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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1943 £ tfcdefy. Miss Louise Hall, Os Woodsdale, Weds Lieut. D’Arcy W. Bradsher ' Miss Lcuise Hall, of Woods dale and R-oxboro, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. . Hall, of Woodsdale, was united in mar-J riage with Lieut. D’Arcy William Bradsher, of Fort Bragg and Roxboro, son of Mr. and Mrs.j Earl E. Bradsher, of Roxboro, in a quiet late afternoon ceremony at Roxboro Presbyterian church, Tuesday afternoon, Feb. lff.l * ; j Officiating minister was thej Rev. J. H. Shore, retired, of the, Methodist church and a former, pastor of the bride’s family, who heard the vows at 5:30 o’clock. Church decorations were in traditional green and white, with| fern, gladioli and three seven branched candelabras. Organ music was by Miss Margaret Brown Martin, of Roxboro and Greensboro. The bride, who wore a dark blue costume, with a coat and^ Women Who Seek Naval Training List Many Jobs i i Raleigh, Feb. 18.—The Navy is | looking for the old-time soap-j box orator who used to shout j that the woman's place is in the, home. North Carolina recruiters last week opened a drive to enlist 30,000 women for the Waves, and interviewed the following busi-l ness women: Fourteen mechanics, 49 steno-| graphers, 12 taxi drivers, eight cooWs (employed by restaurants), three dieticians,, nine machinists/ ■seven newspaper reporters, three shipyard welders, two traveling saleswomen, seven auditors, and one linotype operator. Just for the records, the re-j cruiters revealed that more dis-j ferent trades were claimed by the women than by the men who applied for the Navy. TO BALTIMORE R. W. Pollitt and J. J. Slaugh-' ter left here last night for Balti more, Md. Pollitt, formerly with the Carolina Power and Light company here, is connected with' Glenn Martin aircraft corpora tion. Slaughter is expected to secure employment there. Call City Dairy and Ice Co. ■ Phone 4233 for good Country, Style Butter milk. ts; BIRDS EYE FOODS ■lidHMMfl B We Stave the BIRDS EYE Frosted Fruits and Vegetables Frosted Foods are Always in Season A&P FOOD STORES 1 accessories of a lighter shade,' had a white orchid corsage. I She is an alumna of Woman’S’ | College, the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, finishing 1 j with the class of 1942, while thej bridegroom, second son of Mr.' and Mrs. Bradsher, is an alum-j nus of Mars Hill college and a I graduate of Roxboro high school.! jln the United States Army for about a year and a half, he re-| ! cently completed officers’ train- j ing at Fort Sill, Okla., and was this week transferred to Fort!; Bragg. Riles were witnessed by mem-; bers of the two families and a few intimate friends. Among out of town guests were Mr. and | Mrs. James Farley, of Durham,' I and their daughter, Mrs. Alex-| ander. Mr. Farley is an uncle of j the bride. FSA Session At Legion Hut Draws Many Citizens i i Person’s Farm Security ad j ministration officials and clients, this morning at the American; ] Legion hut, Chub (Lake street, I held their annual review and planning program. Among speakers was T. P. Royester, of. : Lexington, field secretary. Pre-1 | siding was! J. Y. Blanks, of the | Roxboro office. Emphasis of the program was on ways) and means of coopera-j ting with the war effort through general farming and the culti vation of Victory Gardens. , T. Miller White ! 