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HISTORY OF TWIN CITIES RADIOED BY S. T. PEACE The Roanoke River, noted for its freight from Norfolk and other ports channel! bass and water power, rises was distributed up the river, as far in the Western part of Virginia and inland as Clarksville, Virginia, and flows Eastward through North Caro- tobacco from Clarksville, then the lina to the sea. The name “Roanoke” ‘al«est tobacco market in the world, means turbulent, wrathful, muddy "as shipped down stream to foreign hard to control, in fact, it means markets. “River of Death.” and was given to In the year 840 the first ra.lroao the river by the American Indians in North Carolina was laid. It ran many years ago. Although there is Raleigh to Gaston and was much water in this river, at certain known as the Raleigh and Gaston rail points, especially at Roanoke Rapids. ™ad, now Part of Seaboard. Gas North Carolina'and Weldon, North ton was a depot town situated at tor Carolina, there are a great number of ht>ad t,f thls “ae-mlle canaL l\ had rocks in the river bed and at these at this tim" flf‘ee" ah,ppmg clerks points the water falls rapidly. With UP thc viver and through this canal the exception of nine miles of these and over the Ralel«h and Gaston Ralb Tockv rapids, the river is navigable ,oad- commerce was carried from the from the sea to Clarksville, Virginia. outside "'0,rld *° th®. eente1' of tho TV U - 1010 t. «. State of North Carolina. During the war of 1812, by Portu- „ gese and slave labor and by the aid lhls ,old canal f'nally weat oat. 01 of the States of Virginia and North use and Iate'' on becamc the subJf ‘ Carolina, a canal was dug nine miles ai' many disputes and law suits. Its long cutting out the rocky rapids and lofty an’bdlon of d‘vert,If ot *hc water of the great Roanoke River tor Day By Day it GROWS In POPULARITY! BREAD With the warm days of summer at hand, you will enjoy “Mammy’s Own Bread” more and more. Not only is it made with creamy milk, the finest flour, sugar, salt and yeast, but it is baked in the “Twin Cities” and delivered to your gro cer fresh daily. Ask for “MAMMY’S OWN” By Name — All LEADING GROCERS Have It! THE NEW BAKERY <» Rosemary, North Carolina i Makers of the Famous ■———1 OWN” | the purpose of grinding corn and fur nishing power for factories was at that time top-heavy and its promoting company went into bankruptcy at a loss of one million dollars. Mean while a rival canal one mile in length came into existence and upon the banks of this new canal, at a point eighty-five miles West of Nor folk there was born a new city, Roa noke Rapids, North Carolina, the new I owe31 of the South. The first enterprise to be erected in this new city and to be run by wa ter power was promoted and owned } v John Armstrong Chandler, later John Armstrong Chandler of Rich mond and New York. The building was designed by the late Stanford White, an architect in the city of New York. The factory made heavy kr.it underwear. This was in 1894 and Mr. Chandler has the honor of hav ing named the city “Roanoke Rapids.” In 1895 the second enterprise, The Roanoke Mills Company, makers of cotton outings or flannels, was orga nized by Major T. L. Emory of Wel don. Norht Carolina, W. S. Parker of Henderson, North Carolina, Charles Cohan and W. M. Habilston of Peters burg and Richmond. Mr. Parker was elected president of this company. I 1 nen came tne Kosemary ivianuiac {taring Company, founded by the late Samuel F. Patterson and later ope rated by his brother John L. Patter son and now operated by W. L. Man ning. This is the largest Damask mill in the world. And next came the Patterson Mills Company organized by and named af ter the late Samuel F. Pa'tterson. These throe mills now manufacture over sixty million yards of cloth each year. Since their organization, they have made considerably over a billion yards of cloth and consumed over sev en hundred and fifty thousand bales of cotton and aside from their water power have purchased over 500,000 tons of coal, the most of which came from the coal mines of Virginia and '.Vest Virginia. These three mills, Rosemary Manu facturing Company, Roanoke Mills Company and Patterson Mills Com pany recently have been purchased by the Simmons Company, makers of beds and mattresses and furniture, and these textile mills now make all the mattress cover material for the rationally advertised Simmons “Beau ryrest” and “Deepsleep” mattresses. The other products of these mills have a National distribution. The next factory of importance to he erected in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, was the* Halifax Paper Cor poration. This is the first sulphate pulp mill ever built in the United States. This paper mill uses twenty thousand cords of pine wood per year, purchased from the farmers of this community at a cost of bne hundred and twenty