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■I f-JU" w i L - ho Trecincts Vote mublican Tickets Ke county fell in line with the Democratic landslide adav's election, as Roosevelt swept Dewey off his feet, Faldwell and Rock Springs precincts being the only two reporting to go Republican in the Presidential vote, mid-afternoon yesterday, 13 of the iG. voting precincts Lgp county had reported the election returns with the ,cratic party literally walking off with atlLthe prizes, as ^nl case. Precincts .failing to report were Cole Store, | Grove and St. Mary’s. -Carrboro and White Cross re ame in on the presidential vote only. No county or returns were brought in by those precincts. National Vote urelt lead Dewey in Orange . „n the basis of the 13 re precincts, nearly three to oping in line with the solid Btic South in spite of the Of rebellion against the pres ninistration on the part of tin State Officers ’■ other State officers on the ratic side were elected to of |th majorities in line with and Cherry’s vote. Officers i were: Lieutenant-Gover , Y. Ballentine; Secretary of Thad Eure; Auditor, Geo. Bi; Treasurer, Charles John itoraey-General, Harry Mc i; Superintendent of Public ction, Clyde Erwin; Corn ier of Insurance, William Jges; Commissoner of Agri e, W. Kerr Scott; Commis of Labor, Torres! Shuford; ite Justices of the Supreme A. A. F. Seaweil and Wil i. Devin; Congressman from ith District, Carl T. Durham. County Election Dennis Madry ousted Alan irison for the State Senate amity vote in 11 out of the rincts. He got by'with"a [table margin of more than ta ane. Edwin M. Lynch, in at clerk of superior court, lit over his opponent, W. S. lord, Jr., to remain in that n. G. G. Bivins, the only tested candidate on the bal i hold the office of tfeas inotlfbr term. 1 Umstead left his Republi pponent, . George N. Harward bind for the seat In the lower I of the General Assembly, present county commission iffier Cobb, Jr.; Ben F. Wil ®d H. G. Laws, will serve ® term, having defeated the fan opposition, J. W. Kirk, Cates, and McKenzie L. Wal rarian Resigns ■CotuiCy Duties * Ernestine Grafton, tri J librarian. for Person-Rox and Orange counties, sub »her resignation to the Or K’dnty library board on ^day, November 1, to take" Fte-ftrst of?E)'eGgffiti6f; “ ~" n®£ the month of December F®5 to Complete her work . . North Carolina Journal Pj? the magazine of the N. ^ry Association. Miss Graf jr10 has been acting as editor Mournal, is resigning that piffiuary i she will take up Fas dead of Extension Divi ' lr8ihia State. Her duties |*r entire state of Vir she will be located in *na. teou°n Ieceived her first science from the Caldwell Man K i l b HimselJ With Shotgun Ed Carden, 57j prominent Or ange county farmer of the Cald well Community, committed sui cide at his home at 8:45 a m. Sun day morning, November 5, by shooting himself in the heart with a shotgun, according to Coroner H. J. Walker Of Hillsboro. He had been in declining health for sev eral months. A veteran of World War I, he served with the 119th Infantry in France. He was a member of the Little River Presbyterian church, where he served as elder for.a number of years. Funeral services were held at the Little River Presbyterian church, Monday afternoon at 4:00 with the Rev. J.. S. Cook conduct ing. Burial in the church ceme tery. The body remained in state for an hour before the service. (Continued on page 4} * VISITS GRANDMOTHER Little Miss Betsey Jones, daugh ter of Mrs. Allen Jones of Durham, spent last week with her grand parertts, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jones of Route 3. Mrs. Jones visited them over the week-end. Murphy P. T. - A. Organized For New Year The Murphy P.T.A. held its first -meeting of the year during Oc tober. The regular committees for the year were-appointed. Mrs. Wal ter Talley was elected new sec retary-treasurer. Mrs. S. H. Stray horn agreed to serv'c- as president for another year, At this time the organization Voted to sponsor pub lic school music in the school: Mrs.\ Charles Hudson of Durham was secured as teacher for this. Plans were .made'for a .brmiswick stew. Room representatives were ap .-nomted-ioreach. grade. The next regular meeting wiiTbe lielcT Tro verhber 21 in the school audito rium. ' .1 On Tuesday of last week the room representative^ went to the school and helped - eskerlaia th.e children of their respective rooms for Halloween, Z^—- • '. %• The first, second/ and third grades were made happy tyy..a visit from their ropm representatives, program of Halloween songs fol The children presented a musical lowed by a costume parade, after ii/hich the room representatives Two'Boards Met Here In Joint Session The Orange county board of commissioners met in-a joint ses sion last Monday with the county board of education to observe and discuss the possibilities of install ing a lunch room at the Hillsboro school that would meet require ments to come under the federal child feeding program. The two boards considered a suggestion to move the present lunch room from its location in the basement of the old building to a basement room in the new wing. This move is intended to secure more room, more light, and to make' a more'sanitary lunch room. The education board was in structed to investigate the costs of making the change and neces sary improvements to come under the child feeding program. The government furnishes a portion of the cost of feeding the children, but funds for the installation .of the lunch room must be appro priated by the county. Schools in Orange county which have, lunch operating in coopera tion with1 the child feeding pro gram are: Hillsboro, West