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f THE GREATER CITY X|4h IJIh D A I |l P. NOROOMFOr ""~ j 1 15’000 POPULATION | A JLJmJ JL If KNOCKERS NOW!— j ■ ■ 'N *934! i OF THE TWIN CIT1ES-ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY _ 1 WATCHUS GROW VOLUME 15. ___ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY. N. ('. THURSDAY. JANUARY nth. 1030.__ NUMBER 39. BAILEY TO ' RUN FOR SENATOR Plunge? Zestfullv When Brogden Withdraws From Race Ending a long period of uncertain ty as to who would oppose Furnifold MeLendel Simmons, when he enters the Democratic primary on June 7 for a nomination for a sixth t<Tm in the United States Senate, Wilham. Jo siah Bailey of Raleigh Friday an nounced his candidacy and immediate ly assumed the role of an active can didate. Senator Simmons’ refusal to support Alfred E. Smith, the Demo cratic nominee of President in 1928, is expected to be an overshadowing issue in th ecampaign. “I am running this one to win,” de clared Mr. Bailey between long dis tance telephone conversations with supporters in all sections of the State. “I ran for Governor in 1921 with out evor a.-king any man to vote for me, but I have not met a single man sinced 1 announced this morning whom. I didnt’ tell I would appreciate his supnort and I shall keep it up.” Mr. Bailey's willingness to run came as no surprise, but the an nouncement of his candidacy did. Some weeks ago Mr. Bailey declared the ‘‘integrity of the Democratic Party” demanded that Senator Sim mons he defeated and stated he would run if no one else did, stating, how ever, that he would step aside for “any strong man.” Speculation recently simmered I down to Mr. Bailey, Chief Justice W. I P. Stacy and Asociate Justice W. J. Brogden of the Supreme Court. I It became certain on Monday that j Chife Justice St^cy would not run but | at that time it appeared highly prob- | able that Justice Brogden would make the race. That probability increased in the minds ot observers with the passage of days, but after many con ferenced in Raleigh and Durham Jus tice Brogden definitely informed Mr. Bailey yesterday morning that he would not be a candidate, basing his i declination on financial reasons. Mr. Bailey immediatel sent for newspapermen and announced his candidacy, but withheld a prepared statement. i “I do not consider my candidacy an individual one and shall take no steps without consultation with those who are interested in my candidacy and shall follow the advice given me in matters of that kind,” declared Mr. Bailey in response to a question as to who would manage his campaign. Hokever, the probability is that C. L. Shuping, Greensboro lawyer, who piloted the Bailey campaign in 1924 will occupy a similar role in 1930. Mr. Bailey is understood to feel that he would like to have the man who shar ed his defeat also share in his victory he anticipates in his Senatorial race. “I have three rooms here and shall get a fourth tomorrow and I do not expect to be practicing law, so I see no reason why I should not use these offices,” was the way Mr. Bailey set tled the question of campaign head quarters. There is no sort of question about the issue in the forthcoming cam paign. Nor is there any doubt but that Mr. Bailey will raise it vigorous ly. A colorful campaign with a proba bility of great bitterness is generally forecast. —-l_J High School Opens Season Tomorrow The High School Yellow jackets play their first game of the season on the home floor at the H. S. gym this Friday night when they meet Wash ington High School. A good game is •xpected and the public is urged to Attend and root fir the home squad. School attendance since the holi days hns been very good with an in crease in enrollment. Sunt.. Davis re ports fhat for the first time since he has been nerc every teacher was back on the job after the holidays. Usual ly sickness <.r toms other ca^re have made vacancies after every Christ- | mas reason. PLAN LIONS CLUB The Tarboro Lions Club has had representatives here for several days sounding out several business and professional men regarding the pos sibility of organizing a Lions Club ] in the Twin Cities. A meeting was called for this week but was post poned to a later date. The Lions Club is a service and civic organization similar to Kiwanis and Rotary. ( Check Petitions Before Submitting Names of those Twin City citizens who signed the petitions for the ex tension of the city limits and the for- j motion of av/ater and sewerage dis- 1 tiict are being arranged alphabeti cally s oth altsitmyebas j rally so that lists may be checked ac curatelv before the petition is pre sented to the County Board of Com missioners and the State authorities, j Chairman William Manning plans to .call a meeting of the committee this ; j week to continue the work. WOMAN’S CLUB MEET Mondry Club D;v; Charily Work Reviewed: Miss Hunt- j cr Speaks The Rosemurv-Roanoke Rapids i Woman’s C’ub held their fi-st me it-1 j ing of the ne*.v year on Monday af jternnon at 3:00 o'clock in the voca-j 1 tional building, with about tihirtv- j j five members present. Mrs. F. M. J Brown, president of tb« club presi !