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CALL S 5 • We went ell the newa of your community. Pleeae call us or send it in. IF TOP WOULD KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON ABOUND YOU BEAD TH> PERSON COUNTY TIMES-IT IS A PAPER FOB ALL THE PEOPLE OF PERSON AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. !?- LUME PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY A THURSDAY ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1937 " NUMBER TW< 10,000 EXPECTED [ AT ASSOCIATION [ SUNDAY-JULY 18 Will Continue Through Satur ' day, Sunday and Monday, i Large Number Will Camp In Tents. ELDER HERNDON TO DELIVER FIRST SERMON Over ten thousand people are ex pected to attend the Primitive Bap tist Association on Sunday, July 18th if this day is a clear one. The association will open Saturday morning, July 17th and Elder J. A. Hern den of Durham will deliver the Hist sermon. All meetings will take place in an arbor that has been con structed for this purpose. The association was due to meet at Shiloh Church this year, but due to the fact that there was more room at Bethel Hill high school this site was selected which is only a quarter of a mile from the church. The association will continue for three days, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. On Monday a large amount of business will be transacted and then the meeting will adjourn. Hundreds of people have made plans to be present during the en tire three day session. They will bring a tent and spend the nights on the grounds. Tent lots have al ready been staked off and more will be by Saturday. Many people who live in this county will go home each night and return the next day. Approximately forty ministers are expected to attend the association and members of Primitive Baptist Churches from many counties will be on hand. F. D. Long of this county is mod erator of the association and will preside over all meetings. WRECK VICTIMS ARE GREATLY IMPROVED Thought That Mrs. Wilkerson and Family and Mr. Dick erson Will Recover. Latest reports from the bedsides of Mrs. Emmett Wilkerson and her three children indicate that they all will possibly recover and it is also thought that Mr. Lester Dickerson will completely recover. Mrs. Wilkerson and her children, Mary Joy, Tillie Page and Emmett P. were all severely injured Sun day morning when the car that Mrs. Wilkerson was driving toward Roxboro collided with a car driven by Lester Dickerson in front of the prison camp in West Roxboro about '9:30 a. m. All were immediately carried to Watt’s Hospital and for a number of hours it was thought that all might be fatally injured. At the present time it is report ed that Tillie Page and Emmett are completely out of danger. Both sus tained very painful wounds around the head. |Mary Joy and Mrs. Wilkerson both received fractures of the skull and have remained unconscious for several days, but it is understood that they have an excellent tfhance to recover. Mr. Dickerson was severely in jured in the chest and at one time it was thought that his injuries were more severely than the occu pants of the other car. There has been no satisfactory ex planation of how the wreck occur red. It was a head-on-collision and both cars were completely wreck ed. TOBACCO - AUTOMOBILES Tobacco is looking fine and we have been having a lot of hail. We can cover your tobacco at a hun dred dollars per acre at the cost of $5.00, or SSO an acre for $2.50. Don’t drive your automobile with out adequate insurance. See us to day and it will save you from see ing a lawyer tomorrow. We write all kinds of insurance. Agents, Irving Q’Briant, H. D, Young, S. S. Barnette, and B. B. Knight. KNIGHT’S INSURANCE AGENCY C. T. WILSON ILL Mr. C. T. Wilson has been con fined to his home in Roxboro for the past several weeks as a result of illness. |rrson^(EimPS CITY FATHERS TO MEET TONIGHT Expected To Adopt Budget For Year of 1937-38; Other Mat ters Also On Docket. The commissioners of Roxboro will meet tonight at 7:30 p. m. to officially adopt the budget for the year 1937-38. It is understood that the tentative budget that has been set will be adopted. This places the city tax rate at $1.50. Other matters will probably re ceive the attention of the board members at this call meeting. It is probable that an ordinance will be passed prohibiting the making of unnecessary noises within the city limits. This will include tfye blow ing of auto horns and playing phon ographs that can be heard for a considerable distance. Many resi dents of Roxboro have made com plaints about the music machines that are being played late into the night. It is understood that the street committee make a report on Abbit Ave. Whether any action will be taken on this matter is not yet known. CLEANING PROJECT GREAT HELP IN CO. Number of Helpers Working Under Mrs. Pridgen; Public Offices Kept Clean. One of the best projects that is going on in this county at the pres ent time is the cleaning and reno vating project that is being direct ed by Mrs. Beth Brewer Pridgen. This project includes the cleaning, or supervision of the cleaning, of the following places, postoffice, courthouse, city hall, community house, mayor’s office, Resettlement office, chamber of