THE HERALD
Of The Twin Cities
ROANOKE RAPIDS—ROSEMARY
“The Home-Printed Paper”
Formerly The Roanoke Rapids Herald
CARROLL WILSON, Publisher and Editor
Entered as Second Class matter April 3rd, 1914, at the
Postoffice at Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, under Act
of March 3rd, 1S79.
PRINTERS, LITHOGRAPHERS, ENGRAVERS
A community is only so strong as Us financial
strength. When the financial structure totters
and falls, it means that every portion of the com
muniy suffer-, irrevocably.
Witness the wholesale bank failures in Flo
rida, leaving those communities prostrate and
with bitter battles on their hands if there is to
be any worthwhile future. Only the most heroic
efforts saved one of the towns in our own coun
ty when the bank there failed recently. That
town is still feeling the stigma of that failure
and will continue to do so for years to come.
Worse than the money lost, the business and
homes ruined, is the loss of faith on the part of
of the citizens. Faith in those who have trusted,
faith in the ability of its leading citizens, faith '
in the town, faith in the future. Despair and i
hopelessness hold sway.
It is with the greatest of pleasure, we call
attention to the bank merger which too;; place'
here last week. Not only were the resources of
the First National and the Rosemary Banking and
Trust Company pooled, but added strength and
resources were added. New money is always
welcome in a community and there is new mon
ey, more money, behind this new and larger
bank.
Even more than the money ;s the type of
men which will control the destinies of the new
bank. Two of them are new to the banking life
of this community and these two valuable addi
tions mean much to our future. Mr. Sam T.
Peace, president of the new Roanoke Bank and
Trust Company, is also president of the Roanoke
Mills Company. He was at one time, president of
one of the large Henderson banks and has had
much experience in the banking field. Another
new’ name which appears on the board of direc
tors is that of Mr. Z. G. Simrnons, president of
the Simmons Company, largest manufacturers
of beds and mattresses in the world.
Several months ago, the Simmons Company
bought the controlling interest in two of the large
mills here. Today, these two mills furnish all
the damask mattress covers for that company.
But the mills, here are only a drop in the bucket
compared with the Simmons mills in other parts
of the country.
However, for some unknown reason to us.
Hr. Simmons, despite his many and varied in
terests here and abroad,-has, seen fit to take a
mai'i.fij interest in oui community. F.om what
we (an hear, he enjoys coming fere, and ho is vi
t<'lv interested, not only in the mills, bit also in
;i e town itself.
There is no stronger proof of this fact than
Libit he is willing to become a citFer of the com
ir.un'ty and has become a men bar 01 tin board
f • : cctors of one of our bonks. YVe welcome
him most heartily.
W'tn the new Roanoke Bank and Trust
t u-i any and the Citizen... Hack and Trust Com
any of Rosemary attending our financial needs,
this commuity is most fortunate. The financial
■truclure of our community is sound and firm
and the future is most promising.
None realizes that the South wa- swayed by
passion and prejudice ill the last Presidential
election more than President Hoover, lie is mak
ing no effort to hold those states in line which
cast their vote for him. His selections for the
Farm Board were from the East and West. The
South, largely agricultural, was ignored. South
ern Republicans and Hoover-Democrats were giv
en the cold shoulder.
The present admin.! stration, likemany others,
is making its pi y for the West. It is a pity
there is not some w iv for the South and West
to get together. Their problems are so similar.
But that combin; tion is exactly what the Repub
licans are fighting against, by giving the West
anything they ask for, in the way of representa
tion.
Here’s the latest from Washington: Before
the election it was A1 Smith and de Pope; Now
it is President Hoover and de Priest.
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The new State Patrol i- to be congratulated
on the work it is doing. For once, we seem to
have a law enforcement group which i.. not trying
to ride anyone, or make the law obnoxious, nor
show their authority, nor show preference. The
best thing about them is that they seem to he try
ing to teach the people safety in driving.Not drive
them, hut teach them. They are calling attention
to defects in lights, brakes and horns. Of course,
if people ignore their warnings, they must suf
fer. But the majority of the people will fix up
:heir cars according to suggestions of the Patrol.
We hope the work will contiue as it has started.
We trust that in some mysterious way, the Pa
trol will also he kept out of politics.
BUILT BY BUICK
BODY BY FISHER
A GUARANTEE OF EXTRA
VALUE
"BuHt by Buick"—only the Marquette in
the moderate-price field can offer that
priceless recommendation. This remark
able new six provides in every feature
the unstinted goodness that has forever
established Buick in the public mind as
a master builder. Extra quality is every
where—to provide extraordinary bril
liance in performance, unfailing
dependability in service, and unlimited
satisfaction in ownership.
