' ? , . i THE DATE OS THE LABEL IS THE DATE YOLK- PA PES WILL BE STOPPED!*!* J. W. NOELL. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER WATCH THE LABEL ON your 'papeb, AND DON'T urr SUBSCRIPTION EX PIRE!!! $130 PER YEAR IN ADVAN<ZB VOL. No. XL1I1 ROX BORO, NORTH CAROLINA, Wednesda^ELvening- March 24, 1926. No. 12. HOME FIRST. ABROAD NEXT DURHAM BUILDING DESTROYED BY FIRE Waa Occupiend by Hurst-Bell Co. and l^awirnce Mill Company., ? j DAMAGE $75,000 TO $100,000 _______ . ~ ? .Durham. Ma/ch 22. ? Fire, which broke out abiut' six . o'clock Satur- < . day afternoon, while the streets were ? filled with jate afternoon shoppers \ and others, completely gutted the ? trhfee-story buildirti: situated on East Poabody Street owned and occupy ijby Mess. E, H. 'ahd M. !V. Lawrence; ns 3 grain mill. Thp wholesale t?ro ,.4: eery concern. Qf the- Hurst-Bell Com- ; pany occupied a lar^e^ part of ttye ?fir-t floor. Firemen had jcrcat dif- ? ficulty in sub<jaing> the flambs which spread with preat rapidity through- ; out the buildinfe;. Practically all the 'fire-fiKhtinpr apparatus available in the cUy was called r?ut by the three alarms. ? Yesterday and this n^rninqr the owners were busy movin'ar what stock could be salvaged "from * t*he ruins. Firemen had rtmainwl on dqty to : * ? ifi^vent a Tt'l'Sh outbreak f the -fl times. Total damages are esti mated to amount to lift ween $75,000 and $.100,000. The amount of in-1 auranc.e carried was unobtainable ? . .. ? 1 u 1 < t night. ? btrt ? it was stateii that , il> ut < ne-half the loss was covered/ OUR N ATION'S OREATtgT PERIL The historic! cyo4e"4oV nations re . . Vf;>is that "'X^tr-ns in their begin nings are poor, poverty is. favorable . to hardihood and,, industry; industry leads to thrift and wealth; wealth) produce?' luxury; luxury result*- in enervation. corruption, destruction." -? ? Jos idh Strong T'> f f-<!\ TheotLre Roosevelt. says. 1 that "If we permit the. people of* this republic to jret before their ( minds the view that material- wc ll beinp*. enrrird t P an evel* higher de . jcjrree. U'M.bc one . i\nrl only, thinj; tv; be" striven for. we are laying Up ,C0r ourselves not; nlv ttmihh. -hut r'lin " The Firs.t Baptist ..Church stands for ^piethlnp: Kettei-, . j Sunday School 0:45 A- M. Mrs-| sionary Day. R, I.. ~ NViiburn, Supt. Preaching 11 . A. M. Subject: "Faithful Steward*." 7:;j0 P. M Illustrated Tecture. I'Seeiilg ihina ^..Xhrau^hl The.:, (laiii-. era's Eye." by the Pastpr. R. V. P. U. 6:W P. M. . ? "I wns plad when they said unto I me "Let u^-jrb int > the hous^- of the LqV^m Psalm 122(1. 1 VV. F. west! -Pastor PKKSttYTERIAN ( HI RCH Sunday Si hoc! at 9:^5, A.. \I.. i H.~ I-. Croweil* Supt. "This is the j, l:tst -Sunday of :>ur church year. Idomo and nmke this the. la'rjrest attendance (.f the year. M ir.injr :-ervTee 11:00. A M. Sermon by ?fce Pastor. Kvoninp service at 7:30, : sermon ? by- 'the Pastor. . j Sund'av School a{ ^MiteKcU's Chapel _ "at - P. M. - . ? Preaching at Bushy Fork school1 liou.^- at P. M By order of Session ;i ednfcrepra- 1 . tional meeting js galled for Sunday . morninfr after service. Every mem- j ber is expected to be present. The T work . of the whole year is. to be ?planned. Every 'one welcome at nil services. f'ARY ADAMS, P?stor. Base Ball At High Schooh By organizing themselves .ipto an - Athletic i'Iuss and working with The1 faculty and, sch-aol board the child ren have raised money both for the library and base Boll team. They Jia-ve just recently added to thin fund . it good amount by selling magazine*. . The .team has. ordered suit* and some (rood equipment. We hope to. tivnr out a good team, "fhe people of " lioxborc will be given a chance to buy season ticllrets to all' base ball itainM. When a boy pi** you to1 buy one, help a (food cause by. gran tln(f~ hTi reqtwst. -,'rti? money that j ou give. -and have will be used for permanent equipment. ? Tholr - ouji money1 will jXitrry their running^ expenpes.' flafie, . watch PRESIDENT'S FATHER I i OIES WITH GANGER President Coolidge Wag Hasten^ ing. 