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Carolina’s Only TABloid NEWSpaper The Roanoke Rapids Herald VOLUME NINETEEN ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd, 1934 NUMBER FORTY-FIVE - UP AND DOWN Ghe Avenue WITH THE EDITOR Bom February 11th, to Mr. and Mrs. Miax Higgins, a girl, named Margeret Maxine. Max, who is a popular overseer at Patterson Mills Co., reported the event to his friends as follows: “Another girl.” Margaret Max ine is the fourth girl in the fam ily. No boys to date. Anyone wanting Coroner Billy Williams’ goat can get it. Billy got tired of the goat eating up his clothing so he gave him to Com missioner Frank Joyner. The. lat ter kept the goat as long as he could stand it and sent him back to Billy. Billy pastured friend goat out near the cemetery and re ceived reports yesterday that the goat had eaten everything else in sight and was found chewing on a tomb stone. Anyone wanting a per fectly healthy goat, see the Coro ner. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Sledge an nounce the marriage of their daughter, Odelia, to George Cooper, of Columbia, N. C., on Friday, Feb. 16. The couple left Saturday to make their home in Columbia. Pallbearers at the funeral of Bennie Linton last week were Messrs. Charles Byrdsong, G. T. Sullivan, Howard Garris, Noah Sadler, J. L. Edwards and C. R. Satterthwaite. The Current Topic Club will hold their regular meeting on Thursday Evening at the home of Mrs. G. A. Northington with Miss Mary Blalock as hostess. Mrs; C. A. Wyche will be guest speaker of the club and will give a review of one of the new est books. Graham Dean, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Dean, is making quite a record on the wrestling team of V. M. I. The other night his college team won from V. P. I. 25 1-2 to 6 1-2. Young Dean defeat ed his man in the 155 pound class in 9 minutes, 44 seconds. Graham has been elected Captain of the first year wrestling team and has also made the rifle team. He is one of the 15 Freshmen who made the wrestling team out of 100 who tried out. (Continued on back page) Boy Sheriffs Job NEW LEXINGTON, O.: ... Den Barber, 27, boy (tariff (above), bee the grim task of guarding five pen* | tan of the Dillinger gang, who in October in a raid to free DiUinger, I killed his father, Jeeee Berber, then sheriff. CATCH 2 MORE BOY ROBBERS Halifax County courts will a gain have the opportunity to deal out justice to two youthful law violators next week when Perry Dill, 15, and Johnny Lassiter, 16, face them on a charge of theft, and of receiving stolen property respectively. Policeman Clifton Massey pick ed up the two boys on that charge here Wednesday. Tonight they a wait trial in the county jail. Charges grew out of the theft of a practically new bicycle from the residence of D. P. Chenoweth in Weldon Sunday night. Dill has admitted the theft of the bicycle, and young Lassiter has also sub mitted to a plea of guilty of re ceiving stolen property, in con nection with the episode. It seems that Perry visited Wel don Sunday. His mother told po lice she knew he was there. Evi dently Perry wanted to carry a way a souvenier, and he selected the bright, shiny ne.w bicycle be longing to the. Chenoweth youth, whose parents recently moved to Weldon from West Virginia. Perry had one bicycle, but it was old and delapidated. Perhaps the “stream-lines” of the newer model appealed to him. But, not without ingenuity, he sensed the fact that his possession of a new bike would arouse the suspicion of (Continued on back page) 20 MEN ON SIDEWALKS TOMORR’W Project Stopped By Federal Order To Start As Emer gency Work Here A crew of 20 men starts to work this Friday on the side walks project of Roanoke Rap ids, the CWA project halted when the government stopped all CWA work in the country a few weeks ago. While 250 CWA workers were dropped in Halifax County this week, the sidewalks project here has been deemed an emergency be cause of ten cars of cement which have been delivered here and is in storage. County Administrator Hall says he is trying to concentrate on projects where there is perishable material such as this one. Altho he can hire no more new men, he is cutting out some projects and hopes to increase the number of men next week by transferring them from other CWA projects. The men starting work tomor row are under the direction of C. H. Byrd. Mr. Hall also reported there would be further revision in the CWA wage rates, changes from the list published in thas news paper last week. He did not know today what those changes would be. Union Service Sunday Night For Mr. Bradley A union service of the First Presbyterian, First Methodist, All Saints Episcopalian, and First Baptist churches will be held next Sunday night at the Presbyterian church at 7:30. The service will be a farewell one. for Reverend Hugh Bradley, for more than five years pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Roanoke Rapids, who has accepted a call to the Knox Presbyterian church of Norfolk. Pastors of all the co-operating churches will take part in the ser vice, which will be presided over by the president of the ministerial association. A large number of people from the various congre gations are expected to attend. Special music will be furnished. Miss Carrie Smith, teacher in the High School, will spend this week-end at her home in Fountain | Flutist Coming 1 LAMAIZ SrBItJGPlEI-D will give a concert in Roanoke Rapids on March 7th under the auspices of the local Parent Teachers Association. FATHER KILLED BY CAR L. S. Clemmer, father of Mrs. S. D. Brown, of this city, was in stantly killed and her mother, Mrs. Clemmer, was seriously in jured when they were struck by a car on the highway near Gastonia Monday night. Mr. and Mrs. Clemmer were walking down the, side of the road when a car, with three Negroes, ran them down. The car had no lights and the occupants were drunk. Mr. Clements was dragged 20 fee.t by the car. xnose trailing tne car iouna one of the Negroes drunk by the side of the road a mile from the trag edy. Two miles farther on they found another one in the same condition and a mile or so more they found the car wrecked with the driver who was also drunk. All are in jail without bond. Mrs. Clemmer is in the hospital with bad injuries but has a good chance to recover. Mr. and Mrs. Brown and their children went to Gastonia where Mr. Clemmer was buried yesterday afternoon. The children returned last night and Mr. and Mrs. Brown are re maining at the hospital with her mother. Friends of the family here have been very anxious to hear reports and several floral offerings from here were sent to the funeral. FARMER HURT IN WRECK Junction Crossing Scene Of Accident Yesterday Afternoon A. W. Connor, 55 year old farmer of Gasburg, Viai, came to grief yesterday afternoon when he drove his truck into S. A. L. passenger train No. 14 at the Roanoke Avenue cross ing. Witnesses say he drove his truck at slow speed right into the bag gage car of the train after the engine and tender had passed the crossing. Connor was severely injured, suffering a fractured skull and broken leg as the front of the truck crushed like an egg shell and smacked into a signal post that had been ringing a warning. He was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance and his condition is considered critical by attending physicians. The injured man had been m Roanoke Rapids with a truck load of poultry and eggs. Disposing of his produce, he left his neph ew, T. A. Connor, in town, tell ing him he was going to drive out south of Roanoke Rapids and would return shortly. At 4:14, Train No. 14, a few minutes late, pulled into Roanoke Rapids. The engineer had slack ened speed and was crawling into the station. Signals were ring ing at the. crossing and Mr. Con nor drove into the crossing from the direction of Weldon from where he could see the approach ing train some time before reach continued on back page) Announcement j Of Candidacy i State Senate; Julian R. Allsbrook of Roanoke Rapids, attorney, officially an nounced his candidacy for the of* fice of State Senator from Hali fax County in a notice appearing in all papers of the county this week. Upon receipt of his notice, a rep resentative of this newspaper in terviewed Dr. T. W. M. Long and asked him if he wished to make a formal announcement also this veek. Dr. Long said he did not wish to at this time but that it was generally known throughout the county that he would be a candi date. -
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