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BE SURE AND REGISTER FOR SPECIAL ELECTION ^v/wwvwvwwvwwwvvvywyvws mhb khm ^ ___ 1930 CENSUS $ I I fr1 W A * /VWWWWWtfWWWWWWWWWVWWWWWWiWMW Roanoke Rapids Township 5 I M IjL I IB 31 PER CENT 16)612 :j * • A JUm^I JL Of Halifax County Population OF THE TWIN CITIES-ROAHOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY L ,.,.!.N.™.^.TOWNSHII> i ' VOLUME^----ROANOKE RAPIDS-ROSEMARY, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 11th, 1931~ NUMBER 9. ORGANIZE TO GET OUT CITY VOTE UP and DOWN THE AVENUE it * * * This column, which is being writ ten by the Editor and not by Old Timer, is being run as a sort of uues tmn and answer box, with news and comment pertaining especially to the coming elections in the city. If it is worth anything, it may be continued from time to time. Time will tell. One voter asks if there is anything to the talc that water will cost $2.50 per month. It will not. A former Ed enton citizen tells us that the rate in that city was $2.50 for three months „r a little over 80 cents per month. Nobody knows what the monthly rate will be here or whether the owner or the miter will pay it. The rate will bo worked out when the water is furnished and the cost of mainte nance known. Another man, who has been for city extension, says he has been told that property was excluded when the am endment tu the bill was put thru the lust time. He says if that be true, he would oppose it because he did nut like to have things done that way. We agree with him. But somebody has misinformed him. The original lines have never been changed, so he can come back on the right side. Bfemember that original petition which was signed by 2,400 people here pledging support to extension, water and sewerage. A copy of a map showing the new lines was attached to every petition and those lines have rever been changed. Sometimes, friends can make it mighty disagreeable for one when they put us in a position where we have to perform an unpleasant duty. And the sad part is that they usually lon’t comprehend just what a posi tion they have put their friends in. Herman Tickle, handsome* and curly haired son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Tickle, may soon be in the movies. He will leave soon for New York to take tests, both for screen and voi(*e, preparatory to entering the training school of Paramount, Inc. If the tests are right, he will be given a contract, subject to proper comple tion of training. A few Sunday nights ogo, an official of Paramount, visit ing relatives near here, saw young Tickle in church. He liked his type ('ml had an interview with him, mak ing the proposition outlined above. Since then there has been a notice able increase in the Sunday night at tendance at church on the part of the young bloods. Every effort is being made to get *11 qualified voters registered for the pecial election and city elections to follow. This paper has carried news fctories about the registration every week since the books opened. An ad ran last week telling voters where to find the registrars. Cards were tacked up in all public places this week. Interested workers are bring lng people to the registrars. Every parson will be given ample notice and opportunity to register. If they don’t register, it will be because they don’t want to. ' T *- Roanoke Rapids golf team de bated Louisburg on the local course yesterday afternoon by a score of 30 to 15. The City Barber Shop has been painted and redecorated inside and out, even to the revolving barber P°le. Looks nice. First aid was given a half dozen °ys at the Roanoke Rapids Hospit a yesterday afternoon after a truck ln. ^ioh they were riding collided y* ^e car of Dr. Johnson of Louis Urg on the Country Club road. The °>s suffered cuts and bruises but >one of them were badly hurt. The i uek was badly wrecked and the car imaged slightly. thUU*#n ®asco Acree was taken ill hind ern°°n a* I**8 work be j0 e fountain. The ill gentleman Pro ably better known as Ootchy. ^Virginia Blount has returned ** home in Faison, N. C. LOCALBOY IS KILLED SUNDAY Harry Finch Dies I n - stantly; Two Killed In Virginia Wreck CAR HITS TRUCK Harry Finch, 19-year-old Rosemary youth, was almost instantly killed, and John David Daniel, Middlesex youth was seriosuly injured when Finch's small roadster turned tur tle twice near Middlesex late Sunday afternoon. The deceased was the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Finch, Jackson Street, lie worked for J. C. Wells Grocery since the family moved here from near Middlesex three years ag:o. The luneral services were held Monday. Resides his parents, thfe following: brothers and sisters survive: John, Kufus, Marshall, Alton and William, Rebecca/, Dorothy and