—The— ROANOKE RAPIDS HERALD Roanoke Rapids, N. C. HALIFAX COUNTTS LARGEST NBW8PAPER CARROLL WILSON, Publisher and Editor Entered a* Second Claaa matter April 3rd, 1914, at the t’oatoifice at Koanoke Kapida, North Carolina, under Act tt March 3rd, ,879. PRINTERS, LITHOGRAPHERS, ENGRAVERS S l CC ESS l l L 1 »KOU K A MS Two Roanoke Rapids organizations are to be congratulated on successes attained here last week as a result oi hard work, perseverance and initiative. On Friday night, tile Kiwanis Club staged its third annual minstrel. Despite all this talk oi hard times, the crowd was as large or larger, than previous years, and the comments oi tiiose who saw the show amply repay those who gave oi' much time and what talents they possess to make the show a success. Financial returns were very gratifying and the Club has asked us to publicly thank all who, in any way, contributed to the success oi tire occasion. The money is to be used in a special under privileged child work program oi the club. Tlie other organization to be congratulated is tlie Damask Post oi the American Legion. This group of men, in answer to the call from their na tional commander, ilenry L. Stevens, went out and raised by donations from more than one hun dred individuals and businesses a sufficient amount of money to put fifty men to work clean ing up tile city. The fact that employment for two weeks was given men needing work was nolewurthy ; but the actual work accomplished by tne clean-up crew is worthy of special attention. The streets, alleys and vacant lots of Roa noke Rapids are neat as a pin today. We have never seen the town look better. Of course, the benefits of this work ar etemporary, but the ef fect on the citizens should be lasting. Merchants, property owners, city dwellers and owners oi vacant lots have had a goal set which they snould follow in the future. Periodic city-wide clean-ups should be easily instigated now that an .dea has been given of just how much can be accomplished. The City of Roanoke Rapids should appreci ate tiie work oi these two organizations, whose aim is to better the community in which they have thei being. THAT SPECIAL EDITION By the time you are reading this, the last run of the 40 page tabloid special edition oi Tlie Her ald will be on the press. Gathering of the various sections, folding and addressing will take place over the week-end and the world will be better ac quainted with Roanoke Rapids next week when the edition will be mailed. it was a bigger task than any oi us antici pated. In making that statement we modify it by saying we put just a little more into it than first planned in the way of special articles and il lustrations. We have seen many special editions from small cities. We will stack this one up against any of them. Copies will te mailed all over the United States to interested parties and newspapers, in addition to our regular subscribers. AN UNCHANGED POLICY i There are some readers who will he looking! for sensational news in this issue concerning cer tain business differences which occurred during the past few days. They will be disappointed. Our idea is that its publisher should never use a newspaper for personal reasons. He has an unfair advantage over the other fellow. We may not always he able to follow that Ideal but such has been our course to date. Wo have never deliberately or intentionally tried to injure or hurt a single person. Many times we are confronted with disagreeable tasks in the printing of the news, but so are school teachers, lawyers, bill collectors and all others in their own lines. No newspaperman expects to satisfy every body and so we continue our policy of printing the news, the facts as far as they can be ascertained, and "let the chips fall where they may." EASTER Celebrated in commenionP i«>n of the res suroetion of Christ, Easter is tile oldest of all festivals in the t hristian calendar, even antedat ing Christmas as a day of special religious observ ance. This fact arises because Easter is really an outgrowth of the Jewish I’assovr, and its adop tion is explained by a church historian thus: "The first Christians being derived from or intimately connected with the Jewish church, naturally continued to observe the Jewish festi vals, though in a new spirit. The Passover, en nobled by the thought of Christ as the true Pente costal Lamb, continued to be celebrated and be came tile Christian Easter.” But differences arose over the exact date on which Haste, should be observed, and bitter con troversies occurred among the various Christian group'. The present method of computing the date of Easter