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LIGHTNING TRAP
• CHATTANOOGA, Term., Sept.
12.—Two gypsies, George and
Mary Miller, were on their way
to Warren, Pa.,..t0 face extortion
charges ' today, all on account of
a bolt of lightning
The lightning struck a gypsy
camp here a week ago, causing
considerable damage. An under
cover man in New York saw a
newspaper picture of the wrecked
camp and spotted a car which he
identified as belonging to gypsies
sought on a charge of extorting
$2,700 from a 70-year-old woman
at Warren. The police did the rest.
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HITLER DUE IN MOSCOW
:
Adolf Hitler was due in Mos
cow Friday on the "basis of Napo
leon’s campaign in 1812.
Napoleon attacked Russia June
24, 1812, and entered Moscow
September 14.
Hitler attacked Russia June 22.
Up to this mornings he was about
220 to 230 miles away from Mos
cow at the nearest point, and at
that particular point the Russians
were driving the Germans back
in a big counter-attack.
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MEXICO HAS TRAINED
PARACHUTE BATTALION
Mexico City, Sept. 11. —Mex
ico has quietly equipped and
trained its first parachute battal
ion of 400 men, the National De
fense Ministry reported tonight.
The new unit will be introduc
ed to the public next Tuesday
with full equipment including
light machine guns, portable ra
dios and parachute packs.
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16-YEAR-OLD BOY DRAWS
LIFE TERM FOR MURDER
Woodstock, 111., Sept. 11.—Rich
ard Wesolik, 16, was sentenced
to life imprisonment today after
he pleaded guilty to the murder
of Mrs. Margaret Jung, 37-year
old monther of five children.
The parolee from the Illinois
Training School for Boys almost
broke down when he recounted,
at the request of Judge Ralph J.
Dady, how he bludgeoned Mrs.
Jung to death the morning of
July 14. He had been paroled to
the Jung farm home.
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FLYING TACKLE HALTS
PURSE SNATCHING
ATLANTA, Ga„ Sept. 12.
Johnnie Jones, Negro, whose ca
reer as a purse snatcher was end
ed abruptly July 7 by a football
player’s flying tackle, was sen
tenced in Fulton County Super
ior Court yesterday to 15 to 20
years for robbery.
According to the story told in
court, the Negro snatched a purse
from Miss Mary Lee Daniel, At
lanta secretary. The girl chased
him for more than a block be
fore Howard Spruell, former cen
ter on the North Carolina State
Wolfpack, stopped the Negro with
a flying tackle.
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CM DIE IN QUAKE
London, Friday, Sept. 12.—An
exchange telegraph dispatch from
Ankara today reported that 500
dNUgns were killed in a severe
Lond<
Iraoii|Mtnes
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY ts THURSDAY
Roxboro Scouts Qualify
For Eagle Scout Ranking
Others Passed Star and
Life Tests and Awarded
Badges at Court of Honor
Meeting,
The Person County Scout Court
of Honor met Friday night at the
Timberlake scout cabin near Tim
berlake.
A large number of scouts came
before the court of honor to be
awarded merit badges and others
were awarded Ist, 3nd and tend
erfoot badges.
Highlight of the meeting was
the fact that two scouts, Thomas
Long and Jack Hughes, Jr., qual
ified for the rank of Eagle Scouts.
This is the highest honor that a
scout can receive. In order to be
an Eagle Scout the boy must
have served as a Life Scout for
sijl months and have 21 merit
badges. The Eagle Scout rank is
sometimes regarded as being
equal to two years in college.
These two boys will be awarded
their badges at a future scout
meeting.
Billy Wilson of troop 52, Tim
berlake was awarded his Life
Scout Badge A Life Scout must
have had three months of satis
factory service as a Star Scout
and 10 merit badges.
Gus Deering, Jr. and Robert
Wagstaff of troop 49, were-award
ed Star Scout badges. A Star
Scout must have three months
satisfactory service as a First
Class scout and five merit badges.
The meeting Friday was in j
j charge of Sam Merritt, chairman
of the honor court. Serving with
him were A. P. Patterson, Clyde
Swartz and Gus Deering.
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A. B. HUMPHRIES
RITES CONDUCTED
AT SHARON CHURCH
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Dixon’s Store Man Dies
Friday At Community Hos
pital. *
Albert B. Humphries, 59, of the
Dixon’s Store community, died
Friday morning at 7:30 o’clock, at
Community hospital, Roxboro,
death being attributed to a stroke
of paralysis suffered last month.