< ! ’ over the meeting, and the club col lect was repeated in unison. After disposing of several matters of business, an open forum was con ducted hv Mrs. A. L. Taylor on “How This Club can be improved.” Several things were suggested hut the one idea put through was that Monday shall be known as club day. The j regular meeting will he he’ ! as usual on the first Monday, the second Mon day all departments will meet and I the third Monday the executive meet- ' ing ".ill be held. The president stat-! ed that the club must go forward so j that in 1933 the'meetings can be held in the proposed new elub house. The chairman of the Welfare De partment, Mrs. T. M. Jenkins gave her report for the month of December which showed that this department helped many families with clothing, groceries and toys during the Christ mas holidays. 1 he program of the day was m [charge of the Civic Department, with Mrs. T. O. Wilson as chairman of the program. The speaker for this occa sion was Miss Claudia Hunter, who I spoke on “What Kind of Citizens Are Our Children?” She was most com i plimentary of the children in the I community as a whole. Miss Hunter is doing a great work with the child ren of this community. Miss Hunter suggested several things that would help the children among which was to encourage school children to go to Sunday school, encourage school at tendance, to teach elementary biology from the third grade up and work with the Girls Reserve club. , At the conclusion of this most in spirational meeting delicious sand A'iches and tea were served. HIDDEN TREASURE Is Gone: Yet Not. stolen. Por rowed or Touched: Lo«*al Citi zen Sobs Tragic Tale This is a sad story and a true one told us this week by a local man with tears in his eyes and voice. Thirteen long years ago, back in 1917, he lock ed up in his vault a bottle of legal ized bottled-in-bond. At the time of the denosit, the concotion had been in bond for several years. The years passed; times changed; the war, radio, short skirts, talkies, round the world air flights, prohibi tion and what-not happened. He for got all about the treasure locked in his vault, growing old and, they say better with age. Last week, a relative became very ill. Doctors prescribed a steady sti mulant. Memory of that hidden vin tage returned and our friend hies him self to the vault, promising his re latives and friends the surprise of their lives. Unlike Old Mother Hubbard, when he got there the voult wasn’t bare, but, some way, the bottle had sprung a leak and years of dripping and eva poration bad left less than a table spoonful of the aged and perfectly legal beverage. Legal because it had never been .cade, soli or trail* ported «ince 1919. DIES AT CALEDONIA Thomas Morton, inmate at the Cale donia State Farm, died there Tues day morning: from pneumonia. The body was prepared for burial here and shipped to his home at Maysville yes terday. MODEL MILL HOME IS FINISHED Contractor BusMs S a m~ pie Hmse for Proposed Mill Vi'lare Extension Out on the new Bowling Road, | which leads into Tenth street, where j the Rosemary Manufacturing Com pany plans to build mom hour's for its employees in the future, builders are completing a model homo. It may or may not be adopted by the mill company. Type, price, con struction, durability and lot of things enter into the final derision, but we want to say that if the m’lls Imre plan to build houses anything !:k > that for their « mob vees, we are go ing to get a .;oh in the m'lls. This r.md 'l b. 