IP IT IS NEWS ABOUT
PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLUME XU
Major Last Minute Change In
Schools Elevates C. H. Mason
Shift Brought About By
Resignation of Humphries.
' List Os White Teachers In
All Schools Released.
Major last minute change in
the personnel of teachers in white
public schools in Person County
Tfras the selection Monday of C.
H. Mason as principal at Bushy
Fork, a change brought about by
the resignation of the principal-
elect of that school, William,
Smith Humphries, who request
ed a release from his previous
commitment in order to be able
to accept an offer made to him
on Saturday to become assistant
editor of the Roxboro Courier.
Members of the Bushy
school board, considering the fact
that Mr. Humphries had previ
ously prepared himself for news
paper work, released him from
his contract at Bushy Fork and
he will on September 15 begin
his connection with the Courier,
succeeding F. O. Carver, Jr,, re
signed, who has accepted a posi
tion as public relations man with
the State Highway Commission,
Raleigh, and will leave Roxboro
after having been with the Cou
rier for the past eight years.
Both Mr. Humphries and Mr.
Mason are well known to Per
son and Roxboro residents and
news of their new positions will
be read with interest.
Mr. Humphries, a graduate of
Wake Forest college, where he j
prepared himself for journalism
and teaching by taking courses
in newscraft and English, taught
for the past two years at Allens
ville high school. Mr. Mason, a
graduate of the University of
North Carolina, was at one time
connected with Helena school and
has for several years been at
Bushy 1 Fork, where he has had
unusual success both as a teach
er and as a leader of Boy Scouts.
Mr. Humphries, a native of
Person County, is a son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. Y. Humphries, of
Bethel Hill.
Another school change, as an
nounced by Jerry L. Hester, prin
cipal of Helena school, is the se
• lection of Mrs. E. U. Puryear as
a member of uie faculty. State
ment concerting Mrs. Puryear’s
selection is contained in a para
graph printed in the Helena sec
tion of this school resume.
To be announced are two or
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FRED GREEN TO
ADDRESS PERSON
TEACHERSSOON
New Secretary Os Educa
tion Association Will Be
Here Monday. Schools Open
Tuesday.
Plans are being rapidly shaped
up for the opening of Person
County and Roxboro district pub
lic schools on Tuesday, Septem
ber 9, according to Superintend
ent R. B. Griffin, District Super
visor Leon Couch and other offi
cials.
Final pre-school meeting of
teachers andi officials will be held
on Monday before the opening
date and speaker will be Fred
Green, secretary of the North
Carolina Education Association.
Mr. Green will speak to white
teachers at 10 o’clock in the
morning and to Negro teachers
at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. The
latter address will be given at
Person County Training school.
Mr. Green recently succeeded
Jule B. Warren as secretary of
the Education association and his
messages are expected to be of
particular interest to all teach-
|erson|Mimes
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY
NO SUNDAY EDITION
Owing to the fact that mem
bers of the staff are now engag
ed in production of the Annual
Tobacco Market edition of the
Times, to be published on Thurs
day, September 11, the Sunday,
September 7, issue will be omit
ted. Regular publication schedule
will, however, be resumed on
and after Thursday .September
11th.
COMMISSIONERS ,
DRAW MEN FOR
OCTOBER JURY
Court Called For Week of
October 13. Times’ City Ed
itor Named To Person Li
brary Board.
Jurors drawn for the October
13 term of Person Superior court,
to which Judge Clawson Wil
liams, of Sanford, is assigned,
are: Tommy Bllaock, A. J. Hill,
J. H. Hawkins, R. L. Bowling, W.
E. Clay, Carr Whitfield, George
B. Bullock, D. C. Dickey, J. T.
Allen, J. S. Beaver, W. P. Whit
field, W. A. Crabtree, James
Brooks, B. K. Barnette, E. L.
Howard, W. P. Rogers, James M.
Ellis, Kelly Paylor, Spencer
[Bowling, L. T. Pullium and W.
R. Day.
Also, Maurice Allen, J. L.
