We ^Velcjome New Comers. J. W. NOELL. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. VOL. XL VI. A Good Town To Live In. "HOME FIRST,? ABROAD NEXT $L5d PER ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA^WEDNESDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 27, 1929. - NO. 9. ROXBORO MARKET AVERAGE $19; WILL CLOSE THURSDAY ?Crop Brought Only About Fifty Per Cent Of Last Year's ? Total Crop SOME OVER 5,000,000 SOLD ? The Roxboro Tobacco market will dose tomorrow, and While the farm ers really received more money for the crop than at first thought, still. It was a poor crop, tfeth In quality and ^ ,?pu?nttty. Ip 1921-48 this maffet sold ^ ?J 08.158 pounds for ?1. 722.944.90. av |B'-??aglriK $25.31. The crop for 1928-29 ^ Trtt1 "T"y he a little more than- Ave V million pounds, at an average ot a ' -lUtlle bettCT- th?v-418f -which If vou ?will figure out. }s only Just a little bit more than half what the crop the year before brought. The average for Roxboro Is better than that of most of the markets? but the crop was short and Inferior, hence the' farmers are shy In - this County nearly a miyilon dollats. A Lesson Extraordinary Interest Chapel -Exercises At Cen 4 tral ? Grammar School On last Friday morning the chil dren in the Central grammar School thoroughly enjoyed one of the most Interesting, most instructive, and most beautirul messages I have ever seen, -presented to a group of young peo ple. This message came in the form of an art lesson given by Mrs. R L. Wilburn In her pleasing, inspiring, helpful manner. As She painted a charming picture of. "The Dawn" she -not . only interested and instructed the pupils as to howto paint. a picture, ?but she interspersed her instructions with a well ordered discourse on the beauties and wonders of nature and on the goodness and love'^of God as manifest in the world about us' Her quotations from the Psalms and from ?familiar hymns that emphasize ttte divine message in nature were' timely . jind effectively given, . I think the children could- not fail to get a lasting lesson from the -pic ture and its accompanying discourse. The deduction to be made _by them was clear as Mrs. Wilburn patntetd at one side of the picture the wide road -that l?ads downward to destruction and then traced tiie narrow path of ?rectitude that leads from lower ground to the upper levels nf hieh?r ground, .?here to be enveloped In the dtst ?glories of a new-born day. This pic "ture-me^sage was concluded .as Mrs Kendall Street at the piano played the accompaniment softly and Mrs. Wil burn quoted effectively the words of the song. "Lord, plant my feet on higher ground." Truly, Mrs. Wilburn "has lifted ?11 of us to new heights of appreciation for the good, and ? the beautiful. O. C. Davidson. Car Destroved By Fire ' ' Mr. Nathaniel Warren had the mii fortune to lose his new Plymouth Automobile, which was completely de stroyed by Arc Monday morning. Mr. "Warren was driving on the Loch Lily Toad near the County h&me and had not gone far when he heard a pecu liar sputtering noise and before he hardly realized what was happening the Car burst into flames Being without any fire fighting means nothing could be done, only to loolc at It go up In flames. This Is quite a lom to Mr Warren as only a small ?mount of Insurance was carried on the car. Are You Engaged? Don't mis* "Wtss PerkliTs' Last En-* ?*empnl". Friday nl?ht. MKTch 1st at th" High School auditorium. Thla 1* an entertainment of genulnp fim and hilarious laughter. Elder Lee (Rev. Adams) Is In lore with MIX* Perkins, the teacher ( Miss" Collins) and that's where the fun begins. This inlay Is given under the auspices of the Parent-Teacher Association and the -proceeds will be used in equip ment- for the Mty schools. , Admission ?o ?id 35 cents. * ? Sharkey-Stribling Figh' If the air Is favorable the Sharkey Strtbllng fleht ,ln Miami. Fla.. Wed nesday? tonight. will be broadcasted b? Me** M^ri^s Sc Led better at theli place of business on Depot Street ntartlrt*d alreadv been passed by the House, ?tie measure becomes