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(Monday and Thursday)
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1935
(County Correspondents Solicited)
NUMBER 76
ROXBORO MARKET AVERAGES
$23.28 FOR SEASON TO DATE
Market Has Sold More Than
Two And One-Half Million
Pounds Through
Friday's Sale
k With 2,684,651 pounds which brought
p $625,134.87 at an average of $23.28 for
the season through the sale of Friday
the Roxboro market points to a new
high In sales for this season. From the
very first it was evident that buyers
on the Roxboro market were determin
ed to keep abreast the markets sur
rounding us and as the season has
advanced prices have advanced and
Roxboro is right along with them.
* One thing is evident from the above
figures, which, by the way, are abso
lutely authentic and that is that the
Roxboro market brings just as much
for tobacco as any other market, and,
in some cases, it has been known to
bring much more.
A grower stopped a staff correspond
ent of this newspaper on the street
the other day and said that, though
he had been selling some on other
markets, his tobacco was Roxboro
bound from now on, for he had found
that this market paid just as much,
if not more, for his tobacco and he was
saved a long haul. These testimon
ials are not unusual, for more and
more farmers are learning that Rox
boro is the place to sell.
With four modernly equipped ware
houses operated by wide-awake ware
housemen and buyers representing ev
ery major company Roxboro offers
many advantages over other surround
ing marketa_and is the logical place to
sell your tobacco.
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Here's What A
Perfect Protection
Policy Will Do
1. $4.00 for each day that you are
wholly disabled and confined to the
house.
2. $2.00 for each day that you are
wholly disabled but not confined to the
house. (These benefits begin on the
FIRST DAY and continue for a period
of six months jointly.)
3. $100.00 every month commenc
ing after six months of continuous dis
ability, and payable thereafter as long
as you are totally disabled, for fifty
four months.
4. Your premiums will be waived by
the company during the period bene
fits are paid under No. 3, and for so
long thereafter as you are totally and
continuously disabled.
(No deductions will be made from
the face of the policy for any of the
above benefits paid you.)
5. $10,000 payable to your benefic
iary at your death from natural cause.
6. $20,000 payable to your beneficiary
in the event of your death from acci
dental causes.
7. Liberal cash loan extended in
surance values as shown in the policy.
We can write a policy from $500 up.
KNIGHT'S INSURANCE AGENCY.
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VISITING IN RICHMOND
Mr. C. E. Davidson, manager of the
Western Union, is spending several
days in Richmond with his sons and
their families including his little
granddaughter, Betty Jean, and grand
son, Charles Edward, III.
Ward's Tobacco
Tags At Roxboro
High School
The Ward's Tobacco Tags will
be at Roxboro High School, Fri
day night, November 22, spon
sored by the Daughters of Amer
ica.
Come bring the whole family,
and spend an evening of good,
clean entertainment.
Admission: Adults 25c, children
15c. Time, 8:00 P. M. at the Rox
boro High School Auditorium.
INVITATION
I want to announce to all of my
friends that I have moved my Cafe
to 209 Mangum Street. It is on the
main entrance from Roxboro to Main
Street, Durham. It is right in front
of the fire station, where the shoot
ing gallery was. I am always glad
to see my friends from Roxboro. Rox
boro seems more like home to me
than any place I have ever been.
Angelo Kondagianis.
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WILL ATTEND DENTAL
DISTRICT MEETING
Drs. J. H. Hughes, J. D. Bradsher,
and R. E. Long will attend the meet
ing of the Third District of the North
Carolina Dental Society in session in
Durham today and tomorrow.
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Methodist Revival
Closed Sunday
With Night Service
Twenty Taken Into Church
During Series Of Services
Conducted During Week
Rev. J. F. Herbert, pastor of Long
Memorial Methodist Church, brought
to a close the series of services that
he has been conducting at his church
with the Sunday, evening service. Be
ginning with Sunday, November 10th,
Mr. Herbert had been preaching each
evening, except Saturday, throughout
the week, holding two services on Sun
day. The fine messages that he had
prepared for the series and the ex
cellent singing led by Rev. L. S. Hollo
way of Duke University had attracted
fine crowds throughout the week.