commerce, city attorney’s office, county auditor’s office and all city and county schools. In addition to the office work Mrs. Pridgen has supervision of the Com munity House lawn and the school lawns. It has been pointed out that this work has been of great help in all of the offices and buildings where it was going on and in the Com munity House more than any other. Practically every public program that is given by any civic organiza tion takes place in this house and it is very necessary that some or ganization be on hand to clean up after the program and meal have been finished. The ladies of Roxboro are very loud in their praise of this splen did piece of work. ROXBORO MAY PLAY SO. BOSTON TENNIS Both Singles and Doubles Would Be Played. During After noon and Night. It is possible that several tennis players, representing Roxboro, may play a number of South Boston ten nis players at an early date. It is understood that the South Boston boys are ready and will play anytime that the Roxboro boys give an O. K. If the match takes place it .will probably be played in Roxboro and will consist of doubles and singles. Ben Davis and Barden Winstead played in South Boston last night and altho they lost two sets out of three they came away with the idea that Roxboro could win. After these fellows had lost in doubles young Winstead defeated his opponent in a set of singles. Davis did not play singles. It has been suggested that Rox boro and South Boston play both doubles and singles and that the doubles be played around five o’clock on the Winstead court and that the singles be played at night on the Long court. The Roxboro players have not been picked, but there are about twenty so-called players who would try for the team. SAVED Pilot—“ We’re done! We’re going to crash on the ground!” Tom—“Ha! Ha! Don’t worry. There’s a rubber plantation below us.’’ METHODIST REVIVAL TO BEGIN SEPT. 19 Rev. A. J. Hobbs of Wilson Will Preach Twice Each Day. The weekly program of Edgar Long Methodist Church announced last Sunday that the Revival meet ing of this church will begin on Sunday, September 19th and will continue through the following Sun day. Rev. A. J. Hobbs of Wilson, will preach twice each day. Rev. Hobbs is considered one of the best preachers in the confer ence and Rev. Robinson, pastor of the Methodist church, feels that he is very fortunate in being able to secure his services. The Sunday School picnic of the Methodist church will take place on July 20th. and a large crowd is expected to spend the day at Vir ginia State Park near Halifax. Dr. Robt. Long has charge of the picnic and he is working hard in order that this be one of the largest and best that the Sunday school has ev er had. A big picnic lunch will be car ried by the members and all .will join in eating ham, fried chicken, watermelons and other good things. Virginia State Park offers swim ming, riding and practically every thing that a group of people want on a picnic. There is one pool for adults and one for children. YANCEYVILLE ROTARY CLUB HOLDS MEETING Danville Man Is Speaker On International Relations Before Civic Group. SEVERAL EVENTS GIVEN Yanceyville, July 10.—G. K. Lin kous, of Danville, Va., addressed the local Rotary club on interna tional relations in the clubroom last week. Most of his address was de voted to a summary of a trip to Mexico City. Dinner was served by the women of the Prospect Hill Home Demonstration club. Miss Stella White won the title “Miss Caswell,” at the American legion amateur and beauty show last Friday evening. Miss White won the right to appear in a state con test to be held in Raleigh soon. Miss Ann Gynn, of Semora, won the am ateur contest, with a song and tap dance number, and also the title, “Little Miss Caswell.” She was a warded a silver loving cup. Mrs. Alvis Florance entertained her bridge club at a three course luncheon last Thursday. High score prizes were won by Mrs. H. L. Gynn and Mrs. R. L. Mitchell, Jr. Con solation went to Mr. N. S. Upchurch. Mrs. Florance presented gifts to Mrs. R. L. Mitchell, Jr., a recent bride, Mrs. Abe Womack, who leaves soon to make her home in Reids ville and to Mrs. J. C. McCord, her sister, of Lexington, Ky. Miss Ann Yancey Gynn enter tained at tea Monday afternoon at her home as a courtesy to her sis ter and niece, Mrs. Hugh Parks and "Mas Sarah Click, of Elkin. Mrs. Van Wycke Hope entertain ed with three tables of bridge and a three course luncheon Wednes day. Mrs. R. L. Mitchell, Jr., won high score prize and Mrs. J. Y. Gate wood, the low. o • D. W. LEDBETTER WINS TRIP Mr. D. W. Ledbetter will leave tomorrow for New York City where he will take a boat for Nova Scotia. This trip comes to Mr. Ledbetter as a reward for excellent sales pro duction of General Electric products. He expects to be gone about ten days. o R. L. WILBURN IMPROVNG Mr. R, L. Wilburn, who has been a patient at Duke Hospital for the past week, has greatly improved and is expected home soon. o POOR PROGRAM First Guest—“ Smith’s set has un usually good selectivity, hasn’t it?” Second Guest—“ Yes, but Smith’s selectivity isn’t so good.” WAREHOUSEMENMET TUESDAY NIGHT Made Plans For Coming Sea son and Opening Day, Each Warehouse Represented. The Roxboro warehousemen met on