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TODAYand WILDCAT ventures oat One of my neighbors, Merico La coll, saw a strange-looking beast on the grounds of the Berkshire Coun try Club the other day. He had his gun with him, so he took a shot, and brought down a 20-pound wildcat. Old timers up our way say it is the first wildcat seen in Berkshire in 30 years. There's still a lot of wild, unset tled country, even in New England. Up on top of a rocky spur of West Stockbridge Mountain there is said to be a herd of wild goats. I've never seen them, but venturesome boys sometimes scale the crags and bring back reports of being menaced by fierce, long-horned, bearded billygoats. Now and then hunters up our way sight a black bear, and every so often we have a wolf scare, while the deer seem to be increasing in numbers. I hope this country never gets so crowded that there won't be room for all the wild things as well as all the people. ? ? ? TERMITES. moving' north The other day Fred Shaw and I went up into my farmhouse attic to see about winter-proofing the gable ends. "Say, did you know you've got termites in your rafters?" asked Fred. He pointed to half-a-dozen mounds of sawdust on the attic floor. Sure enough, the little white ants were at work there. 1 thought I'd stopped 'em seven years ago, when I found they'd eaten away one of the old hand-hewn 12x12 sills that the old house rests on. Now I've got to spend a lot more money, maybe put a whole new roof, if I dont want the house to fall down on our heads. Termites have been working their way north from the Gulf of Mexico for twenty years. Now, the expert bug men tell me, they're busy even in Canada. They get inside of a piece of timber and eat the heart out of It, leaving it only a hollow shell. Looks to me as if we've got to figure out new ways to keep insects from licking the human race and taking possession of the world. ? ? * GERMANY holds cash A New York friend of mine of Ger man descent owns, with his mother, a number of houses in Berlin. A Ber lin bank manages the property and collects the rents. My friend cant use any of the money, for (the Hitler Government won't let cash go out of Germany except to pay for imported goods. Last summer his mother got per mission to take $3,000 out, if she would come to Berliiv in person and satisfy the authorities she needed the money to live on. She and her son got as far as Paris, where the old lady slipped and broke her hip. She couldn't go to Berlin, and the money is still there, doing nobody any good. My friends account of that exper ience brought home sharply to me the effects of nationalistic policies carried to their extreme, and the trouble caused by setting up artificial barriers to free international inter course. ? * ? I TELEPHONE Improved I saw a new kind of telephone in strument the other day, which the telephone people say will be in uni versal use in a few years. It doesn't have any box to fasten to the wall; the bell is contained in the base of the receiver. There are two clappers to strike the gongs. One is the usual metal one, the other is made of wood, to give the softer note for the benefit of nervous people who "Jump out of their skins" whenever the telephone rings. And the two gongs are pitched to different tones, giving a musical Stewart Motor Co Lamar Street, Roxboro, N. C. YOUR Dodge - Plymouth DEALER. Repair Work. USED CARS. . KNUDSEN SHOWS AL SMITH NEW CAR SAFETY FACTORS STANDING BEHIND the moving safety-car exhibit, the featured attrac tion of the General Motors special show at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York City, William S. Knudsen (left), executive vice-president of the General Motors Corporation, is seen pointing out to Alfred E. Smith, former New York Governor, the safety factors built into all 1936 General Motors cars. This "car that lifts its hat" flashes, in a continuous automatic cycle, let tered semaphores naming 23 of the safety features of body, wheels, and chassis. This contribution to safety education is attracting record crowds at the New York showing and, at the recent National Safety Congress in Louisville, Ky., where this specially equipped car was exhibited first, traffic engineers and high way commissioners pronounced it one of the foremost displays presented to 7,000 delegates. effect as the clapper vibrates between them. A little thing, perhaps, but one more example of t the way business enterprises are always trying to im prove their product. ? ? ? WEB . over nation I sat in my New York office the other day and asked the telephone operator to call my farm home, 150 miles way. "Hold the wire," replied the operator, and in three minutes I was talking to my daughter. I hung up, then called for a Wash ington number, it took even less time to get my connection with the Sena tor I wanted to talk to. I had barely finished with him when my 'phone rang again. "Pittsburgh calling," said the operator. And that night I got a telephone call from another friend who was stranded in Los Angeles and wanted me to telegraph him enough money to pay his hotel bill and buy a ticket back East! I went to sleep marvelling at the miraculous web which the telephone has woven all over the nation. Sixty years ago, nearly, I saw Professor Bell's first telephone, at the Philadel phia Centennial of 1876. It was look ed on as an ingenious toy, nothing more. o Washington News For U. S. Farmers INCOME INCREASING BRAZIL'S COTTON PROBLEMS FINANCIAL EXPERTS VIEW FARM AID HELPS NOW From Courire Washington Bureau Farm income