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(THE GREATER CITY j 1 NO ROOM FOR 15,000 POPULATION | | KNOCKERS NOW!— || IN 19 34! p WATCH US GROW VOLUME 16. ROANOKE RAPIDS—ROSEMARY, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 8th, 1930. NUMBErT. NO STATE FUNDS FOR NEW BRIDGE O ^___________________— __________________________ KEUGLER ADMITS NEED, SAYS FUNDS LACKING; ROUTE NO. 40 SUPPING SUGGESTS 10 TON SPAN FOR PRESENT Committee Holds Out For New Bridge If Possible Chance Mr. Frank Keugler, State Highway Commissioner for this district, told a committee of ci tizens here yesterday that this section needed and was entitled to a new bridge in place of the one which has failed but that unless some plan of financing was worked out, there was no way to build it. Various plana for financing the building of a new bridge which would cost in the neighborhood of a quar ter million dollars were suggested by various members of the committe, by Mr. Keugler and by District Engineer Gardner and bridge engineer Taylor. Mr. Keugler r,eets with Mr. Dough ton, chairman of the State Highway Commission, at Raleigh today, to dis cuss the matter of a new bridge. Members of ihe Kiwanis Club bridge committee Yrt also ir. Rnielg today conferring With members of the com mission and other State officials. Only one or two oi tne metnoas ior paying for the bridge seem likely of adoption. One of these incurs the lending of County funds to the State. While a law was passed by the last legislature making this impossible, Halifax County has money which w.as voted for that purpose prior to the passage of the law and in the case of an emergency, which exists here, these funds might be applied. Another plan suggested was the do nation of funds, which is, of course, impossible. All funds for this district have been allocated, according to Mr. Keugler, except small amounts held back for emergency cases. Money from the “equality fund” for this district has been put on the bridges at Weldon and Elizabeth City. Immediate Relief Immediate relief can be obtained on ly by small ferry boats, one of which was promised for completion and ser vice today by the Commission. High way engineers say it will be impos sible to ferry cars and trucks over due to low water, while a temporary bridge of piles cannot be built be cause of the river bottom of almost solid rock. Urder ior a new span m repiatt old one was held up today awaiting outcome of the conference of Mr. Keiffler and others with Raleigh of ficials. The first intent was to re place the fallen span and strengthen the present bridge for ordinary traf fic. The quickest possible time for completion would be sixty days. It would take a month or longer to get the steel work made at the factory and at least three weeks to install af ter arrival. 10-Ton Bridge Mr. Keugler also made the pro position of tearing out all the old spans and superstructure, reworking the piers, and putting in new steel spans and superstructure to make a ten ton capacity bridge. The old bridge was four ton capacity. This work would cost about $40,000 which | the State would pay. The committee would agree to this only as a last re sort, but refused to agree on any temporary repair, unless it was to be only for the period of erecting a new bridge which would take more than a year. It was pointed out by engineers that a new bridge would call for a new site, and the only available one being up the river above the Power Company. Surveys of this site were made when the Department was fig uring a location for one bridge some where between here and Weldon. (Continued on back page) TWIN CITY POPULATION TOTAL 9400 Incorporated Area 3,304 —Balance in Rosemary and Suburbs While final figures for the 1930 ; census for the incorporated area of Raonoke Rapids, 3,404, show only a, slight increase over the 1920 census, that portion of the community known as the Twin Cities, which includes the unincorporated town of Rosemary,■ South Rosemary, Belmont, Lincoln i Heights and other suburbs, shows a total population of 9,400. . The entire township of Roanoke Rapids has a population of 10,783. While two of the census takers have not finished their final reports on the township, those two who have the most populous areas are final, while the others have ony a few scattering entries which will not materially af fect the final totals. The figures by sections in the town ship are as follows; incorporated arc: 3,404; unincorporated area West of the Avenue and North of thrj S.A.L. Vfllage^^^ofhng^^tW unincorpo rated area East of the Avenue and South of the main Littleton Highway, which includes Vattsrson mill village, the Junction, Lincoln Heights, that part of South Rosemary East and South of th- Highway and the rural section West to Littleton Township: 2.