDERS; FOR THE BEST FINISHING HARDWARE THAT WLL LAST AND BE ORNAMENTS TO YOUR BUILD ING. COME TO US. EVERYDODY. WHEN YOU WANT ANYTHING IN HARDWARE. COME TO THE STORE THAT HAS MADE ITS GOOD REPUTATION BY SELLING ONLY GOOD GOODS. I Lone1. Bradshfir & Co; O 7 g 'ttMttotoMoeooeeoootocooooooooooooooooooocoooooe uiasslo Speak At Durham on The New Banking Law. Durham, March 15. Congress- man Carter Glass of Lynchburg, laws and the general convenience of banking, the object being to en- courage the farmoi-s toHp.,wit.t1D;,. I -m..uuuv.!! money in the local banks. Th( i" vicmtiiiu ui;ii the club also take up the question of the new currency bill which has been recent v nnsspd i1im,n.n,o In order to get this new law before the business men ot the city in the best possible way the club asked L. Foushee. wlm in iwMvnn.,1 friend of Mr. Glass to invite him to come here and deliver an address on this new law. Few men in the count ry are better fitted for speak ing on this topic, for Mr. Glass is the author of the House bill, and is thoroughly acquainted with the new law as it was amended and passed by Congress. Improvements on Depot Street. Judge J. C. Pass is making ar rangements to make some changes to his double store on Depot St. which will add much to the ap pearance of that street. He will tear away the old front and put in a new one, plate glass, and will make the building a three story brick building.:. Whep completed this wilt forsmf of the handsomest Biggest of All. Notwithstanding the prophecy that there. would be no more snow on last Wednesday night there ra.iie tile biggest ot the sea-.on. Had the. ground been dry it would have been a snow worth while, as it was it was something like or o o 9 o o o WWW WW-WW- 9 e e THE ROXBORO FARMERS DRY PRIZERY NEARING COMPLETION. ; able taste and texture. i Third. To put the tobacco di- ! iwHw ;,. i,.. ,.t n -v,v.tI, mm; Ull UCIUUS UI tllf Lililllll- j facturers from the famers by the . uiwl unect Hiiu economic method ! known to the trade. Fourth. By this method the manufacturers will pay the farm ers the same price for the stored tobacco they nov pay to the buy ers on the open market. Fifth. Thousands of buyers are on the open markets, drawing salaries of $1,000 and 83 000 a year. The warehouse method cost five to ten per cent of the crop to sell it. All of these will be eliminated by the farmers -lry-prizeries and saved to the farmer's iis all expenses are charged against the tobacco and cut off of the farmers' end, but the dryprizeries add all this to the farmers' end of the bargain except the actual cost of the operation, which will never be over one half of one per cent. Fifteen such plants are in opera tion, though they have not done as well us they might, because the fai 'mers do not understand the op eration as they ought, nev.erthe lesa these few jenterpriseM band hng less than five per cent of the tobacco, have had a decidedly beneficial effect upon the open market. The finished goods need not be any higher, because the manufac turers will not necessarily have to pay higher prices than they now do. One buyer can buy all grad es and amount he needs for his trade from any storage plant in a day. In a month lie can buy all he wants from twenty-six storages instead of keeping twenty-six dif ferent sets of buyers five or six months. These losses on the crop iof VM'2 were y74..2S,200 enough to build and equip 1490 dyprizcri es, and furnish them an operating fund to take care of the whole nisiiiess, but we do not want hut a few such plants. Another great benefit the farm ers will know the price before the bed is sown. S. Married Saturday. Mr. Bennie T. Blount and Miss Cannon Cooke, both of Halifax County were united in marriage by Rev. X. C. Yearby last Satur day at Hotel Jones. Mr: Robt. G. Conner and Miss Carrie Cooke accompanied the bride and groom from Halifax County. Farmers Union Lecturer. Mr. W. T. Swanson, who will be so kindly remembered by the Union people of this County, is again in the County and will spend some time here lecturing to the Unions. He will visit every Union in the County while here. Births and Deaths. Mr. R. E. Cheek, the local res- j ister, gives us the following re- nort for the month of Fphnmrv Roxboro, 4 deaths, 5 births.1 Roxboro township, 3 deaths and 8 births. 