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VOLUME XI
Roxboro Market Ready For Opening
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Shown above are W. D. Merritt (left) and Edgar Long (right)
•vho will soon become associated in the practice of law. Mr. Merritt,
known as “Dean of the Person Bar” has been an attorney here for
four decades, while Mr. Long a native of this city, has but recently
graduated from Yale University Law School, New Haven, Conn.
EDGAR LONG TO
BE ASSOCIATED
WITH MERRITT
Prominent Young Resident
To Be Associated With W.
D. Merritt In Practice Os
Law.
Effective Monday, September
23, Edgar Long, of this city, grand
son of the late J. A. Long, pro
minent Person and Roxboro tex
tile pioneer, and son of the pre
sent J. A. Long, Sr., and Mrs.
Long, will become associated in
the practice of law with the Hon.
W. D. Merritt, dean of the Person
bar and long a leader in Rox
boro legal circles, according to
announcement made this morn
ing by Mr. Merritt.
Mr. Long, w*ho was graduated
from the school of law, Yale Uni
versity, in June of this year, is
also a graduate of Harvard, where
he was a popular student in the
undergraduate college. He passed
the North Carolina State bar ex
aminations in August and is ex
pected to be admitted to practice
in the Superior courts at the Oc
tober 14 term to be held in this |
city by Judge Henry L. Stevens,
Jr., of Warsaw.
Mr. Long will have an office
immediately adjacent to the of
fice of Mr. Merritt in the Peoples
bank building, second floor.
Twenty 1940 Graduates Os
High School Attend College
Watts To Speak At
Agency Council
Luficheon Session
Speaker at the September lunch
eon session of the Person Coun
ty Council of Social agencies will
be the Rev. Lawrence A. Watts,
chaplain of the State prision,
Raleigh, who is expected to dis
cuss problems pertaining to his
work at the institution. Mr. Wat
ts, who was invited to come to
Roxboro by the Council program
chairman, will be here on Wed
nesday, September 25, when
luncheon .will be served at one
o'clock at Hotel Roxboro.
Presiding it the meeting will
be the Council president, the Rev.
T. M. Vick, pastor of Car-Vel Me
thodist Church. The coming ses
sion of the Council will be the
first held since June, it being cus
tomary to suspend activities dur
ing the summer months.
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CLINIC SCHEDULED
All teachers in Person coun
ty schools for Negros have
been invited to attend free
clinic to be held Saturday
morning at the Person Health
department unit’s office,
where fluoroscopey to determ
ine tubercular infections will
(be given. Examinations will
begin at 9 o’clock, according
to Dr. A. L. Allen, director.
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No Advertising
Fund To Be
Raised This Year
Several members of the Rox
boro Chamber of Commerce and
other citizens of Roxboro and Per
son county met Monday night in
the courthouse for the purpose of
discussing ways and means of
advertising the Roxboro Tobacco
Market this year.
After considerable discussion by
practically all who were present
it was decided that no attempt
will be made to raise a central
fund for advertising this year,
but rather to leave the matter up
to each warehouse and other or
| ganizations who may do quite a
bit of their own free will and ac
cord.
The meeting was presided
over by W. W. Woods, secretary
of the Roxboro Chamber of Com
merce.
Other College And Univer
versity Students From Per
son Area Also Leave.
Twenty or more members of
the 1940 graduating class, Rox
• boro high school, have left or
■ will soon leave this city to enroll
l gs students in various univeT-
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, sities, colleges and schools, ac
, cording to announcement made
today by supervising Principal H.
i C. Gaddy, who reports that the
. largest number will be at Louis
i burg and Mars Hill colleges,
i The six Roxboro freshmen at
. Loipsburg will include James
l Featherston and Misses Annie
• Sue Barrett, Peggy Brooks, Helen
Hall, Lois Pickering and Jessie
! Mary Willson, while another half
, dozen, Wallace Moore, George
. Cushwa, Jr., Charles White and
. Misses Marian Bradsher and Vio
> let and Kathryn Gilliland! will be
. at Mars Hill.
At Woman’s College, Univer-
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Chief Finds Liquor In
Open Sewer Near City
Close by the modest
home of Rosa B. Barnett, Rox
boro Negro* woman, who lives in
what is known hereabouts as
the Dog-trot section, runs an open!
sewer ditch or trench; in the!
trench, near the woman’s pigpen
Police Chief S. A. Oliver dis
covered eleven half-gallon fruit
jars full of “white lightning”,
carefully submerged from sight
in the scum-like fluids.
Chief Oliver, who made the
discovery by accident after he
had paid an official but unre
warding visit to the Barnett wo
’’ man’s house, then retraced the
r
r distance of 87 steps between the
unusual depository and her
1 house. Confronting her with the
- evidence, he forthwith arrested
her on charges of possesion for
sale, although she stoutly denied
any knowledge of the eleven jars
or the fluids therein. Even the
sober pigs were unaware of the
cache.
Tuesday morning the woman,
who had in the meantime secured
a lawyer, was tried in mayor’s
court. Although she had a previ
ous criminal record based or.
whiskey charges, she won free
dom this time on technical gro
unds, lack of proof that she had
placed the jars in their unique
hiding place. In the Police station
are eleven now very clean but
not yet empty jars.
