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VOL. XXXII
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, Wednesday Evening May 19, 1915.
Number 20
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OPPORTUNITY TIME IN
COURIER'S BtG GONTEST
STARTS TOMORROW.
Now is the Time to Get Real Busy
Now is the Time to Get Enough
Votes to Win the Prize that You
Prefer Remembeir There are No
Losers in This Contest.
"Strike while the iron is hot"
i old as the hills of Person
County, but these words contain
more truth than poetry, and this
should be the slogan of all the
contestants in The Courier's
iireat prize contest right now.
The interest of this contest is
becoming more intense each day.
Each day more and more readers
3i The Courier are finding out
they have a favorite in the con
test. No person with even the
TIME MEAN? WHAT DOES
IT MEAN TO YOU?
It should fRiean extra votes
and a generous amount of them.
200,000 extra votes with every
club of $10 in subscriptions turn
ed in by Saturday May 29th.
i OPPORTUNITY TIME CLOSES
ON THE ABOVE DATE.
Remember that you are not
limited to the club; get as
many as you can. Don't hold
back subscription money. Report
grain of enthusiasm in their ; promptly to the Contest Mana
veins can long stand aside and ger, and he will keep an accur
see the wonderful work being ate of your returns, and .every
jone by the contestants without time the total shows $10 he will
"just itching" to get into the issue you a voting coupon good
irame and help their favorite, for 200,000 votes. It is not hard
it's catching. The more you to go out and get $10 in sub
watch this contest, the more in- scriptions. Opportunity time is
lerested you become, and hun- really the opportune time for
dreds of people are watchiner the you. Remember, besides the
rnrk of thp contestant 200,000 extra votes that you re-
WHAT DOES OPPORTUNITY ceive each a,nd very club of
iLonunuea on rage i
Look mid Learn
If there is a fascination to you in making money, the
fascination should hold good in saving money.
Look over our stock, compare quality and prices before
you buy. Be your own judge.
A nice lot of Dress Goods just received. A beautiful
selection of laces and embroideries coming this week.
Have you seen our Hand Embroidered Ladies Muslin
Underwear? If not you lose.
Special Prices Made on Gents Furnishings
Men's Palm Beach Suits $5.00. A re
duction of 50c made on each straw hat.
Morton & Satterfields
New Stores In Post Office Building.
HOW HXJCH EASIER,
''gbv Q&t (901$ "With'A
Commencement of
The Graded School
The annual commencement ex
ercises of the Roxboro. schools
will be held Friday May 28,
1915, in the morning and at
night. On. Thursday, morning
May 27th, beginning at ten o'
clock, there will be some exer-,
cises for about an hour by the
children of the primary grades,
although, strictly speaking, these
exercises are not to be consider
ed as part of the commencement
proper. At Eleven o'clock on
Friday morning, the graduating
class will have their class day
exercises. On Friday night the
graduating-exercises will be held
at which time the address will
be delivered by Hon. F. P. Hob
good, Jr., of Greensboro. To all
these exercfees, those of the
primary grades Thursday morn
ing, and those of Friday morn
ing and night, the public is
cordially invited. There will be
no charges for admission to any
of the exercises. A. B. Stalvey,
Supt.
Wesley Bible Class
v : Held Meeting Monday
- The Wesley Bible Class of the
Methodist Sunday Echool held a
tusmess -meeting Monday even
intStOO oclock. - '
- ,The dutiesbFthe officers were
discussed." All matters of im
pbiMcererpugli up, .
-Trtie following officers were el
ected: President, D. S. Brooks;
yiceiisident, S; D. Moore;
BetV iy-Treasurtsr, W. G. Barnett.
Xlembershipr?' ; Committee E.
iJiilDtoilvtCharm R. L.
Hajrjs, C. W. Allison, R. W.
Morns, J. H. Saunders, Howard
Swar and Si 0 Brewer.
liCommittee H. G. Clay
wktf Chairman; Rob Ham
brick;:G. J; Cushwa, P. H, Clay,
Ledbetter, B. B. Newell
and I. L. James.
Commencement
Trinity College.
The exercises of Commencement
week will take place on June 6th
to 9th, with the following pro
gram: '
Sunday. June 6, 8:30 P. MM
Baccalaurete Address, President
William Preston Few, L. L. D.
