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PERSON COUNTY TIMES <4 . A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE J. S. MERRITT, Editor M. C. CLAYTON, Manager Published Every Sunday and Thursday- Entered As Second Class Matter At The Postoffice At Roxboro, N, C., Under Tie Act Os March 3rd., 1879- —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— One Year sl*so Six Months — v . 75 Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at all times, Rates furnished upon request. News from our correspondents should reach this office not later than Monday to insure publication for Thursday edition mnd Thursday P. M. for Sunday edition. SUNDAY, JULY 3, 1938 IT’S THE SAME OLD STORY ONCE AGAgtf Once again the United States Tobacco Association has said that the Roxboro Tobacco Market must open about two weeks behind .the Durham and Oxford Markets. Once again the Roxboro Mmcet JWill lose a large amount of tobacco to Durham before this market topens and there doesn’t seem to be anything that can be done a _hout it We understand that warehouse v men from the Old Belt tried to «et our date shoved up a little. "We know that they had a peti tion with thousands of names asking that the date be changed. fSvidently the petition did not amount to much. ITS TIME TO GET BUSY Other cities near Roxboro have start working for their tobacco market. Roxboro has done noth ing. Once again we favor a drive Os some kind to start tobacco growers thinking about the Rox- Jooro market. So far we have not heard whether the dhambejr of cjom merce is going to do anything or not. If this organization is not jgoing to start the ball rolling an Organization should be formed And an effort made to build up the local market. Roxboro has a good chance to show a large increase this year. Tbe same good set of buyers will be back and everything points to a favorable selling year. Four large warehouses will be open and they can handle ten million pounds of tobacco. Why not try to give them at least six. r AYNE AND TURNER PRAY I Bill Payne and Wash Turner went to their death Friday. They were led into the gas cham ber at the State penitentiary and breathed heavily of the gas. Then they died. Both men prayed before they nrere led into the chamber and both were praying as they breath ed the gas. These men, who had lived a life of crime, wanted to get right with God before they entered the other world. It’s always the same. No mat ter how bad a person has been he generally wants to straighten up with the Master before he meets him and prayer seems to be the method that is generally used. Many people deny God for years and years, but few want to die with a denial on their lips. WHO SAID RECESSION? The State of North Carolina last week closed the greatest fis cal year in its history. It had col lected and spent more money in the 12 months just ended than in any other similar period. Furthermore, it had accom plished this without diverting one cent from the highway fund and with a $5,000,000 surplus re maining as a cushion to fall back upon as it launches the second half of the 1937-39 biennium dur ing which 005,612 wil be spent from the gen eral fund. During the fiscal year, there was $37,627,290.46 collected for the general fund, over a half million more than last year’s total of $37,089,925.98, and near, ly • million dollars more than the General Assembly's appro priation for the year. Total collections including highway revenues, for the year just ended amounted to $69,675,- 588.50, newly a million and a dollars more than the re cord of of last year. There may be a recession, but the state of North Carolina IMMi h ' ’V" couldn’t know much about it Now with everything on the up grade, the state should have a nother big year. BLUE AND GRAY The boys in Blue and the boys in Gray met again on the battle field of Gettysburg last week. It was a grand and glorious occas ion and one that they all enjoy ed. Old Glory was waving proud ly and the Stars and Bars also told a story to the world—a story of the South—altho defeated in bjpttle, was strong enough and proud enough to build again on the same ashes of a battle tom country. There was one man missing at the reunion in Gettysburg who should have been there. That man was Captain E. Fletcher Satter field of Person County. Captain Satterfield carried the flag in that battle and went farther than any other man toward the Un ion lines. Then he was kill ed. History recounts this story— it’s no war myth and the monu ment on the Courthouse lawn in Roxboro tells the story—“ Fa rthest at Gettysburg.” UCENSE PLATES AT HALF PRICE Roxboro Office Has Sold 4,435 Plates This Year, Says Miss Abbitt. State automobile license plates went on sale here and at 45 other offices of the Carolina Motor club at one-half annual fee Fri day, July 1, it is announced by Miss Nina Aljbitt, manager of the Roxboro office of the club. Plate sa\es throughout the State have been far ahead of the same date last year since last December. Through June 27 the sale was 533,736 plates compar ed with 519,212 for the same date in 1937—a gain of 14,524. Os this total 85 per cent or 440,769 have been sold at Carolina Motor club branch offices. Sales at the Roxboro office have totaled 4,435 this year, compared with 3,957 for the same period in 1937. Applicants for license at the bargain rates must certify that the vehicle has not been operat ed this year. Plates may be se cured upon presentation of the white application card which is mailed from Raleigh, or if this card