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THE GREATER CITY I LJ LJ U A | NO ROOM FOR 15,000 POPULATION I I I W_m ■ I JPjKNOCKERS NOW!— IN 1934! * A ^ WATCH US GROW - OF THE TWIN CITIES-ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY -- VOLUME 15. _ ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY. N. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 22nd„ 1929.___ NUMBER 19. WORK FOR THE GREATER CITY PLAN—“FROM RIVER TO CREEK” IN 1929 FRANCHISE GRANTED; WHITE WAY ASSURED S. T. PEACE PREDICTS TWIN CITY FUTURE ! MILL AND BANK PRESIDENT SEES GREAT STRIDES HERE Consolidation and Cooperation Paramount; Popu lation Will Increase 3,000 in 5 Years; Every Evidence of a City Beautiful Using the conservative and custo mary caution of the successful bank er, yet speaking with such convincing logic to excite the most taciturn list ener, Mr. S. T. Peace, president of the Roanoke Mills Company and rf the Roanoke Bank and Trust Com pany, drew back the curtain of the future and predicted the Twin Cities five years from now in an address before the Kiwanis Club last weekJ He prefaced his speech with a re sume of the prime requisites for any successful town. Age has nothing to do with it, he said. In fact, the suc cessful community must have young men. It must have success if it is to grow. Big and little successes, from the peanut stand to the biggest industry. The forward moving town must have above all, civic pride. It must have its people good churches and schools, must have well kept homes owned by its citizens. The people must be proud of their town and wil ling to work for it. No town can be a growing town, said Mr. Peace, without a good boost ing newspaper, full of home town news. He complimented The Herald as being his idea of the kind of paper the town should have and called on the business men to support it. A successful town must have suc cessful banks. The successful bank is run on business principles and not on the basis of friendship, he said. The citizens should not expect any bank to lend them money unless they have good security. Then they have every reason to expect service and according to him, no man with the proper security will ever be refused, no matter how small his loan may be. But, he concluded, the surest way to cripplea community is for the citi zens to expect banks to loan its mon ey in any but a business like manner. Mr. Peace was speaking from experi ence here, having in his life-time been connected with six successful banks. Boosters, cooperation, industries, were some of the other factors enu merated in the success of any town. “No town can do its best when its limits are limited,” said Mr. Peace, referring to the present Roanoke Ra pids, “nor can it do its best with no limits at all/’ This in reference to Rosemary. “It is very obvious that the two towns must get together to be suc cesful,” he said, and then touched off a dynamic explosion of enthusi asm with the words: “Speaking for the mills I repre sent, if you want to incorporate our mill villages, take them all in.” v And then he gave his idea of what this community would be in five > years or less, stating that many of the things would come to pass m much less time. Briefly, the predic tions were as follows: The two towns incorporated as one. Sewerage system. City water system. Many streets and sidewalks paved. White way. New dam of Virginia Electric and Power Company completed. Population increased 3,000. Five hundred new homes, at least half of them owend by the residents. A new hotel. A new City Hall. A new government building and post office. CJity and rural delivery. The Herald with double its present circulation. Banking assets of two million dol lars. The amount of payrolls increased at least 30 per cent. - A farmer’s produce exchange. The farmer’s trade here doubled. Every evidence of a City Beautiful. -□ Mr. W. A. James spent the week end in Durham with relatives. TRAFFIC BLOCKS - The town of Roanoke Rapids took another ste, forward this week with the stallation of , ground traffic si .tals at three ! busy intersections on the Avenue. The signals are placed at inter- j sections of Roanoke Avenue and First, Second and Third Streets. Avenue signals are yellow, with red lights on the left side and green lights on the rgiht side. They are simpl_y for guiding traif fic to the right. Red blocks on incoming streets with red lights only are to bung all traffic to a full stop before en tering Roanoke Avenue. IS HELD UP BY BANDIT Capt. Andrew Edwards Knock ed Unconscious on Way Home From Belmont Captain Andrew Edwards, foreman of the soda plant at the Halifax Pa per Corporation, was black-jacked and robbed about midnight Saturday while returning to town from the Belmont section. Mr. Edwards had been visiting his daughter, Mrs. McFarland in Belmont and was returning home. It being late, he took a short cut rather than follow the highway and was walking along a path which leads from Ce darwood Cemetery to the end of Third Street. Suddenly, he thought he heard someone whisper “Cap’n Andrew.” Before he could turn he was struck on the back of the head with a black jack or sand bag and went down un conscious. The bandit then searched his pock ets, taking everything of value. Mr. Edwards does not know how long ne remained unconscious, but coming to he managed to reach town safely. While the Captain usually carries a good amount of money with him, on this particular night he had changed clothes and only had some small change, which was taken, with a