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THE HERALD _OFTHE TWIN CITIES-ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY _, VOLUME 15. ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY, N. C. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 21st. 1929. NUMBER .12. WHITE WAY WORK START NEXT WEEK Install."/ ion of White Way on Roanoke Avenue Begins Mon day; Underground System MATERIAL DELAY’D But All In Readiness Now; More Lights in Other Sections of City; Complete Xmas Actual work on the under ground White Way System for the Town of Roanoke Rapid1 will start Monday, according to city officials who have recently conferred with officials of the Virginia Electric and Power Company. All the material necessary to start the work has arrived and a crew of men will start work the first of next week. A total of twenty eight star. . dards, each topped with a 400 candle power light will lie used in tlie four block-, from the Ta.v . lor and Collier corner at First Street, up Roanoke Avenue for four I docks. The cables will he run underground and the Power company is making plans at the same time of in-filiation to remove all of its poles from the Avenue. An offiekil request h is hern made by the Town Board t the I 'nn. 1 :m Telephone and Tel-gi o( .un pan y. There will be eight lig! ‘ lv. tween First and Second Street.-: six lu t-eea Third and Fourth Streets; and six between Fourth and Fifth Streets. While Power Company officials had hoped and promised to have the White Way installed so that late Thanksgiving dinners might ho eaten by the glow of the new lamps, a de lay in shipment of part of the mate riall has made that impossible. The standards have been here for several weeks, but the underground cables were delayed in shipment until this week. However, while Thanksgiving tur keys must travel in the darkness, old {Santa Claus can drive his sleigh right down Roanoke Avenue on Christmas Eve and it will be as light as if he were back in his own country of the midnight sun. He will be cheered and welcomed by the new White Way, say Power Company officials who promise completion by Christ mas. The Avenue and business section are not the onl parts of town to re ceive more and better lighting. New street lights will he put in other parts of the city now unlighted, while those sections now lighted will have new lights of center suspension. 200 watt lights will be hung in the center of the streets at every intersection. In addition, the Avenue from the old canal bridge to the Roanoke River * wil be lighted for the first time as the mill companies on the river and the Power Company arc said to have reachde a favorable agreement re , garding the placing of lights in this section for the benefit of the night crews working at the river mills. r-> -L j JVegro Fractures "Skull In Tilt With Auto Sam Birdson, colored, was brought to the local hospital Monday night ^ with a fractured skull sustained when he eollided with the car driven by Mr. Joe Wood Jr., of Thelma. Bird song had been riding with Will Mills, colored, who let him out in front of the New Hope Church. It is reported that both of the ne groes saw the approaching car and Birdsong hesitated about crossing the road until the car was only a few feet away. He then started across and hit the side of the car. His con dition is said to be serious. -□ Missionary Program The Y. W. A*s. will present a play entitled “Then and Now,” at the Roa noke Rapids Baptist church ne\c Sun day night. This will take the place of the regular Sunday night sermon. The characters are as follows: j The Reader, Ruth White; Zillan, a Jewish Matron, Ella Outland, Rachel, a Young Jewess, Catherine Hines; . Mrs. Garyson, an elderly lady, Ruth j King; Myra, Mrs. Grayson’s daughter Ilazel Hutchinson; Helen, another daughter, Eunice Underwood. j Local Theatre Will Have New Lobby The Peoples Theatre will have a j new entrance, lobby and marquee. Construction work started tl e first of this week and will be pushed rapidly to comlpetion in the next two weeks, without delaying any shows. Tem porary walkways are built each af ternon to lake care of te patrons. The front of the buil ling will he done entirely ovei with an attractive marquee and electric changeanle signs. The front lobby will be tiied. 