IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT
PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLUME XU
Second Association Opens
Saturday At Big Meadow
Upper Country Line Group
To Convene. Lower Asso
ciation Re-Elects Flem D.
Long Moderator. Old Book
Gives History.
Thirty-fifth annual meeting of
the Upper Country Line Prim
itive Baptist- association, begin
ning Saturday, July 26, will be
held at Big Meadow church, ,near
Siler City, with T. A. Stanfield,
cf Reidsville, as moderator ancl
will be continued through Sun
day and Monday.
Meeting of this association, to
be held one week after that of
the Lower Country Line associa
tion which closed its sessions
Monday, near Roxboro, is ex
pected to attract large numbers
from churches in Orange, Chat
ham, Caswell and Person counties,
although the majority of the
members in Person are affiliated
with churches in the Lower as
sociation.
In possession of Flem D. Long,
of Roxboro, who was this week
re-elected to serve his 13th year
as moderator of the Lower As
sociation, is the 136 year old
calf-bound record book of the
original Country Line associa
tion, which was formed in 1805
from the Flat River association
and was then divided in 1906
(101 years later) into the present
Upper and Lower associations,
dividing line being Person s
Hyco river.
Moderator of the first Coun
try Line session in 1805 was Geo
rge Roberts and first clerk was
Barzilar Graves, and in the old
record book, are minutes of meet
ings down through 1904, with
many pages in the precise and
legible penmaship which flour
ished in the 19th century.
Mr. Long, incidentally is the
third moderator to serve the Up
per association, the other two,
W. A. Warren, of Person County,
and W. G. Markham, of Durham,
having served until their deaths.
Re-elected as clerk was J. J.
Whitley, of Durham.
Division into two associations
was effected in 1906 because con
tinued expansion of membership
of the Primitive Baptists caused
the old Country Line association
to reach an inconvenient size.
Membership in the two asso
ciations is now fairly equalized
but members in one group fre
quently attend sessions in the
ether.
Mr. Warren first moderator of
ithe Lower associal|ion, served
from 1906 until his death in
1927. Second moderator, Mr.
Markham, of Durham, served
only one term before his death,
and Mr. Long has served since
then, continuing a tradition of
life-time tenure by annual re
election.
In attendance at the recently
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Smith Child Dies
In City Hospital
Funeral services for John Ed
mond Smith, Jr., 11 months old
son of Mr. and Mrs. John E.
Smith, of Leasburg road, near
this city, whose death occurred
Sunday morning at Community
hopsital, after an illness lasting
three days, were conducted Mon
day afternoon at 2 o’clock at
Oak Grove Methodist church, by
the pastor, the Rev. F. B. Peele,
of Roxboro. Interment was in
the ihurrh cemetery. ,
The child was taken, to the
hospital Saturday night. Survi
vorers include the parents and
one brother, Reginald Smith, and
two sisters, Lucy Mae and Eve
line Smith all of the hopae.
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PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY & THURSDAY
D H. HODGES, OF
SPRAY CHAIRMAN
OF POSTMASTERS
♦
Named To Succeed Carlton
At District Meeting Held
Tuesday At Hotel Rox
boro.
New chairman of Fifth District
Postmasters is D H. Hodges of
Spray, elected at the annual din
ner meeting of the Association
held in Roxboro Tuesday night.
Hodges succeeds L. M. Carlton,
Roxboro Postmaser. Re-elected
as secretary was Mrs. Hazel
Sprinkle, of Dobson.
Special guests and speakers
included Mrs. Annie Lou Scott,
of Sanford, president of the State
Association, Jce Allen, Durnam
Postmaster, and Roxboro City
Manager Percy Bloxam, the
last named of whom gave the in
vocation and the welcoming ad
dress. Presiding was Mr. Carlton.
The session was held at Hotel
Roxboro, with delegates from
Granville, Caswell, Rockingham,
Fcrsyth, Surry, Stokes and Per
son counties.