small pocket pistol which he carried when making the trip back and forth to Belmont after dark. While he had no time to recognize his assailant. Mr. Edwards is sure it is someone who knows him well and is fully aware of his habits. Next time, he passes along that way, the Captain is going to be fully pre pared for any emergency. LIGHTNING KILLS GIRL Colored G>rl Killed at Littleton Sunday Afternoon While Eat ing Watermelon Eating watermelon was the indi rect cause of the death of a little col ored girl near Littleton Sunday after noon. Mary Liza Ann Mills, age 8, was enjoying watermelon in the kitchen about three o’clock Sunday about the time the lightning was flashing pre patory to one of the electrical storms which has been prevalent in the coun ty the past week. Her mother commanded her to takb her watermelon out doors and spit the seeds on the ground, instead of cluttering up the kitchen. So Mary Liza Ann picked up her big slice of watermelon and started for the back yard. Just as she reached the bottom step, there came a terrific flash of light ning. The force of the shock knock WATCH FOR THE HOME DOLLARS Value of Sla.v-at-Honi" Dollars To B» Tested; Three S— "ial Dollars Out Today PLAY THE GAME Siffn Name on Pnn^»- ?>nd Spend That Dollar Fps< • Watch Herald Next Week Progressive merchants and other business men of the T—in Cities will advertise in next week’s is'ue of The Herald special dollar and less prices for The Heralds’ Stay-at-Home Dol lar Campaign. In this issue The Herald will en deavor to show to every individual citizen what the Stay-at-Home Dol lar means to him. As a concrete example, three Stay at-Home Dollars will be launched on a journey this morning which will last until next Tuesday. A special dollar bill will be releas ed by The Herald at each of the three banks this morning. Each of these S‘ay-at-Home Dollars will be attach ed to a long slip of paper. On this paper, we want each per son who handles the dollar to write his name and what he .did with the dollar. Then on next Tuesday morn ing we want the person who has that dollar to return it to The Herald of fico that we may follow the travels of that Stav-at-Home Dollar. If there is no room on the paper for your name and message, take the bill and paper to any of the banks or | to The Herald office, so that the pa per may be saved and another sheet attached. In the next issue of The Herald we will print the name of each per son who handled the dollar and what it went for. If it is used to pay or. account, say so. For example: Mrs. John Jones, pd. on acct. Roa noke Pharmacy. Roanoke Pharmacy, salary to Bill Smith. Bill Smith, Ever-Ready, suit clean ed. Our purpose is to show you the val ue of those dollars which are spent at home. What they do. How they multiply their own value a hundred times over. How that same dollar may pay two or three bills for the same person. And on the other hard, how *he dollar spent away from home si gone forever, never to return. It has gone to work in another community where the people do believe in trading at home. Even the money that finds its way to the banks and the savings accounts at home, is there put to use for the individual for whom it draws interest and the borrower who is able to be come an asset to the community. These and all the other advantages of the Stay-at-Home Dollar will De told in next week’s issue by the va rious advertisers of the Twin Cities in the most comprehensive trade-at home education campaign yet launch ed by any newspaper in tnis section of the country. -□ Mr. Bill Dunning is spending some time in Westren North Carolina. ed her parents down inside the house. When the father revived, he went out in the yard and there lav Mary Liza Ann, her watermelon still clutch ed in one small dark hand. He picked her up and carried her into the house. But she was dead. Coroner Billy Williams was called and examined the body to see just how death had come. Not a scar or burn could he find anywhere, until he examiend the bottom of her feet. They appeared to be burned or shriveled crisp. It is said lightning does not strike twice in the same place, but it did last week in the Mills family. Or. Saturday afternoon, over the line in Warren County, an aunt of Mary Li za Ann had been struck and killed by lightning, according to reports from that county brought to Littleton on Sunday. ^ ^ LOOK HIM OVER The above sketch is of a young business man of the Twin Cities about whom, many nice things might be said. He is one of those rare citi zens who acts rather than talks, al tho he is no slouch at the latter, at times. When any thing needs a little I fast work and action, this is the j man you can depend on. He has the habit, sometimes disagreeable to the I editor, of speaking his own mind on all occasions. While he may not agree with us, the above sketch by Bill Alligood is enough like him that all should be abe to guess it. Next week will be the last in this series which has been running for the [past three months, aitno not evevy week. When the last one appears, you are then ready to fix them up. We advise great care in cutting out the pictures and arranging them in a little folder or in some other at tractive manner, as that will count in the decision. Of course accuracy in naming them will come first. First prize will be five dollars, giv en by The Herald and second prize is a book of sketches, given by The Herald artist, Bill Alligood. ATTEMPT TO BURN JAIL Prisoner Sets Fire To Local Jail Furnishings in Attempt To Escape; Moved