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- A 1 - „ | 31 PER CENT 1 ^ Of HJif» County Portion * * I OF THE TWIN CITIES-ROAN OKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY .LJSIISISSSI_ VOLJJME16. " ~ ” ’ ROANOKE RAPIDS—R06M4BY, N. G, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th, 1930. NUMBER 23. - ■ - - .- ■ —-:—— — .. —■ WORK ON BRIDGE AND ROAD STARTS TWO BEGIN SEPARATE CONTRACTS Road Work Starts 'hi Earnest With Bridge Work Preliminary Preliminary work on both the. bridge and road got under way3P*H terday morning as both contractors started small crews of men clearing away trees and Tinderbrush on the right of way-. The delay caused last week by fight of way problems was cleared up the latter part of the week by the Coun ty Road Board void everything is set for easy sailing so far as the con tractors are concerned. Low water in the Roanoke Rives is favoring the bridge contractor who will try to have his first pier start ed in the river in two weeks,"accord ing to Foreman Brown yesterday. Not being able to negotiate a road from the mam highway to the bridge site, the Austin Bros. Bridge Co., are us ing the railroad siding of the Roa noke Mills Co. One load of equip ment has arrived and has been un 1UBUCU «IIU ailUblici tuou to v..f the latter part of this weak. At present a crew of ten men is unloading and placing equipment and cutting out fhe growth on this side of the river where one "of the piers will be placed later. Carpenters are working on forms to be used in build ing the piers. About twenty men will be added in “two wekks but in the meantime the builders are flooded with applications. More than one hundred men applied for work Mon day and Tuesday. The P -R. Ashby (Co, of Raleigh, contractors who will build the roads and*fills on each side of the river, began work ywterday morning with a large crew 8f nien and tnck. About twenty:five men aiid as many head of stock were busy on this job today with forty to fifty men and sixty head of stock needed a little lat er. W. R. Han is the superintend ent in charge of this work and he al so reports more applications for jobs than he can ■ever fill. He has started his crew on the oth er side of the river cutting a wide swath through ' the lowland from the present road to the river at the point where the bridge will be built. After leaving the second bridge from Camps Store, the- new road will curve slightly to the right and then head straight to the river. The new bridge will hit'the Halifax County aide just a few feet above the Roa noke Fibre Board plaht, spanning rail road track and canal. ’ It will follow the high ground .carving to the' left after crossing the -present Power Company Toad, umdeeume: iBtoi'Roa noke Avenue tadow ' the old canal bridge. The Ashby coBteatt calls for grading and graveling of one-und three tenths miles, which is from' the did canal bridge on this -side "f>f‘ the river to the heginriing of the-asphalt surface on the !HI1 past thefBurkin's filling ■teflon. That paft-df the present roaa wmcn will be uxefl will be raised about two Seet with the road on the Northamp ton side'df'tfceibrSdge dTtipping to t** mid road on -» gradual hlope * height fif»e«Moetr.ab<^— Prese? f|MH ' ln-i-rl . w -» f Hart^timatee thegrading and s_1#la^< Job will Wke from sixty to "Ssy days. He has -established a camp at the site of the oji) .dancing pevjttivfl. """v 'Se.' i »*• Twin City Youth* 'v Leave For College Among the Twin City boys and girls who left this week for college were Miss Iva Pttt, senior at Duke, Miss Agatha Moore to Peabody Con servatory of Music, Baltimore, Wil jner Collier, junior at N- C. State, Ed win Akers .Freshman at University of N. C„ Graham Lynch and Ralph Shell, freshmen at Duke University. ROSEMARY METHODIST CHURCH Mr. W. L. Knight, Jr„ of Weldon, Lay Leader of the Weldon district, will speak at Rosemary Methodist Church next Sunday morning at el even o’clock. The pastor, Rev. C. T. Thrift, will preach at 7:30 p, p). The public {« cordially invited, Child Wounded As Parents Fight For Possession of Gun filter Newsome, of Belmont, was aamssed a fine of $5, and costs, by Magistrate R. L. Martin, Monday, dhen he was convicted on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. Newsome