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tSxP? *""" S' - . ■ IP IT IS NEWS ABOUT PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL FIND IT IN THE TIMES. VOLUME X PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDRY & THURSDAY PERSON FAIR PLANS PROCEED RAPIDLY--PERKINS President Promises Bigger * And Better County Fair Than Ever Before. R. L. “Bob” Perkins, president of the Person County Fair, stated yesterday that everything was rapidly getting in shape for the big fair that is to start on Oct ober 24 and continue thtrough October 29. Mr. Perkins is strong in his belief that this year’s fair will be the largest and best that has been held here in many years. Hie Axt Lewis’ Shows have been engaged for the midway and this company has a reputa tion for giving its patrons plenty of amusement and good clean fun. Numerous riding devices will be packed into the fair ground and there will be rides for young and old. White Children’s Day will be observed on Tuesday, Oct. 25, Colored Children’s Dayl will fol low on Oct. 26. On these two days children twelve years of age and under will be admitted free be tween the hours of twelve o’clock noon and six p. m. Mr. Perkins is confident that there will be more exhibits at the fair in 1938 than have been here since the new fair program was started several years ago. He is being assisted in his farm exhibit work by H. K. Sanders, county agent. The location will be the same as last year across from the mqgMPVrison camp in west Rox boro. “Everything,” says 89b, “points to a big fair” apd he promises that the fair ggl continue to grow from. yaA rto year. HELENAP T.A TO PRESENT PLAY 4 —-,, t VTool Knights” Is Dramatic With Strong Local Cast tj Tomorrow night at 8 o’clock, in | the Helena High School auditor jpum, the P. T. A. will present a three-act musical comedy entit led “Cool Knights.” The cast is made up of local people and the coach is Ray Broome from the Triangle Pro ducing Company of Greensboro. Rehearsals have been coming a long smoothly and with some fifty of the best actors available, the group hopes to be able to put on one of the most enjoyable and entertaining productions of the school year. The cast is as follows: Arthur Tillett, Alton Hall, Laurie Garrett, Earl Rogers, L. C. Liles, Francis Ferebee, Merritt Chambers, Doris Mooney, Beryl Barton, Louise Rogers, Gladys Chambers, Miss Sue Noell, Miss Nina Rogers, Mrs. Walter Rog ers, Mrs. Jack Cothran, Mrs. Ro bert Hamlin, Miss Bessie Laws, Mrs. James TiiLertt, Mrs. Riley Brooks, Mrs. T. H. Clay, Ruby ( Hall, Mildred Whitfield, Mary Elizabeth Blalock, Trynis Mc- Broom, Dora Rhew, Mabel Fox, Margie Nancy Tillett, | Dolph Gates, Louise Knight, Al va Clayton, Robert Moore, Van meda Hall and Charles Chisholm. Admission will be 15 and 25c. WITH THE TAR HEEL Nub Carver and Roy Bohannon haive accepted positions with the Tar Heel Chevrolet Co. of Rox boro. These two young men will have charge of the washing and greasing department of this gar age. Boro. SELL YOUR TOBACCO AT HOME IN ROXBORO Iraonlgptnes Central Europe’s Trouble Spot " ■■ 6EHMANS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1~~1 l ~~ 1 aBCHS ij . 1 ■ v TRJJL / JHUMA.NIA. !9 ,c -° zqj miles \ -ffff U(W (& j&. M. Ts i ' r.:ap shows Cccchssiovaklan districts inhabited by other racial groups. The areas shown In black are t-rgoly occupied by Germans and would eventually be ceded to the German Belch under the Anglo-French ri 'coi al for dismemberment of Czechoslovakia. Roxboro Market Sells Oyer Quarter Million Opening Day Local Church To Be Scene Os District Meeting St Mark’s To Be Host To Orange District On Octo ber 18. St). Mark’s Episcopal church here will be host to the annual meeting of the Woman’s Auxili ary of the Orange district sche duled for October 18, it was an nounced here this week. 1 Approximately 150 visitors are expected from Asheboro, Chapel Hill, Durham, Hillsboro, Raleigh, Pittsboro, Sanford and other churches throughout the district. The meeting yvill open at 10:30 on the morning of October 18 with the celebration of the Holy Communion. Several visiting speakers