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IF IOC HAVE A MESSAGE FOR ALL OF THE PEOPLE PUT IT IN THE COURIER WHICH REACHES MOST OF THE PEOPLE. Boxbm'0 Ccmricf ESTABLISHED 1HL PERSON COUNTY'S OLDEST AND BEST NEWSPAPER. UNDER SAME MANAGEMENT AND OWNERSHIP FOR M TEARS. Best People On Earth; Good Churches And Schools; Where Optimism Rules J. W. NOELL, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. VOL. XL VIII. ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1931. NO. 35. Eastern Belt Opens With Prices Low DISSATISFACTION AT BID ON LEAF HEARD FROM MANY FARMERS I Average Of Around $8 Per Hundred Paid At Opening Of 17 Markets Hllllu. On Some Of The Mar kets There Was Lively Bidding And Prices Showed An Upward Trend; Uv Grades Bring Very Low Price And Good Grades Not Selling FVw The Amounts That ^Farmers Think They Should \ ?hyc; Offerings Are Larger On Row Markets Than They Were Last T<ar, Bat On Others Smaller Prices ranging from an average of $6.10 to slightly under $8. a hun dred weight were paid for tobacco on the 17 North Carolina markets in the New Bright leaf belt which opened yesterday. Farmers, generally, expressed dis satisfaction at the bids, holding that the offerings were superior in quality to those on last year's open ing break while the price ranged from $1. to $3. a hundred pounds less. A number of growers turned the tags on their piles in ware houses where the price range was low. Wilson, the world's largest to bacco market, was one of the few points reporting a higher average than prevailed on last year's open- ; tag. Sales there totalled 503,526 pounds at an average of $7.82 com pared with an average of $7.65 paid last season for 480,496 pounds. Voice Dissatisfaction. Despite this improvement grow ers expressed dissatisfaction a t prices paid and Indicated they in tended to wait on the market to improve befor^offertag any great amount of the remainder of their crop. No leaf had been placed In [ the warehouses tonight for tomor row's sales there. Unofficial figures on the Green ville market, second largest in the | belt, placed the average price at $7.25 with offerings totaling slight ly less than 900,000 pounds. Begin ning low with the morning sales, the price trend wag upward in the afternoon and some of the houses selling late averaged more than $8.50 per hundred pounds. . | Special Examination* * Those high school students who are being coached on English, his tory, and civics will report at the ?teb scjiqpl building at 2:30 o'clock ' ? Thursday afternoon. Sept. 10th. ^^StudMts desiring examination oni mathematics, science, or foreign language will report at 'the high school building at 2:30 o'clock on Friday afternoon. Sept. 11th. All conditions must be removed by examinations given under the supervision of the teachers in the school, such examinations having been prepared by the school. O. C. Davidson, Supt. Roxboro Schools. September 2, 1931. j o Small Blaze Last Saturday Night Saturday night at about 11:30 the Are company was called to a small ' fire on Lam&r Street, the small .frame dwelling occupied by Mr. R. HD. Satterfleld. The fire started in I Mm attic and was discovered in j rame to prevent any serious re- : suits. Mr. Satterfleld was sick at the time and. wishes to express his lalnoere thanks to kind friends who - took charge of him and assisted him in getting out. Taxes For Insurance The average man can buy lnfr fcrr about what taxes cost"?m A young man nan buy [ ce cheaper than his taxes on ty cost. You save the inter- 1 on your investment. If you insurance, you will also re dividends on your insurance j Business men realize that you leave a good estate Jurft (or the rate of taxes. Have money and have your pro too, by carrying an ade amount of insurance. We give yoji protection in the Mu Llfe of New York or Pilot Life Oreensboro. North Carolina. HNIGHT8 INS. AOENCY.. YOUNG LADY DIES WHILE IN BATHING AT LOCH LILY o Postal Telegraph Enters Roxboro Mr. a. P. Daniel, the commercial representative of the Postal Tele graph, was here last week and made' arrangements for his Company to do business in Roxboro. An office has been opened at Hotel Jones, with Mr. W. G. Miller in charge. The Postal has some advantages in that any message for any point in North Carolina the charge is twen ty-five cents. Mr. Miller will be glad