's :>R - rco and i p« f''-e pro if as tlvy m. k* ''vm. It is bu'lt of a special, pat 1 prows j vdilch assures, says t!v« ■’•.i’lde»\ ” armth in the w:"ter and -• i-dness in the summer and no damm - The ir’v wooden part f the h v is the floor. The house is of the Span' -h bunga low type with arches or the fr nt n >'vh. funny little windows, low, f'a( roof on top, sloping to the s-1‘s with red tiles, towers and other fandan goes one sees on the Snanish types in Florida and California. I There are four rooms in the model house, all large, three with big clos ets. There is a spacious bath ' room j and a little hall connecting the bath I with all the rooms. And right in the j house, hack of the kitchen and down 'a short flight of stairs, is the garage. This feature seems admirable. The garage is heated just like the rest of the house and no more freezing radiators, no more running out in the cold to tune up the old bus on frosty mornings. The stucco is heing tinted this week and you can select your own color and a machine shoots it on the walls in an hours time. Just think, if you get tired of the color, all you need to do is pick another one and in an hour your husband won’t be able to tell where he lives when he comes home from work. Be a good idea to keep bill collectors from finding you, too. Tell them you live in the pink tinted house, and when he comes around he will see a sky blue residence and will be afraid to come in. | It is really a wonderful little home and after the mill company moves some buildings in front of it and lay out a front yard, it will he worth a visit from every person in the Twin Cities. | It sits at a peculiar angle from the present road, hut that is because it has been erected on one of the pro posed winding streets which curves in and out on the beautiful plans of the proposed village addition of the Rosemary Manufacturing Co. The work is being done by an out of town contractor who is putting up the house at his own expense on the mill property and who has the pat-! ent rights on the cement blocks used j in the construction work. 1 SPEAKING CONTEST Eocnl Pow-r Comnany Em ployees to Enter National Con test for Trip to Europe R. C. Foreman, of the nersnnell de partment of Stone and Webster, was visitor here Thursday and Friday of last week. He outlined to the lo cal employees of the Virginia Elec tric and Power Comnany a series of public speaking contests which are being sponsored by the National Elec tric Light Association. Mr. Foreman has charge of pub lic speaking of the Stone and Web ster organization. lie is a very able public speaker and taught education in college. Local members the Power Com pany personell will compete in an elimination public speaking contest on a subject relating to the import ance of power and lighting to mod em civilization. All speeches will bo original. The winner of the local con test will enter the contest at Rich mond to decide the entrants in the national content, the winner of which will receive a trip to Europe with all expenses paid. There will be cash awards and other prizes for city, district and State win ners. Ray Goodman is chairman of the local contest and reports that about NOT OVER YET Just when the Twin City Police were patting themselves or. the hack because their vigilant ef forts of the past week had pre vented a recurrence of the rob bery epidemic which the commu nity has been suitering, some hold thief stole one of the police men’s car. Chief Cray drove Policeman Massey’s Ford Roadster to the hospital Tuesday night and parked it. He returned less than ten minutes later to find the car gone. A thorough search of the town failed to reveal it and SOS calls were sent out over the State. La*er Tuesday night, Weldon officers on the lookout for the car arrested Simeon (.arris. Po- | liccman Massey, brother of the owner of the car, recognized the auto and made arrest wi‘h deputy sheriff Mitchell. Harris has been out of the pen ; less than three months, serving a fourth sentence for ear steel ing. He ir in jail today. HALIFAX HAS FLORE STUDENTS _ Ira Hi<rN School Than Were Enrolled ir» En tire State in 1909 The citizens of North Carolina want to educate their children, says Miss Annie M. Cherry, president of the N. C. Educational Association, and gives interesting figures to substan tiate her claim. In 1900, there were 913 pupils en rolled in the High Schools of North Carolina. This year there are more jthan 1.000 High School pupils enroll led in Halifax County alone, more than there was in the entire State in 1900. | High School enrollments grew as follows: 8,505 in 1910; 30,868 in 1920; 81.569 in 1926. The increase in en rollment in State High Schools be tween 1920 and 1926 was 171 per con*. North Carolina ranked second in the nation in this percentage