was arrested the same day by Deputy Sheriff L. E. Keeter. The trial x was the outgrowth of a disturbance at the Newsome home be-1 tween Newsome and his wife. During the disturbance Mrs. Newsome tried! to take a single barrel shot gun from her husband. During the scuffle tke' gun was discharged, the bullet strik ing their R-year-old son, lodging in his neck. The boy was given medical treatment and was sufficiently re covered to start to school last Mon day. -n HALIFAX FAIR ON OCT. 14TH 7th Annual Fair Here Opens In One Month The 7th Annual Halifax County Fair will make its bow to the public one month from this week with the gates opening Tuesday mormng, Oc tober 14, and remaining open day and night until Saturday night,' October 18th. The fair grounds on the highway between the Twin Cities arid Weldon is being put in first class'condition by Secretary W. H. Joyner ,who has a crew of men painting, fixing fences, track and midway. Mr. Joyner says this will be the best and largest fair yet attempted. Thousands of dollars in prizes and premiums are tJehig offeree by the Fair Association, much larger than in previous years. The premium, list, compiled and printed by The Herald Printing Co., of this city, is now be ing distributed to the farmers and schools of Halifax and Tvorthamp ton counties. The grandstands and exposition halls will be packed with exhibits of every nature. Tnzes are given for more than 750 differed en tries. Added entertainment features for this year include free shows in front of the grandstand, band concerts, a show of saddle horses, running and trotting races, horse shoe pitching contests, a flower show, poultry and livestock exhibits. The midway will be bigger thau be fore with nine rides, sixteen shows and fifty concessions. Friday, October 17, wiTl be Child ren’s Day, with every white school child in the two counties guests -of honor. • Saturday will he Colored School Childrens Day. The Colored Main Building will have exhibits rilf school, work, fancy work, canned goods, flowers and agricultural exhibits, fol-j lowing on a smaller scale .the exhi bits in the main mrfRtorium. Grandstand performance^ *n*rfn at cne o’clock in the jSfr*****1 8ev* en at night. -U—— Motorcyclist Crashes Into Car On Avenue unknown motorcyclist speeding upti^ie Venue Sunday night crashed ir.to m Ford Roadster that was turn ing ]hr|t into Fifth Street. The auto driver turning short but had the right of way. The motorcycle rider either &>uld not control his machine or was blinded by approaching lights, as he sped on iinto the car which was just leaving the surface. He was tak en to the hospital for first aid treat ment of minoir injuries. Charged With Shooting Belmont.—E. A. Moffett, Charlotte , nan, who has been in Belmont jail barged with firing three bullets into \ lis «on-in-law, A. T, i. Smith, has )een released on $5,000 bond. Smith s said to be improving. -CD Manager Faces Charge i CharlottC-^R.'-W, Smith, [Charlotte 1 nanager (or Swift A Co., haa been < charged' in recorder** court with giv- i ng short weight*; trial to b« held I Saturday. i rELEVOX SERVANT COMING Wectinghouse $22,006 Robot To Be At High School Mim Katrina Van Televox, me chanical servant, developed by the Weathtghouse Electric and Manufac turing Company, will be the principal attraction at the cooking school to be held at Roanoke Rapids High Sdhodl auditorium at 2:30 p. m., Sep teniber 26. Katrina will be brought •to Roanoke Rapids by the Virginia Electric and Power Company. One of the unusual features of ibis cooking school is to be Miss Ka trian Van Televox, the now famous WedtiJngbouse Electrical mechanical woman who actually talks .cooks, meals, runs a vacuum cleaner, turns on fans and lights, and in general makes herself useful as a household servant. Miss Katrina is a sister of Herbert Televox, who, if you remember, start led scientists two years ago with his accomplishments as an electrical ro bot servant and who is now talcing the place of men in the operation und control of sub-stations, power plants and airport lights. Miss Katrina, however, confines herself to domestic duties and will in person demonstrate the Westinghousc Electric Flavor Zone Range at the cooking scbodL She will talk, run a sweeper, make coffee, toast and operate lights. Mr.. Arm strong, representative of the ’West nghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, and also Katrimfe boy riend, says that she is less *than a ear old and cannot walk yet, but he .Apccus io nave uci running aiuunu in a few years. Ratal na, unlike most women, responds to a low crooning whistle, the more you whittle, the more she does, but, says ,Mr. Arm strong, “If you get the right une, she is liable to play the*victrola -vhen you want her to open the ga rage doors.