**00; area South of the S.A.L., West of Belmont and North of the littleton Highway: 1,600. Estimated figures set the number of colored at 700 in the township, leaving a total of approximately 10, 000 whites. It is believed the percent age of whites will far exceed any oth er township in the county as the en tire rural population will # not exceed 1,500. The industrial makeup of the township differentiates it from the more rural and farmer composition of the other townships. It will be some weeks before total figures by townships and countiles will be available, but allowing for a five per cent increase in Halifax (Continued on back page) THANKSFOR CLEANING UP Womans Club Pleased With Co operation of Citizens Last Week The civic department of the Wo mans Club wishes to thank every ci tizen of the Twin Cities who helped to make Clean up Week a success. Marked improvements have been not ed in yards, alleys and premises The department wishes to express this ap preciation especially to the follow ing wh ocontributed greatly towards this urgent need: Mr. Lowman and his Boy Scouts who helped move the trash and debris on the cemetery road. As a little com pensation for their services, the la dies of the civic department served them apple-jacks and sandwiches. The Herald for donating the card board for the posters. The teachers and pupils for designing these so at tractively. Teachers and school children again for improving so greatly the appear ance of the schools and grounds. Merchants for the great improve ment in their stores and business sec tions. Mayor Long and the town authori ties for having Emory Park in Roa noke Rapids cleaned. The Kiwanis club for boosting this city-wide drive on dirt and appointing a chairman to represent them in this campaign. For trucks furnished by Triple P. (Continued on back page) NEGROES SEARCHED FOR^HERE Two Wanted for Battles boro Crimes Reported At Halifax The search for the two Negroes who Saturday night ravished Miss Eliza beth Powell, 18 year old Battleboro | girl, shot and probably fatally wound ed her escort, Frank Crickmore, and murdered Joe Lee, old Negro man, spread to Halifax County this Tues day night when reports came from farmers near Halifax that a suspici ous looking Negro was prowling around their property. About dark Tuesday, a farmer near j Halifax saw a Negro hiding near his barn. When he called the Negro fad ed into the woods. A posse of men was organized and began a search of the vicinity. One man reported that about 8 o’clock he saw a Negro, call ed to him to halt, and when the Ne gro ran, the white man fired at him. Later m the night a part of the \ posse combing the woods near the railroad caught sight of a Negro near the tracks, called to him to stop. He walked on and was fired at several times. Surrounding the woods where he went in between the State high way and the railroad, the members of the posse, which now numbered about 100 men, closed in and a Ne gro appeared in the other side of the fence near the highway. Messrs P. L. Harding and Will Moody were just alighting from their car. The called to the man who did not answer their demand to halt. When' Moody’s gun hung on him, Harding fired several shots at the Ne gro who slipped into the bushes. Tnis was about nine o’clock and from then until midnight, that section was thoroughly searched without avail. Later in the night, an old Negro was found in a nearby cabin, shot. But as Mt. Harding war. firing a pis • ol, he did not nit the man who was peppered with shot from a shotgun. The wounded Negro was much small er than the man seen by Messrs Harding and Moody which leads to the belief there were at least two Negroes seen and fi^ed on. The wounded Negro was a local one and deaf and dumb. Evidently, when call ed on to halt, he did not hear the challenge and was much astonished to get a load of buckshot. From then on, if he did meet other members of the posse, his fears of consequences was too great to permit him to make himself known at the time. Between nine o’clock and midnight several hundred cars stopped near the scene of the manhunt, many of them parking so as to throw the lights of the cars on the area being searched. Several hundred people viewed the hunt from the highway. While the search is about over here, it continues in the vicinity of Battle boro, where the triple tragedy took place, between Rocky Mount and Tar boro, where the Crickmore car was abandoned by the two Negroes, and near Elizabeth City where two Ne groes, one with a shotgun, fired on a farmers’ wife from behind the barn. Fingerprints found on the car have proved disappointing, according to ex perts. A half dozen Negroes are un der arrest, two of them being taken to Raleigh for safekeeping, altho of ficers say they do not believe any of those being held are the guilty ones. Rocky Mount police have issued an order for all white men to leave their guns at home from now on. This ac tion was taken after reports that armed men were entering houses in the Negro section looking for the two fugitives. At the hospital today doctors say Criekmore is holding his own and has a chance to recover, although he may never speak again. His entire throat was shot away when one of the Ne groes thrust a shotgun into the car and fired. Miss Powell is in a very nervous state and is suffering from mental illness caused by the fearful experi ences of Saturday night. Doctors say it will be sometime before she recov ers from the nervous shock. Mrs.. Frank Joyner spent several days last week of Greensboro. Wear a Charity Button. SPAN OF BRIDGE GOES DOWN UNDER TRUCK I Above picture shows collapse of bridge over the Roanoke river at Roanoke Rapids early Thursday. Two men went down with the truck. They were C. Leeuccnborg and H. T. Morris of Wilmington. The former was painfully but, it is believed, not seriously injured. Morris was in the hospital only a short while. l<ow water in the Roanoke is said to have kept the two men from drowning. People of the section are desirous of having