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Carolina’s Only TABloid NEWSpaper The Roanoke Rapids Herald VOLUME TWENTY ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C., THURSDAY MAY 10th, 1934 _NUMBER FOUR UP AND DOWN £>he Avenue WITH THE EDITOR The county registration books will continue open for new reg istration this week and next and until sunset Saturday night, May 19th. All those not register ed may register week days wherever they find the regis trar and on the next two Satur days at the regular polling places, from 9 a. m. to sunset. It is said this afternoon that the condition of A. L. Clark, city at torney, is much improved over a week ago. Mr. Clark has been con fined to his bedside for some lit tle time, but doctors say he will be up again soon. W. C. Williams, county coro ner, attended the meeting of the North Carolina State Burial Association, held at the Hotel Sir Walter in Raleigh on Wed nesday of this week. About 22 enjoyed the hospitality of R. L. Edwards, district manager of the Life & Casualty Insurance Company, at a rock muddle given by him on the river Thursday af ternoon. This number included vis itors from other offices of the In surance. company. Rev. J. H. MacRae, of the Union Seminary, Richmond, will conduct morning and evening services at the First Presbyter ian Church on next Sunday. All Halifax County merchants are invited, and urged to attend, the meeting at the court house on next Monday night, which will be for the purpose of perfecting a permanent county-wide, organiza tion of merchants. The merchants have had unusual success in their county-wide acti vities so far, and it is thought un told benefit will result from the •county-wide, organization. E. W. Smith spent Wednesday in Norfolk where he inspected a display of latest Frigddaire mod els at the R. F. Trant Company, distributors. Mr. Smith is the local Frigidaire dealer, and car ries many models at his show rooms. H. S. Loy, manager of Leggett’s Department Store, spent Tuesday (Continued three pages over) TO GIVE TYPHOID VACCINE Anti-Tvphoid Fever Clinic Will Be Started Saturday Announcement is made this week by Drs. F. G. Jarman and J. M. C. Covington that the anti-typhiod fever clinic will be started next Saturday, May 15th, and will con tinue for six-weeks. Shots of typhoid vaccine will be given at the Roanoke Mills Clinic building on Wednesday and Saturday evenings, from six to seven o’clock P. M. As three shots of the anti-typhoid serum are ministered, it will take three weeks to complete the treatment. The first shot will be given, start ing next Saturday. The anti-typhoid campaign in the, city in yesteryears has been highly successful, as only a very few cases of typhoid have been known to actually originate in Roanoke Rapids in the past 20 years, or since the anti-typhoid vaccine has been given. Those who have not taken the vaccine for the past three-years are urged to do so. Drs. Weathers and Martin an nounce that an anti-typhoid clin ic will be started in the South ward section pending the return of Miss Lucile Carlon, village nurse, who is away on her vaca tion at this time. SEABOARD MERCHANT DIES TUES. Suffers From Heart Attack; Funeral Services Thursday James C. Jones, 31-year old Sea board business man died suddenly at his home in Seaboard Tuesday afternoon at 6 o’clock. Mr. Jones suffered a heart attack and was ill less than an hour. His death was quite a shock to his family, friends and the entire community. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Elma Stephenson Jones, his mother, Mrs. Mamie Jones, four sisters, Mrs. Paul Edwards and Mrs. Herman Long of Seaboard and Mrs. John Moore of Norfolk, three brothers, Robert and W. J. Jones (Continued on back page) RE-ELECTED CITY COMMISSIONERS Above, left, is George Taylor, North Ward candidate who won without opposition, while on the right is Alfred N. Martin, who piled up more than a two-to-one majority over Dave L. Traynham, who soght to oppose him as commissioner from the South ward. Conducts Christian Church Revival A series of Evangelistic Services will begin Sunday, May 13th, at the' Roanoke Rapids Christian Church, conducted by Rev. J. M. Perry, pastor-evangelist of Robersonville (pictured above). The services will continue for two weeks, and Rev. Perry will lead the congregation with inspiration and sermons. VOTE IS | LARGEST YET HAD With Only One Race, City Votes 1,682 In Race Turn out Tuesday With the largest vote ever cast in a city election, and with only one race at stake, Roanoke Rapids voters re-elected Alfred N. Martin as Commissioner from the South Ward over his oppon ent Dave L. Traynham. George N. Taylor, unopposed in the North Ward, was re-elect ed without trouble, altho the count showed that a few Traynham sup porters were also writing in the name of Moody Hedgepeth. In the South Ward, from which Martin and Traynham were run ning, Martin swamped his op ponent by a vote of 799 to 194. In the North Ward, where Traynham supporters were ex pecting enough majority to off set the home ward, the two ran almost even, Traynham having the edge in a 350 to 339 vote. The total vote iin the city at large was: Martin 1,138 Traynham 544 Martin supporters in the North Ward were surprised when a tem porary injunction and restraining order was issued by Judge Small against the Mayor and City Board members, ordering them to put Traynham’s name on North Ward ballots. This injunction was serv ed late Saturday afternoon before the Tuesday election. With only Monday to stir a round in the North Ward, and with no previous efforts made to place new voters on the registra tion books in that ward, Martin’s North Ward friends had only 24 hours to prepare for the race there next day. At the 1933 session of the State legislature, Senator T. W. M. Long introduced and had passed a new law which Attorney General Brummitt and four other leading lawyers of the State interpreted meant that the candidates, run ning from the two wards for City Commissioner, receiving the larg est number of votes in their res pective wards were the winners. Two weeks before the election, Mr. Brummitt repeated his in terpretation of 1933. Mr. Trayn ham, desiring to be voted on in the North Ward as well as his home ward, got out an injunction a (Continued on back page)
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