Henderson daily dispatch., October 02, 1934, Image 8

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ASSOCIATED PRESS AND CENTRAL PRESS
Another New Peak For Tobacco At $33.14 Average
New Officers Os Legion
Installed Monday Night;
Membership Drive Begun
Committee to Make Plans
for Armistice Day Pro
gram Next Month
to be Named
ALSO PLANNING FOR
SPRING EXPOSITION
Post to Have Float in Parade
Thursday and Urges All
Business Houses to Dis
play Their Flags That
Day; Chairs for Hall Are
Purchased
New officers of Henderson Post, No.
62. or th n American Legion were in-
Flailed at the monthly meeting of the
pr.-t Monday night. with E. L. Brant
ley taking: over the duties of post
tornn finder. Henry E. White continues
a : j ost adjutant.
Mr. Brantley announced ail his
committees for the cotring y?ar, giv
ing place to most of the membership
to serve in cue capacity or another
in its activities for the coining - 12
Tin oths.
A committee was named to make
plans for the annual observance of
Armistice Day. The program is' ex
pected to he given on Monday. No
evmber 12. since the actual anniver
sary of the Armistice falls on Sun
day.
Another committee was named to
map out plans for a big exposition to
be held under the auspices of the post
next spring.
The annual membership drive was
launched with this meeting, and a
committee has iti charge plans for the
Henderson. Lodge No.
229 A. F. & A. M. will
» meet in regular com
munication tonight at
eight o’clock. Master
&
Masons are invited to attend.
AL B. WESTER, Master
P. J. T. RAWLINS, Sec.
IFARMERS WAREHOUSE!
I HENDERSON, NORTH CAROLINA I
I Tobacco Prices. Are Advancing On the Henderson Market. I
I We Are Making High Sales for Satisfied Customers From Far and Near. I
I Monday, October 1 * Our Entire Sale of I
I 177490 Pounds Brought $59,651.25 I
I For An Average of $33.68
~ " R. C. Bartholomew &
I J „;l£!T. r A FEW SALES MADE ON OUR FLOOR MONDAY c „°"fjr c . I
I 272 nd8 P $4 C 7 »£& G. W. Champion ■ CA. Tucker & Smith “ P- £ I
154 45 69.30 Louisburg, R. 4 Wgl WIT V IV AVIT Wai enton, N. C. 46 88.32
I 186 45 83.70 Pounds Price Amt Will WW MMjRs MM AV Ei Pounds Price Amt. 5 0 .V.'.V... 44 22.00 ■
■ 128 35 44.80 • 40 s4l *16.40 41 27.06 ■
.990 $440.64 58 47 27.26 . lg 646 85.56 624 I
I Average $44 - 40 woso 70.00 Second Sale Wednesday, Oct. 3 242 4 -» uaw Average $46. ■
I l“ I'.'.’.'.'S 5408 —— ' 58 50 29-00 M I
I pounds Price ’ Amt. 86 “ 4 *'l ß First Sale Thursday, Oct. 4 108 4 ‘ ;>l ’- 7S p ™ ~tl-s p "“ . sl^
166 ....,...S4O $66.40 60 - ;;;;;;;;; 4 4 * _ 62 30 18-60 It! :*£
I 4 6 ::::.7.v 57 2 6: 22 44 41 18-04 Second Sale Fnday, Oct. 5
I
Average $47.49 Average $46.79 ———im mi . i im«wp—«— Average Average $46.10
1 Walter Alston, Manager J. M. Buliock, Asst. Manager I
1 “Give Us A Test And You’ll Bring Us The Rest” |
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campaign. That committee and the
executive committee have been called
to meet at the Legion hall next Friday
night at 7:30 o’clock to further the
plans.
It was announced that the post
would have a float in the Greater
Henderson Day celebration parade on
Thursday of this week, end all busi
ness houses were called on to display
their flags on that cay.
Twenty new chairs for the hall have
been recently bought end added to
ihe equipment and in connection
.•it'i the membership campaign, it
-.-a, announced that J Burroughs
Wiggins was the first man to pay his
du ; for the new year.
Officers and committees for the
ccfiling year wiere announced as fol
lows: »
Officers and standing committees of
Henderson Post No. 60. of the Ameri
an Legion:
Commander —E. L. Brantley.
First vice commander—Philip J.
Harris.
Second vice commander— - C. M.
hooper.
Adjutant—H. E. White.
Historian —D. P. McDuffie.
Chaplain—R W. Dixon.
Americanization officer—George B.
P.lum.
Finance officer—J. C. Gardner.
Service officer—Geo, B B'lum.
