North Carolina Newspapers

THE GREATER CITY I Lj L Li L U A ¥ I A NO ROOM FOR 15,000 POPULATION I I B f ¥¥^¥\/A I jl 7 KNOCKERS NOW!— IN 1934! * WATCH US GROW -— OF THE TWIN CITIES-RO ANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY -- VOLUME 15._ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY. N. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 29th, 1929. _ NUMBER 20. FINISHING PLANT UNDER CONSTRUCTION HERE ----—-I MORE NEW MILL HOUSES ARE BEING BUILT TWO MILLS EXPANDING Both Companies Planning New Villapes For Future; Start Construction Soon More good news, folks. Roanoke Mills Company, after just completing thirteen new houses, fill-ins in the present mill village, will start to work next week on at least seven more houses on Jackson and Monroe streets. Contractor J. R. My rick received the contract to construct the nev houses and his supplies are on the Toad and actual work will begin Tues day after Labor Day. Not content with that, the mill have decided to make the present houses more livable and also let a contract to Mr. Myrick to reroof and replaster about seventy five houses in the village. The new houses will be of five rooms each and are being built on property in the village recently ob tained from the Power Company. This work, however, has nothing to j do with the new development which J Roanoke Mills Company is planning j for the future, when a new village of \ modern homes will ty- constructed near the present village. While Roanoke Mills Company is building in the present village, re- | modeling many of the houses, and laying plans for still greater homu j development, the Rosemary Manufac turing Company is also completing plans for a “dream city.” which will j adjoin their present village. The future plans of the Rosemary Mills calls for the construction of al most double the number of houses now used by the Rosemary Mfg. Co. While most of this will not be built for many years actual construction of the first unit of from ten to fif teen homes will start within the next sixty days. In this first unit which is just off 11th Street, no two houses will be just alike, except that each will have about four rooms and bath and will be constructed of brick. The streets will be curved grace fully and in places where there is straight frontage, the houses will be staggered to relieve the view. The lots have a frontage of about 17 feet more than the present mill villag; lots. Alleys will not be built straight but will go off at angles so that it will be impossible to see from one end of the alley to .another. In the center of each block will be a neat set of community garages. The streets will be 27 feet wide, sidewalks five feet wide and betwen curb and sidewalk will be a park way for grass and shrubbery, eleven feet wide. The entire development consists of 163 acres with locations for 39"> homes, four special sites in a com munity center for churches and pub lic bulidings, a school site, play grounds and several parks. The complete plan calls for the con struction of the most comfortable set of homes possible with a setting and background which will mark this as the most beautiful mill city in the country. -n SPECIAL DEPUTY G. F. Gray, Chief of Police of Roanoke Rapids has been made spe cial deputy in Northampton County by Sheriff Joyner, with the power to arrest any person violating the State criminal laws in Gaston, Oc coneechee and Pleasant Hill town ships. CHILDREN DIE Mamie G»ay Drew, five months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Drew, Rosemary, died last Saturday from colitis. Funeral services were held Sunday at Conway. Willie E. Edwards, Jr., infant son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Edwards, died Saturday and was buried Snuday in Roanoke Rapids cemetery. Horsey Collins, colored, age 22, fell dead from heart failure near Enfield Thursday. -□ Misses Mamie and Josie Stansbury of Littleton visited Mrs. Sam Thomp son last week. PART OF CROWD OF 800 WHO ATTENDED THE FARMERS-KIWANIS CLUB BARBECUE AUGUST 21 The above picture was snapped from the steps of the Aurelian Springs School by The Herald pho tographer at the Farmers-Kiwanis Club barbecue and program on Wed nesday afternoon of last week. It was impossible to get a picture of the entire crowd and the photo above shows less than one-third of those who gathered around the long tables on the school campus. The picture was taken soon afcer the call to eat had Ivon sounded. Prior to that, the big school audito rium had been filled with a enthu siastic audience which listened with delight to a two hour program of band music, singing and speech mak ing. It wr.s late afternoon when the pro pram was over and the crowd ad journed to the front of the school where long cables were being filled with barbecue, Brunswick stew and all the trimmings. Might pigs were barbo,,aei and 20 > gallon:; < f stew made fur the ocea si ■< When it was all ever, there wasn’t enough food left to fill a cat, o anyone can see thp picture aboce __ falls far short of showing the entire crowd, or else you are gazing on the champion eaters of the world. So enjoyabl ewas the whole affair that tPe Kiv.