Tobacco Sales
Prices High For
Closing Season
North Carolina ware housemen
sold 424,474,197 pounds of tobac
co for growers to December 1 for
a total of $127,099,618. Farmers
have received $20.94 per hundred
pounds compared with $17.44 for
sales to date last year. This is
VIU-AM Is act sorbiwelsd. No gaal fc’a
partewrised far parby and »im»w naiad vJrjl
far Haver. CaMalnr real fcvH (vkaa -ne /JM
artdMal Havering. TtU-ADI It delkiava JgmMVBB&EL
refrealiment fer the whole family. Try 91 '
Packed with Christmas C/ifer
your loved ones choose to take it. Give luggage
i styled the modem way with spaciousness,
Women’s case with hang- '
men or women. Aviation O' |r
This Store Will Remain Open Un
til 9 P. M. - Starting Friday Night,
DECEMBER 19th - until
Christmas.
[ PEEBLES
The Store with Thousands of Gifts.
an increase of $12.50 per hun
dred or 72 per cent.
The value of sales to date is
52 per cent above the valuation
of last year’s flue-cured ware
house sales. Warehousemen re
ported paying farmers $83,568,-
318 for the 1940 bright leaf crop.
November producers’ sales to
taled 24,583,715 pounds compar
ed with 73,525,536 pounds sold
during this month of last year.
The average price, reported at
Miss Hall And
Mr. Long Wed !|
Announcement is being made ,
by Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Hell,
of Hurdle Mills, 6f the marriage
of their daughter, Miss Veronica
Hall, to Kenneth Lester Long,
Jr., of Roxboro, son of Mr. and
Mrs. K. L. Long, of this City, on
Saturday, November 23, at Be
rn ora, at the residence of the of
ficiating minister, the Rev. L. V. i
Coggins, of the Semora Baptist i
church.
The bride, /who chose for her :
nuptials a costume in RAJ*,
blue, with wine trimming, wore 1
a corsage of pink roses. She is a i
graduate of Hurdle Mills high 1
school and her husband is a grad
uate of Roxboro high school. The j i
young couple will make their i
home with Mr. Long’s parents. 1
Mr. Long is with the George W. »
Kane company. |'
I
$26.39 per hundred, was $2.97 1
less than last month’s average, 1
but $511.97 more than the No- .
vember 1940 price. j
The Wilson and Rocky Mount
makets remained open a few ]
days in November and sold 1,- \
324,686 pounds for an average of s
$24.98. \
Practically all houses in the (
Middle belt have closed for the i
season. Farmers in this area have t
received $1.58 per hundred above \
the State average for their 1941
crop. For the season to date. (
Middle belt growers have sold t
79,914,091 pounds at an average j
of $32.52 per hundred or $15.52
more than was paid to this date
last season.
One Day!
SERVICE
Call Us—Phone 3601
SERVICE DRY CLEANERS
BE WISE
“Go West Young Man”
Buy and Build in
SUNSET HILLS
Thos. B. Woody, Agent
FRIENDLY SERVICE I
Standard Oil Co. Products.
Telephone Service No. 4711 I
ROCK-INN SERVICE
STATION I
.ft |
j Now. I m |]ad
fire insurance
with
THOMPSON
INSURANCE AGENCY
Roxboro, N. C.
PQ&PEFENSE
Mk BUY
! UNITED
STATES
jfflff SAVINGS
! /UyU/BONDS
v if IMeand SIAM PS
AMERICA ON GUARD!
Above la m reproduction of the
Treasury Department’s Defense
Savings Poster, showing an exact
duplication of the original "Minute
Man” statue by famed sculptor
Daniel Chester French. ’ Defense
Bonds and Stamps, on sale at your
bank or post office, arc a vital part
of America’s defense preparations
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO.N. C.
PERSON ARMY
CAMP MAY BE
ORDEREDSOON
Authorization Expected
Here Wijfeia The Went
. Authorisation of the Person
army comp may be expected very
Soon, according to opinions ex
pressed by sources allegedly "in
the know.” Credence is given the
opinions in information coining
from Washington that the camp
will be authorized as soon as
Congress authorizes the expendi
ture of necessary funds for camp
construction and expansion.