11:f* rear lobby will br redecorated and carpeted an I furnished through out v,ith lounging and waiving ro..m&. The Peoples Theatre has just fin is led the installation of n.*w ma chinery which makes it possible to use the sound on film pictures as veil a*, the disc rs:jrd reproduction re tailing picture-- This new equip ment was instilled at gr -i e\]-*)i-e and makes it possible to show every type of talking an 1 sound picture ; » .. J jeed. BUILDERS LIABLE TO FINE Law Regarding: Building Per mits to bo Knfor""'l: Owners .’lust Get Permits First FINE LIMIT $50 j With Each Week Separate Of j tense; No Repairs on Wood?:’. RuiI(1 inl»;s With.nut ?’c*rini{s Persons erecting new buikbngs or repairing old ones in the ci; y of Roanoke Rapids must get a peri!-.!* from the building inspector before starting work. This has been a law for some time but has not been rigidly enforced. In the future, according to Buauin:. In spector Pitts, the law will be'enhov ed and those who do not get perm, ts will be prosecuted. Mr. Fitts has asked that the law be explained again to the public •ami he desires the cooperation of the pub lic rather than the necessity of prose cuting any one. The State Law on budding per mits reads as follows: “Before a building is begun the owner of the property shall apply to the inspect or for a permit to build. This permit shall be given in writing and shall contain a provision that the building shall be constructed according to the requirements of the building lav., a copy of which shall accompany the permit. ***As soon as the building is completed the owner shall notify the inspector who shall proceed at once to inspect said building and deter mine whether or not the flues and building are propery constructed in I accordance with the building law. If the building meets the requirements of the building law the inspector shall then issue to the owner a building certificate—the inspector shall report t othe Insurance Commissioner every person neglecting to secure such per mit and certificate and also bring the matter before the mayor, record er or municipal court for their at tention and action.” As to punishment the law is as fol lows: ‘‘If the owner or builder erect ing any new building, upon notice from the local inspector, shall fail or refuse to complywith the terms of the notice by correcting the defects pointed out in such notice, so as to (Continued on back page) -□ Second of Twins Dies Ten Days After First Last Friday, just thirteen days af ter death had stalked in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dixon and taken one of infant twins, the Grim Reaper again entered the grieving home and beckoned to the other twin. On November 2nd, the first twin, Kelly, one year old, passed away and funeral services were held the fol lowing day. On Friday, November 15th, the regaining twin died, and was buried Sunday. The Telephone Service The Town Board of Roanoke Rapids has instructed attorney A. L. Clark to write officials of the Carolina Tele phone and Telegraph Co. in regard to better telephone service here. Several weeks ago, officials of the company met with the Town Board and at that time discussed the possibility of in stalling the dial system here. SCHOOL BOY IS KILLED BY TRUCK Runs From Rehind Another for To Meet Almost Instanl Death On Tenth Street Friday driver Blameless flavs Coroners Jury Which Asks School Officials To Caution Pu pils Alout Crossing Highways Carlton Mason, ape 7. was almost, instantly killed when he was struck by a truck while returning *o school from lunch Friday. t n Monday, a coroners jury exon erated the driver, C. D. \\ illiams, of Rocky Mount, who had been previous ly held under a $1,000 bond. The boy, with his sister, Margue rite and a group of other children re turning to school. They were on Tenth Street near the entrance to the Rosemary Manufcaturing Co. Ac cording to witnesses, the children were playing as they went along and the boy ran from behind a car into to path of a truck of the Southern i.;.:r • Co. of Rocky Mount. Te child was knocked -v n and the wheels of the t#uek pnssed over his body. He wav picked up unc nvciov.s and rushed to the hospital where no died a few minut- s after a rival. Carlton was the son et Mr. arid Mrs. C. C. Mason. Funeral s**r\ices were held Monday afternoon a Ryans Cemetery in Brunswick (aun ty, \ irguna. Coroner Billy Williams; Summoned 1« y const sting of I . C Framer. J. F. Cobh, Buck Layl>:\ «l. C. Odell. J. H. Matkins and N. I). Cox. J After heal ing the tivtnvm-v c.f sev eral witnesses and of the driver, who * .