On its staunch and sturdy chassis the
Marquette carries closed Bodies by
Fisher—the latest expression of the
artistry and craftsmanship of the world's
greatest body builder. Smart, low-swung
lines—the last word in modern good
taste. Interior and exterior finishes of
pleasantly blending colors. Tailoring
and appointments of exceptional quality
and completeness. And such value
features as: a remarkable new non-glare
windshield, to be found on no other
automobile;adjustable driver’s seat; and
beautiful new rubberized mohair uphol
stery, waterproof, dustproof and
wearproof—shown for the first time on
Marquette.
The great resources and unparalleled
facilities of Buick and Fisher have com
bined to provide a greater measure of
extra value than any car of comparable
price offers.
At the first opportunity see and drive the
Marquette. Check every feature, make
every test.
The Marquette is easy to own. Talk to
your dealer about it. You will be sur
prised at how economically you can buy
a Marquette on the liberal G. M. A. C
terms.
BUICK MOTOR COMPANY, FLINT, MICHIGAN
Canadian Fadorl., DKrWo.. of Gan.ral Motor. Baildor. of j
McLaugtilln-Bukk. O.tiawo, Ont. Corporation Bulcfc and Morquottn Motor Can
5965 to $1035
These price* f. o. b. Bulck Factory, tpedal equipment extra. Marquette delivered prhea
include only reasonable charges for delivery and financing. Convenient terms can b*
arranged on the liberal G. M. A. C. Time Payment Plan.
Consider the delivered price as well ae the Hat price when comparing automobile valuea,
N. A. RIDDICK MOTOR CAR CO.
SCOTLAND NECK, N. C.
r WHIM BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT. BUICK WILL BUILD THEM 1
1930 “AD”
By’OLD OBSERVER
Forty years ago was 1889; it was
the wettest year since 1867. Both
years, 1867 and 1889 were the poor
est crop years known to the old man
of today.
| He says, “that 1868 and 1830 were
very fruitful.” 1890 was the best crop
year he ever saw. He says he look
for 1930 to be the best crop year
in 40 years, he has noticed the pen
I delum of luck that swings from ad
versity to prosperity for more than 75
years and that these good and bad
crop years come in almost regular
order. He looks for next year to be
! best of all.
1 He further states that land is cs
I timated at twice its value, being du
to the flood of money in war time
and that land will continue to go
j down until it hits the normal floor o!
| about $33 per acre, while some will
[drop to $10. “And others may stop
at $50 in the most deniable location
tOi clean morals and favorable condi
tions from every angle.”
I “Don’t he in too big hurry to leave
(the farm—wait and try out 193J.
j Firming is a t' r.» that must go n».d
it will go and lan * will be purchased
J a great deal cheap* i next year than
.this year. Peopie have learned f
n.ake more on or*3 acre than they
made on 10 acres 40 years ago. The
effects of the World War soaied the
(price of dirt far above the plane of
j reason, but it is now rapidly falling,
lots of land in big quantities in 1920
j sold for $400 per acre that today will
not bring $25,” he concluded.
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IN LIGHTER VEIN
A good laugh is sunshine in the
house.—'Thackery.
Then let us laugh. It is the cheap
est luxury man enjoys, and as Charles
Lamb says, “is worth a hundred
groans in any state of the market.”
It stirs up the blood, expands the
chest, electrifies the nerves, clears
away the cobwebs from the brain,
and gives the whole system a shock
to which the voltaicpile is as nothing.
Nay, its delicious alchemy into the
quintessence of merriment and makes '
wrinkles themselves expressive of (
youth and frolice.—Wm. Matthews. |
Man is the only creature endowed i
with jthe power of laughter.
—Greville.
Men show their character in noth
ing more clearly than by what they
think laughable.—Goethe.
Nothing is moe silly than silly
laughter.—Catullus.
The loud laugh that spoke the vacant
mind.—Goldsmith.
Laughter is a most healthful ex
ercise; it is one of the greatest helps
to digestion with which I am ac
quainted.—Dr. Hufeland.
The man who cannot laugh is not
only fit for treasons, strategems, and
spoils, but his whole life is already a
treason and a strategem.—Thomas
Carlyle.
A little fun now and then ,
Is relished by the best of men.