Premy. Finch’s head was crushed beneath the vehicle when it overturned and he died within a few minutes after v.itness reached the scene of the | (rash. Daniel, suffering from a fractured collar bone, arm-and jaw, is in a hos pital in a serious condition. The two boys had been at a reuni on dinner of the Daniel family and were enroute from the Daniel home to Middlesex when the fatality occur red. The car is alleged to have struck p post along side of the road, swerv ed around, turned over, and rolled ('own an embankment. Daniel was thrown clear of the wreckage but Finch was caught under the wheel. Samuel Menich, 23 year old farm er of near Hopewell, Va., was in stantly killed, little 6-months old Dorothy Lee Cooper died a few hours later from injuries received and five other people, including one North Carolinian w*ere injured when the passenger car in which they were riding crashed into a produce truck about four miles of Jarratt, Va. Tuesday. The passenger car of which young Menich was driver, contained nine other people beside himself, the par ty composed principally of members of the Cooper family, who reside in Prince George County, Virginia. Fred Harrell, driver of the produce truck, by some miracle of fate escaped in jury in the crash which completely overturned both the truck and auto mobile. Joseph Hanchey of Rose Hill. N. C., was given first aid treatment for a wound on the arm, and Henry ( ooper, Mrs. Ora Cooper, Miss Lizzie Cooper and Donald Cooper, young boy are patients in a Petersburg hos pital results of the crash, though it is thought that injuries to the latter will not prove fatal. Full details of the cause of the < rash could not be obtained here. As a result of the accident one of the Richmond papers received the following letter from a reader: Virgina must do something quick about the produce trucks flying along the highways ignoring the rights of autoists who have paid the taxes to build these highways. Two were kill ed Tuesday near Jarratt when in col llision with one of these trucks who ride the middle of the road and drive those who paid for the highways off onto the shoulders. Richmond autoists returning from Washington Sunday evening passed thirty or more on this one stretch and not half of them even moved over the slightest to allow autos to pass safely. One, squarely in the middle of the highway, drove a Richmond nuto five feet over on the shoulder to get by in safety. The busses are nearly as bad, the writer passing one on the highway between Richmond and Newport News Sunday afternoon, which was at least a foot beyond the white line marking the center of the road ap proaching a curve. I signalled him 3 KILLED, SEVERAL INJURED IN WRECKS Raleigh Editor Writes To Halifax Senator Senator Allen Zollieoffer has re ceived the following letter from Jose phus Daniels, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer: JUNE 2, 1931 Hon. A. C. Zollieoffer, Rosemary, N. C. My Dear Senator: Among the pleasantest recollect ions of this session of the Senate are uiy association with you and my gra hfication that you made a record which to the longest day of your life you will look back upon with pride | end satisfaction. We did not win all we fought for but your record is such as to deserve, and I am sure will receive, the ap proval of your constituency and give you comfort all the days of your life. Please remember me to your father when you se" hint. My wife joins me in regards. Sincerely yours, JOSEPHUS DANIEI. Come to see me when you are in j Raleigh. THEATRE LOWERS PRICES Peoples Theatre Drops From 50 to 35c Dur ing The Summer Months STARTS MONDAY Announcement is made in the ad vertising columns of this issue of a reduction in the admission price of the Peoples Theatre of from fifty to thirty-five cents for adults thruout the summer months, by Lyle M. Wil son, Manager. It was explained by manager Wil son that this change in prices will in no way effect the high standards of programs offered by the local play house, which in the past has made the Peoples one of the outstanding ‘neatres of tin's section of the State, and will not affect the “bargain day” shows offered on Friday and Satur days. Although an elaborate cooling sys tem was recently installed at the house it was pointed out by Mr. Wil son that it was much less expensive to run this outlay than it is to heat the place thruout the winter, and that they will share their lower ope ration costs with their patrons in the form of “Summer Prices.” The first picture to be seen at the new price comes Monday and Tues day of next week when Gloria Swan son appears in her latest production. “Indiscreet.” This will be followed ( ii Wednesday and Thursday by Wil liam Powell and Kay Francis in “La dies Man.” Wallace Beery appears