Mrs. Scot) urged Association
cooperation, with full member
ship. Chairman Hodges will ap
point county representatives and
will himself serve as a State As
sociation director. jMjr. Carlton
who served one year was elected
at Winston-Salem.
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Young People Meet
At Blanch Church ;
Young people of Beulah Bap
tist Association met last week
at Blanch Baptist Church un
der the leadership of Mrs. L. V.
Coggons and her assistant Miss
Lucille Davidson. The theme of
the meeting was “Will There Be
Any Stars In My Crown?”
The mefeting began with the
auxiliaries meeting in seperate
groups. After the close of these
group meeting refreshments
v. ere served to each group.
In the afternoon a joint session
was held in the auditorium. The
session opened with the group
singing the auxiliary hymr.s.
Rev. L. V. Coggins led in pray
er. A representative of the Mill
Creek Sunbeams recited the
poem “Sunbeams Shining.” Rev.
W. F. West, whose topic was
“They That Be Wise,” gave a
very interesting talk on Christ
ian life. Mrs. L. B. Olive, South
ern Baptist Missionary to China
described the war conditions in
China,'telling how the war had
made many • turn to the church.
She showed Chinese dolls and
also pictures of her Chinese
friends.
The Clement Y. W. A secre
tary, Mrs. Ronald Dunevant,
sang “Any Stars In My Crown.”
A stewardship play Was given
by the Blanch and Milton aux
iliaries. Earl Newton, of Clement,
led the closing prayer.
The fall Y. W. A. Conference
will be held at Yanceyville Bap
tist Church October, 19, while
the annual young peoples meet
ing will be held at the Semora
Baptist Church Tuesday follow
ing the second Sunday in July
next year.
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CHIEFS GRANDAUGHTER
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Oliver, Jr.,
of this city announce the birth
of a daughter Thurs. July 24, at
their home here. The child is a
grandchild of Chief of Police and
Mrs. S. A. Oliver.
THOMPSON TALKS
TO CLUB WOMEN
Local Defense Chairman
Declares Women Have An
Increasingly Import ant
Role In National Defense.
Discussing the significance of
the roles played by women in civ
ilization, E. G. Thompson, chair
man of the local unit of the
State Committee for National
Defense, who was guest speak
er at the second August meeting
of the Roxboro chapter of the
Business and Professional Wcm
man’s club Tuesday night, call
ed attention to the courage and
resourcefulness now being shown
by women in war-torn foreign
countries and expressed the opin
ion that women in the United
! States will be no less courageous
!in their cooperation with Na
tional Defense.
The speaker, who was present •
\ed by Mrs. Roselle Featherston.
; chairman of _ the International
Relations committee, then spe
| cifically mentioned the part wo
| men may play in the Aluminium
! campaign now being carried on,
said that women are now at the
forefront in every worthwhile
civic venture and prophesied
greater changes in the world as
women increase their positions
as executives in the business
world.
Presiding at the meeting
which was held as a dinner ses
sion at Mrs. B. W. Gardner's
Coffee Shop, was Miss Agnes
Brake, vice president. During
the business session three new
members, Misses Julia Fisher, of
the Person Health Department,
and Eleanor Barbour, Home Su
pervisor, F. S. A. and Rachel
Brewer, secretary for F. S. A.,
were received.
Next meting, August 11, will
be held at 7 o’clock in the Church
School Building, Roxboro First
Baptist church.
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L ■ W. (Joe) Brooks
Negro Teacher
Dies At Home
Leonidas W. (Joe) Brooks, 40,
of near Allensville, Negro school
teacher, for 12 years a member
of the faculty of Person county
Training School, died Sunday at
his home. Death was attributed
to heart trouble with complica
tions. Survivors include ni s
wife, 4 brothers and 4 sisters.
Funeral services were held
this afternoon at 2 o’clock it Al
len’s Chapel' .Methodist chuich,
with interment at Woodsdale.