At the Sunday morning service the
pastor baptized ten children into the
church, and during the series ten
others were received by letter or by
profession of faith, making a total of
twenty members received.
His inspired messages caused his au
diences to leave the church at the end
of each service with much food for
thought in the application of his words
to their own lives. It was an excellent
meeting and the pastor is to be con
gratulated that he has been able to
wind up a most successful four-year
pastorate at Long Memorial with such
an inspirational series of services.
I KILLER SITS DOWN TO EAT
f IN ROOM WITH DEAD BODY
? ?
Clutching the rusty pistol in his
coat pocket, licorice-skinned Van Joy
ner sat down hard in the chair and
his head pitched forward ? dead, four
bullets in his skull.
It was dinnertime Sunday. When
the police arrived, Tom Fletcher, an
other Negro, was sitting at the table
eating with one hand and pointing
his pistol at the dead man with the
other. ?
There were four empty cartridges
in Tom's revolver and the hammer
had been snapped on the fifth shell.
Van's body still was sitting in tlje
chair, bent forward so far that his
head touched the floor between his
legs. One slug had ranged downward
through his head and had come out
at his chin.
When Coroner Waring lifted Van's
shoulders, he found the bullet lodged
in his chest, between his sweater and
his coat. The coroner had to cut away
the coat to free Van's arm and the
pistol from his Jpocket.
"Mit" Joyner, Van's brother, was
admitted to the room. He took one
look at his brother's body, at the
congealing blood on the floor. He
tuned to the coroner. "Let me take
off his shoes," he said. "Mit's" own
shoes were tattered. ... _
Outside, a gaping crowd of Negroes
stood on the ricketty wooden porch
and peered through the windows.
"Get back. Get back," one of the of
ficers called. "There's too many of
you on this porch.'
The porch collapsed, every board in
it splintered. No one was hurt. The
Negroes screamed and laughed.
Before they led Tom Fletcher away,
his wife came and kissed him. At the
jail, another Negro woman asked if
Tom would be allowed bond. "I loved
that man," she said, "but he would
n't do right."
Tom was given a cellmate ? a Ne
gro murderer being returned to the
Georgia chain gang.
The shooting of Van Joyner ocurr
ed yesterday shortly after noon fit
the home of Bertha Brown, sister of
Tom Fletcher, at 217 West Lenoir St
The two other men had been arguing
about a gambling game and Van had
fired one shot at Tom down on Car
roll's Alley, where Fletcher lived and
where the argument started.
CajKfcin Bruce Poole, Lieu(tenan$
Joe Lowe, Detective H. L. Peebles
and officer M. R. Thompson Investi
gated the shooting. Van joyner was
a "stick-up" man, the officers said.
"Tom was Just as mean as he was,"
said the woman whom Tom "Hoes
with."
Judge Bears Down
On Law Breakers
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In 2-Day Session
Recorder Sends Ten To Roads,
Fines Others, Frees Two
In 2-Day Session Of Re
corder's Court This
Week
Judge W. I. Newton administered
heavily in dishing out punishment to
I law breakers in the two-day session
of Recorder's Court held here Tues
| day and Wesdnesday. Ten men were
sent to the roads as follows: four for
larceny, four for an assault with a
deadly weapon, and two for driving au
tomobiles while under the influence of
| Intoxicating liquor.
Trying thirty cases in all the Court
! found sufficient evidence for convic
I tion in twenty-eight of them, freeing
I two defendants, both charged with
I reckless driving.
Four defendants /fell victims to the
new Driver's License Law, in that they
! had them revoked before they receiv
I ed them. One, convicted of driving
| while drunk, received instructions to
turn his driver's license over to the
Clerk of the Court when it was re
ceived. He was prohibited from oper
ating an automobile for twelve months.
