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PERSON COUNTY TIMES Carolina /HW AMocunJ?) A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE J. S. MERRITT, EDITOR M. C. CLAYTON, MANAGER THOMAS J. SHAW, JR., City Editor. Published Every Thursday and Sunday. Entered As Second Class Matter At The Postoffice At Roxboro, N. C., Under The Act Os March 3rd.. 1879. _ —SUBSCRIPTION RATES— One Year $1.50 c 't Months 75 Three Months 50 HiHiml ddiiilMi If roMntatfV Now r«* I fthn» * Detroit | V Atlanta • Ndts. Advertising Cut Service At Disposal of Advertisers at al’ times. Rates furnished upon request. News from our correspondents should reach this office not later than Tuesday to insure publication for Thursday edition and Thursday P. M- for Sunday edition. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2. 1941 “Mirrors Os Confusion” Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, one-time very young scho lar, who is president of the University of Chicago, at a “convocation” held this week at the University, said: “We are in the midst of a great moral, intellec tual and spiritual crisis • ■ ■ to pass it successfully or to rebuild the world after it is over we shall have to get clear about those ends and ideals which are the first principles of human life and of organized society “ Confronted by the great question of peace or war, we cannot make up our minds what we want to defend, or why or how; though our birth rate is declining we do not know what to do with our lives, and though our means of improving the material conditions of exist ence exceed those of any previous generation, we could n’t use them in the great depression to save our fellow citizens from starvation and despair “ After fifty years of progress scientists and educa tors must admit that the beacons established to illum inate the pathway of our people give a light that is flickering and dim . . . the universities, instead of lead ing us through the chaos of the modern world, mirror its confusion.” Statements like these by Dr. Hutchins have time and again been made by educators, ministers and civic leaders, and while we can and do agree that we are fac ing a “moral, intellectual and spiritual crisis,” and that we have not arrived at conclusions as to what or why we are fighting, let alone solved the problems of war and peace, we cannot think it surprising that the uni versities instead of leading through confusion, have been and are content to mirror it. The mistake made by Dr. Hutchins and others like him lies in the assumption that the universities and colleges can be any better than the people they must serve. It is time for us to make self-admission that ours is not the only generation which has lived through a crisis, and it is time for us to take courage from the fact that the battle for civilization has never yet been lost, although the going seems at times to be rougher than need be. We wonder if Dr. Hutchins, in this present day of confusion, has not for a moment lost faith in intellectual values, just as men of less complex mentality sometimes lose faith in the powers directing spiritual conversion. The late, great Mr. Rockefeller, Sr., and others of his generation, if they could come back from their graves, could re-assure Dr. Hutchins on a number of points, and, we think, greatly to the astonishment of Dr. Hutchins, their assurance would have little or nothing to do with the present evils that loom so large on his horizon. To bring the matter close to home: we know peo ple in Person County who have never been in any Uni versity, whose intellectual comprehension is better adapted than is Dr. Hutchins’ to the demands of the present age. Wisdom is knowledge, it is also courage and faith and something more. o—o Men Not Marching For the past two or three days Person and Rox boro folks, caught in outward fringes of the military maneuvers down South, have had opportunities to dis cover what troop movements, modern style, can mean. Truckload after truckload of men from New Jersey and Pennsylvania has been routed through Roxboro, with out damage to either civilians or soldiers. We have in modified form had a revival of war scenes comparable with those of T7 and ’6l, fortunate ly without any of the real hazards attached to those times. Men and women and children, lining the streets and highways, have seen smiling soldiers whiz by in <lust covered trucks and cars. Revived also have been customs of courtesy to strangers who are not strangers, because they are in the army. And it occurs to us that the coming of these men, even for a brief time, is more educational to the general populace than any amount of talking to be done at De fense meetings such as were last week held here. The boys of ’4l are not marching, life is too swift for march ing these days, but they are living illustrations of the fact that there is now in existence a United States Army of sizable proportions, an army which must be cared for because it is our own, because the men in it are boys just like the boys from Person, who are in other States rolling down similar highways. PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C. A History Os THE BRADSHER FAMILY By EUGENIA BRADSHER A Descendant of Both Moses and James Bradsher (Continued from last week) Stella married Jefferson White field, long a merchant in Leas burg, N. C. They reared a large family of children, the oldest be ing Eugenia, named by the Rev- ' erend Solomon Lea who had a daughter born the same night whom he