The deceased was a member of
Allen’s Chapel church and was
widely known for his work in
educational circles.
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Miss Chandler Has
Washington War
Department Job
Miss Lottie L. Chandler, dau
ghter of Elder and Mrs. Lex J.
Chandler of Roxboro, has ac
cepted a position in the War De
partment in Washington; D. C.
Miss Chandler is a graduate of
Helena High School, and Croft’s
Secretarial and Accounting
School. For the past year, she has
held a position with Van Straa
ten’s in Durham, but left Sat
urday for Washington, where she
will assume new duties.
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LT. MYRICK HERE
Lt. Edwin A. Myrick of Daniel
Field, Augusta, Ga., will arrive
tonight to spend the week-end
in Roxboro. Lt. Myrick left this
city in June and has since then
been stationed at Daniel Field,
with the air corps.
FINAL WEEK AT
CHEROKEE WILL BE
STARTED SUNDAY
Cherokee Camp For Scouts
Has Thus Far Had An Un
usually Successful Season.
Reidsville, July. 24 - Camp
Cherokee in its third week, for
the season, is again boasting of
a capacity attendance. Attend -
ance has totaled over 100 every
week the camp has been open,
already breaking all attendance
records for Cheroke Council. This
unusually large attendance is at
tributed to the large number of
Scoutmasters who have attend
ed with their troops this year.
The final week opens at Cher
okee Sunday, July 27. Scout lead
ers in this district promised that
a place would be found for ev
ery boy who wishes to attend.
Any scout who has not yet at
tended, should write: Boy Scouts
cf America, Reidsville, N. C.,
immediately asking that a place
be reserved for them.
Large numbers of visitors have
enjoyed the aquatic activities
and campfire programs this year.
Wednesday and Thursday of each
w'eek visitors have flocked tie
the camp where a special parent
night program was given. Fur
ther information regarding camp
may be secured by calling: Geo
rge Cushjva, of Roxboro.
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LOUIS B. CLAYTON
DIES SATURDAY
IN HOSPITAL
Rites For Hurdle Mills
Man Held Sunday A t
Gravesie In Family Cem
etery.
Funeral services for Louis B.
Clayton, 46, of Hurdle Mills,
wfhose death oiccured Saturday
night at Community hospital,
Roxboro, were conducted Sun
day afternoon at the graveside in
the Clayton family cemetery.
Death was attributed to compli
cations following an Operation.
Mr. Clayton was admitted to the
hospital, July 8.
Survivors include his wife: one
son, two daughters, all of the
home; his mother, Mrs. Ozzie
Clayton of Timberlake; three
brothers, and two sisters, Mrs.
N. S. Poole of Greensboro, and
Mrs. F. E. Oakley of Timberlake.
The three brothers are: E. W.,
of Timberlake, W. W., of Durham
and M. S., of Raleigh, while the
children are J. T. Clayton, of the
home, and Misses Rosa Anne and
Dorothy Clayton, all of the home.
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B. B. Knight And
Mrs. Knight Go
To West Virginia
Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Knight will
next week go to White Sulphur
Springs, W. Va., where Mr.
Knight, District Manager for
the Ohio State Life Insurance
emopany, will attend an agency
session given in honor of those
most successful in the company’s
business during the past year.
Mr. Knight, who has been with
the Company since 1934, is a
member of the honor club and
as such will receive a watch as
special award. He has for near
ly six years also been a mem
ber of the “App-a-Week” club.
While in White Sulphur Springs,
Mr. and Mrs. Knight will be
guests of the Company at the
Greenbrier hotel.
Mayor Winstead Requests
City To Go On Daylight Time
Education Board Office Now
Being Moved to New Location
Although nothing definite has
been learned concerning new
tenants of Court House quarters
until this week occupied by tne
Person County Board of Educa
tion, process of moving the
J Board's office equipment and
bocks to Roxboro Community
j House, Chub Lake street, has
been going on all this week and
|it is expected that the Board's
i offeie personnel will be settled
i there by end of this week.
