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Carolina’s Only TABloid NEWSpaper The Roanoke Rapids Herald VOLUMN EIGHTEEN ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 30th, 1933 NUMBER FIFTY Regular Election of Mayor and 2 Commissioners - ■■ ■ .... ■■■■■■■■ i UP AND DOWN t?he Avenue WITH THE EDITOR There must be something to this Boy Scout work and it is so im portant to a city like Roanoke Rapids that we intend giving over most of our column this week to talking about it. In a Richmond paper last week, 27 troops of Scouts in that city re ceived special honors at annual in spection. Every one of those win ning troops was sponsored by some Richmond church. If the church is that much interested, there MUST be something to this Boy Scout work. We have four troops in Roanoke Rapids, three of them sponsored by local churches. Up until this month a Boy Scout executive from Rocky Mount has come here every month to help the scouts and their scout masters. Roanoke Rapids’ share of his expense has been $50 per month. From its last year’s Min strel Fund, the Kiwanis Club took $100 and paid the expenses for two months. The Minstrel Fund is about gone, not enough left for another month’s payment. Here we are with about 100 Boy Scouts and more wanting to get in and no money to give them the proper supervision and training. Summer is coming. The boys should be given all the Scouting they want for school will be out. It is almost too late in the year for a Kiwanis Minstrel until next Fall. What to do in the meantime to raise $50 per month to take care of several hundred boys is the prob lem before the house. Do you have a suggestion? One that will work and produce, say $200, which will pay Scout expenses for four months. Shall the Kiwanis Club try to put on a Minstrel even at this late date? Or should the Clubs in town have a home-made carnival or (Continued on back page) RALEIGH SUICIDE Former Patterson Mill Resident Is Victim of Poison Mrs. Margaret McLeod, former resident of Roanoke Rapids, who died from poison in Raleigh yes terday was the daughter* of John Sanders, an employee of Patterson Mills Co. She was 22 years old, the wife of W. P. McLeod, 'and leaves a four year* old son, Jackie. She was in the local hospital in July, 1932 for a minor operation and left here for Raleigh soon after, leaving her husband and son here. The family lives in Hornertown now, moving there from Patterson mill village about four months ago. Her husband is reported to be also an employee of Patterson Mills Co. The family came here from Ral eigh. The following story appeared in this morning’s News & Observer: After two weeks of intense suf fering, the attempt of Margaret McLeod, of Roanoke Rapids, to end her life by poisoning, ended successfully early yesterday morn ing at Mary Elizabeth hospital (Continued on back page) Diary Confederate Soldier Next Week Starting in The Roanoke Rapids Herald next week will be the actual diary of William Ed ward Bradley, Confederate sol dier, while he was a prisoner during the Civil War. He enlisted at 18 in the 12th Virginia Regiment and was in the Pennsylvania campaigns. He served four years, was in many battles and skirmishes and was captured by the Yankees in April, 1865. The diary tells of hig experiences from then until the end of the War. The Herald is indebted to his daughter, Mrs. Elsie Bradley Clark of Thelma, for the use of this part of the diary of her father. Ambassadors to France and Mexico ( The first two nomination* for Ambassadorship* sent to the Senate by President Roosevelt were those naming Jesse I. Strauss of New York, Am bassador to Paris, and right, Hon. Josephus Daniels, of Raleigh, N. C., Sec retory of Navy under Woodrow Wilson, Ambassador to Mexico City. Hr. Strauss is president of a large New York department store, and Mr. Daniels i* publisher of a North Carolina daily newspaper. City League May Have Four Teams Roanoke Rapids may have a snappy four-team League this year if plans now under way are carried out. A combination team of Patter son Mills Co., and Roanoke Mills Co., is being worked out by Man ager Henry Fitts, using the best from the two Roanoke mills and Patterson. The Bascos of Rosemary Mfg. Co. will have a team on the lot when the first game is called. Tuesday night the boys of the Virginia Electric & Power Co. or ganized a ball club with Fletcher Dickens as captain and C. L. Elt mg as manager. The Vepco team is going to be hard to beat. Bill Alligood will bring the fourth team into the league with a new Junior Legion team, composed of youngsters Bill has coached who will give the older teams plenty to worry about. Preliminary plans call for a double header each Saturday after noon at Simmons Park, with a suit able trophy for the winning team and the second team. More definite details of the lea gue will be printed next week and a full report of all games will ap pear each week in The Herald. Mayor Jenkins Up For Re-Election; Election Officers The regular city election will be held on Tuesday, May 2nd, at which time the Mayor and two members of the City Board of Commission ers will be elected. The Mayor will be elected for a term of two years and the Com missioners for a term of three years each. The Board met Tuesday and ap pointed election officials to con duct the election and open the city registration books for new voters. Friends of Mayor Kelly Jenkins, just completing his first two-year term, say he will be placed in nomi nation for the office to succeed himself. Mayor Jenkins has made a good record as presiding officer of the Board, in addition to his duties as Judge of the Mayor’s Court and Chief of Police. He has been able to give legal advice to the Board on all its actions. The two Commissioners whose terms expire are F. C. Williams from the North Ward, and Ned Manning from the South Ward. Each ward nominates one man for he coming election. Commissioners who continue to hold office for one and two years longer are George N. Taylor, M. D. Collier, A. N. Martin and John Smith. .fcrom April 14, the registrars viH open the city registration books for new voters. Those who have be come 21 years of age in the last year and those who have moved in town or hod not registered be fore may do so. The books of the North Ward will be in A. L. Clark’s office with E. A. Tellega as Registrar and those in the South Ward will be at Joyner Motor Co., with E. E. Leh man as Registrar. Other election officials will be for the North Ward: W. L. Medlin and Harvey Saunders; for the South Ward, Curtis Shell and Tom Busch. The beer bill comes up for its second reading before the Senate tonight. This afternoon the Appro priations Bill had been increased to $82,000,000.00 Blindfolded Driver To Be Here April 21 Friday, April 21, will be a big crowned heads of Europe and amaz day for Roanoke Rapids and the ^ hundreds of thousands. Their people of Halifax and Northamp- *b| t whicb will be free to ton counties. For on that day the „ . , ... Neuters will be here. The Nemar. 18 ** #f drlTi»* blindfolded have drawn crowd, all ever the tbra the streets of Roaneke Rap* world. They have entertained the ida. Professor Nemar will drive the car and his wife in a ear a half block away will diiJeet him by men tal telepathy. He will stop before certain stores in town as she wills it. There will be free prises fer lucky persons and there’s lets of other entertainment te be teld, later. Professor Nemar and his wife are magicians in the class of Thurston and Hondini. They will appear Friday night and Saturday, April 21 and 22, at a local theatre. The credentials sf the Nemars have been inrsstigatsd hy The Herald and they are all they claim to be. The merchants will cooperate in the big free marvel-exhibition here when the thrilling blind ride will be «een by thousands in both ends | of town.
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