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DIAL 4501 ; We want all the news of your |- ;t / Community. W , Please call on or send it in. Kfv [ VOLUU DC. W.M.U. Holds | Annual Session > In Roxboro Tues. _____ . Knight Os Durham Speaks —Two From Durham Art Honor Guests [. S 3 *'. The Woman’s Missionary Un. ion of the Beulah Baptist assoc, iation held its 37th. annual meet ing at Antioch Church near here Tuesday. This is the jubilee year of the W. M. U. auxiliary to the South ern Baptist Convention. Fifty years ago the union was organi zed in Richmond, Va., and throughout the south all associa tional meetings of* the women center around the golden jubi lee year, the theme being, “The Trumpet Sounds, We Answer.” The meeting was opened in an unusual and unique manner, with the Ca-Vel bugle corps playing the assembly call on their bugles. Mrs. Ira D. S. Knight of Dur ham, superintendent of the Greensboro division made a splendid address, taking as her subject, “A Forward Look.” Mrs. J. S. Farmer, of Raleigh, State jubilee chairman, then spoke on “Our Golden Jubilee Year.” Mrs. Harris, State convention searetary and mission study leader, held a conference ans wering questions. Mrs. J. S. Whit ted of Durham was an honor guest of the occasion, as was Mrs. Carr Timberlake of Durham, daughter of Mrs. R. L. Wilburn, superintendent of this division. Two beautiful vocal numbers were given by Rev. J. A. Martin, Jr„ with Miss Helen Stanfield as accompanist. The pastors of the association were present, including Dr. Wal ter Johnson, who has been re cently appointed to the foreign field, and who made an inspir ing talk. Bethel Hill Church won the banner for the best society and Yanceyville for the best mission study. A beautiful closing medi tation was given by Mrs. Todd, oldest mpmbef, * who presented 50 lighted candles to her grand daughter, Frances Todd, a recent graduate of Meredith college. A bountiful dinner was spread on long tables in the church grove. A picture of the assembly members was made during the oc casion. o Ralph M’Donald Felicitates Bone 1936 Candidate Says Victory Over Valentine Is A ‘Price less Honor’ . ■— ■■ Black Mountain, June 6 Dr. Ralph W. McDonald of Winston- Salem, candidate for Governor in 1936, today sent congratulations to Judge Walter J. Bone of Nash ville, who was nominated in Sat urday’s primary as resident Sup erior Court Judge of the Second Judicial District. Bone’s opponent was Itimous J. Valentine of Nashville, co-mana ger of McDonald’s unsuccessful campaign. McDonald, a patient in a tuberculosis sanitorium here, had sent postcards to voters in the district urging Valentine’s ' nomination. A telegram, sent to Bone by Mc- Donald, fv • \ s: ‘*Our h;a: ;/ congratulations on your victory about which I have just learned. The vote of preference over I. Valentine, one of the State’s finest men, is a priceless honor which few could hope to attain. Such convincing endorsement testifies to your high ability and personal integrity. Please be assured of my highest . respect and sincere regards. IF YOU WOULD KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND YOU READ THE PERSON COUNTY TIMES IT IS A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE HAIL STRIKES IN CO. ONCE AGAIN Hit Bushy Fork Section Sunday Afternoon About Four O’clock Small Plants Were Cut Back ■ A severe hail storm struck in the Bushy Fork section of Person County last Sunday afternoon a bout four o’clock and practically ruined a large amount of tobac co. Farmers reported that the small plants were torn all to pieces. A majority of the planters who were hit simply cut the plants back and will wait for it to grow out again. Due to the fact that the plant was young it will pro bably come out again as good as ever. Some, however, were talk ing of replanting. Many of the damaged plants were brought to Roxboro where they were viewed by many peo ple. One man brought a lump of ice to town about twice the size of a man’s head. This ice had formed at the end of a tobacco row where the hail had washed and after many hours there it hhd failed to completely melt. PRIMARIES OVER FOR PERSON CO. Candidates Either Won Or Lost By Majority So Large That Second Primary Not Ne cessary New Voting Hours Worked Good There V#'4se no second pri maries for'Person County. Ev ery candidate that the people of this county had any connection with either went down in defeat