a new bridge and regard the accident of Thursday as greatly strengthening their claim. The bridge was taken over by the state several years ago The Stato is now building a bridge over the Roanoke at Wel don six miles from Roanoke Rnoids ANNUAL NURSES SERMON Graduating Class Roa noke Rapids Hospital Hear Rev. Hedges The annual sermon for the graduat ing class of the Roanoke Rapids Hos pita was preached at the Rosemary Baptist Church Sunday night, May 4, ty Tfcev. J. L. Hodges of New Bern. The class, the nursing staff and the medical staff attended in a body and were welcomed by Rev. J. E. Kirk, pastor of the church. Special music was rendered by the choir and a solo “A Dream of Para dise,” was beautifully sung by Mrs. 1. E. Mason. The church was fill ed and many turned away because of lack of room. Rev. Hodges preached an inspiring sermon from the text “What Shall it Profit a Man if he Gain the Whole World and Lose His Own Soul?” The members of the graduating class are Misses Edna MeCommons, Stelfa Giles, Blonnie Taylor, Mar garet McDonald, Annie M. Etheridge, Martha Daughtry, Nannie Mae Wood, Lucy M. Hodges, Estelle V. Lilly and Nellie E. Williams. The nursing staff is composed of Mrs. Anne Hamilton Moore, Supt., Mrs. Broadhurst, Miss Clara Ruth, Mrs. J. M. Moss, Miss Avah Wood, Mrs. Carl Wallis, Miss Mary Joan Crawford. The medical staff is composed of Dr. T. W. M. Long, president, Dr. F. G. Jarman, Dr. J. W. Martin, Dr. R. P Beckwithj Dr. L. H. Royster and Dr. Bohnson Weathers. -l_J Associated Charities Drive Started Yesterday The drive for Associated Charities started yesterday and will continue all this week until Wednesday of next week. Workers are out combing the Twin Cities with the hope of raising at least $1,500 to carry on-the charity work of the community for the next year in a business like manner. A button is given to each donator. Please wear your button until the Irive is over next Wednesday night. -□ Another Apology Last week it was necessary to leave out several items because of the late bridge story. All those items were run in this issue. However, yes terday we were again swamped as tax collectors from three townships dumped in their lists of delinquent tax payers v/hich had to appear in this issue and which made it neces sary to again leave out several items of interest. These will all be run next week. -D* Give to Associated Charities. WOMEN OF HALIFAX ARE GUESTS Better Homes Week closed in Ha lifax County with a big picnic at the Chocoyotte Country Club with the Roanoke Rapids Womans Club as hostess. Many Club women of Halifax Coun ty gathered in Roanoke Rapids on Saturday morning at the close of a full week celebrating National Bet ter Homes week. The club members met at the home of Mrs. Fred Brown, president of the local club and were shown over the lovely ground surrounding her home by the members of the club. They then visited the Virginia .Carolina Power Co’s, offices where an electric al demonstration was held. Follow ing the demonstration they visited the Carolina Furniture Co. ,and ob served a bed room, a living room at the Webb Furniture Co., and a dining room at the Shell Furniture Co. A visit to the manufacturing plants in the Twin Cities was much enjoyed by the visitors. At 1 o’clock the wo men from the county and members of the local club gathered at the Country Club, which was made beau tiful by the use of many flowers, and a delightful dinner was served by the Better Homes department, of which Mrs. A. L. Taylor is chairman. Mrs. Frea Brown welcomed tne visitors, anti Mrs. N. L. Stedman. president of the County council, re sponded in a most gracious manner. Mrs. F. L. Nash gave two musical readings accompanied on the piano by Miss Helen Brown. Miss Ruth White gave two interesting read ings. Tw ©interesting contests were greatly enjoyed, and Mrs. J. G. Butts of Halifax won both prizes. Following the bounteous dinner ser ved in the Club House a brief busi ness meeting was held by the local club and the following officers for the coming year were elected: Mrs. F. M. Brown, president; Mrs. J. N. Bynum, 1st vice preident; Mrs. C. L. Whipple, 2nd vice president; Mrs. Hugh Camp, recording secretary; Mrs. A. L. Clark, corresponding sec retary; Mrs. W. H. Prudcn, treasurer. NOTICE TO VOTERS All voters in Roanoke Rapids pre cinct No. 1 who have not registered in the past must do so before May 24, if they wish to vote in the June 7 pri mary. Every Saturday the books will be at the old Methodist Church on Jackson and Second Street. J. F. WELCH, Registrar. All new voters in Rosemary pre cinct to vote may register at Triple R Gro. Co during the week and at the Rosemary Band Hall en Satur days. MONROE JENKINS, Registrar. 