or rtMJ HAVE A MESSAGE FOB | ALL OF THE PEOPLE PUT IT IN THE COURIER WHICH REACHES MOST OF THE PEOPLE. . oxo Co v -* ESTABLISHED 1ML PERSON COUNTY'S OLDEST AND BEST NEWSPAPER UNDER SAME MANAGEMENT AND OWNERSHIP FOR 46 TEARS. Eect People On Earth; Good Churches And Schools; Where Optimism Rules I. W. NOELL, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT 11.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. VOL. XL VIII. -J ' ' 1 ? * > ,V ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 22, 19SL NO. 29. Little Roxboro Boy Killed When Struck By An Auto Pete Kondagiania, 5, Struck While Crossing The Street Near His Home n ?. : : funeral services at FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH A most distressing accident hap pened here on last Friday morning, resulting in the death of ilttie Pete Koqdagiania, flve-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Angelo Kondaglania. Little Pete was crossing the street in front of his home on Depot Street when he was struck by a truck driven by Mr. Jame T. Thomas, a state highway employee engaged In hauling gravel to the road be ing constructed near the western ^^dge of town. little boy was rushed to Duke ^Tio.-,pital, but no hope was held out for him, and he died at the hos pital at 4:30 o'clock. His little body was brought here for burial. Fun eral services, held by the pastor of the Greek Church, of Raleigh, were conducted from the First Baptist Church, little Pete being a member of the Sunday School of this church. Interment was made in Burchwood cemetery. The driver of the truck, Mr. James T. Thomas, was given a hearing on yesterday morning before Mayor Dawea and was bound over to court in the sum of $500, which was promptly given and he resumed his duties with the highway com mission. Will Men Wear Washable Tunics Irvin Cobb recently sounded a battle cry which should find an echo in every masculine heart. "OemUemen, let's dress up fancy!" be said, and proceeded to describe Mme dress reforms for the male ?ex. Even the most aggressively male man has to concede the superior advantages of feminine summer time apparel which can be worn once or twice with cool comfort and then wash and freshened. But the hero who will make equally sensible clothing, acceptable to the timid masculine wcrtrld has not yet appeared. Although most men suffer in the conventional garb of heavy drab suiting, few of them hare the courage to do anything about It. Cobb advocates the Russian tunic made of cool, washable cotton, linen or dlk. "With its low collar, a side closing down the right front, and a belt, it would adequately and sen sibly cover a man's body and, best .Of all. would obviate the wearing of at and waistcoat, shirt and collar, "and sleeve- links, thus at one sweeping away a whole bat tery of his present sartoiial anti quities and botherments." he argues. The idea is inviting, but seems to need a Prince of Wales to put it over. Irvin Cobb has contributed a basically sound style and slogan. It's up to men in general to popu larise it Gentlemen, let's dress up fancy? and sensible! ^_coat ai K'mi QPtroke Sunday School Picnic The Sunday School of the First Baptist Church had a most delight ful picnic at Cluster Spring, Va? ? yesterday afternoon. The party gathered at the church, and it was a Jolly growd of youngsters, more than 350 strong. The school num bers nearly 600. and doubtless near this number would have been on ; hand but for the fact that Just be fore leaving time the town was vis ited with qne of the best, and most welcome . rains of the month. Many stunts, games, etc., were . pulled off, which came to a close j with a most bountiful picnic dinner. Hurdle Mills High School Is Retained It will be gratifying news to the patrons and friends of Hurdle Mills high school to know that the high school department will be continued. This was made possible by consolidating the high school de partment of Bushy Pork and Hur dle Mills The following teacher* will com- j pose the faculty: Rev. Joe B. Cur rin, principal; H. B. Gentry, H. D. Young Mis* Oella Hester, Mrs. Frank Brooks. Miss Alma Moore. Mias Bertha Cook and Mrs. Bailey Dlckerson. - o Three combines have been pur chased in lower Halifax County jmd another bought for fall delivery. - . ? . / ? ? 1 Win A Subscription To The Courier Mr. W. B. Humphries of Bethel Hill has left with us a bunch of oatrf, which he thinks is going to be hard to beat. They are 6 ft. 8 inches tall; he used no fertilizer on these oats, they were grown on land which had been in alfalfa. He is making this proposition: He will present to the man who brings to this office better oats than those he has brought one year's subscription to The Courier. .If you can beat him bring them in and we will pre sent ydu with a receipt for The Courier for one year. o Dr. Morris Opening A New Drug Store Dr. W. H. Morris, formerly man aged Of Miles Pharmacy here, is opening a new drug store at Bak ers in the building which has Just been.. completed for him. Dr. Mor ris is a live-wire and says he will give the people of that vicinity a drug store which will compare In j all respects with the best. In the same building will be two other establishments, Mr. W. K Moore will occupy one as a gro cery More, the other to be used as barber shop. Suffers Broken Shoulder-Blade ? While