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<B!HJlal!i3iUlft«iW»«HH!ilHa!aia!!HHH!iiT!gn:a!!!!!'lll<»iJ|]ilJ«MilWI, V-iiii-iaa-iklii.’ HWmmtBUmim MaJlUiHII IMU1H1BBBWII l 1930 census I p 31 PER CENT | I Roanoke RapMs Township | j 0( Halifax County Population J 1’.:(rf1 THE TWIN CITIES-ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEM ARY L. ,1 VOLUME I* ROANOKE RAPIDS—ROSEMARY, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28th 19*!o. \ NUMBER 20. -- - - - - — - . . - - - -- ...... ..... — START NEW BRIDGE AT ONCE City Schools Open Wednesday, Sept 10 2200 ARE EXPECTED TO ENROLL More Than 60 "Teacher* Will Return Here Next Week “With prospects of ■O'enrorimcDt of 2£00 school children of Roanoke Ra jdds public schools wffl open for ac^ tanl work on Wednsdtey. September With. A few of the teacher* will begin ar-1 living the first of aedct week with tho hoik of them reaching/here next week end in time for the tweitays of special teacher* meetings, Monday and Tues day, September 8th and 9th. City School Superintendent C. Wi Haris is back on the'jib after taking r es* manager, whe "was here late* than the others winfcig up the bustj "ness affairs of the achool for laM year, will return next week. The teaching end eueprvisory staff •f the city schools wAmumbcr -OT this -year. Ten of these rHll be •newcom trs, replacing those who will not ret turn. The new teachers are Miss HM cn House, Bethel, Mies Catherine Heidi Pilot Mountain, Miae Velma Boykin1, Tarboro, Miss Inn Spainhour, "Nof ■Wilkesboro, Miss Elma'Tiohlmg. Wake Torest, Miss Sara Cannon,Honea Path B. C., Miss Mande Hunter, Sanford, Bliss Evelyn Tillman, Cary, Graham Poyner, Moyoek, and Orach Cranford Iioyle, Guilford College. The complete list of teachers is as fellows: Roanoke RupU*«wlil» aehool 3d able Regan, Irene Guidon, Virginia Forbes, Marjorie ChAfSman,- Mary •Wood Hall,. Helen House, ; Rebecca Fisce, Carrie Lee Arndld,"Bernice' Ay ;jor, Amanda Tillman, Mary Sue Hughes, Catherine Reid. Rosemary Graded Sdfaobl: Martha Spivey. Thelma Toler, Si nth Bean, V elma Boykins, Julia Blount, Betty W.tfi&tes, Virginia Gates,’Mary Low der, Reba Rhea, Marjorie' Cannon. High School Building, Etrnentary: Ruth White, LeGrand ERiott, Juanita Taller, Elizabeth Tait, Jtitz Spain hour,'Eunice Kimbrough, Vivian Elli ott, Eitna Holding, Mary Blalock, Omara'DaHiel,' Margie Caldwell, Sara Cannon,. Bertha Poe, Susan. W omble, Mrs.1l. 1C. Craven, Kata Bstaseo,. Sara W. Garsow, Henrietta Price. High School teachers: Aline Can non, English, Emma J. Darw, history, Mary Gantron, science, Sara Gurley, math, /Ada .Edwards, math, (Clw&ia Hunter, math and English, Vernie E. Eddins, French and Latin, Maute Hunter, English, Evelyn Tillman, home acononties, Ruth Chapman, cem mercial, R. G.lKnight, Industrial 'arts, Traynham Wydhe, physical edacation, C Onta Hwsmerfle mentary supervisor, Olivia Rooks, nurse, Irene iestss, secretary, Graham Poyner, English mid eommereial. Mart Sheridan, English, Mnrtha Craddodk, history, Cranford Eoy.le, physical adu lation, Thoe. L. Jftartin, ’ history and act. Martin, Cfiwfon, dsith.T V^iginia Blount, home economics, Frances Mi Clary, commercial work, C, IS, Leman, industrial arte, Mary Scales, music, P. A. Raid, taeinea. manager and teacher of ..hiateirji.—■—--$ Public GolfCourie The Chocoyotte Country Club gcilf course has been made a public course and one day this week fourteen nop in embers of the club availed them selves of the opportunity to smite the tall. The public may now play at any time by paying a small greens fee for the day, Club authorities stated this week. Special Coffee Offer; Attention is called to an' ad in this issue of “Gold Ribbon” brand of coffee and chicory which will be placed be for the public «U Friday and Satur day of thia week. More than 100 of the leading newspapers in this section of the country is being used this week by the "Gold Ribbon” people in ad vertising that* sppcl^ otter. ■ SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENTS High School Papih ' AS High School pupil* who hove not nKgistered should do so on Mon day morning, September 8th. Please meat in the High School auditorium at 8«. Vint Grade Children MU children who expect to be in tier Pint Grade an asked to register e*„ Tuesday,, September, 9th. These e»£ecttft*,to attend the Centnl School itaanoke Rapids, will register St than! leiMm* frear 0:80 to 12. Those «c4j pecting to attend the Rosenuury schsd^ eritt register at the Rosemary building; Ciom 10:00 to 4:00. Please observe the hours at the respective beUdinga. Gaston Township Pupils In answer to queries front Gas- j »on township parents who have been; sending their children to Roanoke Ra pid*. for certain grades, The Hurdle •was in touch with P. J. Long, North ampton County superintendent, and foe informs us that Gaston School will be made a Junior High School this year •and all 6th and 9th grade jmpflte'bf; Gaston township will be taught alt .the j Gaston school. This was tettechtf | iby the Northampton County hoard! last month. 10th and 11th .grade .pu-j ;pils will continue to attend .at Roa-j «Tioke Rapids. SIGNING PETITION i IN COUNTY Tax Relief Association la Calling For Extra j Session r The 15 praijjct chairmen Of the iTuilfax .Tax Relief .Association have been sefft petifodtis to be -used in 'Sign ing up a majority of the takpayv^rs in'i the county and sent to Governor O. Max -Gardner1 %4th the earnest -arid urgent request that be call a special session of the" members of the legisla nJte'ip.ordey that law* 'ittaylbe passed *"<£? rst oft 'the ' heavy irnfl -nirnweessary expenses of orgaurtui fc'the Appraisal and Assessment Boards tn evory coun ty cii the State.** j Pr*dnct chairmen ^Uere also sentj petitions addressed to the General As-; sembfy o fNorth Carolina, calling on the representatives to enact bnne that? Wi!! inaure a more equitable dfetribu-i 'tion of the tax burden m the ;.statej and thertby relieve “bti# farms, bomesj and reafl estate from the unjust 5)ro-| portion fJTt) per 'Cent or raorej^ojf the city and county taxes that smri^uro perty is near bearing.41* The Gonrnor is asked ifteqpv^ie a special session of the pat the earliest Ante possible affjtn; the\fo vember elections, the call tfrr*ijr pfsiflr mot later than November Petitions to Cfee chief 8xeilPitie *t»peehfrl sesmoe "» ©th«t JaffPvniy^e > enacted to guana tee a fair, just and! teqaitable app*-i«4 system for all' dattcies of pvopody, 4hat the heavy iLurften may be reduced on real pro perty ; and that mdd special session *nay prepare for the enactment, by -the -ensuing General. Assembly, the Revenue and Machinery Acts; and aonSider and prepare necessary mea •ares ft* TpXf Relief;- fM th» pass age of npefessary remedies for. the re lief of <tha land owners ef the state. “We fed that it .is ydkr bounded duty, as Governor of North Carolina, to take neeesary step! to save the real estate property owners from hav ing their prsperty Confiscated and save the great citizenship' of North Carolina further wasteful and un necesary expenditure of thousands of dollars which you can do by calling the legislature in special session im mediately followfnjfthS November, 1930, election.V Halifax bounty taxpayers will be tsked to sigp petitions addressed to the members \of the General Assem bly, requesting: _____ “Thajt you enact'laws that will fire the fartners and hodie owners an Sp oortunfty to redeem thei* property from the Cities and Countos, where they bjnee-been rgre^hwedfe^ha^ ALL READY FOR SPORT CARNIVAL Khuranis-Legion Combat Wednesday Afternoon [ —Half Holiday ■Everything is an set for the joint circus, field events, baseball gads' et Simmons Park next Wednesday Ufr temoon when ths Kiwaais Club and the American Legion win meet in mortal combat. i Th emerchants and business hons-| -US of the Twin Cities are asked toj dose Wednesday afternoon of next' week so that their