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j 1930 census 1 L§ L, L| L y A I Si I 31 PER CENT J Roanoke RaP,ds Township j ^ ^ gg^ * J Of Halifax County Population ) :i16,612 I OF THE TWIN CITIES-ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY .JN' VOLUME 16. ROANOKE RAPIDS—ROSEMARY. N. C, THURSDAY, October 9th, 1930. _NUMBER 26. TWO DIE IN FATAL AUTO CRASH LOCAL COUPLE IS INSTANTLY KILLED Ruth Clary and Buddy Thompson Meat Hor rible Detfth Two South Rosemary youths were fatally injured in an auto nobile accident that occurred near Vultare, in Northampton County, about nine miles from Roanoke Rapids, last Saturday night, at about 10 o’clock, when a Pontiac sedan driven by Bud dy Thompsos washed into a Ford truck operated by Lorenda Bonner, colored. The sedan was completely demolished, while the truck, owned by John Shaw, of Northampton'County, was only slightly damaged. The dead aetlBuddy Thompson, 21, son of Mr. .and Mrs. William D. Thompson, and;Miss Ruth Clary20, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. I. Clary. Miss ClaryHi twin sister, Ruby, was t-eriously injured and was rar.hed to the Roanoke Rapids hospital imme diately after <the accident. She was unconscious ijpon her arrival at the local hospital, but later repaired con sciousness. All reports that Ruby Clary had Tier leg amputated, or had died as a result of the accident have proved false. Hospital officials hold hopes of her ;K:covery . William Thompson and Jiofcn Ellis, other occupant of the machixs-, escap ed uninjured. According to information obtained by this newspaper, the Pontiac was traveling on a side road thik side of Yultane when the accident happened. The truck, it was learned, had stop ped on its right side of the road to wait for the approaching machine to pass in order to turn up a driveway that leads to -She home of Joh 1 Shaw. The car driven by young Thompson, it was said, was swaying from one side of the road to the other, and when it came to where the truck was standing, crashed into it. A police official stated there is no trtiii- in the report that the truck had only one front light. The theory has been ad vanced that the occupants of the se dan had been drinking and some or all of them were under lire influence of intoxicating liquor at the lime of the wreck. An empty bottle thought t® have contained whiskey was found in a side pocket of the car. Later a half gallon jar containing lujuor was found some distance from the scene ct* the accident. This jar, it is claimed, was removed from the wreck by one of the young men involved in the ac cident. Bonner stated he saw the boy run away from the car with a jar. Th ethree boys andt wo girls toad been to Brunswick County, Va., where it was learned ,they visited Young El '.Jis* father, who is enstianged from bis wife. Police say that young Ellis visited his father to discus*, family af lairs and especially the enstrangc- : jnent of his parents. There were two boys and on egirl on the front seat of £he seda* and one boy and one girl on the rear seat of the tear when the wreck occurred, ac cording to information. On tl>' front teat with young Thompson were Ruby Clary and William Thomason, while Ruth Clary and John Ellis occupied the refer seat. It is thought that Ruth Clary and young Thompson were fit ting or the same side of the car when their machine hit the truck. When persons arrived at tbc seem1 4)f the aeeident the motionless bodies of the dead boy and girl were lying on the ground. The Clary girls head was resting in a pool of blood and her brains wore scattered about the ground. Near her feet lay a pool of blood and brains. It is thought that the dead girl’s body had been moved or that she had moved her body her eelf before she died. Her twin sister was immediately taken to the local hospital after it waa found out she was still alive. Thmopson received several deep la cerations to' his face and head. It is believed the cuts sustained in the re gion of his temple and forehead and the impact caused by the collision were the cause of his death. His left Arm was broken at the elbow. Miss Clary’s head and face were crushed. It was learned she was identified by g ring. Her sister's injuries consist (Continued on back page) EPIDEMIC OF AUTO ACCIDENTS Luke Harris I s Charged With Hitting Man-and Crashing Car Luke Harris of Seaboard was 'bound over to Halifax Superiior Court by a Weldon magistrate after he was ar rested, charged with driving tm auto nobile while under the inference of liquor, striking down a man with his car and later smashing into another car. Harris is charged with running recklessly in South Weldon. John Nixon of Rosemary was fixing a tire near the side of the road and was struck by the speeding car. Harris is said to have continued on his way and was not arrested until he wrecked his car in a collision with another car. He is already under a suspended sentence of two yeaTs. D. Katz was bound over- *to Halifax Superior Cour tby Magistrate Thomp son last week on a