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Dolly Madison Theatre To Open The 9th With “Barbary Coast” Roxboro’s New Theatre to Open Thursday. April 9th With One of the Best Pictures of Year. Stars are Miriam Hopkins, Edw. J. Robinson and Joel McCrea. Picture to Play For One Day Only. ALL OF THE STARS ARE FAVORITES IN ROXBORO AND PERSON COUNTY It’s a man’s size job for anybody to dig into the peppery lore of San Francisco’s Barbary Coast and ex tract from it a story of picturesque humans. Pioneer communities have in all history been places where toughness was at a premium and the quick draw was the suilqst path to a long life. New fields to conquer have always attracted their quota of ad ventures men in whose blood coursqd a fair share of lawlessness —and it is these, by their sheer ag gressiveness, who have always giv en a frontier its reputation. But Barbary l Coast had its build tejrs, its sincere pioneers, its men and women who went there to create a life for themselves and, unconsci ously perhaps, a future for their na tion. It is they who have brought San Francisco from its early stages of raucous living and loose stand ards to its present position as a metropolis respected by the world. It is these people, also, whom Samuel Goldwyn dramatizes in his production called “Barbary Coast.” He utilizes thq history of that fron tier merely as a background —a framework for the human story he ' has to tell. He has indeed set out ’ to do a man-size job. The gold rush {to California *in ■ 1849 carried in its sweeping tide i hordes of gamblers, thrives, confi dence men and professional murd- i erers. These formed the nucleus of ; the Barbary Coast. As time went ] on and its reputation grew, more i AMERICAN FARMS BEHIND THE TIMES Beginning of 1935 One Farm in Nine Had Electric Service. At the beginning of 1935 about one American farm in nine had elec tric stejrvice. New line construction had tapered off to almost nothing, i and the outlook for any further ad vance was not particularly promis ing. Congress and the President de cided to do something about the situation and a portion of the work relief funds was set aside for rural electrification. The Rural Electri fication Administration—REA—was created to administer the program. REA operates directly by lending money to build dfstribuiton lines in rural areas not now served. It makes no grants of any kind, but; any organization may borrow, pro vided which it sponsors meets the legal, engineering and economic tests applied by REA. Most import ant, the project must pay its own way. After a slow and careful start, the Federal rural electrification program is now making itself felt throughout the country. Forty-two projects, in twenty States, have re ceived REA approval since Novem ber 4, 1935, and consruction of some of them has been completed and the new lines placed in service. REA allotments and loans for building rural lines in unserved aVeas to taled $8,144,862, up to March 1, 1936, to be u4qd for the construction of over 7,500 miles of distribution lines ot take electric energy to some "27,000 rural residents never before served. In addition, the private utility in dustry is rapidly awakening to the fact that the vast farm market for power is the only remaining market to be tapped. On the basis of figures BOWEN TRANSFER CO. CONGRATULATES THE OWNERS OF THE DOLLY MADISON THEATRE o o MAY IT HAVE A SPLENDID OPENING AND A SUCCESSFUL CAREER o Bowen Transfer Co. ALL GOODS INSURED Carl Bowen, Prop. Telephone 74-X and more unsacory characters were attracted, and soon the quest for the precious metal was forgqltten in the consuming quest of life. For seventy years, until it was destroy ed in the San Francisco fire, the Bar bary Coast was a country without a law. The life of its citizens was one long round of god times. There was no definition between underworld and upper, because the whole of the Barbary Coast was an underworld. There were police, it is true, but these would no more have risked interfering with th inhabitants than they would put their heads in noos es. On the one occasion when a fool hardy police Captain sent a squad to clean out a gambling den, the results were disastrous. Gambling dqns flourished as they never had before in any land. Here the miners came with thousands and thousands of dollars worth of gold that they had panned out of streams, dug up undqr a few feet of soil, or even discovered in the dirt streets of the outlying districts. “Paydust” flowed over the grdeji-beige tables like water. It was nothing to wager ai