was adopted by the Council of Nice T the year 325, which decreed that Easter should be the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox. But ev en this decree failed to cause general acceptance of the date set untli after the adoption of the Gregorian calendar more than twelve centuries later, in fact the Greek Church did not accept this date until 1923, so that it is only within the past few years that the entire Christian world has celebrated Easter oil tite same day. According to present usage, Easter cannot occur earlier than March 22 or later than April 25. This year it falls on March 27, an unusually early date. Different pers, >ns react differently to good or ill fortune. Alex McGurvock of Glenarm, Ireland, dropped dead when informed that a brother had left him £17,200. Mrs. Blanche Karseh, of Mem phis, Tenn., continued to drive hard bargains with vegetable dealers after being told that her foster mother had willed her £3,500,000. The wedding of Margie Atkins and Alexander Cummings, of Minehead, Eng., had to be canceled at the altar becaus the bridegroom was too ner vous to make the resonses properly. Lionel F. Graham of London was denied a di vorce when his wife admitted he had paid her to enter no defense. Here is a timely story about hoarding. Thom as Barnett, 78, of Washington buried his money in his back yard. Someone dug up and got away with a milk bottle containing $ 17,000, but another $11,000 was saved because the diggers didn’t hap pen to find the can and jar in which it was hidden BUD ’N’ BUB _By ED KRESSY r-KEY mm DONT/ CAUSE VT WAS OUL^ YESTERDAY My -RATHER GAVE ME A UCK1M' FOR MARK IMG TH/S CAR ce his. v._y \K / How He Hates lo°PitU the Trigger By Albeit . licitl i-:----' -1 JUST ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER By CARL GOERCH All of us make slip-ups when it comes to the use of proper words un t.er proper cireumdances. My pet failing is to use renumeration when l mean to say remuneration. The other night I spoke at a school house out in the country. The master of ceremonies announced to the large audience that the program would start with some focal music. Later on he announced th; t Miss So-and-so v- as supposed to have been present to render a solo but liiat she had been unavoidably detaint i. “However,” he said, “that ain’t g> ng to misput us any.” There’s a fine v.. >i*d for you—mis put. It is almost as good as the one that was suggested to me some time ago by A. I). MacLean. He said that in some colored lodges, when a mem ber was behind in his dues, he was classified as being “unfinancial.” One of the bo A I’ve ever heard, though, was told by an excited resi dent of Pitt county last week. A neighbor, slightly intoxicated, had driven past in his car and had run over a hog. “lie was drunk,” said my friend, “tha’s what he was. He was guilty of speedless and reckless driving I’m going to Greenville and hire an attor nity and sue him.” In connection with the Milk-for-Bet terHealth Week, Billy Bragaw, of Washington, said something the oth er day to the effect that ‘All of us ought to eat more milk.” “You mean ‘drink more milk,” don’t you?” I suggested. “No, I don’t,” he replied. “Drink ing milk isn’t especially healthful. We ought to eat more milk.” It was all Greek to me. Seeing that 1 didn’t believe him, he picked up a book from his desk, turned the pages, and showed me the following, writ ten by a nationally known authori ty on health. “If you sip milk slowly salivating every mouthful of it before you swal low it. you EAT it. If you dump it, int othe stomach as a mass to be made into cheese and to set up toxin poisoning and intestinal indigestion! you are drinking it.” Apparently tliere is quite a differ ence. Hereafter I’m going to try to RAT milk. I wonder if the folks in Eastern Carolina who are addicted to t h e brand of corn liquor which seems to be popular in various sections EAT their toddies or whether they DRINK them. The question of taxation is being given serious consideration by Con gress at the present time. Various ways and means for increasing reve nues are being suggested. As this happens to he election year, every member of Congress is going to be careful not t o advocate anything which might make him unpopular with the voters in his territory. In other words, it’s largely going to be a policy of not “What’s best for the country as a whole,” but “What’s going to help me get the most votes on Election Day.” Come to think of it, that may be one of the reasons why we’re in this sad muddle today. Miss Betty Gray Long is spending the spring holidays with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. T. W. M. Long. Miss