- nis Club is now plan ning another Cndiar mooting for some time in September, this time just acros the line in Northampton county. Committees will probablv be appointed at t ie meeting of the Club this week. STAY-AT-HOME DOLLARS' PROVE VALUE IN TEST--1 ONE DOLLAR WORTH 825 The tremendous value of the del- | lar spent at home was demonstrated ! here three days when four one dol- ! lar bills were started at each of the drug stores in the Twin Cities. These Stay-at-Home Dollars w?re j spent and respent until in one case a dollar bought twenty five times its own value in the three days. Three of the dollars passed hands 51 times and are stil here mutliplying in value paying debts, buying food and cloth ing and comfort. The fourth dollar is missing. It exemplifies the dollar spent out of town. It is worth nothing to this community any longer. It will never do its share to keep everybody pros perous, to build our city, to perpetu ate brisk trading. In this issue of The Herald, many of the enterprising business men of the Twin Cities are advertising valu es of reduction for the use of the Stay-at-Home Dollars. On a full page is a message from most of the business men of the city, a message which should be read and studied by every citizen. Just remember this. If we all spent our money out of town, we would have no local merchants, and if we had no local merchants, we would have no town. Here is what the one little Stay-at Home Dollar, which started at the Roanoke Pharmacy, did in three days. It began its journey by purchasing a dollars worth of merchandise for The Herald. Roanoke Pharmacy the nspent the dollar with M. H. Hedgepeth, who in turn bought a dollars worth of gro ceries from the M Syetem. Mr. C. D. Williams, manager of the M Sys tem, needed some hardware and pur chased same with the dollar from the Carolina Hardware Co. The hard ware company paid it to George for salary and he spent it for socks with Frank Horwitz. Frank felt the need of food and purchased a meal ticket at Cherry’s Cafe, /using the dollar as part pay ment. The cafe paid it to Peoples Theatre for water rent, and manager Claude Edgerton swapped dollars and spent the Stay-at-Home Dollar with B. Marks, which concern promp tly paid it to Manager Abe Norin sky on salary acocunt. Mr. Abe bought a carton of cigar ettes from Taylor-Matthews Drug Co. There the ollar had a rest unt.»l someone finally broke the throttle hold manager Emmett Matthews had oti it and finally persuaded him to phy it to Bill Allsbrook for Hen and Bill Sandwiches. Then in quick succession the dol lar passed to W. C. Allsbrook, Smith Dept. Store, R. A. Williams and |A. James, each time completing a dollar transaction. It found its way into the till of G. H. Ranhorn and passed on to Hap py Allen, who paid it to F. J. Mc Donald. Thence to J. A. Ragland, and later it was found in the hands of E. 1>. Clover to whom it had been paid for board. Back to the M Sys tem. it went for food for the Glover table. Then it bought a dollars worth of goods from Wlliiams 5-10-$l Stores, was paid to manager Zabris kie on salary and he used it for pay ing an account at Tayl >r-Matthews where it was again clinched unt'i rescued by The Herald. That one dollar bill passed hands (Continued on page ten) NO. 9—THE LAST Here is the last of the nine sketch es made by Bill Alligood of Twin City folks he caught in moments of repose. The above gentleman is well known, too well to some. If you can’t tell who it is by looking at the face take a peep at the hat. Only one man in town wears a hat like that. The tie, also, looks familiar. Remember these are free hand draw ings and not photos. Your guess is as good as the next one. The other sketches appear elsewhere in this is sue of The Herald. First Meeting Of Womans Club Hers The first meeting of this year of the Womans Club has been called for Monday afternoon, September 2, at 2:30 in the Domestic Science room of the High School building. This will be an important business meeting to plan work for the coming year and all members are urged to be present and on time. .