to Halifax Carl Hall, alias Smith, did not like our city jail, which is used, for the most part as a temporary parking place, before a more or less perma nent stay in the county jail at Hali fax. Therefore, Hall did all in his pow er to escape from durance vile by setting fire to the jail here Sunday afternoon. He was arrested early that after noon by Chief Hall on a charge of bo drunk and disorderly conduct and lodged in the jail near the local hos pital. About an hour later i met nan was returning with another prisoner when he saw stivoke escaping from the jail building. Members of the Rosemary police were ahead of Mr. Hall and they finally broke in the smoky jail and hauled out the well nigh suffocated form of the prison er. Hall had piled all the mattresses, blankets and other inflamable materi al in the jail into one corner and set it afire, probably with the idea of burning thru the wall a hole large enough for him to crawl thru. But the fire turned on its master, who being unable to leave the building, was forced to suffer all the conse quences. He was brought before Magistrate R. L .Martin Monday and sentenced to 30 days on the drunken charge. He was also placed uner a $50 bon-1 to appear in the Halifax Court on a charge of destroying public prop erty. There being no livable fur nishings left in the jail, he was taken to Halifax jail. -□ Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dickens and sons, Charles, Wilton, and Ervin, and Mrs. Edd Keeter and son spent Sun day in Tarboro. KIWANIS FARMERS MEETING Immense Crowd Attends Good Will Barl'ecue at Aurclian Springs Wednesday FINE PROGRAM Band Music, Quartet. Communi ty Singing, Speeches And Plenty to Eat Between 800 and one thousand per sons attended the Farmers-Khvani Club meeting at Aurelian Springs Wednesday afternoon with one of the finest programs and barbecues ever held in the county. The program started at 1 o’clock in the large auditorium of the Aure lian Springs school with a hand con cert by the Rosemary Mills hand Kiwanian S. T. Peace was master of ceremonies and kopt the la*go crowd in a constant uproar at the clever manner in which he handled the program. The Northmapton B >ys Quartete, a colored foursome of warblers adopt ed by the Kiwanis Club, gave several selections to the delight of the au dience. W. F. Joyner, president of the ki wanis. explained to the farmers what Kiwanis was and what it wanted t) do for the farmer. He reviewed the history of the local club and some of the work accomplished. One of the major projects of Kiwanis Interna tional is to bring about a better feel ing of understanding between the country man and the town man, said Mr. Joyer, and that was the purpose of the Wednesday meeting. Each member of Kiwanis present was introduced to the crowd by Chairamn Peace with appropriate jokes on each. Then Mr. V. C. Matthews, superin tendent of Aurelian Springs School and prime mover with Kiwanian Frank Wilson of the meeting yester day, introduced several of the lead ing citizens of Aurelian Springs com munity. The meeting then adjourned to the lawn in front of the school where long tables were soon covered with dishes of delicious barbecue, piping hot Brunswick stew, cold slaw and all the other trimmings. The im mense crowd was fed in record time with plenty for everybody. Eight pig were barbecued for the occasion and 1200 gallons of Brunswick stew made. Some of the hardest workers in making the meeting a success it \vr» included J. R. Liles, C. L. Kelly, E W. Liles, W. L. Liles, and J. II. Lile \ The } gs were barbecued under the supervision of . IL Liles and Olin Cook. The Brunswick stew mailers were S. W. Smith, Harvey Harris, F. X. Carlisle, Durael In;coc and M. C. Crawley. Many friendships were sealed yes terday between town and country man and the meeting adjourned with a feeling of better fellowship and un derstanding. All were loud in the::’ praise of the way the big meeting was handled and it was pronounced a success in every way. Kiwanian. here today stated that they felt the club had accomplished more real good yesterday htan in any way since or gamzation. They hope to hold a. least one more meeting of similar na ture this summer, with the one at Aurelian Springs to be made an an nual affair. DOG TAX NOTICE Night policeman Clifton Massey, who has occasion to see most of the dogs of the town prowling around, wishes us to announce that this is the last and final notice to dog owners to buy dog tags. Very few owners have bought dog license and the po lice will dispose of all dogs not prop erly tagged. -□ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Britton, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Fuller and Mr. Ver non Britton spent Sunday at Ocean View. TOWN GRANTS POWER CO, 30 YEAR FRANCHISE White Way From First Street To End of City Lim its Will Be Installed in 90 Days; Additional Street Lights A new thirty Year franchise was granted the Virginia Elec tric and Power Company by the Hoard of Commissioners of Roa noke Rapids here in special session Friday. At the same meeting a new thirty year contract between the city and the power company was entered into for the city lighting. According to reports, this new contract was very favorable to the city. Among other things, a White Way for Roanoke Avenue is assured. There will be no delay in the installation. In fact, the position of the standards are being spotted this week. Power Company officials state the White Way should be in operation rvithin ninety days from