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IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL FIND IT IN THE TIMES. VOLUME XU Two Sets Os Holidays Will Be Observed In Person Area Stores And Many Busi ness Houses To Close Mon day—United States Post Office Observes Friday, As Will Number of County Of fices. • Starting tomorrow, Roxboro residents and some in Person county will observe two distinct holidays for the Fourth of July. Merchants in the City and other business houses, including the Times, will observe Monday, July 6, as the holiday, taking advant age of the Sunday-Monday com bination giving two days of rest together. Also to be closed for two days is the Peoples bank, but tl-.e bank’s holidays will be Friday and Saturday. July 4 and 5, in compliance with State declared legal holidays. The two day, Friday and Sat urday schedule of closing will likewise be followed by the Per son WPA office and welfare de partment, according to Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff, (director. Although the Saturday syphilis clinic will not be held, the Person Health department will be closed one day only, Friday. The Roxboro City hall will ob serve Monday as a holiday, ac cording to the secretary, Mrs. Hattie C. Carver, while in the Court House the Clerk’s office, the Register of deed’s and the farm agency office are expected to close for Friday only. The board of education’s office will be closed Friday and Sat urday, but will be back at busi ness Monday morning when the quarterly meeting of the board will be held at ten o’clock. Chief business to be discussed will be the school budget for the year. Now in the office is Miss Louise Darden, formerly of Wilson, who is taking the position made va cant by Mrs. F. M. Puryear’s resignation. Likewise scheduled on Monday is the regular first Monday meet ing of the Person County Board of Commissioners at which main topic will be adoption of the budget and drawing of jurors for the August term of Superior Court. Holemaiis Will | Have Dinner For 4 Family Guests To be host and hostess at their country home on July 4, are Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Holeman, of Helena, who late that afternoon will have as dinner guests sev eral members of Mrs. Holeman’S family. Among those to be pres ent will be her father. J. 11. Horner, of Durham, Mrs. Otha M. Strickland and Mr. Strickland and their daughter, Patsy, also of Durham, and Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Matthews, of Washing ton, D. C. Also, Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Mc- Galliard, of Baltimore, Mrs. Inez Scoggins and son, Mamie, of Durham, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Roberts, of Durham, Harvey Pur year, of Durham and Elwood Willis, of Wilmington. Mesdames Strickland, Mat thews,, McGalliard, and Scoggins are sisters of Mrs. Holeman, while jMrs. Roberts is her niece and Mr. Puryear is her nephew. Al so attending the dinner will be the two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Holenten. Iftsonlgffimes PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAE & THURSDAY Clyde Woody, Jr., Hurt In Serious Accident Friday Clyde W. Woody, Jr., of Beth el Hill, nephew of J. J. Woody, of Roxboro, is in a serious con dition in South Boston hospital, South Boston, Va., having re ceived three fractured vertabrae and a crushed kidney when the automobile which he was driv ing on highway 58, near Soutn Boston, overturned Friday night about 11 o’clock. The injured young man, about 20, was driving alone and was passing another machine when his own went out of control. Hos pital attaches report barring com plicptions, he may recover. He recently made his home in Rox boro, being employed by his uncle, a funeral director. o ONE FATALITY IN FIVE MONTHS IN . PERSON COUNTY This However, Represents An Increase In Compari son With Last Tear. Raleigh, July 3.—Person Coun ty reported one tiraffic fatality during the first five months of this year, according to a five months summary released this week by the Highway Safety Di vision. This number represented an increase in comparison with the number killed in Person County during the same period last year, when no one was killed. Traffic fatalities for the state as a whole totaled 448 persons for the five-months period, this grim toll running nearly 49 per cent ahead of the 301 persons killed in North Carolina the first five months of last year. Eleven counties had t lO or more fatalities, these being Alamance, Buncombe, Columbus, Cumber land, Durham, Guilford, Halifax, Henddrson, Mecklenburg, Rock ingham and Wake.