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VOLUME XX
PARTY RALLY TO
OPENPOLmCAL
WORK IN PERSON
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Frednet Leaden Will Also
Meet And Plans Will Be
Cite For County Conven
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Beginning tomorrow night with
the Young Democratic rally, or
ganization of party work in Per.
son county will get under way.
Next event will be Person coun
ty precinct meetings which will
be held at 2 o’clock Saturday af
ternoon in each of the 18 pre
cincts, according to announce,
ment made today by the chair,
man of the Person Democratic
Executive committee, R. B. Daw
es, who said that at these meet
ings precinct organizations are
to be perfected.
It was pointed out by Mr. Daw
es that each precinct organization
should consist of five active De.
xqocrats, one of whom should
Ssrve as chairman. There should
. also be a (/ice chairman and at
least one of the five members of
, the organization should be a wo
' man.
On Saturday week, May 11,
members of the county Demoera
. tic executive committee will meet
at the court house at 2 o’clock in
the afternoon, where at the same
hour the county convenion will be
called for the purpose of electing
delegates to the state convention.
Precinct chairmen are to be
members of the executive com
mittee and any number of pre
cinct members may attend the
.- county convention, although each
w-precinct -will be entitled to only
one vote in selection of delegates
to the state convention.
In making his announcement
Mr. Dawes urged all precinct
chairmen to perfect precinct or
ganization and to make proper
provisions for stimulation of in
terests in voting in each precinct.
Although plans for the event
do not include an emphasis on
factional politics, in either coun
ty or state, it is expected that
there will be a large attendance
at the Person County Young De
mocrats rally to be held tomor
row, evening at 7:30 o’clock at
the .court house.
Nicks, Jr., president of the
organization said that R. L. Har
ris, candidate for Democratic no
mination as lieutenant-governor
will be present, as will other lo
cal county candidates.
Office Hours To
Be Extended By
Dr. A. L. Allen
Due to an increase in the num
ber of vaccinations against diph
theria, an additional half day has
been given over to office hours
\ at the health department, accord
ing to announcement made today
by Dr. A. L. Allen. On Friday af
ternoon, from 1 o’clock to 4:30,
both typhoid and diphtheria in
oculations will be administered.
The original office hours obser
ved were 1 o’clock to 4:30 Wed
nesday afternoons, and 8:30 a. m.
to 12 Saturday mornings. These
. hours will continue to be kept for
office work and for vaccinations,
in addition to Friday afternoons.
* The increase in diphtheria vac
cinatons has resulted from en
: octment of a state law, requiring
, that all infants between six
| months and six years be given
the toxoid. While there were 40
| toxoid doses given in February,
- there were 108 administered in
§ March, and 138 in April.
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f. dangerous practice. Alter you are
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Sketch Os Building
Shown above Is a drawing of the handsome new church and
education building designed for the First Baptist church of this city.
Construction on the education building will begin this month, fol
lowing signing of the contract this week.
Education Building Contract
For Baptist Church Signed
PRIZES FOR LAWNS
TO BE AWARDED
Awards To Be Made Mon
day Afternoon After Tour
Os Town.
In observance cf “Clean-Up”
week now being sponsored heie
by the Woman’s club, three priz
es for the most attractive front
lawns will be awarded Monday,
according to announcement made
today by the sponsoring chair
man, Mrs. T. T. Mitchell, who said
that the prizes will be contribut
ed by business firms in the city.
One award will also be given
for the most attractive backyard
and awards will be given for the
two best yards at Ca-Vel and one
award each will be given at Long
hurst and at the Roxboro Mill
community in this city.
Judges have been selected, Mrs.
Mitchell said, and decisions will
be made Monday. Members of
the Woman’s club will on that
date have a garden program at
Roxboro Community house and
will afterwards make a tour of
gardens and home grounds, pay
ing special attention to the prize
winners.
“Clean-Up” week began here
Monday, April 29 and will con -
tinue through May 6.
' Contributors of prizes will be
the Carolina Power and Light
company, Peebles’ Department
Store, Leggett’s Department
store. John Watt’s Sons company,
Cdlins and Aikman corporation
and Roxboro Cotton mills.
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Picnic Planned
By School Group
Parents, friends and relatives
of students of Roxboro high
School have been invited to at
tend a get together meeting and
picnic to be held on the school
grounds Wednesday aftrnoon at
6 o’clock.