engaged in a friendly wrestling match late Saturday af ternoon, E. V. Boatwright sustained a broken shoulder-blade at the City Lake. A party had been fishing dur ing the afternoon and had return ed to the cabin where supper was being prepared; during the tussling a hard fall resulted In a double crack of Mr. Boatwright '? shoulder blade. The Injured shoulder was treated In Roxboro and later in Danville and while painful, is not now considered serious. roxborThigh SCHOOL WILL ADD NEW DEPARTMENT Will Teach Bookkeeping, Shorthand and Typewriting At Next Term Here MAY SUBSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGES A commercial department giving Instruction In bookkeeping, short hand and typewriting will be in ai.. Frltte of Tyro town ship In Davidson County harvested 567 bushels at barley, from seven , acres of land. California Girl Wej^^ooner of Ditties | ( I Rudy V&llee, idol of flappers, broke a million hearts, according to his presa agent, when he secretly married Pay Webb, of Santa Barbara, Cal., in New Jersey recently. STORM CENTERS AROUND DURHAM Greatest Damage Reported Near Durham Where Tor nado Sweeps Countryside BIG PLANE FORCED DOWN One of the most severe and pro longed electrical storms of the year visited Raleigh and vicinity yester day afternoon and night and brought with it an abundance of rain but failed to do any consider able damage except in the vlcln'.t7 of Durham, as far as could be de termined last night. A wind said to be of tornado ve locity was reported to have struck farmlands a mile east of Durham and to have done much damage to telegraph and telephone poles and small buildings. A passenger plane of the Eastern Air Transport Com pany, flying between New York and Atlanta, was forced down at Dur ham last night around 7 o'clock after going off Its courte from Rich mond to Greensboro to avoid a storm -it encountered when 100 miles south of the Virginia Capital. The high wind struck out of Dur ham yesterday afternoon around 3 :30 o'clock, and, ^gcording to re ports, badly damaged a number of small buildings. The wind, accom panied by heavy lightning and rain, appeared out of the southeast and clipped a path a quarter of a mile wide and half a mile long. No re ports of it having struck elsewhere were received here last night, al though an exceedingly strong wind was reported at Apex. The E. A. T. pasesnger plane, piloted by W. 8. Dawson, made a perfect landing in a recreation park near Durham. Two passengers, one bound for Greensboro and the other for Birmingham, Ala., accompan ied 'Pilot Dawson. The plane will continue to Greensboro this morn ing. Dawson piloted a Kingbird. Local offices of the telegraph and telephone companies encountered more than usual difficulties in maintaining connections along truck lines during the thunderstorms which visited the vicinity. The severe electrical disturbances which accompanied the three storms striking Raleigh up until late las* night kept employes cf the lino departments in each of the com panies busy ' replacing b!jwn fuses. One telegraph company reported that wind and lightning had crip pled its lines between Raleigh and Payettevllle but that it had occas ioned no trouble westward. The first storm struck Raleigh around noon yesterday. This dis turbance was followed by one lata In the afternoon and then still an other came two hours before dark ness and oontlnucd until late at night. The last two storms seemed to be more severe than the flnft anl a 25-mile wind blew for several minutes Just after 8 o'clock? Nfws & Observer. Death Of Mr*. Hart | The people of Roxboro sympathise ' with Mr. Prank Hart In the death of his wife, who died in Oxford last Sunday. Mr. Hart tt well known ' here, haying been connected wtth| the Carolina Power A Light Com pany. DECREASE SHOWN IN TOBACCO CROP ? -r? ? Food And Feed Crops In creased, According To Fig ures Released By Schaub COTTON ACREAGE LESS Food and feed crops have been increased and cotton and tobacco decreased In North Carolina this year, showing a remarkable spirit of cooperation on the part of farm ers working with the agricultural extension service and coming at least In part from the earnest ap- | t peals made in every county of .the j mate early in the year, Dean I. O. 1 Schaub of State College announced 1 today. | Dean Schaub based his tftate i ments on facts released by the ! I United States Department of Ag riculture on July 10. The figures show an increase in the wheat acreage this year from 343,000 acres in 1930 to 413,000 acres in 1931; an Increase in corn from 3,530,000 acres in 1930 to 3,631,000 acres this year; an increase in oats from 386,000 in 1930 to 303,000 acres this season; an increase in barley from 43,000 acres to 53,000; an Increase in rye from 89,000 to 111,000 acres; an in crease in hay from 874,000 to 990,000 acres; an Increase in soybeans from 338,000 to 394,000 acres and an in crease in cowpeas from 88,000 acred In 1930 to 145,000 acres In 1931. At the same time the tobacco acreage was decreased from 779,000 last year to 733,000 this year. In the old belt the acreage was de creased only about two per cent under last year but in the new belt the decrease went from eight to ten per cent. Mr. Schaub says the decrease of 18 per cent in the cotton acreage has already been reported. This Is a drop of 398,000 acres