is not available, tags may be secured upon presentation of the title of the vehicle. Since the Carolina Motor club in 1924 inaugurated the system of handling license plates at branch offices located throughout North Carolina almost 5,000,000 plates, valued in excess of $60,000,000 have been sold. Officials believe that the total sale this year will pass the 600,000 mark for the first time in history. On four other occasions the annual re gistration has exceeded the 500,- 000 mark. The 1937 total was 586,535 and in 1938 it was 512,- 136. o Things are progressing rapid ly at both the New York and San Francisco World Fairs which are scheduled for 1939. PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C- . SUNDAY lHt*rratioHal I SCHOOL LESSON -:- By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. <g> Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for July 3 A CHOICE OF LOYALTIEB LESSON TEXT—Joshua 1:34; 34:14- 21 GOLDEN TEXT—A* (or me and my r\ouse, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15 PRIMARY TOPlC—Choosing Sides. JUNIOR TOPIC—A Loyal Leader. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—A Choice of Loyalties. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPlC—Man’s Highest Allegiance. “Lives of great men all remind us.” according to the poet, that we too may make our lives sublime, and thus leave our footprints In the shifting sands of time. Hi* study of biography is interesting, instruc tive, and often challenging. When we enter the field of Bible biography we bring into consideration an ad ditional and fundamental factor, namely, the power and grace at God working in and through a sur rendered life. AH strength of char acter and ability Hi a gift of God, but its glory Is largely veiled and its usefulness definitely limited. If not actually perverted, because there Is no recognition of the foundation of true greatness, which is faith in and loyalty to God. During the next three months we are to share In the study of the life stories of great men and woman which will not only stimulate am bitions, but which also reveal what God can do through thorn who are ready to follow Him. Moses, God’s great leader for la-: raeL having brought them out of the land of bondage and through the terrible wilderness, la about to leave them. God’s workman is about' to die, but His work Is to go on. God is not taken by surprise. I. A Prepared Man Takes Cam mand (1:3-0). “Moses is dead; now therefore arise.” Life is like tost “The. king is dead; long live the Mag,” is the cry of those Who livo under monarchies, as one ruler dies and his successor takes over the throne.- Until that day when there shall be* “time no longer,” men must put: away their sorrow and go on. Three words characterize the commission of Joshua— e 1. Promise (w. 2-4). God gave the land to IsraeL Every place that' Joshua planted his foot upon was; to be his possession, even as God: has promised Moses. A river lay. between; there were walled and' armed cities to be taken; there were even giants in the land, but' God promised it to Joshua; and he took it by faith. God has given us many promises, too. If we are fearful, poverty stricken, powerless Christians, it is because we do not believe God. 2. Power (v. 5). No man is able to stand against God’s servant who is doing God’s will, in God’s way, in God’s time. It was true of Joshua; it is true today. Men set up their opposition to God’s plan and pro gram with the assumed belief that because they have position, power, or money, they can readily crush the poor little band of Christian workers.* Russia tried it They even “abolished” God. But religion thrives in Russia, secretly perhaps, but none the less sincerely and suc cessfully. There is no power of man or devil that can defeat the man who does the will of God. 3. Courage (v. 6). To serve God means to be assured of His help. Faith lays hold of that fact and the whole man becomes courageous. But observe that the foundation of courage is faith in God’s Word, nurtured by meditation in It “day and night” (v. 7). The house of courage can be built only on that foundation. n. An Experienced Man Given Counsel (24:14-21). - More than two decades have passed since the appointment of Joshua to lead IsraeL God has ful filled every promise. Israel is in the Promised Land. Before the aged leader dies he calls the leaders of his people together to urge them to continue in the way of faith and loyalty to God. This he does by: 1. Example (v. 18). “As for me and my house, we will serve the. Lord.” No man can honestly and effectively call others to devotion to the Lord unless he sets them an ex-: ample. No one takes any stock in the preacher or teacher who' says, "Do as I say, not as I do.” We are more than signposts; we era guides. 