Moore, J. D. Coats; A. B. Dark,
Jr., J. Larkin Gentry, O. R. Horn
er, L. T. Dickerson, James Cates,
W. C. Warren, of Bushy Fork,
W. T. Hawkins, H. O. Eakes, R.
M. Day, O. B. Mcßroom, Isaac
Dean, Clarence Owen, W. L. Peed,
T. A. Pearce, F. J. Winstead, L.
B. Gentry, J. O. Pearce and W.
G. Thomas, all of whom were
named by Person County Board
of Commissioners at their session
this week.
Named as a member of the
Person County Library Board for
a term of three years was Thom
as J. Shaw, Jr., succeeding F. O.
Carver, Jr., resigned. County
Commissioners Frank T. Whit
field, chairman, of Bushy Fork,
and D. M. Cash, of Mt. Tirzah,
were present, as were County
Attorney R. P. Burns and Audi
tor J. S. Walker. Absent was
Commissioner Sam Byrd Win
stead.
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RECORD RAINFALL
Roxboro rainfall in the past
48 hours totaled nearly two and
one half inches, according to re
cords kept at the City Water
works, according to reports re
ceived this morning. Precipita
tion was greatest Tuesday night
when one and one half inches of
rain fell in three hours. Wednes
day night’s precipitation was .97,
or nearly one inch.
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SON BORN
The Rev. and Mrs. Thomas H.
Hamilton, of Kinston, announce
the birth of a son, Thomas H.,
Jr., in Kinston, on Wednesday,
.September 3.
Mrs. Hamilton is the former
,Miss Marie Garland, of Warsaw,
Va., and Roxboro. She is a sis
ter of Mrs. J. S. Merritt.
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RETURN FROM VISIT
Jesse Rogers and Mrs. H. J.
Rogers, his mother, of Allensville
and Roxboro, returned today
from Richmond, Va., where Mr.
Rogers spent several days and
where his mother stayed for sev
eral weeks with a daughter. Mrs.
Rogers also visited another
daughter in Baltimore. Mr. Rog
ers spent some time in Norfolk
and Petersburg, Va.
RESIDENTS HURT
IN WRECKS HERE
NOW IMPROVED
Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Pass •
And Walter Hawkins Re
main In Hospitals. Moore
Released.
The condition of Mrs. Robert
Moorefield,' of 1617 West Lee
street, Greensboro, who received
a fractured pelvis in an automo
bile accident hqre Sunday night,,
remains about the same. She was j
taken from Community hospital
to Greensboro by ambulance
Tuesday.
Now out of the hospital is Vic
tor Moore, of Helena, driver of
the car a’.’eged to have hit the
Moorefield machine. Moore’s in
juries were slight. Chief of Po
lice George C. Robinson said no
charges have been brought a
gainst either driver, since pri
vate settlement is being sought.
Moore, who left the hospital
yesterday, was driving a car said
to be the property of Hambrick
Harris, resident of this county,
but now stationed at Fort Jack
son, Columbia, S. C.
Victims of other recent acci
dents are reported to be, im
proving. Mrs. T. Owen Pass, in
jured Sunday and now in Watt’s
hospital, Durham, is resting com- I
tortably, although she will re- !
main in the hospital for some
time. Ed Green, of the U. S.
Marine Corps, Brooklyn, hurt
several weeks ago near Danville, i
has been transferred from Duke
hospital, Durham, to a govern
ment hospital at Portsmouth, Va.,
after having spent Monday with
his family here.
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Improving in Community hos- !
pital, Danville, is Walter Haw
kins, of Hurdle Mills. Burt Wil- ;
son, also of Hurdle Mills, injured
in the Hawkins accident, has re
turned to his home. Also now
in better condition is Mrs. James
Wilson, of Durham, who is also!
at the Danville hospital. Her hus
band, also of Durham, was kill-!
ed instantly,
Mrs. Pass received a fractured
vertebra and a slight brain eon- j
cussion when her car overturned
on a curve on the South Boston
highway, near the State line Sun- j
day morning. Her husband and
two children were shaken and
bruised but not seriously injur
ed.
