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TOO HAVE A MESSAGE FOB OF TUB PEOPLE PUT IT IN THE COUVER WHICH REACHES MOST OF THE PEOPLE. ESTABLISHED lttL PERSON COUNTY'S OLDEST AND NEWSPAPER. UNDER SAME MANAGEMENT AND OWNER8HIP FOR M TEARS. J. W. NOELL, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. VOL. XL VIII. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 1931. Best People On Earth; Good Churches And Schools ; Where + * ? ' Optimism Rules 11.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. NO. 27. Somerset Mills Practically . - - ? ,.f ? Doubling Its Capacity An Interesting Sight To See How These Famous Towels Are Made INSTALLING 10<f LOOMS One of the busiest places to be found In Roxboro Just now Is Som erset Mills. This plant has peen in operation here for about five years, with Mr. W. H. Klnkead in charge, and Mr. Charlie Harris sec rrtary Pew people here realize JuSt what this mill is doing, and a trip through the mill is a revelation. They make the finest towels manu factured. in fact they practically have no competition, for they do not make the cheaper grade, but spe cialize on a grade found only in ?their plant. ^?*Mr. Geo. W. Kane, the contrac ^Tor, is Just completing an addition to the mill which practically doub les its capacity, and new looms are being Installed which will more than double the output. Mr. Kln kead, who came here when the mill first begun operation, tells us that he to more than pleased with the help he has secured since com ing here; he stated that more than fifty per cent_of the operatives who began with the opening of the mill j to still with him, and he has never ' bad the slightest labor trouble. This fact gives the reason for the successful operation and accounts j for the small number of seconds to be found at this plant. While Mr. Klnkead is what we down this way term a "yankee." he I to most humane and his help all | look upon him as a friend. He j knows his help by their first name : and in going through the plant with hinwt to refreshing to hear him call | them by name. A large number of the operatives, largely young ladles, ate from the country homes near the mill and live with their par ents. and a finer, more refined body of young ladies can not be found I in any plant. ? , NOTICE TO LANDOWNERS Notice is hereby given that the j Board of County Commissioners will meet at the court house on Monday, July 13th, to act || a Board of Equalization and Review to consider requests for changes in valuations of specific parcels of real estate. No general cut can be made this year but the Commis sioners can correct inequalities be- j tween individual taxpayers and it to to hear complaints of this na ture which is the purpose of this j meeting. Any complaining taxpay er to urged to present his complaint j at this meeting because the Com- ] oners have no authority to ?make changes in real property val ^ uation after that meeting's final ?djournm&nt. W T. Kirby, Clerk to the Board. ? to- ? o? ? ? Georgia s Tobacco Crop 60 Per Cent! A local tobacconist has received a letter from an operator of a to bacco warehouse in Georgia Stating that the estimate now Is that Geor- : fla will make only seventy million pounds of tobacco this season com pared with one hundred and ten ; million pounds last year. The writer stated that the great reduc tion la due to drought, cut worms and reduction of acreage. The. warehousemen, the writer said, are urging farmers to leave the lo#er leaves of tobacco on the ground, as they would hav* a ten dency to lower the price of th# better grades. Pilot Increases 25 Per Cent Over Last May IMlcation that conditions in Dixie are reverting to a sounder basis are seen In the report Just received by B. B. . Knight. Pilot Life Insurance Company special agent here, that the May Kfe insurance production of his company increased 25% over May 1830. Pilot Life, a strong time-tested home company, now has assets of '(13,576.644.06 pnd has more than $100,000,000 Insurance In force. ? The Inter-Ocean Casualty com pany paid Mr. Henry Lee Crowe! 1 $50 on a flO automobile accident policy he has with Knight's Agency KNIOHTTS INB AGENCY. o Dance each Saturday night at Rlverview Park. Halifax, Va Rotary Met At Aycock School The Roxboro Rotary club met I last Thursday afternoon at Ayctxfc. | school, the ladies of the Parent Teacher association served lunch, i It was a most enjoyable meeting and the dinner could not be surpassed. This was the first meeting for the new president. Rev. W. F. West, and he and the program committee were most happy on this occasion. During the month of June the club met in the Woman's club room, served by the ladles of the Presby terian church. The club will meet tomorrow afternoon at Hotel Jones In the regular club room. While I the club enjoyed the meetings with the tPresbyterial ladies it is glad to get back home, where it will meet regularly hereafter. Competitor Paid There are several grocery stores in our town and one of them has difficulty In meeting its expenses. It Is only a question of time until It will cease to exist. \ Just two doors away is another store which does a very profitable business. When talking with the proprietor of this store, he said: "The weakest argument I know is for some merchant to tell the peo ple that he doesn't advertise because it costs him too much money. 