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' IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT Wesson county, youTa M nr in the times. ** 'i .t ; 1 ■ " 1 ■ 1 ■ VOLUME X PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY ROXBORO, NORTH CABOUNA SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 19M NUMBER EIGHTEEN r— —- v rr ;, - ;V> ™ *■ -i< i.- a ± . WWKSOOI.Sfc-.fc* } . ■ 1 V: .... ; *,<.# J ' Page by page, searchers go through old phone books looking (or 91,500 left in their old directory by Mr. and Mrs. John West of Allston, Mass. The searchers went throngh 75,000 of the 100,000 books stored in an old garage before they found the money. The money, all in SIOO bills, repre sented the receipts from a Jewelry concern after the closing of banks. It had been placed in the directory for safe-keeping. * ,T • NEWS OF THE WEEK .ijr -v _ - PRODUCTION AT HIGH MARK Washington, D. . C. —■ Using 1923-25 levels as an average of 100, the Federal Reserve Board an nounced that U. S. industrial out put stood at 95 at the end of Oct ober, the highest level since the same month in 1937. Gaining 5 points during the month, October was the fifth consecutive month to show industrial gains, with a sharp upswing in re-employment. HUNGARY RECLAIMS LOST TERRITORY Komarom, Hungary Admiral Nicholas Horthy, regent of Hun gary, marched at the head of Hun garian troops which took posses sion of the territory which his country was forced to cede to the new-born Czechoslovakia twenty years ago. This is the second phase of the gradual disintegrati on of Czechoslovakian borders, with Poland and Rumania still to be satisfied. ( BRITISH FLIERS BREAK RECORD Darwin, Australia—Two Brit ish bombing planes which left Ismailia, Egypt, covered 7,162 miles in 47 hours, five minutes, breaking all distance records. The best long distance flight previously was made by Russian fliers who covered 6,306 miles from Moscow, Russia, to San Jacinto, Cal., in 62 hours, 3 minu tes. The flight was started by three Royal Air Force planes, one; of which had to land on Timor Island, Dutch East-Indies, for refueling. RARE ECLIPSE SEEN New York City—Eastern cities witnessed an unusual eclipse just before sunset Monday, when the moon went into total darkness as it arose, although both moon and sun were visible from the earth, which was supposed to be square ly between the two. Astrono mers explained the mystery by pointing out that atmospheric refraction enabled us to see both sun and moon before the latter rose and after the sun had actu ally set. Tobacco Sells figijtec At Hsjjie - Try Roxboro Hcny Jm»nas«m» """" 1 ' 1 —— l ' ■■' i .4+ ,1 I, mi . T*TL Here *s A Few Roxboro Prices At the H!yco, H. M. Fox sold 724 pounds for $352.42 an av erage of $48.67 per hundred pounds. At the Pioneer, H. T. Rudd sold 446 pounds for $219.66 for an average of $49.25 per hundred pounds. At the Winstead, Oakley and Winstead sold 344 pounds for $145.20 for an average of 1 $42.24. • " ' I. Ca-Vel Infant Dies; Funeral Services Today Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 1:30 o’clock for John O’Neal Hjollie, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hollie of Ca-Vel village, who died at Gen try-Williams hospital. Friday of pneumonia. The three-months-old child is * survived by his parents, three sisters and one brother, all of Ca- Vel village. The final rites will be held at the home with Rev. J. L. Coley, pastor of the family, of Longhurst officiating. Pall bearers will be Sanford Long, Bernice West brooks, Wil liam Walker and Osie Dickerson. Interment will be in Burchwood cemetery annex immediately fol lowing the services. } __________________ t j Olive Hill Play j ; To Be Given Friday t “The Last Day of School”, a play portraying a school of long ’ ago, will be presented at the Olive Hill School next Friday ’[ evening, at 7:30 o’clock by mem bers of the faculty and commun ity. The play is a humorous one, and the costumes are unique. 3 i You will not regret it if you t come out to see ’Mr. H. D. Young » preside as teacher over the fol -3 lowing class: the faculty, Mrs. 1 *Guy Clayton, Mr. and Mrs. Flet , cher Carver, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene - Adcock, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Long, - Mrs. Clark Neathery, Mr. and f Mrs. Cam Winstead, Mrs. Ramon c Dixon, Mrs. W. C. Pulliam, Mrs. i Maurice Daniel, Mrs C. H. Dunk-' r ley, Mr. Owen Evans, John 1 - Thomson, Sylvester Clayton and others. | •-’v- -Vivj.