11l At Hospital, Now Improving T. Miller White, office man ager of the Carolina Power and Light company, this City, who has since Sunday been a patient at Community hospital, is re sponding nicely to treatment. Mr. White, who has been threatened with pneumonia, col lapsed suddenly 'Sunday after noon in a Roxboro drug store. His wife, who was in Goldsboro on a visit, returned at once to Roxboro. BUY BONDS TODAY! LIBRARY CORNER Library Hours: 12:00-7:00 The North Carolina Mayflower Award which was issued in Dec ember 1942 may be found in the Person County Public Library. It is unusual that a historical, religious book should gain such recognition. Heretcfore the a ward has been given for factual and historical materials concern ing the state of North Carolina. Elbert Russell in his History Os Quakerism writes a compre hensive history of the Society of Friends from George Fox’s great experience in 1647, to 1941. The work is divided into three main periods: The rise of the society, 1647-1681; The age of quietism, 1691-1827; The modern revival and reconstruction. The author, as you know, is a Quaker scholar I and writer, an educator, and i Dean of the School of Religion ! of Duke University. The author’s close asociation with the Quakers of this area has resulted in many quotations and references to family places and names in our immediate vicinity. Gifts of books and other items have been received in the Per son County Public Library, Chub Lake Street since its beginnings. May we point, with especial em phasis, to Robert H. Ellmore’s offer of 86 books. The books in ! themselves are a tremendous ad i aition to the library but the un- J usual spirit with which they 1 were given is noteworthy. Bob-j by uses our library Constantly: and appreciates its value. He is, also, interested in its growth.! When he finishes with his own J personal copies, he passes themj or. to the proper distributing; agency in his community, the Person County Public Library. We wish to accept the interest of this boy in our library and mlcst important of all his inter est in other readers. The spirit, “I liked this book, don’t you want to read it” is the only hope for community reading interest growth. Thank you Bobby for your in terest in the library and in read ing! GOES WEST Howard R. Tuck, cf Dundalk, Md., with Glen Martin corpora tion, Baltimore, has been trans ferred to Omaha, Neb., but his family will not join him for sev-' era! weeks. R. L. Warrick, chief machinist, I the U. S. Navy, will be in Rox bcro on Sunday and Monday, at, the Person Court House, in in terest of recruiting. PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. Women Take O ver! Guard Towers At State Prison i Raleigh, Feb. 18.—Four women | are now manning the towers of the State Woman’s Prison here— the first Women guards in the state’s history. Because the prison department is unable to get male guards, four of the men formerly stationed at' 1 woman’s prison have been trans- 1 ferred to Central Prison. Two of ( the women, Mrs. Bessie Williams' j and Mrs. J. C. Massengill, are 1 , wives of two of the guards trans-1 , ferred. Another, Mrs. Estelle Cos-! ■> by, whose husband was recently] killed in a railroad accident, last i, wiorked in a local dry cleaning j ] establishment. The fourth, Mrs. ] , Carrie Jackson, also a widow, has ; been operating a country store , in Granville county. Mrs. Ethel Strickland, first wo- ] man warden of the state, who took over as head of the wo- j man’s prison a year ago, now .heads a staffof 17 women now, running that prison. The women will not be armed and will wear simple slack suits as uniforms. I ; HARRIS SPEAKS John Harris, cf Raleigh, horti culturist for the State College extension division, was chief I speaker at February meeting of the Person Schoolmasters club Tuesday night at Roxboro high school. Theme of his address! was the Victory Garden pro-j gram. DRUG SPECIALS FOR Thursday - Friday - Saturday Sweetheart EXTRA SPECIAL LUX and SOAP j £ OZ fomato Juice 01 n liIFEBIIOS 4 C fo“l9c Fruit Retonga j? r -West l Phiuips I Vick’s 5 T. PASTE | milk ITlag. SALVE sl*o9 2 for 29c j 34c Wc —""■■■■■■ ———f -rw- —tm BOttlC Os 200 | !' 