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I THE GREATER CITY LJ E| LJ U ^ | || NO ROOM FOR | j 15,000 POPULATION j jj J[ | | ■ A l\, /A M Jk\ J || KNOCKERS NOW!— J S ]_N 19 3 4! OF THE TWIN CITIES-ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY 1 WA™™!22L-J VOLUME 15. _ ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY. N. C. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 19th. 1929.NUMBER 3». WHITE WAY CELEBRATION LIGHTS GO ON FRIDAY DEC. 20TH Pig Cc'e! |~ation at ('itv Park To morrow Night Starting at Seven O’clock y yS SNAPPY~PROGRAM As White Way Is Flashed on for First Time; Everybody Is Invited There’ll be a hot time in the old town tomorrow (Friday) night. For bcgrmin/ at seven o’clock. Roanoke Rapids plans to strut its stuff nad 1 don't mean may be or perhaps. • This Friday night marks, an other milepost in Twin City pro gress. Sharply at seven a mass meet ing of all the citizens of this en tire countryside will start for a brief and happy celebration of the completion and official first lighting of the new White Way. 1 hey say there has been more talk and plans and g’eat ideas a-nl Castles in Spain and meet ings and dimourses and more plans and more talk for lo, these many years, about what should be done here. • In the past few months, a group of earnest and determined men, aided by the industries which are such vital part of our community, have decided to take action. This celebration tomorrow night is more than the mere turning of a switch. It repre sents the hopes and aspirations, fulfilled, of every public spirited citizen in the Twin Cities. It further marks the completion of a part of one task proposed. It is a concrete and living example of something accomplished. The merchants and business firms of Roanoke Rapids who are cooperating in staging the celebration cordially and earn estly invite their friends in ev ery part of Halifax and North \ ampton Counties to attend the celebration'this Friday night, to join in with the program and feel that they have, in part, eon rtibuted to the successful com pletion of this task. The Virginia Electric & Pow er Company which has played no small part in the development of this community and this sec tion of the State, has entered with pleasure into the spirit of the occasion. The company, thru its district manager, J. T- Chase, hastened the completion of the work when it was,' found that the town wished to celebrate tomor row night. Thru its sales mana ger, R. H. Goodman, the com pany contributed a good per centage of the incidental cost and advertising of the program. The program as tentatively worked out by a committee the first part of the week includs as chairman for the occasion, R. Hunt Parker, who stated he would make every effort to re turn from a business trip to do his share; a short address of welcome by Mayor T. W. M. Long, representing the otncial dom of the city; invocation by Rev. Leon M. Hall, music by the Rosemary Band; Christmas Car tels by school children; a short address by J. T. Case, repre senting the Power Company, fol lowed by the switching on of .the White Way for the first time; dther than tests,' which will probably be made in the daytime today. . T owind up this joyous night, there will be a treat for the chil dren. When the White Way is lighted and the darkness dis pelled so he can see to get into town, Old Santa Claus himself in person, “not a moving pic ture,” will come riding down the Avenue, and he will have a bit tie something for e'very child in the crowd. Folks are not to be alarmed at one blast of the fire siren some Continued on p»go 5) NEW DIAL TELEPHONE SYSTEM HERE DAM WORK STARTS IN 1930 IMPORTANT A special Christmas Eve edi tion of The Herald will be print ed on next Tuesday, December 24th. Til's wi’l tak° the place of the regular Thu sday issue qf that week. Desides regular advertise ments, the issue will be given over to Christmas Greeting ads from the merchants and business concerns of the Twin Cities. There will he no postoffice mailing except out of town and a copv of the Special Christmas Greeting edition will be placed on the front porch of every Twin City home sometime Christmas Eve. All firms wishing to send holi day greetings to their friend* and customers are urged to begin thinking about the copy for their ads at once and be ready to com plete the copy on Friday and Sat urday of this week. The plant of The Herald will be closed all day Wednesday, Christmas, and will reopen on Thursday morning. Correspondents are- urged to get the bulk of their copy in the office by «londay night, urgent news by Tuesday