-.■ ’•.*•.; , -r.wv- .-. .<*■»•• » tj-wsMr.*.'"' l . > i . • . Afßßlfbs W«y VWfch gifeEtlltor— —— Dr. Thaxton says that antf'day last winter, Arthur Bradsher, brother of Dewey Bradsher,. was visiting in Dewey's home. Dewey had a nice wild tilrkey in tfae refrigerator ready for cooking, but when he saw Arthur and his family drive up he made his cook go out in the yard, catch an old rooster and put him in the pot. Arthur likes turkey meat, but he failed to get any on that visit to Roxboro. Baxter Mangum has started back to Sunday School. For a year or two Baxter claimed that he was teaching at Ca-Vel and was therefore unable to attend his class at Long Memorial. Some one in his class happened to men tion this fact to a few fellows who went to Ca-Vel Sunday School and found out that the boys there didn’t even know Baxter Mangum. James Long, Jr., has been selected as . toastmaster for the annual Kiwanis Banquet on De cember 12. Bet two to one that he comes out in a tuxedo. If he does Stuart Ford is going to try his best to prolong the meeting so that Jimmy will have to pay extra time rent on his suit. Gus Deering is not in favor of renting suits for the banquet. Gus says to wear what you have BAXTER MANGUM as long as it is paid for and to wear it anyway even if it is not paid for. P. T. Whitt, Jr., wants to find someone who can do something about all of this warm weather. P. T. sells coal or rather he tries to sell it and this hot weather isn’t helping his business very much. It has been said that he walks around saying to himself and to his friends: “It looks like we are going to have a long, hard winter.” W. W. Woods, local ice dealer, solved the above situation in a very nice way. “W. W.” was always looking for warm weather. He didn’t have much respect for cold weather and so he decided to put in stove wood. Now when the ice season has passed our friend Mr. Woods begins his cry “Wood for Sale.” Flash Earl Bradsher, Jr., has started playing golf. Does any one have a pair of good second-hand golf breeches for sale? NEGRO FARM EVEITPLANNED Annual Achievement Day Will Be Held Next Fri day. The annual achievement Day will be observed Friday, Novem ber 18, for Person County Negro farmers and farm women, C. J. Ford, Negro county agent, has an nounced. Many prizes will be awarded and there will be contests and re ports from 4-H club members and adults. Field crops, seed identification, canning, garden products, shop work, sewing, etc. will be judged dicing the day, Friday, and pi‘- zes will be awarded to those tak ing first and second places at the program Friday night. Any farmer, farm woman, boy or girl within the bounds of Per son County is eligible to bring articles, such as, 10 ears of corn (yellow or white), 5 bundles of tobacco, 1 gallon of potatoes (sweet or white), jam, jelly, pick les, preserves, etc. Just one of each kind will be enough for one per son to bring. In selecting corn, choose 10 ears of com with same color of cob that will stand up on but, corn growing out covering cob at the end, well matured grains, nearly the same size as possible. Care should be used in selecting potatoes (white or sweet) that are not cut or bruised, medium size, same color and showing no dis ease. Care should also be used in selecting canned and preserved fruits. The Ball Brothers Canning con- I test will also be a feature of the I Ashievement Day. Any club girl or farm woman who has been fol lowing the County Canning pro gram is requested to bring one | can of soup mixture and one pan ! of string beans ift quart sizes. {More detail information con- I (Continued On Page 7) * ID » .-Jiß- m m M - . iBB j^^B ALLEN SPEAKS TOROTARIANS Local Health Officer Talks. To Club On Crippled Child ren Program. Thursday night was “Crippled Children’s Night” at the local Ro tary club with Dr. A. L. Allen, Person County Health officer and member of the club, making the principal talk. Dr. Allen in opening his re marks said, “There is a problem which they represent and a not inconsiderable one since six in dividuals out of every 1,000 are lame and of this six, three are under 21 years of age.” The speak er reviewed briefly the p/ogress that has been made in North Carolina toward caring for these ' crippled children. -He spoke of the orthopedic hos pital in