Congressman Carl T. Durham,
member of the House of Repre
sentatives, representing the Sixth
North Carolina District, is quot
ed in the Washington report as
saying that the time needed for
the construction of the camp here
will be cut down by 90 days be
cause of the presence of complete
DEFENSE PLAN
(Continued from front page)
Percy Bloxam, while chairman of
that committee is E. G. Thomp
son. Chief of Police George C.
Robinson, Fire Chief Henry E.
O’Briant and Water Plant Super
intendent I. O. Abbitt, will head
the police, fire and utilities di
visions previously mentioned.
Also organized here is a Red
Cross sewing unit, with Mrs. Rob
ert E. Long, chairman.
SPECIAL STEAK 1 C r
SANDWICH ....
Berk-Alien Inn
Greensboro Highway
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FX&v'. 'Sidr*
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jj RED ROCK COLA |
H| ‘Take my word for P|
111 it, you ought to lf|
M taste this flavor!” F
c -Bottl6 Home Carton—2sc!
ROXBORO BEVERAGE CO
O- Y. Clayton Ivey Jame
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-PALACE
MON.-TUES., DEC. 15-16
r -
S Only a Skylark S
could love two
men at a time! j
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'CLAUDETTE C0LB?Rll
RAY MILLAND |
| BRIAN AHERNEI
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W BINNIE BARNES 1
f WALTER ABEL
L MARK SANDRICH^J
PrtOKtiw
Special morning show Mon
day 10:30; afternoons daily
3:15-3:45; Adm. 10-30 c; Eve
nings daily 7:15-9:00; Adm.
16-35 c
blueprints o C the local project in
the War Department files.
The expansion of the army be
yond the 2,000,000-msrk is ex
pected to have definite bearing
REAL ESTATE
AT AUCTION
Property of
D. W. BRADSHER, Estate
Postponed Until
Saturday, Dec. 20th
10 :30 A. M.
137 ACRES: Located southwest of Roxboro. Go 13 1-2 miles on Highway
No. 49, take right at sign and go 1.1-2 miles to property now
occupied by John Bows.
11:30 A. M.
140 ACRES: Located southwest of Roxboro. Go 12 1-2 miles on Highway
120 ACRES: No. 49, take left at sign, go 1 1-2 miles and take right at
110 ACRES: Wheelers church to property occupied by Joe Moize.
2:00 P. M.
BEAUTIFUL HOMESITES AND SMALL FARMS
2 miles south of Roxboro on Highway No. 57 - Hurdles Mill Road.
See These Properties Now .
Attend The Sales Pec. 20th
Kemp & Thompson
Selling Agents
REIDSVILLE, N. C. ....
For further information consult E. E. Bradsher or F. J. Hester, Roxboro. •
SEE THE $50.00 BILL IN WINDOW OF LONG, BRADSHER & CO.
jjMHpBWCT
They’re here...another shipment of sensational
SIIHII 1942 Philco models! Big value radio consoles
ijl H 1 sjl 1 H ' and table radios with the amazing Philco FM
llpMI. || MM m H» JH System. Thrilling Philco Beam-of-Light Radio
m Phonographs with the new Philco Stroboscope
r ;1r m»«wt ip B 1 9 Pitch and Tempo Control. Hurry .. . select
yours now while they last!
(BIG TABLE RADIO VAlUlsi) BIK Wum
Sh ,k- Standard and Short- m , R'*j
I Wave Reception for £ “
- M
j better radio Cor every I
| service, only 1 Beam Os Light
I I PHILCO 1008. No needles to change..
I I records last 10 times longer! Amazing
I new features include the new Philco Au-
I philco hit. This 1 tomatic Record Changer .. . Exclusive
■ beautiful, quality-built ■ Stneboscope Pitch and Tempo Control.. .
K f hllco has nO , ■ Electric Push-Button Tuning. Impressive
I for S .ze and 1 Walnut cabinet. A real
■ in sensitivity and 9
I features! 1 value at
V J ASK ABOUT OUR EASY TOMS
and trads-in allowances/
LEDBETTER’S
Everything Electrical
D. W. Ledbetter M. E. Clayton Donald Carver
pn the camp's authorization. At
present the army has sufficient
hoesing faculties only for the
250,Q00 additional men already
authorized who will be pressed
SUNDAY. DECEMBER If I*4l
: Into service within the next few
; months.
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TWt vni«s
I THOMAS & OAKLEY