increase Florida was first, Phillipine Islands third and Virginia fourth. It is alsr interesting to note that all the lead . ns were Southern States, j In 1900, North Carolina had one child In high school for every 2.008 persons; in 1910, one fo- every 259 persons in the State; and in 1926 one .high school child for eveiy 33 poi sons in t'.c Mate. | In 11*26, North Carohnr. ranked 126th among the States in population per high school pupil. | The growth of educational facili ties and interest parallels a similar [growth in road building »r. the State. It also comes at the same time that industry, seeking a new field, came to North Carolina with power and mills, and with the growth of in dustry in the state has come the growth of the school system. The line of growth likewise rises and falls according to the generosity of the State from a financial standpoint. More interest and progress is made in those years when generous school ap propriations were made. Which is responsible for the other or others is difficult to say but there is no questioning the fact that road building, school growth, generous ap propriations and industrial growth go hand in hand. Rev. Hall Leaves For Navy Hospital Rev. I.eon Ilall left this morning for Portsmouth, Va., where he will enter the Navy Hospital for treat ment of undulate fever. The period of treatment is indefinite. Mr. Hall has been ill with influenza and con tracted the fever which is tenacious but not dangerous. During his absence, church services will he held at the Methodist church as usual and members are urged to attend just as if the past:.'* was here This Sunday morning at 11 o’clock services, the pulpit will be filled by Rev. 0. C. M< Iton of Garysburg. The Sunday evening service at 7:30 will be continued by Rev. .1. B. O'Briant. n STRICKEN ON VISIT Herbert Taylor, formerly of this city, was stricken with appendicitis while on a visit here and was operated on at the local hospital. thirty Power Company employees in this district will conipet'\ LOCAL GIRL WINS FAME IN NEW YORK Evelyn Hudson. Student Nurse, Saves Hosoital From Panic in Fire Miss Evelyn Hudson, local girl and daughter of Mrs. Margaret Hudson, manager of the Rosemary Candy Kitchen, is a heroine in the big city of New York. Miss Hudson left hero some months ago to start her career as a nurse and she has not only made good at that, but her actions in discovering and quietly turning in a fire alarm in one of Now Yorks' large hospitals re ceived the high praises of the hos pital authorities and won her not a Ht.tle fame in the 'world’s largest c tv. The hospital is six stories high and cover most of a city block. She has 1 een very modest about her part in •!) fire which threatened St Mark’s FI n’tal on the morning of December "Oth. hut 1hc, c is m" h t, > he proud < f in tin? nu’-IY <■ -ntr—*u'n tions of it’-. Hivsnalmn. d ■ licnl I>i rector of the hospital, a r > y .,f v.-- i -h was sent tot he I *rc sid« r»t of the p:ta!’s Board. In the utter received f»'om A. Hudson by her mother. bitlo was s id of the firo except that she distawored it in time to turn in a quiet alarm I I without arousing the patients and | the fire was under control with ut 'creating any excitement. | Miss Hudson seemed more grieved t lover the fact that her mother c uld not spend Christmas holidays with her than she was elated over the praise that ahs been heaped on her by her friends and associates in Now York. Mrs. Hudson had planned to spend the week after Christmas in New York but busines reasons made the trip impossible at that time. The many school friends of Miss Hudson here will be delighted to know of her success and The Herald takes this opportunity also to publicly con gratulate a local jrirl who is apparent ly going to make a success of the work sh*» has chosen. V.'e print be’ow the public state ment made by the Director of the St. Mark’s Hospital; December 81, 1320. I wish to publicly congratulate Miss Evelyn Hudson, the pupil ru>\ who turned in the fire alarm yesterday morning. She gave an exhibition of presence of mind, indicative not only of straight thinking but straight ac tion. Miss Hudson s handling of the situation reflects very great credit on herself and on her training. I take the liberty of enclosing a copy of this notice to Mr. Phillip dos sier, President of the Board of Trus tees of St. Mark’s Hopsital. JOHN T. BRESNAHAN, M. P. Medical Director. Executive Vice President of the Board of Managers. -n OFFICERS INSTALLED