1 1 A 200,000 Mile Car. ! The Galveston, Texas, Electric Co. reports a Studebaker automo- bile which has been in continuous service for four years and has ac- quired a definite record of more than 200,000 miles. Caswell County News. Mr. H. A. Howard, who has been very ill for some time is slowly improving, though his con dition yet is very serious. Mr. Thomas S. Neal and little son, Tom, Jr., of Macon, Ga,, are spending some time with Mr. T. C. Neal, of Mclver. Mr. J. B. Matlock, of Leaks- ville has been in the western part of our county with a drove of fine Virginia horses. He says they are going cheap and fast. The teachers of our County are having lots of hnlidnvs tViPCA '1 days on account of Mr. Ground Hog's misfortune. But we often hear the old and dreaded story of "I have to make up so many days, I don't know when I will finish ray school." We noticed in one of North Carolina's papers a few days ago that we would have to look to the Editors of the Roxboro Courier for the truthfulness of the state ment that we had lightning and thunder with a snow cloud, I don't know so much about that case, but ''we had wind lightning and loud peals of thunder since seeing the article in Dear Old Caswell. -Mi's. Lelia Williamson is visit ing relatives and friends in Bur lington. Miss Fannie Williamson, of Danville, is visiting the home of Mrs. Williamson. The prospect of Caswell's wheat crci is much better than for Xears. We hope there will be fewer idle threshing machines this year than in the past two or three summers. j A delightful program was ren dfiedrat Basra's School house m Caswell of Friday night the 13 inst. There was a good crowd present considering the rough weather. Miss Lula Belle Steph ens of Leasburg is the teacher. She has had a very successful year with the school. Miss Virginia Bodgett, who has been teaching at Blanch has finished her school and returned to her pretty country home near Pel ham. Mr. Henry Turner was through our part of Caswell with a bunch of Mr. Tom Hatchett's horses. He said business was good and he was placing some nice horses through the country. Mr. Geo. W. Daniel of Pelham, who lost his new home by fire the j second day of this month has not commenced to rebuild yet. He will build near the old site of the burned house. Mr. J. B. Turner entertained quite a number of his friends at a chopping the past week. His wife served a dinner fit for Kings, and My! how those farmers did eat! Mr. A. G. Thompson of Leas burg is making his home at Mc lver now. Farming at his grand fathers old place. T. A. G. Farmers' Union Met Saturday. A very interesting session of Person County Farmers' Union was held here in the court house last Saturday. A strong and in structive lecture was given. One singular feature of the meeting was the initiation of Dr. E. J. Tucker into the order that he might be in the convention. His memborship was transferred to Brooksdale Local. U. S. Cars For Export. -A anadian steamer, which recently cleared from St. John carried 214 Studebaker au- tnmobiles for distribution bv the Corporation's London branch. During February Studebaker shipped an aveaage of 40 cars daily to foreign ports. Imperial Silver Polish, 25 cents a bottle at The Newells. f mm , I Farmers Union. W. T. Swanson is in Person County to review and revive the Farmers' Union work here. He is a proficient and successful . or ganizer and reconstructor. He is one of the two men who bsought this great order to North Carolina in 1907. He" has organized about one eighth of this state and has been m the work seven years. A systematic campaign is now going on here for the uplift of the rural population of this county, which means the uplift of everybody. The lectures are full df interest and information, and all who miss them will miss a rare treat. Ev erybody, and especially the ladies are invited to attend these lectures as follows; each at 7:30 p. m. un less otherwise ordered by the local Union to be served: Longs March 19th. 20th. 21st. 23rd. 24th. 25th. 26th. 27th. 28th. 30th. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. Hester's Bushy Fork Hurdle Mills Warrens Grove Alliance Hall 41 Ceffo Bethel Hill Olive Branch Providence Allensville Center Grove Tingen 5 Forks a, u April Rogers-Crumpton. On Tuesday evening, Feb. 3rd, at 6 o'clock, in the presence of the family and a few friends Mr. Roy Rogers and Miss Carrie Crumpton were married, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Cramptt Rev.-D.-F. Putnam was- officfeing diately after the vows were taken the happy couple came, in an auto mobile, to Roxboro where they boarded the 7:06 train for Wash ington and other northern cities on a ten day bridal trip. Upon their return they went to the home of the groom where they will re side for the next year. These are most excellent young people who begin life together with bright prospects. We extend I 1 , ' T . t . congratulations and join their host of friends in wishing for them a farmers have been tired out set happy and prosperous journey ?mg inUe house by tlie fire dur- through life. The above mentioned event was a very quiet affair, so -quiet that! who lived a short distance west of the! news reporter failed to learn 1 Bni-Vs store un(l a n-in-law of of it until last week; hence the de-P "klefoixl killed, himself. lay ui inning same :n ui of The Courier. Ed. columns o ft e 9 O O w o O 9 a o FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, 20th and 21st. The Spring Pattern Hats will be dis played by our Millinery Department next Friday and Saturday, day and evening, March 20th and 21st. You are cordially invited to attend this event with the assurance that you will see the best display of Spring Millinery that will be shown in the county. Our Milliners are after your business and have gotten together by far the larg est and. most attractive stock that they have had. They are always pleased to serve you and want YOU to be sure to attend their display. 9 O o o o o e p o p o 3 o o o o a 9 O O e o o o o e o o o e Hkrri ROXBORO'S oooooooooooootoooooooooooioooooooooooooooooooooedooo Cunningham and Woodland Notes. Messrs. Editors: Sickness has prevented me from writing some - 1 notes through January and Feb. and I am thankful that my health is restored again, and I will write some notes for next week. The weather to use a familiar word has been just awful, but we are very glad to see a favorable change for the better since last Monday. If I ever experienced a worse day than the second of March. I don't now recall it. My brother and I walked over to Brays to pay our taxes and had no idea of seeing so many tax payers as were present, but found the store full and left it full. We ran upon Col. J. S. Cunningham over there, our old time warm personal friend who was looking as young as a boy, and was lively and cheerful as he always is. His daughter Miss Helen has been re cently afflicted and was in the hos pital for several weeks and an op eration was necessary. We are glad to know she is now at home get ting along nicely. All who usually gather ice in our section have filled their houses with fine ice. I notice since the Tango, the latest dance now is called the "Fish Wiggle" well if they became contorted and twisted like a certain fish called an eel, it will take a Philadelphia ( lawyer with several assistants to disentangle and straiten them out again. We can only exclaim "Oh! tem pora oh! moses." Miss Clyde Armstrong who has been visiting her mother Mrs. Bass for several weeks has returned The Mexican n u estion "seems ' to be still vexing our President and Mr. Bryan, 1 hope our Govern ment will not have to interfere in their troubles. The Constitutionists seems to be giving as much trouble as Huerta's Government. Rev. S. F. Nicks was to preach a sermon to young men on last Sabbath the first, out on account of the rough weather postponed it until the 5th, Sabbath in this month. . J. M. B ray has been confined to his room for several weeks, with I 1 1 . . ! gnp is up and around in the house. ; i 1 iu4 iui sumi; i;uuu weiuuei now. A man by the name of Hinton , wiui a iiim u su w 1 1 uuie since, ins :inmd w;ls 1 Frank. crazed bv UI ink. o o o o o o o e o e o o o o e s o o o o o- o o e o o e o o e o o o o o o o o o o Burns BEST STORE. v . i. - -V. tr-;t. r. If' f.fcf'sifS'

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