Flora McLaurin spent the week-end at her home in Louisburg. Is Castor Oil A Bladder Physic? Xo. but juniper oil is. Use it to drive out impurities and excess acids that cause the irritation which results in getting up nights, bladder weak ness. leg pains, backache and burn ing. Get juniper oil in the form of Bukets, the bladder physic, also con taining buchu leaves, etc. Use a 25c test box. If not satisfied your druggist will return your money. You are bound to feel better after this cleans ing and you get your regular sleep. Sold by The Roanoke Pharmacy; Rosemary Drug Co., Rosemary, N. C. NOTICE Under and by virtue of the author ity contained in that certain deed of trust made by H. L. Bell (Widower) to me as trustee, dated the 16th day ot December, 1929, and recorded in Book 402, Page 65, in the Halifax County Registry, default having been made in the payment of the indebted-! ness thereby secured, and at the re quest of the holder of the note evi dencing the said indebtedness, I will, on Saturday, the 26th day of March, 1932, at the hour of 12:00 o’clock, Noon, in front of the banking house of the Citizens Bank & Trust Com pany, in Roanoke Rapids, tf. C., offer for sale at public auction to the high est bidder for CASH, the following described real estate, to-wit: Those seventeen (17) certain lots or parcels of land lying situate and be ing on the North side of the Seaboard Airline Railway Company’s right-of way, near the Town of Rosemary, N. C.} and shown and designated as Lots Nos. 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61; C2, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68 and 69 as shown on the map or plot of the pro perty of L. G. Shell, made by E. M. Eutsler Engineering Company of Ra leigh, N. C., February, 1920, of record in the office of the Register of Deeds for Halifax County, in Plot Book 2, at page 94; reference to which is hereby made for more accurate de scriptipn, and being the identical lots jnveyed by said L. G. Shell and wife to said H. L. Bell by deed dated the 7th day of February, A. D., 1920, and duly recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds aforesaid in Book 316, Page 521. This 24th day of February, 1932. A. L. CLARK, Trustee. 4t-mch 17. Dr. W.L. DAVIS Eye Specialist Who was forced to can cel his engagement last week, will be in Roanoke Rapids Friday and Sat urday, March 18 and 19. IF YOUR EYESIGHT IS NOT PERFECT—SEE HIM ! POLITICAL Fnr Sheriff S. M. Thompson of Roanoke Rapids announces his candidacy for the office j of Sheriff of Halifax County, sub- j ject to the action of the Democratic ; Primary of 1932. NOTICE Under and by virtue of the author- i ity contained in that certain deed of trust made by .T. W. Hale and Saman tha Hale, his wife, to me as trustee, dated the 18th day of March, 1930, and recorded in book 402, page 433 in the Halifax County Registry, do- ' fault having been made in the pay ment of the indebtedness thereby se cured and at the request of the hold er of the note evidencing the said in debtedness, I will, on Saturday, the 26th day of March, 1932, at the hour of 12:00 o’clock, Noon, in front of the banking house of the Citizens Bank & Trust Company, in Roanoke Rapids, N. C., offer for sale at pub lic auction to the highest bidder for CASH, the following described real estate lying and being situate in Fau cetts Township, Halifax County, State of North Carolina, to-wit: FIRST: That piece, parcel or tract of land containing 70 acres and being known as a part of the William A Ed mondson land inherited by the said J. W. Hale from his aunts, Catherine Edmondson, Mary Elizabeth Edmond son, and Lucy Ann Edmondson, who died intetsate, and being bounded on the North by the lands of J. B. Taylor and G. W. Green, on the East by the lands of J. A. Johnson, on the South by the lands of C. W. Green, and on the West by the tracts of land be Isnging to the said J. W. Hale, which he inherited from his mother, Louisa Edmondson Hale. SECOND That piece or parcel or tract of land containing 57 acres and being a part of the William A Ed mondson land which he purchased from Jerome B. Zollicoffer and Mary A. Zollicoffer, his wife, by that deed dated the 17th day of February, A. D. 1851, and duly recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Halifax County, North Carolina, in Book No. 33, at Page No. 157, and bounded on the North by the lands of J. A. John son, on the East by the lands of one Garner and J. S. Johnson on the South by the lands of Mrs. C. C. Woodruff and on the West by the lands of J. H. 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