Final rites were conducted Sat
urda afternoon at 3 o’clock, (EST)
at Sharon Baptist church, Gran
ville county, by the Rev. J. B.
Currin, of Roxboro, and the Rev.
Ei! G. Usry, of Oxford. Interment
was in the church cemetery.
Survivors include: his wife,
three daughters and three sons
and two sisters.
The daughters are, Mrs. J J.
Harris, of Clayton, Mrs. J y Sea
gle, of Vale and Miss Lucy Hum
phries, of the home; the sons are
William E., of Longhurst, and
Richard L. and Roy 8., both of
Roxboro. Sisters are, Mrs. John
Scoggins, of Bassett, Va„ and
Mrs. J. M. O’Briant, of Roxboro.
Pallbearers were: Waylon and
Reuben Gillis, Henry and Hubert
O’Briant, and Odis and John
Melton, while flower bearers
were Lattie Humphries, Snow
dean Melton, Anne Gillis, Fay
and Margaret O’Briant and Mrs.
Buddy Lee Hackney.
BIG CAKE
Every year a one-ton birthday
cake is cut by a Los Angeles de
partment store. The making of
this mammoth cake requires 260
pounds of butter, 372 pounds of
sugar, 382 pounds of flpur, 3,600
eggs, 3 quarts of vanilla and 400
pounds of icing. J k
City News
Briefs
CAMP SITUATION
W. Wallace Woods, Secretary
of Roxboro Chamber of Com
merce, today said he has receiv
ed from Senator Josiah W. Bailey
and from Secretary of War
Stimson letters with regard to
receipt of protests of Granville.
Person and Durham residents in
the proposed camp area. Stim
son, in his letter, pointed out
that “it is quite possible that
the site (near Durham) although
approved, may not have to be
used.”
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“CAR OF WONDERS”
Under auspices of the Roxboro
unit of the British War Relief
Society, with a committee com
posed of Mesdames G. I. Prilla
man, Percy Bloxam and William
Pickering in charge, the “Ameri
can Car of Wonders,” containing
communication equipment and
many curios, including replicas '
of the British crowns, will be in
Roxbgro for one day only, Sep
tember 18, on Abbitt avenue,
near Hotel Roxboro.
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GOOD SESSION
I At September meeting of the
Roxboro Chamber of Commerce,
held Thursday night, a compre
hensive report of activities was
presented by Secretary W. Wal
lace Woods and plans were made
for continuance of a now success
ful membership drive. Also dis
cussed was a Fall dinner meet
ing.
Secretary Woods released
names of Committees, of the en
tire membership and of new
members. Presiding was E. G.
Thompson, president.
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j FOX STORE HAS
RENOVATIONS
George M. Fox, Jr., owner of
Fox and Company, mercantile
establishment, at Brooksdale, has
recently completed exterior and
interior renovations' at his store.!
Much painting has been done
and new stocks have been add
ed for the Fall season. Fox and \
Company is well known to Per
son county, having been in busi
ness for many years, and Mr.
Fox today said" that he will be
pleased to have customers and
friends call for an inspection of
his refinished quarters.
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NEW SALESMAN
Gilbert Dickerson, of Bethel
Hill, son of W. G. Dickerson, of
that place, has accepted a posi
tion with Dickinson Motor com
pany, sales division, Roxboro.
Mr. Dickerson, who has begyn
his duties here,, is a graduate of
Bethel Hill high school. Dickin
son Motor company is Hudson
dealer for the Roxboro area.
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CLOTHING NEEDED
A request for suitable out
grown or discarded clothing for
numbers of Person school chil
dren was today issued by Mrs.
T. C Wagsstaff, director of the
Department of Public Welfare,
who said that contributions may
be left atf the department office,
or will be called for when noti
fication is received. Many Per
son school children, said Mrs.
Wagstaff, are in need of clothing,
including shoes and undergar
ments, and contributions will be
greatly spjeciated.
SUPERVISING PRINCIPAL
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Off to a good start is the 1941-1942 season of Roxboro dis
trict schools, of which the new supervising principal is Leon
Couch, shown above. Schools in the District are: Roxboro high
| school, Central Grammar school, and East Roxboro and Ca-Vel
j and Longliurst Schools. Formal openings were held last week.