to give you any information you may desire, and will appreciate some of your telegraph business. CLINGSFOR 2 HOURS 150 FEET IN AIR James Kemp Hangs On When Scaffoltf'Breaks and He Sees Companion Hurtle to Death STICKS TO 10-IN. LEDGE UNTIL HE IS RESCUED Rochester, N. Y? Aug. 31. ? Nerves of steel and a stout heart kept 63- i year-old James Kemp, steeplejack. ' clinging to a precarious foothold ! on a 10-inch ledge at the top of a 15?Ufoot chimney today jintil .res cued ? two hours after his fellow worker, Oondolfo di Primo, 40, had plunged to death when a scaffold broke. The two men were working at the top of the stack when the Scaffolding slipped. Di Primo, seat ed on a plank, clawed at the air as he hurtled to earth and instant death. Shoot Line Over Stack. While firemen with outstretched life nets awaited for the fal lthat seemed inevitable, another rescue crew attempted to Are a life line to Kemp over the top of the stack with a life-saving gun. The fifth shot draped a rope over the chimney top and slowly inch by inch and foot by foot, Kemp hauled in the light line with a heavier rope attached. With a solid hold for him to grasp, Kemp soon drew up a sec ond line with a bos-un's chair at tached, into which he stepped and was craefully let down. Without assistance he walked in to the emergency room of the Yaw man and Erbe plant. BEAUTIFULSTORES AT BAKERSVILLE Moore's Market And Morriss Drug Co. Attractive Units of New Mill Village Down in Bakersville, or is it ! Cavel-Vlllage, there are two of the most beautiful stores to be found anywhere, even in the cities. The stores referred to are Moore's Mar ket and the Morrlss Drug Company. If you think Roxboro has nice stores, well arranged, surpassed by none, you Just want to drive down and visit these places of busi ness. and you will conclude that no pains or cost has been spared in fitting up these places. The truth is. Bakersville IS one of the most beautiful mill village* we have ever j seen, with new houses, and nearly every occupant has taken decided Interest in his front yard; you will i rarely And as many <Jlo?ers as you will see in the yards in this vil lage. And where you see flowers you invariably find culture, for the two go together. Roxboro is proud of this neighbor village for it is setting an example worthy to be copied. We do not know who is responsible for the flowers and the manner in which the homes are kept, but we do know that some body has been on the Job -and has made a wonderful success. Oaas? How long can a man live without brains? Saase? Let's see, how old are you? o Miss Rena Bell Taylor Gets In Deep Water And Loses Life CAME HERE TWO YEARS AGO FROM CHAPEL HILL Yesterday"*%ftemoon at about 3:30 o'clock Miss Rena Bell Taylor and a lady friend were bathing in Loch Lily when Miss Taylor Step ped ofl of a ladder near the boat house. Evidently Miss Taylor did not think the water was so deep, as she could not swim and the water was over her head. Mr. Rudder and Mr. Clayton, who were nearby, came tc her rescue but were unable to located the body, which did not rise, for several minutes. While they were attempting to locate the body some young men, Messrs. Tal madge Long and Spencer Woody, and perhaps others, arrived and helped in ths* Search. The body was found and brought to the sur face and they used every method of their knowledge in trying to bring life back, but their work was of no avail. Miss Taylor came here about two years ago from her home In Chapel Hill and has been collected with the Royal Cafe. - She has made many friends here who were sorely grieved at her untimely death. Be sides her parents she is survived by three brothers and two sisters. The body was carried to Chapel Hill this morning where the funeral and burial services will be held. Will Handle Relief President Walter S. Gtfford of the American Telephone & Tele graph Co. (above) and Fred C. Croxton, of Ohio, will combat un employment this winter. 3rd Series Agricultural Meetings Sept. 24 to 25 ? 1 Will Meet In Six Different Communities; Some Prom inent Speakers Engaged The third annual series of agri cultural meetings at six different ! communities in Person County will ' be held Sept. 23, 24 and 25 at ' Olive Hill, Harmony, Hurdle Mills. 