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IF IT Isl NEWS ABOUT PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL FIND IT IN THE TIMES. TOC.CHE XU Nicks Rites, Tribute To His Memory, Held Here Monday Igany Citizens Attend Fun enl For Late Mayor at Lang Memorial Church. Flowers Are In Profusion. final tribute to Samuel Free man Nicks, Jr., 34, Mayor of the City of Roxboro since May, 1939, an active Democrat and a lead ing young member of the Person bar for the past seven years, whose death occurred Sunday morning, was paid Monday af ternoon at three o’clock at ser vices held at Edgar Long Memor ial Methodist churdh. Officiating ministers were the pastor, the Rev. W. C. Martin, the Rev. A. J. Hobbs of Durham, dis trict superintendent of the Meth odist church, the Rev. H. C. S' , 'Uh of Duke Memorial Methodist church, Durham, and the Rev. E. G. Overton of Person Circuit. In terment was in Cedar Grove Church Cemetery. Active pallbearers were Curtis H. Oakley, Dr. Robert E. Long, J. S. Merritt, M. C. Clayton, F. O. Carver, Jr., T. J. Fowler. E. B. Craven, Jr., Preston Satter field. Jr., and J. Brodie Riggs bee, all of Roxboro. More than 75 other citizens were honorary pallbearers. Offices at the city hall closed Monday at noon out of respect to the late mayor and a guard of honor from members of the po-! lice department was stationed at; the residence until the hour of the service. , Mr. Nicks was a native of Ala mance county, where he was bom 1 on August 10, 1906, and was the ■ron of the Rev. and Mrs. A. F. ! Nicks, who were this week trans- ! ferred from Cedar Grove Meth odist church to the Hillsboro church. Mayor Nicks was an un-J usually popular Roxboro resident and his sudden death by suicide was a shock to the entire city.’ Several years ago, shortly af ter coming here to practice law, he suffered a nervous break down, but apparently recovered his health, although intimate ! friends and members of the fam-1 ily reported that he had within | the past few weeks again become depressed and attributed his de-. eision to take his own life to curring despondency. Discovery of Mr. Nicks’ body was made by J. H. Scarborough, about 11:30 o’clock Sunday morn ing, when he went to the second floor of the D. Pender building •n Main street to close up a two iootn office used during the past few weeks as Person Republican) headquarters. The door had been left unlocked several days, Scar borough said. Suspended from a nooae made of three neckties wrapped around several loop 3 of near picture frame wire attached to a transom crossbar, the body was found hanging in the door way connecting two rooms. Hr. Scarborough at once noti fied the police and in a few mo ments tooth Dr. A. F. Nichols Peraon county coroner, and Sher iff M. T. Clayton were summon ed to the scene. Dr. Nichols, who rendered a verdict of death by suicide from hanging, said death had apparently occurred about an hour before Mr. Scarborough’s discovery. On the door of his law office across the hall from the room in which he died was a note in ink saying he was out of town. When the door was unlocked the office was found in perfect order. No note of explanation was found in his clothing. Behind the body in the door way a little to one side were pil ed four law books which he evi dently used to step upon before fastening the noose around his neck. Mr. Nicks left his Sunset Hills home here Sunday morning about 9:30 o’clock, saying he was going . T.. lersonsMimes PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY A THURSDAY -iMmm jfl I - S. F. NICKS, JR. I Mr. Nicks, who died Sunday was one of the most popular les idents of the city which he had served as Mayor. Like his father, ReV. S. F. Nicks, he was a mem ber of the Junior Order. ‘.o Sunday school. He rode to Main street with a friend and was I last seen at 9:45 o’clock, standing , on the street in front of the build- I ing in which his body was later found. j He was a graduate of Duke university, class of 1929, and re | ceived his law degree from the I same institution in 1932. At the university he was pro minent in campus affairs. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsi lon fraternity, and in Roxboro was active in church and civic affairs. He was to have directed ’ the Roxboro Red Cross roll call Monday; was president of Person i county Young Democrats and was j until a few months ago chairman iof the Person county board ot elections. He was a member of , Edgar Long Memorial church i Surviving are his wife, the for mer Miss Mary Cathryn Wood ward of Hazelhurst, Ga., and two young daughters, Sylvia and | Carolyn, all of Roxboro; his par- I ents, Rev. and Mrs. Nicks, of Cedar Grove; two brothers, John I Nicks, of Sweepsonville, and Ro bert Nicks, of Martinsville, Va., i | and two sisters, Mrs. Hill Stan field, of Roxboro, and Miss Kath-j erine Nicks, of Cedar Grove. Honorary pallbearers