Kiwanis Starts Second Year With Plenty of Enthusiasm; Good Speeches and Music The Kiwanis Club was pleasantly entertained at its regular meeting last week by R. C. Foreman of the Stone and Webster Construction Company, guest of Kiwanian J. T. Chase, who addressed the club on the subject of “Good Sportsmanship.” Several in teresting musical numbers were ren dered by Messrs Buxton and Britton, | employees of Rosemary Manufac-1 turing Co., who play the banjo and J guitar like professionals entertain ers. A creamery for the Twin C'ties was suggested by Kiwanian Sam Peace and tlie matter turned over to the chairman of the agricu’tural com nittee to be made a major local pro ject for the club in 1030. President Frank Wilson was duly installed in oft ice by Past President Frank Joyner, who reviewed the work ai d accompPshments of Kiwanis dur ing its first successful jtar of life. Ot.ur officers installed weie Carroll Wilson, vice president, Pugh Bradley, secretary, J. Wick Ross, treasurer Frank Joyner, trustee, and the follow ing directors: George Taylor, Alfred Martin, Ned Manning, Joe T. Chase, A. E. Akers, Howard Pruden and Ju lian Allsbrook. Frank C. Williams, superintendent of Roanoke Mills Co., was officially greeted as a new member of the clue. Gas Co. Officials Ask Franchise Again lieimwntatives of a gas company "ore again before the Town Board of Commissioners on Tuesday after noon seeking a franchise in the city: 1 he matter was deferred once more "hili- members of the Board acquire more ;nlormation concerning the com pany seeking the franchise, as well «s data regarding rates, prices and problems which always arise in the issuing a franchise of this nature. I he city fathers are proceeding with the proper amount of caution in this particular matter. BUILDING INSPECTOR To Charge Fee for Building Cer tificate; Money Goes (o Fire Department Building Inspector Fitts will charge t I for the inspection of every 1'iill ng or old building repaired or ahfrcd and the sum total of the fws to the I* ire Department to buy 1 u 1; needed e-p.iipment. it was v «t**d 1 lbe 1 own Board rtf f'ommis ion r. Tuesday aftcrr.rv >:i. T'" State Daws of Xorth Carolina r"!;'.tmg to the erection and inspcct ior. of buddings calls f«»i* su. h a fee to be collected by the city building inspector. ’ j Paragraph 2708 of the building! ode reads as follows: “For the in-] sp-rtion of every new biulding, or old building repaired or altered, the local nspector shall charge and collect an inspection fee before issuing the building certificate, as follows: two dollars for each mercantile store room of one story, livery stable or building t for manufacturing and fifty cents for each additional story, and for oth er buildings twenty five cents per room: but the inspection fee shall in no case exceed five dollars. For in spection of old buildings repaired or altered the fee shall be ten cents per room.” It should be remembered that no person is permitted to erect a new building or repair or alter an old building without first having an in spection and building certificate from the local building inspector. Henry Fitts has been appointed building inspector for Roanoke Ra pids and the public is asked to co operate with him. His office can be the means of keeping from the city imits fire traps and undesirable structures and will also serve to pro tect the builders of desirable proper ty. The money frmo the fees will all go for buying equipment for the Fire •epartmcnU a most worthy cause. _n ANOTHER SAFE UP Weldon Office of Eastern Caro lina Service is Eatesl Victim of Safe Crackers Ganjf The Weldon office of the Eastern Carolina Service Corporation is the atest scene of action for gangs of obbers which have been terrorizing his community for the past month. This office was entered, the safe down and its contents taken after nidnight last Thursday, bringing the total store, bank and safe robberies to an even half dozen in less than two months. The robbers broke out the glass in the front door of the office, cut off the combination of the safe and blew ! the doors with nitro-glycerine. i Luckily for the Ice Company, there! was only between fifty and sixty dol lars in cash in the safe on that par ticular night. The night before, the cash had run into several hundreds, o it is thought the gang made a mis take in their plans. It was after midnight when the obbery was perpetrated because Ma .ager Worrell and others were work ing at the office until about midnight. City and County officers were in he vicinity that same night for other reasons but did not hear or see any h;ng suspicious at the ke company '1 lic-e. MR. MOORE DIES Joseph M. Moore, age 70, well tnuwn man of Northampton County lied at the home of his son, Tamlin ! doore, Sunday morning.