or won by majority that was large enough to nominate. R. B. Dawes, chairman of the board of elections, stated that the primary was orderly in every res pect and no complaints were lodged concerning voting. The new hours of voting, from 7?t)0 a. m. to 7:00 p. m., seemed to work fine with the exception that some precincts found the voting just a little heavy about ten and eleyen o’clock. This may have been due to the fact that Person County polled its largfest vote and the poll holders were not ex actly prepared for such a grand rush. Right at 4,000 people voted last Saturday. Those who are sup posed to know state that Person County could vote 4,500 people. More people are registered in this county at this time than ever be fore. Lon Folger Gets Large Majority Carried Person County By 89 Ma jority Over Marshall Kurfees Lon Folger, Candidate for Con gress from the fifth district, re ceived 22,501 from 137 of 141 precincts. His nearest opponent, Marshall Kurfees, received 11,. 797 votes. Below is the standing of each candidate. Fifth 137 of 141 precincts, Folger 22,50>1; George Fulp lof Ledksville, 5,466 and [Marshall C. Kurfees of Winston - Salem 11,797. Altho Person County voted strong for Kurfees, Mr. Folger carried the county by 89 votes. Folger received 1,189 - Kurfees 1,100. o L. E. Chenault, poultryman of the Buies Creek section of Har nett County, says it is profitable for him to sell all male birds at this season and produce only in fertile eggs. / lerson^Mimts PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY A THURSDAY Elder Statesman Takes tisson in Divining * Lloyd George, British statesman of World war days, is shoWu as ho assisted Mary Wytlle, a “water di viner,” during a demonstration of her power on the former’s estate at Chart, Surrey. Her visit WM made at, the statesman’s invitation after he chanced to see the green fields on her farm, watered from a well that she discovered through her “power.” Looking on at the left is Dome Margaret Lloyd George. * KENDALL STREET IS NOMINATED CITY POSTMASTER Wire Received From Congress man Frank Hancock Tues day Morning Advising . Street Os Nomination Will Be Confirmed This Month Kendall L- Street, acting post master of Roxboro, received the following telegram Tuesday morning: Oxford, N. C., Jam 7, 1938 Kendall L. Street Roxboro, N. C. I am happy to afiviso ydu that you were on yestenlay certified by the Civil Service Commission as number one ra the eligible list. I shall therefore find real plea sure in nominating you as per manent postmaster for Roxboro. I hope we can secure confirma tion before this session adjourns. With best wishes. Sincerely yours, Frank Hancock, M. C. Mr. Street has been serving as postmaster since the death of Dr. E. J. Tucker, who died while in office. There were several candidates for this office and all had been examined by the Civil Service Commission several months ago. It is thought that Congress will adjourn this month and it is reasonable to expect that Mr. Street’s confirmation will come through at once. REQUEST FOR RECOUNT REFUSED IN ALAMANCE Burlington, June 8 Charges against the conducting of Satur day’s primary in four precincts located in Burlington and Gra ham were dismissed by the coun ty board Os elections this morn ing and the job of tabulating the returns from the 20 county pre cincts began immediately. The board also declined to car ry through the recommendation of H. J. Rhodes, chairman of the /Democratic county executive committee, that a recount be made of all the ballots to clear up rumors of irregularities. The decision of the board fol lowed a session in the court house last night at which two persons who brought the pre tests were examined. Two others who complained of practices at the polls failed to appear. The wards protested against were North and- West Burlington and North and South Graham. o I should have stuck to churches. —Don Teel, Los Angeles, arrest ed .on suspicion of burglarizing a house, ts ■ ELECTION BOARD FILES RETURNS Official Canvass Os Vote* Made Tuesday Morning In Roxboro Courthouse At 11:09 3985 VOTES CAST SATURDAY Meeting in official session Tuesday morning in the court house, the board of elections de clared the voting of last Satur. day in Person County to be as follows: ’ For Clerk Os , Court Miss Bradsher - 3171. Brooks -'lßl4. For Judge Phipps - 161. Carr - 1032. Carlton - 2616. For Solicitor Murdock - 