for 1935 is now esti mated at $6,800,000,000 by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Hiis is one hundred million dollars more than earlier estimates, $413,000,000 more than last year and the largest total in five years. Among other reasons for the in crease, the Bureau lists a "greater than seasonal improvement In the in comes of industrial workers." This should be interesting to farmers, em phasizing as it does the inter-rela tionship between the buying power of workers and the sale of agricultural products. Southern cotton planters and other Americans who have worried over the loss of our export markets for cot ton, will be interested in a recent dis patch from Brazil, telling of the cre ation of a Cotton Export Institute and of the financing of cotton plant ers by the government there. While planters in Brazil have here tofore financed their own crops, this year the yield fell short and depleted their resources. The banks were un prepared to advance loans and the government plans to carry the plant ers for the present. Evidently Bra zil finds some difficulties in the way of appropriating the cotton markets of the world. Along the line of the interdepen dence of farmers and workers we call attention to a J recent statement of George T. Hughes, a special writer on financial topics. He says: ?'Whatever may be thought of the edonomic soundness of Government aid to the farmer it is still true that the purchasing power of the agricul tural districts has been enlarged and the benefits have not been confined to the rural population, but have ex tended to the industrial sections as well. "For both the farm worker and the industrial employe the important thing is purchasing power. Discuss ing the business outlook, the monthly review of the Guaranty Trust Com pany cites as a favorable item that factory pay rolls of the first eight months in 1935 were nearly 55 per cent above the corresponding period of 1933 and, while the cost of living rose during that time 13 per cent, there has been an increase of 37 per cent in the buying power of factory employes. It is so often urged that Increased cost of living has been too high a price to pay for agricultural prosper ity that these figures are important. They seem to show that subsidizing the farmer, if that is the correct way to put it, has not been the drag up on the rest of the country that it is commonly believed to have been. "Certainly one great industry has been stimulated by the improvement in the position of the farmer. The in crease in sales of automobiles to con sumers in the rural districts has been larger proportionately than the gain in distribution in the country as a whole, and that can be explained on ly by increased farm buying power. Probably the same is true of the mail order business and of the agricultural implement industry. "Over the longer period the results may be unfavorable, perhaps extreme ly so. There is no basis as yet on which to pass judgment of the de sirability of making permanent con trol of agricultural production, but the immediate effect has been to acceler ate general recovery." o Business is better and so business men are worrying about whether it will stay better. DISGUISE PERFECT; ARRESTED c Sedalia, Mo. ? Lawrence England, 1 policeman, disguised himself to catch i a suspect. When police raided a sa- 1 loon they took him to Jail along i with the others. The chief finally re- t leased him. I Legal Ads i Sale Of Personal Property Owned By The Estate Of John Y. Fox On Saturday, November 30, 1935, beginning at 10 o'clock A. M? the un dersigned administrators of John Y. Pox will offer for sale at public auc tion for cash, at the late residence of the said John Y. Pox, deceased, in Roxboro Township, Person County, N. Carolina, the following personal prop erty owned by his estate, to- wit, viz: 2 mules 1 cow 1 Buick 5 passenger touring car 1 2-horse wagon 1 set double wagon harness 1 Deering mowing machine 1 feed cutter. 1 wood saw and engine 1 Cutaway, harrow 1 drag harrow 1 lot lof plows, hoes and other farming tools and utensils. 5 barrels corn 1 lot of feed A lot of household and kitchen furniture and utensils, in which is included a cook stove in good condition. Other personal property belong ing to said estate. This November 6, 1935. It. B. Fox, C. O. Pox, Administrators bf John Y. Pox, deceased. n , NOTICE! Pursuant to an order of the Honor able Johnson J. Hayes, Judge of the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, notice is hereby given that W. P. Lifsey, Re ceiver of the First National Bank of Roxboro, has been offered the sum of $8,500.00 for the conveyance of the First National Bank building and such furniture and fixtures of the former bank as have not heretofore been sold, a list of said furniture and fixtures being available to any interested per son at the office of the receiver in the town of Roxboro. Notice is also given that a hearing will be held before Judge Hayes at Chambers in Greens boro, N. C., at 10:30 o'clock, A. M? on Saturday, November 16th, upon the advisability of accepting said offer of purchase. Any interested person or persons wishing to increase the sum offered for said property or having ob jections to the acceptance of said of fer may make such increase bid or objections at said hearing. This the 9th day of November, 1935. HENRY REYNOLDS. 