IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT
PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLUME X PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1939 NUMBER THIRTY-TWO
No More Big Votes On S3O Clubs After Saturday 25th
Founder’s Day
Program Given
At Hurdle Mills
The Hurdle Mills P. T. A. held
a Founder’s Day program at the
school Friday night at 7:30. Ap
proximately fifty teachers, par
ents and guests were present for
this meeting.
Mrs. Claude Whitfield, presi
dent of the P. T. A., presided
over a short business session
prior to the program. After this
a history of the P. T. A. was
given in pageant form. Special
music followed and then an ex
planation was given the group
concerning the underprivileged
children’s project that is being
sponsored by the Roxboro Ki
wanis Club.
Delicious refreshments, con
sisting of punch and cake, were
served to all guests at the con
clusion of the program.
This meeting, one of the best
of the year, was scheduled for
Wednesday night but due to bad
weather was postponed until
Friday.
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BUSHY FORK
SCOUTS BUSY
Twenty Scouts Present At
Church Last Sunday To
Hear Rev. M. W. Lawrence.
Bushy Fork Scouts obser-
National Scout Week by
+ wearing their uniforms every day
and attending church in a group
last Sunday at Lee’s Chapel.
Twenty scouts were present for
the service as well as the lead
ers and most of the fathers. Mr.
Lawrence spoke on “Jesus, The
First Scout” and pointed out to
the boys the “good turn”as a daily
service to their fellovvmen. Stres
sing the need for citizenship
training in America today, Mr.
Lawrence told the Scouts that
they could not prepare for lead
ership any better than by living
their own oath and laws.
Bushy Fork sent five scouts,
four fathers and Scouters C. H.
Mason and B. J. Long to the
Father-Son banquet in Roxboro
February 10. They reported back
a very happy occasion and no
doubt more will want to attend
next year.
Probably more interest than
ever before has been taken in
advancement since Christmas.
The next court of honor will be
February 24, and at that time a
round 25 boys will be up for
various phases of advancement.
There will be around 10 scouts
up for a merit badge in animal
industry. J. B. Snipes, assistant
county agent, acted as counselor
for this work and made it very
interesting. In addition to this
merit badge probably others will
be up for book binding, automo
biling and electricity. Several
scouts will also be up for tender
foot and second class ranks.
The last two meetings have
been devoted to First Aid with
Dr. Allen and his staff of nurses,
Mr*. Robert Long, Miss Frances
Allen and Miss Hazel Wilfong
acting as Counselors. The work
of these people in helping carry
out the scouting program is great
ly appreciated by all the parents
nd scouters at Bushy Fork.
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HAMLIN HAS FLUE
Ed Hamlin, city editor, of this
paper, has been ill at his home
on Court Street for the past
~ several days. He is suffering with
a "did attack of influenza.
JrrsonlMimrs
Fifty Three Deaths From
"Flu” In N. C. For January
CORRECTION
In the campaign candidates
standing box on front page of
The limes issue of February,
16th. Wheeler Carver was listed
on Rt. 3 with 100,000 votes, this
should have been listed as Rox
boro, 110,000 votes
Mrs. S. D. Clayton’s vote was
listed as 67,000. This should have
been 100,000...
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Lincoln Paper
Lauds Person
County Native
Alton B. Clayton of the Lincoln
(N. C.) News recently had quite
a bit to say in his newspaper a
bout a Person county native, M.
B. Winstead.
Mr. Winstead lives in Lincoln
tion and is chairman of the school
board of that city.
Many people in this county re
member M. B. Winstead, brother
of Carl, Ray, Alex, Cam and Mel
vin. He left this county several
years ago and walked twenty
miles to join the army. Since that
time he has walked right into
Lincolnton’s Hall of Fame.
Mr. Claytor said: “I am going
to nominate right now one man
for Lincolnton’s Hall of Fame.
You seldom see his name in
print. He doesn’t like publicity.
He works for the glory of seeing
something worthwhile accom
plished.”
One half column of Lincolnton’s
newspaper, two week ago, was
devoted to praising M. B. Win
stead and this little sketch is pas
sed on by the Times for the be
nefit of his many friends in this
county.
COLES BACK
Mr. and R. G. Cole have re
turned to Roxboro from Missis
sippi where they have been
visiting their daughter and son
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Brown. The Coles report a trip
that surpassed all expectations.