charge tit driving an automobile while under the influ ence of liquor. It is charged that Katz ^rruck the automobile of Lynn Barnett on the highway near South Rosemary. Katz vas pardoned several months ago by Governor Gardner after he had been found guilty of a charge of- entering the bank of Macon. The pardon was granted'because of the total lack of anything out cir cumstantial evidence presented to a Warren County jury. Summer Bell, colored, was tried in Northampton County yeserilay in a o' * il suit and made to pay the dam ages and costs of the case -after it was shown he was at fault in a motor accident near Jackson Sunday . A. R. Daughtry of this city was driving near Jackson and was behind v.".e Bell car which pulled out of the road and backed suddenly into Mr. Daughtry’s car. Both cars were bad lv damaged altho nobody was hurt. William H. Joyner .nephew of W. F. Joyner, died last Friday Truer) -tiijm i es sustained the night before while driving from Oxford to his home at Henderson. Mr. Joyner sought to avoid hitting some people walking on *.he highway and lost control of the car. He was 19 years old and was busi ness manager of the Henderaon VDtfily Dispatch. Two weeks ago, he visited Mr. and Mrs. Joyner here. Va. Woman Diet Here Mrs. Gertrude Delbridge, 30 years .of age, of Brink. Va., died at the Roa noke Rapids hospital ^October 4. 'Sire bad been in failing health for over a ygar. Funeral services were conduct ed from the Forest Hill Church, near Emporia, Va., Sunday afternoon, at 3 o’clock, by Rev. Finch, of Emporia. Intorment was made in the church cemetery. Correction The names of the Newsome Oil Company, of Rosemary, and Smith’s Service Stations, Ine., of Rosemary and Roanoke Rapids, were uninten tionally omitted in a Shell Gasoline advertisement that appeared in a re cent issue of The Herald. The New some Oil Company is the* wholesaler for this product and Smith's Service Stations are the retailers. INFANT DIES Thomas Y. Exelfa, 10-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ezelle, of Roanoke Rapids, diet! in the Roanoke P.apids hsopital October 1. Funeral services were conducted last Thurs day afternoon by Rev. C. T. Thrift of the Rosemary Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and interment was made in the Cetkrwood cemetery. Mrs. Frank Nash, Mrs. David Traynham, Mrs. Frank Williams, Mrs. Claude Edgerton and Mrs. Sidney Rounds spent Saturday in Richmond. ANOTHER PIONEER IS DEAD Charles Edweard Beard Dies Suddenly After Stroke Sunday Charles Edward Bexrd, 55 years of age ,well known resident of this com munity died suddenly at his home in Belmont, last Sunday morning, at about 4 o’clock, as Hhe result of a rtrok eof paralysis suffered Saturday morning shortly be$OVe the noon hour. Funeral services for the deceased were conducted from his late resi dence, Monday afternoon, at 3:30 o’clock. Interment was made in Ce danvood cemetery.'The services were in charge of tlu following ministers: Rev. Leon Hall, pastor of the Roa noke Rapids Methodist Episcopal Church, South', Rtjv .J. E. Kirk, pastor of the Rosemary baptist Church; Rev. A. P. Mustian, pastor of the Roanoke Rapids Baptist Cnurch, and Rev. J. N. Bynum, pastor of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Beard was employed by the Virginia Eledtric and Power Company and was stationed at the old bulk head here. He is survived by his widow, who, before her marriage was Miss Hat tie Whitlock, "six sons, Edward, Hu Lert, Willie, .Oohn, Jessie and Regin ald, one daughter, Ida, eight brothers, J. R., Richard, Vance, Sidney, Ben nie, Joe, Lewis, Wilson and Robert, and three Hh&ers, Mrs. Ida Taylor, Mrs. Eva Ingram and Miss Ruth Beard. The deceased was another of the pioneer citizens of this community, to die in the past year. His death fol lows closely that of W. E. Britt. These two men hail much to do with the early building of the Twin Cities and are identified closely with tho prog ress and improvements of the past several years. PASSION PLAY IS SUBJECT Of Lecture To Be Given At Methodist Church Sunday Night Professor Thomas L. Martin, a i teacher in the local High School, will ; j-iake a talk next Sunday night at the] First Methodist Church on the “Pas-, sion Play.™ Mr. Martin sailed for; Europe last summer immediately af ter school commencement and while he was touring Europe he was privi leged to see the Passion Play at Obcr ramergau, Germany . The history and background of this | play is internationally known. The l play is given only once? each ten years to which thousands of visitors flock. [It is a dramatic presentation of the suffering of Chris* ,arid not a sur vival of a medeviai mystery or mira cle p'uy. It took its rise‘from a vow made by the inhabitants of Oberram mergati in 1633 with the hope of stay-, ing of! the plague then raging. The original texts and arrangements were probably made by the monks of Kttal, a monastery a little Higher up fl»e valley, but may have been re modeled by the parish priests at the beginning of