-ays he novel- saw the child unt:l af jur the accident, the ju>\v returned j the fo:i avion verdict: “Carlton 'da son came to iiis death by being struck , by a Chevrolet driven by C. D. Wil liams. which to our belief was un i avoidable oit the part of Mr. A imams. We further recommend as the Coro ner’s jury in this case that the prin c:pa's. tea hers and other officers of the public school system of Ilalitax Cc.unty should use untiring efforts in cautioning the students of the county to be careful in crossing the highway at any and all tmies. Fur ther that the police department should station an officer at each school during recess time to control traffic and see that school children and motorists alike are careful to avoid such unfortunate accidents as we have considered in this hearing.” 95 PER CENT ATSCHOOL _ Is Record Set l/v City Schools “Go To School Week”; Hun dreds Visit Schools The Twin City schools recently ob served the two outstanding phases of American Education Week, “Go to School” and “Go to Church.” Thursday of last week was “Go To School Day” and about eight hun dred visitors availed themselves of this opportunity during the day and visited either the elementary grades at the High School, the Rosemary school or the Central School The enrollment of the elementary grades of the three schools is 1 488, and 1388 children were present on this day. Sixteen rooms had perfect attendance. An hours’ holiday was promised the school registering the greatest number of visitors and Cen tral school was winner. The other two schools so well represented they were given a half hour holiday also. Each room having as many as many fifteen visitors was promised a book, each room received a book with the exception of one. Two thousand tags were given to school children for “Go To Church Day,” which was observed Sunday, and the ministers of the various churches preached a special sermon to the young people. Miss Clara Hearne, elementary su perintendent. and superintendent of schools, C. W. Davis, and the fine corps of teachers arc to be hignly commended for carrying out these two ideas in such a big and splendid way. -n Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Massey, Mrs. McAlister and Misses Pearl Arm strong and Lillian Keete" spent Monday in Rocky Mount attending the funeral of Miss Doris Lunette Stinson. HOW YOU CAN HELP We wish to call attention to the full pace advertisement oT Ches c-'n’s. Rosemary, in this issue of The Herald. Here is a firm which has not been in the Twin Cities as long as others, but ha^ establishes itself firmly in that period of time by carrying the best merchandise, selling at rea sonable prices and because of its policy of steady advertising. The He-ald is rht a purveyor of news, but* it must depend upon the advertiser for existence. At the same time, all advertisements are carefully read in advance and the reader of The Herald is al ways assured of honest bargain-. Our readers and supporters can help the home paper mightily by just dropping a word to the ad vertisers once in a while that they saw and read their ad in The Herald. We thank you. H.S. ENDS SEASON IN VICTORY I/'sf fianio ’ Wf‘" T't-;r1- \ i Fr«n Fnrmvi!le 12 to 6; 01*1 fr( Shows Improvement KINSTON FRIDAY At K'nd'-n Ends Official s-r- n For Vdimva din's: Weldon G;;me is Pending The Y,!lowjw.-k ets came ha<-k s'rong to end their List game on the I Ivono gridipi n in a vict >ry over Farm ville by a score of 12 to It was a sweet game from the standpoint of the local fans. The ganm started with a hang as the Ycllow.iacket.