The remaining three, convicted of
I reckless driving, were fined and their
licenses revoked for a period of slic
months.
Ten were found guilty of illegal
| possession and flned from $10.00 to
$15.00. Five were found guilty of
assault with deadly weapons and fln
ed from $15.00 to $50.00. One de
fendant was found guilty of carrying
concealed weapons and flned $20.00.
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City Tags Will Be
Green and Black
For Coming Year
1936 Tags Of Green Letters On Black
Background To Go On Sale
December 1st
Roxboro city tags for 1936 will be
made up In colors of green and black,
the letters being green placed on a
black background. These will cor
respond with the state tags, according
to information obtained at the city
office.
Sale of these tags will begin on De
cember 1st, but automobile operators
will not be required to have them un
til January 1st, 1936. However, all
motorists residing within the city lim
its of Roxboro are urged to buy their
tags before the first of the new year,
as the law will be rigidly enforced af
ter that date.
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Kitchin Harris
Suffers Severe
Fire Loss Sunday
Prominent Farmer Loses Home
With All Contents When
IFire Destroys Structure
Mr. * Kitchin Harris, prominent
farmer who lives on the Roxboro-Vir
gilina highway about four miles east
of Roxboro, had the misfortune to
have his home burned late Sunday
afternoon. The origin of the fire is
unknown, as neither Mr. Harris nor
any of his family were at home at
the time of the conflagration.
The exact time of the fire is not
known, though it is understood that
it must have caught some time in
the late afternoon, some passers-by
said that they saw no sign of fire at
about 5:45 P. M. Sunday afternoon
when they went by, but in a few min
utes the blaze was discovered. The
entire structure was a total loss, it
burning to the ground. Nothing with
in the building was saved, as the Are
had made good headway when dis
covered.
It is understood that the loss is
partly covered by insurance.
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UNDERGOES OPERATION
Miss Mary Riley is confined to Watts
hospital where she underwent an op
eration this morning. Her many
friends wish for her a speedy recov
ery.
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NOTICE TO BOOK BUYERS
The book-room will be open from
8:30 to 12:00 on Saturday morning.
. .... R. B. Griffin
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Spangler's G.O.P. Job
CHICAGO . . . Harrison E. Spangler
(above), of Iowa, the strong man of
the Western division of the National
Republican party, is now directing the
G. O. P. work from new headquarters
opened here.
Protest Faulty
School Busses
Grand Jury Says Transporta
tion System In Granville
Is "Deplorable"
Condemnation of six school busses
is recommended by the Granville coun
ty grand jury, which lias sent to the
State School Commission a set of res
olutions terming the school transpor
tation system in Granville "deplor
able.
The trucks recommended to be con
demned serve schools in Stem, Berea,
Oak Hill, Creedmoor and Stovall. Two
are 12 years old, two are eight years
old and the other two are seven years
old.
Claude Gaddy, assistant secretary of
the State School Commission in charge
of transportation, admitted last night
that the school bus equipment in
Granville county "is not what it ought
to be," but said that Granville has
been getting the largest number of
bus replacements of any county in the
State.
"When the State took over the
school system in 1933, Granville's
school bus equipment was a pile of
junk," stated Mr. Gaddy. He empha
sized that new busses are being sent
to Granville as fast as the State can
purchase them.
Resolutions sent to the commission
by the grand Jury follow: ?
"W, the grand jury of Granville
county, have made a thorough Investi
gation of the transportation system of
the Granville county schools, and find
the following deplorable conditions:
Many busses are having to leave home
by light early in the morning because
of having to make two long trips. The
busses do not get all the children back
home in the afternoon until almost
dark. Two trips would be permissable
when the roads are good and the trips
short, but no bus should have to leave
for the first child until 7:30. This
situation, we understand, is brought
about because of the elimination of
busses by the State School Commis
sion. In 1932-33 there were 63 busses
which were turned over to the State.