2 Instruction (w. 16-19). Remem bering God’s dealings with them, the people declare their determina tion to serve the Lord. They spoke rather glibly. Joshua instructs them. God is not interested in lip' service. He does not need them so much as they need Him. He does not look upon their confession of Him, if they continue to live in sin. 3. Warning (v. 20). God will visit His judgment on His people if they forsake Him and turn away—such is Joshua’s warning. We who look back to the history of Israel know that they did forsake Him, and that the judgment of God is still upon them. “Be not deceived; God Is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” (GaL 0:7) is God’s warning through Paul to tt>® Christian. FOR NEWSPAPER SERVICE DIA L4SQI. Scores Die in Worst Rail Wreck in Years "-jp fl fi a ■ rtn Jfj j r \ > - f Jj W»Tf H> the nation’s worst railroad tragedy in years, approximately 40 jmssengers were killed when the Mil waukee road’s crack “Olympian” train plunged Into the flood waters of Custer creek new Miles City, MonLA “flash flood” carried away the trestle spanning the, creek and the train plunged Into the raging waters. These two coaches bore many of the passengers who loot their lives. George E. Stone In Hundredth Screen Death To Be At Dolly Madison Theatre For Two Days, Tomorrow And Tuesday The cat with the proverbial nine lives is a piker compared with George E. Stone, who died for the hundredth time recent ly. The diminutive character actor breathed his last in a hospital bed after mangled in a stamping machine in Warner Bros.’ “Over The Wall,” the melo drama written by Warden Lewis E. Laws that opens tomorrow at the Dolly madison Theatre. George doesn’t die in hospital beds very often. But then again, neither is he frequently mangled in stamping machines. He usually dies with a bullet in his back, which is only natu ral, playing mean little gang sters most of the time. Machine gun bullets have sent him into the great beyond a few times in pictures of the great war. Other than these George’s de mise has come about in a great Variety of ways. Hei’s been in the electric chair three times, been hung by the neck until dead once or twice. He’s only been drowned once. The end came three times in auto smash-ups, twice by stab bings, once, by falling down an elevator shaft. There was a nifty bit of passing on in “Anthony Adverse” by driving a coaqji and horse off a cliff. Os all of his hundred deaths, Georgie can’t remember one where he just got sick and died. In fact George can’t remember having lived through a movie. o ■HMMIHHMfIHH Successful People Save Money! SEE C. B. WOOD Local Representative of INVESTORS SYNDICATE Professional Cards • •••• • * * * DR. ROBERT E. LONG * * Dentist * * Wilburn & Satterfield Bldg. • * Main St Roxboro, N. C. • * • * «t S. F. NICKS, JR Attorney - at - Law First National Bank Bldg- Main St- Roxboro, N. C. DR R J. PEARCE EYES EXAMINED MONDAYS ONLY Thomas • Carver Bldg. BANK LOANS EASED Washington, D. C.—A sweep ing liberalization of bank loan requirements is announced as a move. to encourage the flow of private capital [into industits’. Chief of the new rules which both State and Federal examin ers will follow after July Ist permit banks to make commer cial loans for a longer period than nine months; also to invest in bonds of small local corpora tions not quoted on stock ex changes. WANT ADS FOR NEWSPAPER SERVICE DIAL 4501 o See Us For Your Insurance. CO-OPERATIVE MUTUAL INS. AGENCY R. B. Featherston Lester James 3-27-ts-s Statement of Condition of the PEOPLES BANK Roxboro y North Carolina AS AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS JUNE 30, 1938. Resources: Cash and Due from Banks $175,606.38 U. S. Bonds 138,275.00 N- C. State Bonds 122,306.90 Municipal Bonds 192,271.37 Other Stocks and Bonds 5,000.00 Interest earned on bonds 1 4,304.44 Loans and Discounts 625,544.14 Banking House; Furniture and Fixtures 17,014.90 Other Real Estate 22,348 71 Prepaid Insurance 650.20 $1,203,322.04 Liabilities: ' ! Capital Stock, Common $100,000.00 Capital Stock, Preferred 73,875.00 Surplus , •• 15,000.00 Undivided Profits 22,925.62 Unearned Interest 3,713.15 Reserve for Retirement of Preferred Stock Fund 11,871.78 Reserve for Contingencies 1,678-16 Reserve for Interest on Savings 5,639.07 Cashier and Certified Checks 1,163.00 Deposits 967,456.26 $L203,322.04 MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION. For Piano Tuning, Call Person Co. Times, Roxboro, N. C. 5- - st o WANTED —Man to distribute circulars, hand-bills, and sam ples for us in your locality. We pay by the thousand. You do no selling. NO EXPERIENCE NE CESSARY. Must be honest, re liable, and neat appearing. TRANSAMERICAN ADVERTIS ING DISTRIBUTORS Box 748A Milwaukee, Wis. 6- Pay Your Telephone Bill By The 10th SUNDAY, JULY 3, 1938 FOR NEWSPAPER SERVICE ~ rULAL 4501 REFLECT 10ns By R. M. SPENCER JULY 4th. Not long ago I overheard this remark: “What difference would it make if we had a dictator?” That man is not alone, that phil osophy is all too prevalent. In the year America threw off the yoke of Imper- M|||P ialism. The onists were tir- HR j| ed of being m told how to B|j| v think and what \ ,s•]) to think They objected to theß|||P tyranny of overlord, they objected to a tax ation which was oonfiscatory, they disliked serfdom and leveliz ing. July 4th., is a birthday of Freedom. It was because of the sword of Cornwallis being hand ed to Washington that this youth and other youngsters are allow, ed freedom of thought, freedom of action, freedom of speech. It was because a mere handful of men were valorous that we have a nation. It was they who lighted the torch of freedom. They have handed it to us that we may hand it to our children, and in turn to be handed to our children’s child ren. July 4th., is the birthday of our heritage. There are one hun dred and sixty two candles on the cake. Are we going to allow a few callow youths to blow out these candles and substitute the single candle of a dictator? Os course not. We are going to car ry on the tradition of our fore bears and dedicate ourselves a gain to the principles of freedom. ff- SocCcr oenftee .jpsgßjgggllfjl is Our Jib*. - ’ j g FUNERAL HOME J| noxtonaw.c. ~
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