A Ludicrous Explanation
A clergyman, anxious to introduce
some new hymn books, directed the
clerk to give out notice in church in
regard to them immediatel after Ihe
sermon. The clerk, however, had a
notice of his own to give with re
ference to the baptism of infants. Ac
cordingly, at the close of the sermon,
he announced: “All those who have
children they wished baptised, please
send in their names ta once.’’The cler
gyman, who was deaf, supposing that
the clerk was giving out the hymn
book ncjice, immediatel arose and
said: “And I want to say for the be
nefit of those who haven’t any, that
they may be obtained at the rectory
any day between three and four
o’clock; a fresh supply just received;
the ordinary little ones at 15c, Mnd
special ones with red backs at 25c
each.
Man of Science I)ici Not Bite
Two Englis boys who were friends
of Charlse Darwin, thought one day
that they would play a joke on him.
They caught a butterfly, a grasshop
per, a beetle and a centipede, and out
of these creatures they made a
strange composite insect. They took
the centipede’s body, the butterfly’s
wings, the grasshopper^ legs ami
the beetle’s head and they glued them
together carefully. Then with their
new bug in a box, they knocked at
Darwin’s door.
*We caught this bug in a field,' they
said. “Can you tell us what kind of
a bug it is, sir”?
Darwin looke at the bug and then
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FOR SALE—Several good Victrolas
and some second hand Radios trad
ed in on Atwater-Kents. Walker
Electric Co. Rosemary, N. C.
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FOR RENT—Electric Waxer. Twen
ty cents per hour.—Roanoke Hard
ware Co.
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WHY BUY -Rent our Electric Vacu
um Cleaner—20c per hour.—Roa
n .ke Hardware Co.
$10 REWARD—Lost, one black and
tan hound with collar. R. K. Mar
brey and address with name and
address on fag. Black ring on col
lar. $10 reward to person who re
turns dog to W. B. Bryant, Rose
mary, N. C.—2t.
FOR SALE—Four room house, four
teen acres of land. For quick sale,
$1,000.—Phone 346-J, S. M. Thomp
son, Rosemary, N. C.
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FOR SALE—33 acre farm, two room
tenant house, a good buy for $1,1*00.
S. M. Thompson. Phone 346-J, Rose
mary, N. C.
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WANTED—Four second hand ward- ,
robes cheap.—Supt. Hospital.
looked at the boys. He smiled slight
ly. “Did it hum when you caught it?’
he asked. ‘Yes,’ they answered, nudg
ing one another.
“Then.’ said Darwin, “it is a hum
bug.”—New York Tribune.
Nothing to Do But Work
Nothing to do but work,
Nohting to eat but food.
Nothing to wear but clothes,
To keep one from being nude.
Nohting to breathe but air.
Quick as a flash ’tis gone;
Nowhere to fall but off,
Nowhere to stand but on.
Nothing to sing but songs,
Ah, well! Alas! Alack!
Nowhere to go but out
Nowhere to come but back.
Noth nig to dread but words,
Nothing to cast but votes,
Nothing to hear but sounds,
Nothing to sail but boats.
Nothing to comb but hair.
Nowhere to sleep but in bed,
Nothing to weep but tears,
Nothing to bury but dead.
Nothing to see but frights,
Nothing to quench but thirst.
Nothing to have but what we’ve got,
Thus, thru life we’re cursed.
Nothing to strike but a gait,
Everything moves that goes,
Nothing at all but common sense
Can ever withstand those woes.
—Ben Kong.
(Continued next week).
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* Higher Education *
* Pat *
*********
A few days ago I asked a school
teacher if she knew anything about
the “Lost Chord.” She said she
didn’t know anybody had lost one, and
that she realy had no sympathy for a
person careless enough to lose a cord
of wood and not miss it at the time,
so I explained to her that a man’s
wagon body was just an old body
with the end gate missing.
A high school girl told my aunt’s
daughter that her cousin had swum
the English Cannel between Great
Britain and England, and that she ex
pected to go to Europe foi 3 weeks
after she got through seeing the
sights of Paris.
It’s mighty hard to keep our geo
graphy now-a-days, hut I can hardly
excuse a college gorl for saying that
“I saw M Limberger :n New Y .rk
the other day. You kne-v, he’s tlv
man tha; flew’ aroun \ the world and
lit in the Spirit of St. Louis and it
taken him only 40 hour?, and now he’s
planning a trip to the South Pole,
and this will take him right through
his home iewn." (Ano her father ?s
paying his good mono / to educate her
with what you’d call “higher educa
tion.” Well, “higher” i? right in the
case aforesaid.)
