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Carolina’s Only TABloid NEWSpaper The Roanoke Rapids Herald VOLUME EIGHTEEN ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY. AUGUST 25th, 1932. NUMBER NINETEEN. CHILD TJto WILL RECOVER ANDERSON TS BETTER UP AND DOWN Ghe Avenue WITH THK EDITOR Mr. and Mrs. H. L. IMythe an nounce the Birth of a boy, Charles Louis, Monday afternoon, August 15. Mother and son are both do ing well. Time rays: Betting in New York is 25 to 1 that the name of the next President of the United States will contain the letters OOVER. Capt. Jack DeLysle, Atlantic Coastal Highway official, was in town last week, asserting Roanoke Rapids had a chance to get back on his highway and get also a Ltderal marking again. Reverend Lewis N. Taylor and family stopped off in Roanoke Ra pids Tuesday morning on their way from New Jersey to their home in Columbia, S. C. Mr. Tay lor was formerly Rector of the lo cal Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Cherry, for mer residents of Roanoke Rapids, drove thru yesterday on their way to Durham. They stopped long enough to renew old acquaititances The Roanoke Rapids Fire De partment set a new record at one of -their week-end fires when they laid, connected and had water streaming on 150 feet of hose in 37 seconds. Great work, boys. We had always heard that if you weighed a tub of water and a watermelon separately and added the weights and then put the mel on in the water and weighed them all together the totals would dif fer. In fact, the melon in the wa ter would not weigh anything. This experiment was tried out the other day and we found the theory all wet. Officer C. L. Massey still insists he has worked it with ap ples. Maybe, we used the wrong kind of fruit. Or maybe there’s a trick in it. Like the one about putting pins in a glass full of water without spill fhg any of the water. You just Now Facing Murder Indictments I .^ A trial which seems certain to attract national attention is that of Libby Holman Reynolds and Albert (Ab) Walker at Winston-Salem, N. C., on an indictment charging murder of the former’s husband, Z. Smith Reynolds, heir to a tobacco fortune. Libby Holman Reynolds, famed Broadway “Blues” singer, and Walker, companion of the late husband, Reynolds, were released following the Cbroner’s inquest, but rearrest'ed following an investigation by county authorities. The death of Reynolds terminated a | big party over July 4th weekend. Photos show Libby Holman, Ab Walker and Alfred Holman, Gncinnati lawyer, who will help defend his daughter. 4 FIRES SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC The ten year old girl’s class of the Rosemary Baptist Church had a picnic at Tilghman’s Cross Roads last Thursday. Miss Dovie Crouch, who is teacher of the class was assisted by Miss Ella Giles. Miss Lillian Cooper is visiting Miss Mary Miles Clark. keep on putting pins in until the glass is about half full of pins and none of the water flows over the glass. Try it. Born Friday morning to Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Pope, a fine boy, mother and son are doing nicely. Five full football teams reported for first practice at t h e High School building this morning. An epidemic of fires swept Roa noke Rapids over the past week end when four alarms were turned in between Saturday afternoon and Monday night. The local Fire Department did not have b:me to dry the hose be tween fires. Valiant work prevent ed any one of the fires from de stroying the property. The fires are listed as follows: Saturday, 2:30 p. m., the Rice llro'vn home, corner Jackson and Third Streets. Sunday, 7 a. m., the Anderson home, corner Roanoke Avenue and Fourth Streets. Sunday, 8:45 p. m., a vacant house in the 100 block between ! Jackson and Madison Streets. I Monday, 8 p. m„ garage build , ing next to old city jail on Second Louis O. Anderson, Jr., who at- j | tempted suicide here Sunday af- j j ternoon, is reported in improved j condition at the local hospital. He went to his home on Roanoke 1 Avenue about 4 o’clock and a half ! hour later a crash and cries start : led neighbors who investigated. Messrs J. W. Smoot and C. F. Ogletree were the first to arrive and found Anderson lying- at the door with his throat a n d both ; wrists cut. He was bleeding pro ! fusely. A safety razor blade had been used. He was taken to the hospital and his condition, at first serious be cause of laeit of blood, has steadi ly improved. He was alone at the time, the rest of the family being away for the week-end. AWDERTON FUN RAL WEDNESDAY The funeral of James P. Ander i.on. who died here Monday night, was held at 2 p. m., yesterday af ternoon with interment in the fa mily cemetery near Emporia. Mr. Anderton, who was 65 years old, died at 1) p. m., Monday after a long illness, at his residence on the corner of Hamilton and 6th Streets. He moved here 19 years ago from Emporia and has been em ployed by Patterson Mills Co., un til his death. Illness caused him to leave his duties six weeks ago. He leaver his wife and six chil dren: three by his present wife, Mrs. J. A. Suiter of Garysburg, Wilbur and Marvin Anderton of this city; three by a former wife, Mrs. Lottie Dulla of Gastonia, Mrs. S. C. Harris of Washington, Va., and Jimmy Anderton of near Au relian Springs. Funeral services yesterday were preached by Rev. S. J. Starnes of the First Methodist Church. Pall hearers were Messrs Jake Lassi ter, J. B. McAllister, George N. Taylor, E. A. Murray, A. Miekle and Dr. J. W. Martin. Street between Hamilton and Washington Streets. —COMPLETE STORY INSIDE— Sylvia Higgins, five year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Higgins, who was struck by a car Saturday night, will recover. The little girl was hit by a car driven by M. R. Barnes of Gum berry. She suffered a fractured skull and both legs were broken. The accident oecured in front of the Roanoke Rapids Hospital as the child was crossing the street to reach her father’s car. —COMPLETE STORY INSIDE— Local Fireman’s Relief Fund Receives $39.67 Raleigh, Aug'. 2.3.— Roanoke Ra pids has been sent $99.67 as its share of the State Firemen’s Re lief fund, distributed each year on the basis of the amount of fire in surance premiums collected the year before in the towns and cities of the State which qualify by hav j ing an organized fire department, 1 si, .rated fire district and reg ulations complying with the fire waste law. The total distributed to the 153 towns and cities quali fying was $30,506.91, which is one per cent of the insurance premi ums paid in these towns and cities. This is $5,820 less than the amount listributed last year, showing a lecrease in the amount of business done. Enfield received $51.83, Scot 'and Neck $89.56 and Weldon $84.52. Womans Club Thanks Donors The house furnishing committee of the Womans Club wishes to thank those who contributed to the success of the subscription bridge party which was held last Thurs day afternoon, and they wish es pecially to thank the Kidd Ice Cream Company for the delicious cream they so kindly gave and H. S. Loy for the prizes which were donated by him. For Lt. and Mrs. Floyd B. Wood Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Taylor enter tained at a three course dinner on Friday hon< ring Lt. and Mrs. Floyd B. Wood of Midletown, Pa. After the dinner brdige was enjoy ed at two tables. High score prizes were presented Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A. China. At ten thirty an ice course was served to the follow ing: Lt. and Mrs. Floyd B. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A. China and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Heydereich. Fire Epidemic Sweeps City
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