also named Eugenia. The first named Eugenia had all the educational advantages offer ed by the famous Somerville In stitute then under the direction of Solomon Lea Her proficiency in English and music fitted her for teaching, an occupation she followed until her marriage ta W. H. Jones of Orange County. After marriage her teaching was confined to her own family thus giving to her two daughters and only son educational advantages sufficient so reach to succeed in her or his own way. Stella, the oldest child, took training and became a nurse. She married soon after and now lives in Fayetteville, N. C. Mae, the second daughter, mar ried Herbert Cates, until his death a highly successful busi ness man of Hillsboro, N. C. Their only daughter, Lilly Mae, mar ried Riley Oakley of Roxboro, N. C. The five sons of Mae Jones Cates are gradually developing individual business interests. Macon Jones is Associated Press dispatcher for Hollywood. He supervises all messages sent from the movie colony. His daughter, Marcia Mae Jones, is a young movie actress of consid erable note. As a small child she played in “The Champ.” Wallace Beery starring; in the “Chil dren’s Hour,” and with Deanna Durbin in “Mad About Music,” and a number of other successful plays requiring the early teen age. The oldest son of Stella Brad sher Whitefield was Albert Pinck ney Whitefield, who took charge of his grandmother’s home after the death of Colonel Jesse Brad sher, carrying on his youthful shoulders the burden of looking after the slaves and seeing that the land was properly cultivated, while his young uncles fought in the Confederate Army. He fol lowed with boyish ardor the for tunes of the Confederacy as it fought its last losing battles, hav ing constantly in mind the fate of his beloved young uncle, Wil liam G. Bradsher who was mus tered out at Appomatox after lee's surrender. GEORGE D. WHITEFIELD Sometime after this experience Albert Pinckney’s father and mother moved to High Point where his father died. In the meantime Albert Pinckney had gone to Danville, Virginia, and engaged for a time in a highly successful business venture in to bacco. There he met and married Alice Moore, daughter of George Daniel and Lockey Sharpe Moore. Their children are Ethel! Whitefield Cain of Columbia, S. 1 C„ who directs the activities of Person Ambassadors It was not our pleasure to have known the late Dr. Bert Long intimately, although we knew of him, both in Greensboro and Roxboro, but we cannot refrain from observation that during his residence in Greensboro, where he was for many years connected with the pub lic schools’ division of the health department as dent ist, he was a good ambassador for Person County and its ways. He and his wife, who was likewise a Person native, also enjoyed while in Greensboro the confi dence and friendship of the people known to them, as was witnessed this week and last year when the Doc tor and his wife came for the last times to to their old home. It is for Person County a fortunate circumstance that many of its sons and daughters elect to remain here and to turn back into the County whatever genius for living they may have inherited. It is also fortun ate that men and women like Dr. and Mrs. Long create when they go abroad into the State and Nation little centers in which the best of the Person tradition is preserved. 1 Not many of us may be awhre of it, particularly if we never stir out of the home nest, but counties, like towns, have characters of their own and those of us who are bom in Person and live elsewhere have” a duty of representation like that which was in their lifetimes so well performed by Dr. and Mrs. Long. Arthur B. Bradsher . Wfk. * i George D. Whitefield the American Red Cross of that city; George D. Whitefield who is executive vice president of the P. Lorillard Company, the oldest tobacco company in Amer ica, having been established in 1765; Marvin, who went to Dal las, Texas when quite young; Grace Woodley, a teacher of his tory in the Roanoke, Va., junior high school; and William Irvine Whitefield, a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, a member of the Board of Visitors of that school, and division man ager of the Appalachian Electric Power Company of south west Virginia. George D. married Hallie Car lin of Ashland, Wisconsin. Their children are George D., Jr., Kyle Carlin, Stella, and Hallie Lou, all of whom were graduated from the University of Wiscon sin. Ethel, older daughter of Pinck ney Whitefield and Alice Moore, married Lee Cain of St. Mat thews, S. C. ' They had three daughters’ all graduates of Win throp College. They are Alice, wife of Edward S. Reed of Charlotte, N .C.; Adele, wife of W. L. Younger of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute; and Flor ence, wife of James Kinloch of Tryon, N. C.; the only son of Ethel and Lee Cain is William Pinckney Cain, a graduate of Bailey Military Academy. He is I First Lieutenant in the Infantry iof the United States Army sta tioned at Camp Claiborne, Lou- • H| |§§ ■ ■ Ul Jefferson Whitefield -wja* ... I# Stella Bradsher Whitefield I ’ isiana. W. I. Whitefield, the youngest son of A. P. Whitefield, married : Lillian Harrell of Roanoke, Va. Their children are Katharine Jane, a recent graduate of Penn j Hall at Chambersburg, Pa.; Lil lian Frances; and William Ir vine, Jr., a mere lad. The ether children of Stella Bradsher and Jefferaon White- j field were Eudora, Jefferson,! Cornelia, Robert Lee, and Brick! Pomeroy, none of whom is liv