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Carolina’s Only TABtoid NEWSpaper The Roanoke Rapids Herald VOLUME EIGHTEEN ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 19th, 1933. NUMBER FORTY. Pneumonia Fatal UP AND DOWN Ghe Avenue WITH THE EDITOR The Herald this week carries more paid advertising than it has carried before in ov,er a year. Per haps we ARE turning the corner. We stack this issue up against any weekly in the State. We fur ther urge our readers to carefully read the ads for bargains and shopping hints. Due to our new schedule, we must insist that all correspond ents and others wishing news items printed get the copy in our of fice at the earliest possible date. The Herald has a new phone number. Our old number R-7411 was a nuisance. Because it started with 7 it was necessarry to dial the R also, making five twists of the wrist. Our new num ber is easy to remember, easy to dial: 326. 1 The Civics Department of the Womans Club will meet on Mon day afternoon at 3 o’clock at the home of Mrs. V. T. Lamm on Roa noke Avenue. Dick Martin, son of R. L. Martin of this city, and former employee of the Virginia Electrfc and Pow er Co., stationed here, will appear with “The Rhythm Aces,” stage band of the Dan Fitch Co’s, show wich plays the Imperial Theatre Sunday midnight and Monday and Tuesday. Young Martin plays the drums and sings. He is well-known and' popular in Roanoke Rapids, having lived here until a fe w months ago. A large turnip which weighed 7 pounds when dug is on display in the window of Etherdge Barbe cue Stand, beside the New Bakery. The turnip now weighs five pounds and ten ounces. It was grown at Bracey, Va. - L. J. Jones is completing a new bungalow on Hamilton Street on the site where recently fire de stroyed a large apartment house. It will be occupied by Mr, and Mrs. Auburn Daughtery. The city is now working about 40 men under the Federal Aid re lief work for unemployed. Open ing new streets, cleaning the cem etery, clearing public park sites, building culverts and similar work has been done. Baseball Now Under Way for 1933 )When ‘ ‘ Babe ’ ’ Ruth starts to : limber up for another season of : swat, fans may know that an other big league race is in the offing. . . . The “Babe” now i works out daily in a New York gymnasium .. . taking off weight and getting ready for the train j ing camp cail, now but a few : weeks away. Yesterday the Babe refused to sign up with the Yankees under a $50,000 a year contract. He will consider $70,000, which is $5,000 less than last year’, ten less than the year before. Our prediction is they will compromise at $65,000, if you can call that a compromise. NO USE FOR MORE OUTSIDERS TO APPLY I A small crew of about 25 men has been busy ths week for the Fiske-Carter Construction Co., un loading material and getting ma chinery and equipment in shape to start work on a larger scale within a few days. Three men have put in applica tions for every one job and there is no use for further applications at this time. W. E. Baker, sup erintendent, has been working with this newspaper and using its un employment records for the jobs already filled. He states he will continue to do so as long as those filing really want to work. The company is giving prefer ence and first chance to local la bor as promised. From the unem ployment records about 30 addi tional men will be notified for work some time the first of next week. It is useless for those out side of this community to apply for work at this time. Due to change in plans, the first work will start on the outfall line, beginning at East Seventh St. and Jefferson, running to Fifth and Charlotte, then following the creek now used as the hospital outfall to the canal, thence to the river. The first sewer work will start between 6th and 8th on Jefferson, Charlotte and Marshall streets. When material now being made arrives, work will start on t h e water mains starting at the filter FATHERS ASKED TO MEETING A joint meeting of all the Par ent-Teachers Associations in the city schools will be held at the High School auditorium Tuesday night, 8 p. m., on January 24. The meeting is set at night so more fathers can attend. It is hoped to have more men than has ever attend* d a Parent-Teachers meeting. In fact, the children are going to get them out, for there is a prize to the room having the most fath ers present and another prize for the room with most mothers there. There will be special speakers for the meeting and questions of prime importance to the schools of Roanoke Rapids and ■ Halifax County will be discussed. plant and working South. Supt. Baker says this is his hard est job. In addition to pleasing the local engineer and Sanitary Board and trying to