will be present and make talks and a business meeting will be held during the day’s session. Home Agent May Revive Curb Market Here Country Produce Will Be Brought To Pioneer Ware- House Again Saturday. By VELMA BEAM Home Demonstration Agent. The regular Curb Market for sale of surplus produce from the farms has closed for the year, but there are several families who have some very fine commodi ties for sale and will be at the Pioneer Warehouse Saturday morning to serve any who wish to buy from them. Their produce will be chiefly chickens, eggs, turnip greens, late roasting ears, butterbeans and scuppernongs. Curb Markets in other towns are being studied and if there is a demand for one here, the Ex tension Workers will try to meet it by helping the rural people to plan ahead to meet these demands during the entire year. TO CARRY FLAG George Cushwa, Jr. has been selected to carry the internation al flag at the scout jamboree in Chapel Hill for the entire Chero kee Council. This is a distinct honor for George, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Cushwa, of this city, as well as for the Roxboro troop. No “U” Turns No “U” turns will be allow ed in Roxboro’s Main Street business district, City Manager Jemals C. Harris announced yesterday. Motorists are warned not to make “U” turns at the inter sections of Main Street and Reams Avenue, Main and Ab bitt Avenue, Main and Court and at Main and Factory streets under penalty of the law, LOCAL KjWAMANS New President Will Begin Duties January 1; Others Named Also. D. R. “Jake” Taylor is the new president of the local Kiwanis club, elected at the regular meet ing at the Community House Monday night. Elected to serve with him dur ing the coming year are: B. B. “Jack” Strum, vice-president, J. B. Snipes, treasurer, and G. H. Deering, R. A. Bullock, S. M. Ford, J. A,. Long, Jr., and E. E. Bradsher, Jr., members of the board of directors. The position of secretary, now held by R. A. Bullock, is an ap pointive office. The new secretary will be named by the board of (Continued to Editorial Page) Today*s Spot News Briefs SCHEDULE The schedule for organization meetings for Home Demonstra tion Clubs in the various commu nities has been announced by Velma Beam, home demonstra tion agent. In each of the following com munities all women who are in terested in helping to organize .home demonstration clubs, are asked to be present at the follow ing meetings: Mt. Tirzah - Har mony school, Tuesday, Oct. 4, at 2 o’clock p. m.; Helena - at Hel ena school, Thursday, Oct. 6, at 2 o’clock p. m. WILL ATTEND MEETING President of the Woman’s Club Mrs. R. H. Shelton and a delega- j tion, composed of Mesdames Jack' Strum, Robah Baynes and W. E. Malone will attend the annual Eighth District meeting of Fed- ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA About $23 Average Main tained First Day; Street Dance Successful. The Roxboro Tobacco Market opened in fine style Tuesday morning with slightly less than a half-million pounds of tobac co on the floors of the four lo cal warehouses. Tobacco started coming to this city last Friday and Monday morning found traffic in a jam as a result of load after load of tobacco in the streets trying to get intothehou#*. Off iotals statethat this year’s opening da£ found more tobaeeb on hand than had ever been in Roxboro before at one time. £ Approximately 268,000 thou sand pounds of tobacco were sold the first day at an average of a little less than twenty three cents per pound. Farmers were pleased and very few, if any, tickets were turned. Selling continued at a rapid rate Wednesday as two other houses were reached by the buy ers. The block is being lifted to day and sales should follow the schedule with reasonable accura cy unless another block sets in on the week-end. Heavy sales are expected for next Monday. BIG STREET DANCE The celebration of the market opening really started Tuesday night when a large part of Main street was roped off and turned over to the crowd for a big street dance. Approximately two thousand (Continued to Editorial Page) eration of Woman’s Clubs to be held in