in the gangster thriller, “The Secret Six” the last half of this week, as a continuance of the regular twenty live cent “bargain day” programs. “It is a firm policy of ours to eco nomize,” said Wilson, “but not on the pictures. I believe we enjoy the unique reputation of showing ‘the pick of the pictures’ and we will not sacrifice this quality. We intend to offer our patrons the same, high quality programs, though at prices for the summer months.” Mr .and Mrs. Wm. Jackson and dhildren left Wednesday for Dur ham. where they will make their homo. They were accompanied to Durham by Miss Virginia Jackson. Dr. and Mrs. Brown of Virginia Beach, Va„ were the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Job Taylor Wednesday. as he approached to get over. I then drew to the edge of the highway r-s he whizzed by and the last I saw of him he was still “hogging” more than his half of the highway and other cars were being forced to turn out to let him pass. Distant Subscriber The Herald rock to all parts of the world ,but our most distant subscriber is one oi our newesr. He is Ferdy A. £ Schmid, who with Mrs. Schmid. former local girl, now lives at the following address: liurka Cqffee Estate, l.td., Arusha, Tanganyika, Afri ca. His subscription was placed on our list this week and we join with their other friends in wish ing them well in far away Africa It may be several weeks before they see this but we will be glad to hear from them in the luture and to pass their message along to our home subscribers. Mr. Schmid was formerly con nected with Roanoke Mills Co., coming here from Switzerland to learn American cotton manufac turing. DRIVE CHARITY PLEDGES Workers Start This Morning On 3-Day Campaign For Funds REPORTS ARE GOOD The annual drive of Associated Charities started this morning and by tonight a heavy sprinkling of tags could he seen on the coat lapels of many. The drive continues thru Fri day and Saturday. George Taylor and his crew of men working the North business section was ahead on the first reports with some of the mill teams running close. A. N .Martin and his helpers for the Rosemary business section report a •‘■low start due to the same committee being appointed to get out voters for registration. As the books close Saturday, his team will be busy on this other work and plan to make an intensive drive in the business section the first of next week for charity pledges. S. D. Brown and his Rosemary Mfg. Co. team report splendid prog ress for the first day. J. H. Hines at Roanoke No. 1 and Guy Murray at Roanoke No .2 were reported as busy while A. Meikle at Patterson Mills and E. A. Tellega at Halifax Paper Corporation had not reported. The workers have found a ready response to the plan of having the citizens sign a pledge card, make a subscription for the year and with a small cash payment pay the balance in monthly installments. Others are making their entrie contribution in one cash payment. A complete report of the drive will be given in The Herald next week. It is hoped to raise at least $1,000 in cash and monthly pledges to carry on tlte work of Asscoiated Charities here during the coming year. The desire is that every man, woman and child contribute something, if only the “widow’s mite.” This is a com munity organization which gives tem porary relilef to families in real dis tress in our own community. Dedication Delayed Owing to further unexpected and unavoidable delays in construction, Father MeCourt, Pastor of the New St. John’s Church, now being built of Rosemary announced that the De dication ceremonies will not take place on June 21st, as has been stated, but at a date to be announced later. Market Open Wed. The Home Demonstration Market is open every Wednesday morning from 9 to 11 o’clock, during the months of June, July and August. The farm people who sell on the market have another incentive to come to the market during the summer months. Mrs. Wheeler, home agent, is help ing them can their surplus vegetables for winter use. They have canned 154 cans of garden peas and 30 cans of snap beans this early in the season Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Akers spent the week in Washington, D. C. PERFECT RECORD 8 YEARS Nellie Mae Jernigan Has Not Missed School For 8 Years; List Of Perfects JAS. SMITH 4 YEARS With Nellie Mae Jernigan leading the list, the perfect school attendance list is published this week for the year which closed last week. Ne'lie Mae is in the 8th grade and she has the unique record of eight years of perfect attendance. James Smith, in the same grade, has a perfect attendance record lor lour years and ranks second accord ing to the records. In the grammar grades the following are credited with two successive years of no missing school: Edith