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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
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.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
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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. ' . ? ?