oeiow ine is?u crop, wo ac curate figures are available as to the great increase in gardens and truck crops though it is known that the early Irish potato crop was in creased by over 3,000 acres and the | sweet potato crop from 88.000 acres l last year to 115,000 acres this sea son. (About 1,000. acres were added to the alfalfa crop of the State this season largely for use as ft supple mentary feed for dairy battle, i In making these figures public, Dean Schaub says that five teams of agricultural extension specialists were put in the field early in the winter and worked across the State from the coast to the mountains. These workers carried with them I accurate facts about production in ? each county and promoted a slogan. ' "Farm to Make a Living in 183 1." I The facts of this effort are already 1 apparent, says the Dean, and he congratulate* the farmer* of North : Carolina on their determined ef , fort to balance production this year in the face of tremendous handi caps. L Card Of Thanks We are profoundly grateful to . our friends and neighbors who were so kind to us during our recent be reavement, the death of our darl lng boy. Pete. It was a great shock ' but the though tfulness of friends helped us to bear the burden. May Ood's richest blessings be upon each i and every one is our sincere prayer. Mr. and Mrs. Angelo Kondaglanla. CAROLINA FARMER'S AND FARM WOMEN'S CONVENTION WEEK To Be Held At State College Raleigh, Five Days, Be ginning Monday, July 27 )PFERS FARMERS A CHEAP VACATION By H. K. Sanders Although the North Carolina State College and State Department >f Agriculture welcomes rial tors any ,ime of the year, it has been the practice to have one week set aside lolely lor the purpose of providing i profitable and interesting pro gram for fanners and farmers' irives of the Stats. Farmers* and Farm Women's Convention, as it is called, has come to be known by thousands of North Carolina farm ers and farm women. As a result, it has become the state's greatest annual agricultural gathering. There wil be- no charges for rooms and for registration. The only charge will be for meals at 35c each. The North Carolina State College and State Department of Agricul ture desire to serve as many of the people of the state as possible. Farmer's and Farm Women's Con vention week is one opportunity to render this service. A cordial in vitation and welcome is extended to all who wish to attend. Anyone interested in obtaining a program of the short course and convention may obtain same by applying to Dean I. O. Schaub, State College Raleigh, N. C. . This will probably be the only opportunity that many farmers in Person County will have to take a few days vacation. Convention week offers a good opportunity foi many farmers to take a vacation al a cost of about $5.00 and at the same time get the latest informa tion on that phase of farming thej are the most interested In. o EXECUTRIX SELLS THE DAVIS DRUG CO. AT AUCTION Mr. M. B. Wood, Of Miami, Fku, Is Successful Bidder At Sale Here Monday MANY OUT OF TOWN BIDDERS COMPETE Nrs. E. M. Davis, Executrix ol the late E. M. Davis, who ownec the Davis Drug Company, sold th< business at public auction her< Monday at noon. The sale at tracted many and the bidding waj lively, the Successful bidder be Iris Mr. M. B. Woody, of Miami, Fla While the depression has hit Rox boro still the town has suffered eu little as any town we know of, ant the outsides, as evidenced by thi bidders, still .consider Roxboro t good place in which to do buslhess The Davis Drug Company Is on< of the oldest Arms In Roxboro anc has enjoyed a most liberal patron age. Mr. Davis had been the sole owner for many years and hii pleasing manners had enabled hiir to build jip a business which was to be envied, and it is not surpris ing that the sale should create more than passing interest. A Married Man's ? Seven Obligations Outstanding bills? Expenses in curred by death. Mortgage on home: Family support. Children's education. Help for dependent relatives. Income for old age. ' , Inheritance taxes. Have you met these obligations? B. B. Knight, Agent, Roxboro, N. C. Golf Tournament The golfers of Roxboro will go over to South Boston this after noon and have another came with South Boston. Boston won the flrct game by a dote margin and Rox boro golfers are going to try to bring victory here at this game. However, It to stated, the courte at Boston to rather difficult, being' new and not In the best of shape. THE CONTEST, "WHY I TRADE WITH THESE FIRMS" A SUCCESS Owing To Machine Trouble Particulars Not Given In_ Our Last Issue MRS. THEO CLAYTON won FIRST PRIZE This article was intended for our last issue, but as Stated owing to a break down we were unable to publish it The contest was a success from every standpoint and we believe every one is satisfied with results. , There were about one hundred re plies received, and many of them were of more than ordinary literary ability, but aS only six prizes were offered, many which were worthy of consideration failed to win a prize. The majority of the letters were written by ladles and it is note worthy that nearly one-fifth of these letters were from those who had been trading with Messrs. Ham- . brick, Austin & Thomas. The first prize, a ladies diamond ring, from J. W. Green 3.80. See advertisement In another