Bugg, Irene Medlin, Olia Vaughan, Douglas Keeter, James Thomason. Those who had perfect attendance for the 1930-1931 year are as fol lows: rosemary: waiter Moseley, Fran cis Everett, Mary M. Sasser, Francis Buck, Nellie Stuart Taylor, Carrie j Byrd, Edward Summerell, Garland ' Matthews , Hazel Pridgen, Hazel Baugham, Walter Kendrick, Marga ret Barnes, Hazel Culloni, Marian Murphy, Fanie Bell Stokes, Nellar Pace, Mary Loucas, Alma Hansley, Elizabeth Sudduth, Ray Rightmeyer, Charles Davis, Ralph Webb, Ida Ed mons, Clarence Byrd, Richard Baug ham, Aaron Coburn, Angelyn Bryant, Edward Johnston, Virginia Howard, I ewis Hasty, Daniel Kirk, Chesley Stokes, Mary T. Ray, R. C. Hasty, 1 ucker Mountfort, Corrinna Bryant, Virginia Manry, Mildred Parish, Claude Inscoe, Mary Alice Joyner, Nettie Lee Stuart, J. C. Sewell, Marie Cates, Francis Fisher, Jack Sanders, Ellen Johnson, Lucy Outland, Marie Hasty, Lee Shell, Nollie Hoggard, Lo ren e Story, Joseph Coburn, Rufus Hoggard, Edward Sudduth. Central School: Thelma Taylor, Howard Fanney, Mary Stanley, Thel ma Carroll, Loyd Ennis, Marvin Da vis, Leslie Tippett, Helen Harp, Ma gy Hudson, James Acree, Nellie But ler, Lawrence Beale, Lucile Braswell, Pauline Wood, Douglas Warrick, Beu lah Jenkins, Martha Black, Margaret Burton, Virginia Reaves, Margaret Towe, Elmer Reaves, Herman Wood, Edith Gibson ,Alvan Pitt, William Edwards, Agnes Haislip, Mable Lynch, Genevie Spivey, Doris Mae Hedgepeth, Mabel Harp, Myrtle Ow ens, Willie Elk, Hazel Vaughan, Da vid Haislip, Edison Pearce, Lillian Tanner, Dorothy Britton, Aileen Hux, Elsie Rook, Everette Stainback. Grammar Grades: Charles Bennett, Mary Lee Nicholson, Mary Lillian Meade, Rosa Boyd McLendon, Mon loe Starke, Alma Edwards, Francis Wrenn, Mary Alice Jones, Clarence Hale, Clyde Thompson, Ale xBullock, Alma Odell Edith Bugg, Irene Med lin, Ovid Harris, Geraldine Nichol son, John Brown, Hazel Grissom, Mildred Taylor, Lucille Rook, Jewel Reaves, Woodrow Stanley, Edith King Ida Shaw, William Fanny, L,eroy lu tor, Premmie Lee Finch, Henry Greene, Ethel Reaves, Saluda North ington, James Shay, Virginia Pair, Charles Williams, Odell Blythe, Olia Vaughan, John Taylor, William Man ly, Francis Crouch, Margaret Han cock, Myrtle Edwards, Douglas Keet er, John Murray, James Thomason, Helena Crawford, Margaret Harding, Edna Murray, Cleo Robbins, Willis Hux, Hardy Matthews, Virginia Da vis, P. D. Harris, George Davis, Wil liam Floyd ,John Edwin Browne, Hel-, en Wilkinson, Luther Ennis, Edith1 Tippett, Louise Matthews, Ruth Car roll, Francis Taylor, William Brown, Jesse Gray, Pauline Whitby, Doma Rook, Ruth Bell, John Buck, Milton Moore, Woodrow Hufton, Page Allen, Joe Cruoch, Fannie Mae Nicholson, Mary Elizabeth Wright, Floyd Speight, Rufus Smith, John Medlin. Seventh Grades: Dan Sharpe, Dor othy Askew, Mary Miles Clark, Nel lie Nethercutt, Hattie Odell, Elsie Pair, Raine Wilson, John Mincher, James Fanny, Russell Wood, Annie Delfenthal Lenins Tripp, Julian Rose (Continued on back page) — BAND OF OVER EIGHTY WORKERS ORGANIZED Register Over 400 Since Organization Tuesday Night — Enthusiasm Growing For Ex tension Every Day REGISTRATION BOOKS CLOSE SATURDAY HALIFAX GIRL IS WINNER Ida Shaw Applewhite Is Chosen Most Healthy In Eastern North Carolina HER SCORE IS 95.5 Miss Ida Shaw Applewhite of Ha lifax. and R. T. Pittman, Jr., of Leg getts, were elected as the queen and King of health of Northeastern Caro lina at a district health meet con ducted at Washington, N. C., Tues day by Miss Pauline Smith and B. 'troy Ferguson of State College. The examinations were made by Drs. T C. Britt, Dave Tayloe, Sr., L. H. Swindell, Dewitt Klutz. Z. L. Ed wards and E. W. Larkin, asissted hv ♦he nurses of the Health Depart ment.. ( R. d. Pittman, Jr., made a score of 89.5 and Ida Shaw Applewhite 95.5. Myrtle Worthington of Winterville; Jean Kerr of Washington; Naomi Harrell of Palmyra, Ruth Gorham of Eattleboro; Elizabeth Parker o f vVeeksville, and Katherine Johnson of Severn, and several other girls, ran Miss Applewhite a close second. The counties were represented as follows: Beaufort, Jean Kerr: Chow an Artelissa White; Dare, Ruth Ev ans; Edgecombe. Ruth Gorham; Ha lifax, Ida Shaw Applewhite; Hertford Eloise Camp; Martin, Naomi Harrell; Northampton, Catherine Johnson; Pasquotank, Elizabeth Parker; Pitt, Myrtle Worthington; Washington, Margaret Everett; Wayne, Hettie Bell Cox; Edgecombe, R. T. Pittman, Jr.; Vance .Lawrence Adcock; Wayne, Henry Ivey; Pasquotank, John APon Brown; Pitt,, Warren Carroll. These county champions had been -"elected from a large number of 4-H (dub members in each county. They v dl represent their counties at the health page.v,i at the State Short Course held annually at State Col lege. RECORDER COURT NEWS Civil Cases Heard at Session— Last Thursday’s Calendar Moved Up Court met pursuant to order of re cess. Minutes of the proceeding day read, corrected and approved and the following proceedings had and taken, to-wit: Va.