-. took the ball down the field for a touch down before the first period was half over and promptly turned the trick for a second touchdown before th. whistle blew ending the opening quar ter. It was all T«-in Cities the first pe riod. The line held like a stone wall, refusing Fai rnville a single fir*: down, while on the offense it plough ed through the opposing line, opening gaps thru which Yellowjaeket back pushed steadily down the field, using only straight football ot score twite. Kick failed for both extra points and j the quarter ended 12-0 in favor of the locals. In the second quarter, a desperate Farmville outfit opened up a fast aerial game and with the help of two long forward passes took the ball over for their only score and the last touchdown of the game, j The second half was replete with thrills with both teams figting des perately and neiter able to score run back of punts, forward passes, long end runs by both teams kept the fans on their toes every minute. It was a good game and a glorious victory. The green Yellowjaeket team has come a long ways since the first of the season and a seasoned outfit will meet Kinston this Friday in Kinston in the last regular game of the vear. However, plans are now under way for a post season game with Weldon to be played at Weldon. How that brings up memories of rivalries ex tending back into the Dark Ages. There is some question about the ele gibility of one or two Weldon players but it is thought, as this is not a regu lar scheduled game and is being play ed after the official season is over, the difficulty can be ironed out. Need less to say, everybody seems to he in favor of the game. While it will surprise many if the Twin City hoys can defeat the older and more experi enced Weldon outfit, still there are those who believe it possible with vic tory all the sweeter if such should be the case. County Women Meet At Hobgood Friday Mrs. M. li. Stedman, president of the Halifax Council and Mrs. Hazel Wheeler, Home Demonstration Agent, announce a meeting of all the home demonstration clubs of Halifax Coun ty starting at 10:20 A. M., Friday November 22. at the Hobgood School. Mrs. Frances Kline, culinary expert of New York, will be present and give a salad demonstration. An attendance cup will be presented the club with the best attendance and there will be other prizes awarded. All are urged to bring lunch as usual. -□ Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Gaddy and children, Elizabeth, Arnold and Mar gie spent Saturday afternoon in Rocky Mount. 600 ATTEND CONFERENCE ON MONDAY Splendid Crowd Front All Parts of Halifax Count.v Hear Hr. Ruth Andrus ALL DAY SESSION Child Development is Topic of Meeting Splendid Program Arranged An educational conference on Child Development was held in the IToanokc Rapids High School auditorium in all day session on Monday Nov. 18th. be ginning at 10:30 in the morning, with lunch served in the Home Econo mics Department, closing at t:0r» o’clock. The conference was an unusual treat to the six hundred teachers and parents who attended. Every rural community in the county vva repre sented. All rural and city schools in the county were closed for the af ternoon in order that their t< ackers might attend the conference. A. E Akers, f uperintendent. ol' llalifav County schools, presided over th< meeting, and Rev. Leon M. Hall, pa tor of the First Methodist? ,-h: uh of Roanoke Rapids made tie !->v . Dr. bath Andrus, Direct- • Child ’ Parent ! lion for the .State fo New York introduc'd by Superintendent Ako.. Dr. Andrus’ m *rning ‘topic a as -'fa;* Chid a Total Pcr.onn’h !n speaking of childo dev-lopn.ont Dr. An Ira aid, “if the child • ' y, h ■ oar. . n)\\ , etc.” and these developments determine how the child ig boir.g to succeed.” She spoke for one and one half hours on th's most important subject, :.hm conducted an open forum. .Many A- ■ - were a ked by inteve r d t.-ju-hf-rs ami parents, whirl, v.vr ■ an swore'! tudy by the speaker. In the aiternoon session wh'cb he .enn at 2 o’clock. I *r. Andrus sp ike on “Cooperative Relationships.” Moving picture slides of sheols in \V.v York State vere shown of kindergartens. 