LOOKING BACK SEVENTY YEARS BY THAD K. JONES One of the first things I remember in my early youth was sickness. Diph theria in our family. Three of we children had it about the same time. We were critically sick and my only brother and one of my sisters died. The next thing I remember was when my father returned after the cruel Civil war. He was wounded and taken prisoner at Petersburg and carried to Point Lookout in N. Y. where he had a long hard case of pneumonia. He came very near dying; and wanting to come home so bad he started back before he was well and strong enough to make the trip. He took cold on the train which caused consumption, this was in June 1865 and he died the 19th of September following. This was one of the greatest and most far-reaching troubles t^at ever came to our family. Well do I remem ber the day my father was buried. Rev. J. P. Moore conducted the ser vices at the grave. Well do I remem ber one statement he made, saying, "Mr. Jones was a good man and we believe he has gone to rest." This left us in unfortunate conditions. Our mother, a poor widow with thre small children. My oldest sister was about ten years of age. I was five and the youngest girl. We had a hard, rough way to travel. The neighbors and kindred were kind and helpful, but there is often some degenerates who will impose on the weak and help less and we suffered imposition and privation. My next experience was going to my first school. This was in 1867, when I was 7 years old. My teach er was Mr. Tom Satterfleld. He taught in an old-time log school house, near where Mt. Harmony church stajwteJ This was a subscription school of a bout three months and as I was not | big enough to do much work, I wentj nearly all the session. I did not like to go at first, but soon became attach ed to it and loved to go to school when I could, but I had much work to do and not much time for school. I went a little nearly every winter when the weather was cold and farm work was not so pressing. Well do I remember starting to school on New Years day of 1877, to Mr. R. B. Blalock, who taught in a log-house near where Mr. W. C. Pixley now lives. I walked through the snow three miles knee deep to get there and loved to go if it was a long rough way and cold weather. There were ,more students j in this school than any other I ever! attended. Several walked four miles to this school, some came from other communities, and boarding at hemes near the school. There was a num ber of young men and several boys nearly grown who attended this school . Nearly all of these have now passed away. McGuffies reader, Emer sons arithmetic, Smith grammar, el ementary geography and Websters old Blue Back spelling book were about all the books that were used. Mr. Blalock was very fond of the Blue Back speller and he taught uf something else beside what was in our books. One thing I will mention, he warned us against tateling and backbiting, saying if we could not say any thing good about people to say nothing. I went to school for a short time to several teachers and not much to any, I was needed at home to work, therefore, my education was quite limited. There was disipline and obe dience in the schools of that time. Students were content to play on the school house grounds and no costly playhouses were erected at the pub lic's exjperase. One of my teachers was a Primitive Baptist preacher and nearly all of them were good Christ ian people and their influence was elevating and uplifting. Considering outward appearances, there has been some progress in our school business in recent years, but we are command ed not to judge by appearances, but judge righteous judgment and there has been considerable progress in farming and financial affairs since 1865. Several years after the war was over many of the women folks had to work hard on the farm. This was hard on them but no disgrace. I knew an honorable widow of energy, Intel ligence and good management, when the war ended she was left with eight children and all girls except the youngest, a small boy, and the oldest girls ploughed and did most all kinds of farm work. They lived well and raised good crops, ;had plenty and some to spare. The Old Lady kept good stock and knew how to manage t.hem ? xtfToember seeing her