The Chief likes to look at these
jars but he is better satisfied with
investigations and results ob
tained when he went to the home
■ of the Joe Williams’, Negro
1 couple who live near Gallows
• Hill in the south end of town,
i Arriving there he discovered
: whiskey being poured down the
: kitchen sink. The evidence was
> too “strong”, so strong in fact
that conviction followed almost
■ automatically in the same court
; where Rosa Barnett won freedom.
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NEW DIRECTORS
ELECTED FOR
COUNTRYCLUB
Rules For Golf Tourna
ment Set Out By Commit
tee; Contest To Be Played
This Month.
The annual meeting of mem
bers of the Roxboro Country club
was held Tuesday night in the
courthouse at Roxboro. Main
business of the meeting was to
elect four new governors and to
discuss the ooming golf tourna
ment which will be held this
month.
New governors elected at the
Tuesday night meeting were E.
B. Craven, Jr., J. A. Long, Jr.,
George W. Kane and John Morris.
Old governors who are retain
ing their places on the board are
E. E. Bradsher, Sr., Dr. J. H.
Hughes, president; C. A. Harris,
S M. Ford. All the above will ser
ve for two years, while J. W.
Noell, J. S. Merritt, J. A. Long,
Sr., and Bill Walker will serve
one year.
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NEW LUNCH* COUNTER
Hall’s Diner now has a new
electric lunch counter. This new
counter was installed last week
and is one of the nicest seen in
this section.
The counter has its own elec
tric refrigeration for foods, etc.,
and also has other special featur
es.
Man Gives Himself
Wild Time On Road
I And In Local Bank
Under $75 bond which he has
thus far been unable to raise, a
white man giving his name as
Horace S. Cannon, of Richmond.
Va., remains in Person County
, jail charged! with careless and
reckless driving following his ar
rest early Tuesday morning about
, 1:30 o’clock, by Roxboro cily po
’ licemen Artie Watson and Gilbert
r Oakley, who reported that Can
non was apprehended by them
j near King’s Palace restaurart, on
r the Durham road, after he had
j speeded through Roxboro streets
3 without lights.
? Speed sans lights was, how
' ever, nothing more than an in
cident in Cannon’s day of troub
les in Roxboro. Given a hearing!
j in mayor’s court before Mayor S.
, F. Nicks, Jr., the Richmond citi
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zen requested and was granted
, permission to call his employer in
that city in an effort to secure
bond money. With Officer Oakley
j standing by, the call was made,
although many minutes of con
’ veFsation failed to produce pro
t mises of assistance.
Next thought was to go to the
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From left to right are shown, Philip L. Thomas. Chairman of the
Person County Board of Commissioners; S. F. Nicks, Jr., Mayor ot
the City of Roxboro, and Percy Bloxam, who was this year chosen
City Manager of Roxboro. Printed directly below in the same order
are official greetings from these three leaders of local government.
Market Messages From Local Officials
A Word From
Mr. Thomas
“As Chairman of the Person
County Board of Commissioners,
and personally as a citizen of the
county and of Roxboro, I am
pleased to extend a most cordial
welcome to all Tobacco growers,
buyers and warehousemen who
will be with us during the season
which officially opens in Roxboro
next Tuesday”, said Philip L. Tho
mas, prominent business man and
civic leader in an interview this
morning.
“During my years of residence
here,” continued Mr. Thomas, “I
have been deeply impressed with
the increasing importance of the
Roxboro Tobacco market to the
citizens who live within the Per
son trading area, and as a mer
chant who knows the stimulous
resulting from a profitable sea
son on the local market I am con
fident that by working together
we can again have a market sea
son destined: to greatly increase
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MRS, L. N. RYND
NOW TEACHER AT
ROXBOROSCHOOL
Popular Resident and A
Graduate of Duke Univer
sity Selected As Additional
Teacher At High School.
Selection of Mrs. Lawrence N.
Rynd, of this ciyy, as an addition
al teacher at Roxboro high school
was announced Saturday by su
pervising principal H. C. Gaddy,
following a meeting cf the City
School board, Mrs. Rynd, who be
gan her duties Monday, will
give instruction in English, Fren
ch and mathematics. A native of
New York, Mrs. Rynd is a gra
duate of Duke university where
she was elected to membership
in Phi Beta Kappa after estab
i
j lishing an enviable scholastic re
cord.
Mrs. Rynd will join the high
school faculty under the ruling
which provides that additional
teachers shall be employed when
,i ever increase in enrollment mak
’| es such additions necessary. Mr.
Gaddy reported that present en-
I rollment at Roxboro high school
is 431, against last year’s figure of
416, and l said it is probably that
total enrollment before the end
of the school year may reach as
high as 450.
Work in all schools in the Per
son area is now in full progress
and few changes, other than the
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Greetings From
The Mayor
“Once again”, said Mayor S. F.