the present century. The for the play was composed by Kochus Dedlt in 1811. The performances of this play tak*> place on the (Sundays of summer in a large open air theatre holding 6.000 persons, *jid each performance lasts about nine hours, with a short intermission at noon. About 700 ae tors are required, all belonging to the village. The proceeds are devoted to the good of the community, after de frayal of the costs and payment of a small renumeration to the actors. The | actors are chosen with regards to moral character as well as dramatic ability. It is only a small number of Ameri cans who are privileged to see this play, and the people of our Twin Ci ties should consider it a privilege to hear the lecture given by one of our own High School teachers, the ser vices will start immediately at 7:30 p. m. Woman Thrown From Car Charged With Stealing $ 4 0 0 Local police were notified last week that an unknown woman was lying unconscious on Roanoke Avenue ear Fifth Street. She was taken to the hospital where it was found that she was suffering from a severe attack of liquoritis. When revived she told a wild tale about being thrown bodily from a speeding automobile. Later in th evening two men from Kmporia told the police they were looking for the woman, one of them claiming she had stolen $400 from him. When the police sought to bring the parties together, all disappeared and no further cmoplaints have been heard from either side. CO-OP TO CONTINUE ADVANCE Eight and. Seven Cents May Be Drawn Now On Cotton The North Carolina Cdtton Growers Cooperative Association will continue to advance approximately ninety per cent of the value t»f cotton on the present market,” announced Vice President and general -manager U. B. Blalock this week. “‘On account of the increasing por certtage of lower grades and some gin cuts we find it necessary to allow Ike members to draw only 8 cents per pound on seasonable pool cotton and 7 cents per pound on optional pool in ■Older to avoid overdrafts from some of our members. As soon as the cdtton is classed additional checks will be mailed out on seasonal pool cotton to bring it up to approximately ninety per cent ;v>f the average price feeing paid on local markets. “We fnHy realize that the producer needs all the money he can command i iglit now and it will be our purpose to mail out checks once a week covering these additional advances and will ■only be prevented in doing so on ac count of tiie exceedingly heavy re ceipts just .:t this time. In making up these checks, the average values for the week covering jtliase deliveries will be used. I “Those cheeks will also carry the amount due on each bale for grades •«ral staple twrctor than middling 7-8. As an illustration, this means that if the ninety per ceittmvemge market value for the week entitles the mem ber tto it he will be given his addition al one cent per pound; and if his bale shoiLid grade strict middling, one inch fctuple, he will be entitled to draw 25 points for grade better than middling and 7i 0 points more on etecoum. of the extra staple, making a total advance he -wiHild be entitled to of 9.95 on strict middling indh cotton . “On ^September 1 we announced to the cut on producers ithat-we- were; ad vancing 9 cents per pound but that our advance for this season woulud be on a percentage basis, and therefore subject Eo the ?BEe mid fall of th i market. “Any farther advances on optional pool cotton will depend sipon the val ue of the tvtton aftrr it fit* classed and Jtne stability of the market. In order to avoid caJIing for mai^r.ins on de clines we must start ©ff with suffi cient margin. “It has always been our policy to oven up those who have drawn on a lower advance with those of a higher ( advance in making our first distri- j button from salg^* \. This is the only lair agd equitable way to do it and this will continue to be our policy. “Regardless of the few days delay in getting the full 90 per cent, our de liveries are continuing to grow day by day and Monday recorded by far our heaviest deliveries for the sea son. We are increasing our classing staff as well as our office forces to take care of the situation. Quite a number of our warehouses are filling up but arrangements have been made for storing any overflow in Char lotte, Wilmington and Norfolk. Mrs. A. E. Akers, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Jenkins, Miss Olivia Rook and Rev. L. M. Hall attended a State meeting of the American Red Cross at Chapel Hill, representing the local chapter. HEART FAILS CITIZEN AS TOWN BURNS G. P. Burt'wyn Dies Of Heart Failure Starting To Jackson Fire A double tragedy struck the neigh boring county seat of Northampton County Sunday morning when George Pollock Burgwyn, prominent citizen of Jackson, died suddenly from a heart attack as he arose to go to a fire which swept the business section of Jackson and caused a loss of $20,000. Mr. Burgwyn was a brother of Mrs. T. W. M. Long of this city and a mem ber of one of the oldest famillies in