FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1937
OF INTEREST TO
WOMEN
CLUB NEWS
Miss Mary Renneker spent the
past week at Wrightsville Beach.
Miss Anne Stinson of this city
js spending some time in States
ville.
Miss Charlotte Bailey spent sev
pral days at Norfolk and Virginia
Heaeh.
Merle Ellington has returned to
the city after a visit to Philadel
phia-Pennsylvania.
Mi* William H. Crawford has ar
>&ed in the city to spend the sum
mer with Mrs. W. H. Hardison.
John Scott and Isaac Murphy have
returned after a trip to Washing
ton, Cleveland and New York City.
Miss Annie Braswell and Miss
Iluby Vick Braswell have left for
jftoeky Mount, Virginia, and a tour
the Blue Ridge mountains.
Miss Josephine Gorham has gone
to Raleigh to accept a secretarial
position in the office of Commis
sioner of Paroles Edwin C. Gill.
Ben Bunn and W. P. Ingram at
tended the annual classic ball game
between the National and American
leagues at Washington Wednesday.
Misses Nell Gaither, Martha Bat-
He, Bettie Battle, and Gray Wood
ard will leave Sunday for Camp
Penick. Kemp Battle will accompany
the party there.
Mrs. Calena Brothers has return
ed to the city after a week's visit
at Virginia Beach where she was the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Millard F.
Jones who have a cottage there for
the month.
Edward Spruill and Frank Weath
ersby have returned from a trij> to
Washington, D. C., and an extend
ed tour of Virginia along the Sky
line drive, stopping for a few days
at Virginia Beafch on tileir return.
I A pafty made up of Mis Norma
, Dozier, Miss Peggy Speight, Miss
Jack Gravely and Miss Eveline
Looney left Thursday to spend a
week at Virginia Beach. They were
accompained by Mrs. P. K. Gravely.
RED WELLS
Victoria Tant entertained the
Sunday School Class of
Ridge baptist Church last Thu-
afternoon from four 'til seven
Many games were played. Mrs.
M. Tant assisted the hostess in
|Krving a salad feourse.
the- gapstj-were :Mi«r Lou
ise Poole, Miss -Wila Poole, Miss Car
rie Leigh Weathersby, Miss Geraldine
Cone, Miss Frances Mullen, Miss Lu>-
cille Mullen, Miss Colleen Mullen,
Miss Lucille Tant, Miss Reca Frances
Tant, Moss Delia Tant, Miss Wilma
Mae Tant, Miss Mecie Bedding-field,
and Miss Joyce Williams.
Miss Zettie Bell Taylor, of Rocky
Cross, and Miss Lunelle Tant, of
Pine Ridge, spent last week with
Miss Taylor's sister. Mrs. B. Varnell,
of Wilson.
v Mr. and Mrs. Luther Taylor spent
the Fourth of July with relatives in
Wilson.
Mr. and Mrs. G. R Brantley, of
Rocky Mount, spent last Sunday af
ternoon with Mr. Brantley's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Brantley.
Edgar Mullen, of Smithfield, spent
last Sunday afternoon with his par-
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Mrs. E. L. Avent has returned to
her home after spending a week with
her mother, Mrs. Janie McGowan,of
Willard.
Mr. and Mrs. B. D. McGowan are
spending a few dayß with the E. L.
Avents.
Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Crandall, of
Rocky Mount, spent last Sunday af
ternoon with Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Bran
tley.
Frank Poole and daughter, Mae,
spent last Thursday in Raleigh on
business.
Hugh P. Poole, of Towson, Md.,
was a guest of the T. C. Weathersbys
last Sunday.
Bill Jones, of Raleigh, and Miss
Madeline Finch, of Middlesex, were
quietly married Sunday afternoon,
June 13. Mrs. Jones has many friends
in this vicinity and other parts of
the state. She is also well-known in
Georgia, where' she lived several
years. All her many friends join in
wishing for her all happiness. They
are at 1 home in Raleigh, where Mr.