poke amounting to five thousand dollars on the turn of a card or the spin of a whaql. Fortunes were dropped, and the loser would leave with a smile. And why not? There was plenty more where the other came from. But sometimes a loser would be come crazed with his misfortune and, driven on by liquor, would de mand his money back, or worse, would cast that unpardonable slur submitted to REA by the utility industry, there was an increase of approximately 175 pier cent in the number of American farms electri fied during 1935, compared with the previous year. Estimates point to a new peak in rural electrification activity in 1936. Morris L. Cook. REA administra tor, believes that this sharp upswing j in rural extensions is the most en couraging development in rural electrification in years. He credits the expansion to increasing organiz ed demand by farmers for electric service, the lowering of rural cus tomer requirements and rates by more progressive utilities, the es tablishment of REA, and the ability of many utilities to borrow private funds at low interest rates. o FARM QUESTIONS ANSWERED Question: How soon should sexes be separated in growing chicks? Answer: The separation should be made as soon as the males and fe males can be determined. With the Leghorns this can be determined in from four to six weeks and from seven to nine weeks with the Amer ican breeds. A$ the checks grow, more floor space is required and unless this is provided the chicks will begin toe picking and feather pulling. When thq chicks are over crowded they are much more sub ject it disease and develop more slowly. Question: Will cotton seed treated now with Ceresan keep until plant ing time? Answer: Yes. Ceresan is harmless to cotton sdqd and they may be treated now and stored until plant- PERSON COUNTY ROXBORO, N. C. 1 • —that he had been framed. Then , the fun would biggin. Pistols would , ( be jerked from their holsters, knives would flash, clubs and blackjacks : would swing through the air, and presently the hall /Would redound I with thq screams of women and the 1 roar of .45’s. j Often these riots would continue far into the next day, with new and eager recruits taking the place of the dead and wounded. Residents of the Barbary Coast liked to fight! Women, because they were scarce in San Francisco, were held in high regard, no matter what their sta tion or occupation. Rough fellows who had been known toi kill a man because he sneezed would tip their hats respectfully to a passing lady. of the dance-hall queens a massed fortunes some banked as high as fifty thousand dollars a year and many of them later mar ried wealthy and respectable men, and were able to live down their past. Robberies and murders were ev ery-day occurences, often taking place in broad daylight. The crack of a rifle or the agonized scream of a stabbed man would occasion not even the turning of a head. Bodies were allowed to lie where they dropped, and sometimes they remained for days. The survival of the fittest prevailed, and woe to the man who was slow on the draw, or didn’t kdqp his eye on his advers ary’s boot leg. But the San Francisco fire wiped out this most pisturesque of all hells. The Barbary Coast is no more. Recently, an attempt was made to hold a dance in the gardens on Co lumbia Avenue, in the heart of the old Barbary Coast, but the permit was refused by the police. The Bar bary Coast is dead and it must re main so. But the memory lives on. uui nit? iiiciiiuiy lives on. ing time. This treatment will also prevent any further trouble from : contaminated sacks, bins, or from the planters. Bb sure and use three 1 ounces of the fungicide to each i bushel of seed and mix thoroughly i in the container before storing. Seed : not needed for planting should be < disposed of in some way as treat \ ed send are unfit for feeding pur- < I poses. i Question: What spacing should be ! given a new planting of dewberries? Answer: The plants should be set 1 from four to five feet apart in rows * six feet apart. Press the soil firm ly against the roots, and cut back to two or three buds during tWq first growing season, but shbuld be tied to stakes or trained on a two-wire trellis before growth starts the following spring. Newly sqt plants should’ be fertilized with stable manure or a tablespoonful of nitrate of soda. A new publication on “Fruits and Nuts for Home Use” has just been issued by the Agri cultural Extension Servicte and copies may be secured by writing the Agricultural Editor, State Col lege. HUTSONHEADS FARM PROGRAM The new soil