Library Reports Receipt Os
Good Volumes for New Season
Many Other Contributions
Are, However, Greatly
Needed, Say Mrs. Feath
erston and Mrs. Barnette.
September days, foreshadowed
by the county-wide opening of
public schools next Tuesday, are
already generating an increased
interest in books, according to
reports from the Person County
Library, as presented today by
Mrs. Sue Featherston, supervisor,
and Mrs. Zelle Barnette, assist
ant in library work.
August circulation of volumes
was 587, said Mrs. Featherston
today, a figure that is just a bit
below normal, but the recent
arrival of 40 new books by l ex
change from the State Library
Commission, and the gift of new
books by members of Roxboro
Womans’ club and by individu
als is expected to further increase
the naturally school-directed em
phasis on reading.
Gifts of volumes have been re
ceived from Mrs. T. T. Hester
and from Mrs. Milnroe Pleas
ants, as well as from a man who
W. C. BULLOCK
BUYS WATKINS’
SHARE IN FIRM
Will Operate Lumber And
Building Supply !
Os Which He Was Co-
Founder, Under Own Name j
W. C. Bullock, co-founder of i
Watkins and Bullock, and since I
1909 a prominent Roxboro busi- j
ness man and resident, today an-,
nouced that he has purchased I
from heirs of the Watkins estate |
j their interests in the lumber and
building supply company operat
ed under the name of Watkins
and Bullock and that he will
henceforth operate the buisness
under his own name as W. C. !
Bullock.
Heir to the share of the late
W. C. Watkins, partner with Mr.
Bullock, was Mrs. Clarence L.
Pemberton, Jr. s the former Miss
Anne Watkins, daughter of Mr.
Watkins and now a resident of
Yaneeyville, who relinquished ac
tive interest in her father’s busi
ness after her marriage to Mr.
Pemberton and it is with her that
Mr. Bullock concluded on Sep
tember 1, details of purchase of
the Watkins’ interests.
In making announcement of the
change, Mr. Bullock stressed the
fact that builders’ supplies, lum
ber and other construction com
modities previously carried by
[the company will be always on
j hand. He also expressed his ap
preciation of past patronage and
said that a warm welcome to all
| friends and customers will be ex
pended by him and his associates,
his brother, George B. Bullock,
who has been with him many
years, and his two sons, John
and Carr Moor Bullock, and Miss
Lucille Oliver, who have been
with the firm for several years.
Mr. Bullock, a native of Bul
lock, in Granville countty, is a
| brother of R. A. Bullock, assist
ant clerk of Person Superior
court. His former partner, Mr.
Watkins, who came here from
! Henderson, died at number of
! years ago, but until this month
j there had been no change in the
firm name.
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REVIVAL TO BEGIN
| Starting Sunday, September 7,
[at 8 o’clock Daylight Saving
Time, and continuing until Fri
| day, September 12, revival ser
vices will be held at New Mount
Zion church. The pastor is the
Rev. C. L. Faison, who extends a
! cordial welcome to the public.
desires 'his contribittions to re
main anonymous.
Womans’ club titles, selected
for the club by Mrs. R. H. Shel
ton, who is a member of the
Person Library Board, are as
follows:’ “And So There Were
None,” by A. Christie; “Shang
hai ’37,” by Baum; “Watch for
the Dawn,’ by Stuart Cloete,
“Drums Along the Mohawk,” by
W. D. Edmonds; “Next to Val
our,’ Jennings, “A Tree Grown
Straight,” by Percy Marks;
“The Listening House,’*' by See
ley; “Not Peace, But a Sword,”
by V. Sheean; “The Chinese
Orange Mystery,” by E. Queen
and the “Case of the Baited
Hook, by Gardner.
Titles given by the anonymous
donar are: “Splendour of God,”
by Honore W. Morrow, and “Ran
dom Harvest,” by James Hilton.
