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Telephone 4501 PEOPLE YOU KNOW Everythin* to Build With WATKINS ft BULLOCK ________ Mrs. Lee Weathers of Shelby, N. C., spent several days in Rox boro last week. , ij ' ! 'p| R. L. Harris, Jr. of Elkin ,1s spending the weekend here with his parents. Miss Margaret Hester has re. turned home from Farmville where she was a member of the school faculty. Guy Gardner is spending the weekend here. Miss Rowena Taylor, F. O. Car ver, Jr. and several members of the Bethel Hill school faculty are spending today in Williamsburg, Va. T. E. Austin was a Durham vi sitor Friday. Dan Richmond of Winston-Sa lem is spending this weekend here with friends and relatives. W. S. Humphries of Wake For est college is spending the week end with his parents in the Bethel Hill community. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hunter and daughter, Rachel, attended the dance recital at W. C. U. N. C. last night in which Miss Rebecca Hunter participated. Mrs. Rainey Hawkins of Dur ham is spending this weekend here with her husband and son. Mrs. T. C. Brooks, Sr. visited her brother in Washington, D. C. last week. Durham visitors Friday in cluded: Mesdames C. C. Critcher, S. H. Jones, R. C. Hall, H. W. Winstead, H. W. Winstead, Jr., E. P. Dunlap and Miss Gertrude Holt. Miss Margie Stanfield of the Pollocksville school faculty has returned home for the summer holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Stanfield here. Miss Christobel Gates, who has been teaching near Rocky Mount, Mothers’ Day Monday, May 14th Mother Has a Sweet Tooth AND THAT SWEET TOOTH CAN BE FILLED WITH A BOX OF , Whitman’s Candy SI.OO up or we have many other Mother’s Day gifts such as toilet articles by Gurlain, Yardley or Elizabeth Arden. Thomas & Oakley DRUGGISTS . Phone 4931 Roxboro, N. C. With Our Women & < l Society of Town and County Fashion Preiiew 8 8 tm ■ ■ mM - -~1 iH D v J ' 9 ■>£ i si i .MmURI illfe* ■ra.'fH f , jKSsk' . H&Sn I y«Hflip. » sSKif 1 For the girl who wants the sun on her legs, and who, when she wears slacks, invariably rolls them up, Harper’s presents these new long shorts of gray Hockanum flannel, cuffed at the knee. With it this model wears a striped Everfast cotton shirt of red, white and blue. Mrs. E. P. Dunlap Fetes Research Club; New Officers Named Wednesday has returned here fer the sum mer. She has as her guest for this weekend. Miss Anr.etta Burnstt of Burgaw. Mesdamos Ola Patterson, T. U. Conner and G. L. Doss and Miss Mary L. Doss of Appomat tox, Va., are spending sie week end as guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Puckett. Mrs. S. R. Whitten underwent a major operation at Watt’s hos pital in Durham Thursday. She is reported as recuperating nice ly. PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. The final meeting this season of the Research club was held Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. E. P. Dunlap as hostess at Hotel Roxboro. Members assembled at 3:30 o’- clock and held the business ses sion with Mrs ,R. L. Wilburn pre siding. The nominating commit tee presented the following new officers for the next year: Presi dent, Mrs. B. B. Newell; vice pre sident, Mrs. S. M. Ford, and sec retary and treasurer, Mrs. R. H. Shelton. All were unanimously elected. Continuing the study on “Mysteries,” Mrs. W. F. West pre sented a paper on “Marshal Ney.” Mrs. S. G. Winstead conducted a surprise quiz on the year’s work. At 5:30 o’clock the hostess in vited the guests into the dining room, where a delicious dinner was served. A basket filled with iris and other flowers of pastel shades were used as a center piece. - ■ - Attending were Mrs. J. A. Beam, E. E. Bradsher, W. C. Bul lock, B. G. Clayton, A. S. deVlam ing, J. H. Hughes, Mamie Merritt, B. B. Newell, W. T. Pass, R. H. Shelton, W. F. West, R. L. Wil burn and S. G. Winstead. Special guests for dinner were Mrs. J. H. Lanning and Mrs. R. H. Gates. o S. G. Winstead, Jr. of Washing ton, D. C. is spending several days in Roxboro visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Winstead. May 14th. Is The Day of Days Give have every kind. LONG’S FLOWER SHOP Phone 2341 At Henry’s Telephone 4501 Little Misses Have Birthday Party Misses Marion Paylor and Janet Mitchell were joint hostesses to a number of their friends Mon day night, celebrating their birth days, at the home of Mrs. R. D. Mitchell on Morgan street. After the game of Chinese checkers was enjoyed for some time, the guests were served cake and ice cream by the hostesses’ mothers, Mrs. Paylor and Mrs. Mitchell. Baskets of mints were given as favors. Guests included: Panthea Bul lock, Nancy and Mildred Stroud, Betty Gay Masten, Reda Um stead, Arline Hall, Mary Jo Jack son, Betsy Harris, Elizabeth Ne well, Edriel Knight, Patsy Beam, Mona Clayton, Kathleen and Peg gy Wilkins, Roxana Spencer, Bet ty Ann Cushwa and Rachel Kir by. Betty Gay Masten won first prize and Betsy Harris second. The hostesses received many pretty and useful gifts. 