Jones is connected with the 7-UP
Bottling Co.
Benjamin Eddins, of Fort Bragg,
spent last Sunday evening in the
home of the L. F. Brantleys.
The friends of Mrs. Evie Bissette
will be sorry to hear that she suffer
ed a stroke of paralysis last week.
She was taken directly to Park View
Hospital for treatment. It is hoped
she will soon be able to return to her
home near Stanhope.
Miss Mabel Weathersby left last
Sunday morning for Towson, Md.,
where she will Bpend a week with
friends.
Death Toll For
U. S. Put at Sft3
Highway Crashes Lead In Fatalities
While Only Four Die From Fire
works
A total of 563 men, women and
children met vi'olerit death in the
two-day i celebration of the nation's
161 st birthday. :
The toll was believed the highest
in the hiatbry of America's obser
vance of independence day.
Only four deaths were attributed
directly to fireworks. Traffic acci
dents constituted the biggest single
cause. A total of 310 persons were
fatally injured on streets and high
ways.
There were 142 drownings Sunday
and Monday. During the same per
iod 107 persons died violently in oth
er ways.
The four fireworks deaths compar
ed wi|h_ 1J la»t..iew- Ibis year'*
victime were three children and a
man. Geraldine Mulvey, 8. Woon
socket, R. 1., and Julia EViess, 9,
Baltimore, Md., suffered fatal burns
when their dresses were ignited by
sparklers. Eloise Hope Burton, 4,
bought a penny box of matches to
ignite fireworks at Price, Utah.
Neighbors found her fataily burned
in her yard. Howard C. Marsh, 48,
Roxboro, Mass., was fatally injured
while tamping powder into a home
made cannon.
Although few died in handling fire
works hundreds suffered burns and
minor injuries. The total in metro
politan New alone was 845.
Among tlie stated New York had
the largest numtWr df fatalities from
all causes—39. Michigan was next
with 36 and California third with 34
Pennsylvania had 26, Ohio 25, Tex
as and Missouri 21 each. Vermont
was low with only one death from
violence.
The toll of traffic deaths was the
largest in more than a decade, com
paring with 228 during the celebra
tion of Independence Day a year
ago and 54 ten years ago.
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Sponsors Selected
For Nash County
Louisburg, July 6.—Local individ
ual church sponsors and director!
for practically all the churches in
the N. C. Methodist Conference to
assist in ihe Louisburg College For
ward Movement Program have been
selected and will begin to func
tion at once.
Those for churches in Nash Coun
ty and surrounding territory have
been selected. They will aid in the
Forward Movement Program of
Louisburg College whereby SIOO,OOO
is being raised to pay off ihe stand
ing debt of the institution and
make certain absolutely necessary
improvements and additions.
Local church sponsors in this area
are: W. 8. Williams, Middlesex; Miss
Daisy Simpson, Wilson; J. E. Finch,
Bailey; and Howard Farmer, Bailey.
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Two of the bells which played
important roles in early American
history—pealing warnings or glad
tidings during the nation's battle
for survival —are treasured by Phil
adelphia, observes a Philadelphia
United Press correspondent.
Most valuable ot the two from
historical standpoint js the world
famed Liber.y bell, which was toll
ed when first public announcement
was made of the Continental con
gress' adoption of the Declaration
of Independence .on July 4, 1770.
The bell had jiealed for anniver
saries and festivals until 1835, when
it cracked while being rung for the
funeral procession of Chief Justice
John Marshall of the Uniied States
Supreme Court.
Other bells identified with Ameri
ca's struggle against foreign encum
brances are the chimes in the stee
ple of Old Christ church. During
the Revolutionary war they were
removed and secreted to falook pos
sible attempt* for English soldiers
to melt tbem for ammunition.
THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD, ROCKY MOUNT, N. C.
