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HOSPITALITY (Continued from Front page) WEDNESDAY First really big day of the week was on Wednesday, when a morning “Pet Pet Parade, fol lowed by an afternoon golf tour nament, lead up to the genuinely hospitable Rotary Club picnic in Roxboro High School grove at 6:30 o’clock ( where numbered tables were placed for various family groups. A leading figure at the Rotary picnic was club president, Gor don C. Hunter. On Thursday Mr. Hunter, together with other members of the local voiture of the Forty and Eight, will be on the scene as sponsors of a turtle; racing and frog jumping contest! to be given during intermission between two softball games to be played on Roxboro High School Athletic Field at 8 o’clock. First of these two games will be between East Roxboro and Ca-Vel. Second contest will be between the Longhurst team and Roxboro Fir e m e n and each game promises to be fu’l of excitement, while plenty of fun will come from the frog and turtle interlude, sponsors of which say that it will have the Kinston tradition beat a mile, with a fullblooded frog repre sentative, Zenobia 111, from tnat city. Also planned for Thursday, was a late afternoon party for children, with Mrs. Georgs W. Wirtz ,as official hostess, again at High School grove. The chiir ren's party came at 5 o’clock, and from 7 :15 until 7:45 o’clock was held an Eastern-sponsprcd; vesper service on the Court House lawn, with Rev. H. B. Anderson of Grace Baptist church, t Durham as speaker. Leading event oh Friday will be the Kiwanis dance at Roxboro High School Gymnasium and Sat urday will be devoted to a full program planned by Lester Blackwell Post of the American Legion. TUESDAY Undeterred by dampness if the early morning air, between 75 and 100 Person County and, Roxboro 'representatives of the younger social set, including ma ny “Hospitality Week” guests, gathered Tuesday morning at Loch Lily near Roxboro Coun try Club, for a “Sunrise” break fast, directed by Mrs. Logan 11. Umstead of this city. Also present at this opening event of the third day of a week of festivity were W. Wallace Woops director of “Hospitality Week,” Dr. A. F. Nichols, Henry O'Briant and others, some of whom acted as chaperones, chief cooks and bottle-washers. Concluded about noon was a TO CHECK i fQt V A 1 kV^^DAYS V^666 SOAP , A & M Food Shoppe Phone 3131 Court Street ! feifcwA/ SPECIAL li ! i y u i * * See % 1 CARL WINSTEAD ! % % • * ' ' . •■ ;; Try A Refreshing Bath With Life Buoy Soap ;; CLAYON & STEWART < > “blind bogie” golf tournamcn' for the young people and finish ing off a day of entertainment was a bridge tournament spon sored by the Roxboro Business and Professional Woman’s Club with Mrs. Thomas Featherston as ommittee chairman. MONDAY Mr. Woods estimated that be tween 15 and 20 miniature floats were entered in the Monday pa rade which drew a large crowd for the first week-day event of the season. Particularly attract ive were floats depicting a hos pital scene, a bride and groom and a very small “Uncle Sam.” Prize winners for this parade were announced Wednesday at the picnic. Later in the afternoon an elab orate welcoming tea, with Mrs. J. H. Hughes in charge, was held at Hotel Roxboro, where residents of the city and county gathered with their guests anil enjoyed punch and wafers. Assisting the official hostess, Mrs. Hughes, and her committee, were Mr. and Mrs. Karl Burger, operators of the hotel. At the front door were Mr. and Mrs. W. Wallace Woods, and in the receiving line were Mes dames W. F. West, A. F. Nichols. Thomas Featherstone, R. H. Shel ton, Claude T. Hall, J. Y. Humph ries, Mollie Strum Barrett, T. T. Mitchell, Thomas Brooks and Lo gan H. Umstead and Miss Bessie Wilson. At the hall door were Miss Billy Street and Mrs. Rob ert Hester. Mrs. Roy Cribb and Mrs. Edgar Masten presided at the dining room door, and host ess in the dining room was Miss Claire Harris. Presiding at the punch table were Mrs. B. G. Your Watch is worth repair ing We will give you free estimate of cost before work is done. GREEN’S Main Street ■■■ ' ... - WANTED: 500 Dresses ti i be Cleaned the Cissell way SERVICE DRY CLEANERS Dial 3601 For New Hudson and Good Used Cars See MACK SAUNDERS lllP^ Charles Holeman & Company HEft FKKSUN COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. w. C. :Clayton and Mrs. Wallace Harris. After the tea, which has been given each year since the incep tion of Hospitality Week and which this year was regraded as unusually successful, residents de voted Monday night to private parties. SUNDAY Following attendance Sunday at various churches and at private family reunions, visitors here for the third annual “hospitality wqfek,” wlhibh officially epened Sunday morning, Monday morn ing at 10:30 o’clock viewed a welcoming parade of miniature floats sponsored by city and coun ty merchants and in the after noon attended a tea at Hotel Uox boro. Heard in city churches Sunday were two visiting ministers. At Edgar Long Memorial Methodist the speaker was the Rev. J. H. Lanning of Hamlet, a former pastor, and at Roxboro First Bap tist the speaker was Dr. Everett Gill of Wake Forest, formerly a Baptist representative in Europe. Special services also were held at the Prsbyterian Church, at St. Mark’s Episcopal and at Brooks dale Methodist. In charge of the evening ser vice at the First Baptist Church were returned college students who gave inspirational messoges stressing the fellowship idea which was the theme of the day.. 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Don’t miss this un usual feature in the July 6th is sue of The American Weekly The Big Magazine Distributed with the BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN On Sale At All Newstands o RAINS COAL St. Charles, Va., June 25—The “cats and dogs” and “pitchforks” accompanying cloudbursts can usually he cleaned up in bull session and gossip periods, but the people of St. Charles had to get shovels to clean up the nug gets of coal which accompanied a cloudburst and flash flood in the mountains around the town. | The waves of water from the hill brought with them tons of coal washed from c:a! ::..r dumps. The fuel was deposited in streets, on highways, bridges, or in vegetable gardens or hous es, depending on where thewa ter ran. And for 30 minutes It ran over much of St. Charies and Bonnyblue. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN The Times Outstanding Used Gar Values at CHEAP PRICES V 1936 Chevrolet Coach. New Black Paint. Runs Good—Good Rubber 1934 Chevrolet Coach. Black finish. Good Tires, Mechanically Good. A lot of Cheap Miles in this car. We Have Several Other Good Used Cars HUDSON DEALER - Easy Terms Dickinson Motor Co. Pioneer Warehouse G. P. DICKINSON D. O, WHITLEY MACK SANDERS WAR HITS LIBRARY Indianapolis, June 25—Add ef fects of war as told in a letter to the Indianapolis Public Li brary: “Dear ladies: The four mathe matical books that I have check ed out will not be checked in for ? fe wyears, due to the present com IN fOR THESE BARGAINS-AND OUR OTHER SPECIAIS (war. I will try to return all books and dues when possible—if.” The letter came from a Royal Canadian Air Force recruit at Manning Field, Toronto, Onta rio. o IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES . Roxboro, N. C. A. & M. Food Shoppe Carl Winstead . 1 Moores Cash Market •v V Hugh Woods Clayton & Stewart S. C. Fisher Charles Holeman & Co. Farmers Supply Co. * A. S. Hassan Ed. Owens ' G. B. Short North End Service Station Longhurst, N. C. Longhurst Mercantile Co. G. C. Buchanan v x Bakers Store R. M. O’Briant \ R. A. Walker Timberlake, N. C. J. G. Chambers Hurdle Mills, N. C. D. L. Whitfield Yanceyville, N. C. Steed & Price Grocery W. H. Hooper Grocery THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1941. 1931 Chevrolet Coach. New Tires, New Seat Covers. Black finish. Good Motor, 1933 Chevrolet Master De Luxe Tudor Sedan trunk. This car has been through ly reconditioned. In Roxboro Sunday was Julian Johnson, Greensboro business man. FLAKES REGULAR LARGS cuts down Lonehurst STOCKING RUNS saves' Mercantile Co. ELASTICITY
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