0 Allensville Club In April Meeting By Mrs. Robt. A. Gentry The Allensville Home Demon stration club met on April 26 with Mrs. S. T. Slaughter hostess. Mrs. Zadoc Slaughter, presi dent, presided. After a short de votional Mrs. T. B. Davis gave an interesting talk on shrubs. She made an appeal that the work with the 4-H club in land scaping the grounds of our new school building at Allensvil'.e. She mande an appeal that the churches represented do all that is possible to beautify the: ground, beginning now to plan for fall planting. She told us that the love of home is inherent in us and we want beauty around us for this reason. Mrs. B. G. Crumpton followed this talk with an appeal to land owners to build better and more comfortable homes for their ten ants and to encourage them to beautify the homes. This would do much to make our Southland a more beautiful place. Mrs. Robert Gentry made a short talk on the keeping of Farm Home Records. She spoke of the Mrs. W. A. Carter of Weldon, is spending some time here with her daughter, Mrs. Coy Day, who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis. James Harris spent Thursday in Raleigh, N. C. Gordon Hunter will leave Rox boro Tuesday to attend a state wide banker’s convention in Pinehurst, N. C. Walter Murray of Southern Pines, spent last Sunday in Rox boro. Mrs. E. E. Thomas spent last night in Raleigh with her daugh ter. Misses Martha Carter, Marjory Thomas and Nancy Bradsher are spending the day in Roxboro. Alex Sergeant is reported to be much better. He is still a patient at Watt’s hospital, Durham, N. C. 1 SMART FOR SPRING I L ‘WMmBKESm ■pjjjsVi ■ ..will !■ m ■ ■ « 1 . f. aggK 1 lilf Jr :is it * ■ 'jm This short-sleeved tailored Jacket' from the personal wardrobe of Jean ette MacDonald Is smart for spring.' The jacket is fashioned from tweed In a turquoise and brown mixture. The one-piece frock with box pleated skirt is heavy black crepe. Miss Mac- Donald chooses a linen straw hat with brown band and quill trim. TZ. m*- value of keeping records from year to year urging a time and place for keeping records and sound methods of keeping them. Miss Elizabeth Williams, Home Furnishing Specialist, supple mented this talk by saying that while many people objected to the keeping of records because it took too much time, it was time and trouble well spent because we gain in the long run by learn ing to spend money wisely. It is money well spent that is saved. She urged the Co-operation of the whole family in this work. There is no more valuable les son in thrift than we find in the keeping of records. We enjoyed having Miss Williams with us very much. The main project for April was general sanitation. Miss Beam gave a demonstration on clean j ing. She gave directions for mak ! ing a homemade plastic cleaner, and demonstrated the cleaner at work. She made an interesting , talk on cleanliness. This was timely as . all housewives are thinking of spring cleaning. She gavi>-each, a leaflet with various recipes for homemade cleaners and finishers. ' : \ A Annbune. ments of the possible opening of the' curb market and the meeting at Hillsboro, Mhy 17 were made.'All were urged to at tend. After adjournment Mrs. Slau ghter, invited us into the din ing room which was lovely with iris, spirea and weigelia and ser ved iced tea and cake. Next Su.tday is Mothers 1 Day—May i4th Remember mother with America’s Finest Mother’s Day Gift Package. For years Hollingsworth has made a specialty of Mother’s Day creations that are outstanding for their quality and beauty. SPUN GLO ALUMINUM WITH ROSE BUD SILK BOOK BOX SALAD BOWL BOUQUET „ A ., „ J Beautifully made of. first Just the thing for Moth- Lovely decoration made quality Moire Silk ?r bowl for fruit, flow- of wide rose tulle, figur- shaped and opens like a ers or salad —made of ed with lacy lilies of the book bears a lovely new style Spun Glo Al- valley—bearing a beau- hand-painted rose on co umnium—containing one tiful lifelike rose bud ver. Contains two pounds pound Unusual Choco- with fern. Unusual Chocolates, lates. OTHER APPROPRIATE GIFTS HAMBRICK, AUSTIN & THOMAS The Friendly Druggists We Deliver Anywhere We then inspected the cabinets Mrs. Slaughter had built with the help of her son, her brooder house with 300 chickens and her love ly yard flowers. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Ed Gentry on May 22 at 2:30 o’clock. All home makers are cor dially welcomed. LONG MEMORIAL Jesse H. Lanning, Pastor Sunday School, 9:45 a. m. De votional conducted by the Inter mediates. Morning Worship, 11:00 o’clock. Sermon by the Pastor on “Some Eternal Verities.” Special Music by the Choir. This Church is joining with the other churches in Roxboro in a combined Annual Graduation Service at the High School at 8:00 o’clock. We need not be afraid of God’s failure to do what He can for us but we do need to be terribly a fraid that we will fail to pre pare the way for Him to help us. Go to Church this Sunday and give God a better opportunity in your life! Life Insurance CAN BUILD YOUR ESTATE One of the easiest, quick est and surest ways to build up a nice estate is by means of life insurance. In addition to that you get the best protection in the world. We will he glad to explain. WALKER INSURANCE AGENCY J S. and BILL WALKER Roxboro, N. C. ’'i HHuBK a Congratulations Graduates We feel that you have done a nice job in graduating' and we know that you are quite happy in your acpmp lishment. So we say go to college if possible and then come back to this county to live. If you can’t go to college and have decided to start out in life now we urge you to start right here at home. This County presents a v world of opportunities. Palace & Dolly Madison Theatres SUNDAY, MAY 7, 1939 FRIENDLY SERVICE Standard Oil Co. Products. Telephone Service No. 4711 ROCK - INN SERVICE STATION Give Mother Jewelry FOR MOTHER We have just the jew elry mother has always wanted—for her person. dfeaifa * WRIST WATCHES Gruen, Hamilton, Elgin, Waltham or Newell. An ideal Mother’s Day gift. Other gifts appropriate: rings, brooches, neck laces and bracelets. Mother will appreciate a gift from The Newells
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