Gastonia, made possible by legislation enacted by the 1917 ’ General Assembly and the State 1 Crippled Children’s commission organized in 1936 which, he said, 1 had registered 12,000 crippled children. Speaking of causes, he 1 stated the causes of crippleness were “mainly infantile paralysis and congenital.” * In conclusion, Dr. Allen re p commended that “since the state ’ pays for operations upon crip ’ pled children and moreover, since ’ the only two in the county have • been taken to hospitals, a contri • bution be made for one-half the : cost of braces needed for paraly ’ tics without operation or follow ing operation, for which the state pays only half, for special shoes, 1 transportation to and from the * clinics and for needed nourish ments and drugs supplying vita ‘ mins to prevent rickets.” ] HURDLE MILLS PLAY The play, “Mammy’s LiT Wild ; Rose”, will be given by the Hur l die Mills High School November 22nd at 8 o’clock. The play is being directed by Miss Helen Melton and the pro- I ceeds will go to the Libary fund. SMS’ SAW DEMOCRACY Legionnaires Hear Nash ville Man On Armistice Day Program. Here.. “It is now aparent that within the next few years, there will be an onslaught upon the coun tries having representative gov ernment and everything will be done to exterminate them,” Iti mous Valentine, prominent Nash ville attorney, told local Legion naires Friday in the featured Ar mistice Day address Here in the Palace Theatre. Calling upon “My Buddies” to “seek to purge, purify and polish in our own communities the De mocracy of our forefathers,” Valentine said. “We are today faced with a combination of Fas cism and Nazism in the country of Japan determined to wreck the forces of Democracy.” Introduced by Nathan Luns ford, local attorney, Valentine was preceeded on the program by Mayor R. B. Dawes, who deliver ed the welcome address, and sev eral songs and readings by mem bers of the Legion and their sons The program was presided over by R. H. Shelton, commander of the Lester Blackwell Post No. 138. Saying that it was his third Ar mistice Day visit to Roxboro, the speaker stated, “You people in Roxboro go about this celebration of Armistice Day more to my lik ing than anywhere else in the state. Asking his audience to think of the four basic truths embedded in the Declaration of Independ ence, Valentine asserted, “When we returned from France twenty years ago, we expected our gov ernment to receive us not as heroes but as returning sons who had fought for the principles held dear. However,” he continued, “we found that something had slipped. We had failed.” Calling for the continuance of the principles of the Monroe Doc trine, the speaker said, “We have a task to perform. We must pre serve our own integrity and ev erything upon this hemisphere.” Following the morning program, | (Continued On Back Page) ! Here’s More Talk On This Funny Weather - Ho Hum (A Friday , Where is your bathing suit? k Just in case you have forgotten where it is you might look a j round and see if you can find it ; because it looks like you might . have need for it any day. . Everything seems to be in bloom, or either just getting ripe, in this section. Ladies of Semora , are reporting a second apple crop. Squash vines have just started doing business. Lilac bushes are at the height of their beauty. Rasberry vines have the very best fruit of the year and tomato vines are really helping the family budget. The weather has actually been too warm for a fire and light | weight underwear almost proves ’ to be too heavy. In spite of all the hot weather we had two cold days last week. Citizens rushed for their over coats, wore them two days and then looked around and saw that l summer was here again. Young' men in this city have : been looking at their linen suits with longing eyes and wonder r ing whether it would be sensi . ble to take them off the rack andi . venture out. I. ““ " " " " '™■— Prices Remain Firm v • . . •*: * On Roxboro Market Bogey Man a|B -&V • 1 /|m| Orson Welles, 23-year-old prodigy of the stage and radio, whose re cent dramatization of H. G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds” via the radio was so realistic that thousands of listeners were seized by a wave of panic fear of an invasion of the United States of monsters from the planet Mars. * Semora Farmer Kills Self Friday On River Bank I. D. Barker, 50-year-old