1 1 spend $180 a year in advertising. But I don't figure that It comes out of my cash drawer. I think it J is paid by the competitors who do not advertise. I'm getting new cus tomers right along through my ad- I vertising, and some of them are coming to me from stores within a block of Here that brag about the fact that the ydont need to adver tise because everybody knows them." ?Meredith's Merchandising Agency. AGREE^NWAR DEBT HOLIDAY President Hoover Announces Acceptance Of His Plan In Principle By All Powers ALL DETAILS TO BE WORKED OUT LATER Washington, July 6. ? President i Hoover announced tonight that, his j proposal (or a one-year suspension o( war debts and reparation pay ments has been accepted in prin ciple by all the Important creditor governments. To all intents, the proposal, which may make history, went into moral effect when the President, standing with his right hand thrust in his trouser pocket, read his announce ment to newspaper men. . The plan is effective as of July 1. Details remain to be worked out. A committee of experts, with an American observer, will settle^ these details. Itoey will be instructed as the President had Insisted, to reach their agreement within the spirit of the President's plan. This spirit, briefly, is to glrj CM-many a real one-year holiday from her staggering reparations burden. Behind this idea is that by saving Germany from her immin ent financial collapse, and In turn ] by relieving European governments KeneraJly"bf war debt payments for one year, the world may be helped out of its economic depression. Comes Suddenly. Pot lfl days the President has worked, to the exclusion of nearly | all other business, on his debt plan. The end came suddenly, after a series of conferences in Paris, with ! Secretary of Treasury Andrew W. ' Mellon as chief American negotia tor. There was a series of tele phone conversations between "Mel lon and the White House also. The result was the dispatch of a French note which, the President said,, accepted his plan In principle. There was compromise on both sides. Prance has receded from her original stand materially. The President was willing to offer every possible concession, desiring t o njake the debt holiday a friendly one and realising' the sacrifices Prance was forced to make. He In-, sis ted only that the debt and re parations holiday should be a real one. and this point his announce ment indloated he had won. The President's announcement to newspaper men summarised the (Continued on page four) METHODIST PLATFORM DEMANDS DEFEAT OF ALL WET CANDIDATES . ? Says Eighteenth Amendment Greatest Social Enactment Of Any People Lake Junaluska, July 5. ? It Is the "inalienable right of every member, minister or laymen, to oppose and vote against any candidate," who fails to stand for prohibition and other principles approved by the Methodist Episcopal church. South, the board of temperance and social Service reiterated here today In Its platform of policy for the church for the ensuing year. The platform was drawn up and adopted at a meeting of the board during the past week and was an nounced at a mass meeting here this morning as the conference un der the auspices of the board end ed. Ministers and la.ymen from throughout the south attended the board meeting, which was . presided over by Bishop James Cannon, Jr. Social Enactment "The eighteenth amendment Is the greatest social enactment of any people of any age for the protec tion of society from the Indulgence of the individual." the platform said. "The amendment puts the brand of the criminal upon the traffic in intoxicating liquors in every state and territory under the flag, and the social conscience of the nation caused this action to be taken. "We reiterate, the Episcopal ad dress of 1930, adopted by the gen- I eral conference, 'the church does stand as the eternal enemy of un righteousness of every name and form and we should let It every where be known that whenever any institution or organization becomes the friend and patron of the liquor traffic or encourages the violation of the prohibition amendment, the