at the i service Monday included: M. T. Clayton, D. M. Cash, F. T. Whit field, S. B. Winstead, Coy E. Day, Robert P. Burns, A. M. Burns Jr., B. L Satterfield, S. G. Win stead, Fred Long, Dr. A F. Nich ols, A. H. Rimmer, W. R. Cates, I. O. Abbitt, Collins Abbitt, B. B Strum, C. A. Bowen, W. E. Ma lone, Ben Brown, R. B. Griffin R. A. Bullock, Maurice Allen, B. B. Knight, M. W. Satterfield, Dr. W. R. Hambrick, D. W. Long, Victor H. Satterfield, Karl Bur ger, L. M. Carlton, E. E. Thomas, Fitz Davis, Burke Mewborne, P. L Thomas, W. W. Woods, R. B. Dawes, N. Lunsford, W. D. Mer ritt, Melvin Burke, F. O. Carver, Sr., Robert Edgar Long, J. A. Long, Sr., F. D. Long, Preston Satterfield, Sr., Dr. J. H. Hughes, S. A. Oliver, Percy Bloxam, Geor ge W. Kane, Gordon C. Hunter, G. J. Cushwa, Lester Brooks, L. C. Bradsher, W. G. Bradsher, O. B. Mcßroom, O. Y. Clayton, W. A Sergeant, M. A. Stewart, v "H. W. Newell, B. B. Newell, Thomas J. Shaw, Jr., J. W. Noell, D. R. Taylor, A. M. Long, J. E. Kirby, W. R. Hawkins, Emory Foushee, R. L. Harris, W. H. Harris, "Sr., C. A. Harris, Earl E. Bradsher, Jr., Jack Parham, George Fox, Jr., E. G. T/ing, T. Miller White, J. S. Walker, Henry E. O’Briant and Jess Whitt o American Automobile factories have produced 79 milion motor vehicles valued at 53 billion dol lars in forty years. ( ■ L. R. HARRILL TO PRESENT AWARDS 4-H Club Achievement Day Program Will Be Held Fri day In City. Annual achievement day pro gram of Person County 4-H clubs will be held tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock at Central Grammar School auditorium, where chief speaker will be L. R. Harrill, of Raleigh, who is State 4-H club leader and is expected to bring an interesting message. Mr. Harrill, who will make a brief address, will present the awards. Several county and city civic leaders will also make short talks. Ariangements for the pro gram are in charge of 4-H club leaders, assisted by Miss Velma Beam and H. K. Sanders of the Farm Agency service. A special section of the audi torium will toe reserved for Bar ents and special guests and it is expected that a number of per sons will attend. Achievement day is regarded as the most im portant day in the local 4-H pro gram. Masons Os District Meet In City Tomorrow Night The Rains Come Officials of the City Water department this morning re ported that between yesterday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock and 9:30 this mornyg 1.47 inches of rain had fallen in the Roxboro area. A report received yes terday for the previous day in j dicated that the fall was 1.7. Many residents, before the rain started Monday were wanting it to come; now they are com plaining anent leaking roofs and flooded basements. o S. C. BARNETTE PASSES AT HOME lINTffISJHY Father of Late Herbert and Jack Barnette of Show World Was 85. Samuel C. Barnette, 85, retired Person farmer, father of the late Jack and Herbert Barnette, mid gets who won fame with Ringling, Barnum and Bailey circus, died Sunday night at 11:30 o’clock at his Reams Avenue home here following an illness of two days from a stroke of paralysis. The two showmen sons died several years ago. Mr. Barnette was a member of Person Masonic lodge 113, mem bers of which served as pall-' bearers at the funeral conducted Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock by his pastor, Rev. W. C. Martin, of Long Memorial church, at the residence of a son, W. C. Bar nette, South Main street. Inter ment was in Burchwood ceme etery, Roxboro. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mary Barnette, two sons, W. C. and B. K. Barnette, both of Roxboro, two grandchildren, and I one sister, Mrs. J. P. Williams, of Woodsdale. o ■ - SISTER DIES Mrs. W. A. Baxter, of Lamar street, was called to Reidsville Sunday night because of the in jury and subsequent death of her sister, Miss Anna Drake, of May odan and Warrenton, who was in an automobile accident at Reids ville. Mr. and Mrs. Baxter were •'lso in Warrenton for the final rites held there Tuesday. •T* ■". yr, ■, : Sixty Papers Now Returned to Service Office Approximately 60 selective ser vice questionaires have been fill ed out and returned to the Per son county office of the Selec tive Service Board, according to Baxter Mangum, office manager, who today said that to date near ly 150 questionaires have been issued. Mr. Mangum said also that he has been informed that all ques tionaires must be filled out in ink and must be duly attested. It is expected that classification of papers received will get un derway tomorrow 1 or Saturday, although it will still be some time before any of the men accepied will go into service* o DAUGHTER BORN Sanitarian and Mrs. T. J. Fowl er announce the birth of a daugh ter, Mary Anne, Monday night November 11, at Community hos pital, Roxboro. Masons of district 20, with Per son Lodge 113 acting as hosts, will assemble here tomorrow