Sergeant at arms—W. T. Hughes.
Athletic officer —A. D. Patterson.
Welfare offeier—Dr. J. H. Wheeler.
Grave registration officer T. P.
Hester.
Publicity officer—S. N. Powell]
Employment officer —C. L. Carter.
Chairman of membership committee
-C F. Tankersley, Jr.
Executive committee—E. L. Brantley,
hairman; C. L. Carter, J. W. Jen
’’ins. H. A. Newell, W. S. Corbitt, H.
T. Fleming. Philip J. Harris. Roy Rod
well. J. C. Cooper. H. E. White.
House committee —H. E. White,
chairman; J. C. Cooper, E. W. Wool
ard.
Legal committee —D. P. McDuffie
chairman; R. B. Carter, A. A. Bunn.
Service committee Geo. B. Blum,
chairman; P A. Smith, R. B. Carter.
Henderson Daily Dispatch
Finance < ouunitte —J. C Gardner,
chairman; John Lee Wester; Roy O.
Rod well.
Publicity committee Roy Dixon,
chairman; M. L. Finch, T. 11. Watkins.
Vidting committee —Alex Watkins,
chairman; C. M. Watkins, L. Opic
F: aider.
Americanization committee -Geo B.
Blum, chairman; T. S. Kittrell, W. T.
Hughes.
Athletic committee —A. D. Patter
son. chairman; C. F. Tankersley, C.
M. Cooper.
Membership committee—C. F Tank
ersley, chairman; w. T. Hughes, C.
M. Watkins, M. S. Fowler. Roy Dbcon,
H. T. Fleming, Joseph E. Perry, Roy
O. Rod well, T. P. Hester, L. Opie
Frazier, Derwood Williams. A. P.
Barnes, T. E. Stainback. S. C. Floyd,
G. T. Bissett, Joel Cheatham. C. L.
Carter, J. W. Jenkins. H. A. Newell,
W. S. Corbitt, Philip J. Harris, J. C.
Cooper, H. E. White.
Exposition committee —J. W. Jenkins,
chairman; W. S. Corbitt, C. L. Car
ter. H. A. Newell, J. C. Cooper, Roy
Rodwelh
Initiation committee—Allie B Young
chairman; S. N. Powell. W. W.
Parker.
Program committee—The following
chairman of committees will have
charge of the program on the nights
designated:
November —E. L. Brantley, execu
tive committee.
December—H. E. White, house com
mittee.
January—D. P. McDuffie, legal com
mittee. .
February—Geo. B'. Blum, service
committee.
March — J. C. Gardner, finance com
mittee.
April—Roy Dixon, publicity commit
tee.
May—Alex Watkins, visiting com
mittee
June— J. W’. Jenkins, Americaniza
tie n committee.
July—A. D. Patterson, athletic
committee.
August—C. F. Tankersley, member
sh p committee.
September Allie B. Young initia
tion committee.
OLIVE REVIVAL IN
OXFORD CONTINUES
The revival of Mrs. Willie Laurie
Olive continues in Oxford, and, ac
cording to D. N. Hunt, “the interest
and crowd are increasing". Services
are announced for every night
week at the court house, with three
services next Sunday. The public is
invited. ’ 1 V -Ti
SAiES ON MONDAY
ARE 446,988 LBS.
Total of $148,260.42 Paid to
Growers for Weed
Sold by Them
CLEAR FLOORS TODAY
Prices Held Firm Again Today, with
AH Grades Bringing Fancy
Figures During Day’s
Operations
Anothe rnew high record for this
season and perhaps extending back as
far as 1913 was made on the Hender
son tobacco market in Monday’s sale
of 446 9-88 pounds for $148,269 42, for
an average of $33.14 per hundred
pounds. In no season in probably 15
j-ears has any day’s sale made such a
high average as that.
Monday’s sale brought the season
total to 4 386,894 pounds, selling for
$1,248,619 23. or an average of $28.45
per hundred pounds.
H. W. Stigall. sales supervisor, In
making public the figures, said the
market was, blocked Monday, but that
the block would be sold off today and
a l l floors would be cleared by late
aftm noon in readiness for trim sale lo
tuvriow.
P ices he’d firm today, with all
g-aaes comma, di",; fancy piir ar 1
«i‘h general satisfaction prevailing
among the growers, Mr. Stigall said.
The market is drawing tobacco
farmers here from miles distant to
sell their year’s crop, and many of
them have been selling here all sea
son, and have been greatly pleased
with the prices paid for their crop.
WEATHER FORECAST
FOR CELEBRATION
Everybody is hoping for good
weather for the Greater Hender
son Day celebration on Thursday.