law upon the formalitv of ratification. The meas ure. makin? the tax on gasoline five cents a gallon, will take effect. ?r-ca1'ed administration measures -to run its course 1 through the Leiislature. In his inaugural address. Governor Oardner advocated an increase in the ?as->line tax fit five cents a gallon' as a means of relieving the burden of property taxes In the counties. Counties To Spend Money The measure provides for the added 1 .i.i uf vjri' iiMit a gallon, and'al.v.i the diversion nt $1,000,000 a year from the f cur-cent tftx, and the revenue from li cense -fees. Prom the extra tax an in-ome of S2.500.000 is anticipated. This will be supplemented bv 500000 from the regular funds, making about S3.000.000 a vrar to be pro-rated among the 100 counties of the State cn the basis of population and area, and upon the condition that each county 't;eijuce Its ad?alprem taxes for roads bv . an amount at least equal to its share "of this fund. The other $500,000 is to be used by the highway commission as an equal 'zitlg fund, withtout regard to county or district lines. '. * - - . . County Board To Handle Fund Fxoenditures of the county funds will be in the hands of county au thorities. but they will be required to ! disburse them on roads approved i$y the -State commission. The county aP lotments of the $3,000,000 run from 59.510 for Clay, the lowest to $64,420 for Wake, the largest. What Bill provides A fund of $3,000,000 will be set aside under the provisions of the bill to be apportioned among the counties of the state for road purpbses. in an effort j to reduce the advalorem road taxes. I An estimated revenue of $2,500,000 will accrue from the extra tax. and $500,000 wll be drawn from the regu lar fund to 'make up the $3,000,000 quota. ' In addition to this sum. another $500,000 will be taken from the reg ular taxes and used by the state high way commission as an equalizing fund Irrespectively of county or district lines. The money will be given to the counties on equal basis of population and area. lis expenditure is in the hands of county authorities. ?ub]ect_to_ the approval of the state -highway commission. * . | n First Baptist Church "And now abldeth faith, hope, char ity. these three; but the greatest of these Is charity*", I %Cor. 13:13. "Charity Is that National and con stant affection, which makes us sac rifice ourselves to the human race, as If we were united with It. so as to form one Individual, partaking equally In Its adversity and prosperity." ?Confucius Bible Schol 10:00 A. M. R. L. Wll burn, Supt. Preaching 11:00 A. M. Subject: PERSONAL EVANOEL.ISM Preaching 1:30 P. M Subject: MINDINO TOUR OWN BUSINESS B Y P. Us ?:.* P M. Miss Mabel James. Oeneral Director. A cordial welcome Is extended to all. W. r. WEST. Pastor. Rain Fall Mr. I. O Abbttt. who h?r rharge ?f the weather bureau for Roxboro. gives us the report for the rain fall In Rox boro for the quarter ending Feb. 1st. |i 1929; Por Oct. 37 Inches, for Nov. ,W, ^ tor Dee and lor Jan., 1939, 1 .14. PUBS' WIVES DIRECT BIG MARKETING ORGANIZATION - ? ? ? ? ?? v ' >? ? . : . ' ? . ; . .. "Mere Mart'"- Wasn't The -Mon opoly In Western Canada Farm Pool Regina, Saskatchewan, Feb. 25th ? ?? men have not the monoply lor dlreCTmg. large and successful - far m( rs' cooperative marketing orga nizations In Western Canada, where there are several such. Indeed they , haven't! The Saskatchewan Egg and j Poultry Producers. Ltd.. with a total membership of over 19000 and doing a gross annual turnover of' approxi mately $600,000. was organized by a : number of farmers" wives less than | three years ago; The first president j was Mrs. John Holmes, of Asquith. [ Saskatchewan, ana sne suu noias tne office by popular choice. Only two of the six members of the Board of ! Directors are men. They were elected I probably to prove that their is no sex ' superiority complex held by. the 1 overwhelmingly large jiumb'er of women In the membership of the , POOL ___ The Saskatchewan Egg and Poultry ' Pool was organized because, the far- 1 mers' wives regarded the system of In dividual selling ay Inefficient and un der It the full measure of profits was not going to the producer. A charge of is 1p9.de to. those Joining the Pool, one dollar of which is an organization lee. the ot!