'To His Bedside But Arrived Too I^ate SERVICES BY REV. WHITE * Plymouth, Vt, March 19.? Col-one* John C. Coolidge, 80 year old father of. *tno President, of the Umtecf J States, quietly passed away last .night .after a lingering illness from. Which, all ' hope of his recovery hac; ? been given up, . The , President had , been detained in Washington by the press of international affairs* -several He was hastening to the bedside of 1 his father on a special tram>yrhen in formed of the aged man's death. .Accompanying .him were Mrs. | Coolidge, his son, John, his personal plfysician ^nd others. . The- party arrived Friday morning, after hav ing made the la^st lap of the journey by sleigh. ' ?. Funeral services, were held^ Friday at the , old homestead, conducted by { the Rev. John White of the Episcopal Church. Services were brief and ex.- : trcimelv simple. # and . the body was ,thc\j jin termed in the Coolidge burial grcunitf. where the President's mother and son, Calvin, rest. The Presiden- j L\1 pai U jlaited the ii'tmn H ip U the capitol Saturday aljernoon. CQOlidges arrive at . . . WASHINGTON SUNDAY Washington, March 21.- ? President and Mrs. Cooiidg^e* returned to YVash- ? ington early today' from Plymouth, ? Vt Their special train arrived short-] ly after 7 o'clock and Mr. and Mrs. j Coolidge, worn by the death of Colo- ! ncl John G. Coolidge, the President'? f father, remained at the White Hou*e during the day. foregoing their ufual Sunday morning church service.; * j] ? ?? 1 COLONEL COOL1DGE DIED FROM' CAXClfR' Plymouth. Vt., TTurch 19 ? Official ; cause of the .death of ,^olon^ John C. Goclidge, 80 year old fathov of the President, was announced here today by Dr. A- M. ?ram, attending physician, as "carcinoma" or cancer. , The secondary and contributing cause was myocarditis. :> disease of |Ih? hejurt muscles. ? N. C; NEWS Hillshi.To Man Killed hy Southern . Train " 1 Burlington, March 22. ? -Sam King. 72, of. H'lllshoro, met an insta"nt and tragic death. near the Graham pas senger station when ytru?k by east bound passenger train 16 at ??:15 Sunday afternoon when he was walking on the track to the station j to board tt eu route ho?me. The aged man had been visiting, a daughter at ^he King mill, in cast F.urlington, it "Is said, and left the ?)ir.me some time before train timcj #to walk to Graham to board it: "Winst'iyi I.ady Slashes Throat Wtnston^Salem, *March 22.- ? Mr?. Walter Staltz, who resides' cn the Rural Hall road several miles north | of this city, white in a fit of mental a r ration at -an early hour "this" morning, slashed her threat with a j butcher kntfe and is at the Lawrence ; hospital in this'. city. She is in a .serious condition, but some hope is held out for her recovery. William A Hart, State W?h^ay Commissioner. Die* .SuddauU Tarboro, N. G-, M?rch*jM>. ? Will iam A. Hart, ofWTarboro, -state high- i way commissioner., fell dead in hisJ home hele today, while walkipg from | his bedro-)ih to the bath rcom. ? Hart was '62. and was serving hisj second -term aa o on) m i s s ioner ; He ; was. a candidate for l4e?tenant-gov-tj ernofr in the primary election and bad seriously, contemplated making) t?e race for the governorship. He was a wealthy landowner and- far m !'ei\%v 7 f -, " ~~ 0 ? ? ? r* ? i * North Carolina fftfcmexA spend too I much marie yon fertilizer not to use i the kind mutable _ far ti-t ii u.iH'H ill id" i soils, say agrnnnmy ai.->r\r^ra President Calvin Coolidge and his father Col. John Coolidge. Mr. Crowell Has Interesting Trip Visited Highland Park Plant. Rouge River Pland and Dearborn I?bnrat(n4?*?'' TWO DAYS TRIP , "i certainly learned a lot during: the t\<*Q days I was in Detroit," Mr. II. L. Crowell, local Ford dealev, said today upon his return.