Scimitar and Song
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Edited By
Lura Thomas McNaii
Someone called Highway Number
One through Carolina ''Tobacco
Road and the inference, because of
the almost—oh well the controversial
play by that name—is none too
flattering. But now in this month
of June, year 1937, a poet might
name it Gardenia Promenade. The
continuous stream of care forbid it
to get down to earth and call it
Gardenia Highway.
This aristocratic bloom of the me
tropolis, perhaps never less than
SI.OO per gardenia, nov? sells in our
capital city at two-for-five. Stalls
in the market are heavy with lux
urious fragrance. Two huge Gar
denias for a nickel.
One friend remarked: Gardenias
recall funerals to me, since childhood
when I attended the old doctor's
funeral and saw the entire grave
heaped high with them, his favorite
flower."
To me they tire reminiscent of
weddings. I recall one in Southern
Pines, at the twilight hour. The
prospective bride and groom travers
ed a long winding pathway which
was gorgeously lined with scores of
the glistening gTeen and white Cape
Jasmines.
Another, years later, in Cocoanut
Grove, Florida, wherein the bridal
bouquet was of gardenias, our own
garden queen of June triumphing
over myriad choice bouquets grown
in "The Land of Flowers", Ponce de
Leon's Paradise.
If yon are a Carolinian I dare
say you'll like this poem from the
New York Times.
Gardenias
Gardenias sweet, surprise gar
denias I—-could
I meet your overtures with blank
despite t
What matters who was wrong and
who was right f
And there is now the purport or
rhe good
Of those firm grounds on which my
logic stoodt
There is no calculus for swift de
light
That prism-warms the drably con
scious sightl
There is no rule to reason as we
should t
The blown gardenia bears no wise
degree,
But never pedagogic sophisters
Prate laws to rank its own I No
travesty
Of learning guides creation that
confers
Its precepts, silken-snowed, frith
fragranoy
From centuries of loam-compounded
myrrhs!
—Bonia Novak in the New York
Times.
Meanwhile
Peach tree, fig tree
And little plum
Give over. All three
Know their sum.
The apple and pear
Are the only two
Left to bear,
And they are due.
Meanwhile, from pear
To little peach,
My fruit is there,
But out of reach.
Andrew Hewitt,
North Carolina.
Prize winner in Vignette Anthology.
On Which To Rest
If hope
Had a longing
To rest awhile
On cool, sheltering peace,
I think its fragrant pillow
Would be faith.
Consider This Miracle
Consider now the lowly grain of
small popcorn;
The grain while dreaming of a
flower it has seen
Bounds upward gaily on the force
of bright impulse;
Simultaneously bursts forth remem
bered bloom.
Now therefore one beholi a lovely
snow-white heap
Of chaste and beauteous blossom,|
then knows the dream
That was inherent in each goldv '
pop-corn heart
Was the waxen cape jasmine, white
gardenia
Or majestic form of the stately
fleur-de-lys.
These formg of beauty slept within
the popcorn soul.
—Lura Thomas McNair, in
The News and Observer.
These Books I Read
These books 1 read, they are not
wholly mine.
The thoughts they stimulate as I
read
Were intermingled with the things
you've said;
And so their words are .{heirs and
also thine.
This music, come to me; these songs
I write;
These poems, these articles and alii
I pen
And sign with my own name—now
and then
It strikes me that you also, silent,
write.
These desks, perhaps, I might call j
my own;
These little nothings that you love
to touch;
These simple pictures that yet mean
so much,
Are wholly mine; I might say, mine
alone.'
And yet, no thing or thought I have
is so much mine
But that .1 sense somehow, dear
heart, 'tis also thine.
—Sheldon' Christian.
(Contributions for this column should I
be sent tio Mrs. Lura Thomas McNair, I
Jonesbor i, N. C. Manuscript*- not j
Available for use will not be re
ttrved- unless pottage is enclosed.
"Pepper" Now Boxing Manager
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"Pepper" Martin, who has given sport fans their fill of sport thrills
with his baseball campaigning and his midget auto racing, is now hav
ing a fling as boxing manager. He is shown above with his heavyweight
boxer. Junior Munsell, who is signed for a ten-round bout in St Louis.