Al on 9 The Wa y
With the Editor
Rainey Hawkins, an old Hurdle Mills resident, but now in
business in this city, wants to join the Garden Club. Rainey claims
that he lived on a farm, anyone could tell it, practically all of his
life and that he knows as much about raising a garden and defeating
the grocery bill as Anyone around these parts. It looks like he
could qualify for membership and the only thing that he has to do
is to take a mess of turnip salad that he grew to President Dewey
Bradsher. It might be stated that Dewey will not return the salad,
as he will eat all samples that are brought to him.
E. B. Craven, Jr., now has a spot of his own and it has been
said that he plans to do a little cultivating. E, B. likes vegetables
thct cost very little and since he is determined to defeat the high
cost of living it might be a good idea to take him into the Garden
Club. He really might show the fellows a few tricks of the trade.
Someone has suggested that Wharton Winstead, recently mar
ried, might want to sign-up for membership. The only trouble with
Wharton' is that he doesn’t like to work and one of the rules is
that you have to raise your own vegetables. You absolutely cannot
hire any labor except to get your land broken for the first time,
guess that' will do away with Wharton’s membership right from the
start.
Someone has said that Tom Stre et might want to raise a garden
but the old members took one look at Tom and voted “No.” Any
one as big and fat as Tom couldn’t know anything about work and
there was nothing that he could do or say that yould prove to the
boys that he was capable of using a hoe.
Clyde-Bowen has hard clay land in his garden and he has to
work it out with a hand plow. Believe me—Clyde would never push
that plow in that clay if he didn’t want those free vegetables and
mighty bad at that. Clyde is a charter member of the Garden Club.
R. B. Griffin has a house and lot of his own now; well there may
be one or two mortgages on it, but he claims it Still we understand
that he has no intention of putting out as much work as a nr.
den requires.
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State Registered Drop Os
41 Under The 94 For Jan
uary, 1938.
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Raleigh—There were 53 deaths
from influenza in North Carolina
reported to the State Board of
Health for January; 1939, which
was a drop of 41 under the 94
reported the corresponding month
in 1938, according to figures com
piled by Dr. R. T. Stimpson, Di
rector of the Division of Vital
Statistics. There also was a de
cline of 89 in the number of pneu
monia deaths for the month, the
January, 1939, total being 315, as
compared with 404 a year ago.
Preventable accidents were res
ponsible for 119 deaths last
month as compared with 127 for
January, 1938. Some of the deaths
from accidents that actually oc
curred in 1938 were not reported
until 1939.
The year started off with a
drop in the number of deaths, the
total for January, 1939, being 2,-
828, as compared with 3,098 a
year ago, while births also show
ed a slight drop, this year’s total
being 6,352, against 6,395 in Jan
uary, 1938.
Suicides showed a drop of from
26 to 17, while homicides for the
month fell from 35 to 30.
Maternal deaths last month
numbered 30, a decline of sev
en under the corresponding per
iod in 1938, while deaths among
children under a year old total
ed 411, the same as in January,
1938. There were also three fever
deaths from diarrhea and enter
itis among children under two
years old, Dr. Stimpson’s report
shows. Measles deaths dropped
from 16 to 7, while whooping
cough fatalities jumped from nine
to 22. There were 19 deaths from
diphtheria during the month.
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ALLEN ILL
Maurice Allen suffered an at
tack of appendicitis Thursday
night and was operated upon
later in the night. He is at
Gentry-Williams Hospital and is
recovering nicely.
TENNIS COURT
WORK STARTS I
Will Have Steel Fence
Around It. Club House
Work Finished.
Work at the Roxboro Country
Club was progressing very rapi
dly this past week, stated City
Manager Harris. One tennis
court is now under construction
and is slated to be One of the
best in this county. A steel fence
will be placed around the entire
court in order to make the game
much faster.
Work on the Club House has
been finished. The building has
been painted and the walls plast
ered. Everything is now ready
for the interior decorator to start
on the finishing touches.
Unless something goes wrong
the golf course will be ready for
playing within a few weeks. All
club members who are in arrears
with their dues are urged to see
the secretary and pay up at once.
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Poultry Course
To Be Given In
Siler City Soon
By H. K. Sanders, Agricultural
Agent
J. B. Snipes, Assistant Agri
cultural Agent.