employees may at-; tend the events. The admission to the field will be £Se and all the proceeds win go to the American Legion to defray the expenses of the Junior Baseball team which recently won the Eastern Csro lina championship. Every detail, even to pink lemon- ! sde and peanuts to be sold by the Juniors, has been worked not. The -various contests between Kiwanis and the Legion will start at 3:30. Part'd the program has been worked out "by a joint committee. One of the most exciting events will be a sack race with Alfred Mar tin representing the Legion and Em mett Matthews wearing the Kiwanis colors. This is -reported to ‘be s grudge race and has something 'to 'do with the price of grape juice. Preachers go m for a v ration when rn airplane race win "be staged with: “Leon Hall represen ting the "Legion and{ Joe Bynum the Kiwanis Club. Aj three-legged race wfR he staged with rCarl Churchill and Curtis Shell on the; Legion side and Howard Pruden arid ‘Neighbor Smith running for Kiwanis. Then there will be a specialty race, the secret of which is ndt divulgdd. between Frank Wihron, president of the Kiwanis Club and George N. Taylor, Commander of the Legion Post. A cracker-eating contest will be held with Billy Norwood 'stuffing for the Legion sard Th>b 'Myridk cram ming for the Kiwanis. The baseball game will staTt about 4 o’clock. Ned Msnrimg will‘■capt ain the Legion team and Hugh Gamp will lead the Kiwanis •uritfft. Among those vho will be seen m Hie* legion ar tillery are George ThjHot, Jay "Saun ders, Allen ZoTFic offer, Alfred Mar tin, Carl Churchill, "Ned manning, Bil ly Norwood, E. B. Reynolds, 'Frank Kemp, John Fisher, Shop Cullom, 3 om .Cullom, Tommy 'Gok, TRrresman ning iuid Bohnaop Weathers. Captain Camp wall bring from the Kiwanb camp a team from the fol lowing: Ray Gcodjnon, Hurley King, Leon Hill, Frank WfllianiiJ, Carroll Wilson, 1 Howard Pruden, Wick Ross, Jack Yoang, Clarence Grimnwr, Fwoik *VHspn, t'laud Dunn, Tommy (jates, Charley ffiavis and others. ■^Everyheffy’ is'aasuretd JJKBlaFUf’tu* a^d the memy goes 'ftr&good caijse. If this i^^teMpfaiJ&igger thiggs be joMy y&toUl lb* neat :yaar. KaiPeHdeV,‘p Branch .StoreHliri—i R. H. Pope Manager Another cham htord syifc**«B»tefwl *fce bihdneis cirdfe» *f the hint Cities tj|$8’week’with the opening (Mf tnott* nsary, owned and operated by the D. Fender (JSrocery Civ, of N >rfo!k, Va. ] U, H. Pope is manager of the new fetoxe. . As an added feature for the open ing day the store is giving, free of charge,-a load of bread to each of. the. first 300 customers entering the store' today. ; , The D. Pender Company at present is operating 430 food stores and 70 itdditional meat markets in North Carolina and Virginia. -n Thief Steals Articles From Court House Monday afternoon while Miss Un dine Ifux, who works in the Auditor’s office in the court house at Halifax, was tfit of her office foe a few min utes,fiiitoy Davjs, who says his home \is* in uRtimore, M4, went in the of fice and stole Mias Hux’s watch ami fountain pen that-waa lying on the desk. The police were notified and he was caught before He got out of town and lodged in the jaij.te await wl i CAR FLIPS ; FOUR TIMES Hubert Loitden Injosed In Anto Crash Last Friday Night Hubert Lowder, aOyeam of age, of Rosemary, is a patient in the Roa noke Rapids hospital, suffering from internal injuries remind when the automobile in which he jnd tleree'i»m panions were riding ^figured in a wrack on"the road befein here and Weldon late laat Friday evening. It was learned the machine turned over about four times. Lowder was rushed te the hospital, Imre, by a passerby where sm immedi ate examination wap^btfua. Bis con- I cition is showing iaggrrtmrment, ac-1 •cording to hospital adpdbes.'