2t Clerk U. S. District Court. A TRUSTEE'S SALE OF LAND By virtue of the power contained in two several deeds of trust executed by Samuel Thaxbon end wife, and of record in Person County in Book 1, page 239, and in Book 4, page 316, the bonds secured by said deeds of trust having matured, and being unpaid, and the holder thereof having re quested that the said power be exer cised, the undersigned trustee named in both of said deeds of trust will sell the land therein described at public sale to the highest bidder for cash at the court house door in Roxboro, North Carolina, on NOVEMBER 23, 1935 at 12 o'clock, noon, said land being described as follows, to- wit, viz: 1. That tract of land lying and be ing in Roxboro Townsnlp, Person County, North Carolina, on the public road leading from Roxboro to Concord Church, adjoining lands of J. T. Blanks on the north, lands of Will Winstead on the east, lands of Pig Paylor on the west, and the said pub lic road on the south, except that as it now runs said road crosses the said land (leaving the land of John Ray, now owned by Lee Clay, on the south ern boundary), containing 107 1-2 acres, more or less, being that tract of land conveyed by S. B. Winstead, Commissioner, to W. J. Winstead by JRUTH in thought, truth in action, truth in dealing makes for truth in service. We know no oiher creed. Step by step it has built the Service of Integrity. SPENCER'S FUNERAL SERVICE SINCE 1*10 NIOHT PHONE 47-D DAY PHONE 47-M AMBULANCE SERVICE "THE COST IS A MATTER OF YOUR OWN DESIRE" ieed of record In Book 18 Page 3, and jy W. J. Winstead and wife to S am id Thaxton, by deed of record in Book 19, page 114. Said deeds and al io plat of J. H. Howard, of record in c the Clerk's office, are here referred jo. 1 2. That tract of land lying and be- I ing in Roxboro Township, Person ] County, North Carolina, adjoining < lands of Joe Winstead on the north, i lands of Pig Paylor on the east, lands i of J. T. Blanks on the south, and the ' lands formerly owned by Dick Win- ? stead on the west, containing 10 : acres more or less. See deed from Fannie Gray to Samuel Thaxton. 3. That tract of land lying and be ing in Roxboro Township, Person County, North Carolina, adjoining lands of Emory Winstead on the north, lands of J. W. Winstead on the east, lands of J. T. Blanks on the south, and lands of sol Clayton on the west, containing 52 acres, more Or less, being land formerly owned by the late Richard Thaxton, and con veyed by deed of record in Book 29, page 145. This October 23, 1935 P. O. Carver, Trustee o EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Having this day qualified as Exe cutor of the last will and testament of J. Shields Harvey, Sr., late of Per son County, this is to notify all per sons holding claims against the said estate to present them to the under signed on or before the 28th day of October, 1936, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This October 28th, 1935. J. S. Harvey, Jr., Executor. TRUSTEE'S SALE Under and by virtue of the terms )f that deed of trust executed by I"had Noell and wife, Sallie Noell, on December 20th 1923, and recorded in the Office of Register of Deeds of Person County in Book 5, page 176, default having been made in the pay ment of the notes secured thereby, and upon request of the holder thereof, J will as Trustee on Saturday, Novem thence her line South 79 degrees East 209 feet to an iron stake Ernest ber 30th, 1935, at twelve o'clock noon, at the Court-house door in Roxboro, North Carolina, sell to the highest bidder at public auction the following described real estate, to- wit: Lying and being in Roxboro Town ship about 3-4 of a mile South of the Courthouse, on the East side of the public road leading from Roxboor to Paines Tavern and BEGINNING at an iron stake on the East side of said road Thad Noell's corner (formerly M. H. Garrett); thence with said road North 7.1-2 degrees East 173 ft. to an iron stake Lucy Johnson's corner; Johnson's line (formerly J. A. Long); thence his line South 11 degrees West 149 ft. to a rock in Thad Noell's line (formerly M. H. Garrett); thence his line North 86 degrees West 205 feet to the beginning three-fourths (3-4) of an acre more or less. See deed from J, A. Long and wife to Rufua Johnson and also deed from Rufus Johnson to W. A. Blackwell, and deed from W. A. Blackwell and wife to Lewis Villines, and being same lot this day conveyed by said Villines to said Thad Noell. See deed in Regis ter's office, Book 33, page 226. This October 29th, 1935. L. M. Carlton, Trustee. For Better Prices Sell At The ... Hyco House We offer you the best possible advantages when you sell your tobacco at the HYCO. Tobacco is selling good and now is the time to sell. Bring vour tobacco on to THE HYCO and see for yourself. We sell it HIGHER! Some Good Prices At The Hyco . . . L. G. Tilley sold 376 lbs. for $161.04, ov eraging $42.83 for his sale. Mrs. J. L. Clayton and C. sold 488 lbs. for $256.36, averaging $52.53. H. C. Carver sold 332 lbs. for $134.88, Averaging $40.62. FIRST SALE MONDAY, NOV. 18TH Hyco Warehouse W. T. Pass & Co., Props. S. R. Mincey, Auctioneer ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA Choose from 43 New 1936 PHILCOS ? LIBERAL TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE EASIEST TERMS New 1936 American - Foreign. PHILCO $20.00 And Up. TWitli Philco All-wave Aerial $54.95) 610 r Philco Before you buy ANY radio, see this amazing new 1936 Philco Console 1 Biggest value ot the year in a full sized, floor- type model I Marvelous tone ? thrilling toreign reception! Hand some cabinet of satin fmiahed Walnut. Morris & Ledbetter Depot Street - - Roxboro, N. C.
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