** The Televox mechanism is consid red to be one of the most remarkable electrical or mechanical inventions 'f the last ten years. It is, perhaps the nearest thing that has ever been | created to a human being. Herbert and Katrina, members of the Televox 1 famtfly .answer th effdephoue, res pond to commands given them over the phone, tell what they are doing, and when yon say gued-bye 'to them, lang up the receiver. They are the •esult of six years’ study and re earch. They are the culmination of the efforts of some of the moit bril iant engineers m the -country. Roy Wensley, Westmghouse Electi’ic En gineer, is the man from whose head sprang the idea of a race of automa tons to do artmail work. He differs rom Karl Capek, author of R. TJ. R., n that Wensley*® family of robots ac ually does woifr formally dot>3 by human be inn. jno.ITbass IS^DEAD Descendant of Family for Whan Weldon Was Named j Passes Away John Booker Bass died at*h» homt in Halifax on September 11th. Mr. B*3s was 56 years old, he was horhl in Weldon, N. C., his parents being Aafcrew and Mary Ccfllier Baaa, and was a descendant of the Weldon fam ily lor whom the town was naned.' In 1S96 he was married to Mary Ed na Yvung. He was a Mason and a planner, having farmed extensively in the lower part of the county. He leaves besides his widow, one son, Raymond Bass, four grand daughter, a brother, W. G .Bass, all rf Halifax ,and four other brothers, lames 3ms, of Baltimore, G. W., H. C.* M .M. Bass, and a sister, Mrs. Vf. M. Bunlham of Richmond, Va., and Vfrs. Geo. 3urnham of South Mills, The funeral services were held in ' he Baptist Church, of which he 1 vas a member, 1>y Rev, Jno. Kirk, as- 1 isted by Rev. 1S. P .Moore of the Episcopal Church. He was buried in 1 he Episcopal cemetery at Halifax. -□ CONDITION IMPROVING The condition of S. H. Matthews, •f Rosemary, wh osuffered a broken i eg about three weeks ago, is show- r ng rapid improvement and Mr. Mat- j hew sexpects to be able to he out !lh i i few days. Mr. Matthews was taken 1 o the Roanoke Rapids hospital when 1 ie was injured and later was removed « o his home, where he is recuperating, t Special Page For Aurelian Spring* Through cooperation with the faculty and pupils of the Aure lian Springs Schools, s special page fur that school and commu nity will be run In each issue of The Herald durlag the coming your. That proa parous section of the county has loag been friendly to tho Twin Cities and last year the people from here who attended the Klwanlg Glib barbecue at An relian Bprlndk were amazed at the splendM aeheol buildings and the pngrsasireneas of that com munity. Much of the pews on thin spec ial page till be written by the children theasaeires. Extra co pies of The Herald will be seit to Aurelian Springs each week so that commuUjjy can feel tha' it has a newspaper of its own. Through this means, we hope to unite closer still that leading ru ral section trigh the leasing in dustrial section of the enmity. HALIFAX GIRL IS SfCOND Hannah HeDtmstall Gets Second Place In Na tional Contest Miss Hannah Heptinstall, the State dinner in the National Essay Contest 3n “How the Benefits of the Agricul ural Marketing Act Can Be Brought to the Cotton Farmer,” took second >lace in the national contest held at Washington, D. C., Sept 15. Mr. Robert Evans of Cameron, S. C., took first place. Miss Hentinstall received $50 in cash and a gold medal for this victory in Washington. The representative from South Carolina received $150 and a gold medal for taking first place in this contest. This contest was held in the Federal Farm Board Building in the presence all the members of the Federal Farm Board except the