* Lewis Massie, Edit Beard and Glenn Gurley, also adtpoeemnry, were other occupants ef Ifl* ill-fated ma chine. Massie snsfca?nbul slight injur ies snd remained ambrnight in the hospital, his coatfittab mot being of such a serious nalnflft. Beard and Gurley escaped nitinvised. It was learned the car wen Wily(damaged. CRIMINAL COURT ENDS AT HALIFAX Grand Jury Finds Coun ty Jail in Unsanitary Condition Halifax Superior Court, August term, was completed last Saturday with 173 cases disgjmil of during the two weeks. PirntfrcSHythe entire term vas taken up with criminal cases. Judge N. A. Sinclair presided and R. Hunt Parker, solicitor, prosecuted. They are now hording-court in Bertie County. No more cases of importance from this township were disposed of hin the closing flays-df last week, the major cases being reported in the last ‘two issue’s of The Herald. One inter esting feature of the past court was that no more €han 'fifteen -men from Roanoke Rapids township were called 'fwr jury service. Almost half the r.ew grandjury, 'uttucih ’ holds for six months, were from this township. During the two weeks there were eight persons -sentenced to the State Prison and 51 to the county roads, a number of caws were let off with fims and costa -cnott. 'There were About seventy-f*we continued until the ne*a term of criminal court which will convene October 20, ;P930. The report of the g;rand jury to Judge Sinclair was -as. flolows: We the Grand -2ury aeapectfully re port that we haw aetrtd on.all bills presented to our body arid returned same into the Court. We or a committee, Vbave visited the comity home and sanatorium and found a.me in excellent.condition. W« recommend that all road camps bt screened. We visaed Register ol .Deeds ant Clerk's office axUvall coun ty records appear to 3be tiiodfy kept. ! We ..visited the jail and ifenrtd it in unsanitary condition. We ’recommend that some arrangements be made for prisoners to bathe, me rflso recom mtxid that the jail be pointed /t»n the injfide and thoroughly .denned; E H. Smith, Foreman. Judge Thompson IB At Local Hospital W. 0. Thompson., of Rosemary, Jib wd 3 . prominent po* ITUcal"figure in RtJifax CoraS^ en tcred the Roanoke iB-apidg hopitai jas a patent Tuesday wonting. Mr. Thompsopfcs suffering from a kidney ailment, it was learned^ .His. condition is not considered serious. For several years he has been connected with the Rosemary Manufacturing Co. Miss Sledge Dies Funeral services for Miss Betty Sledge, 39 years of age, whose death from'tuberculosis occurred at her home near Pleasant Hill, N. C., Tues day morning, at 10:30 o’clock, were conducted Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from her late residence. In Vfment Was made in the family bury ing -ground. Rev. A. D. Shelton, pas tor of the Soring Church, Methodist Protestant, officiated.' ij!: i [ 11 „■ ) COMPANY IS INSTALLING DIAL PHONES New System In Opera tion About October 1 In Twin Cities If you too three stalwart men come up on your front porch, don’t be alarmed. They are not bill collectors I or process servers, but a special crew from the Carolina Telephone and Tele graph Co. All this week end next, this crew will visit every heme which has a tele phone. For the past month, crews have been going ahead quietly string ing new telephone cables on the new poles which ran in the alleys back of the Avenue. Soon they will begin placing the l new dial plumes in every home. Then, in about a month, when all this work is completed and the main lines lead into the automatic exchange building at the corner of Fifth and Roanoke and from there to the main building and long distance station in Weldon, a switch will be thrown which will' put in operation all the automatic phones in the Twin Cities. The old phone service will be dis connected and the phones and wires lemoved. There will be no more Cen tral. Each person will act as his own Central. For example, if one should wish to call the editor at his home now, one must get Central mnd tell her “Num ber 334.” She repeats this number, to which one usually says, “Please” or “334 not 434.” After a certain amount of waiting and buzzing, you may