In expressing appreciation for
these and other gifts to the libra
ry, Mrs. Featherston said that
she hopes many others will be
gtiven by citizens Interested in
furthering the planned program
now being considered for the in
stitution.
Rites For James A. Long, Sr To
Be Held Friday At Residence
FARM GROUPS TO
HAVE PICNIC AT
CITY HIGHSCHOOL
Farm Tours Begun Today
Will End Tomorrow With
Picnic At Roxboro High
School In Late Afternoon
Meeting at one o’clock this af
ternoon, Daylight Saving Time,
at the Person County Court
House, Person’s farm men and
women from there began their
annual farm tours, trips of in
spection to various farms and
homes, which will end tomor
row afternoon.
Culmination of the tours will
be a picnic supper to be held
Friday afternoon at 5:30 at Rox
boro high school grove, to be
followed by 'a joint federation
meeting of Home Demonstration
and Farmers clubs at the same'
place at 7 o’clock. Leaders in j
charge of the whole two day
program are H. K. Sanders,
County Agent, A. I. Park, assist
ant agent ,and Miss Velma Beam,
home demonstration agent.
Men and women expecting to I
go on the tour tomorrow (Friday)
will also first meet at the court
house at one o’clock.
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Helena Patrons
To Clean School
Grounds Saturday
Parents and friends of students
attending Helena school are re
quested to meet at the school
early Saturday morning, Septem
ber 6, to help with cleaning the
school grounds prior to the
opening of school, Tuesday, Sep- j
tember 9th.
Jerry L. Hester, Helena princi
pal, in making this request point-!
out that the residents of the com
munity are fortunae in having
a new and well equipped build
ing to which necessary and
needed repairs have been recent
ly made by the County and that
patrons and friends of the school
should do their part by being
present Saturday morning to as
sist with the cleanup program.
Those who can do so are re
quested to bring either grass
cutters or rakes.
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MISS GRIFFIN HERE
Miss Marjorie Griffin, former
ly case-worker with the Person
Department of Public Welfare,
spent several hours here the first
of this week She was enroute to
Salisbury, where she is now con
nected with a Government office.
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HAS LUNCHEON
Hostess Wednesday at a fam
ily luncheon was Miss Addie Mae
Merritt, of Woodsdale. Those
present were Mrs. Mamie Mer
ritt, Miss Sue Merritt, Mrs. R. A.
Bullock, Miss Panthea Bullock
and J. S. Merritt, of Roxboro,
Mrs. John H. Merritt and Miss
Nancy Merritt, of Woodsdale, and
the hostess, Miss Merritt.
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BAXTER HOBGOOD RETURNS
Baxter Hobgood, of Murfrees
boro, Tenn., public school super
visor, a former resident of Rox
boro and son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
S. Hobgood, of this city, has re
turned to his home after spend
ing several days with his par
ents.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,
DIES SUDDENLY
:
James Anderson Long, second i
in his family to bear the name
“J. A.”, was born in Roxboro in
August 1885. In 1906, after re
turning from Trinity college, he
began the successful business ca
reer which was brought to a close
on Wednesday, when a heart at
tack ended in his death.
FIFTEEN PERSON
MEN SELECTED
FOR ARMY ROLES
First September Group
Os White Men Will Leave
For Fort Tuesday.
First September gioup of Per
son County white men to enter,
Selective Service, fifteen in all,
will meet in the Roxbiro office
of fthe Board, Tuesday, Septem
ber 9. at nine o’clock Eastern
Standard Time, when they will
receive final instructions before
going to Fort Bragg for induc
tion
The list of men, as prepared
by Baxter Mangum, office man
ager. includes: John Wesley Mer
ritt, Willard Cary Pulliam, Jr.,
Charlie Avon Johnson, Curtis
Malone Satterfield, Elbert Gra
ham Stanfield, John Erven j
Knight, Victor Thomas Hargis,
Alfred Ray Knight, Willard War- j
dell Breeze, Sterling Stroud Mil
ler, Clifton Rhew, Bryan Black
well Montague, Daniel Ob y
Marshall, Charlie Wilbor Satter-!
field and Olan Day Eakes.
