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The Roanoke Rapids Herald
VOLUME EIGHTEEN ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, February 16th, 1933. NUMBER FORTY-FOUR
Ggasburg, va.
MERCHANT
DIES BY OWN HAND
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UP AND DOWN
^}Ke Avenue
WITH THE EDITOR
The ladies of the Episcopal
Church announce another dinner,
this time a Chicken Supper to be
held on George Washington’ Birth
• day, Wednesday, February 22nd,
at the salesrooms of the Joyner
Motor Company.
Tickets for the Chicken Supper
are unusually low, selling for only
35c each, and advance tickets are
now on sale and may be procured
from ladies of the Episcopal
Church on that committee.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Whitson of
Franklin Road announce the birth
of a 9 1-4 pound son born last
Thursday, February 9th at 5:00
P. M. The little fellow has been
Christened Billie McDonald, and
both mother and baby are doing
well.
There seems to be little of mo
ment “Up and Down the Avenue”
this week, but perhaps it is not
so much the fault of the Avenue
as it is for the fact the editor has
been out of town for more than a
week.
This business of “pinch-hitt’ng”
for the editor is not just what it
is cracked up to be. Anyway, any
lack of news or editorial interest
in this issue will have to be at
tributed to Mr. Wilson’s Absence.
Mr. Wilson is expected back
from Kentucky some time Thurs
day afternoon. Many messages of
condolence have been received at
the office in his absence, which
we are sure will be genuinely ap
preciated by the editor.
H. F. H.
Frank Pittman of Williamston,
N. C., spent the week-end with
friends here.
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Gage and
children, have returned to their
home in Canandiagua, N. Y., aft
er a visit to Mr. and Mrs. W. V.
Woodruff.
2 KILLED
WELDON
SMASH-UP
Two men are dead, having been
instantly killed, three are injured
and the sixth member of the party,
a woman, is suffering panful in
juries in Roanoke Rapids Hospital
as a result of an automobile crash
at a crossing of the Atlantic Coast
Line Railway Co. in South Weldon
late Friday afternoon.
The dead are: Earl Mullis, 23,
employee of Roanoke Mills Co. of
this city, but residing in Weldon,
and Wayland Overby, 22, of Fay
etteville, who was visiting here
and in Weldon and looking for em
ployment. Mullis was single,
while Overby leaves a wife and
five-months old child. They were
instantly killed when the small se
dan in which they were riding to
work at a local mill collided with
A. C. L. Train No. 80, Northbound
passenger shortly after 4 o’clock.
Clarence Harlow, 21, of Weldon,
also an employee of Roanoke Mills
Co. and owner and driver of the
death car suffered a broken shoul
der, three ribs broken, a wrenched
back and other injuries.
Willie Taylor of Pittsburg, Pa.,
here on a visit received a broken
shoulder and painful injuries to
his skull. Jack Alligood, employee
of a Weldon cotton mill received
minor skins and bruises for his
part of the fateful wreck, while
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Editors Sister Is
Pneumonia Victim
Carroll L. Wilson, editor and
publisher of the Roanoke Rapids
Herald was called to the bedside
of his sister, Mrs. Robert Graham,
at a Louisville, Kentucky hospital
last Wednesday afternoon, where
she was suffering with double
pneumonia.
At that time, it was thought
that her condition was critical,
however, death did not come until
Saturday, February 11th.
Funeral services were held at
the home in Bowling Green, Ky.
Sunday afternoon. Surviving is
her husband, Robert Graham of
Harlan, Ky. and small son, her
grandmother, Mrs. J. C. Carroll
of Bowling Green, and Carroll
Wilson of this city.
Local Youths Have
Narrow Escape On
Hunting Expedition
Three Roanoke Rapids youths
are minus a boat, two guns and
the fruit of their afternoon’s hunt,
but are much the wiser as a re
sult of a near-serious boat upturn
in the Roanoke River last Monday
fternoon.
Jack West, Jeff Mays and Clar
ence Coburn were returning home
from a hunting expedition via
boat on the river when their boat
hit a snag and overturned. Two
of the boys managed to pull
themselves from the sinking boat
with the aid of a limb of an over
hanging tree but the third had to
“swim for it."