get the editor, or you may get a report from Central that the line is busy or does not answer. A month from now, you may go to your phone and wanting the same party, you turn the dial to 4. It swings back automatically. You push it to 4 again, then 5 then 1. That is. the new dial number. You can hear the buzzer at the other end. If the line is busy the buzzer does not buzz. Very simple and if yon have any trou ble, you can’t blame Central. The present crew of men visiting ’ihone users are giving the new num bers and doing other work prelimi nary to installation of the new dial phones. _:n__ _ A MONTH Andy Gump Up A Tree Four Weeks Tomorrow Andy Gump will complete his first month aloft tomorrow afternoon at 6:30 when the local tree sitter will have 672 hours to his credit. As The Herald goes to press this afternoon he nears his 650th hoump a tree. Meager newspaper reports from va rious parts of the Notion give no final figures whkh surpass that made to date by Gump. Several have come down with between bOO and 600 hours to their credit. One tree sitter in Nor folk, heard from several days ago, was a little ahead of the local champ hut he has not bee® heard inn® lately. ■ A woman, who was reducing, is re- ' g/orted to have come down at 640 fours with a kas -of twenty-two pounds. A chap in Burlington is stHl aloft wffia Andy a few torn® ahead. Man ager Hubert CoUhts says Andy is up fo* t.000 hours. '-J Hawkins Opens Store The Ideal Economy Store, Inc., lo cated-'in the Thompson building, at 30 _ Eleventh Street, Rosemary, was purchased recently by H. W. Hawkins, j who took charge as proprietor of the j business tYm> latter part of last week. The store will be known in the future as the Hawkins Grocery Store. The Ideal Economy Store, Inc., was own ed by a stock company. Hello Girls Flee Fire routed out die telephone ope rators and beauty parlor operators from the second floor of the B. Marks building Saturday, afternoon. An oil stove in the Roanoke Rapids Beauty Parlor blazed up and caused a cloud of smoke which filled the upstairs. No damage was done but the Fire de partment was'right on the job, as usual- Telephone service was resum ed in. jess than; fire minutes. Atlanta Firm Low Bidder on Contract TO CURTAIL ROAD WORK IN COUNTY County Board Warns Taxpayers That Tax Cut Will Cut Work The first echo of the recent reduc tion of taxes in Halifax County comes in the form of a note of warning from | C. F. Gore, county superintendent of Highways, that taxpayers must not expect as much from his department as ift the past, due to reduced budget and salaries. With m 25 per cent cut in the bud get and an average 17 per cent in the wages and salaries of employees of the department, Mr. Gore predicts that the work of his department will be cut at least one fourth during the next year. He strikes another sad note by ex plaining that there will be little new construction work and convicts will be used for maintenance work, which will knock maintenace workers out of jobs. The County Road Department is simply getting a word in first, an-; ticipating future criticsm when many taxpayers will have forgotten the first thrills of a lower tax rate. Mr. Gore's letter is as follows: To Editors of the papers in Halifax County: J3y direction of the Highway Com mission of Halifa xCounty I am send ing you certain information regarding the activities of that branch of the County Government. I will thank you to make your own story -using the information below'. To meet the request for a lower tax rate the Highway Commission of Ha lifax County has made many changes [ in its plan of operation. | First, that part of the convicts who have heretofore been used in the "con struction of new highways have been divided into three parts and each of these have taken the place of a free labor maintenance gang. This means that no new construction will be un dertaken this year and that Very few I laborers will be employed. 