the State. He was the son of the late George P. Burgwyn and Emma Rid ley Burgwyn. He was married in 1904 to Miss Emily Roper of Petersburg, Va., and is survived by her and five children, Emily Roper .George Pollock, Bart lett Roper, Nathaniel Ridley and Coleman Pierpont Edwards. j Two brothers als osurvive, Henry I K. Burgwyn of Rappahannock ,Va., W. H. S. Burgwyn of Woodland, and one sister, Mrs. Long. Funeral ser vices were held Monday at the Epis copal Church. It is thought the excitement sur lounding the discovery of the blaz ing town was too much for his weak ened heart. The fii'<* swept one side of the business section of Jackson, starting in a vacant store building of R. A. Shaken. It spread rapidly to the stoi*e of Mrs. Erhradt, who lost building and stock. Then in rapid succession the flames licked up the building? bousing the Five and Ten Cent Store, Bradley Livery Stable and Hawkins Iressing Club. The buliding of the Stedijian Stores was destroyed but the stock was saved. The county jail was burn ed down but all the inmates bad been | safely removed sometime before the ifiro reached that portion of the town, j All of the buildings destroyed were i f frame constructio n and the total damage is estimated between twenty and twenty-five thousand dollars. HALIFAX ROAD DEBT $858,000 State Figures Show 780 Miles in County High way System The State Highway Commission, at ils meeting at Raleigh today will con sider the recommendations of State Engineer John D. Waldrop for the dis tribution of the $500,000 highway equalizing fund and the roads on which this fund is to be used, all of which roads are subject to Federal Aid. The result "will be that these highways, eostruct'ion work on which will amount to about a million dol lars, will be included in a letting this fall. The commission will also act upon the low bids of $642,027.70 submitted last week on 10 highway proj’ects. Three of which are for widening 16 Voot highways to 20 feet. All of the 10 projects except one are Federal Aid jobs, the commission seeking to utilize all available Federal Aid funds with the money it has on hand to match this aid. Chic hundred or more miles is ex pected to be added to the State High way system at this week’s meetin, carrying the systems mileage above the 9,000 mark. The system now em braces £,991.3 miles. The county road systems of 90 of the 100 counties, Brunswick, Catawba,. Columbus and Gaston being absent, embrace a f">tal of 62,202 miles, chair man R .A. Dougton of the State Com mission, has found from a survey, coming as a result of a movement to have the State take over all the coun ty systems . While the State’s outstanding bond ed indebtedness for highways is now $107,399,600, plus the $3,250,000 in bond anticipation notes, the 96 coun ties have a total bonded highway in debtedness of $86,612,290, or a total highway indebtedness of State and counties of $200,000,000, assuming (Continued on back page) Andy Comes Down With 1584 Hours Officially Timed Andy Gump is down. The local tree sitter, tired of his job and beginning to shake from the chil ly fall breezes, came down Mon day after nine weeks and three days in the air with an official tree sitting total of 1,548 hours. Andy went up on the afternoon of August first and has been offi cially watched and checked for over two months. So far as is known here, he has set a world’s record for tree sitting but this cannot be verified until official reports are had from over the country. BIG FAIR WILL SHOW NEXT WEEK All Ready To Open The Gates Next Tuesday A.M. For Eevent The Halifax County Fair,, the larg est in this section of the state, will swing open the gates Tuesday morn ing, October 14, for five days and nights next week . The Fair Association has spared io expense to make this the best fair cn record. The big fair grounds on the highway between the Twin Cities and Weldon are spick and span and in readiness to handle the daily crowds and exhibits. Several thousand dollars, the larg est amount in the history of the fair, will be given away in premiums and I rizes and the exhibition halls are crowded with hundreds of interesting e xhibits of every nature. There are more community exhibits than ever before, showing added interest on the part of the various communities of the two counties. A now midway will present itself this year. The Wm. Click Greater Shows. Inc., with ten rides, 16 shows and 50 concessions, is a company which hits only the larger towns and fairs and tbe local fair is fortunate to secure them this year. The free acts in front of the grand stand afternoons and evenings are even better than the exceptional acts of last year which are well remember ed. There will also be the grand dis play of fireworks each night. The horse races will be to perfec tion, many horse owners binging trot ters and runners from the larger fairs. There will also be a saddle horse show on the 16th, 17th and 18th. Two games of football will enliven the afternoons with Weldon playing Scotland Neck on