chairman, Mr. Legge. Tl^jittdistinguished body of men followed each speaker with the closest attention, even taking notes now and then as important points were emphasized. When the contest was over, it was suggested that th cyoung contestants be made Junior members of the Farm Board.' They expressed themselves as being most favorably impressed with the work being done by the young peo le in the High Schools throughout j he country. It is thought such a; ■ontest would be sponsored by the1 Joard for -another year. It was stated hat over 4,000 essays were written .n the contest for this year. Aurelian Springs High School is grateful to "Mr .M .G. Mann of Ra eigh .assistant manager of the N. C. C. G. of A.., and'Mr. Hugh Johnson, ield director of Halifax County, ferr ?or their interest and untiring efforts throughout'the entire contest. They, together with their families followed us to Washington and there gave the Aurelian Springs High School repre entative, Mbs Heptinstall their un iring interest and left not a stone ■nturned for the entire Aurelian Springs delegation. Air. Mann was the spokesman in presenting the con estants and speakers to the Farm Soard. _ I Fire Destroys Shack Near No. 2 Roanoke Fire of unknown orign; Saturday rfight destroyed a frame shack across the railroad back of Roanoke Mills Bfa. 2. The shack had once heen used for a soft drink stand but had been vacant for a number off months. Apathy residents report seeing candle ights burning there at various times, md It is thought the building was :sed either by card players or Ihard Irink salesmen. Ne one was seen round the building prior to its (de traction Saturday tti^tt. The Fire )epartment confined its efforts to aving telephone poles near and prt- , enting the fire from spreading to, he woods. Valla Up On New i Hospital Building j Construction work progresses rap- 1 lly on the new Nurses Home back f f the Roanoke Rapids Hospital. The 3 lain walls are now up and the build- } ig is nearing n anterior completion. ] "his Will ban on*? of the most modem 1 uildings in this section of the State 1 nd will be ready for use in about t wo months. » , , 1 OFFICER FIRED AT BYNEGRO Negro Wanted On Many Charges Escapes Un der Fire mithy Carter .colored, whose home is said to be in Roanoke Rapids and who has been wanted by local author ities for several months, on various harges, including larceny, asault and violating the prohibition law, made a sensational escape last Thursday light, when he fled from officers, who fired at him 23 times, each shot going wild . Acting upon information furnished them by persons whose names were not divulged, Deputy Sheriff L. E. Keeter, of Roanoke Rapids, Jack Thome, Weldon police official, and Dunk Wood, chief of police of Jack son, went to the home of Jessie Car ter, brother of Smithy, located four miles below Jackson, on the Norfolk load, where they were informed Smithy Carter was hiding. Upon their arrival at the Carter home Officer Thorne went to the back door of the house and Keeter and Wood remained on guard at the front door. A colored man, whose identity was not learned, attempted to make his escape through a window, but up on seeing the officers turned back. Mr. Thorne knocked at the back door, his summons being responded o by Jessie Carter. Mr. Thorne asked him if Smithy were there and he was nformed he was upstairs. The col ored man then reentered the house. Mr .Throne thinking he was going to call the man the officers came for. A few minutes later a gun was fired rom the inside of the house. The weapon was presumably pointed to ward Mr. Thorne, because the bullet nissed his head only a few inches. A few minutes later Smithy Carter umped from the house and started unning under the rapid fire of Offi cers Keeter and Wood. Each shot went wild and the colored man per fected his escape . The next day officers returned to the Carter home and arrested Jessie Carter for assault. He was placed in jail at Jackson in default of a $150 bold. . madeIn CAROLINA PROGRAM Local Womans Club Co operates With Gover nor Tfext Week During the week beginning Sep tember 22nd the Womans Club will sponsor a program, “Made in Caro lina,” and during this lame a com mittee composed of Mrs. Frank Wil liams, Mrs. "Leslie Towt, Mrs. Leon HaTl and Mrs. J. N. Bynum, assisted by ■dihreTs, -will decorate store win lows both "iii Rosemary “and Roandke Rapids showing made in Carolina goods. ine window in Roanoke Rapids will be in "B. S. 