In 1934-35 the fleet was reduced to 56.
This year the fleet has been reduced
to 42 with the prospect, as we under
stand it, for only two more new ones,
making 44."
Then the grand jury recommends
that the six trucks be condemned "be
cause their mechanism is unsafe to
transport children."
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RETURNED HOME
FROM HOSPITAL
Dr. W. H. Adair returnd home Sun
day from Watts hospital where fie
underwent an operation the first of
last week. He is reported to be re
covering nicely and it is expected
that he will be out in a few days.
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RETURNS HOME FROM
BANKERS CONVENTION
Mr. Gordon C. Hunter, Executive
Vice-president of The Peoples Bank,
returned Friday from the National
Bankers Convention held last week in
New Orleans, La. Mr. Hunter reports
an excellent convention.
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INTERESTED IN DANCING?
All those interested in dancing are
requested to call at the home of Mrs
Mary Hunter Long some time during
the afternoon 'of next Wednesday.
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Second School
Month Ends As
Teachers Get Pay
$14,178.30 Paid For Teachers's
Salaries; $297.50 To Truck
Drivers; $280.00 To The
Janitors
$14,755.80 has already been paid out
or will have been paid out in the next
few days to teachers, truck drivers and
janitors of the schools in Person Coun
ty for services given during the second
month of the school year, which end
ed Monday, November 11.
Of this amount $14,178.30 went to
pay 172 teachers in the county. The
two agricultural teachers are paid
from a different fund and their salar
ies are not included in this amount.
$297.50 was paid to 35 truck drivers
for bringing children to school and
delivering them home again in the
afternoon each school day in the
month. $280.00 went to 14 janitors
of the schools in the county.
Splitting the total amount paid to
teachers for services one can readily
see that each teacher is paid an av
erage of $82.43, while truck drivers
receive an average pay of $8.50 per
month. The janitors average salary
for services in the Person County
schools amounts to $20.00 per month.
Taking the twenty per cent increase
that was granted teachers this year
over last by the 1935 session of the
General Assembly figures show that the
average salary has jumped from $65.95
to its present level of $82.43, or an
average increase of $16.48.
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Methodist Pastors
Leave This Week
For Conference
Annual Conference W|N1 Meet
In^ WiUKmijngton Beginning
On Wednesday
All Methodist Pastors in Person
County, a part of the North Carolina
Conference, are making preparations
to attend the annual conference of the
church which will meet in Wilming
ton, N. C., on Wednesday. The ses
sions of the conference will last thru
next Sunday.
Rev. J. P. Herbert, pastor of Long
Memorial Methodist Church, is wind
ing up his' four-year pastorate here,
which is the usual period assigned to
any Methodist minister. However,
regardless of denomination, it is the
universal hope that the conference will
see fit to return Mr. Herbert and his
family to Roxboro and to Long Me
morial again this year. He has done
a splendid work as leader of this
church and has been actively interest
ed in other phases of civic life, and it
will be with regret that Roxboro sees
him leave, should he not be returned to
his pastorate here. Every possible ef
fort and influence is being extended to
have him come back again next year.
So far as this office has been able
to ascertain the other Methodist min
isters in Person County will be return
ed, none of them having completed
their four-year pastorates. It is the
hope of all that these fine pastors will
be returned to their present charges
for at least another term.
CCC (amp Corps
Begin Terracing
Work In County
Work Started On Farm Of W.
A. Whitfield Of R. No. 3. In
terested Farmers Urged To
Join Soil Conservation Asso
ciation.