1 PRESCRIPTIONS ’ PUTO 5 grain | I ***« t he doctor a Pr e. Cod Liver A • • 1 scriptKm, you can bring it here _ AtOINn /with the utmost confidence that III I \ will be filled as he wants it. 59c " w " clt - y »jrr Pint 89c Mineral Oil ICO 5 Grain [cold cream I Heavy $1 30 As P irin L*? I®* 1 ®* oni: . Greeting Cards For Every Occassion (Largest Selection in the City) Whisk | SHOE Clothes Rubbing BROOMS I STRINGS PINS 29c | pr. 3c 9c Pt I9c Two Registered Druggists on duty to Serve you when ever you call day or night. THOMAS & OAKLEY j ■ .. l . , MONEY BELTS FOR THE SAILOR I I A DL am* l and soldier | | i our Walgreen Agency Phone 4931 I CLUB MEMBERS HEAR TALK BY YOUNG WOMAN Miss Mildred Stroud Has Red Cross Theme At Kiwanis Club. DeWolf New Member.' Miss Mildred Stroud, Roxboro high school student and a daugh- < ter of Mr. and Mrs. Parker Rid- 1 die, of th'is City, was speaker Monday at Roxboro Kiwanis club, where a program dealing [ with the American Red Cross' was presented. Miss Stroud, whose theme was, “I am the Red Cress”, wore the nursing uniform of the organiza tion. Assisting were Miss Mer ial Rimmer, soloist, who sang the “Star Spangled Banner,” and Mrs. Wallace Woods, pianist. Introductions were by Mrs. A. F. Nichols and a brief message was given by S. M. Ford, club mem ber and Red Cross official, who discussed the* March 1 campaign ;to be instituted here by the I Red Cross. New member of Kiwanis, J.' W. DeWolf, Jr., was welcomed to the club. Special guest was tliei Rev. Rufus J. ,Womble, of St. Mark’s Episcopal church, this' ; City. Presiding was J. J. Woody, j president, who named a com-' mittee Composed of S. M. Ford,' R. B. Wilson, R. A. Bullock and the Rev. W. C. Martin, to study further the club project for 1 1943. Meeting was at Hotel I j Raxboro, where next week’s ses-' I sion will also be held. | Newsprint Probe Asked In House Washington, Feb. 18.—Repre sentative Bradley, Republican, Michigan, asked the house to in vestigate whether government agencies have “formulated plans to curtail production or Consump tion” of newsprint or to curtail “in any manner the dissemina tion of news” except by the “nec essary rules” of wartime censor ship. Bradley introduced a resolui-! tion which sought to determine] how “any such plans may repre- 1 sent an attempt to change our! domestic economy along lines not j authorized by Congress.” Name Os Negro Delinquent Turned Over To Officer Lee George Crandall, Person! Negro, registered under Selec- | tive service, who has failed to report to the office here, has . been reported to the District At j torney, Federal Court, according to Mrs. James Brooks, office] manager. I Three other Person Negroes,! ! Lonnie Jackson, Willie Nelson 1 1 and Ollie Brandon, iwho have' I failed to report will have their ' names turned over to the Dis trist Attorney as delinquents un less they do report to the Per- I son office by Saturday, February 20. I * IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN | THE TIMES PAGE FIVE “OUR GOOD NEIGHBORS" PICTURES IN COLOR First of a series of delightful works of art by a famous paint er, portraying. types of feminine loveliness from Latin-American countries —reproduced in full color. See these unusual pictures beginning February 21 in The American Weekly The Big Magazine Distributed With The BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN On Sale At All Newsstands IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES I | ★ ★ i 'U/LU'ljoufciuf. W*Ui 1 win BONDS !★ .if Aa Army motor trailer looks much like any other automobile trailer which may be seen on the highways or in the tourist’s camps. The Army's trailers are used as i traveling hospitals, dental clinics j and testing laboratories. fo7 J These mobile surgical or dental I units are hauled to their destination j and the trucks released for other pur poses. They cost from $1,200 to ! $3,000 and weigh from lVi to 8% 1 tons. You can help pay for them 1 . . . help keep our Army fit. Invest at least ten percent of your in come in War Bonds every payday. You can join the Ten Percent Club through the Payroll Savings Plan, or buy Bonds regularly through the nearest bank or postoffice. U. S. Treasury Department
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