1 Allensville and Bushy Pork. The-; county agent has secured the ser vices of Mrs. Jane S. McKimmon, State Home Demonstration Agent for North Carolina, State College. Raleigh, and Mr.' E. B. Morrow, also) Miss Ruth McCollum, as the chief l speakers at this series of meetings. Mrs. McKimmon needs no intro duction to an audience of North Carolina farm men and women, and all know that she will have a splendid message to bring to us on problems relating to the home and how to meet them, while Mr. Mor row, Extension Horticulturist, will bring us a vital message on how to save our sweet potatoes that we Person County farmers cannot save longer than about Christmas time. Mr. Morrow will also discuss at each of these meetings what we can do through October, November and December to have real good gardens early next spring, and he will also discuss the importance of having a real good home orchard. Miss Ruth McCollum, the County Nurse, will discuss some phase of health so vital to the well being 1 of our county, while the county 1 agent will discuss several items ' that progressive farmers should have in their plan of work on the farm to make the farm as near self rfusUinlng as possible. o Tuberculosis Clinic Much Interest is being shown by the people of Person In the Tuber- , culosls Clinic now being held by Dr. C. D. Thomas from State San- j atorlum. Any one wishing examination should make appointment with the I Health Department. Important Notice The ordinances of the town pro hibit the parking of automobiles on Main Street In the business dis trict for a period In excess of fif teen minutes. Local people are par ticularly requested not to parte their cars on Main Street In the said business section. This ordinance will be enforced beginning the 7th of September. R B. Dawes. Mayor. i ' ? ' Mrs. J. S. Critcher Dies Near Oxford Oxford, Sept. 1. ? Mrs. J. S. Critcher died this afternoon at 1 o'clock at the home of her sister. Mrs. C. B. Burnett, who li*?f on Route 5, Oxford. She had been sick about two years, but became worse during the past few weeks. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Salem Methodist church by the pastor, Rev. B. D. Critcher. Inter ment will be in the church ceme tery. The deceased is survived by her husband, J. S. Critcher, of Peters burg. Va.; two sons, A. B. Critcher, Oxford, and C. M. Critcher, Waynes boro, Va., and one sister, Mrs. C. B, Burnett. FIELD MEETING AT CORN VARIETY TEST Meeting Called for Friday, September 4th, At 10 a. m. On Critcher Farm A field meeting is called by the county agent, cooperating with Mr. C. W. Lawson, to meet at the C. C. Critcher farm near the city lim its on old No. 144 road to Inspect eight varieties of com growing on thin sandy soil to see which variety will yield the most corn under these conditions. Eight fanners furnished seed corn for this variety to see who has the best corn In the county. Among those furnishing this corn for test are the following: Messrs. J. B. Satterfield, J. Y. Humphries, W. C. Lawson, J, H. Shotwell. A. W. Blalock, Jno. R. Bradsher. T. L. Clayton, John , Moore of Moore Bros. Hie corn varieties will be har vested later and the yields deter mined. ? ? ? o Mr. S. G. W instead Loses Tobacco Barn Last Friday afternoon Mr. B. O. Winstead lost a barn of tobacco by flre. The barn was filled with to bacco and was a complete loss. The town's flre truck was called to the scene, but when It arrived It was too far gone and all the fighters could do was to save some nearby barn*. Georgia Average Under Five Cents Atlanta, Ga? Aug. 31. ? Tobacco growers of Georgia last week re ceived $365,013.60 for 8,298,975 pounds of tobacco sold at an av erage price of 4.40 cents a pound, It was shown today in a compila tion by Marcus McWhorter, chief statistician for the state depart ment of agriculture. To date, McWhorter said, 57,895, 929 pounds of Georgia tobacco have been sold for $3,793,829.24 at an average of 6.58 cents. FRANCE IS PROPOSING NEW PLAN Foreign Affairs Chairman Of French Chambers See Way Out of Parity Controversy PEACE RESTS ON NEXT GENEVA CONFERENCE Parte, Aug. 31. ? A proposal that the League of Nations of the world place their armed forces under the control of the League of Nations and a prediction that Prance would lead the way at the 1932 disarm ament conference was made today by Joseph Paul-Boncour foreign affairs chairman of the chamber of deputies, in a