A one day Poultry Short
Course will be held in Siler City,
in Chatham County, February
21st, in the High School Gymna
sium.
All Person County citizens in
terested in poultry are invited
to attend this meeting.
Some of the subjects to be dis
cussed at this meeting are:
“Improved Chick Rearing Pra
ctices”, “A Practical Feeding
Program for Piedmont North
Carolina Farmers”, “How to Im
prove I(he Performance of the
Farm Flock” and “Round Table
Discussion of Individual Poul
try Problems.”
These subjects will be discussed
by Prof. R. S. Dearstyne and
Messrs. C. F. Parrish, T. T.
Brown and C. J. Maupin, all of
them of the Poultry Department
of State College, Raleigh, N. C.
The program begins at 10:00
A. M. and continues until 3:00
P. M., with recess for lunch.
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Bandits Enter
Local Station
Early Thursday
A filling station on highway
144, a short distance from here,
owned and operated by O. S.
Oakley and a small-tool house at
the convict camp were broken
into sometime Thursday morning
early.
The latter robbery when dis
covered Friday morning divul
ged that a case and a half of
dynamite was missing. The explo
sive was the property of the state
and is used by highway workers
when such an occasion is neces
sary. The house, containing the
dynamite is outside the prison
fence.
Mr. Oakley’s filling station, lo
cated within sight of the camp
was entered by prying off a strip
on the front door apparently to
make room for prying open the
door.
A rifle, suitcase, clothes, shoes
and other small articles wete tak
en from the filling station. The
robbers also broke the lock on a
gasoline pump and helped them
selves to a fill
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CITY SCHOOLS TO !
RE-OPENJONDAY
Thought That Many Who
Have Been 111 Will Be Able
To Attend
Roxboro High School and
Central School will reopen Mon
day morning at the usual time,
stated an official in the office of
Superintendent R. B. Griffin,
Friday afternoon.
These schools were closed
Thursday by school officials be
cause there were approximately
two hundred cases of influenza
among students of the two
schools Some of the cases could
probably be better described as
common colds, but they were
serious enough for the students
to remain away from school.
of the schools believe
that many of those who were
sick will be able to attend school
Monday and that the epidemic
may be broken by that time.
There have been very few
cases of influenza in the county
schools and therefore no suggest
ion that any of these schools be
forced to close.
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DEATH OF INFANT
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
R. B. Dawes died at Watts Hospi
tal Friday morning. Interment
was made at Burchwood Ceme
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The Last Week OI Big
Votes On S3O Club Opens
Monday-Ends Saturday 25
With only one more week of big extra votes on S3O Clubs
of subscriptions, (he workers who are in to win will go out
Monday with a determination never before used in this cam
paign to make the very best of the few remaining days of the
club votes. The biggest drop in votes of the entire race comes
after Saturday night, February 25th.
The Ten Extra Cash Prizes Were Won By Extra
Efforts: The S6OO and S4OO Prizes Will Be Won
By Extra Effort! Who Will Win?
PUT YOUR NAME WITH THE LEADERS
Miss Lucy Gray Chandler, Miss Margaret Jones, Mrs. Matt
Dickerson, Miss Nannie Willie Cushwa, Mrs. C. E. Stewart,
Mrs. Jack Woody and Miss Manila O’Briant are holding com
manding positions in the vote line up for this week. Mrs. Coy
Day and Wheeler Carver and others are running up good and
all workers are going strong on this week’s work to win their
share of this week’s extra cash.
IT’S NO PLACE FOR QUITTERS!
The campaign is just getting underway in earnest and
from now on will be a real fight. The worker who goes after
all subscriptions possible now instead of waiting until the
votes are lower will be the one to build up the votes to win
the major awards.
VOTES DROPPING EVERY WEEK! WORK FAST!
List of Candidates in The Times “Cash Offer” Campaign and
Percentage Votes accepted for publication:
Name Town Votes
Mrs. Coy E. Day Roxboro 112,000
Mrs. C. E. Stewart Roxboro 115,000
Miss Nannie Willie Cushwa.. Roxboro 117,500
Mrs. Matt Dickerson Ca-Vel .: 117,500
Miss Mary Emma Strum Roxboro 102,000
Mrs. Jack Woody Bethel Hill 115,000
Mjp«- Lucy Gray Chandler ... Leasburg 119,000
Miss Margaret A. Jones Roxboro 119,000
Miss Lena Buchanan Rougemont 100,000
Miss Ruth Lunsford Timberlake 102,000
Mice Manila O’Briant Allensville 115,000
Mrs. lola Thomas Gwyn .... Semora 106,000
Wheeler Carver Roxboro 110,000
Mrs. S. D. Clayton Roxboro, Rt. 3 100,000
Miss Lucile Berry Hurdle Mills 20,000
CANDIDATES must make a report twice each week on Wed
nesday and Saturday, either in person or by mail. Winners
repost regularly. Be A Winner!
