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ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1935
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
(County Correspondents Solicited) NUMBER 78
REV. J. FURMAN HERBERT IS
TRANSFERRED TO ROCKINGHAM
Will Be Replaced At Long
Memorial By Rev. D. P. Rob
inson. No Other Changes Are
Made In Person "County
REV. W. L. MANESS IS
SENT TO YANCEYVILLE
A telegram was received at 2:00 P.
M. by The Courier that Rev. J. F.
Herbert, pastor of Long Memorial
Methodist Church for the past four
years had been transferred by the
annual North Carolina Conference, in
session at Wilmington, N. C., to
Rockingham, N. C. Mr. Herbert and
his family have endeared themselves
to a wide circle of friends who will
regret to see them move away.
During his four years as pastor of
the church here he has been actively
Interested in every worthwhile move
ment for the upbuilding of his town
and county, being an active figure in
all church affairs. He was the lead
ing figure behind the organization of
the Person-Caswell Young Peoples
Union, an organization of all Metho
dist young people in the two coun
ties. Not only was he active In its
organization, but he is now serving
his second term as Adult Counsellor to
the group.
Actively interested in all civic en
terprizes he is one of the leaders In
the Roxboro Kiwanis Club, having
served as its president for the term
that will end with the close of the
year.
Replacing Mr. Herbert in the pulpit
at Long Memorial will be Rev. D. P.
Robinson. Rev. W. L. Maness, who
served the Person Circuit some years
ago, will be sent to Yanceyville, N.
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It is expected that the changes In
these pulpits will be made within the
coming week.
All other pastors In Person County
were returned to their former charges.
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13-Cent Cotton
Being Forecast
Washington. Nov. 23. ? Thirteen cent
cotton is predicted by Culley A. Cobb,
chief of the AAA's cotton section.
He made this forecast in express
ing the belief that a "considerable
part' of the 4,450,000 bales on which
the government has made loans would
be marketed this season.
He added he believed movement of
this cotton to market would have lit
tle effect on prices. He said farmers
would automatically stop selling if the
price drops.
The AAA made loans of 12 cents a
pound on cotton last year to hold
the price at that level. Farmers still
retain title. Before the cotton can be
sold officials said the price would have
to equal the amount of the loan, plus
interest and carrying charges. It was
estimated unofficially that this price
would have ' to be 13.50 cents a pound.
Cobb said that on November 1 only
32.628 bales of 1935 cotton had been
pledged for the 10 cent loans being
made this year.
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TO CONDUCT DEMONSTRA
TION A T YANCEYV1LLE
DURING THIS WEEK
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Miss Maude Searcy, Home Demon
stration Agent of the Caswell Coun
ty Extension Service, will conduct
demonstrations at the Yanceyville
High School at 10:00 A. M. on Fri
day and Saturday of this week. Miss
Gladys Kimbrough, Home Economics
Specialist, will be with Miss Searcy
in these demonstrations. The public
is cordially invited to attend.
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fHANKSGIVING DINNER
AT HOTEL ROXBORO
Hie management of Hotel Roxboro
is making a very attractive offer for
Thanksgiving dinner. They will serve
a complete dinner that day for 65c.
Dining room open from 11:00 A. M.
to 2:00 P. M.
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FIRST SNOW OF SEASON
Saturday morning we had the first
snow of the season, something like
two or three inches fell during the
early morning. While the weather
continued cold there was no further
snow.,
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Cashew ? Does your boy find his
school problems hard?
Pecan ? Oh, no. The problems are
easy enough, but his answers are too
original to suit the teacher.
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The Following Stores
Will Be Closed On
Thanksgiving Day
Wilburn and Satterfleld, Harris and
Burns, Leggett's Department Store,
Raiff's Department Store, and For
man's Department Store will be closed
all day Thursday, November 28,
Thanksgiving Day. Patrons are urg
ed to note this announcement. Though
no definite"1 announcement has been
made, it is thought that most business
houses in Roxboro will observe the
holiday by remaining closed all, or at
least part of the day.
Red Cross Drive
Expected To Be
Finished This Week
AH Who Have Not Contributed
But Would Like To Do So
Urged To Get In Their Con
butions This Week
It Is expected that the annual Red
Cross drive ?will be completed this
week. The committee would greatly
appreciate it if those who were miss
ed when the canvass was made would
make their contributions this week.
Such memberships and other contri
butions will be received by Mr. Cope
land C. Garrett at the Post-office or
by The Peoples Bank.
Officials of the drive estimated this
morning that more than fifty per cent
of the county's quota has already
been raised with all the schools in the
county yet to report.
The Red Cross is carrying on a
wonderful work in disaster rejief and
it is felt that all those who joined last
years will want to join again this
year. You are urged to attend to this
matter this week.