-No fatalities were recorded in the following 14 counties: Alexander Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Camden, Cherokee, Clay, Dare, Haywood, Hyue, Jones, Polk, Scotland and Yan cey. Substantial increases were not ed in the area of defense activi ties, Onslow County showing 9 fatalities the first five months of this year against none for the same period last year, Cumber land showing 12 against 9, Col umbus showing 13 against one, and New Hfanover showing 7 against 4. Fifty-five of the 100 counties in the state registered increases, 25 showed decreases, and 20 held on a par with last year. “There has l?een a constant up ward trend in traffic deaths in this state since last August, with the result that we are now run ning nearly 50 per cent above last year in the number of per sons killed in street and high way accidents,” stated Rpnald Hocutt, director of the Highway Safety Division. ‘♦This trend >ca(n be stopped', and careless motorists and pede strians must make up their minds that it shall be stopped. This carnage is unnecessary. And it is’ preventable. Let’s stop it" I. T. CLAYTON, 39, TAKES OWN LIFE IN BED ROOM Chub Lake Store Opera tor Leaves Note to Parents Final Rites Held Monday At Their Home. Leaving a note addressed to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Clayton, which read: “This end:; it all, don’t grieve over me,” Isaac T. Clayton, 39, of the Chun Lake community, Person county, in Sunday morning about 9 o’- clock, committed suicide by shooting himself through the right temple with a .32 calibre pistol. The act was committed in a front upstairs bedroom over the W. G. Clayton store, Chub Lake, which the deceased had been op erating under a lease. Discovery of the body was made about 2 o’clock Sunday as - ternoon by Raney Clayton, bro ther of the deceased. Members of the family could offer no ex planation for the suicide. Those at the store, who had last seen him about 7:30 Suday morning reported him as having apparent ly been in good spirits. He was alone at the store about 2 hours. Raney Clayton and others re turned to the store about 9:15 Sunday morning, noted Mr. Clay ton’s absence, went upstairs, looked in the room, thought him to be sleeping, and did not make investigation until that after noon. The Person coroner, Dr. A. F, Nichols, was then called and upon investigation rendered verdict of death by suicide with a pistol. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the residence of his parents and interment took place in the family cemetery, near the home. Surviving, in addition to hte parents, and his wife, who was a Miss Painter, are three bro thers, Raney and John Clayton, of Chub Lake, Daniel Clayton, of the Flem Long community, and two sisters( Mrs. Harley Gam mon, of Chub Lake and Mrs. Al ton Ellis, of Ca-Ve l . o Mrs. E. L. Robinson Dies At Home Os Mrs. GR. Mcßroom Mrs. Etta Laws Robinson, 81, of Timberlake, died yesterday af ternoon at 3:20 o’clock at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Charles R. Mcßroom, with whom she made her home. Mrs. Robin son had been ill for four weeks. Death was attributed to compli cations and the infirmities of age. Funeral services were conduct ed this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the New Bethel Methodist church, of which she had been a member for many'years, by the Rev. E. L. Hill, with interment following in the church cemetery. In .addition to her daughter, Mrs. Robinson is survived by four sons, Hampton and Valley Robinson, of Timberlake and Henry and David Robinson, of Rougemont, and a number cf grandchildren. Pallbearers were Robert Grey, Bunnie Miller, Richard Gates, Harvey Gates and Coy Miller. CLAUDE T. HALL , SAYS INCREASE - NOTED IN PERSON Graham Production Credit Association Head Says Loans Larger In Person County For First Half Year. Farmers, dairymen, livestock men and poultry operators in Person County have helped to increase the loan volume of the Graham Production Credit Asso ciation during the first six months of this year, according to Claude T. Hall, of Woodsdalc, president. Reporting h total of $404,940.00 loaned so far during the year, Mr. Hall said a good portion of it went to finance seasonal op erations of Person County grow ers and dairymen. In Person County, during the first half of 1941, $75,688.40 has been loaned, compared with $74,777.75 in the same period of 1940. This repre. rents a substantial advance over amount loaned last season. Reports from all over the na tion, Mr. Hall said, indicate that sometime during July some farm er or stockman somewhere in the United States will receive the two billionth dollar to be lcpned Iby a production credit association. This two billion dol lars has been loaned to farmers on terms adapted to their indi vidual needs, thereby providing a dependable source of credit at reasonable cost. Since the Graham Association began