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PAGE SIX PERSON REVIEW For members of the Armed Forces of U. S. A. FROM PERSON COUNTY TIMES July 22, 1943 Clip and mail in letter to him or her Sunday, July 18: Person farmers on Saturday, ! July 24, will vote in the Tobac- j co referendum, called chiefly to insure continuance of present regulations. W. A. Irwin, Bankisg Institute educational director, New York City, Scottish born, tells Rox toro Kiwanians and Rotarians, what the spirit of Americanism is, wth chief emphasis on “love of freedom.” Basl Riley and Noell Jones, both Seamen First Class, in the U. S. Coast Guard, enjoy social distinctions when they come ‘home on leave: they are only ,Worrv Os FALSE TEETH Slipping or Irritating? Don't be embarrassed by loose false teeth slipping, dropping or j wabbling when you eat, talk or laugh. Just sprinkle a little FAS- ; TEETH on your plates. This pleasant powder gives a remark- i able sense of added comfort and ! security by holding plates more , firmly." No gummy, gooey, pasty j taste or feeling. It’s alkaline (non-acid). Get FASTEETH at any drug store. STANDARD OIL PRODUCTS Washing, Greasing and Polishing LANGSFORD ESSO SERVICE Rich Coat Out Side Paint $1.98 al. and up g Turpentine and Linseed Oil ECONOMY AUTO SUPPLY CO. V V 1 ] J We sell Eye Glasses to Sat isfy the eyes $2 00 to SB.OO THE NEWELLS Jewelers Roxboro. N. C. . RtT Jlll il B ■ -fl Alka-Seltzer ABC METHOD A —Alka-Seltzer, start taking it | ''’at once to relieve the Dull, Aching Head, and the Stiff, Sore Muscles. B_ Be careful, avoid drafts and sudden changes in tempera tt ture. Rest preferably in ! bed. Keep warm, eat sensi- | bly, drink plenty of water or | fruit juices. Be sure to get enough Vitamins. C Comfort your Sore, Raspy | Throat, if caused by the cold, ; by gargling with Alka-Selt '. x zer. If fever develops, or symptoms become more acute call your doctor. I 'ALKA-SELTZER is a pain re lieving, alkalizing tablet, pleasant to take and unusually effective in action. Take it for Headache, Muscular Pains and for Indigestion, Gas on Stomach, when caused by excess stomach acid. At your drug store Large package 60*. Small package 30«, by the glass at soda fountains.' I RAGS WANTED Must be clean and soft. No overalls or pants and such like. Times Office Person representatives in this 1 branch of the service, j The newly appointed Person Meat Board gets “riled” at re strictions and seeks clarification : of rulings. Winston-Salem big shot, Rob ert M. Hanes, \>lll speak Thurs day night at a War Fund Rally at Person ourt House. Thursday, July 15: Farris Humphries, Person's "Pearl Harbor Man”, - becomes first World War II member of Lester Blackwell Post No. 121, the American Legion. Australian newspapers, receiv ed at Times office, give a sample ;of what the people "Down Un j der” are thinking about, i Annual Police Department re 'port by Chief G. C. Rooinson j shows that more folks are being - | arrested. In supporting the Po- i : lice Program Judge R. B. Dawes, ; : in Recorder’s Court, cracks down | on speeders and drunk drivers, j | Misses Annie M. Young, Pat i tie Sue and Esther Gravitte have '< narrow escape when their car is struck by a machine driven by Charlie Walker. Sunday, July 11: M. Banks Berry, Person Coun ty Commissioner, gets appoint ment as a member of the State j Board of Barber Examiners, a , position which will require him to resign from the Board of Com missioners' and will mean travel ing over the State. Members of the Dixon family, at the .home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Ashley, hold a reunion at which honor guests are Pfcs. Grady ; Gentry and Andrew W. Yar- ; borough. i Person County’s tax rate is ex- < pected to go to $1.30 for new i year, five cents higher than it i has been, but four lower than it , ] was two years ago. > Sgt. Guilford L. Cash, of j Rougemont and Gunter Field, ! Ala., takes a wife, Miss Mary j Frances Edwards, of Montogo- , mery, Ala., where both will live. < Thursday, July 8: Roxboro celebrates its one hundred and fifty years of his- j ( I tory by observing “Newspaper j Appreciation Week”, an idea gotten up by W. Wallace Woods, 1 j ; Chamber of Commerce secretary j and participated in both the - Times and the Courier. Contain- : «d in the Times is a resume of Person County and Roxboro war 1 work, including soldiers in ser vice and Red Cross and War . K Bond service by civilians. Rox- r : , < boro, incidentally, was founded