R. B. Griffin, Person Super
intendent of Schools, has been in
the Community House building
1 most of the time, supervising last
i minute details of reconstruction
and renovation, although Miss
'Louise Darden,, his secretary has
j kept the Court House office open.
Moving is being done in school
j trucks by young men employed
with the schools system. Short
i work could be made of moving
the actual office equipment, but
; major job is clearing out the
| old book room and the basement
I supply room
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MISS TODD DIES
AT RESIDENCE OF
MRS. N.ITODD
Sister of Late Rev. Mr.
Todd Passes After Long
Illness. Rites Scheduled
For Friday Afternoon.
Miss Guila Ethel Todd, 50, of
Allensville, died this morning
at 3:25 o’clock at the home of her
sister-in-law, Mrs. N. J, Todd
Miss Todd’s death was attribut
ed to complications resulting
from a stroke of paralysis. She
had been ill for many years.
She was the daughter of Mrs.
Laura Todd- and of the late Lit
tleton J. Todd and was a sister
of the late Rev. N. J. Todd, well
known Person County Baptist
minister.
Miss Todd was a member of
Mill Creek Baptist church, but
funeral services will be held at
Providence church tomorrow af
ternoon at 3 o’clock. Officiating
ministers will be the Rev. J. F.
Funderburke, of Mill Creek, the
Rev. J. N. Bowman, of Provi
dence and the Rev. W. F. West,
of Roxboro First Baptist church.
Interment will take place in
Providence cemetery. The body
will lie in state at Providence
church from two until three
o’clock.
In addition to her mother, Miss
Todd is survived by one sister,
Mrs. W. R. Bazemore, of Burl
ington, three brothers, Malverin,
of Miami, Fla., Hugh, of the U.
S. Naval hospital, Portsmouth,
Va., and Littleton, of New Mex
ico.
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MISS RILEY GETS
“A” CERTIFICATE
Mrs. Gertrude Hutchinson, of
Raleigh, chairman of the North
Carolina State Board of Cosme
tic art, today sent to Miss Mary
Riley, of the Roxboro Beauty
Shop, an “A” certificate grant
ing Miss Riley privileges of being
an instructor in any and all rec
ognized schools and colleges of
beauty culture.
THURSDAY JULY 24, 1941.
MRS. LELIA NOELL
PASSES IN CITY
RITES CONDUCTED
Wife Os Late Joseph W.
Noell, Os Mt. Tirzah, Dies
At Hospital. She Was A
Sister Os W. F. Reade.
Mrs. Lelia Susan Ncell, 87, of
I Mount Tirzah, wife of the late
Joseph. W. Noell, of that place,
died Tuesday morning at 2:50
s o’clock at Community hospital,
i Roxboro, where she had been a
i patient since July 2, when she
I fell and suffered a broken hip
jat her home. Dath was attribut
ed to complications and the in
firmiies of age.
Funeral services were conduct
id at Mount Tirzah Methodist
( Church, of which she was a
: member, Wednesday afternoon
I at 3 o'clock. Officiating ministers
were the paster, the Rev. E. L.
, Ilill, assisted by a former pastor,
i the Rev. 11. E. Lance, retired
I Methodist minister, of Durham.
• Interment was in the church
! cemetery.
Survivors include: three sons,
'E. R. Noell, of Jonesboro, A. B.
Noell, of Winston-Salem and W.
W. Noell, of Mt. Tirzah; two
daughters, Mrs. C. A. Moore, of
Rougemont and Miss Mary Noell,
of Mount Tirzah, and 19 grand
children. Also four brothers, W.
F. C. G. and J. G. Reade, all of
Mount Tirzah, and E. W. Reade,
cf Durham.