farm er of Semora, was found dead from a bullet wound through the head in a secluded spot on the bank of Dan River Friday after noon. George W. Evans, acting coroner, entered a verdict of sui cide. The body was found by Rev. S. N. McLaughlin, negro minis ter, and who told police he had seen the man several hours ear lier seated on a rock apparent ly in deep thought. A .32 caliber pistol lay at Bar ker’s feet and in his pocket was $2.65 in cash. Investigation dis closed that tobacco which the farmer has brought here for sale had been attached for a debt, leading to a theory by authorities that he had brooded over finan cial difficulties. Viewpoint) Christmas will soon be here and unless something is done a bout the weather Santa Claus will probably have to leave his deer in the barn and drive down in a car. Snow seems to be a memory for here we have Indian Summer. P. S. Remember this article was written Friday. It may be as cold as blazes today. n Smiling Rangers 'To Play At Helena The “Smiling Rangers”, Reid, Shorty, Johnnie, Homer and Joel, will appdirr at Helena School, Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock. j The program will consist of “old time banjo playing, fiddling and singing.” The program is sponsored by the Young Tar Heel Farmers club at Helena. Fathers, mothers aryj friends are invited to come out and help the boys. The club is trying to raise money to buy a I projector. Admission will be 15 and 25c. THE TIMES IS PERSONS PREMIER NEWSPAPEBI A LEADER AT ALL TIMKA. . ' i > .. i RF i Good Leaf Averaging High; Season Only 4M.OM Behind Last Year In. Poundage. Prices remained firm on the Roxboro tobacco market last week as some farmers reported averages of SSO or more per hun dred pounds for large lots. Fancy tobacco and wrappers are in great demand and prices are excdlletit for ftiis type of weed. Although the local market is slightly behind last year in poundage, a market average of $22.35 has been maintained dur ing the current season. Local warehouses have dis posed of 2,557,934 pounds of the golden weed this year as com pared to 2,998,472 pounds at tha same time last season. Heavy of ferings are expected for Monday and it is believed the market will pass the three million mark by the end of the coming week. The farmers seem determined to sell their holdings as quickly as possible and are marketing their product as fast as they can get it stripped out. Thanksgiv ing will see a much larger pro portion of the crop sold this year than ever before and many are predicting that but little will be left in the hands of the growers after the Christmas holidays. Local warehousemen are still giving away tickets with each 100 pounds sold here, each of which represents one opportunity at the new Ford V-8 coach to be given to some farmer around Christmas. Final Rites Held Yesterday For Providence Man James Edward White, 70, died at his home in the Providence community Thursday night. Com plications are listed as the cause. Mr. White, who was well known throughout the community, had been in failing health for the past two years. In addition to his widow, sur- viving are one son, William D. White, of Roxboro; one brother, John F. White, of Henderson, two sisters, Mrs. J. W. Claytor of Roxboro, and Mrs. O. E. Clayton, of Danville, Va., and four grand children. Funeral services were conduct ed Saturday afternoon with Rev. N. J. Todd in charge, assisted by Rev. J. L. Coley. Interment was made in Providence church ceme tery. Active pallbearers were Robert Greenway, Bob Whitt, Melvin Clayton, Henry White, Leßoy ; Link and Chelland White. Honorary pall bearers were Ro bert Buchanan, Luther Whitt, Dr. B. A. Thaxton, Norman Street, a| Eugene Fox, Horace Buchanan, J. ' D. Perkins, Tom D. Winstead, A. C. Gravitte, George Perkins, Bob Young, S. P. Gentry, Tommie Thomas, R. H. Gates, Hugh. Woods, J. R. Clayton, Cleve Thornburg, James T. Link, Bon- ; j nie Hunt, B. G. Clayton and T. G. Buchanan. I Serving as floral bearers were: Mamie White, Difris White, Bax ter White, Mary White, Elizabeth | Link, Sophia Currin, Thelma :| Clayton, Penkie Glasgow, Marion Buchanan, Robert Buchanan, Jr., |f Sophia Thomas, Emily Ford, Dor- Jg cey Floyd, Willie Wrenn, JohitJS 1 David Wrenn, Alice Fbatherston f Ida Booker Wood, Pinkie Gen- J try, Esther Holden and Ethei|| . Clayton. M "Jfl
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