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades where cre at:ve work is done, and which is pos sible for other schools to do. Dr. R. IY Book with spoke on the “Coopera tive Ilca'ci' Plan.” .Mrs. T. W. M. Long, president of the Parent Teacher Association of the Roanoke Rapids High School talked on “What The P. T. A. Can Do to Help the Program.” Dr. \\. H. Livers of Greensboro was present at the conference and ox pressed his pleasure at such a well at tended meeting and told of the co operating agencies responsible for the program. Miss Hattie Parrott of the State Department of Education gave a sum mary of the day’s program and stat ed that she hoped a number of child study groups would be organized in connection with the I’. T. A as a re sult of the Child Development Con ference. It was through the influence of Miss Annie Cherry, supervisor of Ru ral Schools of Halifax County, and superintendent A. E. Akers that the people of the county could enjoy this splendid program. u Presiding Elder In Thanksgiving Service Sunday evening, November 24th a Thanksgiving service will be in !d at the Roanoke Rapids Methodist church. Rev. L. B. Jones, presiding elder of the Weldon district and a former pas tor of this church will preach. The ■ following musical program will be presented; Prelude—Twilight, Cesek. Hymn No. 717—Choir and congre gation. Hymn No. 50—Quartet. , Hymn No. 480—Choir and congre gation. Prayer. Lord’s Prayer, chanted by the choir. Anthem—Praise the Lord, Baines. Scripture. A nouncements. Offretory organ solos—1-—Andante Cantahile, Tscha^kowsky. 2—Song of the Volga Boatmen. 3—Postlude in I), Homer. Anthem—Praise the Lord, Oh, Je rusalem, Maunder. Hymn No. 1—Choir and congrega tion. Postlude—Pilgrims’ Chorus, Wag ner. ■-□ Mrs. W. C. Williams spent the 1 week-end in Washington, N. C. Association Finacnes 27 Local Home Owners The Roanoke Rapids Building ane Loan Association announces in thi issue of The Herald the issuance o. running shares of building and loan stock, a new class of stock for this section of the State. There is no entrance fee, fines, o1 withdrawal fees attached and the stock is tax free and pays approxi mately 6 per cent over a period of ten and three quarter years. The mini mum payment is one dollar per month per share. The Roanoke Rapids Building and Loan Association now has total re sources of over three quarter million dollars. During the past year, the As sociation has made twenty four loans to the total of $68,000. It has financ ed the construction of eighteen new homes in the community in the last year, which arc valued at $80,000. and has loaned for purchase or remodel ing on nine homes valued at $7<V 000. HALIFAX FARMERS 'm! Knrnie-s Mot at HalPav: An other I? <r Meeting Planned For Pc com her 2nd. DISCUSS PROBLEMS Halifax Countv Formers Study Agricultural Situation; Work ing Much Unprofitable I.and On Friday. November 8th sixty-six 'farmers of Halifax County met with the County Agents and representa ‘U'.’os of State College to study the acricuitu! nl situat i • 1 in Halifax [County. Among: t1:s (.up were a [ number of the best farmers and busi 1 ness men in the county a’l of them [interested in bettering: the present conditions. according to a report of [C'iuut.y Ajrent, W. O. F-avis. I I" acts and figures, were presented showing that fanv.-rs in Halifax County were working 1 >ts of unpro I stahli1 land to produce cash crops at a decided loss and at. the same time were purchasing feed, fertilizers, lords, and other farm supplies (the hulk of which couM he purchased at fu me that cost ny re than the income from our cash crops. The general opinion of the meeting was that our farmers could adopt a system of farm management embracing the i three following points. First, a sys tem of crop rotation using summer legunv*s and cover crops as often as possible so as to build richer soils that mean belter yields at less cost. Second, the production of more hay. corn, oats and other feed crops and food supplies to reduet the cost of farming. Third: the production of least three cash crops on every farm. The meeting voted to have the County Agents select a committee to work with them to prepaie a farm .urogram to recommend to the farm ers covering the things d:scussed at the meeting. Also that a mass meet ing of the farmers am. business men be called in the court house on the first Monday in December to hear the report of this committee. During the coming winter months meetings will be held in each community in the county to explain the county farm program and with the assistance of the business men get as many farm ers as possible to adopt all or part of the suggested farm program. Every farmer in Halifax County, both white and colored, is asked to Attend the meeting in Halifax on Monday, December 2, at 10:30 and hear the recommendations of this commitee discussed. Miss Doris L. Stinson Dies at Rocky