noon. As stated above, enough extra cjpios of The H- raid will be printed for the Christmas Eve Greeting edition so that a copy will be delivered to every Twin City home. This is addnhin to our rgeular county an out of . town Mi'r-tf. ibers. Young Girl Dies From Pneumonia Miss Lou Ellen Moseley, age IS, died of pneumonia Tuesday night at the home of her parents, Mr, and Mrs. D. P. Moseley at 738 Jefferson Street. Funeral services were held at 2:30 this afternoon at Scotland Neck. Surviving besides the bereav ed parents are four sisters, Mrs. Le ona Utley of Richmond, Mrs. Alice Carlisle, Susie and Nellie, and one brother, John, all of this city. -□ Hospital News C. M. Long of Seaboard broke both arms when hestuck them in a peanut picker to clean the machine. He was brought to the local hospital for treat ment. A. L. Morgan suffered a brok en collar bone in a car wreck near Halifax Monday. Birth announce ments: to Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Evan son, a girl; to Mr. and Mrs. H. Pitt man, a boy; to Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Jenkins, a boy. Mayor Wiggins of Weldon is a patient at the local hos pital. Mrs. R. M. Draper, Seaboard, Miss Ena Odon, Conway, Roy Rose, Pendleton, C. M. Drewett, underwent successful operations this week. GUEST AT BANQUET Miss Mary Anderson, formerly of Roanoke Rapids, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Anderson of tv is city, was a guest at the annual banquet given by the New Jersey Trust Co., of Long Branch, N. J., for its employees last week. The address of the evening was made by former U. S. Senator C. Asa Francis, long an official of the tank. Miss Anderson is an em ployce of the bank. The banquet was. j given hy the Board of Directors of the institution, which is the fastest growing bank in that city. -n Called To Bedside Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Matthews left Wednesday morning for Patter son Springs, N. C., wehre they were called to the bedside of Mrs. Mat thew’s’ father, Mr. L. H. Patterson, ile has been ill for some time and Wednesday morning they received a message to come at once as his con dition was rapidly growing worse. IMMENSE CROWD IS EXPECTED rVV‘”'as is one of tV few occa sions fo the year that s celebrated al most universally thru - it 4be world. In the past this sen- - of the year has heon commemorat ' ’'pry fitting ly in the homos and c^u-'che^ of the community, hut this vear it is the hope of every church ami organi zation that the comr.v.mitv as a whole wil unite in a Chri-dnias ser vice that will fill the auditorium of the High School to overflowing. To help this community spirit,' the churches of Rosemary ar;d Roanoke Rapids have given up their Sunday evening services on Sunday December 22nd. In their place a mammoth ser vice of song and Christmas worshin has been planned. This service will start promptly at seven thirty. The following program has been prepared: Rev. J. E. Kirk, presiding officer. Quiet music. Christmas Carol. Prayer by Rev. A. P. Mustian. Scripture—The Christmas Story, Rev. C. T. Thrift. Praker—Rev. V. II. Grantham. Christmas Carol. Story of the Christmas Tree, W V. Woodroof. Announcements and offering, Rev. Leon M. Hall. Christmas Anthem—Union Choir. Story, “The Other Wise Man,” Rev. Hugh Bradley. Christmas Carol. Benediction, Rev. J. N. Bynum. A music comittee composed of Mrs. •T. N. Bynum, chairn -in, Mrs. R. L. iowe, j.r.a Mrs. k. l,. Martin ar.d Miss Mary Scales ha»'e complete charge 01 that part of the program and they have asked the choirs of all the churches to lead the congrega tion in the singing of Carols and al so to render special music. The choirs are asked to meet Miss S alos Monday afternoon at the High School auditorium at 2 o’clock. Mr. J. H. Matkins has been ap pointed chairman of the ushers and will have complete charge of the seating of the congregation and the taking of the offering. He will be assisted by two ushers from each of the seven chruches in our communi ty. Mr. Matkins asks that those who have been appointed from each church will meet him in the Suerintendent’s office at the High School at seven o’clock promptly. This is a white gift service and everyone has been asked to bring some gift of groceries, clothing, mon ey, books or toys. These gifts are to be distributed later among the different families that are being tak en care of this Christmas. This is to be a part of the service but no one need feel that participation in this community Christmas celebration is dependent upon the giving of a gift. Everyone is welcome. A spec ial committee has been