operations in 1934, it has loaned $2,422,571.00 to finance the needs of its members in Ala mance, Caswell, Chatham, Dur. ham, Guilford, Orange, Person, Randolph and Rockingham coun ties. Soap-Box Derby Plans Will Be Discussed in City Tonight Kiwanis Club Expects To Act As Sponsor For First Such Event To Be Held In Roxboro. Morehead Os Durham Will Speak. Person and Roxboro youths be tween the ages of 11 and 15 wiil on Thursday night be invited to attend a lecture and motion pic ture demonstration on the Nat ional Soap Box Derby, to be pre - sented by J. L. Morehead, cf Durham, in the basement lecture room at Edgar Long Memorial Methodist church at 8 o’clock. The Roxboro Kiwanis club with the cooperation of the Chevrolet Motor company, Detroit, and the local Chevrolet dealer, Tar llcel Motor Company is planning to sponsor a soap-box derby ’n Koxbcro and all boys interested in entering the contest are cor dially invited to attend the Thursday night meeting, accord ing to Kiwanis club president, E. B. Craven, Jr. Boys who enter the Contest, Mr. Craven said, will be expect ed to construct their machines by their own labor and at a cost not to exceed $lO- Grand nation al prize is a $5,000 college schQl arship. Mr. Morehead, the Durham speaker who is to be present, is much interested in similar con tests put on by Durham boys Entries have also been made by Raleigh groups. The Durham elimination race will be run the last of July. The film to be shown will last approximately 30 minutes. Local Kiwanis club sponsor ship of the Derby was this week discussed at the Kiwanis Club meeting. CHURCH SERVICES OPEN NEXT WEEK AT ROCK GROVE Services Also In Progress At Salem Methodist Church, Where Burlington Minis ter Is Preaching. Starting Sunday, July 6, at Rock Grove Baptist church, ;f which the Rev. J. B. Currin, of Roxboro is pastor, a scries of special services will be held, witn the Rev. J. N. Bowman, of Ca- Vcl and Providence Baptist churches as speaker assisting the pastor. The Rev. Mr. Currin will be speaker at the morning service :tl 11 -o’clock Sunday, but at 7:i5 o’clock that evening and on each sucessive evening throughout the week the speaker will be the Rev. Mr. Bowman. A cordial in vitation is extended to the public to attend. Now in progress is a series of services at Salem Methodist church, of which the Rev. F. A. Lupton is pastor. Speaker is the Rev. J. L. Parrish, of Grace church, Burlington, who is being assisted by Roland Rainwater, of Duke University Divinity school, Durham. Continuing during this week, the services are held each night at 8 o'clock. o OFFICE TO BE CLOSED Office of the Roxboro uni*, of the Carolina Motor Club will bu closed Friday and Saturday for Fourth of July holiday and will on Monday be closed because of the fact that Tar Heel Chevrolet Company will on that date be closed, said Miss Mary Stanfield, director. Walter T. Suitt Rites Held At Baptist Church Walter T. Suitt, 44, of Long hurst, died Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock at his residence after an illness lasting two weeks. Death was attributed to compli cations. Funeral services were conduct ed yesterday at 4 o’clock at North Roxboro Baptist church by the pastor, the Rev. A. R. Hovis, and interment took place in Providence clyurch cemetery. Survivors include: his wife, Mrs. Bessie Suitt, three sons. Walter T. Jr., Ira and Lawrence Suitt, three (daughters, Pauline, Lorena and Clarice, four bro thers, Tennie 8., Luther S. and J. B. Suitt, all of Longhurst, C. C. Suitt of Roxboro, two sisters, Mrs J. D. O’Briant and Mrs. Ro mie New, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Punk S- Suitt, all of Longhurst. o AT RED MOUNTAIN Rev. W. F. West will on Sun day afternoon begin a series of services at Red Mountain Bap tist Church, Rougemont. He will however be at First Baptist Church for both the morning and evening services, Sunday. o . DAUGHTER IS BORN Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lunsford, of this city, announce the birth of a daughter, on Wednesday, July 2, at their home here. THURSDAY JULY 3, 1941. Scouts Will Have Big Day At Their Cherokee Camp Person Registers 189 Men In July Listing July 1 Selective Service reg istration in Person county reached a total of 189 men, of which 164 will be retained on file in the local office, today reported Service Board office manager B. B. Mangum, who said that 25 of the 189 will have their cards sent to other boards for permanent filing. CHARLIE DAVIS RITES CONDUCTED TODAY AT HOME Well Known and Popular Retired Ca-Vel Employee Passes Tuesday At Walter Davis House Near Hager’s Mountain. Charlie C. Davis, 69, of Woods clale, near Hager’s Mountain, well-known retired employee of the Ccllins and Aikman corpor ation, Ca-Vel, was