going to mill driving two nice horses, and she sometimes carried her tobacco to] market. - When the war 'was over there was only two stores and a post office on this side of the county. One at Moriah and Mt. Tirzah. About 1870 Messrs. J. T. Hunt and J. L. Thomas began merchandising at Centre Grove about three miles east of our home. They also established a post-office which was the only one fdtr miles around. Well do I remember riding behind my mother on horse back to this store and postoffice. Now nearly every family has their p. o. often in fifty steps of their home, this is an other great convenience. About 1870 Messrs. Reade Moore & Co. built a saw and grist mill on Deep Creek at the place where Webb's FARTHER without scrimping So many gifts to buy . . . and only so much money to spend on them. That's the problem. Simplify it by shopping first at the RexaU Drug Store where you get the most in style and quality for your money. SHOP FIRST. AT THE 3ssss?St DRUG STORE 2AT THE ?c*gi?g. drug STORE DRUGS sawmill once stood. This was a great convenience and also a necessity to many people for miles around. Before this we had to go four miles to Sw paneys' Mill over a rough and moun tainous way or seven miles to Moore's Mill on Flat River. Neither one was a pleasant task. This was about my first experience as a mill boy, going on horseback. Often it was hard work to keep the sack from falling off. Once it did fall and Mr. Crock Lunsford came along and put It up for me. I yet remember his kindness. I was about ten years old at this time. About 1873 Messrs. Yancey Bros, built a store and postoffice near the new mill. They carried a good stock of merchandise and did a thriving bus iness and the postofflce was a great convenience to our people. Well do I remember Mr. Sid Young was our first mail carrier, carrying the mail from Yanceys Store to Raleigh, N. C., mak ing one trip on horseback a week. It usually took him about four days to make the round trip. The coming of the mail was quite an important event, but alas, so fleeting and frail are earthly things. About 1901, high water carried away the mills, the store was burned and they have never been rebuilt. Some one has said: profit by the past ,but do not dwell in It, and it is well for us to glance back occasionally to the times of our youth and note the different condi tions and environments of things then and now. Several years after the war many people made their own clothing. The clatter of the loom and the hum of the spinning wheels were heard in the homes of most country people. People had to wear home spun clothes and home made shoes, go to church and elsewhere walking, riding horseback and on wagons. The covered wagon was a favorite vehicle at that time and in this time there was more true virtue, piety and charity than there is now. People then attended church more often. I have seen churches crowded at their monthly aplppoinfcments. People had church and character pride and now it Is a pity these great essentials of life and eternity are dying out. People then were more consistent, prudent, contented and cautious than they are now , and behold, and con sider what this 'modern, wild, roaring, rushing, destructive gas age is doing, but I will not say any more on this subject. ? Dear People, let us heed the Divine command to set bur affections on things above and not on earth. Be ye not conformed to this world and be ye also ready for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man i may come. I often think of a state ment and request that dear Bro. David Peed made in his prayers. Lord help up- live as we will wish we had : when we come to die, and this applies ! to both saint and sinner. Dear People, in writing this I lay no claim to wis dom, heroism or greatness. I am an unworthy, unfaithful servant of the Lord. One of the smallest pf the small, weakest of the weak, humblest of the humble. I am seventy-five and in the evening of life and my hope is bright. But my regret is I have been so unfaithful, undutiful and have done so little for my Blessed Master who has done so much for me. ? ?. Ca-Vel Village School News ^ Miss Montague's Grades Pre sent Interesting And En tertaining Chapel Pro gram Friday The regular chapel was held last Friday morning by