appointed to meet the people at the doors of the High School building and to receive from them as they come in their white gift. Tl)is has been planned that there might be as little confusion as possible. With such a large gather ing it will be almost impossible to have each one go forward and make an offering as is generally custmoary in the white gift service. This com mittee has been asked to meet at the schoolhouse at seven promptly, and they have asked that whenever a gift is wrapped that there will be attach ed also a small tag describing the gift. They have asked this in order that the package will not have to be unwrapped before being distributed If this is done it will be a tremendous help to the committee that will divide and distribute the gifts and it is to be hoped that everyone will take the time to do it. —-□ Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Johnson and mother, Mrs. O’Neal spent Sunday in North Emporia with relatives. SAYS PRES. OF POWER COMPANY Actual construct’on of (he dam at Roanoke Rapids will be started in 1930, according to an official announcement this week by (he President of the Virgi nia Electric and Power Compa ny. This dam wilt cost five million dollars and will he completed the latter part of 1931, according, to press dispatches from Rich mond. I he second dam, which w»l be I built later ten miles up the Roa noke River, will cost about four million dollars. The complete disprjch from Richmond is as follws: Construction of the first unit of the $9,000,000 super-hydro-electric plant on the Roanoke river practically on the Virginia-North Carolina line will be started in 1930, it was stated today at the offices of the Virginia Electric and Power Company. Preliminary engineering work is now under way on the huge project. The Virginia Electric and Power Company will spend between $1,850 000 and $2,000,000 in Richmond in 1930, it is stated. The budget for 1930 has not been completed and must be approved by the board of directors next month. The company, Jack Holtzciaw, the president, told the Chamber of Com merce on Tuesday, plans to spend $6,000,000 in Virginia in 1930. The allotment for the Roanoke river pro ject will be included in this amount. The first unit is expected to cost about $5,000,000 and will be finished in the latter part of 1931. The preli minary surveys and tests for the first of the two great projects have been completed. Mr. Holtzclaw is in New York to day conferring with William E. Wood his predecessor, and now chairman of the board of the Virginia Elec tric and Power Company. He is also vice president of Stone and Webster,, in charge of the utilities properties along the Atlantic seaboard. Of the $6,000,000 to be spent in Vir ginia in 1930, about $1,000,000 will be spent in the Richmond district on de velopment of power facilities and transmission lines. It is expected about two million will be expended in the Norfolk-Portsmouth district. -□ A COSTLY JOKE Much trouble and expense to the city has been experienced by the pranks of “practical jokers” who have turned in false fire alarms. .Com missioner G. N. Taylor, who loops after the Fire Department, promises plenty of prosecution to anyone caught turning in false fire alarms, and steps are being taken to arrest | and prosecute certain persons who [were guilty of this act one night last I week and after blowing the siren fled in a new Ford car up Hamilton street with their lights off. -□ To Beautify Comer Mr. F. C. ’V'Miams ha . purchase ! ♦ J.e property rcxt to his Irmc which was the f< rmer site **f ‘he Baptist Church on the corner •? iv jplton and Fourth t .vt (ts. He o', ins to plant grass and r. ’ ubbery, nave a small flower garden and build i temporary fence while g. owing a uv-ngo around the entire property. will make this corner one of the nmst attractive properties in the Twin C ities. AGEDLADY DIES Mrs. Virginia Critmore died at the age of 87 years at the home of her grandson, B. F. Hedgepeth, Hamilton Street. Funeral services were held yesterday at Rocky Mount. Charles Critmore of this city is a son of the deceased. KIWANIS GAME IS PIPPIN These who missed thp Kiwanis Club basketball game this Tuesday nigh4 at the High School Gym have only themselves to blame. The starting ! teams were Wvk Res? and Hunter Barbee, forwards, Neighbor Smith, center; Tommie Gat“5 am! Gay*. Ned Manning, guards. Thu; Wn.. the Wild Cat Team. Opposing them were the Night Owls: Cupt. Hugh Ca.np and Ray Goodman, forwards; Joe T. Chase center; Howard Pru.’en and Murphy Jackson, guards. As the halt and lame toil hy the wayside, their places were