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VOLUME XI PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY A THURBDAY
FORMER PASTOR
DFfIIURCHHERE
HWWtffiTWICE
ir . Rev. sf. F. Herbert, Now
i. Os 'WEmlngton, Receives
? . 1939 Civttan Cop For Work
. At Rockingham.
Rev. J. Furman Herbert, for
mer pastor of Long Memorial
Methodist church, in this city,
has won his second citizenship a
ward gven by civic clubs, accord
ing to information received here
yesterday. The Rockingham CivL
tan club has just announced that
Rev. Mr. Herbert will receive the
Civitan award for 1939 for “out
standing citizenship” in Rocking
ham.
While in Roxboro Mr. Herbert
was awarded the Kiwanis Club
Citizenship loving cup.
Mr. Herbert is now pastor of
Grace Methodist church in Wil
mington, having been transferred
to that city from Rockingham by
the last conference.
The Rockingham award will be
presented to the Rev. Mr. Herbert
tonight in Rockingham.
While in Roxboro Rev. Mr. Her
bert was a Kiwanian, in Rock
ingham, a Civitan and he will
now join the Wilmington Kiwan
is club on February Ist.
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OVERTON PLANS
DINNER SESSION
Officials and Teachers Os
Person Circuit Churches
Will Discuss The Advan
ce Movement*
Plans for a fellowship dinner
for all oficials of churches served
by him on the Person circuit were
announced today by the Rev. E.
G. Overton, Methodist minister,
who said that the dinner will be
served at 7 oclock in the even
ing on Monday, January 22, at
the Roxboro Community house.
Included in the lists of those
expected to be present are teach
ers in the Person Circuit Sunday
schools, Mr. Overton said. Prin
cipal theme for the discussion at
the dinner session will be the
“Advance Movement” now being
observed throughout the united
Methodist church in the United
States. It is also expected that
considerable time will be given
over to an outlining of the year’s
work within Person circuit.
Churches composing the cir
cuit are: Concord, Oak Grove,
Warren’s Grove, Lea’s Chapel and
Woodsdale. The Rev. Mr. Over
took who came to work in tbia
charge last .fall, » a classmate
of the former pastor, the Rev. Mr,
W. Lawrence, now of Raleigh.
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Kirsten Flagstad
Appears In Recital
Raleigh, Jan. 17 Kirsten
Flagstad, celebrated Wagnerian
, soprano of the Mertopolitan op
era, will appear here in recital
at Memorial auditorium Monday
evening, January 22. at 8:30 o’-
clock. The recital is presented as
one in a series under the auspices
of the Raleigh Civic Music asso
ciation. Monday’s program is ex
pected to be an unusual pleasure
to lovers of Wagnerian music.
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allotment
Total cotton allotments for .the
; entire United States is 27,070,173
acres, which should result in a
yield of approximately 12,000,000
bales at harvest time this fall.
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Hoover Instructed in Auctioneering Art
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Actress Gertrude Lawrence shows former President Herbert Hoover
the technique she used when she auctioned oil a group of 28 paintings
in New York to aid the Finnish relief fund. The art was executed by
Ben Silbert, an American, who painted them in Finland, working in
temperatures which ranged to 20 below, gilbert donated the collection
the fond.
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Teacher’s Father
Claimed By Death
Funeral services for Captain W.
1+ Bowers, 76, father of Miss
Lucy Bowers, member of the
Roxboro High school faculty,
were conducted Monday after
noon* /ait his. home at Heath
Springs, S. Q. Interment Took
place at Kershaw.
Mr. Bowers died at his resi
dence Saturday night. Miss Bow
ers, who was called home becaus
of her father’s serious illness,'
was with him when the end came.
Mr. Bowers, for many years Was
a well-known railroad man and
was active in fraternal circles in
his state.
Luther Strum, of this city,
went to Heath Springs for the
final rites.
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Lawson Trailer
Has Been Found
Recovery of the trailer stolen
from the farm of W. C. Lawson,
of this city, the first of the week
was reported Tuesday by Patrol
man W. A. Baxter, of the State
Highway Patrol service. Mr. Bax
ter said the trailer, found in
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Reidsville, was identified by a (
‘Tor Sale” sign written on the
tailboard by its. owner, and by
i other distinguishing marks, al
though the serial number had
been painted over by the robbers
awL could not be made out until j
the paint was scraped off.