Many Subscriptions Will
Be Sold On Last S3O Club
Offer Which Ends Saturday
Workers Who Go After The Bigger Subscrip
tions Now Instead Os Waiting Until Later Can
Build A Reserve Os Votes That Would Be Os
Great Assistance In Winning The Big Awards.
Homemakers To
Meet This Week
The Hurdle Mills Home Dem
onstration Club will meet with
Mrs. R. H. Baynes Tuesday, Feb
ruary 21, at two o’clock.
Mrs. I. B. Hawkins will present
the “Outlook for 1939” and Mrs.
Dan Whitfield will discuss
“Home Built Kitchen Conven
iences.
The Bethel Hill Home Demon
stration Club will hold its regular
meeting with Mrs. J. H. Merritt
Wednesday, February 22 at two
thirty o’clock. Mrs. Claude T.
Hall will hold an Open Forum
on the “Farm Family Living For
1939”. Mrs. Clyde Woody will dis
cuss “Home Built Kitchen Con
veniences.”
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“Yes, you’d know him for a
heathen
If you judge him by the hide,
But bless you, he’s my brother,
For he’s just like me inside.”
—Freeman.
THE TIMES IS PERSON 1 *
PREMIER NEWSPAPERJ
A LEADER AT ALL TIME&
FIRST AND SECOND
AWARDS TOTAL SI,OOO
Time Lost Now Can Mean
Loss Os Many Dollars In
Prize Money Later.
Few workers stop to realize
that the two main awards repre
sent SI,OOO cash and also that the
two workers who win them will
have made much more than any
average business man in this sec
tion for a like period of time.
Right now is the time to fig
ure just what it can mean to you
as a worker to be one of the two
big winners and try to make ev
ery hour count. If any worker
were to use six hours per day for
the entire seven weeks the S6OOI
first award would have paid them
well over $2.00 per hour for the
entire time and $2.00 per hour is
no little amount when one stops
to think about it. Now is a good
time to begin thinking about ifc.
When you are losing those hours
that you know you should and
could be out working just give
this a little thought and no doubt
you find it easier to make bet
ter use of them. Surely no one
would miss those hours at s
loss of $2.00 per hour.
WITH THE WORKERS
i Mrs. Coy E. Day has made some
good progress so far in the' cam
paign and has great possibilities,
we think, in the future if she
will work the rich field now ser
ved by The Times. Mr. Day is
one of the best known young
business men in the county and
has hundreds of friends and ac
quaintances who no doubt want
to lend their suport in the race
for the big awards. Mrs. C. EL
Stewart has also made fine pro
gress and with the many friends
and acquaintances she and “Char
lie” have throughout this entire
county it is assumed that she will
continue to keep up the good
work and give someone a lively
race for the big awards.
Miss Nannie Willie Cushwa,
our youngest member, has shown
so far that she is a “Live Wire *
as a campaign worker and has an
abundance of real determination
and “stickability.” Her boosters
have shown real interest and will
no doubt keep pulling for her
right on to the end of the drive
if she keeps up the spirit and en
thusiasm she has registered so
far. Mrs. Matt Dickerson of Ca-
Vel has shown that she has *
good following of boosters in and
around Ca-Vel and with her un
tiring efforts has made some real
progress in the campaign so far,
and apparently has all the deter
mination necessary to carry on in
great style with support of her
many friends and acquaintances
in the Times territory. She says
she is “In To Win”.
Miss Mary Emma Strum, an
other junior member of the group,
is making progress in her race
for one of the awards. Miss Strum
has great possibilities among the '
many friends she has in this sec
tion and with the wide acquain
tance of her many close relatives
here. “Miss Mollie” is giving her
all the assistance possible, libs.
Jack Woody who represents the
Bethel Hill section of the telti
tory has made splendid progross
so far. Mrs. Woody started just
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