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The Roanoke Rapids Herald
VOLUME NINETEEN ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 15th, 1933 NUMBER NINE
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Funeral For Accident
Victim This Afternoon
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UP AND DOWN
t?he Avenue
j WITH THE EDITOR
Miss Lucille Carlon, nurse in
charge of the clinic of Doctors
Beckwith and Weathers in the
Rosemary mill section, reports a
very notable increase in the num
ber of people applying for the free
typhoid shots, since the publicity
given this subject in the Herald
a couple of weeks ago.
Saturday, July 1st, will be the
last date possible to start the
course of three shots necessary to
immune one from typhoid, but
those applying on that date for
their first shot will be given the
other two necessary to cojnplete
the course at intervals of one
week from the date of each shot.
From today’s Richmond News
Leader:
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Ravdin
announce the engagement of
their daughter, Jennette, to
Samuel Marks, son of Mrs.
Rosa Marks and the late B.
Marks, of Roanoke Rapids.
N. C. The wedding will take
place in July.
Last week a man shuffled
up to the bar at Kidd’s Place,
downtown, and called for a
stein like a veteran. After
drinking it, he declared he
was 62-years-old, and that this
was the first time in his life
he had ever had a glass of real
beer, and that he liked it!
Curtis C. Shell, owner and man
ager of The Quality Shop, announc
es he will move his place of busi
ness from the Smith Biulding,
where he has been located for sev
eral months, to the Crew building,
in the store-room formerly occu
pied by the Pure Food Store. It is
not known who will occupy the
present location of the Quality
Shop or if it has been rented yet.
Mr. Shell, popular merchant,
gives “lower operating overhead”
as his sole excuse for changing his
location, and further states that
“In these days when everyone is
looking for values, it makes it
necessary for one always to be on
the alert for ways to save in over
head. We invariably pass these
savings along to our customers.”
Jesse Rice Dies
In 50-ft. Fall At
Local Paper Mill
Funeral services for Jesse
Rice, 32-year-old local man
who fell a distance of 50-feet
to his almost instant death
while at work on the roof of
the soda plant building of the
Halifax Paper Corporation
here Tuesday afternoon, were
held Thursday, June 15th,
with Rev. Herbert Baucom,
Jr., officiating
A very large assembly of friends
and relatives attended the funeral,
and interment was at Roanoke
Rapids Cemetery.
Pall bearers were: Ross Ed
wards, Eddie Kidd, Bruce Rook,
Clarence Mosley, H. M. Hudson
and L. H. Jenkins.
The accident came as a shock to
the many friends of young Rice,
and is one of the few fatalities
that has occurred at a Roanoke
Rapids industrial plant in many
months.
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WEDDING
COMES AS
SURPRISE
Miss Mabel Regan Married To
Former City Pharmacist
In High Point
BRIDE IS TEACHER
A wedding coming as a sur
prise to most of their friends
in this city was that of Miss
Mabel Regan, city primary
teacher, to Clyde Hargrove,
Winston-Salem pharmacist who
formerly lived in Roanoke Rapids,
at Sunrise, Wednesday morning,
June 14th, at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. C. A. Siceloss in High
Point, N. C.
Only a few intimate friends were
present at the wedding, including
some of the teachers who served
on the school faculty with Miss
Regan here, and only a few friends
of the couple in Roanoke Rapids
knew of the engagement.
Mrs. Hargrove is a young lady
of charming personality, whose
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HOSPITAL
TRUSTEES
MEETING
Roanoke Mills Co. Will Build
Clinic At Corner Second
And Jackson Streets
School Continued
The regular monthly meeting of
the trustees of the Roanoke Rap
ids Hospital was held on Monday,
June 12th in one of the class rooms
on the first floor of the Nurses
Home.
Pursuant to the established
regulation, which has been in ef
fect since the present hospital was
built, the following constitute the
Board of Trustees:
Mr. Kelly Jenkins,
Mr. W. F. Joyner,
Mr. W. L. Manning,
Mr. F. M. Brown,
Mr. J. T. Chase,
Mr. S. T. Peace,
Dr. John Martin,
Dr. F. G. Jarman,
Dr. R. P. Beckwith,
Dr. Bahnson Weathers,
Dr. Covington.
The Hospital Staff is composed
of the doctors mentioned above,
all of whom will have office space
in the hospital. It was brought out
that in order to take care of the
mill employees better, quicker and
with less inconvenience to them
that the Rcanoke Mills Company is
building a clinic on the site of the
old Methodist Church at the cor
ner of Second and Jackson Streets
for the use of Drs. Jarman and
Covington. This is in line with the
clinic maintained in the South
Ward by the Rosemary Mfg. Co.,
for Drs. Beckwith and Weathers,
and the clinic maintained in the
Patterson Mill Village for Dr.
Martin.
Chief of the Medical Staff, Dr.
Beckwith, reported that after a
detailed study had been made, the
staff recommended that the stu
dent school for nurses be continu
ed and the Trustees so ordered.
After investigation of the prices
charged, at other hospitals, for
meals for special nurses on special
cases, upon the recommendation of
Dr. Martin a reduction in these
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THIRD MAN MAY BE
DROWNED IN RIVER
Two men are dead, and a third may have
drowned in Roanoke River as a result of “rush”
escape attempts from Caledonia State prison
farm, located 25-miles from this city, within
the last week.
The latest fatality occurred Wednesday
morning when Louis Pendleton, white man
serving a term from Cumberland county, suc
cumbed in Roanoke Rapids Hospital to bullet
wounds inflicted by a Caledonia guard when he
and a group of others attempted the latest es
cape Tuesday morning.
The other known dead is Clarence Stone,
17-year-old Negro boy, and Lonnie Taylor,
Harnett county man is the prisoner who jumped
in the river, where he was last seen, Tuesday,
June 6th. There has been a general wave of un
rest at the prison farm the last few days, culmi
nating in the three escape attempts within a
single week, complete details of which will be
found inside.
LATE NEWS
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Flashes Of The Day In Roanoke Rapids
Northampton Senator’s Daughter Is Given
Emergency Operation Hospital This Mom.
Miss Emily Joyner, daughter of Senator W. H. Joyner,
of Garysburg, Northampton, was given an emergency opera
tion for appendicitis at Roanoke Rapids Hospital this morn
ing at three o’clock.
Word from the hospital late this afternoon was to the
effect that Miss Joyner was resting easy, and doing as well
as could be expected under the circumstances.
Brother Local Men Dies At Sanatorium;
Funeral Services To Be Held Friday Aft.
Johnnie Hux, 64-year-old brother of Billy and Paul Hux
of this city died at the County Sanatorium Thursday P. M.
Funeral services will be conducted Friday at one o’clock
at Ebenezer Church with interment at the family cemetery
nearby. Besides the two brothers here, Mr. Hux leaves 11
children, 3 sisters his wife and another brother.
Mrs. Geo. E. Harris Succumbs At Her Home
On Henry Street At 3:30 This Afternoon
Mrs. George E. Harris died Thursday afternoon at 3:30
o’clock at her home at 307 Henry St., in Roanoke Rapids.
Mrs. Harris was well known in the city, and for some
time had made her home here. Funeral services will be con
ducted Friday afternoon at 3:30 at the residence of her son,
Maynard Snipes.