The robbers, however, have not
yet been smprchended and at the
Sheriff’sthis morning it
was said that no traces have been
found of the tobacco stolen from
the farm of George Solomon
Monday morning. Officers also
said they have no clues as to the
disposition of other lots of to
bacco stolen l%st week.
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ALLOTMENTS DISPLEASE
PERSON WEED GROWERS
Person county tobacco growers
were reported to day to be some
what more than mildly displeased
with 1940 acreage allotments to
taling 10,703 acres, mailed out the
first of this week by the county
agent’s office. The 1939 allotment
totaled 12,767 acres, but it is es
timated that/approximately 17,800
acres of tobacco were planted last
year.
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“Friends, if we be honest with
ourselves, we shall be honest with
each other.” »•". I
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First Aid Clinic
Examinations Near
The First Aid clinic conducted
here during the past few months
by Miss Lake Allen, of the Per
son County Department of health,
will close Friday, January 26, it
was learned yesterday.
Examinations on courses tak
en will be given prior to the
closing date, Miss Allen said, and
final figure on progress of the
school will be available soon.
1 Members of the municipal fire de
partment and a numbej of Boy
Scouts and Scout leaders have
been taking the courses. Instruc
tion has been given in various
aspects of first aid work, iriclud
ng artificial respiraton.
Interest in the clinic has been
pleasing, Miss Allen reported and
a number of certificates will be
awarded.
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Scout Troop Has
Weekly Meeting
Troop 49, Boy Scouts of Amer
ica, had its regular meeting of |
the week in its new headquarters
at the community house. The!
' meeting opened wtih the recital
* of the Scout oath, then the roll
was called and business of the
evening was discussed. Plans
were made for the next court of
hcnor and features of the coming!
Father and Son banquet were disJ
cussed.
Receiver of the “Jack-pot” for!
meeting certain requirements was (
Jack Parham. In charge of the!
program next week will be the 1
mcfnijers of Jack Whitt’s patrol. 1
Chamber of Commerce Activities
Being Carried Forward This Year
Directors Have First Meet
ing Since Selection Os Wal
lace W. Woods As Secre
tary.
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V? an interview yesterday af
ternoon Wallace W. Woods, re
cently selected secretary of the
Roxboro Chamber of Commerce,
said that work of shaping up the
enlarged credit bureau, kept as
a filed list for the benefit.of mer
chants and other citizens of the
community, is going., rapidly a
head. Progress in building up the
files is being made largely be
-1 cause of the cooperative spirit
Idsplayed by merchants and citi
zens Mr.- Woods said. '
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Maternity Clinic
Held On Tuesday
The regular monthly maternity
clinic for Person county was con
ducted Tuesday afternoon by the
Person Health department. Elev
en women received consultatio
and treatment. Attendance, con
sidering the weather and the
condition of county roads, was
considered good, officials reported.
Junior Red Cross
Representative To
Be Here Friday
Miss Martha Vance Ellesor,
field repreesntative for the nat
ional headquarters of the Junior
American Red Cross, Washington,
is expected to spend Friday here
in consultation with Miss Lake
Allen and others interested in the
local work of the Junior Red
Cross.
Miss Allen is having a small
luncheon at Hotel Roxboro to
honor Miss Ellesor. Luncheon
will be served at 1 o’clock. Work
of the Junior Red Cross in Per
son county has expanded within
the past year, it is said, although
Miss Allen, who is head of the
county health department nursing
staff, said yesterday that she
hopes a still greater interest in
Junior activities can be created
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Automobile Men
Meet At Case
With E. C. Parrish of the Al
exander Motor company, Durham,
as a special guest, members of
the office personnel, sales divis
ion and mechanics’ staff of the '
Person Motors, Inc., had their
monthly dinner meeting Monday
evening at 7 o’clock at the Brown
Bobby, Jesse Rogers’ restaurant
on North Main street.
Toastmaster of the evening was
Henry S. Gates, one of the man
agers of Person Motors, while
Tom Street, also a proprietor
made a brief address. Person Mo
tors has the local agency for the
Ford Motor company.
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GOES TO RALEIGH
R. B. Griffin, superintendent
of Person county • schools, spent
Wednesday in Raleigh visiting
his father, R. H. Griffin, who has
been ill for the past ten days or
two weeks. Superintendent Grif
fin reported his father is much
improved.
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“All actual heroes are essential
men,
And all men possible herpes.”
Periodic reports of work done
by the Chamber of Commerce
here are planned by Mr, Woods,
in ordSer that the members and
the public may know what the
organization is doing to promote
community progress and sum
maries of these reports will be
released to the newspapers..