I find M.other very scarce item in
the intellectual store house at pres
ent. A sweet little nr..* sent me her
aplication for a job a few days ago,
and this is what she saiu. “Dear
Sir: I recently taken a business
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Woodruff Cafe
A GOOD PLACE
TO EAT
And the Most for Yonr
MONEY
ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C.
PA£M BEACFS
BEA^TISS HZkyztxz
ski av i/sr.
fv fulch) LEMON
t>>id?'“SUSS?
MJ igr cNatures * wa^ to btautg
Sold By
CROWDER’S DEPT STORE—Where
thousands save money. Phone
252-W, Rosemary, N. C.
BRUCE
EDMONDSON
PLACE
For REFRESHMENTS
•—also
Latest things in Aligator
Crain Raincoats for both
Men and Women.
Nothing but service rend
ered. 10th Street
ROSEMARY, N. C.
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FOR SPECIALS
—IN—
Groceries and Feeds
Stedman Stores Co.
Roanoke Rapids, N. C.
T & B
INSURANCE & REAL
ESTATE CO.
(lives Protection on Life and
Fire and Builds Your Home.
S. M. THOMPSON
President
S. J. BOUNDS
Sec.-Treas.
ROSEMARY, N. C.
PALM BEACH
BEAUTIES gg&JScm
'S/e/jy t/szi
SJZtr «Natures'w«i) to btauhj
Sold By
MRS. K. JENKINS
ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C.
coarse in steno gra .by and book
keeping, and I seen in the paper
where you all wanted an office girl,
so please consider this my applica
tion for the position, f can furnish
good rcfrents if you desire them, and
am rairing to go to work. Write soon.’
(I have not yet write).
My grocer is an educated naan too.
He showed us some blackberries a
few days ago that were imported (so
he said) from West Virginia, lie
handles foreign prunes from Cali
fornia, (so he said), and he sells
Western steak from Georgia, and re
fuses positively to handle local beef
as it always has cuckle burrs in its
tail, (so he said). He buys turnip
greens by the pound and sells them
| by the gallon and never packs them,
(so they say), and lets about half the
folks who trade with him beat him
out of nearly everything he makes,
(so he says).
Our cook says she finished “de hi
skool wid grammar and riffmertick
and tuck on a little Latin and allso
some domestic signs." She laid out
j on us a day or two last week and she
j explained it as follows: “Yassum, I
would of come if I could of went to
| see my grammaw last Sadday, but I
had to went to see her yistiddy, or
not went a-tall, si I seen her dia
morning and now I wont hafter gone
no more.”
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Mr. Abe Norinsky has left for j
New York on a buying trip for the
| New B. Marks Co.
Mrs. Margaret Hudson and Ben
jamin Tudor spent Sunday in Rich
mond, Va., visiting Mrs. Hudson’s
daughter. Miss Elsie Hudson.
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Mr. John Santon of Franklin, Va.,
was the guest of Miss Gertrude Bray
Sunday.
Miss Eula Collier spent the past
two weeks in Warrenton, N. C., as the
guest of Mrs. Jim Limer.
Dr. W. E. Murphrey
DENTIST
Office in Cannon Building
Adjoining Roses 5 & 10
Office Hours 9 to 12; 1 to 5
T to 8
ROSEMARY. N. C.
Eyes Examined and
Glasses Fitted
I am in my home office ner
Rosemary I*. O. every day ex
cept Mondays, hours 9 to 12*—
1 to 5. Also every night f<r
7 to 8. All work guaranteed,
charges reasonabl.
| DR. E. D. HARBOUR
Reg. Optometrist
Rosemary, N. C.
Dr. W. M. Ward
DENTIST
Rosemary, N. C.
666
is a Prescription for
Olds. Grippe, Flu, Dengue,
Bilious Fever and Malaria.
It is the most speedy remedy known.
J. H. CULLOM
JEWELER
High Grade Jewelry
Rosemary, N. C.
W. C. WILLIAMS
Funeral Director
FUNERAL PARLOR
UP-TO-DATE EQUIPMENT
AMBULANCE SERVICE
TACTFUL ATTENTION
Day Phone 140
Night Phone 89,
0
Rosemary, N. C.
FOR SALE
—Beautiful
—Building
—Lots!
On Charlotte St.
Reasonable Terms
Apply
C. E. Matthews
Taylor Matthews
Drug Co.
We Wash
thing But
Your laundry
while in our car|