i 1 in 1793. about four years after George Washington first became prseident of the U. S. E. E. Bradsher, Sr., becomes j chairman of the Person School j board, succeeding the late W. R. 1 , Wilkerson. J | Roxboro observes the Fourth i ! of July by hulding a mass meet- i ing at which Gov. Broughton's ! | “work or fight” proclamation is 1 j wholeheartedly endorsed. I The Negro branch of the Per- ‘ i son County Public library opens, ] j with Mayor S. G. Winstead as ' chief speaker. ' Thursday, July 1: j Corp. Landon G. Whitt, after • I twenty months in Porto Rico, ! comes home on furlough, with good story of what the Army is ! doing there. He has a new sister in-law in the WACc and has twice been an uncle since he left Roxboro, seven days after the Cy Winstead episode. Collins and Aikman employees hear a tale of heroism from Lieut. Robert Dorwart, who was afloat on a rubber raft in the South Pacific for fourteen days. Dorwart speaks at a patriotic rally held at Plant E. Pfc. Lewell T. Huff, North .'Africa, becomes probably the first Person man killed in action. In civil life he was an employee of Collins and Aikman. Huff was first reported as missing in ac tion about six months ago. Miss Annie Mae McWhorter becomes Mrs. Jeff D. Palmer in a home ceremony. Both work in the War Department, Washing ton. ' Roxboro golfers plan a July Canada Training Army Os Scrappers j mmwi. \|~ « J h mJiviiL \ Vi IKiyL * CANADA’S ‘ tough, hard-hitting Army undergoes vigorous train ing in every form of warfare as it prepares for the day when it will open up a new front against the Axis in the heart of Western Europe. Twenty-seven months after Canada declared War on Germany, 27.8% of the eligible male popula tion of Canada, a total of 681,598, young Canadians had volunteered for service anywhere. * Canadian Soldiers have taken.part in raids on the European Coast. Apart from the Dieppe engagement, a Canadian raid on Spitzbergen was the largest raid of this nature. Canadian Soldiers are serving, or nave served, in Newfoundland, Ice land. the West Indies and Bermuda. Canadian engineerv its have 5, tournament at Roxboro Coun- j try club. E. T. Wrenn, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Wrenn. one time A and P man and social light, now in Greenland, becomes a Ser- j geant, while Corp. Bill Clay, now j in Florida, comes home on fur- i lough, as does James, Pinky, Bradsher, now at Fort Bielvoir. i ! WITH NO RATION CARD An American destroyer con sumes 250 gallons of gasoline for evey five minutes it is miving. "Horse was recently cel ebrated in the puppet state of Manchukoo, and the Japanese controlled Hsinking radio urged its listeners to ‘.express grati tude to the silent heroes by say ing "Thank you. horses." ' | A private who was transferred from one camp to another after borrowing five dollars from a fellow-private, returned the mon ey by tying a bill and a note to the leg of a carrier pigeon. Legal Notice NOTICE SALE OF VALUABLE j FARM Under and by virtue of a de cree of the Superior Court of Person County made in that Special Proceeding entitled J. A. Humphries vis. W. B. Humphries, et als, the same being upon the Special Proceeding Docket of said Court, I will as Commis sioner on, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1943, at 12:00 noon at the Courthouse door in Roxboro sell for cash at public auction to the highest bidder the following described tract of land to-wit: Lying and being in Mt. Tirzah Township, Person County, North Carolina, adjoining the lands of J. T. Newton, B. F. Eakeis, John M. Oakley and William Bass, containing 68 acres, more or less. For further reference see deed from C. G. Humphries to C. C. | Clayton, et als, book 21 page 261, Register of Deed’s office, Person County. The tobacco acreage allotted to this farm is 5.5 acres plus a 5 per cent increase for 1943. There are two residences located on the farm along with other barns. The purchaser will receive the rents for 1843. This 29tli day of June, 1943. j R. B. Dawes, { , Commissioner. July 8-13-22-20 PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C. built roads in Britain and have worked on the fortifications of Gibraiter. •* All Canadian Army Training is closely co-ordinated with that of Britain and the United States. Training in Canada is integrated with training in Britain, and there is an extensve two-way exchange of officers between the Canadian Army in Britain and the Canadian Army in Canada. Training of Troops