Sloan and His Successor
William S. Knudsen, left, was elected president of the $400,000,000
General Motors corporation, to succeed Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., right. Sloan
was chosen chairman of the board of directors In place of Lamott duPont,
who declined re-election. Knudsen had been executive vice president of
the corporation and in that capacity, was largely instrumental in the
settlement of the recent disastrous strike that tied up the huge plant#
at the company and its subsidiaries.
Jumpingest Frog in the World
1 '
W. G. Daniels registers pride in his frog, "Emmett Dalton," winner
of the first prize money Daniels holds in the annual Jumping Frog Jubilee
and Forty-niner celebration at Angels Camp, Calif., in commemoration of
the celebrated Mark Twain story, "Jumping Frog of Calaveres." "Em
mett Dalton" hopped 13 feet 5 inches to a new wprld's record.
SCHOOLHERE
American Red Cross lifo saviug
awards were won by 16 boys and
one girl a; the conclusion of a ten
day course of instr Action held at the
municipal pool.
Eight succeeded in passing the se
nior tests. Those winning the em
blems in this division were Mick
ie Bennett, Fred Wenk, William Dil
lard, Billy Avera, Joe Rollins, Felix
Bishop, James Strickland, and Alice
Suiter.
Those winning the junior emblem
were: Charles Worsley, Olin Perritt
.Tom Harris, Curtis Oakley, William
Bryant, Charles Hunt, Joe Mooring
'Billy Rooker, and Claude Mason.
Instruction was given by Moken
Paison and the examinations con
ducted by John Brewer.
4 Faison, director of the pool, an
nounced today that Charles Mix of
the national Red Cross organization,
•would be here July 29—31 to give
the tests for examiners.
0 council; Mrs. J. W. Holliday and' ' 1 1 ■■ — — ■ 1 ■——Tr-r»»
S f* Cmaam Dnnlnll 11 Mrs. P. Ml Davenport, the two old- r --.- .n i
Vi wrCCO IttstvllS eat members of the congregation
■ _ _ _ _ Mr »- M. P. Dawson, W. L. Bur- m F/% w*
rom School Comm. "«?' Miss Josephine Yont, Miss /VI Mill #*
Essie Holscher, Mass Susie Holscher, 1 ' 1 MK* M-*
An announcement was made ear- Holscher, representing organizations. desiring to subscribe to The Rocky Mount
■ this week of the resignation of Mrs. j. M. Morgau of Salisbury, Herald may do so by sending SI.OO with name and
eorge C. Green, local attorney as representative of the Woman# Mis- addreSß to The Rocky Mount Herald. Rockv Mount
member of the Btate School Coin- sionary Society of the North Caro N. C. '
lission. lina synod, and E. W. Wagoner
Archie C. Gay, former State Sen- of Salisbury, representative of the
;or from Northampton County was State Brotherhood of Lutheran Men, «j
lined by Governor Hoey to take were especial guests at the affair. Name -—.............
[r. Green's place. He will repre- After the ceremony members of
int the Second District in which the congregatio nand their children Tnwn a*- *■ t> J. XT
orthampton and Halifax Counties turned over spades of soil for re- KOUte NO
"e located. membrance of the historic occasion. ii I i ii■--, ,■■■ T- ■. , - - , !
G. C. Green Resigns
From School Comm.
An announcement wa« made ear
ly this week of the resignation of
George C. Green, local attorney as
a member of the State School Coin
mission.
Archie C. Gay, former State Sen
ator from Northampton County was
named by Governor Hoey to take
Mr. Green's place. He will repre
sent the Second District in which
Northampton and Halifax Counties
ar e located.
NEW CHURCH
Dignitaries And Congregation Hold
Ground-Breaking Ceremony
Excavation for the new church
building of the Trinity Lutheran
congregation was begun Monday at
the Cokey Road and Tarboro street
site after the site had been blessed
and the ground broken in a church
ceremony conducted Sunday after
noon.