3t-5-22. -□ Wear a Charity Button. SUMMER SCHOOL PLANNED Six Weel»~Work For Children Behind in Any Studies A special summer school for chil dren behind in their studies will be conducted for six weeks if there are enough to warrant it, according to Supt. C. W. Davis. A charge will be made for the work by studies as there is no means of conducting the school at the expense of the town or state. Mr. Davis is anxious to know how many children will attend before more definite plans are made. His statements regarding the sum mer school are as follows: “We realize tha tsome of our chi dren are behind in their studies, and that others are weak in some of theirs and need to be strengthened for the next grade. Since this is true some of our teachers have consented to remain here after June G and conduct j a six week’s summer school, provided the demands justify their staying. “Of course, you undrestand that vre are unable to draw upon school funds for the support of an undertaking of this kind, and consequently will have to charge a small tuition fee. The amount, however, I think, should not exceed $5 per subject fn the High School and $4 per subject in the grades. "In case this summer scnooi is con ducted it will be our purpose to be gin immediately after the close of the regular session so we can end before the weather gets so hot. We would also want to begin at eight o’clock in the morning and end by twelve o’clock if possible. In case you are interested in this undertaking, we should like to know it at once, so that we may secure the needed teachers.” C. W. DAVIS, Supt. City Schools.1 -□ Rosemary Methodist Next Sunday is Mother's Day. Every mother in our church is urged to attend service next Sunday morn ing. A hearty invitation to all moth ers is given to come and worship with us. Husbands ought to come with their wives. Children ought to pome with their mothers. Let every body come. Sunday School at 9:45 A.. M. and preaching by the pastor at 1.1 A. M. -□ MOTHER’S DAY SERVICE Special Mother's Day services will be held at the Presbyterian Church Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. All the children are being urged to bring their parents to the services. Among other features will be a solo by Mr. Lipscomb. •-D Give to Associated Char- inj. PHALA VICK WINNER OF 4TH PRIZE Essay Is Worth $3 - Mrs.. J. G. Humphries Is Dollar Winner After three sessions of reading and rereading the many letters and essays handed in on the subject “Why We - Should Trade With Home Owned ‘ Stores/’ the judges held a final meet ing Tuesday night and selected twen ey seven of the best. From this num ber, they chose nine for the money winners and then proceeded to list the nine in order to see how the prizes should be awarded. Each judge selected and numbered the nine in order and then the de cisions were added together. It has been decided to print the letters of the four major prize winners, one each week. This week, we announce and print the letter of the three dol lar prize and als oannounce one of the one dollar winners. Next weekr we will print the winning essay of the five dollar prize and also announce another dollar winner. And so on I until the winner of the grand prize of I $15 in gold will be announced last. inis week, we print below cne essay of Miss Phala Vick, winner of the three dollar cash prize. We also an nounce as one of the dollar winners, Mrs. J. G. Humphries. In selecting the best papers on the subject, the judges tried to keep in mind the subject itself. It was not Why We Should Not do so and so, but an affirmative question calling for such aliments. V.sginality counted high as many of the argu ments given were the same. It will be kept in mind that the money for these prizes is given by the independent merchants of the Twin Cities, seeknig means of keeping at home for home consumption the many thousands of dollars which leave the community ejfli'y year for the necessities fo life, as Well as the luxuries. The above prize winners are asked to call for their money at the store of J. H. Matkirs, grocer, Rosemary, N. C. Mr. Matkins was ap pointed treasurer for this particular campaign. Below’ is printed the essay of Miss Vick. Watch for two more winners next week. WHY WE SHOLD TRADE WITH HOME-OWNED STORES « By PHALA VICK vv ny snouia we traae with our home owned stores? How many people stop to think about this question? Per haps a few, but not as many as should although it is a very iniprotant quest ion and means much to the welfare of our town. All of our people should begin to think about the importance of this question before it is too late. The home town merchants are here for service as well as profit, while the chain stores have the interest make money for themselves. The home town merchants have the inter est of their customers at heart while the chan stores have the interest of their employer at heart. The home town merchant keeps his money at home, while the chain store’s pro ceeds go to the head office other states. Would it not be better to keep this money here? If people saved the money they spent out of town, and spent it at home, the home town mer chants could buy and sell a better and larger variety of merchandise. How does the home town merchant help us ? In supporting the home mer chants we help support out selves in the organization that serves for our benefit. The churches, schools, homes and even the home papers are help ed because the home merchants adver se in the papers more than th0 chain stores. Who pays school and county taxes ? The home merchants. The chain store pays practically none. The school taxes enable us to have a bigger and; better community, in this way helty~,M, ing the unfortunate. The home mer chants contribute regularly to ouir churches, schools, charity and com munity enterprises. The chain store* helps no one. By aiding the different organizations, the poor are helped and the citizens are given a cleaner and more liveable community. When a* person spends money in a chain store* (Continued on hack page)
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