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'PERSON COUNTY TIMES A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE • rs •;' ■ ■ «. 8. MERRITT, Editor M. C. CLAYTON, Manager E. J. HAMLIN City Editor. • fWUished Every Sunday and Thursday. Entered As Second Class Matter At The Postoffice At Roxboro, N. C., Under He Act Os March 3rd., 1879* —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— / * Dm Year sl-50 ■» Mis Months .75 ■ f m i... i~. ~ i „ ..i.i/l i■. F *•»* . i 7- i * Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at all times, Rates furnished upon request. - 9fows from our correspondents should reach this office not inter than Monday to insure publication for Thursday edition w- end Thursday P. M. for Sunday edition. . ' ■ - . —.— SUNDAY, FEB. 26, 1929 » « ... . ii i i ■ i -i m WE NEED A CEMENT WALK ON REAMS AVENUE A citizen of Roxboro wants to know something. He wants to lenow why the city commissioners do not pave the sidewalk that runs down by the bakery, Wade Grocery Co. and other places of business on the left side of Reams Avenue. This citizen stopped this writer last week and asked why noth* ing had been done about this matter. The writer had no good answer and doesn’t believe that the commissioners have a very good one. The places of business on this aide of Reams Avenue deserve a paved walk. They pay taxes to the city just as much so as other lirms. They are entitled to a cement walk and everyone knows that they need it. The city commissioners would probably say that it cost too much to put the walk there, but it would cost no more than other walks and would be used by hundreds of people every day. Mr. Abbitt could lay this walk With the help of local labor. He doesn’t claim to be any expert, but he knows enough about ce ment to lay a short stretch. More than that we believe that he would be glad to undertake the job. Roxboro is a growing city and if continues to grow and collect more taxes the city officials might as well decide to spend a little more money and keep up With the growth of Roxboro. -■ ■ CONGRATULATIONS A news report from Hurdle Mills reveals the fact that this school has the most modern lunch room in the county. I Congratulations to -Hurdle Mills. A good lunch room is a splendid thing in any communi ty and Hurdle Mills has a right to be proud of what has been acomplished at that school. GOOD BUILDING Residents of the Allensville community must feel proud of their new school building that is stow nearing completion in that neighborhood. The new build ing will offer about everything that teachers, parents and pupils could desire. The auditorium of this build ing is really a spot of beauty. It seems to have every feature that a good auditorium should have and will fill the needs of the school for years to come. SWIMMING POOL With warm weather comes the thought that Roxboro will soon need that swimming pool that we have talked about for so many years. There is a large amount of public money being distributed and we can think of no better plan to use part of it than in a public swimming pool for Rox boro. How about it Mr. City Manager? - { l 0 Professional Cards s. F. NICKS, JR. , . - Attorney -at - Law First National Bank Bldg Jfafe Slt ; Roxboro, N. C DR. R. J. PEARCE » EYE§ exAKINED l MONDAYS ONLY t StIU-> FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH TO GIVE IS TO LIVE “Dead is the hand that is not open wide To help the need of a human brother; He doubles the length of his life long ride Who gives of his fortunes to help another; And a thousand million lives are his Who carries the world in his sym pathies. To deny is to die.” 9:45 a. m. - Bible School. 11:00 a. m. - Preaching - “How Can I Meet Life’s Problems?” 6:30 p. m. - Baptist Training Un ion. 7:30 p. m. - Preaching by Rev. N. J. Todd. A cordial welcome is extended to the public. W. F. West, Pastor. Couple married in 1889 will celebrate their Golden Wedding Day at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island at a special pro gram being arranged by the Golden Wedding Society of Cali fornia, Club No. 1. Palace Theatre Monday - Tuesday, Feb. 27-2 S CAN AMERICA DEFEND HERSELF IN THE AH? SB ■ : V,. WiiaVEdlpNlß'VßiMaiiu. j X. 1> t T.- ; PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. . With Our Contemporaries OL LITTLE’S LAMENT William Allen White in The Emporia Gazette The other day we picked up The Alma Enterprise, published in a thriving county seat 40 odd miles north of this town. Alma is enjoying is winter hibernation and is not exactly a throbbing pulse of either commerce or crime. So as press day comes along for The Weekly Enterprise, Ol Little ruminates and writes this paragraph: “Had it not been for the mar riages and deaths, we might just as .well put out no paper this week and thereby save a few dol lars. But one dies but once and few people can afford to get mar ried more than once, and we don’t like to disappoint them by not giving the news about these im portant events.” *And therein lies the secret of a great American industry, the American county newspaper. In vention may draw the world so closely together that we will be thicker than three in a bed. Air planes may bring The New York Times to Emporia for breakfast and The Kansas City Star in the middle of the afternoon. The Ga zette will not flicker or languish. It is