Rev. C. Ross Ritchie, pastor of the
church, conducted the ceremony Sun
day with the assistance of Dr. J. L.
Morgan, president of the North Car
olina Synod.
Two charter members of the local
Lutheran church, Mrs. L. H. Hicks
and Joe Fulenwider, participated in
the ground-breaking ceremony. Oth
er participants were: O. F. Yount,
L. L. Minges, E. D. Skinner and
P. P. Holscher, from the church
council; Mrs. J. W. Holliday and
Mrs. P. ML Davenport, the two old
est members of the congregation
Mrs. M. P. Dawson, W. L. Bur
rage, Miss Josephine Yont, Miss
Essie Holscher, Mass Susie Holscher,
Miss HHise Monroe and Frederick
Holscher, representing organizations.
Mrs. J. M. Morgau of Salisbury,
representative of the Womang Mis
sionary Society of the North Caro
lina and E. W. Wagoner
of Salisbury, representative of the
State Brotherhood of Lutheran Men,
were especial guests at the affair.
After the ceremony members of
the congregatio nand their children
turned over spades of soil for re
membrance of the historic occasion.
Practically every 4-H Club in !
Montgomery County will send dele- '
gates to the annual Short Course at I
State College July 26-30, according j
to J. L. Rabon, assistant farm agent.
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CVb ( BETTER—SETTLES BETTER.
iTllVl \ CAMELS HELP KEEP MV tXGES
3Jg3&S|l ( HON ON THE RIGHT TRACK
t>* \ Charlie Chase has I
een railroading for / ,j
SUMMER TIME
is ICE CREAM WEATHER. We Have Home Made
!; Ice Cream of the Purest Quality and Flavors, at Most
;; Reasonable Prices
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proper charges for space occupied. No surcharge.
Economize by leaving your Automobile at home and
using the Southern
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Be Comfortable in the Safety of Train Travel
J. S. BLOODWORTH, D. P. A., Raleigh
Southern Railway System.
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Thornton of
this city returned Wednesday af
ter attending the funeral services of
Mrs. J. P. Thornton, mother of Mr.
Thornton, at Pamplin, Va.
[ Mrs. -J. P. Thornton, who was 74,
died Saturday night at Roanoke hos
pital in Roanoke, Va„ after a criti
| cal illness of about six weeks. Since
suffering a stroke of paralysis sev
-1 eral weeks ago she had remained in
: a semiconscious condition.
; Before marriage Mrs. Thornton
L was Miss Minnie Hasking of Virginia.
She is survived bv two sons, J. P.
1 Thornton of here and Harold Thorn
ton of Pamplin; and three grand
children,
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CAN'T STRIKE
President Roosevelt says that gov
ernment employees are free to join
unions if they like—but they cannot
resort to a strike. The president
1 stated that Civil Service Rules for
bid strikes, and since the wages of
government employees are fixed by
• congress no contracts can be entered
1 into.
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PAGE THREE
Flea beetle attacks in Forsyth
| County have slackened, and tobacco
j lias improved considerably, according
to K. W, Pou, cnun y farm agent.
4. Applicants are not accepted wTio
are married or have dependents.
5. Satisfactory references must be
furnished covering a period of sev
eral years.
6. Men under 21 year sof age can
be enlisted only with the written
consent of their parents, or legal
guardian.
The term of enlistment is for four
years from date of enlistment, ex
cept in the case of men who are un
der eighteen, who are enlisted for
i term of minority; that is, the en
listment expires on the day preceod
ing his twenty-first birthday.
Tlio local reoruting station is in
the charge of H. G. Fleming, chief
fire controlmnn, U. S. Navy, and J.
E. Adams, boatswain's mate, first
class, U. S. Navy.
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LAW ABIDING
Major A. L. Fletcher, Commission
er of Labor, says employers in the
state are obeying ,the maximum
hours law passed by the last Gener
al Assembly with only a few ex
ceptions.