filled by fresh recruits in the persons of Jack Young, Clarence Grimmer, Charley Whipple, Joe Bynum, vYi’«on Mullins ' and others. The game ended with the score tied 12 and 12 and the panting players de cided to play off the match another night. It was plenty of fun. The crowd enjoyed every minute, as did the players. Special mention should be given the opposing centers. Neighbor Smith, the Leaping Lena of the Wild Cats, and Joe Chase, the Roving Center from Dartmouth. They held the center of the stage. A shot from the middle of the floor by Whipple, star fullback of the owls, astounded that.player more than it did the hilarious gallery. Wilson Mullen’s run for touchdown was a feature of the game. While Captain Hugh Camp pulled a Riegel and shot a free throw at his opponent’s goal. LAST WEEK FOR PRIZES This is the last week for the big double page Christmas spread with the names of lucky winners of Christ mas remembrances from the advertis ers on that page. Turn to the double page, read the ads, look for your name or the names of your friends. If your name ap pears, Mrs. John Jones, at Brown’s Store, go to tha tstore for your prize. There are one or two prizes for last week and week before last thai have not been called for and we are printing here the prize winners for the past two weeks. Winners for last week were Mrs. R. S. Ingram, Thelma; Mattie Scott, Garysburg; Miss Patience Moore, Roanoke Rapids; Mrs. P. Y. Lyncy, Rosemary; Mrs. E. W. Liles, Little ton, RFD; Mrs. Rebecca Hockaday, Rosemary, RFD; Mrs. I). R. Allen. Vultare; Mrs. E. M. Baird, Gasburg, Va.; Mrs. N. C. Crawley, Aurelian Springs; Mrs. Ada Lane, Rosemary. Winners week before last were Mrs. Rallie Gaylord, Rosemary; Mrs. A. J. Kee, Gumberry; Mrs. V. C. Mat thews, Aurelian Springs; Mrs. Kath ryn Moody, Henrico; Mrs. Sterling Moody, South Rosemary; Mrs. R. M. Powell, Roanoke Rapids; Mrs. J. B. Collier, Garysburg. If there is anyone whose name ap pears above who has not called for their prize, we advise them to do so at once. Then there are ten more lucky names in this issue of The Her ald on the big Christmas page. Read the ads carefully and get sug gestions for real Chritmas presents. Remember if you win a prize it was made possible by the advertisers on that page and through the courtesy of the Peoples Theatre and the Rose mary Theatre. Come to the Twin Cities and do yuor Cristmas shopping where you have more than fifty stores with mer chandise worth a million dollars to select from. Do not wait until the last minute, but come today. We will appreciate your business and every business firm will strive to please in [every way. PROGRESS On one page of this issue there is a full pape ad headed "Progress.” It is the advertise ment of the Virginia Electric and Power Company compliment ing Roanoke Rapids on the instal lation of the new White Way. That is Progress. Not to he outdone, the Rose mary Merchants Association, in a half page ad. sends greetings and congratulations to their Roa noke Rapids friends. Progress. And a stroll around the Twin Cities will convince all that pro gress is t'-c keynoto here today, notv* ithstar.iJ’ng the Jmo* busi ness whica is un!\t 'sil in t'-* South. I here e a brand new electirc sign of the latest type in front of the Crowd* r Depart nent Slore, shedding brilliant light in that section of rhe husH -.s distmt ft can h.* easily see ■. from Roa noke .hint lion. Across the street is a new elec tric sign the Walk.'r Electric Company, a beautiful affair erected this week, running up and down the front of the building. Going South down the Avenue, we find a brand new, spick and span red and white front of the Halifax Waste Materail Compa ny, a building just remodeled which is a credit to the commu nity. Still farther down and just across the tracks is the new fill ing Station of th eStandard Oil Co., which has just been opentd, a most attractive biulding. Drop back this way and there is a new electric sign covering the entire front of the marquee of the New Rosemary Theatre, spelling in vivid lights “Vita phone.” Come North into Roanoke Ra pids and besides the new White Way, the first thing that greets the eye is the new Baptist church, a magnificient building. On up the street, we find the new pleasure emporium of the city in Walter Cherry’s bowling alley with all new equipment in a redecorated building. Then we come to the Peoples Theatre where work is still go ing on in construction of the new lobby, which when completed, will present one of the most attract ive entrances in the State. And work will soon start on the remodeling of the Glover Building