Area Nicknamed 'Shakerag' Has Improved Itself, March 25, 1925

Good Bye “Shakerag”

Not many years since there was a section of this county known as “Shakerag,” and the community composing it well and truly represented the name. The homes were small and scattering, and nowhere could anything be found resembling prosperity, in fact about the only business which thrived in that section was down on the branch, purposely out of sight, no roads to speak of, and churches and school houses few and far between. But what a revelation today! Last Sunday we drove through that section and what an improvement greeted us all along the way. The top soil road had been completed to the Granville county line, and it is one of the prettiest roads we have ever traveled over. New homes, the bungalow style, going up, new store buildings and of course the filling stations. Just as you approach Surl, one known as the capital of Shakerag, we find our friend, Mr. W.A. Eanes, has erected a large, well-apportioned store house, with a bungalow hard by which would be a credit to our little city, all neatly painted and everything giving tone to prosperity. Just beyond, some one has erected another bungalow which is equally as attractive safe for lack of paint, and so it is from there on, new bungalows, large and convenient stables, everything denying the cry of hard times.

And what did it? Good roads. Now let those good people get together and build a high school building to take care of the boys and girls and there will be no more prosperous section in the County than what was looked down upon only a few years since, and considered the dark corner.

From the front page of the Roxboro Courier, March 25, 1925

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Hurdle Mills School Dedication Will Be Held April 3, 1925

Dedication of Hurdle Mills H.C. Building

The new Hurdle Mills school building has just been completed, and the dedication service will take place on Friday, April 3rd. The service will begin with an address delivered by Supt. A.T. Alice. Dinner will be served on the grounds at 2 p.m. Major L.P. McLandon will speak with “Problems of Community Life” as his subject. Talks will be made by members of the Board of Education, the County Superintendent, Dr. J.I. Coleman, and others.

Graduating exercises will be held Saturday at 8 p.m., and on Sunday at 10 a.m. Rev. D.e. Earnhardt of Calvary Methodist Church, Durham, will deliver the commencement sermon.

From the front page of the Roxboro Courier, March 25, 1925

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Short Circuit in Chevrolet Burns Down Carver's Garage and Stable, March 25, 1925

Joe H. Carver Loses Garage and Stable

Fire staring about 11:30 o’clock this morning completely destroyed the garage, stable and other outbuildings of Mr. Joe H. Carver on Reams Ave. The fire was supposed to have started from a short circuit in Mr. Carver’s Chevrolet automobile, as just before the flames were first seen the horn was heard continually blowing. The machine was destroyed as were several other pieces of farm machinery. Owing to the direction of the wind, neither of the adjacent residences were damaged.

From the front page of the Roxboro Courier, Wednesday evening, March 25, 1925

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Thanks to State Hospital in Gastonia, My Club Foot Is Repaired--Iva J. Neathery, March 25, 1925

A Letter of Thanks

Mr. Editor:

Will you please give me space in your paper to say a few words in regard to my treatment at the N.C. Orthopaedic Hospital at Gastonia? I think they are doing a gret work for crippled children. That is one way this State is putting its money to a great advantage to help humanity. I went there Nov. 11th, 1924 with a cub foot, and returned Feb. 4th, 1925 with my foot straight, and now it looks like any other person’s foot. I was there only two months, three weeks and two days. It does not seem possible in that length of time that so much could have been accomplished.

I wish to say to all parents who are thinking of sending children there to rest assured they will be well taken care of, and all done for them that can be done. The nurses are very nice and kind to children. I wish to thank Mrs. Smith and Miss Bessie Daniel for all their efforts in helping me in going. I wish to say their help was highly appreciated. May God bless each and every one.

--Iva J. Neathery

From the front page of the Roxboro Courier, Wednesday evening, March 25, 1925

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Roxboro Sells Bonds to Build New School, March 25, 1925

Roxboro Town Bonds Bring Premium. . . $75,000 Worth of Bonds Bring a Premium of $412

Yesterday the bonds of Roxboro amounting to $75,000 for the purpose of building a school building were sold to Mess. Drake, Jones & Co. of Greensboro, the issue bringing $75,412, the premium being $412 for 5 per cent bonds This is a remarkably good price and shows how well thought of Roxboro is by the bond buyers. There were 23 bids.

From the front page of the Roxboro Courier, March 25, 1925

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Alarming Talks About Lack of Money in Country Can Break a Bank, Says Editor, March 25, 1925

Easily Frightened

The average woman is easily frightened. Just the presence of a mouse in the room will cause more commotion in a woman’s meeting than a bull in a china shop, but still, woman is not near so timid or easily frightened as Money. Some men, so-called business men, spend much of their time in their stores or on the streets talking about how scarce money is, and what dire calamities are going to happen before another crop is matured, and then wonder why the farmers and the farmer’s wives are not spending more money. Why? Because that farmer goes home and tells his wife what Mr. Jones said about the “hard times” we were going to have, and he preaches it to his wife and to his children, and to his neighbors, and finally it has grown to be almost a panic, all because some one has said times were hard and there was no money in the country.

Many a bank has gone bursted because some one started a rumor that the bank was getting shaky, and so it is with a community, begin talking hard times and sure enough you may expect hard times, while on the other hand if every one goes along about his business in the usual way few think about the times, spends their money for such things as they need and times are good. It is not altogether how much money there is in the country so much as how well that money circulates. Keep it moving and we all handle it, pay our debts, buy what we want and business is brisk, but just begin to talk abut hard times and money hides in all kinds of places—sometimes in an old sock, behind the chimney corner, anywhere just so it is out of sight.

The truth is, a pessimist is a mighty sorry animal at best and the less attention paid to his croakings the better off all will be. BOOST, don’t overdo the matter, but be optimistic and see how much happier we will all be.

From the editorial page of the Roxboro Courier, March 25, 1925, J.W. Noell, Editor.

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John D. Winstead Shares Opinion on "Right Kind of Farming" March 25, 1925

Right Kind of Farming

Monday morning we had the pleasure of a call from our good friend Mr. John D. Winstead, and during his conversation he remarked that the trouble with too many of the farmers in this section was their failure to raise their own home supplies and rough food for their stock.

Mr. Winstead raising his own bread and meat, and besides raises more than he can consume on his farms in the way of corn, grasses, etc., always having a surplus which he sells, in fact, he says, he does little more just now than make both ends meet and if he had to buy these things, he does not see how he could do even that well. There are few better farmers than Mr. Winstead, and it is well worth while for any man who says he can not afford to grow grasses to visit this farm and see how easily it can be done.

From the editorial page of the Roxboro Courier, March 25, 1925, J.W. Noell, Editor.

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