based upon something more substantial than the growth and invention of distance smashing machinery. The Gazette and The Alma En terprise and thousands of little American newspapers in little country towns of from one thousand to fifty thousand, make their living only incidentally by publishing the news of the great mad world. They make their liv ing by dignifying the huuman spirit, by exaulting and for a brief proud hour preserving the little affairs of country people. It is of vastly more importance to the people of Center township to know that John Jones brought to town in late May or early June the first load of the first cutting of alfalfa hay, than to know ex actly what happened at the con ference between Chamberlain and the Berlin madman, j People who can afford it will read about Chamberlain and Hitler. But people who want* Palace Theatre New RCA High - Fidelity Sound Equipment ADVANCE PROGRAM From Monday, Feb. 27 thru Wednesday, March 1 Motion Pictures Are Tour Best Entertainment. Monday, National Announce ment Night, Feb. 27th. and Tuesday, Feb. 28th. National Announcement Os Win ners In Recent Movie Quiz $250,000 Contest George Brent - Olivia deHavil land • John Payne with Frank McHugh - John Litel - Victor Jory - Henry O’Neill in “Wings of the Navy” ,Today - The Screen’s Most Thrilling Adventure! Tomor row • America’s Guarantee of Peace! Popeye the Sailor in “Mutiny Ain’t Nice” Heart Metrotbne Ncwp-Newe While it is still news. Morning Show Monday 10:30; Afternoons daily 3:15-8:45; Evenings Dally 7:15-9:00. Admission 10-26 c Movie Quiz Contestants Please Notice: Announcement of the first 24 prize winners and any other local winners there may be, will be made Monday Night, Feh. 27th. from our stage at 9 o’clock. Wedneeday, March 1 Don Terry - Jacqueline Wells with Rita Hayyworth - Arthur ,Loft in “Paid To Danee” Melody Masters: Merle Ken gridcs and Ms Otriuotra. Color FMad* “WMp* Ml am mmbm fas. nmi'MJu/ i to know about their neighbors know about themselves as par ties of the first part, will buy these little country papers and country merchants will advertise therein, and the county printing will be distributed thereto, and a decent living will be made by this dignifying of the human spirit which is the essential value of democracy. So Ol you have spoken as a prophet. Buck up. Take pride in your calling. Don’t fear the machine age. Can John Jones paste radio announcements in a memory book or Mrs. Jones stick a television cooking lesson over the kitchen sink? We ask you— O Prophet Ol? So pull down your vest and wipe off your chin and show your collar button if it is brass. It shines as the beacon light of democracy and you are the high priest in a rather im portant temple of democracy. Take a tumble to yourself. ■ o HITLER LEGEND The New Yorker. A few weeks ago we published a remarkable letter from a man who wrote that Hitler had been assassinated in Hamburg in No vember or December of 1935, and that the man now appearing in his place is always one of four ’ carefully selected doubles. Skep tics doubt this story, placing it in a sort of reverse category with reports that Jesse James, iVar Kruger, Ambrose Bierce, and Charley Ross are still alive; that Rudolph and Marie Vetser never died at Mayerling and that John Wilkes Booth was not killed on Garrett’s farm, btut escaped to the West, where at length his body turned up in a sideshow. We have no such misgivings. Our correspondent’s letter was quiet ly matter-of-lfact, corjaning it self unemotionally to names and dates, and we have also heard the same story from other un prejudiced sources. An English man, for instance, told us last week at tea that it was common gossip in London that a great I deal of Chamberlain’s confusion | at Munich was the result of his ( sudden, horrified realization that the man he spoke to in that care- PL-- ™ Pennsylvania f % |t j FLASHES L j THE NEW A . THE FIRST SUPER PENSYLVANIA If 1 Ml LEAGE TIRE • Actually The Nearest Approach To A Tire That THAT WONT WEAR OUT qigh Pressure Curing has arrived; an exclusive Pennsylvania Why Pennsylvania Truck Tires Perfrom So Super Test Cord Pioneered By Pennsylvania; Dual- Tread Designed For Extreme Wear, Resists Heat and Practically Eliminates Cord or Tread Separa tion. j fTHREE DAY SPECIAL " FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY *4 I MARCH 3rd.- 4th. - sth. 2 . 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Carolina say to the Governor of South Carolina at the General _ i" ■ 1 " V*«r ‘ V * f Assembly? .... "Isn’t It About Time For A GOOD ENOUGH FOR GOVERNORS - HOW ABOUT YOU? COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. Roxboro, N. C. realize that fuller documentary proof is ctecirnble. Hie editors' therefore will welcome further | communications on this subject and hope especially that there will be some among their read ers who were fortunate enough to be present at the actual de-j more than four years, but we mise. Thousands >, of years of history will be dramatically presented on a huge electrical map, showing the great migrations of the hum an race to millions of visitors at the 1939 World’s Fair of the West SUNDAY, FEBRUARY M, 19a on Treasurer Island In San Fran cisco Bay. Successful People Save Money! SEE C. B. WOOD Local Representative of INVESTORS SYNDICATE
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