As an example of functional
detail work of benefit to local
residents Mr. Woods cited the
fact that a complete listing of all
vacant stores in the city is being
made. A similar list of available
dwellings for rent or for sale is
being drawn up and several calls
by persons .wanting to establish
homes here have already been
FORD TALKS AT
HWANIS DINNER
Collins and Aikman Man.
ager Discusses The Value
Os Civic Clubs.
Meeting at the Hotel Roxboro
for their regular evening dinner
session of the week, members
of the Roxboro Kiwanis club
heard Stuart M. Ford, fellow
member of the club and resident
manager of the Collins and Aik
man corporation at Ca-Vel, dis
cuss opportunities for service in
Kiwanis and other civic clubs.
Civic service, as Mr. Ford pointed
out, can be cultivated by indivi
duals but it most frequently is ef
fective in community welfare
when it is carried on by mem
bers of a congenial group work
ing toward definite aims.
Presiding over the meeting
was the president, F. O. Carver,
Jr., while the program was in
charge of vice-president, Ben
Brown. Special guest was the Rev.
D. A. Petty, pastor of Brooksdale
church. Miss Bivins Winstead,
pianist for the club, and Jimmy
Millican, club member, were wel
comed back after absences due to
illness, and Ralph Cole was grant
ed a six-weeks leave of absence
in order that he may make a visit
to Florida.
After he finished speaking Mr.
Ford invited all members to be
his guests at an open house to be
held at Collins and Aikman
Tuesday week when inspection of
new office suites will be made.
-Soveral-business matters were
discussed by the club and addi
tional plans for the celebration
next week of the Silver anniver
sary cf Kiwanis International
were made.
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Senator Reynolds
Will Be Speaker
Chapel Hill, Jan. 17 Senator
Robert R. Reynolds, junior sena
tor from this state, will speak
here tomorrow night under the
auspices of the Carolina Political
union. His address, on “Ameri
canism”, will be broadcast by
Station WPTF, Raleigh, between
? to 9 o’clock in the evening.
Senator Reynolds is editor and
publisher of the “American Vin
dictor”, a monthly organ pub
lished at Washington and devoted
to a defense of Americanism as
he sees it.
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TWINS ARE BORN
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Marsten, of
Longhurst, are the parents of
twins, a son and daughter, born
Sunday, January 21, at Commu
ity hospital. Both mother and in
fants are reported to be doing
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i received.
At a recently held call meeting
, of the Chamber’s board of direc
[ tors matters of policy for the
; year were discussed and decision
i was reached that invitations to
membership in the organization
i will be extended in a short time,
since it was pointed out that there
. are many firms and business
1 houses here not ye;t represented
! in the Chamber. It is expected
L that the membership campaign
; will materially increase the par
i tkipants in the Chamber pro
i gram and will have a consequent
i ly beneficial effect on the effi
i ciency of the program planned
i for the year.
THURSDAY, JAN. 18, 1949
Association To
Meet At School
The Olive Hill Parent-Teachers
association will meet at 7:30 o’-
clock tonight in the school audi
> torium. An especially interesting
: program has been planned and
5 all members of the association and
friends and patrons are invited to
r attend.
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j Slaughter Rites
; Conducted Today
; At Nelson Church
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John Jackson Slaughter, 55, re
sident of this city for a number
, of years, died yesterday morning
shortly after midnight at Com
( munity hospital, where he had
t been a patient for about a week.
Pneumonia was the immediate
, cause of his death, though he had
suffered from a number of com
, plications and was seriously ill
for four weeks.
! Funeral services were conduct
ed this afternoon at 3 o’clock at
, the Baptist church at Nelson, Va.
. by the Rev. W. F. West, pastor of
the First Baptist church, of Rox
boro, assisted by the Rev. E. R.
, Harris. Interment took place in
, the church cemetery at Nelson.
Mr. Slaughter, the son of the
, late J. R. Slaughter and Rebecca
Slaughter, came to Roxboro from
, Nelson, Va. At Nelson he was a
member of the local Baptist
church but had his membership
transferred to the First Baptist
church, this city, when he estab
lished residence here.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Mss Virgie L. Hackney;
three daughters, Misses Christine,
Annie and Mary Slaughter; seven
sons, Ras, Thomas 1., William P.,
Charlie, J. J., Jr., and Howard
Slaughter, all of Roxboro. Mr,
Slaughter first married Miss Pearl
A. Newton and after her death
he was married to Miss Dorcas
Tuck, who also preceded him in
death.