is being brought to completion so far as practical in Canada so that when they are sent abroad they will he prepared for actual combat. The Canadian Army which has stood guard over the British Isles since 1940 is said to be the most highly mechanized and hardest- fa 1/jbuMetf fit (fame 'B+JSS? PERMANENT WAVE | Save time and money. Easy—beautiful flf AjA —safe. Anyone can do it. Home Kit con- ttK tains Curlers, Shampoo, Wave Set. pQg HCompletewithsimpledirections. Charm- mm m COMPLETE Kurl contains no harmful chemicals. NOMI KIT jajp LANG REQUIRESnoHEAT, ELECTRICITY or Ove? 1,000,000 sold Mw c\ai%-Ku* h wJvT lv ot dyidhLfr?’M^yblcklf not in last 12 mon . t . hl l THOMAS AND OAKLEY For Results Try The Want Ads. I The Luncheonette I I We have bought the Bowling Cen- I I ter Sandwich Shop and changed I I the name to The Luncheonette. I E Now Open For j [ Business j I All Kind of I I Vegetable Plates '« Short Orders I I All Kinds of Soft Drinks I I Visit us as often as you can. Your patronage I I will be appreciated I I GOOD FRESH FOOD *- - AND A CLEAN PLACE TO EAT I I THE LUNCHEONETTE I I Mr and Mrs. Maxie Fox and William Fox I hitting fighting force of its size it! t lie world. FALL GARDEN ] July is the month to plant fall gardens in North Carolina. • Keep the vegetables roling to the I table. SUCCESS j “Success comes in cans, fail- j ure in can’ts” say the home eco - j nomists of the N. C. State Col- , COMING ATTRACTIONS PALACE AND DOLLY MADISON THE ATRES DOLLY MADISON THEATRE MOTION PICTURES ARE YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT Thursday - Friday, July 22 - 23rd Hobby Readick, Frank Craven, William Gargan, Jay Ward in “HARRIGAN’S KID” Action Hit of The Year! Sport of Kings! A Tough little fighting jockey exposes the real deep inside of the racing game as he boots home a loser to win!! Gloveslingers “HIS GIRL’S WORST FRIEND” Special Morning Show Friday 10:30; Afternoons Daily 3:15-3:45: Adm, 15-30 c; Evenings Daily 7:30-9:15; Adm. 15-30 c. Saturday, July 24th The Trail Blazers, Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson with Betty Miles, In “WILD HORSE STAMPEDE” Together The West’s All-Time “Greats”! They’ll outfight, outride and outstunt any cowboy team on the Screen!! Episode No. 9 of “DAREDEVILS OF THE WEST’ (Terror Trail) with Allan Lane, Kay Aldridge. Speaking of Animals “AT THE STAGE DOOR CANTEEN” Afternoon .2:30-4:00; Adm. 15-30 c; Evening 7:00-8:30-9:45; Adm, 15-30 c; (Box Office Opens 6:45), SPECIAL 11:30 SHOW SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY REGULAR SHOWS July 24 - 25th « -! “THE LEOPARD MAN” Savage Murder .. Striking At Women Only!! A Shriek in the Night and another Victim torn to pieces by claw and fang" For* A^Thriuf ,ld l ° kn ° W the 71-1,1:11 about the Monste r That Killed Walter Lantz Cartune “DIZZY ACROBAT’ Person Oddity “DESIGNED BY FANNIE HURST’ Box office opens 11:15; Picture 11:30; Adm. All Seats 35c; Sunday Performances; Afternoon box office opens 2:30; Picture 2:45- Adm 15-30 c; (One Performance Only); Evening box office opens 8:45; Picture 9:00; (One Performance Only). PALACE THEATRE MOTION PICTURES ARE YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT Thursday - Friday, July 22 - 23rd Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway and EUnd with Pats Wal ler, Nicholas Brothers, in “STORMY WEATHER” il 11 .? en ™ you . In t? A s ° ng! Into a Dance! Into Gales of Laughter! Tops En tertainment ~ . twith the Top Entertainers of the Day!! Its Gay! Its Grand! It’s Groovie l Victory Specials ,‘NORTH AFRICAN ALBUM” Hearst Metrotone News “NEWS WHILE IT IS STILL NEWS” No Morning Shows; Afternoons Daily 3:15-3:45; Adm. 15-30 c; Even ings Daily 7:30-9:15; Adm. 15-35 c; Entire Balcony Will Be Reserved ; For Colored During This Engagement. Saturday, July 24th Wild Bill Elliott with George “Gabby” Hayes and Anne Jeffreys in “BORDERTOWN GUN FIGHTERS” A Thrilling New Adventure of the Old Wild West When Man’s Most Trusted Friend was His Six-Gun!' Episode No. 8 of “G-MEN VS BLACK DRAGON” (BEAST OF TOKYO) with Rod Cameron, Roland Got, Constance Worth. Looney Tune “WISE QUACKING DUCK” (In Color) Afternoon 2:30-4:00; Adm. 15-30 c; Evening 7:00-8:30-9:45; Adm 15- 35c; (Box Office Opens 6:45). THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1943 lege Extension Service. WORK CLOTHES SHIRTS, PANTS, GLOVES AND SOCKS LET US FIT YOU FOR WORKING ASSOCIATE STORE WESTERN AUTO
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