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The Roanoke Rapids Herald
VOLUME EIGHTEEN ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 12th, 1933._NUMBER THIRTY-NINE.
ON SMALL SCALE NEXT WEEK
Two Hurt In Wreck
UP AND DOWN
£jhe Avenue
WITH THE EDITOR
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Sledge, Tuesday night, a 6 1-2-lb.
baby daughter. Mother 'and daugh
ter are doing nicely.
LANGSTON-SHEARIN
Mr. and Mrs. Hannibal Sliearin
announce the marriagle of their
daughter, Edna Earl, to Louis
Langston, on Dec. 4th, 1932. At
home 225 Washington St., Roanoke
Rapids.
Rev. Hugh Bradley is in Richc
mond taking a special course at
the Theological Seminary during
the month of January. He will re
turn each Sunday and hold regular
services.
North Carolina, by action of the
present Assembly, was the 17th
state to ratify the Norris Lame
Duck Amendmejnty It takes 36
states to ratify successfully.
For relief work from the R.F.C.,
Halifax County will receive $12,
000 for January, $15,000 for Feb
ruary. —
A total of 400 men had register
ed at The Herald Tuesday of this
week, stating the were unemploy
ed. At least 350 were from Roa
noke Rapids township, Weldon and
Littleton. Most of the balance was
from Northampton.
Work on Seventh Street contin
ues this week, cutting thru from
Hamilton to Jefferson, with Fore
man Etheridge’s crew about fin
ished on the block between thje
. Avenue and Hamilton.
The interior of t h e Electric
Building is being redecorated this
week by painter Arlo Fitts.
There will be a piano recital at the
High School Auditorium on Mon
day evening, January 16th, at 8:00
o’clock p. m. There will be no ad
mission char ges and the public is
cordially invited.
City auto licenses may be secur
ed at the City Clerk’s office in
. the North Ward and at J. C.
. Smith’s radio store in the South
Ward.
Two are in the Roanoke Rapids
Hospital, one in a serious condi
tion, as the result of an auto crash
iast night one mile from here on
the Weldon road.
The injured are Eddie Daniel,
colored, of Norfolk, who sustained
several broken ribs, one of which
has punctured a lung, and his wife
Lillie Daniels, who has a wrenched
back.
W. E. Moore of Emporia, driver
of the other car, and his com
panion, W. M. Doyle, were uninjur
ed. Mr. Moore operates a fruit
store here.
According to the statements of
the white men, they were driving
toward Weldon from Roanoke Ra
pids and a mile from the depot
saw a car coming at a high rate
of speed and zigzagging from one
side of the road to the other. Mr.
Moore says he pulled his car off
the road but the other car crossed
to his side and smashed into him,
knocking off a wheel and fender.
The Daniel car, with Daniel driv
ing, went some distance on, cross
ed to the left side of the road and
turned over in the ditch. The car
was demolished.'
Officers say Daniel admitted
drinking and when he leaves the
hospital he will probably face sev
eral charges. Roy Timblick, in
the car with him, claims to have
been asleep at the time of the ac
cident.
New Grocery Store
Opens Here Sat.
Announcement is made today by
Jamie E. Brown and E. C. Padgett
new proprietors, that the Depen
dable Cash Grocery Co., Inc., will
open their new grocery store and
market Saturday morning, located
next door to Taylor-Matthews
Drug Company.
Workmen have been working
overtime all week, and the store
room has been completely re-deco
ratd, renovated, and new fixtures
installed. Installation of a huge
cold storage box in the rear of
the store has been made and in ad
dition, meat storage facilities in
clude twe attratctive display cases.
The store is home-owned, and
will be operated by Messrs Brown
and Padgett, who have a wide fol
lowing in the grocery business
here, having been in that line in
the city for the past several years.
Manhattan Island has 490 miles
of streets,
POLICE ORDERED TO
COLLECT OR ELSE
RED DEVILS
WIN 29-30
Having a safe lead up until the
last few minutes of play, the Red
Devils basketball quint barely
licked the Chowan College cagers
in a return game here last nighv
by a 29-30 score.
Tom Cheek, flashy center of the
locals bagged five field goals and
one foul goal for a total of 11
points to lead his team for scoring
honors. Louis Taylor tallied eight
points for second honors.
McAdams of Chowan led his
team with ten points. Whitley,
place.
The Aurelian Springs Reserves
defeated the Junior Red Devils 23
to 16 to top off the double head
er. Knight with eight points led
the winners, while Spencer with
six points, topped the Juniors.
