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VOLUME NINETEEN_ ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 1st, 1933 NUMBER SEVEN
I UNABLE TO
I MAKE BOND
UP AND DOWN
”Ghe Avenue
WITH THE EDITOR
A little drama was enacted at
the Woman’s Club building during
Tuesday afternoon’s downpour
that might well be titled: “Orph
ans Of The Storm,” and the cast
would be some of the city’s society
• leaders.
A party had been in progress at
the Woman’s Club House (one of
those “delightful affairs” society
editors like so well to describe)
and “The Four Hundred” had turn
■ ed out en masse in laces and frills
that would make an Easter Parade
look like a “tacky party.”
The party was over. It was time
to go home. Husbands would be
awaiting dinner . . . and
“Rain, Rain Go Away. . . .
Come Again Some Other Day”
But Alas! The goddess of rain
would not heed.
The ladies looked reluctantly at
the foot-deep stream of- water
surrounding the front steps of the
house . . . then at their nice,
white shoes and the long, graceful
lines of their dainty afternoon
frocks.
There was no alternative. Most
of the ladies pulled off their shoes
and hose, and lifting their skirts
to their knees “made a run for
it” to their waiting automobiles.
Tuesday’s register of the
Terminal Hotel, Weldon, dis
closes the name:
Norma Shearer, Hollywood,
Calif.
but the clerk’s notation of D!
N. S. indicates that “Miss
Shearer’’ did not stay!
Be sure and do not let the time
“slip up” on you next week, for
there will be no shopping in Roa
noke Rapids Wednesday after
noons thruout the months of June,
July and August. All city stores
will close promptly at one o’clock,
not to open until Thursday morn
ing.
Roanoke Rapids loses one of
its most popular families this week
when Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Grimmer
and family leave Friday, to make
their home in Groton, Connecticutt,
however, we are inclined to say
“Au Revoir,” rather than “Good
Bye.”
To all who know him, it seems
Clarence 'Grimmer is as much a
part of Roanoke Rapids as the
“Avenue.” Mrs. Grimmer was a
civic leader and an ardent church
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| Presents Governor With Cotton Suit
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus is shown above wearing a 100 per
cent cotton suit which was presented him by General Manager Blalock
as part of an increased-use-of-cotton program which will include the
presentation of a cotton suit to every Southern governor.
In presenting the suit Mr. Blalock congratulated the Governor
upon hits support of the movement for increased consumption of cotton
and recalled that it has been said that if the Chinaman could be per
suaded to increase the lenth of his shirt tail six inches there would be
no great overproduction of cotton. “If that statement be true,” he
added, “unquestionably we would begin to dig a big hole into the
American carryover of cotton if we could get all of our male popula
tion to wear cotton coats and breeches as well as cotton shirts.”
NEGRO FARMER
KNIFES IN-LAW
Drunken Family Row Among Negro Family
On Outskirts Of City Leads To Laborer Seri
ously Wounding His Father-In-Law.
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IMPROVEMENTS MADE
AT CITY CEMETERY
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Richmond Editor
Delivers Address
To Class Of 1933
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Dr. Douglass Freeman, editor
pf the Richmond News-Leader,
who delivers the address to the
largest class to graduate from
Roanoke Rapids High School in
history, at the Auditorium Thurs
day evening. Dr. Freeman was a
guest of the Kiwanis Club at their
ltgular dinner program Thursday
evening.
NEW PRESS
ARRIVING
Workers Rush Remodelling Of
Building To Completion
For Press Room
HOYLE SIGNED UP
The first truck-load of equip
ment, being a part of the big,
thirty-two page press on which the
new publication, The North Caro
lina Weekly-News, and the Roa
noke Rapids Herald will be print
ed arrived Thursday morning.
There will be many more truck
loads, and altho it will be possibly
a week or more before workmen
have completed the building at
Roanoke Avenue and Second
Streets, to be occupied by the
News press room, erection of the
new press and other machinery
will start as soon as the founda
tion, etc., is completed.
The Roanoke Rapids Herald will
still maintain their composing
room at 8 East Second St. All of
the equipment in that building at
present will remain there in addi
tion to other new machinery for
the composing room. Offices will
be upstairs in the building on the
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HELD IN
JAIL AT
HALIFAX
Will Face Superior
Court On 6 Charges
Of Store Breaking
LeRoy Prince, Flavous
Clary and O’Neal Stanly, 17
to 20-year old local youths
taken into custody by city
poice last Friday night in con
nection with breaking, enter
ing and robbing six Roanoke
Rapids stores will face Super
ior Court on those charges
early in June.
All three boys waived prelimi
nary hearing before Mayor Kelly
Jenkins Monday and were lodged
in the county jail at Halifax in
default of bond, aggregating $900
up each.
At a late hour Thursday, the
boys, all of whose parents live in
the city, were unable to make
bond, and reside, at least tempor
arily, in the county jail.
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Reveal Lobbyists
Active In Passing
New Divorce Bills
Preston Satterfield, well known
lumberman of Roxboro, paid two
attorneys an aggregate of $456.80
to lobby through the General As
sembly one of the two divorce bills
passed at the 1933 session, accord
ing to a report filed with the Sec
retary of State yesterday by Mr.
Satterfield.
The first divorce law passed re
duced the time requirement for
separations before securing an ab
solute divorce from five years to
two years, but limited its applica
tion to “aggrieved parties.” Mr.
Satterfield employed two Roxboro
lawyers, Nathan Lunsford at a
cost of $351.80 and former State
Senator L. M. Carlton, at a cost
of $105 to work in behalf of the
second bill passed, which was in
troduced by Representative Claude
Allen, of Granville and which re
moved the restriction concerning
“aggrieved parties” contained in
the first bill.
Solicitor Got $500
Solicitor J. C. Little of the
Seventh Judicial district, who did
not register under the lobbyist act
until April 22, three weeks before
adjournment of the General As
sembly, received a fee of $500 for
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