date. THE ANSWER Because the matter had created much discussion in legal circles here. The Herald wi-ed Attorney General Brummit asking him what procedure was necessary to extend the corporate limits of a town. His answer received yesterday, is as follows: “Action by General Assembly Assembly necessary for extension of corporate limits of town.” Den nis G. Brummit, Attorney Gener al. The next General Assembly meets again in January, 1931. i FATAL LIST INCREASES Juiinn E(’» *irds Pied From In juries Received In Auto Wreck Saturday Night Another Twin City resident was added to the list of Halifax County fatalities when Julian Edwards, age ] 25, was killed in an automobile crash ! a few miles from here Saturday ! night. Edwards, in company with J. W\ Massey and John Cameron, was in a car headed toward Emporia. About ja mile from Camp’s Store on Route 10 they approached a car in which John Chapel and Jack Newsome were riding from Emporia. By coincidence, all five persons j were from here and all worked for the Roanoke Mills Company. The left front wheels of the two cars locked. The car in which Ed wards was riding crashed on for about one hundred feet and turned over, pinning the three occupants un der it. They were rescued by a motorist | named Daniel from Henderson and 1 brought to the local hospital, where | Edwards died a few minutes after arrival. I Cameron suffered a broken arm ! and cuts about the face and head and ■ Massey’s face was badly lacerated | and he has a broken jaw. Their car was badly damaged. | The other car did not turn over and only Newsome was injured with a sprained arm. Tne car, however, was badly damafied. | Edwards was buried Monday after noon, with funeral services preached , by Rev. Mustian. The deceased is survived by a wife and one small child. He was an employee of Roa Inoke Mill No. 2. I The details of the wreck are not | clear but facts will probably be 1 brought out at the inquest which will be held by Coroner Grant of North ampton county just as soon as the men hurt are able to attend. This fatal accident brings the to tal of Halifax County persons killed in motor wrecks up to seven in the past month. -□ Rosemary Methodist Evangelistic services will begin at the Rosemary Methodist church next Sunday and continue every night next week. The pastor is ver anxious to see every member of the church present Sunday. I he plans and specifications call for the White Way to extend from Taylor and Collier’s corner at First street up the Avenue for a distance of five blocks to the city limits op posite the F. M. Coburn residence. There will be from 23 to 26 orna mental iron standards in the system, connected by underground wires, and the present light poles on the Ave nue will be taken down. There will '■>e one large globe on each standard, burning 4(»')-candle power lamps. The contract also calls for the ex tension of the White Way at any time the city limits of the town are ex tended. In view of the fact that Rosemary and Roanoke Rapids may be consolidated in the near future, this provision is made to take care of the Avenue all the way thru, at least to the Citizens Bank building and possibly to the depot. Present plans are to have sixteen of the big lights in the two main business blocks of Roanoke Rapid.*, eight in each block, with the balance of the blocks so arranged that at any lime it is deemed necessary, more standards can be placed in them. The system, standards and candle power of the proposed White Way is a duplication of that now' in use at Suffolk. , I he new contract for lighting the i city also calls for the installation of | some twenty or more street lights in ! other parts of the city at a good rate, with more lights to be added ■ as the size o£ the town increases. These street lights will also be in stalled within the next two months, so that before the first of the year, Roanoke Rapids will be one of the best lighted towns in the State. While it is not officially known, it is said the White Way will burn from dusk to dawn and with the large 400 candle-power lights making the en tire Avenue as light as day, “spoon ing*’ on the Avenue will be accom plished only under difficulty. Aside from this, there is nothing but ju bilation on the part of business men and residents. They feet it will add much to the attractiveness of the [ city and will make the well-lighted j Avenue and business section a safe and popular boulevard at all times of the night. | It is also reported that the tele phone company will be asked to move its poles from the Avenue at an early date, at least in the business section. 1 The Virginia Electric and Power Co., last week filed its final applica tion before the Federal Power Com mission for the permit to build a dam or series of dams on the Roa noke River. As this was done a crew of twen ty five men was busy cleaning out the right of way across the river where the first big dam, at least three quar ters of a mile long, will be built, about two miles from Roanoke Ra pids. Another crew is at work with heavy drills making tests across the river. The first hole was sunk 30 feet into solid granite and the second hole, now being drilled on the edge of the banka of the river, will probably go 100 feet. Good granite only has been struck so far, with an average drill ing of ten feet per day. Still another crew is at work in the river. This test drilling work will probably take three months, and is in the nature of preliminary work. Mr. Briscoe Baird spent Sunday with friends in Henderson.