next Wednesday af ternoon and Roanoke Rapids playing Greenville on next Friday afternoon. Horseshoe pitching contests will be held on Tuesday and Saturday after noons. Victor’s 18 piece band will occupy the grandstand with two soloists and 'he amplifying system is installed so that all music and announcements may be heard in every part of the stands. N.C.C.W. Alumnae Meeting Held Here It is customary for the daughters of the North Carolina college for Wo men to meet in annual gathering dur ing the Founders Day period, in con nection with the Founders Day cele bration on the campus. In commemo ration of this occasion, the Roanoke itapids-Rosemary chapter held a Live at-Home meeting in the home of Mrs. R. L. Towe with Miss Annie Cherry as hostess. i After a short business meeting the group featured in their “Live-at Fome” program the work of N. C. C. W. Alumnae themselves. Poems writ ten by the alumnae were read and the music also represented alumnae ef fort. It is of local interest to note that among the poems presented were sev eral written by Misses Marjorie Craig, Lucy Crisp and Jean Hewitt. Misses Craig and Crisp will be remembered as former members of our school fac ulty. who served this community effi ciently and well for a number of years. The contribution made by Miss Hewitt was taken from a collection of poems which won for her the Co (Continued on Back Page) NEW VOTERS URGED TO REGISTER Democrats Of Halifax Urged To Go To Polls In Nov. For Bailey No local candidates have opposition in the coming November election, but Josiah W. Bailey, Democratic nominee for U. S. Senator, faces 'opposition from nominee Pritchard, Republican, for whom a strong fight is being waged in Republican strongholds. Republican strategy now relies on a light vote in the strong Democratic counties where there is no local op position. Their leaders are planning to poll a hundred per cent vote in Republican strongholds and in close counties. President Hoover’s visit to North Carolina this week was the signal for yreat enthusiasm on the part of Pritchard followers. They even pre vailed on the President to stop over at several large North Carolina ci ties which had not been included in | his itinerary and speak a word to the crowds assembled there out of curiosi ty. Halifax County democratic lead ers will endeavor to impress on the voters of this county the necessity of voting full strength in November. They point not only to the Bailey can didacy but also to several important constitutional amendments to be voted books are open for those who have not oil. Meanwhile the local registration previously registered and who will be entitled to vote in the November election. This includes all those who have become tweny-one years of age since the last election or newcomers who have lived a year in the State, 0 months in the county and 3 months in the precinct. J. F. Welch, registrar for Roanoke Rapids precinct No. 1, will have the 1 pgistraticn books at the band hall in Roanoke Rapids every Saturday morn ing from nine until noon. Monroe Jenkins, registrar for Roanoke Ra pids No. 2. will have his books at ihe Triple R Grocery Co., Rosemary, for the benefit oi those who desire to register. Persons who have registered in the past are not required to register again n order to vote. __ 30 NURSES AT MEETING Eighth District Association Is Held Here This Week— At Kinston Next Month The monthly meeting of the Eighth District Association of Graduate Nurses of North Carolina was held in the Kiwanis Club rooms, here, Tues day. Thirty graduate nurses from Roanoke Rapids and Rosemary aRd other sections of the state, were in Mtendanee. Kinston was selected for the November meeting. The business session of the meet ing was conducted by Mis Ziolola Cobb, president of the association. The members were addressed by Rev. Leon Hall, pastor of the Roanoke Rapids • Methodist Episcopal Church, South,, and Dr. J. W. Martin, a member of the medical staff of the Roanoke Rapids hospital. Rev. Hall used as his suo :'oct, “The Healing Quality of Life." 1 *r. Martin spoke on the surplus sup ply of graduate nurses in the pri vate field and explained a method by which the situation could be remedied. Miss Nellie McCowan read a paper on the decline of tuberculosis among nurses. Those in attendance were entertained with a piano solo by Miss Gladys Cox. The Kiwanis Club rooms wore beau tifully decorated for the occasion with a color scheme of yellow, green and white being carried out. The members of the association were served a four course dinner by the Alumnae association of the Roa noke Rapids hospital The members found their places at the table by [beautifully hand painted placards. Music during the dinner hour was furnished by Miss Gladys Cox. Nurses attending the meeting were: Miss Virgie Barnes, Miss Henrietta Reed, Mrs. J. B. Dickens, Miss Davis Dickens, Mrs. Herman Poole, Mrs. F. M. Rowe, Miss Irene Clark, Miss Mar (Continijed on back page)
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