Decision On Camp
Likely To Be
Given This Month
Construction Quartermast
er Speaks At Meeting of
Oxford Rotary Club
Oxford, Sept. 13. Final re
ports on the preliminary engi
neering work and rating of the
proposed Army- cantonment and
camp ground in Granville, Person
and Durham counties will be
submitted to Washington within
the next few days, Captain R. E.
Shepherd told the members of
the Oxford Rotary Club last
week. Captain Shepherd is con
structing quartermaster assigned
ito the camp project.
Captain Shepherd, speaking!
i without authority but with con-
Isiderable information as a basis
for his statements, told the mem
bers of the club “I think you’ll '
have a camp” near Oxford with
in a short time. The Army is to
Continued on back page
Along The Way
With the Editor
Our good friend A. M. Lcr.g, took a trip to the Norfolk
Beaches about two weeks ago and lo and behold someone
stole his handbag with all of his money in it. Now why Ar- '
thur had his money in the bag is more than we can figure
out, but he had it there and had to wire his two children,
Dolian and Curtis, to send him enough to get home. Another
mystery is where did his two boys get the money? Anyway
you figure it “A. M.” was on the spot and it didn’t take
him long to get on the wires and burn them up.
When you start counting expert brunswick stew eaters
of Roxboro, put down a new one. Pat Robinson, Chief of
Police, belongs in the same class with Lawrence Woods and
Fred Masten. Our Chief always goes prepared and he car
ries his spoon, or spoons, with him. Last week he gave this
writer a spoon and saved him from- the embarrassment of
having to eat it in a rather crude manner.
The story is out that Coleman King, F.*o. Carver, Jr.,
Bkiddy Long and a few others went to the county-wide teach
ers’ meeting last week in to get the names of the new,
single, teachers who are/to teach in this county this winter..
reports prove that 4rese boys looked at the teachers and j
then took down their naVies and addresses if they looked un- ,
pgtjally good. For dptajli see R. B. Griffin. /
ROXBORO, N. C., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1941
PERSON SCOUTS
AND LEADERS TO
GO TO CAROLINA
Big Gathering To Be Held
Next Week On Campus At
Chapel Hill
Reidsville, September 13.—Two
thousand Scouts from North Car
olina and Carolina have
registered to attend the Boy
Scout Jubilee at Chapel Hill,
September 18-21. This is the third
jubilee to be held at Chapel Hill
and registrations indicate it will
be the largest and most enjoyable
of all.
The Scouts will camp in their
own tents on the university
grounds. The program will be
I crammed full of activities close
to the heart of every boy. There
will be three campfire programs
story telling, singing.
•Governor Broughton, recognition
of Eagle Scouts, President Gra
ham and similar attractions. The
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After Standing For Century,
Satterfield House Has Story
CITY COUNTY
ORDERS GUNS AND
GAS EQUIPMENT
Joint Action Os City And
C o.ii n try Commissioners
Gives Sheriff And Police
Department Two Sub-Ma
chine Guns And Tear Gas
By authorization of the City |
Board of Commissioners and of
County Commissioners, Roxboro
and Person law enforcement de- j
partments will soon have on '
hand a Federal Tear Gas emer
gency kit and two sub-machine
guns to be jointly the property
of the Police and Sheriff's depart
ments.
Orders for the tear gas and
machine guns, regarded as stand
ard equipment for up-to-date po
lice work, were placed Friday af
ter a committee composed of
City Police Commissioner Philip
L. Thomas, City Manager Percy!
Bloxam and Chief of Police
George C. Robinson, conferred
with Person Sheriff M. T. Clay
ton and the County Commission
ers’ chairman, Frank H Whit
field, of Bushy Fork and R. P.
Burns. County Attorney,
j Initial authorziation came
from Roxboro City commission
ers, with provision that County
cooperation be secured. In com-}
menting on the new equipment,
which will include a tear gas
gun capable of shooting tear gas
into a window at distance of 100
yards, Chief Robinson said that
the equipment will place the de
partments in better position to
carry forward National Defense
regulations.
He also said that he is not ex
pecting emergencies such as
twice developed in and near the
City last month, but that if
such occasions do arise local of
ficers will be ready to offer to
the public better protection than I
has hitherto been available.