Hills boro, Efiand, Murphy, Carrboro, Aycock, Caldwell, Aycock, and the Gravely Hill colored school. The commissioners also ap proved a bill of T. S. Brown for $6 00 for ;two turkeys killed by dogs, and the jury list was drawn for the December term of Superior court in Hillsboro. The jury list for the December term of court consists of: Chapel Hill, Harold W. Walker, O. A. Hamilton, Lacy Neville, G. W. Widner, Phillip W. Sparrow, J. D. Long, WaldepM. Pender graft, Erwin Hexner, W. W. Pendergratl, A. A. Pickard, J. T. Widner; Hills boro, George V. Lucas, James E. Phelps, W. E. Laws, C. T. Latta, O'. P. Cole, Marion W. Walker, E. T. Johns, L. I. Boone. Bingham, A. L. Griffin, Dewey Allen, Clarence D. .Bradshaw, John F. Whitfield, Samuel A. Whitfield, John T. Lloyd; Cedar Grove, J. C. McDade, Jr., B. E. Hensley, Sutton Byrd, ■ Herman Ashley; Cheeks, Ed Sykes, Henry. Clay ton;’-A.L, Graves, J. A. Clark, Al fred Russell; Little River, Lewis Hall, Thomas Woods. The first. Monday in December will be the first meeting of the county commissioners following the electiqn Tuesday. The com missioners will be sworn in at that meeting. :—tt ' ';:"z-' This Week’s ORANGE MAN Roger L,„. Wilson, an Orange Countian since the date of his birth, June 26, 1915, is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wilson. "" Reared in Orange county, Wil son was schooled at the Hillsboro schools. He has six sisters and five brothers. The sisters are: Janice and Georgianne Wilson of Hills boro; Mrs. Claude Wilkersoh, Mrs. O. C. Harris, and Miss Beade Wil son of Burlington; and Ruth Wil son of Raleigh. The brothers are: Ormand of Hillsboro; Ralph of Greensboro, Alton of Raleigh; Her man of Burlington; and Leonard of New River. *• Wilson is a member of the Mars Hill Baptist church where he has been superintendent of the Sun day School and teacher of the in termediate boj4 -class. Re Ts also past master of the Eagle Lodge. For the past twelve years he has been a miller. He has been asso ciated with the Walker Brothers Flour Mill in Hillsboro. At the present, however, he is member of the armed forces, having been drafted recently. He is stationed with the army at Camp Croft, S. C. ATTEND FOOTBALL GAME . Among those attending the Duke-Georgia Tech game in Dqr ham Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Howard, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Singletary and Herbert, Jr., Mr-, and Mrs. O. P’ Southerland, and Misses Ellen -Bacon and Carrie Jackson. ? > . , War Fund Is , ' ^ Beyond Quota As Drive Ends > ' * ■ u The War Fund Drive ende< October 31 with the quota ten Hillsboro and rural Orange bein; well exceeded, chairman Gilber Ray said, although all the return were not in. The quota was $1,961, and thi total amount so far turned in 1 $3,100. The quota last year wa about $3,300, and the total amoun raised was $4,050. The cut in thi quota for this year was a resul of the oversubscription last year The chief sources of income dur ing the drive in this area were th cotton mills and the town solid* tation. r ■ • *' ' The rural areas were contact® through the county schools. Ra commended the schools on the jo of raising the,money and pointer out Aycock as making the best rec ord, soliciting $156.43. He said th cooperation of all the workers wit the drive waft excellent. Mrs. Graves Died id Chapel Hill Tnesdaj Mrs. Julia Charlotte Graves, 88 >one of the oldest and most beloveq citizens of Chapel Hill, died Tue«| day night following a short uj| ness. She passed her 88th birthdai last July 24. The body wiU be cremated an| funeral services will be held '■ the graveside in the Chapel Hijj cemetery. Time of the funeral ha| not yet been announced. She is survived by a daughter) Mrs. Mary Graves with whom sh| lived; two sons, Editor Loud Graves, now attached to thechiJ engineers’ office in Washington one niede? MBsTBeftsie L. Whltl aker, of Denver, Colo., and two grandchildren, Pembroke Rees, iq training at the navy pre-flighl school in Athens, Ga., and Lt. Erl nest Graves, Jr., in Europe with the army engineer corps. Mrs, Graves was the grande daughter of William Hoopeqj grandson of the signer of the Dec* laration , of Independence. Mri Hooper’s mother’s second marrW age, about 1800, was to Joseptj Caldwell, the first president of thft University of North Carolina. AT METHODIST CONFERENCE The Rev. S. F. Nicks left Tise^ day afternoon to attend the Meih* odist - -Conference being held uj Raleigh. Alan Browning Looks Back At Bygone Days In Hillsboro ‘'“fire' following "column, a retfb , spectivje glance at by-gone days in Hillsboro was written by Alan Browning ' for the first- issue of THE NEWS to be printed in -Hills boro. 4jan. a former resident of. •Hillsboro, his original home, is the son of Mrs. Alan Browning now living in Hillsboro. At the present time, he is associated with the- Elk "Printing Company, publishers of The Elkin Tribune. ' . •graiT^’Eflytnf' 'tfrecracitery-'a- “f uth month before Christmas and hid ing them in the attic of our moth er’s house, and how wg would now and then sneak down street to set TBt * tO 'tfatte ' effectr.-cty- bapti2f<l| •some of her baby chicks. • 11 Then there’s another staid citi zen of Hillsboro, who, we under stand, is now clerk of .superior court; one Edwinv M.- Lynch,- -bJ to us known afTectidftately a® “Professor” or as we used i® “ ’Fessor.” We won't ever forge® the bull sessions we held by th® stove in the'rear of "the . store haj managed—or of the silly things wj| did, such as haying our own ptidl sonal stationery printed in ldujfl blue ink’ .and writing untold l^flj ters on it to everyone we coy1*
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