Raleigh tomorrow. The Bth. district comprises 16 clubs and a combined member ship of 877 in Orange, Person, Durham, Chatham and Wake counties. Mrs. Howard G. Ether idge, president of the state fed eration, Mrs. Homer Mask, dis trict president and others are scheduled to speak. Mrs. Shelton will make the regular report for the local club. ACCEPTS NEW JOB Russell Murray of Roxboro has accepted a position with the Imperial Casket Co. of Raleigh, N. C. He expects to report for duty Monday morning but will not move his family for three or four weeks. For the past several years Mr. Murray has been con nected with Spencer’s. Allensville’s New $43,000 School Approved By P W A Country Club Membership Campaign To End Saturday Progressive Initiation Fee Plan Will Go Into Effect; 33 Added During Month. Saturday, October 1, is the zero hour of the Non-Initiation fee period for joining the Rox boro Country Club, local officials stated this morning. After* Saturday the progres sive initiation fee plan will go into effect and this fee will be charged all new members taken into the club. Thirty-three new members have signed the dotted line during this month’s cam paign by the membership com mittee of the club and many more are expected on the roster be fore the deadline, Saturday mid night. Persons planning to join the country club are advised to con tact members of the membership committee before that time in or der to avoid the initiation fee. Beginning Oct. 1, a $lO initia tion fee will be charged until Jan. 1 at which time a sls fee will go into effect. On April 1, the fee will be increased to S2O until July 1 when the $25 permanent fee will go into operation. Fine progress is being made on the golf course and four holes will be fully completed within a short time, officials report. 4-H WORKERS NEED MAGAZINES Old Used Magazines Re quested By Agents For Ex tension Work. By VELMA BEAM - Home Dem onstration Agent. J. B. SNIPES, Assistant Coun ty Agent. Much enthusiasm on the part of the students is being shown in the organization of 4-H Cluhs in all of the schools over the coun ty, and for the work to be suc cessful the Extension Workers must have the support of the par ents and friends of these young sters. One of the first things needed will be illustrated material which may be obtained from magazines. (Continued to Editorial Page) VISITING SPEAKER Dr. O. T. Binkley, head of the Department of Religion at Wake Forest College, will occupy the pulpit at First Baptist church, next Sunday morning. “Dr. Binkley is one of the most outstanding religious lead ers in the south, and our commu nity is fortunate, indeed, in hav ing this opportunity of hearing him,’’ Rev. W. F. West, the pas tor, said yesterday. MEETING CHANGED The regular monthly meeting of the County Board of Commis sioners, scheduled for Monday, has been moved up to next Tues day, Register of Deeds W. T. Kir by announced yesterday. Mon day’s postponement is due to the absence of one member from town, he said. THURSDAY, SEPT. 29, 1938 Passing Buses School bus operators have been notified by state offic ials to report motorists who pass while the bus is loading or unloading children and this law will be strictly enforced in the future, local school of ficials announced. Automobile drivers are re quired by law to come to a complete halt behind buses stopping in the highways and wait until all children have gotten on or off and the bus has started again before pro ceeding further. Some half dozen persons have already been reported to local officers as violating this law and the full punishment of the law will be inflicted upon further violators, it was stated. LOCAL WRECK VICTIM SUCCUMBS Mebane Publisher And Fair Official Succumbs To In juries Os Friday. Funeral services were held at 4 o’clock yesterday for C. S. Par nell, Mebane newspaper publish er and secretary of the North Carolina Association of Fairs, who died at 2:30 o’clock Tuesday af ternoon in Watts hospital as the result of injuries sustained Fri day morning in an automobile accident near here. He suffered internal injuries. Mr. Parnell was returning from