* home from' the Motor City, where he"~spent two days visiting the -big plaYits of the " Ford Afcotor Company along with a num ber of other Ford derrler3 from this territory. . "It has betfn a great education to .me," he continued. "I never imagir*? ed anything sd enormous. * "We arrived early in the morning, our train being .switched rig'ht into the yards of the Highland Park Phint. Then began an interesting t\vo ' days., .First, we went through the Highland Park *plant? -that is part of it, the most interesting divis ions. You know, they told us that the area of that plant' is 278 arras with 105 acres- of "it under *roof? "Eltlt that is nothing compared to the River Rouge plant where "the big operations are "cai-ried on. tThcre is where raw materials are, trans forme'^ and come out in the.foim of parts for Ford cars. v "And buildings! r Say, you should ^ee the new buihling for pressed steel />perations. That' ? a real ! building, one story high, mostly/ glass and it covers eight acre." (ft groutid. Why if they would clear out the machinery in that building there would be enough room on the | floor to park more than 5,000 Ford cars. "We also vifcited the big engineer ing laboratory at Dearborn, the F6rT~ Airport and .the Lincoln^ car plant. "Thiogs that impressed me most aside from the buildings pnd ma chines? Were the cleanliness about all the plants, the |<afety devices "and methods to prevent accidents and the absence of any._real hard human labori Machinery- is made to do all i the hard work.1 "Another thing, was ?Jhe precision ' eff manufacture. Everypart is made I to exact measurement arid though manufacture proceeds rapidly there j is no Ipt up in_. inspection. - Every part must be .of cor rec?~Himenp ions otherwise assembly -of cars on the ?scale ort- which Ford'- production- is ?carried <>ui- would be impossible, '-'{j wish I could Tmpjftt to all my friends the appreciation . of Ford value that "1 have?gaihed as" a result of my "visit to. Detroit.'' ' ? Tarheet farmers ?re rapictty ing that?ofrt3 .. s!M U^-il l ? hog.* -wifi *pay />r" itself. Dairying Will Make Prosperity Steps Being Taken To Make '.The South Nation's Dairj Center . f- . ? PROSPERITY FOR PEOPLE Constructive steps ''to- make- the South the nation's dairy center" are outlined in an article in the. Manu facturers Record, imiicating. that, in stead ;< f beine: an importer o.f dairy products and foe ct?eami as at present, the South e.re long *vilf ship milk and . cream and ice Cream to other parts of the country. "There is no reason why the ?Siuth should pot supply the North; the East and the ' ZVIiddle West With dairy product? and ice cream;* th?re is ?verv reason why it should/' 'is virtually a summary of opinions expressed by United | States Government officials and other authorities on dairying; On the production end, farmers are to bo . encouraged to .turn to dairying as a profitable, year-round industry.;, pn the line of distribution, great dairy products and ice crcum ; plants arc- being established from, the .Mason and Pixplr Iwie to the south ern tfp of Flvrsda to mftrket the. Southern, farmers' milk supply. For' the consuming' public, this means an ample, supply of dairy products ahS^ ice cream 'at reasonable price*, i Whether ioe cream was. introduced ?in?the-.UifTtCn States. by Nancy John: j son. <?r Dotty MatKaom. says this ar I title, it was first produced in qtyan- i j.tity in Baltimore by John Kiissell, 'before the Civil War, and artificaV' ice wrfs first mAde at Apalacbic-?la. Fla. Now the great dairy and ice ; cream industry is to be restored tat the place of prominence in the SoJthj which i.t occupied many years ago. The dairy industry, instituted over 3000 years ago by Abraham, U to i be featured in* tho^modern day, nro gressive South. . J ?Some idea