Miss Montague's grades. The song, "You Can Smile," was sung by the entire school. The school was then led in p*rayer (by Gladys Dickerson, a pupil of the 4th grade. Then a health playlette, "The Magic-Oairden" was given by these grades. It was very interesting to watch Cho-Cho, the health clown, with his helpers, the Healthy Fairies, teach John, the little boy, how to grow up to strong manhood by eating the right kind of foods and forming the right habits. Those taking part on the program were as follows: CJho-CTho ? Curtis Hamlett John ? Donald Hammock. Milk Parries: Sara Mangum, Musette, Jones, Doris Smith, Mary Harges, Ellen Chandler. Vegetable Family: Miss Carrot ? Gladys Dickerson; Miss Tbmato ? Joyce Barksdale; Mr. Beet ? Raymond Clayton; Miss Cabbage ? Martha Car ver; Miss Lettuce ? Edna Clayton; Miss Spinich ? Doris Dickerson. Meat Family: Mr. Rooster ? Joe Dixon; Miss Hen ? Mary Yarboro; Mr Turkey ? Earl Shotwell; Mr. Pig ? Ol ,iver Sewell; Miss Egg ? Edna Walker. Other Health Fairies: Miss Soao ? Alyse Bivins; Mr. Tootbhru^h ? Wil bur Clayton. Tempting Trolls: Miss Candv ? Louise Singleton; Mr. Coffee ? Laddis Dixon f Mr. Chewing Gum ? Huel Rhew; Miss Banana ? Erlene Clayton; Mr. Cucumber ? Herbert WEiitt; Mr Pickle ? Garland Blanks. Dame Sleep: Margaret Davis. In the contest Cho-Cho and hi? helpers won over the Tempting Trolls ?\nd John was sent safely on the road t<> health and happiness. We were delighted to hare several our mothers and relatives out to see this little program, and want them ' to come more often. Roxboro Football Squad Has Good Reason This Year Out Of Fourteen Games Played Won Eight, Tied Two, and Lost Four. Beat Three Rivals For First Time Roxboro High School football team wound up one of Its most successful football seasons on Tuesday, Novem ber 26 when they played the last game on their schedule. Eight opponents fell before the powerful attack of the local gridders, while only two man aged to tie them, and there were only four teams who could best them throughout the season. Out of the first six games the grid ders went down in defeat three out of the four times they were licked during the season and tied one game Other than the first game of the sea son which was played against Reids ville no team scored more than one touchdown against the Roxboro squad. Three teams, Mebane, Oxford, and Henderson, were defeated for the first time in the memory of Coach Heffner, who has been connected with the high school since 1927 with the ex ception of three years. The squad will lose heavily by grad uation this year. The losses will in clude Captain Harold Wilkerson, reg ular end, Clinton Winstead, quarter back, Fletcher Winstead, half back, Hubert Roberts, center, Bobby Steph ens, end, Buddy Allgood, half back, and Ben Broadwell, end. All save the last two players mentioned were reg ular members of the first team, while the latter two were reliable substi tutes. o LETTERS TO I SANTA CLAUS ? Timberlake, N. C. Dear Santa: I guess you are almost ready to take your trip this year. I am a little girl five years old. I can read and know my ABC's. I go to Sunday School every Sunday. I have been very smart. I want you to bring me a doll, a tea set, a pair of sissors, a pencil tablet, and some nuts, fruits, and candy. I hope I am not asking for too much. I am planning to see you at Roxboro the 20th. Hope you a Merry Christ mas. Your friend, Wilma Berry . Timberlake, N. C. Dear Santa: I will write and teil you what I want for Christmas. I am a little girl two years old. I go to Sunday School and am very smart. I want you to bring me a big doll, a little piano, a trycicle and some fruits, nuts and candy. Hope you will have a Merry Christmas. Your little friend, Josephine Long Timberlake, N. C. Dear Santa: I am a little girl two years old. I am very smart. I go to Sunday school every Sunday. I want you to bring me a big doll, a book, a tea set, some nuts, fruits and candy, Don't forget mother and daddy and all the other little boys and girls. Hope you have a nice Christmas. Your little friend, Joyce Berry Roxboro, N. C., Dec. 10, 1935. Dear Santa : I hope you won't forget me this time, as you have a lot of houses to go to in one night. I want you to bring me a wrist watch, a Webster Dictionary, a book sack with a key, and nuts, fruits and candies. I want sparklers too. Don't forget my mother who is sick. Best wishes, Eliza Jones. Roxboro, N. C., Dec. 10, 1935. Dear Santa: I am nine years old in the fourth grade. Miss Elizabeth Tillett is my teacher, I like her very much. Don't forget her and my other friends. I want a doll carriage, a pencil box, a nice ring, and fruits, nuts and can dies. I want some sparklers too. Love to you, Aleine Jones. Roxboro, N. C., Dec. 10, 1935. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy four years old. I want you to bring me a tricycle, a lit tle car, a knife, and fruits, candles, and nuts. I want some sparklers. Good-bye, Carl Berkley Jones. ? o NEW LICENSE PLATES GO ON SALE SATURDAY Sale of 1936 automobile license tags will begin Saturday, December 14. By law the sale starts usually on December 15 but as that is a Sun day this year, plates will go on sale a day earlier. Plates will be sold here and from 45 branch offices. At present more than 511,000 pairs of 1935 licenses, a record for a sin gle year, have been issued. o It's not too early to be tahcing up new resolutions for 1936 ? you will probably need them. , Fighters Training Hard For Tough Battles Friday Night Nightly Training Sessions Held In Factory Building On Fou shee Street. Scrappers Are In ' Good Shape Though the seats are bare of spec tators the local fighters who will take part In the fight card to be staged here Friday night are holding night ly training sessions and there is plen ty of fire in the fists of those boys. Punching the bag, skipping rope, sparring in the ring are all a part of the training that these boys are get ting. They are preparing for anything their opponents may have, any sur prise they may spring. Howard and Oakley are in top shape for their fight with tough fighters. The other fighters, some who are new comers to the ring here, are also pre paring for their fights here on this card. Fighting will begin at 9:00 P. M. sharp. Admission at usual scale of I 25c with reserved seats at 25c. " 1 If INJURES FOOT Mr. Marvin Clayton had the mis fortune to slip and injure his right foot. Though he is able to be about he has to employ the use of a cane to help him. ? o?^ Hie best way to improve Roxboro is to improve yourself. This applies to problems of finance, as well as oth er matters. Tobacco Market Will Close With Tomorrow's Sale Market Shows A Healthy In crease Over The Past Season With tomorrow's sale the tobacco market will close for the Christmas holidays, in fact until the 13th day of January, 1936. While the price has not averaged near what it was last season, it has been so much more' ihan the most optimistic dreamed possible after it opened up as it did. While we do not happen to have the figures we believe the market has averaged very near (23.00, and with the extra amount raised our farm eis will receive more money for the ciop than for last season. While the market has not sold as much tobacco as it should, consider ing the amount raised in the- county and the price paid, still, it hat made considerable advance and we are still hoping that we will again get to bt considered one of the big markets. IN WASHINGTON Dr. E. J. Tucker and C. C. Garrett left Tuesday afternoon for Washing ton, D. C., where they will look alter some post-offlce matters. o ??-?* SENTENCE REMITTED Male Straphanger: "Madam, yfru are standing on my foot." Female Ditto: "I beg your parson, I thot it belonged to the man sit ting down." PENDER Marching Ahead! .... WITH BIGGER ANJ) BETTER VALUES FOR THE THRIFTY SHOPPER. PLAIN OR SELF RISING Triangle Flour 12-lb. J.Q- 24-lb. QC. Bcg Bag sjQ, SANTA CLARA PRUNES 4 Lbs. 17c LIBBY'S CRUSHED PINEAPPLE 2No.2cans29( DELICIOUS BUTTER COOKIES 2 25c PHILLIP'S DELICIOUS HERRING 3 t?' 20c SOUTHERN MANOR Lima Beqns No. 2 (an 1 5c GIBB'S PURE HOMINY 2 Lg. cans 15c FINEST BULK Mince Meat 2 "?? 25c PURE FRUIT j JELLO 3 Mas ? 17c KRAFTS ASSORTED . CHEESE) 2 ilb. pkgs 1 5c Libby's Bartlett Pears large can 21 Crisco for better baking, 1 -lb. can 21 C Old Va. Fruit Cake 1 -lb. size 49c D. P. Blend Coffee lb. 21c Our Pride Bread 20-oz. loaf 10c Market Specials: ROUND STEAK .... lb. 19c STEW BEEF . . . . lb. 10c Pure Pork SAUSAGE . . lb. 25c Tasty BOLOGNA . .lb. 15c FAT BACK lb. 17c