statement to the Associated Press. Qua lifted Spokesman. Inasmuch as M. Paul-Boncour is acknowledged France's greatest authority on disarmament and is certain to be one of Prance's chief delegates to the disarmament con ference in Geneva next February, his statement was considered to be of such far reaching importance that it wil give an entirely new an gle to the struggle for the reduc tion of and limitation of arma ments. The impression prevailed that he would not have made his statement unless he was convinced that it harmonizes with responsible opinion in France. Would Be At League's Command When the disarmament confer ence agrees upon the actual figures of the defense strength of each country, he said, our Ideas is that these forces should cease to be forces left entirely to the disposition (Continued on last page) o. Patronize The Ladies The ladies of Lambeth Memorial Baptist church will sell dressed chicken, fresh eggs, cakes, pies and vegetables at the store formerly oc cupied by Moore's Market, on Court Street, next Saturday. The ladies of Roxboro ? are cordially in vited to do their marketing with them on next Saturday. Hail Storm Thursday There was a severe hall storm in the Oak Grove section last Thurs day afternoon, doing considerable damage to the crops in that imme diate section. It was especially serious on the farm of Mr. Dick Wil kins, and _ also damaging the crops of his adjoining neighbors slightly. Fortunately the storm was confined to a small area. , American Legion The regular monthly meeting of the Lester Black well Post of the American Legion will meet on Sat urday night, Sept. 5th, 1931, at 7:30. All members are urged to be pres ent. Dr. O. G. Davis, Com. What To Do With It One of our good friends, Mrs. Ira Moore, sends In the following In-, formation as to the vegetable peach : The vegetable peach is good to preserve; peel It like you would peel a peach and cut It Into halves, sooop the seeds out and take two pounds of peaches to ope pound of sugar. The vegetable peach makes preserves. BIG FOUR GROCERY CO. AND ROXBORO LAUNDRY ROBBED Large Number Of Cigarettes Among Articles Missing In Grocery Store TWO BOYS CAUGHT WHILE IN LAUNDRY Monday night the robbers were on the Job here. Some time early in the night robbers entered the store of the Big Pour Grocery Company and got away with quite a lot of merchandise, Mr. Montague Said he could check up on about five i hundred dollars worth of cigarettes, i but he did not know definitely as I to the value of other goods stolen. The robbers left no clue and there are no Suspects at this writing. Robbers entered the Roxboro Laundry's place of business, and were preparing to make a good haul of Suits, shirts and other wearing apparel, but fortunately Mr. S. A. Oliver, chief of police, had an ink ling of tl)e proposed robbery and had secreted himself in the build ing and was waiting for them. Just about 8 o'clock they came in, en tering through a window, and be gan piling up clothing, and were very much, surprised when Mr. Oliver stepped between them and their way of entrance and called upon them to throw up their hands. He captured Elgie Wilson, a boy who has been living here for some time, and who has served a term I at a reformatory, and Claude Wil son, no relation to E3gie. Claude has been working at Bakersville for a short time, but is not a nativ^, of this section, and no one knows anything of where he came from. ! Hiey were both given a hearing before Mayor Dawes and were bound over to court under a *300 bond, which failing to give were I placed in jail. Convict Camp Lo cated Near Town The convict camp for this Coun ty has been located and a number of prisoners brought in. The camp is located on the old Leasburg road, Just beyond the town limits, on the land of Mr. N. V. Brooks. Steel cages, on wheels, with a wood en shack or two, comprises the out fit at present. It is stated that there will be a force of about forty or fifty used from this camp, Cane furniture was introduced during the reign of Charles n. jitp nmm DEMONSTRATION $5.00 For Nearest Guess On Yield, And $2.50 For The Worst One Mr. W. C. Lawson is conducting a top dressing demonstration in co operation with the Chilean Nitrate Agency, using 200 pounds Chilean , Nitrate of Soda per acre on the , com when about knee high, com pared to no