Mrs. Noell was an aunt of
Mrs. R. L. Harris, of Roxboro,
wife of Lt. Gov. Harris, of E.
G. Long, of Mrs. E. E. Bradsher
j and Mrs. Paul Henley, all of
! this city.
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; S. P. Suit*, Os
Longhurst Dies
At Residence
Samuel Plunk Suitt, 75, of
Longhurst, died this morning at
,5:30 o’clock at his home after an
illness lasting 10 days. Death was
attributed to complications.
Funeral services will be con
ducted Friday afternoon at 4
o’clock at North Roxboro Bap
tist church, of which he was a
member. Rites will be in charge
cf the pastor, the Rev. A. R.
Hovis. Interment will follow in
Providence Baptist church
cemetery.
The body will lie in state at
the church from three until
four o’clock.
Survivors include: his wife,
Mrs. Emma Suitt, four sons, C.
C., of Roxboro, Kenneth, Luther
end Johnnie, of Longhurst, and
two sisters, Mrs. J. B. O’Briant
and Mrs. Rommie New, both of
Longhurst, twenty grandchild
ren and one sister, Mrs. Emma
Powell, of AllesviUe.
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IN GEORGIA
Ivey and Clarence Warren are
now at Baxley, Ga., where they
will operate a warehouse dur
ing the Georgia season.
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER,
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
NUMBER THIRTY-EIGHT
Follows Broughton Proc
lamation. County Can Take
No Official Action Until
August 4, But Cooperation
Requested.
In conformity with the proc
lamation yesterday issued by Gov.
J. Melville Broughton regarding
"Daylight Saving Time,” Mayor
S. G. Winstead, of this city', this
morning issued a statement in
which he requested citizens of
Roxboro to observe the new time
schedule, turning their clocks
forward one hour, beginning
Sunday midnight.
Frank T. Whitfield, chairman
of the Person Board of Commis
sioners, this morning said that
he has received a communication
from the Governor, but that of
ficial action as far as Person
county is concerned cannot be
taken until the Commissioners
meet, Monday, August 4.
Lee Umstead, of the Roxboro
office of Norfolk and Western,
questioned this morning as to
train schedules, said he has as
yet had no official information,
but it is expected trains will re
main on Standard time, although
the local office may adopt Day
light time for its own operations.
City Hall offices will adopt
the new time and merchants
will be expected to adhere to the
schedule, to be in effect until
Sunday, September 28.
Printed below is the Associat
ed Press story from Raleigh:
Raleigh, July 24—-Governor
Briughton directed all State of
fices, agencies and institutions
to put daylight saving time in
to effect Sunday, July 27, and-is
sued a proclamation urging lo
cal govermental agencies, firms
and individuals in North Caro
lina to set their eloesk up one
hour on that date.
His action followed President
Roosevelt’s request last week
that all Southeastern States a
dept daylight saving time as a
measure to conserve electricity
needed in vital defense activities.
If Broughton’s proclamation is
followed. North Carolina will go
on daylight saving time at mid
night Sunday and continue
thrsugh midnight of Sept. 28.
Immeriately following t n e
President’s request, Broughton
sent messages to mayors, cnair
man of county commissioners
and various State-wide organi
zations asking their views on the
proposal.
He stated that response to the
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ALUMINUM DRIVE
NOW BEING HELD
Successful Beginning With
Monday Matinee. Scouts
And Four-H Members Now
Calling On Householders.
In progress today is the Coun
ty and City-wide Aluminium
drive, with collecting being large
ly done by Boy and Girl Scouts
and Four-H club members.
The City depository on the City
Hall lawn erected by Mity Man
ager Bloxam, with Its "V” for
Victory sign, was on Monday
filled by contributions brought
in by children who attended the
Palace theatre matinee.
The drive will continue
through July 29 and all citizens
who have discarded aluminum
are requested to bring it to desig
nated collection centers or to
give it to authorized collectors
when called for.