1569. Satterfield - 2300. For Congress Folger - 1189. Fulp - 625. Kurfees - 1100. For Senate Reynolds - 997. Hancock - 2890. For Utilities Commissioner. Winborne - 1554. Grady - 1245. The heaviest vote was cast in the Brooks-Bradsher Contest. The total vote here was 3,985, thus proving that there was more in terest in this contest than, in any other, although interest appeared to be quite high in practically every one. All returns were made at the courthouse Saturday night with the exception of Dixon’s Store, but the returns were not offi cial. There will be no county con tests in November as the Repub lican party did not place a ticket in the field. o Old Landmark Goes Down Livery Stables On Corner Os Reams And Lamar “Hits The Dost” Another landmark in Person County is being tom down. The old Winstead Livery Stables on the corner of Reams and Lamar Street is now being torn down and work has been practically completed. This old building has been on this lot for many years and back in the days when horses furnish ed the chief means of convey ance it was a very popular place. It was used last year by Creed moor Supply Co. This building was the proper ty of T. D. Winstead. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA. CITY OFFICIALS TO BE ELECTED AT NEXTMEETING City Commissioners Levy A Tax Os $25 On All Bakeries Do ing Business In Roxboro MEETING NIGHT CHANGED j The City Commissioners of i Roxboro met in official session Tuesday night in the city mana ger’s office. The board decided to defer the appointment of all city officials until the next meeting of the board which will be on July 12th. Tuesday night was the appointed time for the election or appoint ment of city officers. Other business transacted was to change the regular meeting night of the city board to the 2nd. Tuesday instead of the Ist Tues day. A $25.00 privilege tax was levied against all bakeries doing business in Roxboro. The board endorsed the idea of having all stores secure fire extinguishers and keeping them in their places of business. The value of these instruments has been seen on many occasions and the city fire department is very anxious for all places of business to have fire extinguishers. o DEPUTY C A|N’T REMEMBER AND SHERIFF LOSES CARY Raleigh, June 6 Deputy Sher iff C. D. Maynard has trouble re membering to mail letters. That trouble, he said today, was the reason that his boss, Sheriff N. F. Turner, failed to carry Cary township in Saturday’s primary. It seems that Maynard’s moth er, who was ill, gave him her ab sentee ballot, to be cast in Cary. But, Maynard admitted today, he put the ballot —it was marked for Turner— in his coat pocket and forgot to send it in. The final results in Cary: Tur ner 207, George H. Jordan 207. The sheriff was re-nominated in the county-wide voting how ever, getting 8,869 to 4,134 for Jordan. o Hotel Roxboro Gets New Air Circulator A new air circulator has re cently been installed in the din ing room of Hotel Roxboro. This /Will tend to make the dining room air conditioned and will add much to the pleasure of the guests. o The official end of the World war—when treaties of peace had been ratified by the respective governments was 31, ' 1921. f , • ; i OF PERSON AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1938 PERSON PEOPLE SIGN PETITION Asks For Earlier Opening Os Old Belt Tobacco Market; Bry ant Heads Movement Danville, Va., June 4 Peti tions of “several thousand” farm ers seeking an earlier opening of the old belt market were said to have been received here today. Charles D. Bryant, who headed the movement to have a joint opening of the middle and old belt markets, said that the num ber of signatures had not been counted but that there were “sev eral thousand” names on them. He said they would be turned over to the Tobacco Association of the United States which will fix the opening dates at its con vention this month. Roxboro, N. C., June 8 A large number of Person County names were on the petition that was sent to Danville last week. Local warehousemen ha vie had a copy here during the past sev eral weeks and hundreds of peo ple signed it. No one knows whether it will have any weight with the To bacco Association or not, but all are prepared to make a fight for an earlier opening. J. H. LANNING IS I KIWANIS SPEAKER Club Vote* To Invite Five Guests To Every Meeting To Be Held In Country Rev. J. H. Lanning, pastor