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Ishbel MacDonald and Husband % £ Ml P tr | ißEfe rjp Vft i <L^r Ishbel MacDonald, elf' 'st daughter of the late prime minister of Eng land, shown with her bus ..nd, Norman Ridgley, builder’s decorator and handyman at Leeds, England. Mr Rldgley, who Is thirty-fire years old, has been living in the tiny Duel ,-hamshire hamlet of Speen, where Miss MacDonald manages the picturesque Open Plow inn. BUSHY FORK SCHOOL NEWS Mr. Herbert Mason, a delegate to the N. C. Education Convention left with a party by car Friday morning for Raleigh. “The Johnson County Ramblers,’ will give a program of string music in the school auditorium next Tuesday evening, March 22, at 7:30 o’clock. The proceeds will go to the Camp Fire Girls, who are sponsor ing this program. Miss Younger’s section of the second grade wishes to thank Mrs. L. T. Rogers, a grade mother for Join in this splendid movement for a cleaner city, more beautiful homes and happier people. We believe that Roxboro is one of the finest cities in the world, but a nice Cleaning - Up will help any city. Cleaning - Up Roxboro will promote Health and Safety, Employment and Thrift, Better Housing and Civic Pride. LET’S ALL PULL TOGETHER FOR A MORE BEAUTIFUL ROXBORO. Utwruy-Fiiifly Peebles’ Dept. Store MAD* STREET ROXBORO, N. C. donations to their victrola fund. Mrs. Harvey Chambers treated Mrs. Hester’s grade to cookies last Tuesday. Mrs. Cly[j(e Huddle visited Mrs. Nelson’s first grade last Wednesday. The fourth grade has purchased a radio for their room. They are very proud of it and have been en joying programs all of this week. Mrs. Van Hook, their teacher, wish es to express her appreciation to all vho contributed funds to make this purchase possible. Miss Lelia Russell’s grade, the' third, made an average of 95 per-1 cent in attendance for the week. I PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBOROy N. C Fields Is Smash Hit In Palace Film To Be At Palace Theatre Monday And Tuesday, Marqh 21-22nd , Add Hollywood success stories: the life of W. C- Fields, the bulb ous nosed comedian, now hale and hearty after a protracted seige of illness, who returns to the screen in the starring spot of Paramount’s “The Big Broadcast of 1938,” which opens Monday for a two day engage jment at the Palace Theatre, with Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour and Shirley Ross heading the big sup porting cast. Tears were shed when Fields left the vaudeville stage for motion pictures. Tears were shed again when sound came to the screen and critics felt that Fields’ peculiar type of dialogue would never get by. And more tears were shed when j Fields’ illness forced him to retire for more than a year. “Hq’ll ndv)er perform ‘ jagiain,” they wailed. But Fields recovered so complete ily that his health is better than it has b»?n in many years and Ms keen mind is as razoredged as it was in the days when he started. John Shields of the Hothouse community of Cherokee County treated his lespedeza field with a coating of manure from his dairy barn and secured better lespedeza as well as a stand of blue grass and (White Dutch clover,. Mrs. Hester’s grade again has had ian average of more than 97 percent jin attendance for the week. | The seventh grade had two more ! moving pictures last week, “The | Potter’s Wheel” and “The Story of Nickel”. These pictures were mad.e possible through the Department of I Mines, Washington, D. C. INTENDED VICTIM s / ■> •- :: ' Col. H. W. T. Eglin, U. S. A., coir, mander of Fort Totten and the Six ty-second coast artillery at New Xork, who, according to federal agents, was to be the intended vic tim of a spy plot and was to be kidnaped to a New Xork hotel where he was to bring certain secret doc uments dealing with the defense of New York city. The plot was never attempted, although three snies were arrested and held by federal au thorities. \ * [Girl Scouting At Bethel Hill Starting with a nucleus of 14 girls It e girl scout organization, a newly ssembled one at Bethel Hill, is pro gressing with, leaps and bounds. I During club activity period last week, the girls cleaned a hut which is located behind the school and vhich they intended to use for their meetings. Work on tenderfoot test is being carried on by the scouts in dividually. Twelve of them hikled jfor ten miles Saturday to learn and pass some scout requirements, which include firebuilding, and knot tying. The hikers were Lois Holt, Maggie Evans, Margaret Pix ey, Healon Walker, Elsie Whitfield, Hattie Woody, Mary Sue Wrenn, Rachel Owens, Zell Woody, Nellie Ramsey and Nerene Walters. The girls intend to pass the ten derfoot requirements within the month in order that they may be come registered scouts with the New York Headquarters. The Craven County Farmers will promote the ridge method of cul tivating tobacco and the use of the 3-8-6 fertilizer under the crop on light soils, following a discussion by L. T. Weeks, extension tobacco specialist. PROFESSIONAL CARDS *•* •*•** * DR. ROBERT E. LONG * * Dentist * * Wilburn & Satterfield Bldg. • * Main St. Roxboro, N. C. • *•* • * * * * E. M. HEDGEPETH Physician and Surgeon Office Over Wilburn & Sat terfield. S. F. NICKS, JR. Attorney-at-Law First National Bank Bldg, j Main St. Roxboro, N. C. | “If All the Mane, in the Federal Reserve Bank Belonged to You, and You Alone .- - - You Couldn ’t Buy a Better Refrigerator Than a G. EJ” You need not be wealthy to enjoy the un excelled convenience, dependable operation v and extreme economy of the General Electric refrigerator. For today the world’s H *’ u ■ finest refrigerator costs no more than those of ordinary makes. 1938 General Electric H models now on display in our showroom are H ■ the achievement of sixty years electrical H #. experience .. . the finest, thriftiest re- I [ frigerators General Electric ever built. __ H I Sb. Truly the World’s I' I Finest Refrigerator jl r ll Every week, every day you delay buying H ■ £ . your new General Electric, you are losing H L EHe money. Your present refrigerator almost surely costs more to maintain than the new H fjmg low operating cost of a G. E. When you buy H -Sg;; a G. E. you get Triple Thrift You buy the biggest dollar for dollar value in re frigeration history. You get the lowest current cost You get long life, depend able refrigeration. U Agaii We Say, “Why Take Chaneat Whta HSAfijU Baoaral Electric Costs Ha Mara?" $95.00 nod up my LEDBETTER’S Depot Street Roxboro, N. C. Wayne County farmers, are find ing that there is money in poultry. Successful People Save Money! SEE C. B. WOOD Local Representative of Investors Syndicate TRY OUR COAL It has so much heat -so pure -so little ashes -so easy to fire and so lasting. PHONE 387 J Whitt’s Coal Yard IT’S YOUR DUTY TO KEEP HEALTHY FOR THE 1 f T-TJP 1 # Dealers BOttllOg CO. J Dealers DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA. SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 1938 -ast week a group sold 3,608 lbs. of cull birds for |587.44. WE BUILD FOR Roxboro and Person County With all Work Guaranteed. No Job Too Large and None Too Small. GEORgTw” KANE Roxboro, N. C.
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