msand dollars. This mill turns out thirty tons of kraft wrapping paper each day. Its produc tion is sold in Nor!.':'. Carolina, Virgi nia and in all northeastern states. A large part of the capital for the first lame investment in Roanoke Ra BA¥ BAASGAIA’S! &i&t Set ter a Triable free Trip and a Summer of Enjoyable Driving Tire up for the season at low prices! Latest 1830 Goodyears! World’s greatest values because Goodyear enjoys lowest costs by building MIL LIONS MORE tires than any other company. Get Special Offer on “new Goodyears all around.’” FORD and D*e new Speedway Cords—Factor? Firsts CHEVROLET 30x 29* SC3 Specials 3J^ 4.40 JOYNER MOTOR CO. ROANOKE RAPIDS ROSEMARY Guaranteed Tire tteparntig'-Esllniates Free Wow Style JtkUifinde* Lifetime Guaranteed Superior tc. many ol the higher priced tire* Full Oversize Balloons 29x4.40 $5.80 Big Oversize Cords 29x5.00 $8.30 Heavy Du., ., uck Hr-g 30x5 8-ply 32x6 10-ply - $22.50 _ $35.50 pids was to have been furnished by capitalists in London, but this capital was withheld at the last moment or. account of a fear of malaria caused by the prvealence of mosquitoes. This fear has proven to be unfounded. When the United States Public Health Service under Dr. Von Esdorf, had cleaned up the Panama Canal Zone and Vera Cruz, it came directly to Roanoke RapidsT North Carolina, and there made the first demonstra tion of effective malarial control in these United States. This first work \ as under the supervision of Dr. Von Esdorf himself. It has been carried on faithfully and now Roanoke Ra pids is as free of malaria as is Ashe ville or any other healthy city. Not only do we have a great system of ciraiinagc ar.d oil drip cans provided against the day of the mosquito but in order to prevent typhoid fever and other intestinal diseases, every sur face well in the community long since has been abolished and all drinking water is obtained from deep wells driven below the finest crust of rock. Roanoke Rapids and its sister town, Rosemary, have a wonderful hospital w ith six doctors and seventy five nur ses. The long suit or pursuit of this hospital is delivering babies and patching up the automobile wrecks and not in dealing with chills and fevers. There is no evidence of birth control in this community. This young town of 30 years, has twenty five hundrde children in its schools today. in conclusion let us not forget the beginnig and the source of our exist ence, the old Roanoke River. This river rushes down through a part of Virginia into the Piedmont section of Carolina and then to the sea. The to tal fall over this distance is some thing like two hundred feet. At Roa noke Rapids North Carolina, the pres ent Hydro Electric development is de veloped under a head of thirty feet. Two miles above Roanoke Rapids the Virginia Electric and Power Company contemplates building another dam which will have a head of forty five feet, which in turn will develop some thing like forty thousand horsepower, flnd eleven miles above Roanoke Ra pids the Virginia Electric and Power Company owns still another site which will develop a similar amount of power, so that the total develop ment of the Virginia Electric and Power Company on the Roanoke Riv er, including what is already develop ed, will total approximately one hun dred thousand horse power, with a to tal cost of something like fifteen mil lion dollars ($15,000,000.00). Roanoke Rapids-Rosemary, N. C., is one town of ten thousand (10,000) people and exists because of the fact that power was made available at this point. It is a progressive, grow ing young town. Since the coming into this section of the Stone and Webster interests, the power from the Virginia Electric and Power Company’s lines has been made available in thirty (30) towns in Northeastern North Carolina, giv ing t • each and every community all tlie advantages of power and power service which are available in Rich mond, Ve in the past. Northeastern North Carolina lias been an agricultural district pure and simple, but with power made available, industrial de velopments in tiic section nre being seriously considered, and ea.h and every town and city looks forward to the future with coni' aence an 1 deter mination. Nctice of Sale NORTH CAROLINA, HALIFAX COUNTY. Under and by virtue of the term? and power of sale conferred on the undersigned Trustee in that certain deed of trust executed and delivered by Mrs. B. M. Gurkin. which deed of trust is dated the 15th day of Au gust. 1921, and duly recorded in Book 324, page 400, office of the Register of Feeds for Halifax County, secur ing a certain indebtedness therein set out and described, default having been made in the payment of said indebtedness and the undersigned hav ing been duly requested by the hold er of the same to execute the pow ers of sale therein conferred, the un dersigned Trustee will on Saturday, the 14th