-?r dol lar Is for one share of stock in ths_l Pool. Members contract to deliver all their marketable eges and poultry as directetd by the Pool. Initial pay ments are ma'de to producers on de Heads Farm Pool _ Mrs. John Holmes, of Asquith, Saskatchewan, Is president of the. Saskatchewan Egg. and Poultry Pro ducers. Inc.; a cooperative- marketing organization In Western Canada, made up almost entirely of women.,. , livery, and the balance as soon as the products are sold and the over head charges are determined. All pro fits go to the members. Mrs. Holmes came to Western Can _ada in 1905 from the village of Oller ton. ^Nottinghamshire. England, with her husband. They settled at As quith, Sask.. in 1907, where they still live. :-"y " THOUSAND HOMELESS IN FLOODED AREAS Cold Weather. However, Expected To Cheek High Waters In Ohio Districts; Reminder- Of Flood Of 1913 Columbus. Ohio, Feb. 26. ? Cold weather tcniaht- was expected' to check the rampages of rain swelled rivers and streams that flooded several, sec tions of the state today, driving tKSus ands from their homes, imperiling the lives of many and causing consider- .! able damage everywhere. Scores of persons were rescued from precarlcus places where the flood had" driven them. No loss of life was reported. Although the total damage j was believed to be great, no estimate was available tonight. Smithfleld was hardest hit. The waters of Buck creek and Mad river crippled almost all the city's indus tries. flooded the business section, paralyzed traction and railroad serv ice., menaced the water supply and left the town with Intermittent light. The city turned to normal slowly to night after a day in, which almost all business was suspended and all but one of the town's schools were closed. ' Hundreds of persons living in the Buck creek valley were recued by city ] rowboats after they attracted atten tion by shooting guns and ringing bells. Two of three pumps at the | waterworks, put out of commission by j the high waters, were, back in opera tion tonight and electric service was again available. Traction service was resumed after the water receded from the streets but trains on the Big Pour and Erie railroads had to be re-routed I because of washouts. *, I Mr Hp: A. Noell Tenders Resignation Mr, P. A. Noell, , who has been di- 1 rector and general manager of the American Tobaoco Company at Dur ham, was tendered his resignation ! the same 1 4 take effect on the last day of UM month. Mr. TTWII lias'' been connected with the company for more than thirty years, and his re signation came as quite a surprise, j Mr. Lipscomb, of Louisville. Ky.. has been appointed to have charge of the tobacco buying end. but no * further announcements have been made. Wilson's .Widow To Get Money Washington. Feb. IS.? Mr* Edith Rolling Wilson, widow of Presi dent Woodrow Wilson, would be granted an annul pension of SS.0M for the remainder of her Ufe under a MU pawed tonight by the hoose and aent to the aenat*. ? ' ? ? *? ? ? ? ? ? In 1853 0*nf Ulysses 8. Orant was ,one of the Northwest's first gardeners when he planted a patch of potatoes at Vancouver Barracks, Vancouver. l-WMtu- : Yellow Springs, seat of Anticch Col lege. was threatened with a water rhcrtag? as pumps in the waterworks were forced out of commission by the backwash . of the Little Miami river. Water held in the reservoirs was all that could be counted on and it was feared the pumps could not be put back in operation for. s'everal days. Twelve persons who had- gone to pn island at t^he mount of Rocky river near Cleveland to gaze at an ice Jam were placed in grave danger when the jam suddenly broki as preparations were being made to dynamite It. The rushing water crushed against the island and threatened to destroy a dance hall, where, the ^elvc per sons took refuge, but- suddenly re ceded