Nicks, Jr., of this city,” it is my
pleasant duty to extend sincere
greetings on behalf of the City
of Roxboro to old friends and
new who will attend the formal
opening of the Roxboro Tobac
co market Tuesday morning. We
have here four efficiently oper
ated warehouses, managed by
capable and friendly men known
to many of us over a long period
of years, and I am sure that all
who come to Roxboro within the
next few months will be glad
that they bought or sold in the
‘'Courteous City”.
“It has been my experience,
continued the Mayor this morn
ing “that all of us, whether we
are growers, buyers, or business
and professional men, profit from
the local market directly, or in
directly, as the case may be, ex
actly in proportion to the degree
of cooperation evidenced during
the year and it is my sincere hope
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1940 NUMBER FORTY-NINE
Heavy Sales And Good
I Prices Expected For
Opening Day, Tuesday
COUNTY SCOUTERS
HOLD REGULAR
MONTHLYMEETING
Plans Underway For For
mation of Several New
Troops In County.
The regular monthly meeting
of the Person County Boy Scout
. council was held Tuesday night
: in the office of Dr. A. F. Nichols.
. The meeting was presided over
. by George Cushwa, president of
i the local council.
Several matters of importance
. were discussed at the meeting.
Principal discussion was devot
, ed to plans for several new troops
r which may be organized in the
1 county. It was also pointed out
. that L. N. Rynd, scoutmaster of
. troop 32, wished to be relieved
of his duties and a committee was
. appointed to select his successor.
[ A. P. Pattersan, of Reidsville,
• scout executive of the council,
; stated that a district financial
[ meeting will be held in Roxboro
; on October 11, and that financial
officers of the council will meet
. here on that date for a discussion
; of financial matters.
, Approximately ten scouters
were present at the meeting.
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Opportunities Apraised
By Bloxam
Stressing the fact that Rox
boro is a city of unrivaled oppor
tunities, not only for the resi
dents within its borders but also
for citizens of the county in
which it is located , City Mana
ger Percy Bloxam, who came to
this city and to his new position
the first of this year, said today
that he has “confidence that
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the opening of the 1940-1941
Roxboro Tobacco market next
Tuesday, September 24, will mean
the beginning of a good season
throughout the Person area, pro
vided all of us make the most of
the mutually cooperative oppor
tunities placed before us”.
“Having come recently to Rox
boro and Person County”, Mr. ]
Bloxam continued, “I am deeply
impressed with, the frequently as
yet undiscovered opportunities
citizens here have for profiting
socially, morally and! financially
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THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER,
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
All Buyers Have Been As
signed To Market And
Good Year Is Expected
By All.
Roxboro’s four warehouses are
ready for the opening of the to
bacco market <cn Tesday, Septem
ber 24th. All four houses are in
good shape and several have had
minor repairs made during the
summer.
The Pioneer warehouse will be
managed by R. L. Hester and T.
T. Mitchell. Other capable men
wil be employed by this house.
The Planters Warehouse will
be managed by Owen Pass and
Jule Perkins.
The Winstead Warehouse has
as its proprietors and office for
ce, George Perkins, Ivey Featn
■ erston and Bob Oakley.
George Walker, Reid Jones,
Frank Hester and Robert Luns
l ford will operate the Hyco.
* Indications point to a big break
* on the opening day. It is thought
* that all four houses will be a
bout full and operators are ex
l pecting pleasing prices.
1 Tobacco buyers representing all
* the major companies and some
- smaller companies have already
i been assigned to the Roxboro
market and all buyers are expect
; ed to be here on opening day.
Warehousemen expect tobacco
to begin arriving in this city over
the week-end and the flow will
probably continue until late Tues
day morning.
No one is predicting how much
tobacco will be sold here during
the year. The crop is much short
er than it was last year, but local
tobacco leaders feel that a large
portion of Person tobacco will
find its way to the Roxboro mar
ket.
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STAFF SELECTED
FOR RAMBLER’S
NEWS SECTION
Journalistic Club At High
School Expects To Feature
School News In Times.
Meeting at the library in Rox
boro high school, members of the
Journalism club met Monday
morning to discuss plans for a
“Roxboro Rambler” page to be
published in local newspapers
once a week. Elected as editor
the page was Miss Emma Bailey
Jones. Assistant editor will be
Miss Marie Deering, while typ
ists will be Teddy Parker and
Misses Ethel Newell Winstead and
Dorothy Lee.
Art editors will be Bill Picker
ing and Miss Arline Newell. Edi
tor of the “Gossip Column” will
be Miss Anita Kirby. Society edi
tor will be Miss Betty Kane and
sports editors will be Charles
Harris, Jr., and Miss Peggy Whit
ten. Reporters will be Jackie Gor
don, of the Bth grade; Miss Mary
Louise Harris, for the 9th grade;
Theo Strum, for the 10th grade
and Eleanor Winstead for the 11th
grade.
Faculty advisers will be Mrs.
A. F. Nichols and Miss Helen
Melton of the High School English
department.
Other members of the club egi£|
Misses Annie Laurie Barnett,
cy Brooks, Elsie Foushee, CSjjtm
Gentry, Zelda HoUemaa,
James, Jean Kirby, Margnall'y,, !!;
Briant, Marian Pass,
Spencer and Colleen Strum,
John McWhorter. ‘HSi