1 Second, the salary of every em ploye has been reduced, the reduction in salaries being from 10 to 30 per cent ,the average being about 17 per cent. Third, the budget for this year was reduced from $168,000.00 to $127, 000.00, representing a reduction of $41,000.00, or 25 per cent. Fourth, the Commissioners have re duced their per diem 20 per cent. In addition to the above every means is being used to reduce the cost of every item of expenditure con nected with the highway work. With this reduced budget we will not be able to do the same amount of work that was done last year and it is possible that some few of the roads will not receive the very best of attention but we will do th£ very best that can be done to keep'all the roads in good condition. If anyone has any criticism to offer we ask that they tell us first and if we can pos sibly relieve the cause It will be done and if it can’t be done wel will tell them. I will thank you to give these facts and figures to the taxpayers of -the county through your papers. Very truly yours, C. F. GORE, Supt. Highways, Halifax County. Boy Shot By Mistake Albemarle.—James Harold Nance, had his head peppered with gun shot Saturday morning about two o'clock when his father, J. H. Nance, mistook him for a burglar and fired on him at close range. The boy had been in the yard and > was returing when his father heard him, reached for his gun, and fired through a crack on the hinge side of the door. Mr. Nance had a considerable sum of mon ey in the room, and prowlers had previously been heard about the house, hence his quickness to shoot. Doctors feay ^he boy will recover. | Cecilia turi^n 1 n>tf ROAD AND BRIDGE $114,000 Austin Bros. Bridge Co. Given 175 Working Days to Finish The new bridge across the Roanoke River at Roanoke Ra pids will be built by the Austin Brothers Bridge Co., of Atlanta, Ga., successful lOw bidders at the letting Tuesday by the State Highway Department. The Atlanta firm’s bid on the bridge was $94,774.10. The high est bid received was for $117, 000.00. R. C. Ashby Co., of Raleigh, was low bidder on grading and filling and received the contract for that part of the work for $19,267.27. Total cost of bridge and road ways will be $114,041.37. Unsuccessful bidders on the bridge included the Vicennes Bridge Co., Vicennes, Ind., At lantic Bridge Co., Greensboro, Roanoke, Va., the latter being Roanoke, Va., th elatter being the builders of the old bridge here. ' ” The contract calls for the com* pletion of the project in 175 working days from date of let ting, which is approximately seven months. The price also includes the maintenance and removal of the old bridge. The work will be known as State project No. 1702. Material included in the erec tion of the bridge Consists of 755 cubic yards of class A con crete, 58.000 pounds reinforcing steel, 3,000 ft, creosoted timber pilin, 72,000 pounds structural steel, 217,000 ft. B. M. creosoted structural timber, 3,00 square yards asphaltic concrete wearing service. The contractor stated h e would start moving his equip ment here at once, according to Capt. Jack Be Lysle of the At. kntic Coastal Highway Associa tion, who was present at the let ting of the contract. Actual wosk should start j * the next two weeks, wit^ steel arriying here in *^oht two months. , ’' ' Resurfacing 481 A large erew from the State Highway Department arrived here this week with equipmWW to asphalt Route 481 from Camps Store to Pleasant Hill. The work » being started this week. “«w * Seabrook Jones Accepts Position A t Sanford Mr. Seabrook Jones, for many years a valued employee of Shell furniture Co., has accepted a position with the Belk Stores in Sanford and leaves this week to take up his new duties. The rest of his family will follow him in a few days. Mr. Jones is one of the most energetic young business men here and his loss will be keenlv felt in business and social circles.
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