Members of the hospitality
committee of the recently organ
ized high school Parent-Teachers
association, formed from the or
iginal P. T. A unit in this city,
state that there will be a brief
flag-raising ceremony, that an.
nounoements will be made con
cerning the summer school and
that P. T. A. plans for the com
ing year wil be presented.
Those attending will he expect
ed to bring picnic baskets. In ev
ent ctf rain the picnic and pro
-1 gram will he staged in the gym
nasium.
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Person County Times
Structure To Be Complet
ed By George W. Kane
Company By October Ist.
Plans for the completion of the
Education building or Sunday
School unit of the new edifice of
the Roxboro First Baptist church
by October 1, of this year were
announced today following the
signing of the contract for con
struction of the educational unit
earlier in the week.
Work of tearing away the pre
sent Sunday School structure of
the church will begin shortly af
ter Sunday, May 12 and the new
unit, spreading over considerably
more area, will cover the site of
the old structure. Surveyors have
already been going over the
ground in preparation for the be
ginning of construction work,
now under contract to the Geor
ge W. Kane company, of this city,
charged with carrying out the ar
chitectual design executed by the
distinguished Wallace and Gill
ecclesiastical architectual firm of
Chattanooga. Tenn.
Under terms of the contract the
education building, of red brick
Southern colonial inspiration, will
harmonize with the church audi
torium, which will be erected la
ter. Total cost of the church and
Sunday School units will be, it is*
estimated around SBO,OOO to $90,-
000, of which $39,385 will be spent
on the education building. Cash
on hand for the erection if the
education building now * totals
$16,000, according to a statement
made today by the pastor, the
Rev. W. F. West, who said that
considerably mere of the money
needed for this building will be
available on calL
The assembly hall or auditor
ium in the education building
will be on the first floor above
the ground floor, while both the
ground flcor and the floor above
the first will be used for class
rooms and offices, it is said.
Strictly speaking the building
will contain three floors, all de
voted to use as a center or relig
ious du-cation.
On and after Sunday, May 19,
Sunday School for the First Bap
tist church will 'be conducted in
Central Grammar school, near
the church, until completion of
the Sunday School building.
According to the Rev. W. F.
West, who has been the popular
pastor -ctf the church.for more
than fourteen yegrs, it is not
known just when erection of the
church edifice will toe started, al
though it is hoped that construc
tion will not be long delayed af
ter the educational unit has been
finished. The church proper will
be cn thd site of the| present
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CAMPOREE TO BE
STAGED FOR TWO
DAYS THIS WEEK
Scouts Will Present Full
Picture of Scouting At
Event To Be Held On
School Grounds.
Starting tomorrow afternoon at
3:30 o’clock and continuing
through Saturday afternoon until
4 o’clock, Boy Scouts of the Per
son and Roxboro council, with the
assistance of Cherokee leaders
and Scoutmasters, will stage a
camporee on the Roxboro high
school grounds.
Tents will be erected and a
complete program of camping ac
tivities will be presented, includ
ing an evening campfire song
period with games and other ev
ents. The campfire program is
scheduled from 8 to 10 o’clock
Friday evening.
In addition to local scout of
ficials, Cherokee Council Execu
tive, A. P. Patterson, of Reids
ville will be present. It is hoped
that many parents and friends of
Scouts will observe the camporee
program and learn from it more
cf the details of Scouting.
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Application For
Summer School
Should Be Made
Applications for enrollment at
Person County Summer school, to
be heM at Roxboro high school
from June 1. to August 1, should
be made prior to May 15, accord
ing to announcement from the
director, Frederick R. Moore, who
said today that information may
be obtained at the high school be
tween 8:30 a. m. to 4 p. m., and
that application forms may be
obtained at the office or by mail
The summer school, Mr. Moore
said, will be open to all students
in Person county and all credits
received by the students will be
mailed directly to the principal of
the school concerned. Students
who enroll are requested to fur
nish a transcript of their work
when their application is present
ed. No student will be allowed to
take more than two courses of
"make-up” work and must have
met the course for at least five
months during the regular school
year. Students desiring to do so
may take one new course. New
courses will meet three hours per
day in order to meet state require
ments for new work.
Fees for make-up work will be
one-half of fees for new .work,
it is said. Announcement of cour
ses to be offered and of the time
schedule will be made later.