of the ir.agnitude of i the ice cream end of ?he dairy busi- ' nes* alone, is given" by Government ; figures showing that fr&m ' 19X4 to'* 1921 it increased from $55#83, 00A to f I $213,^62 ,00<J! or 281 per cent; torn- j pared with <lf.3 pen cent in lumber Fnom 1914 to 19^3 it increased JlBfi j j per cont. . . ? I AlSo, the Department of AgrieUl-j ture aaya. tlmt the South i*- handi^i capped by "a onC-crop "Systejn which i forces many farmers , to borrow i 'iwtmey,", while ' the dairy industry j .will bo "profitable fn itself and will ? furnish i%th? farmer with ready cash throughout the year.'/ The farmers of Dallas county; AUrffiuna?L >Ybm [ the first creamery in hat state was , established, are satd to receive more i I h i > . i. ? ? fihoc1-, . . "V ROM) SELLS LARGE j AMOUNT OF TOBACCO Spite of Exceedingly Com mon Crop, Prices Held Up T- ~ VttyWell H _A_1_ \ AVERAGE $1350 SEASON ^Official figures compiled by Geo. j W. Walker, Secretary of the Rox* j boro Tobacco^ Beard of Trade, show that the Roxboro market sold for the season of 1935i2G" exactly. 4,-" 885,309 pounds wjuch brought a to tal of $572,484.92. The average lor th'e ^eaaon was $13.30 and this in cludes the encrmdus amount of scrap and ? other practically ? wnrfcMtfys*' 10 baecp which formed such a large part of Person County's cr ;p this seaspn. Those in position to know point .? out that the .prices prevail ing here were unusually gcod for Ihe . quality of tobacco offered. Weather conditions last summer in this County* were not at all conduct ive to the1 making .of a tobacco </rop but in spite of thi*, Roxboro was not at the bottom of the list by a "good deal. 'Prospects are much' brighter at this time for another crop. . WOMAN GIVES WARNING * Usually is 5s a woman who gives the Sheriff frhn tir> \cKirh- rf?*iilf? in breaking.* up "*&t mc moon-shirte busi ness. but it was just , the .reverse last Monday night. Sheriff Brooks mid Deputy. Gentry had information concerning :v plant dovvh.m Flat Riven township and made their way to investigate^ They stopped f leir c^r unpt began the 'se^rca* and w-icn drawing nigli the outfit a woman gr?c . in theiv err ami ;.; oceede"d to use the' horn to i;* u|nv;n cnvucUjr.' . thus- - \\>rmng the operator,'. iThey found the -till, which was tultuf^g out the real- tiling, but i,iom mndc their get-a-wav. The sti-h was of ahout^one hundred gallon -capacity, which was. destroyed. * v<: < This is the first stjjf they have captured in some tiir.*. >nd tfc .was 1 .'ill is l?usine.> s hint* been just about "topped in th:s . County, ? RARE ENTERTAINMENT ^ v Next .'Sunday- night at 7:30 the people will" have an " epjio-vumty to, rrnov. oar of the lr. i$t* 'Lit ere-1 imp; '-sewiccs of the season." Rev. W. F. West, pastor :t' the First Baptist Church, will give an ljlustrated lect ure. "Seeinp China Throuph the, Camera's Eye,'.' Mr. West was in the East for nine years and t.cok ; the pictures he will show. ^ n No "ofe will want to -miss this: lecture, for it will be interesting* and." instructive. This is the- first" of several Ieotufre?? he will- grjve. and he wants' it understood there is _no catch-money raising in. any of *.he lecturers. They are ' free and the pilbflic is cordially- invited. . .!J ROUS FOR APRI^L TERM OF COURT 192? _E. G. l*>np, W. II. Gentry. \V. T. James, Aubrey Lohgv Vt. L. C:jtes, K. II. .lames D. W. Lqg .better, W. A. Black. J. M. Long:, Geo. W. -Davis, '! G.- A. Tayl.r, .1. V. Brown. W. A. Wrenn. M. Cash, D. T. Day, J. T. Rirrtmer, C. F. Adcock. Z. V. Barn tftte. H. 'Perjcins, \I* L. Crabtree,' W. j C. " Warren, -T. I. Warren, Y. W Broach, C. A'. Jones, G. H. Moose, i Clyde Satterfifdd, O. j.* Yanhook, ; S. T* Slaughter, F. W. Howard, J. E. j Whitfield, G- , W. Q'Bryant, E. T. , Day, L. M. Burton, R. A. Peed, ?,' A. ! Snipes, and J. D. Coats.