The line-up:
Red Devils Pos. Chowan
P. Dickens Puckett
Forward
Taylor Whitley
Forward
Cheek McAdams
Center
Speight Davis
Guard
Mills Copeland
Guard
Roanoke Rapids Subs: Edmond
son, Brown, Hoggard.
Chowan Subs: Turner, Dudley,
Parker.
To Appoint Successor
On Co. School Board
There will be a meeting of the
Halifax Gounty Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee at the court
house in Halifax, N. C., on Tues
day, Jan. 17, 1933, at 11 o’clock
a. m”"for the purpose of nominat
ing a candidate for the County
Board of Education to succeed R.
Hunter Pope, resigned. Mr. Pope
is now serving in the legislature.
Mrs. T. R. Manning attended the
funeral of her cousin, Mrs. Harry
Lee McDowell, «t Scotland Neck
Tuesday.
The City Council, in session this
week, ordered the police to arrest
all car drivers in Roanoke Rapids
after February 1st who have not
bought their 1933 city license tags.
The police were also ordered to
close all places of business which
do not have city privilege licenses
and to swear out warrants for dog
owners who have not licensed their
dogs for last year.
Lack of funds make it impossible
for the city to install a city wide
garbage system at this time.
Streets and alleys will continue to
be cleaned of rubbish when piled
properly for city trucks and wag
ons to handle.
The garbage or “slop” situation
must be handled by individual ci
tizens. The ctiy had given the
privilege to a hog grower, but he
gave up the deal when others took
the best of the garbage and left
him only the “watery slops.”
Some people also used their gar
bage can as a sewage disposal.
RAINEY
FUNERAL
The death of Miss Ruth Rainey,
which occurred on Sunday after
noon about five o’clock at t h e
home of her sister, Mrs. W. H.
Babcock, brought real sorrow to
her many friends here.
Miss Rainey had lived in Roa
noke Rapids a greater part of her
life. She was for years book
keeper for the Roanoke Rapids
Hospital.
She was a most capable business
woman and made a host of friends
by her winning personality. She
was 48 years old and had been in
failing health for the last year.
The burial took place Monday
afternoon at 2:30 at Oak Grove
cemetery in Northampton County.
Rev. Starnes, pastor of the First
M. E. Church, had charge of the
services. She is survived by her
mother, Mrs. Minnie Rainey and
three sisters: Mrs. W. H. Babcock,
of this city; Mrs. Atmore of
Washington, N. C., and Mrs. Ed.
gar Taylor.
A magazine in New York is call
ed "Strange Suicides.”
Work on the Roanoke Rapid**
Sanitary District will get under
way next week on a small scale
according to Carl G. Semendinger,
Chief Engineer, and W. E. Baker,
Superintendent, of the Fiske- Car
ter Construction Co., successful
bidders.
Messrs Semendinger and Baker
have been here most of this week
arranging for office space and fix
tures, checking in equipment, part
of which arrived the middle of the
week, and lining up the project so
as to be ready for work next week.
Work will progress slowly next
week awaiting more equipment and
materials. They state they will
start with only a small crew and
gradually add to it as the work
progresses.
Both gentlemen were anxious to
cooperate, a^ far as possible, with
local agencies as regards labor.
They stated they would have not
more than a dozen men of the
construction company with them,
the balance of the labor to be
hired locally
Around tins dozen experienced
men they hope to build up an or
gnizat'.on of at least a couple of
hundred by the time the work is
going full speed.
They appreciated the efforts of
this newspaper in getting data on
local unemployment and will use
those records as far as feasible in
employing labor. More than 400
applications have been filed here.
Their ditch digging machine, for
the deepest work arrived Tuesday
morning. First work will start
next week on the water mains, in
order that later water will be avail
able for test purposes on water
and sewer lines.
The offices of the Fiske-Carter
Co. will be located on Third Street
back of the Roanoke Bank & Trust
Co., utilizing the two offices on
the ground floor.
Engineer Lewis of Spoon &
Lewis, who represents the local
Sanitary Board, arrived in t h e
city yesterday and was looking for
office space and also a residence
for his family. He will become
a Roanoke Rapids citizen for
at least a year.
Mr. Lewis’ office will probably
be used as headquarters by the
Sanitary Board, Messrs A. J.
Young, H. D. Camp and J. W. Tay
lor.
COTTON BALES BURNED
Someone set fire to two bales of
cotton owned by John Matthews
Sunday night. The cotton was lo
cated in the back of his Hamil
ton St. home. The Fire Depart
ment answered the call and finally
put out the stubborn fire. A few
days before, another bale had been
set afire.