Tuesday, June 8, 11 A. M.,
Baccalaurete Sermon, The Rever;
end James Wideman Lee, D. D.
St. Louis.
Tuesday, June 8, 1 P. M.. AU
umni Dinner, Address, 'Bunyan S.
Womble, Winston-Salem, N. Ci '
Tuesday; Wune 8, 3:30 P. M,
Graduatirg Orations.
Wednesday, June 9, 10:30 A.
M., CoQimencement Address,
Owen Wister, L. L. I)., Phila
delphia. Conferring of decrees.
Linotype Operator Shot
Durham, May 17. -George Ro
denhizer, a linotype operator for
the Durham Sun, was shot and
probably fatally injured last
night during a quarrel with his
brother-in-law Isaac Bear. The
cause of the shooting is not
known. Bear was arrested.
What Drives the Coimtry
; Boy and the Girl to the City.
Wellv;the.y are : not driving in
such large droves as tlje.v were a
few years back, -Nevertheless, the
current is still citywards and it is
worth while. to find the reason
Some people used to think it was
because the farmer boy was a
shirk and was looking for an e.'sy
life. If there are any who are still
impelled by that motive, let their
mihds be disabused, immediately.
If they wishjto be convinced, let
The Littleton Col- N; ; ?
..lege Commencement
The Littleton College5 Com-
mencement will take place May 7
23 to 25. On Sunday morning. t ;
the 23 Bishop A. W. Wilsori wilP ; r
preach the Baccalaureate Ser- r h
mon, ' . ; ' ' .
On Monday , afternoon the 24,
the class day pageant will be;
given on the campus, and in the .
'evening of the same day the
Senior and Expression classes
will give, an' entertainment in, ,
C Seriously Hurt
- A telegram was received here
yesterday telling of the serious
accident to Mr. G. Otis Hall at
Farmville, Va. About ten days
agu lie left liere to accept, a posi
tion1 as fireman on the N. & W.
Railway. The facts in the case
seem to be hard to secure, but the
best information seems that he
was. riding in his cab with his
head stuck out of the window
vhen a train going in an opposite
ptrection met his tram and struck
is head, severely bruising it and
it is said, cracking his skull. . The
last ) reports from the hospital
where he was carried are more
jfavorable nd his relatives and
friends are hoping the accident is
tint sos
serious as .first reported;.
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Tax Lister s Notice
I will be found at the Court
House every day until the first
of June for the purpose of listing
the taxes for the town of Rox
boro. You will oblige me by
listing as early as possible. C.
C. Cunningham,. Tax Lister.
Italy Has Great Army.
Geneva. May J6, via Paris. A
telegram from Lugano, a Swiss
city near the Italian border, says
that Italy now has 700,000 soldi
ers mobilized and equipped.
It is said Austria has confiscated
the property of the Rothsc
as well as that of various En;
French and Russian families.
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IT IS NOTHING- SHORT OF CRUELTY1UK AT
WOMAN TO HAVE TO COOK IN A HOT KITCHEN WITH
A WOOD OR COAL FIRC j f
OUR GASOLINE STOVE'S ARE FKCM THE BJEST
FACTORIES. EASY AND SAFE Tp OfcRATE AND SAVE
TIME AND EXPENSE. ' ?' -J - " 'u,
WE H AVE ALL SIZES AND WILL BE LJASED6
SHOW THEM TO YOU. OUR PRICES ARE ALWAYS LOW,
Co
Attending Oak
Ridge Commencement
Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Veazey
and Mr. a.id Mrs. X W. Pass are
attending, the closing, exercises of
Oak Ridge Institute this week,
where their sons, S. H. Veazey
and T. O, Pass graduate, They
made the trip in Mr. Veazey's
car. - -.-'-V-
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Attended Buies Creek
Commencement
Mrs..H. H. Masten attended
! Buies Creek; Commencement last
week, , where her son Gilmer Has
ten . graduated. They returned
Ti. An t mftwitn rr
RoxbtoHighway Commission.
On last Satu rday morning the
Board of Supervisors'met and el
ected the following gentlemen as
members of the Roxboro Town
ship Highway Commissioners: A.
M. Burns, R. A. Burch and C. B.
Brooks. The Highway Commis
sion met an 1 elected the "following
officers: . A. M. Burns, chairman;
R. A. Burch, secretary. The po
sition of Treasurer was postponed
for the present.