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Rotary Club Host
To Football Team
Thursday Night
Mr. Fitz Davis Speaks To Club
And Guests In Forceful,
Entertaining Manner
The Roxboro Rotary Club, at its
regular Thursday evening meeting at
the Community Center, acted as host
to the football team of the Roxboro
High School. Several memebers of the
football squad made short talks con
cerning the game and the activities
of the local team on the gridiron this
fall. A short resume' of the Duke
Carolina game, which in the eyes of
Carolina supporters was a catastrophe
outranked only by the depression, was
given by Fletcher Winstead. Mr. Fitz
Davis spoke to the team and to the
club also on the subject of football,
advising the team to put first things
first with reference to studies and ath
leics.
Guests of the Club besides the team
were: Messrs. G. C. Davidson and Fitz
Davis.
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ATTENDING MEETING
IN RALEIGH TODAY
Dr. A. F. Nichols, Dr. G. W. Gentry
and Dr. B. A. Thaxton are attending
a meeting of the Wake County Med
ical Society in Raleigh today.
MR. WINSTEAD IMPROVED
Mr. J. J. Winstead, who has been
confined to his home on North Main
street for some time on account of
illness, is very much improved. He
was able to be up town today.
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STUDIES 30 YEARS;
CAN'T READ IT
Baltimore, Md. ? Dr. William Gates
has been studying a language for 30
years but does not ever expect to read
it. He has collected a specimen of
Mayan hieroglyphics but no one has
ever translated the markings found
on a stone temple and palaces in Cen
tral America.
Electricity To Be *
Cheaper In 1936
Small Consumer Will Receive
The Most Benefit
A rate reduction, announced Tues
day night by the Utilities Commis
sion, effecting the cost of electric ser
vice will result in an average saving
of 30 per cent to more than 50 per
cent of the customers served by the
Carolina Power & Light Company.
The new schedules are much simp
ler than those in effect at the pres
ent time, in view of the fact that the
special rate for combination service
has been dropped and that "fixed"
or "demand" charges on all resident
ial and commercial rates have been
eliminated. The new rates are ex
pressed in terms of cents per kilo
watt hour, and because of the elimi
nation of flat charges will be applied
to distinct advantage of customers
making sparse use of electricity.
It is estimated that customers
served by the above company will
save $600,000 annually as the result of
the reductions. This brings close to
one million dollars the annual sav
ings to residential and commercial
customers when added to other sav
ings effected through rate reductions
made by Carolina Power and Light
Company during the past three years
Of "the $600,000 to be saved by users
of electricity in '1936 approximately
$200,000 will accrue to the benefit of
commercial customers.
It is understood that the new sched
ule of rates was announced simul
taneously throughout tihe territory
served by the Carolina Power & Light
Company in South Carolina. The new
rates become effective during the
month of December aud will be je
flected in bills rendered on or after
January 1. The immediate, or regular,
rate is as follows:
6.5 cents per KWH for first 40 I'.WH
4.0 cents per KWH for next 60 KWH
2.5 cents per KWH for next 150 KWH
1.5 cents per KWH for all KWH in
excess of 250 KWH used.
Monthly minimum $1.00
The new inducement rate, which
may be earned by customers who
make a more liberal use of electricity
than during corresponding months of
1934, is as follows:
5.5 cents per KWH for first 50 KWH
3.0 cents per KWH for next 50 KWH
2.0 cents per KWH for next 150 KWH
1.5 cents per KWH for all KWH in
excess of 250 KWH used.
Monthly Minimum $1.00
It may be seen by comparison of
the above rates with those which are
being superseded, that the customer
who uses less than 50 KWH per
month will receive an immediate re
duction in his bill for a correspond
ing number of KWH used during any
month of this year, or for a lesser
amount of money such customers may
make a more liberal use of electricity.
Meredith College
Offers Scholarships
College President Announces
Scholarship To Highest Rank
ing Girl Student In Each
North Carolina High School
Raleigh, November 22. ? Scholar
ships for next year will be offered by
Meredith College to the highest rank
ing srirl student in each high school in
North Carolina, it was announced re
cently by Dr. Charles E. Brewer, pres
ident. Each scholarship will have the
value of $75 and will be good for
one year.
The winner of one of these scholar
ships must have made during her four
years in high school the highest av
erage scholastically of all the girls in
her class there. In the event that she
does not elect to accept the scholar
ship, it will then be available to the
girl who has made the next highest
average in grades in the four high
school years. If not used by either cf
the two highest ranking students, the
scholarship will not be available for
such a year.
These scholarships are offered with
the hope of encouraging good students
throughout the state and making it
easier for them to come to college.
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VISITED WASHINGTON, D. C
Mr. and Mrs. O. B. McBroom and
Mrs. Monroe Pleasants were Wash
ington, D. C., visitors last week.