on Tuesday morning at 5 o’clock found dead in bed, at the home of his ccu | sin, Walter L. Davis, with whom |he had lived for the past two I years. The Person coroner, Dr. A. F. Nichols, who was summoned to the scene, made an examination and attributed death to a heart attack. Mr. Davis, who several months ago suffered a stroke of paralysis, had been in ill health since then, although he did not appear to be any worse when he retired Monday night about 9 c’clock. It is thought that deatli may have occurred about two hours before the body was found. He first became connected with Collins and Aikman in 1926 and was with the corporation, where he enjoyed an unusual populari ty, until his retirement two years ago. Funcra] services were held at the Walter L. Davis residence this afternoon at 4 o'clock by the Rev. W. F. West, of Roxboro First Baptist church, with inter ment following in the Joe Owens family cemetery. Mr. Davis was unmarried. Only immediate survivors are three brothers, Daniel Davis, of Roxboro, Sam Davis, of Burling ton and Green Davis, of South Boston, Va., and one sister, Miss Dollie Davis, of Woodsdale, to gether with a number of nieces and nephews. Pallbearers were Bud Gentry, Guy Owen, Bernice Howerton, Reams Long, Hubert Mooney and Luther Whitt. o Peoples Bank To Observe Holidays During This Week Governor J. Melville Brough ton has declared Saturday, July 5, a legal holiday in the State of North Carolina, and the Peo ples Bank, Roxbor-o, will be clos ed July 4 and 5, according to an nouncement made today. All banks are under Federal and Slate regulations, jand are not permitted to close all day on any day except a legal holiday. The Peoples Bank will be open at the usual business hours Mon day, July 7. THE TIMES IS PERSON’S PREMIER NEWSPAPER, A LEADER AT ALL TIMES- NUMBER THIRTY-FIVE Many Person Scouts And Parents Expect To Enjoy Friday, The Fourth As Holiday At Camp Near Reidsvilhe. Cherokee Camp, near Reidsville, will hold open house for all troops and their parents July 4th. All Scouts and their parents are in vited to bring picnic supper and enjoy a program made up cf aquatic demonstrations, flag cere monies and campfire activities. At 4:00 o’clock the camp staff with the aid of Souts will give a demonstration in simple meth ods of life saving. Included in trie demonstrations will be canoeing, boating and surf demonstrations. The program will illustrate sim ple ways of making all swim ming, boating and canoeing safe. The demonstrations will be fol lowed by swimming races and a free swim to all Scouts. Those participating will be expected to have a recent health certificate from their doctor saying that it is safe for them to swim. At 6:00 there will be a flag lowering eremony followed by games, social hour, and prepara tion for the picnic supper. Each troop will have its own picnic table and will spread for their own group. Individual families are welome to do likewise. The campfire will be lit at 8:00 and there will be Scout games, programs, stunts and will be climaxed with the presenta tion of the deed to President Holland McSwain. A framed list of those contributing to the pur chase of the camp will be pre sented to Scout Executive A. P. Patterson to be hung in the din ing hall. « Judge E. H. Wrenn, Chairman of the program committee an nounced that the program is planned in celebration of the purchase and equipping the camp for the use of the hundreds of boys in Cherokee Council. The camp was purchased in the spring and has since been equipp ed with a new kitchen, new wa ter system, new showers, new tents, new mattresses, a new health lodge, new canoes and new boats. Numerous other im provements are in progress and will make Cherokee one of the most ideal Scout camps in this section. Camping is more popular than ever with Scouts this summer. The weekly periods are filled until July 20. Scouts not yet reg istered are urged to do so early in order to reserve a place. Cata logues and information are avail able from the camping committee of each district or from the Scout office in Reidsville. o Bryan Boswell Postmaster At Woodsdale Office Postmaster at Woodsdale is J. Bryan Boswell, successor to Mrs. R. P. Brooks, resigned. Mr. Bos well, formerly a Woodsdale merchant, has been connected with the Woodsdale Post Office for several months, although he did not enter upon his duties as an official until July 1. Appoint ment of Mr. Boswell was an nounced by the Postmaster Gen eral. Mr. Boswell last year married Miss Emma Lee Koon, of Spin dale, teacher at Bethel Hill school. o ‘ NOW IMPROVED A. M. Long, Court House cus todian, has returned to his work alter an illness lasting several weeks. $& is- much improved. .
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