* REGULAR MEETING OF- PAR EN T -TEACH BR " "ASSOCIATION .TUESDAY ! The regular meetin^M^ 4rhe Parent- j Teacher Association Will be held nefct Tuesday, afternoon at 3:15 ?. nr. at the Graded School. Every mem ber of the Association is urged to be, .present aa murch important Ipiffleil. wiU come up at this meetjnir. ? : ? ? 1_ ' Wi lli SPENCER'S - ' ; Mr. F. C. Elliott, foynerly of Lynch^urff, has connected "himself^ with the Spencer's and will ^ave cliarpe of their- embalming depfirt -rwnf: ? Mr. KHiutt comes highly ? ve-' commended and will receive a hearty welcome from the tcood people of -thii-. Couatyi ? r'" - SERIOUS FLOOD AT . PENNSYLVANIA TOWN Damage Estimated From. Two And Half to Five Million S Dollars "7" * ' * CITY IS IX gARKNESS Oil Cily, Pa., March 22. ? X steadily ? rising rivers a drifczle of rain and a melting tenipiscaljjre combined to night to throw fear* into the heart* - of Oil City residents that the floo4 which already1 has driven 150 fami lies fxom*-their homea? and caaaedr damage estimated from twx> -and one? half to five millions of doliafs, wouldi reach a more serious stage by fco : morrow. The city tonight was in dark ness. and l6e movement thU aftef ?noon having torn aw'av a supporting wires that carried Vm porary power here f r.om Clarion. streets w^r^ pi trolled by more than four sdore special policemen, recruited from among the national guardsmen and members of? th? Am^rfcan Legfon. V^Kesideitljs driven from their homes by the rapidly rising water were be ing cared" for by friends, the Satva ti .n Army and the Red CrOss. The ) flood area tonight covered an area ten jii jcki long and four blocks widet taking in the heart of- the business section . The water was from, th ree to five feet deep artd approximately^. tw*? hundred* business places were \ flooded, ? Industry * generally throughout Qic^Hy was at a standstill today duj* to high water and lack ?of electric power. Newspapers were forced to ..cease (-ftiTufattan. Telegraph com panies were driven from .their ofl&erf ^ and established, temporary ; .head quarter? where operators worked by candlelight, v ~!r \ -o ' i ?. ? j , . Pvter ii, Kyne's '*TheC?incha!ited Hill" With . Jack Ho U an^ Florence Vidor at fjirface Theatre, .Monday & Tuesdap<Mnrch 30th.' \k Moving Picture! "Peter B. j^yne's. ''The- Enchanted Hill'* Palace Theatre. Monday ? Tuesday March 29? 30 th. OHl'RCH NOTICE ^Second./ Quarterly Conference 'at Oak Grove next Saturday. Preach ing a\t eleven. Lunch cn the ground. Bu^nes^ Session immediately follow ing luuch. On Sumiay, Bible School - at ten, preaching at eleven, follow ed by sacrhrnent of the Lord's Sup per. Dr. Bradshawt- our much loved Presiding Elder, is expected* to be with us. / Preaching at YVOodsdaJc at three thirty. Let 'fhery be a full attend ance at all the services, j. w. braolev. Pastor. "SAFETY FIRST" See the play, "Safety First," at Moriah: school buildinp -Saturday evening, March 27th, at 7:30 o'clock. .Everybody .ts'Kfo.rdially -invited. Come, you will enjoy the evening. CALL COMMUNICATION . Call Communication of Person I.odge No*. 113, A. F. &' A. M., March 3Qth, at 7:30 o'clock, P- M. AU blaster Masons are cordially invited Work in Master Mason Decree. Wm. W. MORRELL. W. M. A. .C. GENTRY, Sec. ' Roxboro Boys ^ Win Honor. The Athletic Awards Committee of the University met last Saturday and awarded the much cpvetod mono-' KTam a* a member of the Vanity members of varsity and freshaum aifctettr- team*. - ftmonjr rtw wUfrT~ ninrllir.^.littinin Wfif K. O. Thomp- "J. son who. received jnatio sTanis and numerals to thirty-piglit wrestling tea#i,' anfl Curtis H. Oali iey.'who. w awarded numerals of the freshman class ifi basketball. ?Both these boys were students of -tfte-RoTtboro Graded School and tliBtf many friends here will learn with i pleasure of theix suoceis at ~.th> roal??iiijr. ' . ? ?

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