'Webb’s Furniture Stare and m Rosemary at L. 1a. Shell Fur niture Co. The nuerdhants of the "towns 'wTH be asked to decorate their windows antirely with Carolina goods, and al so to advertise in The Herald special articles “‘Made in Carolina.'” The clubs of 1*he State were asked by the Governor of North Carolina to put on this program and it is to be hoped ‘that the merchants and in dividual citizens will give their bear-! ty cooperation t® this splendid pro-f gram. | Let’s stand by oar State and trade; »t home movement. There will be a place in both Webb’s! >.nd Shell’s windows for those visit-', ng these stores to register and the: public is asked to cooperate in this vay. -O \ndy Gump Now Has 1,176 Hours In Air — Andy Gump, local tree sitter who i out after a world’s record in his , articular line of endeavor, finishes is seventh week aloft this Friday fternoon with an official total of ,176 hours. Two more weeks will ive him a total of 1,600 hours but as et Andy has not said what new goal i e has set. His manager, Hubert Col- ! ns, is writing this week to find out ! rhat the official record in the conn-1 ry is. Several lonfc distance sitters 1 re still up but very few in the thouB- ] nd hour class. . • i Notice Tobacco Growers A mass meeting of the tobac co growers of Halifax County is called to meet in the Masonic Temple, Enfied, N. C., on Wed nesday, Septem^r 24, at 2:00 P. M. A representative of the Feder al Farm Board will be present to discuss with the local growers plans for the relief of the present tobacco situation. Every tobacco grower in the county is asked to attend this meeting. W. O. Davis, County Agent. OFFICERS TAKE MEN AND STILL 65 Gallon Still, 2 Men Taken-Series Arrests In Northampton One 65 gallon capacity still and three barrels of mash were confiscat ed and two men, Thomas Tudor, white and Kinley Evins, colored, were ar ested in a series of arrests conduct 'd in Northampton County this week ■>y Deputy Sheriff L. E .Keeter and \V. E. Massie Northampton County constable. The still and mash were confiscated and Evins was taken into custody by the officers last Tuesday evening in a raid conducted about two and a half riles from Camps Store. The still, officers believe, had been in operat ion for several months. Operators of he still, officers said, were working rom seven o’clock in the morning un til five o’clock in the evening. Wheth er a night shift was operated was not earned. Evins furnished a $100 bond foijJhis appearance before a North ampton magistrate for a hearing. Thomas Tudor, better known as “Bugger” Tudor, was arrested 'Wed nesday morning by the same officers near the scene of the still after he lad been chased about 200 yards by Deputy Sheriff Keeter. A colored man, whom officers believe is Maude Ingram, escaped Tudor was walking toward the still; with two empty jugs, it was learned, and told officers he was going to get them filled. He was charged with aid jing and abetting to violate the pro hibition law. He furnished a bond in ;he sum of $100 for his appearance •efore a Northampton magistrate. After the officers arrested Tudor hey returned to the scene of the still. On their return trip they found Ned Moody, colored, who is said to be an employe at the still. Moody was un aware of the raid that had been made and is believed to have been on his way to work. He started running when he saw the officers and escaped. He had not been apprehended this morning. -□ John W. Finch Die* Here Yesterday At Age 64—Here 20 Yr* John W. Finch, age 64, passed away at his home here yesterday morning after a lingering illness. Funeral services were held this af ernoon at Nmshville. Mr. Finch came lere twenty years ago from Nash County and until lately was an employee of the Rodemary Manu facturing Co. His wife died about one year ago. Surviving are several children, most of them residents oi the Twin 'Cities. Among those re siding here are Mrs. Robert Medlin, -Mrs. Frank Thomas, Mrs. J. R. Adam, D. L. Finch, Dewey Finch, J. j] i’inch, Robert Finch ,A. Finch and D. Finch. Power Co. Fixing Street On Roanoke ■Work began this morning on fix ng that part of the street on Roa .oke Avenue which was torn up when :he White Way was installed a few nonths ago. The Virginia Electric md Power Co. is doing the work ind the construction is being done by r. R. Myrick, contractor. Mrs. Mattie Cobb Dead Mrs. Mattie Cobb, 89, wife of Ed ward Cobb, died at the local hospital iaturday. Funeral services were held lunday at the home near Halifag. Mr. Babh is/,a 'iweUkopwn farmer of lalifax County. The deceased was lisa Mattie Hudson before her mar ia**. STUDENTS HERE PAST 2,000 MARK First Chapel This Morn ing at High School— Schools Crowded True to prediction last week, the nrollment of pupils in the Roanoke Rapids City Schools passed the 2,000 '•ark with exactly 2,001 registered his morning ,the largest enrollment at this time of the year in the history of the schools . The greatest gain is shown in the Junior and Senior High School with some 65 more enrolled than last year a total this morning of 572. There are 1,429 enrolled in the grades, accord* ing to Miss Clara HearneV figures. The first chapel exercises of the new year were held this morning with Supt .C. W. Davis presiding. Only High School students attend regular chapel. There was plenty of fun and pep with all in high spirits. Cheer icaueis were eiecteci as ionows: se nior High School, Daisy McCommon* and Mark Allen; Junio rHigh School, Virginia Taylor and Jack West. When Mr. Davis called for the members of the High School football squad to come down front, thirty-six stalwart youngsters paraded down amid the cheers of their schoolmates. The line stretched across the entire front of the auditorium. A short talk was made by Coach Hoyle, calling on the student body for support, asking them to lend aid by attending all the games and by helping the squad to keep training rules. Chapel ended with school songs and yells. « Crowded conditions in first year grades has made it necessary to open two rooms for Rosemary beginners at the Band Hall in the mill village. Misses Gates and Margie Cannon are teachers there and Mr. Davis reports the school is very popular with par ents of first year pupils because of the nearness to homes. Crowded conditions also exist in the Senior High School with as many as 44 pupils in a single class. It has already been necessary to split class es in the 10th grade in two instances, with more changes contemplated. Work in all £->.iJ^ients is pro gressing smoothly according to Mr. Davis, and pupils are showing more than usual interest in their school work and activities. Jokers Jubilee Here October 7th With Famous Cast - - - Ml' Jokers Jubilee, a home talent en ertainment ,vvith a cast of black face comedians and a white beauty chorus <f movie stars will show at the High School on the evening of October 7. The play is for the benefit of the Physical Educational department and the High School Athletic Association. It will be staged by Miss Traynham Wyche who has had such annual suc cesses as the Zander-Gump Wedding, High Flyers and 44 Flappers. The students will not be called on to take part in this production but such famous local talent as Roland Johnson, Bill Alligood, Ned Man ning, Thomas Martin, Dick Mar tin, Graham Poyner, Coach Hoyle aunf Cleve Loman will be seen in action* as well as a number of the ladies, of" the faculty, - Jt _ T * : • ij Woman Gets 30 Days For Assaulting Child! c Vbut w?iS’ ne*M“ of Durhamf*1 North "h°,camc t0 ‘his section of from'r h Sb0Ut tW° mon‘hs fenced T u*""' Va- »« >« Me K L M c ,n jail by trate R . L .Martin, Monday, on a ^harge °f assault. The colored woman earold‘Td assauI‘ine ‘he 12 ear-old daughter of Jim Palmer al o colored. She was - ’ al 'osts of the case Unabla ‘° P*y the The negro woman was arrested hv rXLSnheriff,LEK“teraa^' ‘he hTme rf°fJe “fcLer’4 son. t'«rter, near Jack Contract Let For Teachers Home Here A teachers home for the colored teachers of Roanoke Rapids Graded don°°L ‘"I'4 iS n°W Un<ler con*truc> .ion near the main school building rsrt ™Si°Jf L ?°’*B,ary The con *?• ,#t by the School Board last we J- J*' Myrick- local contractor, bcihg the sufcdSsful bidder. The nnlding will be a seven room struc ure. •;