-D Miss Aelise Edmonson has returned from a few weeks visit to Emporia. S. M. Thompson and family are visiting relatives in the north. I' HOW IT OPERATES How does (he Stay-at-Home Dollar operate? What does it do This question has been asked many times by local residents - ince (he Dollar made its appearance in the community, and each time it has been answered satisfac torily. It works this w£y: First, let us take the case of the dollar that leaves the community. It is in the possession of one local resident. It buys him a dollars worth of goods, or pays a dollar debt. And that’s absolutely all it does. After he has sent it out of the city, it never will return. It never will come back to pay somebody else’s debt, or to buy local goods. The Stay-at-Home Dollar is different. It is patriotic. For instance: A is the possessor of a dollar that is goingt to stay at home. He pays it to B, also a resident °f the |ame community. B buy’s butter and eggs from C, and C. Passes it on to the haberdasher for a necktie. The haberdasher, D, pays it as part of his rent bill, and the landlord E, gives it to F in payment of another debt. Already this dollar has been spent six times within the community, whereas the dollar that was sent awav was spent only once. The Stay-at-Home Dollar, in those few movements has proved that it is six times the value of the other money. In a few days, it might prove to be a hundred times the value of the other. Now: What good does tha Stay-at-Home Dollar do? Plenty. It does good for YOU. CAR DRIVER SENTENCED Riiv Edwards Found Guilty of Driyinjr Death Car in Which Brother Was Killed I Ray Edwards, driver of the car ir. which his brother, \V. B. Edwards, was killed on July 21, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Halifax Court last week and senten ced from IS months to tw oyears in the State Penintentiary. The fatal accident took place on the Littleton road Sunday afternoon, July 21. The Edwards car crashed into the car of II. M. Hudson of South Rose mary, injuring Mr. Hudson and hi* two children and demoTishing the Hudson car. Levi Jones and Ryland Draper were the other two tcapanrs ef the Ed wards car, a roadste*. Two were in the front scat an two were sitting in the rear of the can which did not have a rumble seat. W. B. Edwards was one of thos-» in the rear of the car and when the crash came he was doubled up and suffered fatal inter nal injuries. The testimony of the prosecution was that Ray Edwards was guilty of reckless driving which caused the death of his brother. State witness es testified that he was driving at a terrific rate of speed for some time before the accident and imme diately preceding it. -□- . Miss Doris Harrison is visiting her aunt, Mrs. S. A. Smith in Roper. MUST LEAVE STATE IN TWELVE HOURS John “Bowser ” Daughtry was found guilty on two liquor charges at Halifax Court last \v ck and re ceived heavy penalties in each cu e. On the first charge he was senten ced to from 15 to 18 months on the county roads and on the second, in was given two years. However, the court stated if he would leave the state after serving the first senter.ec the second would be suspended. Tl<* was given twelve hours to leave North Carolina after the first sen tence is up, providing he does not come to Rosemary or Roanoke dur ing Iliat twelve hours. -□ Helds Officers Off With Drawn Knife “Can” Poplin, arrested Saturday, and again Sunday by local officers, will spend thirty days in Halifax as ! a result of his weekend spree, accor- I ding to the verdict of Mayor Long’s court Monday afternoon. On Sunday afternoon, Poplin caused quite a stir when he defied the officers wdth a drawn knife near the old canal. He wras finally captured by Sheriff Bell and police Massey, who found it ne cessary to use the handcuffs to quiet their prisoner. C. L. Nichols was fined $10 and costs on a charge of drunk and disorderly. -D Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Gurkin are in Washington visiting friends and re-! i latives. ! NEW ROSEMARY MILL TO FINISH PRODUCT Addition As Large As No. 2 Mill Will Also Have Space for 200 Additional Looms; Other Departments At last, the Twin Cities will have a finishing plant. It was announced this week by officials of the Rosemary Manufacturing Company, unit of the Simmons Bed Companv, that the new struc ture which is going up to the rear of Mill No. Three >vi!l house a complete finishing plant. In size, the new unit is as large as No. 2 Mill of (he Rosemary MO. Company and larger than the Number 1 Mill. It will be 150 ---I HERALDS NEEDED* So great was the demand for The Herald last week that the copies we are required to keep on file were sold before we knew it. We will pay five cents per copy for the first six copies brought to Ti:c Herald office of the issue for August 22, 1929. I.ook around the house and send 'he boy down with last weeks Her ald. We will appreciate it. This week, we are printing 209 more cop es to take care of the increase in circulation. We thank vou. __ ■i wmm SCHOOLS 0;>ens S?ptemh'r U!h: Teachers Chosen for Various Cily Schools REGISTRATION Of All High School Pupils Sep tember 9 rnd 10; Terchers Start Arriving Next Week Vacation days are about over and the Twin City schools will assemble for actual work on Thursday, Sep tember 11, altho registration will start Monday, September 9. Supt. C. \V. Davis announces the following registration dates for all Junior and Senior High School pupils who have not yet registered. All Junior High School students, 7th, 8th and 9th grades, will register at 8:00 o’clock Monday morning September 9th. All Senior High School students who have not registered, will do so at 3:00 