Tuesday night this week and made a few plans for the coming season and also discussed several matters relating to the offering of the market. Each warehouse was represented and all indicated that they expected to sell a fair amount of tobacco this year. Some of the local warehousemen will leave for Georgia or South Carolina in a short time, but all will leave men in the county to keep in close touch with the farm ers while they are away. Every house has about lined up its force for the coming year. The proprie tors, it is understood, will be the 1 same as last year. Messrs. Hester and Mitchell will operate the Pio neer, Perkins and Pass will operate the Planters, Winstead, Brewer and Oakley will be at the Winstead whilev the Hyco will have Walker, Hester, Pass and Jones. The Roxboro market opens Sep tember 30th. ! o TACK REMOVED FROM YOUNG GIRLS’ LUNG Had Been Thought That llness Was Caused Pneumonia Un til X-ray Revealed Tack. Nell Long, four year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Long of Bushy Fork has practically recovered from an operation that was performed last week for the removal of a tack from her lung. For some time it was thought that Nell had pneumonia and it was not until she was given a complete examination at Me Pher sor’s Hospital in Durham that the tack was discovered. The operation was performed at once and the tack was removed. It was not known how or when the young girl swallowed it and no one in the family had any idea that her illness was being caused by a carp et tack until the X-ray revealed it. GOVERNMENT PLANS DISEASE RESEARCH Laboratory In Alabama Will Serve 13 States. Including North Carolina Washington, July 11. —(Special)— On a site of 40 acres, deeded by the Alabama Polytechnic institute, Au burn, Ala., the U. S. department of agriculture will establish a region al laboratory devoted to research on animal diseases. This laboratory, for which plans have just been approv ed. is one of a series of research laboratories established -in major agricultural regions as Authorized by the Bankhead-Jones act. Con struction work will begin at once and officials of the federal bureau of animal industry expect to have the laboratory in operation this fis cal year. The laboratory will deal primari ly with major problems affecting the health of domestic animals and poul try in 13 southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Ken tucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. In order to be of greatest service to the region, the work of the new laboratory will be planned and con ducted in cooperation with agricul tural experiment stations of those states. Projects already formulated deal with a more effective control of John’s disease of cattle and coc cidiosis of livestock, including poul try. Projects involving diseases caus ed by bacteria and viruses will be under the general supervision of Dr. H. W. Schoening, chief of the pathological division of the bureau of animal industry. Those involv ing diseases caused by parasites will be supervised by Dr. Benjamin Schwartz, chief of the zoological di vision. of the same bureau. o ARCH WOOD AT HOME Mr. Arch Wood has returned to | Roxboro from Watt”s Hospital where he was a patient for several days this week. MID NIGHT BLAZE QUICKLY PUT OUT Fire Destroyed The Boiler Room Os Roxboro Laundry, But Did Not Get in Plant. About 12:00 o’clock last night fire was discovered just to the rear of the Roxboro Laundry on Abbitt Ave. in a pile of shavings that was right by the boiler room of the laundry. In a few minutes the fire had spread to the boiler room and had made fair headway before fire men could get water to the blaze. As soon As water was poured on the fire it quickly died down and not so much damage was sustained. This fire was discovered by people on the porch' of Hotel Jones who noticed sparks and smoke pouring over toward the courthouse and they quickly turned in the alarm. * Had the fire been later in the night considerable damage would probably have been done to Rox boro Laundry Co. and the Lime Cola Bottling Co. As things turn ed out fire never reached the in side of these two buildings. This makes the third fire in this city in the last thirty days. All have been handled in good shape and the loss has been held to the lowest possible point. On each occasion the Ca-vel fire truck has responded to the alarm and valuable assistance has been rendered by the firemen. LARGE NUMBER AT SONG CONVENTION William Nichols and Romie Bol ton in Charge of Affair That Drew Over 3,000 People. It was estimated that over 3,000 people attended the Union Singing Convention that was held in the Winstead Warehouse on Wednesday of this week. The affair was stag; ed for the benefit of the new Mt Zion Baptist Church building fund. Altho it was staged by and for col ored residents of this county, special seats were reserved for white people. William Nichols and Romie Bol ton, colored citizens of Roxboro, were in charge of all arrangements and they made a good job of the entire program. Nichols had charge of all announcements. Approximately thirty choirs and quartets from this state took part in the singing which lasted until eleven o’clock. The grand prize was award ed to the Jones Chapel choir