day of June, 1930, at 11 , o’clock A. M., in front of the Post Office door in the Village of Rose mary, N. C’., offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash at public auc tion the following described real es tate, to-wit: All those four certain lots or par cels of land, with all improvements thereon, fronting each twenty-five jfeet on the East side of Roanoke Ave nue in the Village of Rosemary, Ha I lifax County, N. C.. and running back each the same width between parallel | lines at right angles to the said Ave nue one hundred and forty (140) I feet to an alley, being shown and designated as Nos. Eleven Hundred Twenty-eight (1128), Eleven Hund | red Thirty (1130), Eleven Hundred Thirty-two (1132) and Eleven Hund red Thirty-four (1134), as shown on the maps or plats of the property of Roanoke Rapids Power Company, made by C. F. Gore and Company, Civil Engineers, Weldon, N. C., De cember 18, 1915 and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Halifax County, North Carolina, in Plat Book No. 1, pages 11, 12, 13 and 14, reference to which is hereby made for greater certainty of description. The residence of the said Mrs. B. M. Gurkin is located on some of these lots and the same were conveyed to . her by certain deeds of Roanoke Ave- j nue Development Company, dated Oc tober 4, 1916 and November 4, 1919, and recorded in books 274 and 311, office of the Register of Deeds of Halifax County, and reference to the same is here made for more accurate description. This the 13th day of May, 1930. CIIAS. R. DANIEL, Trustee. Place of Sale: Front of Post Office door, Rosemary, N. C. Date of Sale: Saturday, June 14th, 1930. Hour of Sale: 11 o’clock A. M. Terms of Salt: Cash. -lt-6-12. Doctors Disagree When children are irritable and peevish, grind their tcc".li ami sleep .restlessly, have digestive pains and dis turbances, lack of appetite, and have itching eyes, nose and lae r-, d- etors will net always agree 11 t i are suf fering from worms. Many mothers, tro, will not believe that ih. u- carefully brought up eliiiii.Yi.' can have worms. The fart remains th.d lie e .symptoms will yield, in a gr- .• majority ot eases, to a few (11>sc-s ot White s y'rcstn \\ r milugc, the sure e.-.pellant of round and pin worms. !■' wmr child has any ot those s.vmptoins, try this harm less, old fashioned remedy, v' eh veu can get at 35c per Oortlc from Taylor’s Drug Store, Rosemary, N. C. STATE M E X T REPUBLIC INSURANCE COMPANY Dallas, Texas Condition December 31, 1929, as shown by Statement filed Amount of Capital paid in cash __ .. $ 2,000.000.00 Amount Ledger assets Dec. 31st previous year, $5,730,085.40 Total __ _ 5,730,685.40 Income—From policyholders, $1,699,463,88; Miscellaneous, $346,063.89; Total -.- - - 2,045,527.77 Disbursement—To policyholders, $588,427.81; Miscellaneous, $1,200,007.20; Total 1,788,435.01 Fire risks—Written or renewed during year, $249,796,661; In Force _ 277,767,078.00 All other risks—Written or renewed during year, $5,619,544; In Force — -- - 3.231,368.00 ASSETS Value of Real Estate ___ 523,888.25 Mortgage Loans on Rea! Estate 1,812,315.20 Loans secured by pledge of Bonds, Stocks, or other collateral 15.000.00 Value of Bonds and Stocks _ . 3,171,213.86 Cash in Company’s Office - 34,860.54 Deposited in Trust Companies and Banks not on interest 42,069.00 Deposited in Trust Companies and Banks cn interest 20,539.46 Agents’ balances, representing business written subsequent To October 1, 1929 _ _ _ 320,626.93 Agents’ balances, reuresenting business written prior October 1, 1929 _ 6,406.89 Bills receivable, taken for fire risks 22,297.90 Interest and rents due and accrued . 69,057.60 All other Assets, as detailed in Statement 33,917.29 TOTAL _ . __ . $6,072,192.92 Less Assets not admitted ... 10,199.51 Total admitted assets ... $ 6,061,993.4! LIABILITIES Net amount of unpaid losses and claims 68,000.42 Unearned Premiums _ ___ 1,561.571.62 Estimated amount payable for Federal, State, county and municipal taxes due or accrued __ 125,000.00 Reinsurance and return premiums due ether companies _ 72,532.89 All other liabilities, as detailed in statement _ . _ _ 600,000.00 Total amount of all liabilities except Capital $ 2,427,104.93 Capital acutally paid up in cash _ $2,000,000.00 Surplus over all liabilities _ _ $1,634,888,48 Surplus as regards policyholders ___ _ 3,634,888.48 Total Liabilities - S 6,061,993.41 BUSINESS IN NORTH CAROLINA DURING 1929 Fire risks written. $243,199; Premiums received_ 1,391.00 Losses incurred—Fire, $12; Paid ___ 12 00 „T tt PAesi<?entX 1 Jalonick; Secretary, Edison C. Jalonick; Treasurer, W. H. Shook. Home Office, 3501 Gillou Ave., Dallas Texas. Attorney for service, Dan C. Boney, Insurance Commissioner, Raleigh, N. C. Manager for North Carolina, Home Office. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA—Insurance Department. j u ®ale’Sh». •Feb. 15th, 1930. I Dan C. Boney, Insurance Commissioner, do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct abstract of the state ment of the 'Repupblic Insurance Company, of Dallas, Tfexas, filed wih this Department, showing the condition of said Company, on the 31st day of December, 1929. Witness my hand and official seal, the day and year above written.—DAN C. RONEY, Insurance Commissioner. (Political Advertising) TWO ABLE OFFICIALS The term of criminal court concluded here this week is the sixth in succession in Vance County at which homicide cases have been irieti, and in every one of them convictions have been ob. tained. As regretful as it is that this form of lawlessness is so rampant, it is at least encouraging to know that the offender^ have not been allowed to get away with the crime without trial and punishment at the hands of the courts. We feel that it is proper and in order that expression should be had of the appreciation of the public for the aggressive and de termined manner in which the cases have been prosecuted. Soli citor It. Hunt Parker has been diligent and earnest in his efforts to convict, and he has been generous enough to say himself that much of the success attained has been due to the thorough preli minary work done by Coroner F. B. Hight in acting quickly and with precision in running down both men and women involved in killings that have occurred here since he has keen in office. Fur ther testimony might also be given as to the cooperation of tho Sheriff's deputies and police officers. They have done a good deal of investigation and detective work on their own part, and have contributed in no small way by obtaining evidence that was ne cessary in the proper prosecution of charges that have been drought. , , Since he has been solicitor, Mr. Parker has had some ex ceptionally hard fights on his hands in Vance County, as well as elsewhere’. The fact that he has had pitted against him in many of his more important cases some very able counsel reflects the more upon his unusual abilities and his fitness for the office which he holds. Smgel-handed and alone he has conducted a number of the cases he has had to handle, and has done so in a manner that couid not but excite the admiration of law-abiding citizens. The vigor with which he has prosecuted has made him a hard nut to crack, and at the same time his prodding of witnesses has been so fierv as to cause defendants to face him with fear and tremb ling, and in some instances to wither and collapse under his fierce assaults. The Third Judicial district is fortunate and to be con gratulated for having his services in the office he is filing so ac ceptably. The six terms of court held here in the past year and a half have offered ample opportunity for citizens of Vance County to observe the work of their officers of the law, and they have a right to a sense of pride in the functioning of the organization working for their protection. (The above editorial appeared in the Henderson Daily Dis patch, Saturdav, March 8, 1930). FOR SOLC1TOR PARKER R. Hunt Parker is seeking re-nomination as Solicitor for the Third Judicial District. He is opposed by Ernest Tyler of Roxobel. Mr. Parker has served ably and fearlessly for several terms. He has looked well to the interest of the State. We think that hi record justifies his continuance ir office. He has an added appeal to our citizens in that he is a native of Halifax County. We have a native son who is looking well to the interest of his State. We can see no reason for changing to an untried man so long as the duties of Solicitor are being so ably discharged. We shall support R. Hunt Parker for re-election. (The above editorial appeared in the Enfield Progress, Fri da v. March 9, 1930.) R. HUNT PARKER R. Hunt Parker, solicitor for the Third Judicial District of North Carolina has announced his candidacy for renominatior to that office. The fact that Mr. Parker is a local man running for a more or less State office is not sufficient reason for this news paper to support him. The fact that Mr. Parker has made good in this office, has raised it to a higher plane in the respect of the people at large, has discharged his duties without fear or favor, has dealt fairly with the defendant and the Commonwealth alike, coupled with the fact that he is a refined scholar and a gentleman gives us every reason to be delighted that he sees fit to serve the public in the future. We need more men of his calibre, learning and experience in the public iife of our Nation. With all due respect to any others who might see fit to oppose Mr. Parker in his candidacy, our candid opinion is that it wcuid be most difficult for the voters of this judicial district to select a more capable solicitor. (The above editorial appeared in the Roanoke Rapids Her ald. 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