Methodist Episcopal church will be found in the future as in the past battling against Iniquity and on the side of personal and public right eousness." Under four main heads, prohibi tion. home and family, economic problems and war and peace, the platform of policy urged every Methodist to Subscribe to the prin ciples laid down by the committee, whose duty "Is to set forth and to bring to fruition as far as possible i the principles of the kingdom of heaven on earth." Mention Smith- Raskob As the concluding section; of the position on temperanoe and prohi bition the platform mentioned no names but referred to the Smith Raskob program of state s rights by declaring "our invincible, unchange able determination to oppose the proposition which has been made by influential political leaders to adopt an amendment to the con stitution for the purpose of allow ing states to determine for them ( Continued on page four) John D. Rockefeller To Observe Birthday New York, July 7. ? On the eve of his 82nd birthday John D. Rockefeller was feeling "fit as a fiddle" tonight and grateful to friends who are showering him with birthday greetings from all over the world. He wished them "health and con tentment" in a statement Issued through his public relations coun sel here. Mr. Rockefeller is at his Pocan tico Hills home. There will be a gathering of his immediate family at dinner tomorrow, his representa tives said. . o Co. Commissioner* ' In Regular Session The Board of County Commis sioners were in regular session Monday. In the matter of adver tising delinquent taxes the board i again showed their desire to help In these depressed times by post poning the sales for taxes for an other month; that is, the list will not be published until August first. The question of granting license for pool rooms came pp. and the Board decided to grant license to Mr. N. V. Brooks and W. O. Clayton ?The board will meet next Mon day and hear complaints as to valuation, as will be seen from no tice elsewhere. The greater part of the semlon was taken up with the usutf audit at bills and ac counts. Invited Chiefs*? Mayor, to Eat Cherriea ' I Maxlne Weaver, 17, of Traverse City, Queen of the Michigan Cherry Blossom Festival, gave the "World's Fair Mayor" a double reason for attending the fete. Person Coming'To The ;? Front as a Wheat Raiser ~7 ? ? * ~ 4 Jalong Team Going Strong; Win 2 More V ? Jalong baseball nine defeated Bakers Mill team Saturday in a fast and interesting game. The final score being 8 ? 7. Both teams did heavy hitting, al though the Jalong boys did the heaviest. H. Slaughter led the team, getting fouT hits out of five trips to the bat. These hits Included two triples, one double and one single. Jim Allgood hit a home run in the eighth inning, which did the visit ing team no good. D. Slaughter pitched for the winning team, while O. Gentry pitched fine ball for the losers. Mebane came to Jalong with a fast team, but the Jalong team proved too strong for them. Claude Wilbom pitched for Jalong, while Jobe tossed for Mebane. William fanned eight batters, Jobe fanned six. K. Bradsher hit a home run for Mebane. The Jalong players are doing some good playing thtt season. This makes eight g^mes the Jalong nine have won, losing only one. Jalong plays South Boston to morrow at South Boston. South Boston plays at Jalong Saturday. o ROXBORO COURIER OFFERS SEVERAL PRIZES IN CONTEST Prizes On Display In Window Of Hambrick, Austin & Thomas Drug Co. In keeping with It's policy of pre senting new and interesting fea tures for the readers the Roxboro Courier is offering with this Issue a new and interesting contest en titled "Why I Trade With These Business Firms," which will be found on another page of this issue. Readers of The Courier have the opportunity of entering this con test and competing for the valuable prizes offered, among which are: A diamond ring from J. W. Green & Son., five dollars In trade 'with Crowell Motor Co., a book of tick ets from the Palace Theatre, four dollars in trade with Cheek# 4c Woody Furniture Co, and a crate of assorted drinks from the Lime Cola Bottling Works. Readers of Hie Courier are in vited to write a letter of not more than one hundred words giving their reason* for trading with some particular business Arm represent ed in this contest. Winners will be announced in best week's issue. For full details see this feature esewhere In this issue. - ** Win* Scholarship N Mr. 8. F. Nicks, Jr., who has just completed his second year law course at Duke, has been awarded a scholarship worth 4360 for Ms third year. Mr. Nicks is a son of Rev. and Mn. 8. F. Nicks, and his parents have Just cause to be proud of their son. ) 1 Mr. John D>. Winstead Aver ages Nearly 40 Bushels