night for a banquet, a lodge ses sion and an open meeting and among those expected to be pres ent are: -Thomas J. Harkins, Grand Master, of Asheville, J. Edward Allen, of Warrenton, Jun ior Past Grand Master, D. S. Johnson, of Oxford, D. D. G. M., Lon G. Turner, of Burlington, D. D. G. M., of the 21 district, and John Huske Anderson, of Ra leigh, Grand Secretary, At the open meeting which will be held at 8 o'clock at the Per son County court house, a techni color talking picture of life at Oxford Orphanage and at the Ma sonic and Eastern Star home, Greensboro, will be presented. Also at this time 25th year certifi cates of service will be presented to five members of Person lodge 113 who have reached this per iod of service since April, when last presentations were made. Presentations will be made by l Mr. Allen, who will also be ; toastmaster at the banquet, for ' members only, which will be held « at 6 o’clock at the American Le -1 gion hut, Chub Lake street ; Presiding at the lodge hail ses ; sion at 7 o’clock will be C. A. • Harris, of this city. It' is expected : that all Masons of Person Lodge L 113, as well as many others in district 20 will attend. > o Woman Remanded To County Jail Lizzie May Pass, 19 year old Person Negro woman, given a hearing in Person County court Tuesday before Judge R. B. ! Dawes on charges of murdering Jack Moore, Person Negro man, was bound over to Superior court and will face trial at the January term. She was remanded to jail until that time, having previously been in confinement there since arrested on October 7. Evidenoe was introduced to show that Moore threatened as sault on the woman, who is said to have shot hifn near the door way of a tenant house on the Wade farm in Bushy Fork town ship. Moore died at Lincoln hospital about two weeks ago. Look! Look! Due to weather conditions during the post week, the semi-finals game between tbe local Ramblers and Sanford High school, scheduled for to morrow afternoon at Sanford, will be postponed until Mon- I day afternoon and the Sanford park at 3 o’clock in the after noon. o HARRIS SPEAKS AT SERVICES AT , LOCAL THEATRE . ... Lester Blackwell Post Ob serves Armistice Day With Memorial Service, Parade, Luncheon and Dance. Speaker at Armistice day ex ercises held here Monday by Les ter Blackwell post of the Ameri can legion was Lieutenant Gov ernor-elect R. L. Harris, whoso message, given at the Palace thea tre at 10:45 o’clock that morning was concerned with the value of a sane Americanism, the signifi cance of the day being celebrated and the necessity for prepared ness for adequate defense. Mr. Harris was introduced by R. P. Burns, Roxboro attorney, who was last week elected as Person representative in the State legislature. Another speaker was R. B. Dawes, lawyer of this city, who gave an address of welcome. Presiding was Post Commander O. C. Jordan. Music was in charge of Wallace W. Woods and Edgar Long. - —- At noon the legionaires ard members of their families had a luncheon at the hut on Chub Lake street, and in the evening an in formal dance was held. Other feature of the morning was a colorful parade participated in by legionaires, the Red Cross, the h’gh school bank and Boy Scouts and other organizations here. o OVERTON TO GO TO NEW CHARGE Minister In His Place Will Be Brother of Bishop Peele. Others Remain. With the exception of the Rev. E. C. Overton, who has been tran sferred to the Fayetteville cir cuit, all Methodist ministers hav ing churches in the Person and Roxboro area of the Durham district were this week returned to their various churches here, according to Conference appoint ments read Sunday night in Wil mington at the closing session of the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist church. Rev. Mr. Overton, who last year came to the Person circuit, including Concord church, is ex pected to move to Fayetteville next week. Prior to his appoint ment to the Person circuit lie was with a church in Rale’gh. His successor at Concord and other churches of the circuit will be the Rev. F. B. Peele, During his stay here the Rev. Mr. Overton had residence in Roxboro ar.d he and Mrs. Overton have many friends who will regret to see them leave. Ministers returned include: the Rev. W. C. Martin, of Edgar Lang Memorial church, this city; Rev. t. M. Vick, Jr., of the Rcx,- boro circuit, including CaVcl and Rev. D. A. Petty, of Brooksdale. Rev. S. F. Nicks, father of the late Mayor S. F. Nicks, Jr., of Roxboro, who has been pastor of the Cedor Grove church, will re turn to the Hillkboro church he forrmerly served, and tbe Rev. E. L. Hill has been returned to the Mt. T : rzah church. THURSDAY NOV. 14, 1949 S* Ge Winstead Will Serve City As Presiding Officer Helps Roll Gall 'ljjyfMk- ■ ' y ■ ' JH :.: all - : ~ Robert Edgar (Buddy) Long, shown above, Is Directing City Divisions In the Red Cross Roll Call Which Is Now