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SPEEDERS COPY ARTICLE
Portlands Maine ? Motorists con
victed of speeding had their senten
ces suspended provided they copied,
in long hand, a well known magazine
article on the horrors attending au
tomobile deaths.
Oxford Orphanage !
Singing Class Here
In Annual Concert
Class Will Perform At Roxboro High
School At 8:00 P. M. Monday
. December 2nd !
The Oxford Orphanage Singing
Class will perform in the Roxboro
high school auditorium on Monday
evening, December 2, at 8:00 P. M.
This concert is being sponsored as an
annual event by the local lodge of the
Masonic Order.
Fourteen children in songs, drills,
follc_^qng4 and dances and numerous
other features will put on what is
expected to be one of the most de
lightful performances ever staged here
by this organization.
The generous patronage of the pub
lic Is solicited in this undertaking as
all funds raised by the sale of tickets
to the concert will go toward furth
ering the humanitarian work done by
the Masonic Order.
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Assails Women
Card Gamblers
Seattle Conucilwoman Says
Wives Neglecting Homes
And Losing Money
Seattle, Nov. 24. ? Card-playing
wives, who neglect their homes and i
spend their husband's hard-earned dol
lars, have no friend in Mrs. Francis
F. Powell, Seattle city councilwoman.
The Smith College-trained Mrs. Pow- I
ell, widow and mother of three child
ren, has taken an active part in the !
council's inquiry into Seattle card
rooms, part of a vice and gambling
investigation. A council recommenda
tion that the license of two cardrooms
be suspended comes up for final action
Monday.
"It's like a disease, a drug, this card- i
room gambling," she said "They're i
not the class of people who patron- i
ize Chinese lotteries, either, but the |
better type of people who take part." ]
Complaints i
Mrs. Powell was willing to describe <
complaints, without mentioning the i
names.
"An engineer here tells me his wife
leaves for the cardrooms as soon as
he starts for work, and spends all the .
spare money she has." ,
Wives also have troubles.
"One woman complaining to me her .
husband had lost $4,000 in the past .
nine months, all their life savings," j
Mrs. Powell said.
Mrs. Powell thinks she hears more j
complaints than her male council as- |
sociates, because she is a woman. She
believes that "as a rule" when women
take up drinking, smoking, or gamb- ,
ling, they become "worse than men."
Mrs. Powell's comments before a
council hearing last week brought !
varying reactions ? from civic leaders, i
ministers and professional men. Prose
cutor Warren G. Mangunson said he
had no knowledge the activities were
widespread.
"If women neglect their household
duties, it's probably more in bridge
teas. And if that's all the trouble
we had, we'd be lucky," he said.
Dr. Mark A. Matthews, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church, said "no
woman has a right to neglect her
household duties for anything, and cer
tainly not for cards.
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Masonic Meeting
Regular Meeting of Person Lodge
No. 113 A. P. & A. M? TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER 26TH,
AT 7:30 P. M.
At this time Mr. D
S. Johnson, District
Deputy Grand Mas
ter of the 20th Dis
trict will make his
official visit.
All members please be present,
k J. W. Montague, Jr., Secretary.
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Beautiful Chrysanthemums ,
Mr. W. H. Harris, whp is recognized :
as the leader in raising flowers in ]
this section, has some of the most :
beautiful chrysanthemums we have ]
seen this season. Not only are the i
flowers beautiful, but he has a col
lection numbering probably ftf*,y or
more.
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BEATS WIFE IN ELECTION
Monticello, N. C.? John Pine, Re
publican, was elected Town Clerk
over his wife, Anna, who ran on the
Democratic ticket. The town, normal
ly Republican watched the race with
interest because many housewives had
declared for Mrs. Pine, who said she
was running, not for spite, buit to
support herself.
Sent To Rockingham
Rev. J. F. Herbert, for the past four
years pastor at Long Memorial Meth
odist Church, who has been transfer
red to the pastorate at Rockingham.
Mr. Herbert and his family have a
large circle of friends and admirers
who will regret to see them leave. The
church loses a good pastor, the town
and community lose a civic leader and
a family that is counted among its
very best.
Person County
Schools To Observe
Holidays This Week
Schools Will Close On Wednes
day For Remainder Of The
Week, Resuming Work
Monday, Dec. 2nd
According to annua* custom " *11
schools, both white and colored, will
close on Wednesday of this week, re
maining closed until Monday, Decem
ber 2, or through the Thanksgiving
holidays. On Monuay work will be re
sumed for the final drive before the
Christmas holidays, scheduled to be
gin the latter part of December.
The County Superintendent's office
will remain closed for one day only,
that being Thanksgiving Day. They
will resume work on Friday of this
week.
The short holiday occasioned by an
nual observance of Thanksgiving will
no doubt afford many teachers an
opportunity to spend the time with
relatives or friends. So far as is
known there will be no especial cele
bration here of the day beyond ser
vices in some of the churches.