Pall bearers were W. R. Gen
■ try, V. W. Hall, Mason Crews,
’ Thomas A. Slaughter, Norman
1 Brown and P. T. Whitt.
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MRS. S. A. THOMAS
! PASSES MONDAY
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Prominent Semora Woman
Dies At Advanced Age.
Rites Conducted Tuesday.
! Funeral services for Mrs. S. A.
: Thomas, 87, prominent resident
i of Semora, who died Monday
- morning at her residence after an
■ illness of several, weeks, were
: conducted afternoon jrt
2:30 o’clock at Red’ House POE
byterian church by the Rev. L. V.
Coggins, Baptist minister, who
was assisted by the Rev. N. R.
Claytor, pastor of the church. In
terment was in the church ceme
tery.
Mrs. Thomas, who was the wi
dow of Young Thomas, until re
; cently was remarkably active des
pite her advanced age, Death
came as the result of a stroke ofi
paralysis which she received two
weeks go. Mrs. Thomas was for'
many years a member of Semora
Baptist church.
She is survived by one daugh
; tef, Mrs. H. A. Chandler; by two
sons, Arch and Harold Thomas,
[ and by one grandson, Maurice
l Chandler, Jr., all of Semora. A
■ number of kinspeople live in
. Roxboro.
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“Hell is a circle about the un-
I believing.” 1
The Koran
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THE TIMES IS PERSON 1 !*
PREMIER NEWSPAPER*
A LEADER AT ALL TIMRfc
NUMBER TWENTY.SIX
JOSEPH HALL OF
THIS COUNTY IS
DEGREE WINNER 1
Son of Mr. and Mrs. HimH
Hall Is One Os Six Norik
Carolinians To Win “Amer
ican Farmer” Degree.
Joseph Hall, of Route 2, Woods
dale, is one of six Future Farm
ers of America from North Caro
lina who received the American
Farmer degree, most coveted hon
or given by the organization, at
a recent meeting of Future Far
mers held at Kansas City, accord
ing to announcement received
today from Roy H. Thomas, State
Supervisor of Vocational agricul
ture.
Other North Carolina boys a
warded the degree included Ro
bert Boyce, of Woodland; Curtis
Fitts, of Route 2, Reidsville; Wil
liam McCracken, of Waynesville,
Wilburn Merritt, of Rose Hill and
Furney Todd, of Wendell.
Young Mr. Hall is now a stu
dent at North Carolina State col
lege, Raleigh, where he has bee i
for the past three years. He is
a son of Mr. and Mrs. Huell Hall
and a nephew of Claude T. Hall.
He is a graduate of Bethel HiU
high school.
In order to win the distinction
of being an “American Farmer,’,
the young men had to meet the
following exacting requirements:
1. Must have held the degree
of State Farmer for at least one
year preceding election to the de
gree of “American Farmer”, have
been bn active member of the
F. F. A. continuously for at least
three years, and have a record of
satisfactory participation in the
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WILLIAMS RITES
HELD WEDNESDAY
Prominent Local Woman
Dies At Home Os Her
Daughter, Mrs. Featherston.
Final rites for Mrs. Annie Wil
liams, 82, prominent resident of
this city and widow of the late
Sheriff Sam Williams, of Perso i
county, who died Monday after
noon at the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. D. E. Featherston,
were conducted from the Fea
therston residence Wednesday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Rev. M.
W. Lawrence, of Raleigh, a for
mer pastor of Oak Grove Meth
odist church, where Mrs. Williams
held membership for many years,
and the Rev. E. G. Overton, the
present pastor, conducted the
services. Interment was in the
Williams family cemetery.
Mrs. Williams, who had been
survived by three
Featherston and .Misses Elizabet i
and Kathleen Williams, all of
this city, and by one sister, Mrs
Molly Satterfield, of Roxboro, as
well as by 10 grandchildren and
one great grandchild.
Pallbearers were: W. T. Kirby,
J. E. Kirby, R. C. Hall, Lawrence
W. Hall, S. Arch Jones and E. G.
i Long.
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j SUNBEAMS TO MEET
The Sunbeams of the Roxboro
First Baptist church will meet
Monday afternoon at 3:30 o’-
clock at the home of Miss Ann
Briggs Moore, North Main street.
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“The reformer must be * her > *
at all points, and he onttt have
■ conquered himself before he tea: •
conquer others.”
—Mary Baker Sddy U
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