of Long Memorial Church, was guest speaker at the Kiwanis Club last Monday night. He used as his subject “Our Community Is What We Want It To Be.” His talk was enjoyed by about 35 Kiwanians and guests. At the Monday night meeting the club voted to invite five ci tizens of the county to each meet ing that was held in the country during the summer. The guests for the meeting will come from the community in which the club is meeting and the ladies who serve will select the guests that are to be invited. Members of the club hope to be able to have one meeting in each section q£ Pe(rson Coifnty this summer. They are now open for invitations. State School Bus Drivers Set Mark Governor Cites Record Os 90,- 000,006 Passengers Miles Without Fatality RaLeigJi, Juhe B.—More than 90,000,000 passenger miles with out a fatality—that is the record of North Carolina school bus drivers during the 1937-38 schol astic year, Governor Hoey told farm boys and girls at the older youth conference at N. C. State college today. Pointing out that 1,123 persons were killed on North Carolina highways in 1937, the governor said more careful observance of laws would save hundreds of lives annually. “The laws are for your pro tection as well as the other fel low’p,” '>vernor Hoey said. -“We, shou . , jey all laws—even the ones that we may think are un necessary or unjust.” George Wallis, farm superin tendent of the Baltimore Dairy ! Farms in Buncombe County, has ! planted 70 acres of Sudan grass at the rate of 50 pounds of seed ' an acre to provide summer graz ing. PUBLISHED SUNDAY AND THURSDAY Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Request. NUMBER FORTY-EIGHT GREEN WILLIAMS BURIEDTUESDAY Prominent Citizen Had Beta tat 111 Health For About Oae Week Prior To Death Interment At Oak Grave' Green B. Williams, 85, promin ent resident of the Woodscbde community died at his home Monday morning. He had been, in his usual state of health until he became ill with pleurisy about one week prior to his death. Pneumonia then set in and he failed gradually from that time until his death. Mr. Williams was a loyal and consistent member of Oak Grove Methodist Church and had been for practically all of his life. He is survived by nine child ren: Mrs. I. R. Richardson, Tue beville, Va.; Mrs. W. C. Mer cer, Wilson; Miss Lillian William% Danville; Lacy Williams, Woodsy dale; Bernard Williams, Las Ve-> gas, Nev.; Carroll Williams, Hock boro, J. K. Williams, Clarks dale; Miss.; H. T. Williams, Titusville; Fla. and Bennie Williams, Woods, dale. Funeral services were held at Oak Grove Church Tuesday, June' ~ 7th., at 3:00 p. m. with Rev. lt~. W. Lawrence, his pastor, in', charge. Rev. E. A. Wailss ©f* Turbeville assisted. Active pall bearers were Messrs. Banks Williams, West Williams, Charlie Dunkley, Hughs Barnett, Thomas Glenn and John Swift. Flower Usurers were Messrs. Maxie Clayton, Vance Clayton, Hester Long, Arch Jones, Fngene Thomas, Reuben Bowles, Rame? >■ Briggs, W. E. Rudder, Talmarfy. Ramsey, Dr. B. A. Thaxton, C. H. Williams, Talmadge Duncan, Herbert Green, Sam Barnett; Bruce Clayton, Clifton Lan& Curry Barnett, Clyde Long and Alonzo Davis. Interment was in Oak Groves Church Cemetery. o . t Tarboro Man Allowed To Fix Own Sentence Tarboro, June 6 A jury in_s superior court today convicted. Clarence Brown of housebreak-. ing and larceny. There’s little unusual about; that sort of case, but— Judge Luther Hamilton let ther ■ defendant fix his own and Brown decided on 6 months. When the jury brought in its. verdict, the judge said to Brown;, standing nervously in the dockr: “I am going to let you fix ywur" own sentence. Now what would you give yourself if you could get your own sentence?” Brown unhesitatingly mumbled; “six months.” The judge did not hear ask— ed, “what did you say?” Solicitor Don Gilliam andk ; Sheriff W. E. Bardin replied, "l*- * said six months." “All right,” the judge “six months it is.” - "*■ NOTICE To Cooking School attendant*; who were present at the demos, stration held by Ledbetter's as May 18th. The baking sheets which wm promised are here and we wfiK be glad to have you call by then. J store for them. o . If peace is ever to come to th» : ii|| world it will not come merely joining peace societies. It wißt.*?a come by facing fapts and &ceepit>--jj ing responsibilities. g3| :i Lady Nancy Astor.
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