Persons wishing to reach Mr.
Moore by mail should address
letters to him in care of Box 55,
Roxboro.
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Scouts May Go
To World’s Fair
Camp This Month
Twelve boys form the Cherokee
Council, of which the Person
Council is a unit, will have an op
portunity to attend the Scout
Service camp at the New York
World’s Fair, this year, accord
ing to announcement received by
Cherokee executive, A. P. Patter
son, of Rekteville. Mr. Patterson
has asked that boys desiring to
attend this camp get in touch
with him at once, since the Chero
kee Council has been assigned
the week of May 20 and all plans
must be made soon.
More than thirty boys and men
from Cherokee Council attended
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"Hospitality Week”
For 1940 Officially
FAMOUS BUFFALO
MINERAL WATER
ON SALE HERE
Sergeant and Clayton Ap
pointed Distributor For
Widely Used Mineral Wa
ter.
The internationally known Wa
ter of Buffalo Mineral Springs is
being placed on sale in Roxboro,
and in other towns and cities
within a wide radius of the Fa
mous Springs, located at Buffalo
Springs, Mecklenburg County,
Va.
The owners of Buffalo Mineral
Springs, today announce the
appointment of Sergeant and
Clayton as Distributors for the
product in Roxboro. The Water
is being trucked to Roxboro in
thousand gallon lots, and is be
ing delivered to consumers by
Sergeant and Clayton in five gal
lon bottles. For 67 years this Ce
lebrated Water has been sold
throughout the entire United Sta
tes in one half gallon bottles only.
"We are pToud of the oppor
tunity of cooperating with the
owners of Buffalo Mineral
Springs in making this fine water
available at reasonable prices,”
Mr. Sergeant stated today. The
local price, delivered to your
Home- or Office, has been estab
lished at SI.OO per five gallons.
The heretofore prevailing price in
Roxboro for over one half cen
tury has been SI.OO per gallon,
and this has prohibited many from
availing themselves of the Water
whose fine qualities were needed
as an aid to health.
Buffalo Mineral Water, whose
history dates back to October 7.
1728, was discovered by Colonel
William Byrd, ancestor of the fa
mous Byrd family of Virginia.
Large herds of buffalo were found
roaming the vicinity, so he nam
ed them Buffalo Springs. Indians
knew of its virtues and called it
their Magic Water. In 1872, Col
onel Thomas F. Goode began the
bottling of the Water; this he did
at the insistence of those whose
health had been benefitted at the
Springs. A ready and waiting
market was found, and it was
shipped to every comer of A
merica. During the year 1939
Buffalo Mineral Water was ship
ped into every State in the Un.
ion, and to eight foreign coun
tries.
The South is rich in names and
places that are historic to the na
tion, and among them is Buffalo
Mineral Springs, whose water for
over two centuries has been, “Na
ture’s contribution to the health
of man.” Person county welcomes
Buffalo Mineral Water.
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City Hall Offices
Being Renovated
Renovation and re-location of
office space in the city hall, in
progress for the past two weeks,
is continuing and may be com
pleted within a week or ten days.
Under the renovation plans sep
arate offices will be created' for
City Manager Percy Bloxam and
for Mrs. Hattie Carver, secretary
and tax collector.
Front space in the building will
be used as a waiting room and
collection room, with counters
and filing equipment. Also pro
vided are additional washroom
facilities back of the offices.
Shower facilities for the fire de
partment next door are likewise
being provided.
THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1940
Roger S. Cushwa
Dies Tuesday At
Virginia Home
Roger S. Cushwa, of Lynch
burg, Va., tout until recently a
resident of Roxboro, died at his
home at Lynchburg early Tuesday
morning. Mr. Cushwa, who was
a brother of George J. Cushwa,
prominent Roxboro resident, had
been ill for several months.
Death was attributed to compli
cations.
Surviving are his wife and four
children, of Lynchburg; his fath
er and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Sam
uel Cushwa, of Kenbridge, Va.,
and a sister, Mrs. C. T. Ripburger,
also cf Kenbridge.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday afternoon at one o’-
clock at Whitten’s funeral home,
Lynchburg, and interment took
place at Blackstone, Va.
Members of the family here at
tended the rites.