improvement pro gram will be administered under a different set-up than that of the old AAA. Instead of commodity divisions for the various basic crops, there are five regions into which the United States has been divided. Each re gion will handle all crops in its ! territory. North Carolina is in tHq East Central Region, which has been i placed in charge of J. B. Hutson, « former chief of the AAA tobacco section. i “We who have sden the success -1 ful way in which Mr. Hutson con i ducted the tobacco program under i the old AAA are particularly grati l fied over his appointment as direc l tor of this region,” commented s Dean I. O. Schaub, of State College. “He is thororughly familiar with . the situation in this State, he has our interest at heart, and he has ■ tfe|monsrated his ability to get ; things done.” The new program is like the old * AAA in some respects, However, . the dean pointed out. It will be administered by the State College ; agricultural extension service and . its corps of county agents. At the same time, much of the program will be handled by community, county, and state committees com posed of farmers. The state committee, to be made up of representative farmers from each section of the State, will have a voice in determining many mat ters of policy. The county committees will be in charge of local administrative work, including the checking of growers’ compliance with the program. Com munity committdqmen will aid the county committees. KIME TO GIVE TALK ON COTTON GROWING With cotton planting time near by, a radio talk on the subject will be delivered on Saturday, April 4, by P. H. Kime, plant brdqding ag ronomist at State College. One of the recommendations which Dr. Kime makes is the plant- * ing of fewter acres. He declared that on this reduced acreage, farmers can produce more cotton per acre of better quality at a lower cost pqr pound of lint. He will also discuss soil types best adapted for the growing of cot ton, fertilizers, the necessity for using good seed of an adapted va riety, and the proper methods of cultivation. Also included in the week’s sche dule is a discussion of occidiosis in baby chicks, which will be present ed by H. C. Gauger, poultry disease specialist. The full program for the week of March 30-April 4 includes: Mon day, Fred M. Haig, “The Operation ■ LEGGETTS DEPARTMENT STORE “ROXBORO’S SHOPPING CENTER” Extends Its Very Best Wishes and * Friendly Greetings to THE OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE DOLLY MADISON THEATRE w- * Koxboro is Proud of Its New Theatre and A Warm Welcome Is Extended o LEGGETTS DEPARTMENT STORE MAIN STREET sand Care of Cream Separators;” Tuesday, Dr. L. A. Whitforg i “Wild WateV Plants;” Wednesday, Zoology Depaxtaent; Thursday, s . Estelle Smith, “Plans for Convention of of the \Vorld in Wash ington;’’ NOdS?; H. C. Gauger, “Coccidiosis in Baby Chicks;” Sat urday, Dr. P. 11. Kime, “Important Factors in Cotton Growing.” The next in the Series of talks on cotton marketing will be pre sented Wednesday, April 8, by Glenn R. Smith, associate agricultural economist. The subject of his talk will be “Methods Used in Buying Cotton in Local Markets.” The FCX service has been or ganized in Transylvania County with W. W. Brittan as manager of the local cooperative. We Welcome THE DOLLY MADISON to the North End of Main Street “MAY IT EMBARK UPON A SUC CESSFUL CAREER AND HAVE A PLEASANT JOURNEY THROUGH MANY YEARS OF PICTURE PLAY ING.” That’s our wish for Roxboro’s New Theatre BUMPASS & DAY U. S. TIRES AND TUBES GULF GAS AND OIL C. E. DAY R. D. BUMPASS The Times Congratulates Mr. Kirby upon the opening of the new DOLLY MADISON Theatre. It will be one of the nicest to bf found in this section and one that Person County may well be proud of. BEST WISHES TO THE DOLLY MADISON TIMES THURSDAY, APRIL 2ND, 1936 * CARD OF THANKS The entire family of Mrs. J. P. Buchanan wishes to gratefully and sincerely acknowledge our thanks to our many friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted us in any way during the recent sickness and death of our mother. Your kindness es will never be forgotten. They will ever be cherished in our memories. We pray that God’s richest bless ings may rest and abide with you all. God will bless you all. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Buchanan. o FICTION SECTION A complete fiction section with serials and short stories every Sun day with the Baltimore American. Get your copy from your favorite newsboy or newsdealer.
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