top dressing. To the farmer visiting this demonstration on Friday, Sept. 4th at 10 a. m? and guessing the nearest yield that this corn will make where top dressed and where' not top dressed, a prize of five dollars will be awarded as a prize, and two dollars and a half will be awarded as a consolation prize to the farmer missing the yield on both plot* the most. All who are Interested In trying to win this five dollars are invited to be present at the time and hour mentioned. o Mr. Bullock Returns Mr. R. A. Bullock, who under j went a very aeriou* operation at i Watts hospital about three weeks since, returned home Sunday af ternoon. He Is very much improv ed and hopes to be at his place of business soon. The Damascus barrel of a shot gun will staad the flrtnt of 100,000 shots. i GARDNER HAS TO FACE QUESTION OF SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE SESSION Return Of Governor To Ral eigh To Be Followed By Agitation IS RESULT OF LARGE UNEXPECTED DEFICITS Raleigh, Aug. 31. ? Return of Gov ernor Gardner to Raleigh will be followed with an agitation for a special session of the general as sembly, a call which wW come no ; earlier than had been expected. J The governor has said nothing di rectly relating to this subject, but he has expressed a belief that an extraordinary session of the Con | gTess in Washington will be neces sary and many people about Ra leigh read in this a hint that Ral eigh may have to house the 1931 as&mbly again. The city's last ex perience with this body was pleas ant, but more than sufficient. Com ing here to stay 60 days, the states men remained nearly 150 and lack ed a whole lot of doing a perfect j job of it then. The certaintly of a deficit larger than could have been foreseen, not I to mention the enactment of cer tain advisory measures as to cur , tailment of cotton and possibly to bacco, leads to the- belief that a legislature may be a phychological, if not an economic necessity. The effort of the sales tax group to justify its position by citation of the big deficit, is In part successful. Of course the sales taxers alio would have had -a big deficit, but . they did not get the chance. Mean while, unpopular bond Issues may I be necessary and all In all there is a very good excuse for convening again. Nearly Always Happens. Governor Gardner has no desire to entertain a special fitting of a good body, but the thing nearly al ways happens when special legis lation has been enacted. Governor Craig called for an extra assembly to do regulating and taxation measures. Bickett found the re valuation and Income tax amend ment bills needed touching up a year and a half after they were enacted. The' Morrison adminis tration had to convene Its 1923 ses sion again to get right Some figures In the department of education and to set for the 1934 election the port terminals issue. Governor McLean managed to escape the extra. No govenfefr in modern times has had so many disputed issues and none has been forced to do a hard er job than Mr. Gardner inherited^ Scouts about the state say Mr. Gardner is getting about as artistic a lot of abuse as many man In pub lic life, but nobody has asssailed him for "doing nothing." He has Infuriated his friends by appoint ing political enemies to office and has stirred up the fiercest antago nisms for his legislation on the Sub ject of banks and highways. Evei the school people who seemed t? have been his almost to a man an< (Continued on last page) Colored Girl Injured By Automobile A car driven By Outhrie Gentry knocked down Nellie Bird Cham bers, colored, last night on Lamar Street at about 7:30 o'clock. She was cut about the face and other wise bruised. o ? Negro Bound Over Darry Dawkins. colored, who stands accused of assaulting Jack Johnson, colored, was arersted yes terday and after 4 hearing was bound over to court under $180 bond, which be failed to give, and is now boarding with Mr. J. T. Wade, custodian of the jail. Too Much Whiskey Jim Smith na taken In custody Tuesday morning at his home In the Holloway section by Sheriff Clayton, the charge being' that be | had too much whiskey, both inside and out. He wis tried on-tlw. charge of illegal possesion and failing to give bond was bound over to court I and placed in Jail. JiiriitiilfiiiitiHl
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