By H. K. SANDERS
The CCC Camp at Oxford has re
cently begun work on the farm ci
Mr. W. A. Whitfield, of R. No. 3, near
Somerset Mill, building outlets of the
terrace lines built by Mr. W. A. Whit
field with the Person Terracing Unit
The members of the CCC organi
zation are opening the outlets of the
terraces into the woods or water
channels, and they expect to build
regular dams at the mouths of these
terraces where needed to prevent
further soil erosion. They havie done
considerable work in stopping gullies
on Mr. Whitfield's farm. When the
work Is completed Mr. Whitfield
should have a farm properly terraced,
with splendid outlets, for the preven
tion of Soil Erosion on his farm
If you desire similar work op your
farm, the present plan is for you to
join the Person County Soil Conser
vatin Association at the Countys A
gent's office. This makes it possible
for the CCC Camp Technician to
call on you regarding a system of
Farm Management that will fit In
(Continued On Page Four)
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County Health Nurse
Addresses Bethel
Hill High Students
Mrs. Ruth O'Briant Delivers Fourth
Address In Series Of Vocational
Guidance Lectures.
On Tuesday morning, November 12,
Mrs. Ruth O'Briant, County Nurse,
gave the fourth of a series of vocational
guidance lectures to the students of
Bethel Hill High School. With en
thusiasm for her profession, Mrs. O'
Briant discussed nursing in a manner
which was very interesting and in
structive. Red Cross nursing, emer
gency nursing, and nursing on a Float
ing Hospital were phases of her dis
cussion. Speaking from experience,
Mrs. O'Briant described a typical day
in Red Cross nursing. "If," said Mrs.
O'Briant, "you want a life filled with
service, beauty, sweetness, hardship,
and joy, the field of nursing stands as
a challenge to you."
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Notice - Bazaar
There will be a bazaar given next
Saturday, November 23rd, from 3 to
10 p. m? at the Ca-Vel school build
ing. There will be many prizes, lots
of good things to eat, also music. This
bazaar is being given to sponsor a
Christmas tree for the Ca-Vel Sun
day School. Come, and have a good
i time.
NOTICE !
Roxboro Boy Scout Council will hold
its regular monthly meeting Tuesday
night, November 19, at 7:30 P .M. at
the community hpuse. All members
are urged to attend the meeting.
Signed,
Roxboro Boy Scout Council
NEW MOVIE -MAKING IDEA
MAKES HOLLYWOOD DEBUT
Hollywood, Nov. 17 ? The most un
usual movie premiere in Hollywood's
history was staged tonight.
Limousines cavalcaded up in front
of the Beverly Christian Church. In
stead of a super-super spectacle, the
audience saw a simple, 66-minute film
tersely discussing the subject, "Are
We Civilized?"
As a final dissimilarity, the image
was thrown on a regulation size screen
but a vest-pocket projector, using 16
millimetre film ? the "home movie"
camera size ? instead of regulation 35
millimetre negative.
The picture was the first product of
a new movie-making idea in Holly
wood.
"Our pictures will not be aimed to
ward the general public," said Edwin
Carewe, the producer. "We are mak
ing them expressly for use in church
es, schools, and for similar organiza
tions.
"That means that, while they will
be entertaining, they will be educa
tional sometimes, and clean all the
time."
The producer said researches show
that about 25,000.000 people in tV <
United States never fo to the mov
les, ^because they offend moral or
religious sensibilities, or are consid
ered a pure waste of time."
"Are We Civilized?" is pictorializa
tion of the dangers threatening the
freedom of the press, the right of free
speech, and the basic liberties of hu
manity. its broad, general theme is
woven in a story of four persons.
Later, Carewe said, he would pro
duce "the life of Christ." His next
immediate project will be a historical
picture, dealing with the development
of this country.
"And, too, we have a series of pure
ly educational subjects on the pro- *
gram," he added. "One will deal with
the development of language, another
will illustrate importnat facts about
the human body."
The small projector, for commercial
use, he said, was an innovation. Pack
ed in two suitcase-size containers, it
is "equipped to throw a standard-size
image on a large screen, and has de
vices for sound.
The premiere tonight was attend
ed by numerous civic and religious
leaders, including Senator Pat Mac
Carran of Nevada, Governor Prank
P. Merriam, and many others.