Underway. Mr. Long is a young attorney at law. Youth Service Meeting Has Been Set For Monday Due to inclement weather con ditions, the meeting to organize an Older Youth Service club in Helena has been postponed until Monday night, November 18, at 7 o’clock, according to announce ment made today. —•-*- Those who are interested are urged to come and bring with them other interested young peo ple of that community. An inter esting and entertaining program has been planned. o TO PORTO RICO Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Glover, Jr., left last night for San Juan, Por to Rico, where Mr. Glover , will be connected with the Soil'Con servation division. He has been, with the Dan River unit in Rox boro for about a year. He and Mrs. Glover were married two months ago in Ash«boro. o DEMONSTRATION CLUB The Hurdle Mills Demonstra tion club will meet on Tuesday, Nov. 19 at 7:30 p. m. in the schooi auditorium with Dr. A. L. Allen, health officer, as guest speaker. The public is invited. o Show At High School Will Not Be Given Tonight Presentation of the Roxboro high school Parent Teacher as sociation’s benefit, "Darktown Follies”, minstrel show, .schedul ed for tonight in the high school auditorium, has been postponed until next Thursday evening, No vember 21, at 8 o’clock, accord ing to announcement made this morning. Practice has been In progress for some time and it is expected that the production in which more than seventy-five of the city's best amateur actors will take part, will be unusually en tertaining. Funds derived from the performance will go toward equipment needs at the high school. o V During the past ten years an average of 2,388,000 motor ve hicles annual/ have been scrap-* ***• ■ • THE TIMES IS PERSON'S PREMIER NEWSPAPER, A LEADER AT ALL TIMES. NUMBER THREE Real Estate Man and Law yer Will Be Mayor Until May 1941. Appointment Made Tuesday. S. G. Winstead, Roxboro real estate man and attorney, wai on Tuesday night chosen by the City- Council as Mayor to fill out the unexpired term of the late S. F. Nicks, Jr., whose death occurred Sunday morning. Notified of his appointment im mediately after the executive ses sion, Mr. Winstead, who is a nat ive of Person County and member of a prominent family, said that he would accept the position. Next election for the office will be held in May 1941. The new Mayor, active in civic affairs, is a mem ber of Edgar Long Memorial chu rch, and is an alumnus of Trinity College of Duke University. He al so attended Yale. Named as a committee to pre pare a memorial tribute to May or Nicks were City Manager Per cy Bloxam and City Attorney F. O. Carver. Chief civic busines acted upon was decision that parking on Oak and Bradsher streets and Reams avenue shall be limited to one side and that parking on Main street shall be limited to one hour. A special session to consider prob lems pertaining to the city water department will be held at a la ter date. Mr. Winstead as Mayor will be called upon to preside over ses sions of city court. Names of sev eral other Roxboro citizens eligi ble for the Mayorship were con sidered by the Council before de cision was reached. In politics Mr. Winstead is a Democrat. Members who made the choice are: Gordon C. Hunter, mayor-pro tern, Pres ton Satterfield, C. L. Brooks, George J. Cushwa, and George W. Kane. NEW BUILDING , NOW FINISHED Bethel Hill Will Also Offer Evening Commercial Courses. Virtual completion of repairs to Bethel Hill grammar school building, upon which extensive repairs have been made and which is now in use were announced to day by Lewis S. Cannon, principal who reports that the structure, formerly of stucco, has been bri ck veneered and that classrooms have been re-arranged for great er convenience. Bonds in the amount of $28,803 were arranged for by the Person County Boards of Commission ers and Education were arranged for in the late summer to take care of expenses in connection w ; th repairs at Bethel Hill and with minor repairs at two other schools in the county. Certain painting, yet to be done at Bet hel Hill will .be done during Chr istmas holidays, said Mr. Cannon. In making report of work being done at Bethel Hill, Mr. Cannon also said today that beginning on Monday, November 18, R. H. Hed rick, of the high school commer cial department will offer even ing classes in short-hand, book keeping and other commercial su bjects to adults. Classes will be held Monday, Wednesday and Fri day at 7 o”c3ock in the evening and at present meet in the Agricultural building, although both time and place of meeting may be later modified to suit re quirements of class members, who will toe expected to pay a mode rate fee for courses offered. Mr. Hedrick came to the school this year. He is a graduate of Bowling Green Commercial Col lege, Bowling Green, Ky., and baa ' had considerable teaching exper ience, according to Mr. GmjpMk:V