-Carolina and Power Co., vs. Kemp Manufacturing Co., continued. Henry Vaughan vs. A. C. L. Rail road Co., continued. Roanoke Rapids hospital vg Mrs. 15. M. Gurkin, continued to Wed. June 10th. w. V. Summerall vs P. L. Edwards. The plaintiff having been called and failed to appear, judgment of non suit is entered as appears of record. W. Howard Hamilton vs E. B. Glover. The plaintiff having moved for a non-suit, judgment is entered as appears of record. Lillian P. Glas cow vs J. N. Pepper, Mrs. W. E. (’avter (executor of J. E. Pepper, de ceased) the plaintiff having moved for a non-suit judgement is extended as appears of record. M. IT. Jones vs A. M. Turner, Jr., the plaintiff hav ing moved for a non-suit, judgement is entered as appears of record. J. I). Shearin vs Nathaniel Jenkins, the plaintiff having moved for a non suit, judgment is entered as appears of record. J. C. Hayes et al vs Sells Cotton et (Continued on back page) Eighty men were crowded into Ki wanis Hall Tuesday night of this week w hen a caucus of those in favor of city exteis'c.n was held and plans I?1 id for a city w ide drive for registra tion and vote in the special election. A complete organization of the proposed new city area was formed with the area blocked off in 30 dis tricts and workers named for ^ach district. These workers were to see that every qualified voter was regia u*red before the books close this Sat urday night. All day Wednesday and today, these workers have been bringing men and women in to register. More than 200 persons were registered on ednesday in the two precincts with a total reaching nearly 2,000 new names on the registration books Wed nesday night. With today, tomorrow and Saturday left to register and v ith some sixty men out working to get voters written in the books, it is thought that more than 2,500 will have registered by Saturday sunset. The same organization will be used on election day, Tuesday, June 2Srd, a little more than 10 days off. At least 100 automobiles will be com mandeered on that day with 100 v orkers in the field. Threats of court action on the part of oppon ents have made the proponents on'y the more anxious to get out such an overwhelming vote that any court in the country will be satsified with the results. I)r. Johnny Martin was chairman of the meeting Tuesday night. He elected to take up the legal side of the dity extension plan first and called on Senator Allen C. Zollicoffer to tell how the bill was put thru the legislature by them and how they felt about the plan. These Two of ficials stated they were in hearty ac cord with the plan of extension, had done everything in their power to put the bill thru the legislature without a dissenting vote, and had now brought It back to the people for ratification. Doth men were indignant at some of the propganda which was being spread by opponents in what Dr. Long descried as a “whispering cam paign.” They were particularly in censed at the charge of the oppon c nts that the amendment they had put thru had changed the original lines of the proposed new city. Dr. Long also said we were living over a volcano and an epidemic was to be expected any time due to sanitary conditions. Other speakers were F. C. Williams superintendent of Roanoke Mills Co. and Patterson Mills Co., T. W. Mul len, superintendent of Rosemary Mfg. Co., and J. T. Chase, State man ager of the Virginia Electric and Power Co. These officials, speaking for their companies and for them selves ,said they were for the plan 100 per cent. They pointed out that their activie interest was because they were deeply interested in build ing a bigger and better city. They showed where incorporation would cost their companies more than to leave things as they are, but they were glad to pay the extra cost in the knowledge that they were doing their share to build up a decent place for their people to live in. These ’uen also answered many questions relating to the new city and their companies, clearing up many points which had been made confusing by unofficial rumors evidently put out by those opposing the plan. Other speeches and reports were' made by S. P. Brown, Billy Norwood, i Henry Fitz, H. L. Bell, Wells D. Til lery. A. B. McAllister, George N. ; Taylor, C. L. Wilson, John Clark, ; W. C. Williams, Jeff Welch and oth- j crs. The crow’d got some big laughs from speeches by H. L. Bell, who calls himself Mayor of Belmont, willing to come in the bigger city, and a page from True Confessions told by Hen continued on back page)
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