ing. Cornelia married Edward Davis, an architect of Washing ton, D .C. Jefferson married Hattie Gib sen of Mississippi and became the father of two sons, Baldwin and Banks. A daughter of Rob ert Lee is Sadie Whitefield who holds a position with the South ern Power Company in Ashe ville. Gallatin, the oldest son of Jes se and Nancy Royster Bradsher, went to a far southern state, and there are no facts available con cerning him. * Solomon died when sixteen years old. John D. fought in the war of Secession and died short ly after Lee’s surrender. DR. CHARLES H. BRADSHER Charles Harrison Bradsher studied medicine He married Martha Hopkins and lived in Roxboro owning the home which Ist SALE AT THE PIONEER MONDAY Qct. 6th Ist Sale Friday, Oct. 10 We Are Sending Our Farmer Friends Home Happy! Averages Running Up Into The 40’s. Lbs. Average Lbs. Average H. C. CARVER 440 $43.00 EVERETT CLAYTON 1086 $40.85 MOONY CAMRON .. 440 38.57 BROOKS & TEAGUE 776 39.57 E. B. WELLEFORD .. 1302 40.33 K. C. HALL 460 41.26 Come To See Us We Can Sell You Every Day Pioneer Warehouse J. M. BULLOCK - - E. J. CLAYTON Y-'&.i Vi' J ’ "v J > W. k-jL i 1 ! fr % t ; ,V’ y'**? ■Hr st «] f M 1 JHL H jljiijlf ■ - JS| t : ; jr 1 llßflfcjr iPf ajMBI : |H jHpppff William I. Whitefield 1 '—; —T later cams into the possession of | W. H. Long. With him began the]' high professional reputatiin of i the Bradsher physicians. His ser- j 1 vices were sought for miles, around. People taken sick were j willing to wait as long as three. days to secure him as their doc- | 1 tor in preference to any other j practitioner so great was their confidence in his sealing powers, which today would probably have been explained as spychic. What -1 ever the reason, his patients re i covered and frequently boasted that “.‘Old Prac’ brought me around.” He was interested in plant life, often taking long tramps through the woods of j Pcrsor. County examining the | botanical specimens native to this part of the state, searching meanwhile for those having med ical value. He was a surgeon in the Confederate army. Charles Edward, oldest son of Dr. C. H. and Martha Hopkins Bradsher followed in the foot | steps of his beloved father, em bracing medicine as his profes sion. Graduated from Louisville ! Medical College, he began his ■ professional career in association with his father, who had then moved to the Hurdle Mills section of Person. While living in this j section he married Nannie Ma lone, daughter of Washington Malone and Lethia Brown, a sis ter of Reverend Young Brown, local teacher and preacher. After a few years he located in Rox boro, and the reputation estab lished by his father lost nothing [in the hands of this brillian son. Dr. Charles E. soon established a reputation for surgery Here is a case in point, which was before ambulances and hospitals were * accessible. Two negroes got in a fight on> an unpaved street of Roxboro. One slashed open the abdominal cavity almost sever ing the duodenum of the other, spilling his intestines on the dus ty ground. Dr. Bradsher was call ed upon to take charge of the wounded negro. Thrown upon his own resources without the aid of THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1941 a trained nurse, he washed the gritty intestines, replaced them in their nattural position, sewed up the wound, and in a short time the patient was as good as new and probably as mean DR. CHARLES E. BRADSHER ARTHUR B. BRADSHER The children of Dr. Charles E. Bradsher and Nannie Malone were Bertha, who married Jos eph Willis of Nashville, N. C.; Gelia, who married C. B. Alston, city treasurer of Durham, N. C„ and Arthur B. Bradsher, execu tive vice-president of the Im perial Tobacco Company, locat ed at Montreal, Canada. Charlie Alston and wife, Gelia, were the parents of two daughters, Nancy, a graduate of Duke Uni versity, who married Howard Wallace of Florida and Frances Alston Howerton. Arthur Bradsher married Liz zie Muse of Durham, and they were the parents of five chil dren. The older son, Charles K. is an instructor in chemistry at Duke University. After graduat ing from Duke, he received the doctorate in chemistry at Har vard University. He is married and the father of one son. Arthur, Jr„ graduating from Duke University, took his degree in medicine from McGill Univer sity. He is now an interne at the Duke hospital. After the death of Dr. Charles E. Bradsher, his widow married O. T. Carver. Their only child, Gordon Carver, is an official in the Durham Industrial Bank. H married Loula Thorne. They have two chidlren, Nancy and Gor don, Jr. The second son of Dr. C. H. Bradsher and his wife, Martha, was E. A. Bradsher. He married Mamie Gregory, daughter of Mrs. of Mrs. W. E. Webb by a form er marriage Their children no longer live in Roxboro The three sons, Carl, Lawrence, and Wil liam are each successful in his own line Lawrence is in busi ness in Goldsboro and William in Greenville, N. C. A daughter lives in Raleigh. Walter C„ the third son, was a leading tobacconist, owner of the W. C. Bradsher Tobacco Com pany of Durham, N. C. at the time of his death. He married Sallie Reams, daughter of I. M. Reams and Lucinda Howard. Sal lie Bradsher’s father was one of Durham’s pionner tobacco ware house owners amd operators. (Continued next Thursday) ROOMS AND MEALS We invite local people to our house for one meal or a dozen. Drop over for a Sun day dinner or any meal in the day. Every meal a treat! MRS. A. C. GENTRY
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