To The Acre OTHER LARGE AVERAGES ? It has not been very many years When nearly every farmer would tell you that wheat could not be grown in this County. If we mis take not it was our good friend, Mr. C. B. Brooks, who first convinced every one that wheat could be grown here. He had a few acres near his house which he prepared, and prepared Tight, for wheat, and when it was harvested he proved that wheat could be grown here. Today many farmers are' raising wheat, and raising It successfully, that is, making money out of it. Probably the largest yield reported is by Mr. Qeo. B. Harris, who is said to have raised over 700 bushels. We tried to get in touch with Mr. ] Harris to find out more about' his crop, but failed to find him. The largest yield per acre is re ported by Mr. John D. Winstead. who from an eight-acre field thresh ed 310% bushels. However, this was not Mr. Winstead's entire crop, as he threshed out altogether 436 blushels, with the crops from two other places yet to be threshed. Mr. Giles Crowder probably has the best record for averages, as he made an average of 33 bushels per acre for his entire crop. Mr. C. G. Daniel threshed 370 bushels from a sowing of U bushels. Prom every section corner good reports of the wheat crop, and we would not be surprised that the County will raise enough bread to furnish it this year, something new for the County. Regardless of to bacco and its price there will be more farmers living -at-home this year than ever before, and there will be fewer failures likewise. Please Take Notice ? ? ? ? _ ^ ! On last Monday tfie Board of County Commissioners again post poned advertising the delinquent tax notioes. The Commissioners have been just as lenient as pos sible with all who are in arrears with their taxes, but this will be the last postponement and unless you pay during this month your taxes will be advertised. Please see me and settle your taxes, (or I surely do not want to Impose any costs upon you. Do it today. . M. T. CLAYTON, Sheriff and Tax Collector. . o A Correction In our report of the accident which happened to Prof. Davidson we stated the car was driven by a negro man, who was seriously in jured. This was an error, as the ! driver was a white man, who was seriously injured; the negro who was riding with him was not hurt. White .vs. Jones . Come to Hurdle Mills auditor ium Saturday night, July 11th, at ?:15 and see a real "Breach of j Promise Case." Twenty-tww negro characters. Come and enjoy an evening of fun. Admission 10 and 30 cents. BASE BALL FANS HAVE GREAT TIME IN WASHINGTON ^ ? ? ? p Prilliman And Taylor Have Connie Mack And Players Autograph Base Balls i i ' r FHlfcTEEN ATTEND GAME * Hiere were more of the sporting fraternity In Washington for the week-end from Roxboro than we have ever known. Philadelphia was playing there both Sunday and Monday and it was too good an op portunity for the boys to miss. The following composed the party: Gene Thomas, Arch Jones, Henry Gates, B. O. Clayton, James Clay ton, Bin Moore, Mr. Camel, Pete Sergeant, Preston Satterfleld, Jr., Barksdale Smith, G. L Prilliman: Clyde Bowen and D. R. 'Taylor. Every one enjoyed the trip, but Jake Taylor and Glp Prilliman pulled one on the boys, as they came home each the possessor of a base ball with the autograph of the following: A1 Simmons,. George EarnShaw, Lefty Grove, Waite Hoyt, Mickey Cochrane, Jlmmie Foxx. Rube Walberg, Ray MahafTey and Connie Mack, the manager, and Wm. Gleason. coach. Jake says they all seemed to be glad to accommodate them, espe cially Connie Mack, who did it with ? smile. Y. T. H. F? in Raleigh Mr. A. G. Bullard accompanied three Young Tar Heel Farmers, Manning Bishop, W. R. Hayes and Riley Tuck, to Raleigh on Thurs- ! day and Friday, July 2nd and 3rd. where they took part in the an nual conference of young farmers. Mr. Riley Tuck spoke on the sub ject of Co-operative Marketing, and won seventh place in the State- wide speaking contest. DEATH OF MRS. I FOUSHEE SUNDAY Succumbs To Stroke Of Pa ralysis Suffered about Ten Days Ago Mrs. Mary A. Foushee, widow of Mr. H. D. Foushee, died at her home a few miles west of Roxboro, on Sunday afternoon at 5:30. Mrs. Foushee suffered a stroke of para lysis about ten days ago and never rallied. Mrs. Foushee was a de vout Christian, a faithful member of Leas Chapel Methodist church. She leave6 two daughters, Mrs. O. B. McBroom of Roxboro, and Mrs. R. A. Jackson, of Durham; one son, Mr. James R. Foushee of Rox boro, R. 1. - t Funeral services were conducted from the home Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, by her Pastor, Rev. W. L. ManeSs, assisted by Rev. W. F. West. Interment was made in the old Walton burying ground. The pall bearers were: Messrs. C. L. Foushee, Otis Tillman, Wal lace Foushee, Norfleet Wreen, Theo Clayton and Robert Foushee. Flow er bearers were: Mesdames Vaughan Mitchell. Elftfca Wade, Foy Wrenn. Ruth Allen, Ruby Clayton, Etta Burch, Misses Tlielma Clayton. Mary Wrenn, - Elisabeth Foushee, Omega Foushee, Margaret Jackson. Jessie Tillman, Annie Clayton, Mrs. Rattle Kirby and Maude Blackard. Visiting Hours For Jail Designated The Board of County Commis sioners have made visiting hours at the Jail as follow*: From 9 to 10 in the morning, and from 2 to 3 in the afternoon during the week. On Sundays the hours will be from 2 to 4 p.m. The sheriff and jailer were ordered and Instructed not to allow visitors in the ]ail except at these hours. ? o Capt. McDonald Here Capt. McDonald, prison evange list, who is giving his time without pay to visiting the prison*, was a Roxboro visitor yesterday. During the past mdrfth he has vzlted 41 prisons, and talked to the Inmates.' Capt. McDonald is doing a worthy work and should receive the sup- ; poet of mil interested in welfare work. ?*- ?? ? o? ^ It' has not been scientifically as certained that moths can smell. . 270 PERSONS ARE 1 DEAD AS NATION CELEBRATES 4TH Drowning hepds With Toll For Day At 109; Only 6 By Fireworks IS HIGHEST IN YEARS At 270 lives the nation counted the cost of Its 155th Independence day celebration. With all sections of the country sharing In the price of the annual Independence observance, the high est loss of recent years was reached. The midatlantlc states led with 62 lives lost but the mldwestern states were but a step behind with 61. Fireworks, once the major cause ?" ' for fatalities on the holiday, -this . year accounted for only six lives; two in the midatlantic, one each in the midwest, the southwest, south and New England. But the injured from explosives totalled at least 368. Many Are Drowned The lakes and rivers enacted the grimest reckoning. Though much of the country was free on the fourth, from the severe heat wave which last week counted Its victims at nearly 1300 dead, it was warm enough that rivers and lakes were thronged. One hundred and nine lives were lost in drownings. The Pacific coast reported 27 of this number, 17 occurring at Los Angeles alone where a surging tide swept over crowded beaches. Four men drowned In Lake Michigan near Gary, Ind., In an attempt to res cue a youth caught in a vicious undertow. The youth was saved by lifeguardSmen. The Jammed highways of the nation took 96 lives in automobile accidents as compared with 81 last year. Airplane fatalities, however, increased to eight? three in the the midatlantlc, the same number in the midwest and two in the mountain states. The mountain states offered the best sectional record, for their death list from all causes was eight. Oklahoma's holiday dead includ ed three In a freight train wreck at Durant and one in a shooting at Seminole. In"Colorado an auto mobile racer was killed. Comparative Table July 4 Fntnllttrn Year Total Year - Total l?28 205 1929 159 1930 178 1931 376 CIGARETTES ARE POPULAR SMOKE Washington, July 6. ? Contrary to the usual tendency during a period of depression there has been but a slight decline In the use of cigarettes during the past eleven months while the sale of manufac tured tobacco, as Indicated by fed eral tax payments, had slumped heavily, according to figures of the internal revenue department. In May there was an Increased production of cigarettes "lor the first time in many months, 10,447, 680,000 cigarettes being put on the market ? a gain of 147, 000,000 /M0 over the same months last year. Some experts attribute the heavy use of cigarettes to the fact that tobacco in this form is consumed by women who do not care for pipes or to "roll their own." In eleven months tax amounted to $324,388, 700, a drop of $175,200 as compared to a total tobacco tax of $402,467, 800, a drop of $5,162,800. The manu factured tobacco tax was $53330,600 for the 11 months, a decrease of f $1,981,000. ' ? -O A Product of the Wise Thousands of years ago Pharoh, King of Egypt, built huge storage warehouses to ward o0 suffering In the time of famine. Man has Im proved on this Idea by placing money tn a life insurance company to ward off poverty in his old age and to protect his loved ones. In selecting a company, select a home company, a company that has a contract for every need, for every age, a company that 1* familiar to every one? "The ?J efferson Stan dard." Ill gladly tell you more about thfe necessary protection. You set the day and time? 111 be there. 8ATTERFTELD INS. AGENCY - 3 "Old and Tried" S. JP. Satterfield, Walter O. James, I. O Thompson o Dance each Saturday night at
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