and made rescue possible. Throughout the southern part of the state the inflated streams brought to mind the flood stages of 1913 when several hundred lives were lost in the Miami river valley. Several localities reported higher stages today than in 1913. In the Miami valley between Sidney and Hamilton, the five basins In the MJpmi conservancy district held the flood waters In check and no damage was feared there. At Hamilton, however, more than 100 persons were taken from their ! homes in the lowland districts when tjie Miami got out over Its banks. -Ma rooned farmers were taken to safety during the day but towards evening the water began to recede. Garner Girl's Team Defeat Local Girls One of the moat Interesting games of the seasofi was staged here las* night between the Oarner girls and the local team. The final score re- 1 suited In the covetad high score fall Irrtr to the visitors by one point. In the last half, the Roxboro gljLs did some real playing but Oarner was a little aread. The official sc :>re was 15-14. Return From Florida Moss Pj W. Ledbettetr, C. D: Mor- ' ton, jasper , T. Burch and Traynham Mitchell, who have been In Florida for the past two week^ have returned hopie , . ? >? ' -? o ? Woman's Club Meeting > ? The regular monthly' meeting of the Woman's Club will txr held in the club rooms Monday. March 4th. at 3 p.- TO A fuU Attendance U ur*o4 President The Romans were not artistic but I they were wonderful mechanics, en- j Hinwrii and builders." - i 4 MRS. C. H. HUNTER DIED THIS MORNING Il*d Bern III For Lone Time: Death Wu No Surprise Mrs- C. B. Hunter, age 69. died at twelve-thirty o'clock this morning at her home on North Main Street. She had been ill lor a long time, possibly lor two years, and her death was no surprise, She was a devout Christian, a faithful member of Edgar Long Memorial Methodist Church, and unl- . verSally loved by all. She is survived by her husband, and one daughter. Mrs. Mafy Hunter Long. Funeral services will be conducted from the home at 10 o'clock Thurs day morning, with her pastor. Rev. T. A. Sikes, In charge. ^ LAST CAU FOR LESPEDEZA SEEDING Meeting Will Be Held At Court House Saturday, March 2. At 2:30 P. M. The last meeting in interest of that great soil building legume, Lespedeza, will be held at the courthouse Sat urday. March 2. -at 2:30 P. M. Every farmer should try to buy a bushel of lespedeza seed, fertilize same with about 300 p?unds superphosphate, or Basis Slag, per acre, and save the seed this fall from the seed patch. By doing this, you will not have to buy seed' every spring when seed are high and the tobacco cropls bad. Lespede za Is a' splendid pasture and soil build ing plant. ' It will grow on' land too acid for Red Clover to thrive. Lime stone on the land will make lespedeza grow much better, however, it will make all legumes gfow more lux uriantly. . Where grain is on the land, lespe deza- should be broadcast at the rate of a bushel per acre and allowed to '?amain fur t?n VfHW ThV-11 r-rvi-n r,V a small grain crop, can follow in the rotation, and the yield per acre should be greatly increased. In fact, records are on hand in Alamance county. N. C . where the yiekUwa^? in creased more than twenty bushel? of corn per acre after lespedeza had been on the land for two years- - If this is not worth working for, when it can be grown so cheaph* then we haVe b?^j) outguessed, if we will set aside an J acre of land for the regular* seed patth and grow our own seed, we will have the seed to sew next spring on the grain crop and some to spare for the old cow pasture which npeds renovation. The counties around us are ordering seed by ? the thousand bushels instead of by the single bushels, and if we are to keep in sight of our neighbor ing counties, we must not let them get too far ahead of us. Last year, forty-six men sowed les pedeza for soil building work and pastures, while so far, about thirty six have . ordered seed. Our last year's record must be beaten If we expect to go forward. Every year that you put off starting a systematic