Tots’ Shoppe Os
Special Appeal
To Youngsters
Os special interest to parents,
grandparents, uncles, aunts, cous
ins and friends of Roxboro chil
dren is annoucement of the open
ing of the Tots’ Shoppe by Mrs.
S. F. Nicks, Jr., who is prepared
to delight both parents and chil
dren with an array of clothing,
undergarments, toys, blankets
and accessories suited to young
sters aged from one through six.
Mrs. Nicks, wife of the late
Mayor Nicks, is well known in
i Roxboro and has three children
who are themselves of proper age
to appreciate the new store,
which was opened here Tuesday
morning and is located in an at
tractive ’■•ar portion to the Rox
| boro ai.~- store, on the first
I floor, where it can be convenient
ly reached by mothers and chil
' dren.
Seen in the Tots’ shop on
opening day were a number of
customers for whom the merch
andise has special appeal. Also
seen there were several bachelor
gentlemen and other mere men,
who may have been looking for
gifts for children known to them
through ties of kinship or friend
ly visiting.
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER,,
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
NUMBER FORTY-SEVEN
Prominent Citizen
Dies At Home
After Heart Spell
Man Os Wide Interests,
Son Os Founder Os Rox
boro Cotton Mills In HI
Health For Several Months
Funeral services for James A.
Long, Sr., 56, for many years a
leading Roxboro citizen,
death occurred yesterday after
noon at 4:30 o’clock at his home
after a heart attack, will be con
ducted at the Long residence
South Main street, Friday after
noon at 3 o’clock, Daylight Sav
ing Time. Interment will take
place in the family plot, Burch
wood cemetery, this city.
Officiating ministers will be
his pastor, the Rev. W. C. Martin,
of Edgar Long Memorial Meth
odist church and the Rev. J. F.
Herbert, of Grace Methodist
church, Wilmington, a former
pastor of the Roxboro church.
Since announcement of his
death late yesterday many trib
utes of respect have been paid to
the memory of Mr. Long, by both
Person and Roxboro citizens and
by his friends and business asso
ciates in North Carolina and the
nation.
During the hour of the servic
tomorrow business will be gs
erally suspended in Roxboro. ..i,
majority of merchants closing ,
from 2:45 o’clock in the after
noon until four o’clocl*.
Roxboro Cotton Mills, of which
Mr. Long had been president
since the death of his father 25
years ago, will close from Thurs
day night until Monday morning,
while offices of the Mill will be
closed Friday. Woody, Long and
Howard, and Long, Bradsher and
Company, stores in which Mr.
Long had business interests,
: closed today and will remain clos
|ed all day Friday. To be closed
j Friday only is the Peoples bank,
of which Mr. Long had been pres
ident since 1924.
Active Pallbearers will be
j George W. Kane, E. E. Bradsher,
Sr.. Landon Bradsher, George J.
Cushwa, Gordon C. Hunter, C. A.
Harris, E. G. Thompson and W.
W. Morrell, all of this City, while
75 or more honorary pallbearers
have been named.
Mr. Long, who on Tuesday re
turned from a stay in Richmond,
Va., in interest of his health, first
became seriously ill in the early
spring of this year. He was at
that time, in March, removed to
Duke hospital, Durham, where he
remained for several months.
With him at the time of the fa
tal heart attack were his wife
and his family physician Dr. B.
E. Love, who was quickly sum
moned to the home.
Son of the late James Ander
son Long, a pioneer Person in
dustrialist who founded Roxboro
Cotton Mills, and was besides a
successful merchant and banker,
Mr. Long, who received his col
lege education at Trinity College,
now Duke University, entered
fully into the business interests
established by his father.
Like his father he was also an
active leader in civic and church
affairs. He was a member and for
many years chairman of the
Board of Stewards of Edgar Long
Memorial Methodist church, the
church named for his brother,
who died in early manhood.
Os pioneer Person stock, Mr.
Long, despite his many business |
interests and despite numerous
calls made upon his time, was
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