of Per son County. Colored speakers of the evening included Dr. R. A. Byrce and Rev. C. E. Griffin. Other speakers were Jack Bane, secretary of the Rox boro Chamber of Commerce and James Harris, City Manager. During the program a popularity contest was staged among the color ed girls. This was won by Elsie Jones of this county. All who attended tbys Singing Convention report that it was splen did in every respect and the spon sors were busy receiving congratu lations the next day. WELDON CLAYTON LOST PACK BARN Mr. Weldon Clayton of the Loch Lily section of this county lost his pack barn by fire Tuesday afternoon about 2:30 p. m. It is not known how the fire started. A large quan tity of wheat was lost but the build ing was covered by insurance. K. L. LONG ELECTED LEGION COMMANDER FOR SECOND TERM At a meeting of the Lester Black well Post of the American Legion last Saturday K. L. Long was re elected commander of the local post. Dr. O. G. Davis was elected adjustant for a second term. Other officers who were elected at this meeting were vice-com mander, R. H. Shelton; chaplain, B. B. Knight; service officer, G. E. Moore; publicity, R. A. Whitfield; child welfare, C. C. Garrett; finance, N. E. Davis; sergeant at arms, E. L. Long; historian, J. I. Brooks. Jimmy—“ls the man your sister’s going to marry rich?” Tommy—“l don’t think so. When ever pop hears his name mention ed he says, ‘Poor man’!” - —jJLj EIGHT PAGES TODAY 268 LOANS MADE BY G. P. C. A. IN CO. C. T. Hall Reports on Graham Production Credit Association; Increase in Membership Noted. A growing appreciation on the part of the farmers for cooperative productive credit was reported by directors of production credit asso ciations in this section of North Carolina attending a group confer ence of directors at Wrightsville Beach on July 8-10, according to C. T. Hall, president of the Graham Production Credit Association, which serves Alamance, Caswell, Chat ham, Durham, Guilford, Orange, Person, Randolph and Rockingham counties. Mr. Hall said that the Associations reported another increase in mem bership and in volume of business done this year. He said that it was reported at the meeting that the 94 associations in the states of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, comprising the third Farm Credit Administration district through May 31 had made loans to talling $17,000,000.00. Indicating the rapid growth of the Associations, Mr. Hall said that in 1934, the first year they operated, they made loans totalling approxi mately $9,000,000.00. In 1935 they made loans totalling approximately $13,000,000.00 while in 1936 they made loans totalling approximate ly $16,000,000.00. This year through May 31 they had made loans totalling $17,000,000.00. “The most gratifying feature to me, however, is that the reports at the meeting indicated that the farm ers are operating their own credit organizations in a highly success ful manner,” said Mr. Hall, “and that they now own over $1,00,000.00 worth of Class B stock in this dis trict. The associations have built up reserves totalling over $700,000.00. “It was an inspiration to see the directors of the various associations in this section discussing their prob lems at the meeting and trying to devise methods for even further im provement in the short-term credit service which their organizations have to offer.” Mr. Hall reported that the Gra ham Production Credit Association was awarded a placque for the most meritorious and qonstructivje sug gestions submitted by the Associa tion looking towards improvement of the operations and service of the production credit system, and its friends feel muclj gratification in having this award made to the As sociation at the Wrightsville Beach group conference. The Graham Production Credit Association makes loans to farmers for general agricultural purposes in cluding farm repairs, equipment, fencing, purchase of livestock and other items requiring short-term financing. For the first half of 1937 the Gra ham Association made a total of (1363) loans, amounting to approx imatly $269,000.00. In Person Coun ty during the period, the Associa tion made 268 loans, aggregating ap proximately $62,000.00. MISS WINSTEAD ATTENDED CONFERENCE Louisburg, July 12. —The annual Young Peoples’ Assembly of the North Carolina Methodist Confer ence held each timle at Louisburg College came to a close Friday, July 9th and was one of the most suc cessful ever held. The Assembly ran. from Monday, July sth through Friday. A total of 257 young people were registered for the Conference and a staff of 33 was on hand to handle the situation. The distribution of dele gates by districts in the Methodist Conference was: Durham District - 45; Elizabeth City District - 15; Fay etteville District - 22; New Bern District - 53; Raleigh District - 47; Rocky Mount District - 31; and Wil mington District - 32. Young girl from Person Coun ty and surrounding territory was; Frances Winstead of Roxboro. o t NEW RESIDENCE FOR LAMAR STREET Workmen have started on th* foundation of a new residence oil South Lamar Street. This house it I located next to the home of Mrfe Ovelda Long and will belong to & A. Long, Jr. i i>‘~ . &
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