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Two Men Bound
Over To County
Court After Fight
As the result of an early mom.
nig cutting scrape, Hezekiah
Whitfield and Fletcher Pavlcr,
two Negroe residents of Sugar
Hill, near the city limits were
on Tuesday mcriiing bound over
to county court, folowing a hear
ing before Mayor S. F. Nicks, Jr.
Both Whitfield and Paylor have
been released under bond.
The fight, which occurred o
about 8 o’clock Monday morning
on Main street, in the downtown
section, is said to have resulted
because of an argument over
Whitfield’s treatment of a young
er brother of Paylor’s. The men
are neighbors on Sugar Hill. Pay
lor’s head was cut and nine stitch
es were required to close the
wound.
Police are still looking for an
other Negro man, who earlier in
the morning knocked Policeman
Ben Chaney from the running
■board of his car when Chaney
went up to the parked machine
to cite him for speeding.
Mr. Chaney held on to the car
after the driver speeded up and
was carried about two blocks be
fore he fell cf as the result of
a blow on his hand. He was
bruised and scratched but not
seriously hurt. Mr. Chaney, who is
a guard at Collins and' Aikman, is
also an assistant policeman for
the city of Roxboro.
Officers, who have placed a war
rant with Cheriff M. T. Clayton,
say that the Negro speeder is a
Person County resident and is
known to them. It was reported
that the Negro had speeded up
and down the Main street several
times before he stopped his ma
chine in front of a local drug
store about one o’clock in the
morning.
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SPONSOR SHOW
Members of the Junior Class,
Roxboro high school are sponsor
ing ticket sales for the motion
picture "Seventeen”, now being
shown at the Dolly Madison thea
tre. Proceeds will be used for a
class project.
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Ninety-three per cent of the ve.
hides'involved in traffic acci
dents in North Carolina last year
were in apparently good mechan
ical condition.
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* Plans
f Started
Program Will Begin Sun
day June 23 With Special
Sermons In Churches Os
City and County; Will Con
tinue For Six Days.
; Sight - Seeing Tour And
Golf Tournament Proposed
“Hospitality Week” for 1940
was officially started last night
as the steering commitee met in
the office of the Chamber of Com
merce with Mrs. B. G. Clayton,
the chairman, presiding over the
meeting.
“Hospitality Week” will begin
on Sunday, June 23rd., with spec
ial sermcns, in the churches of the
city and county and will contin
ue throughout the week until.
Saturday.
Plans for this year are some
what different from last year.
There will be only one solicita
tion for funds and all expenses
will be paid from this one gener
al fund. Gordon C. Hunter was
appointed chairman of finances.
Names of people who are in
vited to the city and county for
this week will be published in the
newspapers prior to the week.
This fellows a custom that was
established last year.
Courtesy books that entitle
visitors to certain privileges wil
again be used.
Temporary plans call for the
following program:
Monday afternoon Tea at
Hotel Roxboro, Mrs. Jack Hugh
es in charge.
Tuesday afternoon Bridge
Party.
Tuesday night - Dance for
young people, J. A. Long, Jr. and
William Harris, 111, in charge.
Wednesday - Rotary Club Day.
Thursday _ American Legion
Day.
Friday Dance by Kiwanis
club. Lemonade party for kiddiea
in afternoon.
It was suggested that plans for
this year include a golf tourna
ment at the Country Club during
an afternoon. This suggestion will
probably be carried out. Anoth
er suggestion was that a tour of.
the city and county 'be planned
for all who would like to see th?
places of interest here.
Mrs. A F. Nichols will have
charge of publicity for the “big
week”.
Cub-Pack Work
Is Presented By
Eaton and Thomas
Third of a series' of weekly
“Cub Pack” organization meet,
ings attended by parents and
boys interested in the re-organi
zation of Cubbing in this city
was held last night at Roxbon>
Community house. Speakers for
the evening included Cherokee-
Council executive A. P. Patter
son, of Reidsville, Harold Eaton.
Burlington Cub-Pack leader, and
Joseph M. Thomas, assistant nat
ional director of framing, Boy
Scouts of America, New York
City.
Fourth and final organization
meeting will ,be held next Tues
day evening at the Community
house at 7:30 o’clock. Members of
the organization committee are
especially anxious for infaHygtfif
parents to attend this meeting.
WINS TRIP
Charlie E. Stewart, of the T l *»
and Casualty Insurance On. of
Tennetseee, has wen a two-weeks *
trip to Cubs fbr excellence of his- -,t
sales record in recent