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MISS HOBGOOD TALKS
Speaker at first September
meeting of the Business and Pro
fessional Woman’s club, at Ho- j
tel Roxboro Tuesday night, was j
Miss Inez Hobgood, of Oxford,
NYA representative, who with
her mother, was honor guest, i
Musical feature was a “Barber!
Shop” quartet, composed of Miss
es Julia Fisher, Barbara Bloxam, I
Frances Weston and Eleanor j
Barber, who wore masculine cos- •
tumes and sang in true barber j
shop style.
Next meeting will be on Wed- j
nesday, September 24. at the ho- j
tel.
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NYA ALLOTMENT
A total of $1,440 has been al
lotted to the public schools of
Person county by the National
Youth Administration for'carry
ing on the NYA student work
program, according to announce
ment from State Administrator
John A. Lang, of Raleigh.
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Kiwanis Notice
The Roxboro Kiwanis Club
will meet Monday at 6:30 p, m.
at Hotel Roxboro instead of the
Olive Hill Community House as
was planned.
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NORTH CAROLINIANS EAT
MOST OF OWN PORK
RALEIGH, Sept. 12.—North
Carolinians eat mbre of the pork
they raise than do the people of
any other state except Texas. El
lis Vestal of the N. C. State Col
lege Extension Service said to-:
jday.
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES-
NUMBER FORTY-EIGHT
Home Os The Grandfather
Os Mayor Winstead And
Os Mrs. Mamie Merritt
Will Be Torn Down This
Week; One Os Oldest
Houses In City
On a hill, shaded by a grove of
century -old oaks, stands an 5
equally old house, built in 1839,
or thereabouts, by Green D. Sat
j terfield, then a Roxboro young
] man, who was destined to be
j come a prosperous merchant and
| leading citizen.
Next week the house will not
|be there, and because it is now
being torn down by its present
owners, grandchildren of Merch
ant Satterfield, it may be that
the downtown City block east of
! Central Service station and once
commanded by the house will
seem deserted, although two
sides of the once huge lot have
for years been surrendered to
buildings housing stores and fill
ing stations
:
| People passing on South Main
street do not see the Satterfield
house, unless they take the trou
j ble to walk back of the filling
| station; netiher do they see the
j little family cemetery, down the
i hill to one side, in which are
buried Green Satterfield and his
wife, who was Mary A. Jordan,
. daughter of Dr. Hopkins Jordan,
a promnent Roxboro physVoian,
but the house has a story to tell,
and if it could in its last moments
become articulate, it would tell
i not only of its own life, but of
the lives of the people who have
lived in it.
In 1835 Green D. Satterfield,
28, married Mary Jordan, who
was 22, and then, four years lat
er, he built the house for her and
the 10 children to be born to
them, one of whom, Ida Satter
field, grew up and married and
became the mother of Samuel
Garland Winstead, now Mayor of
Roxboro, and of Mrs. Mamie
! Merritt, whose son, J. S. Merritt,
jis co-owner and editor of the
. Person County Times
i
I For fifty years after its erec
tion the “House on the Hill”’ ex
perienced joy and sorrow, birth
and death. One of the sons,
Fletcher E. Satterfield, joined
I the Confederate army and was
1 on July 3, 1863, at the age of 26,
killed in action at the battle of
! Gettysburg. On the court house
! square is a monument to him,
j Captain Fletcher E Satterfield,
| of-Company H, 55th North Caro-
I lina regiment, with an inscrip
! tion, borne out by historical fact,
i saying that he “was fartherest
| at Gettysburg.”
! Legend has it that when the
j battle was over, his body, of all
J of the Southern dead, was closest
to the Northern line on the hill
and that while leading his men
he was so far in advance of them
that he was struck by shot fired
by them.
Only , three of the children
married. One was Ida (Mrs.
Winstead); another was Mary,
who chose for her husband Hen
ry T. Jordan, a young lawyer,
who practiced his profession in
Roxboro and later moved to Dur«:
ham. where he won professioiuku
recognition and periHUjf:.
able to forget the Victonqj| (but.
very real) tragedy of
for him.
When they were
wc s a young and beautift
an of 25, her face
by an illness which . J
bed even after the tjftdflpj&rgl? 1
had been set. Thf*jj - ■
Maiy was still
Henry said thoi*d| * . “
big Hal
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