and the occupancy of same of which there will be more later. Plenty of progress. DIES AT AGE 82 Mrs. Fannie Haley, ago 82 years well known and widely related resi dent of South Rosemary, died at the home of her nephew. Tim alien las.. Friday. Funeral services and burial were Saturday afternoon. Two sis ters of her immediate family sur vive. Miss Mary Pearson of Rose mary was one of several grand neiecs of the deceas'l. -D Car Wreck Wednesday Two cars were wrecked Wednes day on the Highway near the Brick School when a Negro drove his car across the read in fr *nt of Mrs. bu 111« * Clo.vy who vr> driving from the Critmore funeral at Rocky Mount. Mrs. Silas Baggett, mother of Mrs. Cleary was injured in the crash. The Negro’s car was demolished. Dam ages were sustained by the other car which had been loaned for the funeral by Mr. C. C. Shell. -□ Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Johnson, Mrs J. O. Matthews and Miss Fannie Har ris spont Wednesday in Henaersoi I shopping. WORKING IN SEVEN MONTHS The Twin Cities and Weldon are to have the latest type dial telephone system and the tele r/ione poles will be removed from Roanoke Avenue. Equipment for the new tele phone system has been ordered and shipment will be made by the factory by April. The nc»v svstcm will be in operation and the poles will be removed before the middle of the summer. The above was the result of an all-afternoon session Tuesday of the Town Board of Roanoke Rapids and officials of the Caro lina Telephone and Telegraph Company, including the execu tive vice president of that com pany, who acted as spokesman. With him were three other of ficials, including the Company’s chief engineer. 1 he meeting was somewhat neatea a ttimes as the various members of the Board told the telephone company officials, in mighty plain English, what they thought of the telephone service. Everything ended in har mony as the telephone people capi tulated to practically every demand made by the town. Mr. Porter, the vice president, stat ed the case fo»* the telephone com pany. Re told of the trials and vicis situdes of is company in this field starting some twelve years ago, when all factories making their equipment had been commandeered by the gov. ernment for war purposes. It was necessary to put second hand equip ment here at that time. Five years ago, he stated, the town had grown s > that the first equipment was inade quate to handle the business. His company put in new epuipment to handle the situation and now it again faces the same problem; namely thac the town and number of subscribers have outgrown the system. I The Town Board granted a 25 % increase in rates with the agreement that a new system be installed. The equipment has been ordered, he said, but the factroy making the automa tic telephones was behind on orders and as the order must be made to specifications, it would be from three to four months before the equipment could be made and shipped. Instal lation would take about two months including the moving of the poles from the Avenue and the stringing of the cables in the alley. The Board was careful to protect the rights of Rosemary insofar as they had the power. Every move was made with the though uppermost in the mind of the entire Board that another year would see the two towns united. Therefore, they requested not only that the poles be removed j from the Avenue in the present limits, but also in Rosemary as far as Eleventn street, with the understand ing that at a later date, when the White Way should be extended to the Junction the poles in that section be removed also. Along the same line it was agreed by the Board and the Company that the Central station need not necessar ily be located in the present city limits of Roanoke Rapids but at some central point between the two towns. This matter was left to the discre tion of the engineernig department as to the exact location. Telephone officials explained the reason for poor long distance ser vice by pointing out that there was only four trunk lines between here and Weldon and free service between the two places caused the lines to carry about 75 per cent “social” calls. The new system will call for 25 trunk lines instead of four. The cen tral office at Weldon will be done away with, all inter-city calls pass ing thru the station here. Only long , distance wil remain at Weldon, hi the future system, long distance calls will be designated as Weldon Roa noke Rapids, instead of Weldon as at present. The increase in rates, company ef Continned on page 5) \? j
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