This is a splendid board and it
insures that the roads in this
township will be looked after and
all work done in the most approv
ed manner, with a strict lookout
for the money which the voters
have placed in their hands that
is just as soon as the bonds shall
have been sold:
Woe In The Bottle.
Wherever there's . trouble,
whereyer there's weeping, wher
ever the vultures of grief are
alive; wherever sad women their
night watch are keeping, and
waiting for footsteps that do not
arrive; wherever there's squalor
wherever there's famine, if you
would discover to whet it's all
due, it's idle the records to deep
ly examine just search for the
bottle, and you'll have a clue
Walt Mason. ;
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Sermon To The Junior Order.
Rev. L J. Bcohe -vill preach at
Brooksdale on next Sunday even
ing at 3 o'clock to the Junior or
der. The Juniors are required to j
meet at the Hall at 2:30. The
public is cordially invited.
New Chief of Police
M r. J. Frank Cash has been el
ected chief of police and entered
upon his duties on the 15th. -
comes well recommended and is
said tbhave.an especialeen eye
for blind tigers, ' So mote it be.
them spend a few dollars to come' the college Auditorium,
to the city and interview the ex- Oh Tuesday morning twenty
farmer lads who are now strug- young ladies will be graduated -4
gling with city life, and we be-, 16 in the Academic department
lieve nine-tenths of these will tell and four in Music. Rev. R. C.
you that they would trade every- Craven will deliver the Bacca
thing they huve for a chance to get laureate address The Art Ex--back
to the land of blue sky and hibit will also be on Tuesday and
undiluted ozone., No, it is not hard the Annual Concert will take
work that drives our young' peo- place on the evening of the same
pie from the farms,- but it is lack day.
of plain, home c.nnfori.s. in which
most country homes- are still too
defieent. The farmer has most ev
erything that the city man lias ex
cept the home1 comforts and amuse-
ments. There are few farmers
homes with modern , appliances.
bathrooms toilets, hot .and cold
water, and of couise, even fewer
farm homes have lights.
A farm boy goes to high school
or college in the city one winter
and he finds these modern comforts.
When he goes back to the farm
and has to wash his face and hands
in cold water, may be break the
ice first, has tQ 'build a. fire, ab j
there isn't a warm room in the
house, has to takfc a bath in a
washtub; -if he gets one.;lt creates
a-desi reHtf that ehuir to ; tmSvSiw
the city.and get these con venienceSi
Now yottrmers just think ' ymf
can have light and water just as
cheap as the city man and just as
convenient. I am the Agent for
the Detroit Heating & Lighting
Co. Let me improve your home,
YV. T. Buchanan, Roxboro, N. C.
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Ordination services were held
at the Baptist chinch on last
Thursday night when Rev. M. F.
Hodges was ordained to full min
istry. The pastor, h'ev. I). F.
Putnam, Rev. J. H. Bass and
Rev. J. A. Beam taku.g part in
the ceremonies.
Death of T,W. Blackard.
On Friday morn at 9 o'clock
May 71915 the spirit of T. YV. f
Blackard went back to the God , Y
who gave it. He was born Nov. ; ' :f
28 1828making his stay on earth , 1
86 years 5 months and IS days. He
served as, a valient soldier during V
the civil war. 'i .
Oct. 1865 he was happily marri- " , . "
ed to Miss Sarah F. Teer of Ala- ' .
raance county To this union seven I . i- f
children were born, four girls and. ; V;
three boys all of whom with ' the.v :
hvidow survive. He joined the-Y-
Methodist Episcopal church 'j7r
MtZioin young manhood and:: .;Y
wiisi faithful 'member always un- Ytc;
til the.Master'called him ; to", join S&X
i the'chttriTtnumphant'He hall :
been a great sunerer; for quite a y
while with fiance r and other trouv ; v ;
bles due to-oid-ageiir w,,f v t
For tivedays before he died his . V
condition was such that he couldn't
take any nourishment whatever. ;
He was conscious till almost the '
last. He thanked all for their kind- Y.v' ;.;
ness to him. ; -V
All members" of the Brooksdale
Lodge No. 414 are requested to
meet at i he Hall Saturday night
at h o'cjcik as we have some very
imports nt business to attend to.
G. M. Fox, ,lr.,.R. S.
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