- Funeral ser-! vices were held Monday afternoon at Ebenize Church, Greensville Coun ty. \ a. Five sons and two daught t -i’s survive. Rev. A. D. Shelton and Rev. 0. Bryant officiated. BELL HOME DESTROYED BY FLAMES Beautiful Suburban Resi dence and Contents Ra vaged By Fire Fire of unknown origin completely destroyed the residence of Sheriff H. L. Bell on the Bowling Road last Thursday night. A passing autoist noticed a glare in the back of the house and went to the filling station next to the house and reported. The men investigated and discovered the rear of the house in flames. A telephone call was put in and the Fire Department responded at once. When they arrived the entire house was a mass of flames and be yond saving. Spectators say it was one of the qirckest, hottest and most devasting fires they had ever witnessed. So quickly did it burn that not a stick of furniture was saved. The fire was so ho ttha tthe men who discovered it couhl not get near the house, and it burned so quickly that not a piece of wood was left and the ashes of the entire building could have been hauled away In a one horse wagon. The tax receipts, which are the Sheriffs’ most prized possessions, wore not burned. He keeps those with [him at all times in case anyone should volunteer to pay up, and on the night | of the fire the tax books were in the | Sheriff’s car in Roanoke Rapids. I Theie was no one at home when the , fire started. Sheriff Bell had been there about twenty minutes before and had passed through the house. Everything was all right and there . had been no fires in the house since morning, a few minutes before he left, the smaller children had come to town to go to the show with relatives. The older children we(,e an work in town. Mr. Bell’s home was one of the prettiest in the county. The front and side yards were especially attractive : and well kept with trees, shrubs and flowers. All of these, of course, were ruined by the fire, with the ex ception of the outer hedge. For the i present the younger children are liv ing with relatives and friends here and the sheriff and his older sons are boarding in town. Mr. Bell has not [decided if he will rebuild there as it [ is so far from town and school. Lost in the flames was the result of a lifetime of saving in antique furni ture. Four spool, four-poster beds, some ancient cherry furniture and other valuable antiques were in the house. Clothing and personal belong ings of the entire family were lost. The furniture and building were partially covered by insurance. Sheriff Bell asked The Herald to thank the members of the Fire De partment for their prompt action and efforts and also to thank the many friends who have been so nice to the family since their recent trouble. HOSPITAL NEWS Recent patients at the hospital in clude Mr. Felton Porch, J. H. Morgan, William Story, Baby Conwell Whit aker. Mrs. E. Lee of Boykins, Va., Mrs. Henry Tanner. Birth announcements: to Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Cuthin of Rosemary, a girl January 7th; Mr. and Mrs. George Harris of Roanoke Rapids, a girl, Jan. 8th. Rceent patients who have under gone operations: Miss Sallie Moore Pippin of Littleton; Mrs. J. C. Brown, Jackson; Mrs. Fred Lynch of Macon; Mr. Lewis Taylor and Mr. Hubert Taylor of Rosemary. Boy Thomas Cook of Weldon is in he hospital suffering with several uts and bruises sustained in an auto vvreck Wednesady at Weldon. Dr. L. E. McDaniel of Jackson, is mproving rapidly. Dr. McDaniel was n an automobile wreck near Jackson everal weeks ago. Curtis Murray, local golf champion ind “Pro” at the Chocoyotte Coun try Club, is able to walk around in the lospital. Mr. Ned Richardson is improving apidly from injuries sustained in the Pleasant Hill Tragedy three weeks .go. He may be able t cleave th® lospital in a few days. r-i » Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Roberson forn erly of Rosemary, left Saturday nigjf for Mount Caramel, Pa., where lv Roberson will continue his work wife the Stone and Webster Construction Corporation. Mr. Garland Humphries who will also work with Stone am? Webster accompanied them.
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