the Franklin county fair in Louisburg when his automobile overturned on a curve about five miles from Roxboro and plunged down a 15-foot embankment near Loch Lily bridge. Mrs. Parnell was hurt also, but not seriously. The Mebane publisher who bought the old Leader about 16 years ago, and changed it to the Enterprise, was 49 years old. He took over the paper when he first came to Mebane. He was bom and reared in Mocksville. Services were conducted yes terday afternoon at the home by Rev. T. R. Jenkins, pastor of the church, assisted by Rev. W. M. Baker, pastor of the Presbyterian church, and Rev. A. C. Hamby, pastor of the Baptist church. 0 FORD TO ANNOUNCE NEW CAR SOON Person Motors of Roxboro, an nounced this week that the Ford Motor Company will announce an entirely new car in a short time. Mr. Street, manager of the local motor company, stated that this car would not be named Ford, that it would cost a little more than a Ford and that the car would be powered wih a new 100 horse power V-8 motor. Other de tails are announced in an adver tisement in today’s paper. “As a man is equal to the Church and equal to the State, so he is equal to every other man. The disparities of power in men are superficial.” Emerson. THE TIMES IS PERSON’S PREMIER NEWSPAPERS A LEADER AT ALL TIMES. NUMBER ELEVEN Local Officials Told To Complete Plans For Get ting Work Underway. The P. W. A. grant and loan for the new Allensville school has received final approval, Secre tary of Interior Harold Ickes an nounced this morning and the new $43,000 building for that community is at last a certainty. Word was received at the county superintendent’s office this morning, shortly after Sup erintendent R. B. Griffin and At torney R. P. Burns had left for Washington to confer with Sen ator Josiah W. Bailey on the pro ject. Notification of approval came directly from H. T. Cole, regional director of the P. W. A at Atlan ta. His complete wire read: “P. W. A. Secretary Ickes has an nounced allotment your docket, Allensville Person County school building, Loan - $24,000, Grant - $19,636. Complete plans and spe cification so as to get construct ion underway as soon as pos sible.” - s Today’s announcement culmin ates many months of intensive ef fort on the part of local school au/thorities and l citizens of the community to secure a new build ing to replace the antiquated structure now being used. AGED ROUGEMONT WOMANJSUCCUMBS Mother Os R. H. Gates Os Roxboro Dies At 82 Years Os Age. Mrs. Nannie Gray Gates, 82, widow of the late R. G. Gates, died Wednesday morning at 5:30 o’clock at her home three miles west of Rougemont. She had been in declining health for the past six years and seriously ill for the past two weeks. Complication of diseases was assigned as the cause of death. Mrs. Gates was born and reared in Orange county. She was the daughter of William and Judie B. Gray of Orange County and lived in that county all of her life. She was a life long member of the Little River Presbyterian church. In February, 1882, she was married to R. G. Gates who died three years ago. Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. R. W. Laws of Rougemont, Mrs. J. C. Taylor, Mrs. T. L. Hall and Miss Lillie Gates of Timberlake, Mrs. J. A. Oakes of Pamplin, Va.; R. H. Gates of Roxboro, Harvey Gates and Al exander Gates of Rougemont, one sister, Mrs. F. M. Tilley of Rouge mont. Funeral services were conduct ed this afternoon at 3 o’clock at Little River Presbyterian church. Rev. J. W. Mann, pastor of the church officiated, assisted by Rev. E. L. Hill of Mt. Tirzah cir cuit. Interment was in the church, cemetery. Pallbearers were GarlgncL Til ley, Bill Breeze, Robert Gray, Ed Gray, Hubert Laws and Frank Timberlake. Floral bearers were, nieces, nqphews and grandchildren of the deceased. • * ■ REVIVAL SERVICES Revival services will begin at the First Baptist church Sunday, and will continue for ten days. Rev. H. B. Anderson, pastor of Grace Baptist church in Durham, will do the preaching. The public is most cordially in vited to attend these services.
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