Mount Rev. V. II. Grantham, pastor of the First Christian Church of Rosemary, was called to Rocky Mount Monday to conduct the funeral of Miss Doris Lunctta Stinson, who died in Rocky Mount Friday. Miss Stinson made her home here with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stinson, m;til three years ago when th? family moved to [ Rocky Mount. Surviving the deceas ed besides the parents are two brothers, Carl Stinson of Pig Stone | Gap. Va., and Howard Sitnson of Florida; three sisters, Mesdames lila Dickens of Weldon; Dorothy Ingle hart, of Houston, Texas, and Lois Ilaywood of Fayetteville. -□ Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Chambliss ac~ 'tended the Littleton Fair Saturday. HOSPITAL PLANS NEW BUILDING New Nurses Home Will be Bull*. Near Hospital; Mills Give $25, To Match Duke Fund MODERN BUILDING Will Be Erected ot Take Place of Two Homes Being Used Now Plans Are Being Drawn Plans and specifications are being drawn up for a proposed 350,000 building which will be the new Nurses’ Home of the Roanoke Rapids Hospital. While nothing definite i s promised yet, the Board of Di rectors of the Hospital has been planning ways and means of meeting a gift of S25.000 from the Duke Foundation, which was to be matched by local funds of the same amount. Recently, this amount was nromised by the .Mills of the Twin Cities, so that the entire '50,000 has been provided for. It has been recognized f< r a long ime that the present Nurses’ Home va far too sro.all and too far from _he hospital. It has been necessary in recent months, to rent another h .use on the Avenue to provide quar ters for nurses and student nurses. The location of the new building has not been decided, but it will be on or near the present property of the hospital. It must be located so as not to Interfere with future plans to en large the main building of the hospi tal, which is now one of the largest in this section of the State. The plans will call for a two or three story brick building large enough to accommodate the present number of nurses and also with room for any increase in the number of nurses. i At present there are thirty nurs- s at the hospital and the building will be built to acommodate at least thirty six nurses. The exact time for building and the location are not yet decided. The plan is only in mebryonic form but the completion of plans, the selection of an architect, the letting of the con tract and the actual construction work is now ony a matter of time. That the building of a new nurses’ home will greatly increase the effi ciency of the local hospital is easily seen, while the building itself will be a great addition to the list of fine public structures now belonging to the Twin Cities. -□ 71 CERTIFICATES ARE AWARDED Ep.vorth League Students Re ceive Awards on Completion Of Course of Study Last Sunday evening at the regu lar preaching service of the Mehto dist church, seventy one young peo ple were awarded certificates of credit for satisfactory completion of certain units of study in the Epworth Junior Society. Their names are as follows. j Cecil Coburn, Virginia Reevos,, Gwendolyn Coburn, Jack Brown, John Murray-, Catherine West, Margaret Towe, Sarah Crawford Towe, Jewel Reeves, Marjorie Hazelwood, Ar nold Gaddy, John Robert Myrick, Ed na Murray, Maxine Stancil, James Brown, Marilyn Wheeler, Mary Co burn Woodruff, Mary Frances Tay lor, Elsie Smith, Ophelia Chambliss, Elizabeth Gaddy, Annie Akers, Mil dred Brown, Mary Thomas Smith, Elizabeth Glover Marjorie Collins, Wade Myrick, Valera Stancil, Mary McNeil, Arnice Brown, Ethel Reeve;,, Mildred Balmer, Louise Brown, Eli zabeth- Barrett Charlton Coley. James Lewis Coley, Clarence Co burn, Viola Collier, Marvin Chambliss John Glover, Edward Glover, Ercelle Harris, Edna Hux, Dorothy Dope. Eugenia Roook, Virginia Taylor, Alice Vaughan, Annie Bell Wheeler, Albert Wheeler, Harvey Woodruff, Jack West, Stanford West, James i'yoe, Mildred Moss, Rosalie Taylor, Alice Taylor, Dorothy Hux, Alice Myrick, Edith Elm-ore, John Myrick, Virginia Akers, Evelyn Gaddy, Lelia Murray, Alice Hicks Smith, Cora Reeves, Mar vin Collier, Jr,, Mildred Tudor, Hazel i Elmore, Marvin Matkins. -□ Miss Edith Parham spent the week end in Oxford with relatives.
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