In that connection, the govern
ment’s weekly weather forecast
for the South Atlantic states maj
or may not throw some light on
what may be expected. It said:
“Generally fair except brief show
er period middle or later part of
week; temperature mostly above
normal”.
That may mean rain, or merely
that the weather man has guessed
wrong.
MRS. LERIAN DIES
AI HOSPITAL HERE
Mother of Mrs. J. W. Gill
Was 111 Four Months;
Burial in Baltimore
Mis. Frances Hailton Lerian, mother
of Mrs James W. Gill, of this city,
died at 9:30 a. m. today at Maria Par
ham hospital after an illness of four
months, during which time she was
a sufferer from a complication of
diseases. She was taken to the hospi->
tal Monday, though she had previous
ly been a patient there.
Mrs. Lerian is survived by a son,
Arthur Lerian, of Baltimore, in addi
tion t oher daughter, Mrs. Gill, with
whom she had lived there since the
death of her husband 21 years ago.
She leaves no brothers or sisters.
The deceased was the daughter of
Colonel John Alexander Hamilton, cf
New~ York, and Mrs. Mary Dsßar, a
native of Paris. France, both ot whom
have been dead many years. Mr ;. Le
rian had been a member of Brantley
Baptist church in Baltimore since
childhood.
The body will be shipped to Balti
more tonight at 9:43 o’clock, and fun
eral services will be held there tomor
row afternoon at 2 o’clock at the
home of her son, with interment fol
lowing in London Park Cemetery in
Baltimore. Rev. H. M. Jones, pastor
of Brantley Baptist church, will be in
charge of the services.
Mrs. Leian’s husband was the late
Charles A. Lerian, of Baltimore. Th
deceased was a native of Baltimore,
and had made her home there virtual
ly her entire life until her husband,
died, when she came here to make
home with her daughter.
Will Broadcast
Returns Os Series
J As in the past, the radio department
of Woolard’s Drug Store will broad
cast the series between the St. Louis
Cardinals and Detroit Tigers tomor
iow afternoon and each afternoon
that they play, it was stated today by
Leon Vick, manager of the depart
ment.
Loud speakers will be erected facing
on Breckenridge street, enabling a
I large throng to get the returns.
'TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1934.
Ehringhaus
WiU Be At
Epsom F air
Governor to Speak at
Community Event
T h u r s d a y After
noon at 4:30
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus will
address the crowds at the Epsom
Community Fair next Thursday after
noon! at 4:30 o'clock, and the public is
invited to attend, it was announced
today by G. W. Eaves on behalf of the
committee. The governor will hurry
here from an engagement in Raleigh,
will attend the Epsom fair for the
address, and then will come back to
Henderson for the exercises here.
The Epsom Fair will be on perhaps
the largest scale this ynrr in its his
tory. Exhibits will be judged in the>
exhibit ball Thursday morning at 10
o'clock. Livestock judging will be at
10 a. m. Friday.
Outuoo: contests and the awarding
of prizes wdll be put on at 1 p. m.
F’riday, followed by a baseball game
that afternoon at 3 o’clock between
Epsom and Goldsand high schools.
The fair play and style show will b ,
put on at 7:39 o'clock Friday evening.
A funny three-act comedy, “Here
Comes. Patricia", will be presented by
a group of local talented players.
Barbecue and refreshments will be
GET YOUR
PLYMOUTH
NOW—FROM
Motor Sales Company
sold on the grounds during the two
days of the fair.
The public is invited to a tend.
Call Meeting For
Scouts Wednesday
There wlil be a call meeting of the
Girl Scouts of the city Wednesday
afternoon at 4 o’clock in the basement,
of the First Methodist Episcopal
church for the purpose of selecting
Scouts for the - Great Henderson
parade. All members were requested
to be present.
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Four
1. Name the unit of currency of Chile.
2. Considering Australia as a contin
ent, what is the largest Island in
the world?
3. Who wrote the Van Bibber stories?
4. What game, played on horseback,
mostly resembles Hockey?
u. Does the U S. Government owe any
debts to foreign governments?
b. What colony was founded by the
Pilgrim Fathers who caine to Ame
rica in the Mayflower?
7. Os which state is Santa Fe the
capital?
8. In whicli Shakespearian tragedy is
Ophelia a charactre?
9. Who wrote “Old Curiosity Shop?"
10. What animals closely resemble al
ligators?
1838 —Kate- Field, actress, pourna
list and author, popular lecturer of her
day, born in St. Louis. Died in Hono
lulu. May 19, 1896.