crop ro tation on your land Involving the sowing of legumg, crops for greater wheat, oat and corn production, you are losing Just one year of valuable time that will never return. Make that land on your farm rich, where you know that tobacco will not grow, and keep It rich. Corn or other grains may not be such a big money making crop, but it certainly is a big money-saving crop. The mas ter farmers of Iforth Carolina never forged themselves to the front by buy ing feed and all kinds of grain for their livestock, but they raia?d_iL_at li'jme. FTo farmer can object to his land producing forty bushels of grain per acre instead of twenty or less, yet such lands do not Just happen. They must have the cooperating hand' of the farmer. Mr. S. J. Kirby will .4^eak for 45 minutes on this wonderful plant, that Is ours to use. #t 2:30 P. M. Saturday.1 Mr. Kirby was expected to be here Feb. 2nd, but due to a mlstunder standlng. he was in Edgecomb Coun ty. When the bell rings In the tower at 2:15 Saturday, wend your way up the stairsteps to x'ptjjd one hour and get started to maljn? your land fit for a profitable production. Postpone Music And Box Party The muflc program and box party ?ttiat was scheduled for Friday night of this week at. Hurdle Mills School has been postponed until Friday night of next-waek. which wil be on March 8th. This postponement Is rendered necessary by the fact that one of the lingers has a conflicting duty of he did not know when the anonunce date. "M- "l*'" TlWf ri>wat~tta*auiKj Joe B. Currtn, Prin. ? ? a ... i Borti, twin boys, to Mr. and Mrs. -Boy Jordan. February. . 3Btfa. : . c GARDNERS WILL SEE CEREMONY .. AT WASHINGTON Governor Reconsiders Decision Not To Attend Hoover's. Inauguration ? TO BE IN LINE OF PARADK Raleigh. Feb. 2fl? YtHding td-nrgent requests from the North Carolina So ciety and ihdlvidual North Carolinians in Washington. Governor O. Ma* Gardner yesterday teconsidered his decision not to attend the inaugura^ titon of President-elect Hoover, the nrst Republican since Grant to receive the state's electoral vote. ? On January 15 Governor Gardner, responding to an Invitation from the Presidential Inauguration Committee-.' announced that he had declined the invitation to attend the exercises upon the occasion of the inauguration o? President Hoover. ' , ' Recently, however, there has come strong pressure from Washington urg ing the Governor to accept, as there are to be 30 governors present and the line of parade Is to be formed in the order in wliich the several States entered the Union, thus placing North Carolina twelfth In line. The Governor and Mrs. Gardner have de cided to accept and will leave -Raleigh Saturday evening. March 2nd. Announcement Mr. Dawes And Miss Coe Married Last September The folio win? announcement re ceived here last Sunday mnrniny cama as quite a surprise to their many lriends: Mrs. Sarah Hughes Coe announces the marriage of her daughter. Vera Mildred, to Mr. Redmcnd Blanford Dawes, on September the second, nineteen hundred ana twenly-clgAl, at Lyfichburg. Va ? . For nearly six monfhs this popular couple has been living here and no one suspected that they had stolen such a march on the public. Mts. Dawes is' teacher of mathematics in th? hi?h school. -and is decidedly pop ular. Mr. Dawes is trie worthy Mayor cf ? the town, and is one of our most respected citizens. They will make their, home here. Big Rain Tuesday In some respects the past winter, or rather faU'and winter has been about the" driest we remember of. Tuesday cf this week; this long dry speU was brought to a close. The entire day was Somewhat wet until around four o'clock the heavy dark clouds began to pour forth the much needed rain and for some thirty or forty minutes Roxboro was drenched In the heaviest rain we have had in several months. After the rain ceased sufficient for pedestrians to continue their rounds, the street showed up with the clean est appearance that they had shown since we have had p&ved streets. Edgar Long Memorial Let us remember thfct It. was for our sak.es, ?n