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon, September 10th. The first teachers’ meeting of the year is called for 3:00 o’clock on Mor. tlay afternoon, September 9th. The vanguard of the teachers will arrive the latter part of this week, with the bulk of them planning to reach here next week-end. Miss Cl i- i ia Ifearne, Supervisor, is planning to | arrive today. Mr. P. A. Reid, new ! business manager, is already on the job, and coach P. V. Parks has be n here all summer in charge of the playgrounds. Teachers at the Cent •al School th’s year will be Misses Mabel Regan, Bess Siceloff, Irene Gordon, Virginia Forbes, Marjorie Chapman, Mary Wood Hall, Ella G. Outland, Mary Cox, Carrie Lee Arnold, Bernice Ay lor, Amanda Tillman. Rosemary School will have the fol lowing teachers: Misses Pattie Fd monson, Martha Hassell, Julia Blount, Betty W. Gates, Virginia Gates, Martha Spivey, Thelma Toler, Ruth Dean, Mary Lowder. Elementary High School teachers will he Misses Ruth White, LeGranci Elliott , Juanita Taylor, Elizabeth Tait, Patience Moore, Eunice Kim brough, Vivian Elliott, Susan Wom hle, Helen Hicks, Mary Blalock, Oma ra Daniel, Margie Caldwell, Kite Brinson, Cynthia Garrett, Bertha Poe. Sara Carson and Mrs. R. C. Craven. High School Teachers are Mis-es Hart Sheridan, Mary Kestier, Olive Cannon, Martha Craddock, Emma J. Davis, Mary Cannon, Sarah Gurley, Ada Edwards, Martha Carson, Clau dia Hunter, Vernie Eddins, Emily Stribling, Virginia Blount , Ruth Chapman, Frances McClary, Mary Scales, Mrs. J. W. Ross, Thomas L. Martin, R. G. Knight, and Mr. Lomar. Executive officers are C. W. Davis, superintendent; P. A. Reid, business manager; Miss Clara Hearne, super visor; Miss Edna Abbott, school nurse; P. V. Parks, director of phy sical education; Miss Traynham Wyche, physical education. foot by 336 feet, two stories high, or brick and steel construction, with a saw-tooth roof. Excavation staretd last week by the Fiske-Carter Construction Com pany and a big crew is on the job with dirt flying. Building material and supplies are arriving daily. As soon as the excavation work is com pleted. actual construction will start with full time crews in order to push the work to rapid completion. The Fiske-Carter people say they will have the building completed in four months. One section of the r.ew mill will be used entirely for the finishing of mattress fabrics. This work has been done in the past by a finishing mill in the North. When the new mill is in operation, all mattress ma terial will he shipped from here di rect to the manufacturer. New machinery for the Twin Cities w ill make its appearance in the new' mill. It will consist of wash boxes, dry cans, mangles and tentering frames. From the finishing range, the product will travel to the calen dars where it will undergo several processes. Then it will be inspected an:! examined before going to ma chines for rolling or folding for ship ment. The new building w ill also be used, in part, for relieving congestion in other mills. Part of the cloth in specting and shipping departments will be transferred to that building. Space will also be available for the liter installation of 200 additional looms. Tentative plans of the companies are to supply the S*mnu>ns Company with all the cotton goods used by them. The finishing plant is but a part of the general plan of develop ment which has been outlined and which will materialize in the next three or four years. Heavy usage of the machinery of the Rosemary mills during the past six months or so, and especially the electrical equipment, has made it ad visable to close most of the mills this week while all machinery is being given a thorough overhauling. Gen eral repair work is in progress thru out the mills this week. In part of the mills, new toilets are being in stalled. The interior of the office building is also being redecorated during the weeks vacation. VISIT MARTS FOR FALL GOODS New B. Marks Buyers On Way To Markets To Purchase Fall Merchandise Mr. William Grutz is now in charge of the shoe department of the New B. Marks Co. He comes here from The Shoe Box at Greensboro and was formerly with Saks-Fifth Ave nue, New York. The B. Marks Co. feel that they are fortunate in se curing the services fo an expert in this line. Mr. Grutz is now away at the market buying a complete line of Fall footwear. According to Manager Abe Norin sky, this is in line with the policy of the New B. Marks Co. to give this territory the best that can be had. Mr. Norinsky left this week for the mav jket and Mrs. B. Maiks and Mrs. G. 1D. Shell will leave soon to buy Fall merchandise. The Companw is daily the recipi ent of compliments by visitors on the up to date appearance of their de partment store, which is the show place for miles around. The store is equipped with the very finest fix tures and ranks with stores in much larger cities. :-□ Miss Sudie Nixon is spending this week in South Hill, Va. Mr. Briscoe Baird spent Sunday at Bear Swamp.