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Two Cars Collide
On Main Street
Saturday Afternoon
Car Operated By Negro Collides
With Automobile Driven
By Mr. Carl Adcock
Two Chevrolets, one operated by a
negro named Lonnie Rogers, and the
other operated by Mr. Carl ^Adcock
were in a collision just in front of the
Methodist parsonage on Main street
Saturday afternoon about 4:00 o'clock.
Mr. Adcock stated that he was driv
ing along slowly looking for a parking
place when he saw the other vehicle
approaching from seme distance downi
the street, being operated at a high I
rate of speed.
They crashed and both cars were
badly damaged. With Mr. Adcock was ;
his son, Claude, who was cut ab"ut
the face, his wife, and three others j
whose names could not be ascertained. '
None except Claude were injured be
yond a general shaking up.
It is said that Rogers had two ne
gro women with him, but that they
disappeared jupt after the adcident
and have not been heard from since.
Rogers was placed in jail to await a
hearing today. At this time it is not
known what disposition will be made
of the case.
UNKNOWN MAN FACES RABIES I
Atlantic City, N. J. ? Police are
seeking an unknown man (to warn
him that he faces the danger of hy- j
Irophobia. He stopped at a roadside
lunch wagon between Trenton and
here to protect a small dog from a I
larger animal. A scratch on the hand j
was dismissed casually but afterwards,
the attacking dog developed rabies. .
Physicians fear that the unknown; i
man will develop rabies unless he j'
takes treatment.
88 School Teachers
Hold Membership
In Slate Association
Person County Is Well Repre
sented In North Carolina
Educational Association
With 88 Out Of 105 Teachers
Belonging
The North Carolina Educational
Association, which is not an organi
zation that teachers are required to
join, but one which offers to them
many excellent services, is well repre
sented in Person County, there being
seven schools that have all teachers
who are members and in the entire
county eighty-eight out of the one
hundred and five white teachers be
long.
The schools listed as one hundred
per cent are: Allensville, Bethel Hill,
Ca-Vel, Helena, Indian School, Mt.
Tirzah( known also as Mt. Harmony),
and Longhurst.
In the North Central District, of
which Person County schools are a
part the average membership is 58.5,
while the state's average is 65.4. Per
son County has an average member
ship of 83.80, or better than 25% lar
ger enrollment than the district and
18.4% better than the state as a
whole.
Membership in the association in
cludes a subscription to the teachers'
magazine, arrangements for district
and state meets that are held annually
or oftener, and other interests of the
teachers.
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Says Al Smith
"Head Man" Of
New York Politics
New York. Nov. 23 ? The New York
Daily News asserted today that form
er Governor Alfred E. Smith has be
come "head man" of New York City's
municipal politics as a result of the
death of Bernard S. Deutsch, alder
manic president.
Friends of Smith, the News said, now
have nine of the 16 votes of the pow
erful board of estimate, which with
the board of aldermen forms the
city's legislative body.
The death of Deutsch Thursday
night, which caused the automatic
promotion of vice-chairman Timothy
J. Sullivan to the vacancy, gave con
trol of the board of estimates to dem
ocrats instead of Mayor P. H. La
Guardia's fusion forces. Sullivan will
have the three votes previously held
by Deutsch, an ally of Mayor La
Guardia.
In addition, the News listed as
"Smith-voters" the three held by Con
troller Prank Taylor, the two votes of
Samuel Levy, president of Manhat
tan Borough, and the one vote of
James J. Lyonfc, president of Bronx
Borough.
BREAKS LEG IN FALL
FROM HIS BICYCLE
Buster Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Jones, had the misfortune to
break his leg in a fall from a bicycle
one day last week. Though painfully
injured he is getting along as well
as could be expected ,
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MR. NEWELL BUYS NA
TIONAL BANK BLDG.
Mr. B. B. Newell has purchased the
First National Bank Building, the
purchase price being $8,500.00. Mr.
Newell is out of town and we have
not heard what he will use the build
ing for.
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MR. HARRIS MAKES
GOOD AVERAGE
Mr. W. B. Harris of Route 1, an
other (me of those good farmers who
sell in Roxborg, sold a load here to
day which averaged better than $35.
He favored this office with a call.
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CRADLE HONOR ROLL
Honor roll for the cradle roll of the
First Baptist Sunday School is as fol
lows for the month of October: Faith
Brooks, Hugh Beam, John Mark Mur
ray and Ronnie Perkins.
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EXERCISES
Captain Ross T. Mclntire, White
House physician, says that President
Roosevelt "was never, in better con
dition" and attributes it to systemat
ic daily exercise. The Chief Executive
swims for twenty minutes and alto
gether devotes an hour and a quar
ter five nights a week to exercise. Also
Included Is eight hours sleep a night.