FIND ENFIELD NEGRO
DEAD FROM EXPOSURE
The body of Kelly Lynch, En
field colored man, was found in a
field about 3 1-2 miles from En
field last Saturday morning.
Death was due to exposure or
strangulation by water, the coro
ner was unable to decide which
after an investigation.
Although consiaerame mystery
enshrouds the Negro man’s death,
Coroner Billy Williams was un
able to unearth enough evidence
to point to foul play, and it is the
supposition that the man fell
asleep in the field and died either
of the cold, or perhaps strangled
to death, as his head was reposed
in a ditch when the body was dis
covered Saturday morning.
It is reported by associates of
Lynch that he was drinking heav
ily Friday afternoon and night.
He was seen within a mile of the
spot where his body was found,
riding a mule, and apparently in
a drunken condition.
HIGGINS
CO. LOW
BIDDERS
V. B. Higgins and Co., of Char
lotte, N. C., were the low bidders
for furnishing material, labor and
equipment entering into the con
struction of a 12-inch raw water
line from Roanoke Rapids to Wel
don, when the sealed bids of six
competing contractors were open
ed by the Sanitary Board Wednes
day afternoon. Contract will prob
ably be let in a few days.
This is the last of the major
projects incidental to water and
sewage installation of the Roanoke
Rapids Sanitary District.
It was first planned to build
an “outfall line,” and bids were
received on that project last No
vember. Since that time, an
agreement has been reached with
the City of Weldon, whereby we
are to furnsih them raw water,
and in turn be allowed to dump
our sewage at a point above Wel
don on the Roanoke River.
It is cheaper in excess of the
sum of $50,000 to build the raw
water line to Weldon, rather than
to built the outfall line, and
thought to be generally more sat
isfactory in the long run.
Higgins and Co. were low on
both classes of pipe figured on.
Both Houses Pass
Pope’s Bill Enfield
Church Property
EDITOR’S NOTE — More
about this bill on inside
(State) Page.
Raleigh, Feb. ,16.—Representa
tive Pope’s bill to relieve church
property in the Town of Enfield
from assessments for street im
provement, if -such relief is ap
proved by a vote of the people of
the town in an election which is
provided in the measure, has been
passed by both houses of the Gen
eral Assembly and ordered enroll
ed for ratification.
(Normally, it is due to be rati
fied Thursday, Feb. 16.)
Suicide Victim Was
Well Known In City;
Owned Property
C. B. King, 66 years old, pio
neer merchant, extensive land
owner, and one of the most re
spected citizens of the Gasburg,
Va. community, in which he lived,
was found dead at his store last
Sunday afternoon from a self-in
flicted bullet wound through his
skull.
The news of the self-imposed
death of the Virginian came as s
terrible shock to friends and rel
atives, who can offer no explana
tion of his act other than finan
cial reverses he suffered the past
few years.
Pinned to the lapel of his coat
was a twenty-page letter, written
in long hand by Mr. King, just
before firing the bullet that end
ed his life.
According to friends and rela
tives, there was nothing in the ac
tions of the man the past few days
to indicate he contemplated such
a step. Always^ cheerful, calm
and collected under all conditions,
it seems that he carried out his
death in the same quiet manner in
which he lived his life ... a life
time in which he had endeered
himself to many.
An ardent church worker, and
one of the most generous support
ers of the church at Gasburg, it
is said he spent most of the aft
ernoon Sunday studying his Sun
day School lesson. At length, he
left the house, after kissing his
wife “goodbye,” and visited for a
hort time at the home of his sis
ter, Mrs. Stanley, who lives in the
community, as is his daily habit.
After leaving the Stanley home he
went to his general mercantile
store, where he supposedly wrote
the letter found pinned to his coat,
the contents of which were not
made public. After this, it is sup
posed he fired the bullet through
his brain. Death must have been
instantaneous. His body was dis
covered shortly afterward.
air. King started in business
many years ago with the late H.
S. Moody. He was one of the sub
stantial citizens of the Gasburg
community and known and respect
ed by friends as a man of unim
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HALIFAX REPRESENTATIVES INTRODUCE BILL TO
REGULATE FEES CHARGED BY COUNTY OFFICERS
Register of Deeds; Clerk of Superior Court and Sheriff Would be Effected (Details on Back Page) |