make some thing for his company, he now has to satisfy the RFC and Federal government. But in spite of all the bosses he promises to give Roa noke Rapids the best sanitary and water system in the country. A wave of pneumonia which proved fatal to three struck Roa noke Rapids this week-end— The dead are Rachel May Starnes, Mrs. Minnie Garner and Dale Mar tin, infant. Rachel May Starnes, 9 year-old daughter of Reverend ami Mrs. S. J. Starnes of the First Method ist Church, died suddenly just be fore midnight Saturday. She had been sick only three days and the case was not pro nounced pneumonia until Satur day after a consultation of three local physicians. They say it was one of the most rapidly develop ed cases in their memory. Death came at the Starnes residence on Jackson Street. Funeral services were held at the First Methodist Church Monday af ternoon. Presiding Elder L. B. Jones of Rocky Mount was in charge assisted by severrl Mflhod ist ministers of his district. Pallebearers were members of the little girl’s Sunday School class: Misses Sarah Towe, Mary Coburn Woodruff, Beulah Cook, Bernice Tudor, Margaret Hines and Mary Frances Taylor. The dozen flower girls were members of her class at school. She was born in Durham, com ing here two years ago when Mr. Starnes was appointed pastor of the local church. The parents and five brothers and sisters survive. Mrs. Minnie Garner Mrs. Minnie Garner, 44 years old wife of B. M. Garner, died at the local hospital of lobar pneumonia Saturday. Funeral services were held at the residence of Mrs. W. R. Cur tis on Washington St. with Rev. D. M. Sharpe officiating and in terment was in Roanoke Rapids cemetery The deceased was a native of South Carolina and lived here for several years. Her sister and oth er relatives from that State at tended the funeral. Mrs. Garner had a host of friends and will be missed by many, particularly for her neighborly deeds in Patterson town. Dies While On Visit Pneumonia took its third vic tim here yesterday with the death of Dale Martin, five months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Martin of Chester, S. C. They were visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Bennett on Williams St. at the time. The remains were ship ped to Chester, where the funeral will be held today. Thieves broke in the front door of the Triple R Grocery Co. early this mofning and escaped with loot worth at least $200 at whole sale prices. Entrance was made thru the front door on Roanoke Avenue. A heavy padlock was broken by heavy blows and then a crowbar or sim ilar instrument was used to force the Corbin lock on the inside of the door. Double locking mean* nothing to the robbers. Police set the time ox the rob bery at early morning. Officer Carl Green checked the door after midnight and when he passed there at 4:30 all seemed well. Here enters a peculiar coinci dence in the case. It was at 4:30 this morning that Officer Paul Lewter in the North Ward saw a car acting in a mysterious man ner around the Standard Filling Station on First St. He watched them and became convinced they were ready to break the pump and steal gasoline. Being without a car he called Mr'. Green who came at once. The car disappeared and was seen no more altho officers check ed the North end of town. It is now thought the same car dou bled back and the occupants rob bed the wholesale store. Tire tracks in front of Triple R and the filling station correspond. Missing from the store are ten thousand Camjel cigarettes, two thousand Old Gold, one thousand Blue Ribbon and 190 Cigars, three cases of Ralph Snuff, ten boxes of Mounds candy, other candy and ar ticles of like nature which cannot be checked. Officers are checking several im portant clues and a liberal reward has been offered for the return of the merchandise and arrest of the thieves. The robbery was discovered at 7 o’clock this morning by Charles Ogletree when he opened up and he called George N. Taylor, Triple R manager, who immediately had a police investigation begun. Sister of Local Druggist Dies Friday O. Griffin, local druggist, was called to the bedside of his sister, Mrs. Mary E. Thompson, of Bailey, N. C., last Friday, who died Sun day night following a several months illness. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon with interment in the family cemetery. Mr. Griffin attended the funeral. Besides her husband, Phelon Thompson, Mrs. Thompson leaves four children and is survived by her mother, -six brothers and one sister. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Cleaton, Jr. have returned from a motor trip to Florida, visiting several of Flori da’s most outstanding resorts.
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