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VOLUME TWENTY 11/0, n. v . imi uni/.ii, juiuci io, 1uoo NUMBER FIFTY-ONE
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ESCAPED
CONVICTS^
AT LARGE
Two Uncaptured After Daring
Escape From Caledonia
Prison Farm
Look out for two escaped con-1
victs who are still at large after
six desperate criminals made a
break from Caledonia State Farm
Monday.
Officers are seeking Paul Spen
cer, serving a 15 year term for 2nd
degree murder, and Henry Lowder,
in for 7 years for store breaking.
Spencer is from Guilford Coun
ty and Lowder is from Mecklen
burg.
Four of the six were recaptured
and are in solitary at the Prison
Farm. They ganged Guard'Floyd
Johnson and knocked him sense
less with an iron bar.
He suffered a severe scalp
wound and was moved to his home
yesterday from the Prison hos
pital.
REMODEL
2 CITY
STORES
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Modern Front for Rosemary
Drug Co.; Bloom Bros.
Change Store
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Two buildings in the South bus
iness section are undergoing
changes and improvements as
Rosemary Drug Co. installs an en
tire ndw front and Bloom Bros., a
new concern for the city, remodels
the store room between Home E
quipment Co. and the Soda Shoppe.
Going modern in a big way, the
Rosemary Drug Co. will have one
of the new black glass fronts, now
so popular in the large cities. It
will be trimmed with chromium
moulding.
The front door is being enlarg
ed one third and three will be
three doors instead of the conven
tional two. This front will be a
splendid addition to the business
section which is growing more
attractive and inviting all the time.
The entire building is being re
modeled by Bloom Bros, for their
new store, with new interior, show
vindows and entrance. Opening
ate of this business will be an
ounced later.
2 CITY BLDGS, 10 HOMES
BUILDING IN CITY LIMITS
FIGHT TONIGHT
CHAMP Max Baer (top) and Jim
Braddock (bottom) meet tonight
in a championship bout.
CITY SEES
BUILDING
BOOM ON
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10 Horner Just Finish
ed Or Under Constr’n;
More Planned
Roanoke Rapids is experi
encing a steady building boom
with two city buildings now
| under construction and ten
new residences just complet
ed or under construction with
a half dozen more to start
within the next month.
Excavation is nearly completed
for the big- basement of the new
postoffice building at the corner
of 7th and the Avenue.
On the next set of lots, the L.
Wheeden Co. this week will com
plete excavation for the cellar and
basement of the city building and
fire epartment. Work on the
basement will start Saturday. 141
men are now employed on this job
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UP AND DOWN WITH THE
Ghe Avenue
NOTHING is prettier than a new soda fountain. Latest to be installed
in Roanoke Rapids is at Taylor’s Drug Store. As Red Sharpe says,
“Its exterior marble beauty is rivalled only by its superior refrigera
tion and cold control.” Perfect sanitation and efficiency, even more
important than good looks, gives Roanoke Rapids another thing to be
proud of in the progressiveness of its business men.
CEMETERIES should be places as attractive as possible as folks feel
nothing is too good for those departed this life. The Roanoke Rapids
Cemetery looks better than it did several years ago. Compared with
those of older towns, it lacks that quiet dignity and beauty which
comes with age. However, this week it was cleaned and raked, the
roads improved and the general appearance made very good by Under
taker Williams and crew.
DUST will not bother residents on Jackson, Hamilton, 2nd, 10th and
some other streets in the city where this week the City Street Depart
ment put the special salt solution bought in car-load lots by the city.
This solution certainly does the job. The city has been experimenting
with it for some time and this is the first year that such a large quan
tity has been used. Rain has no effect on it. It stays right on and,
apparently the more traffic, the better it works. Thanks to the City
Fathers for a wise investment.
Early Candidate
THAD EURE, Winton, Hertford
County; - 35 years old; son of
Tazewell A. and Armecia Lang
ston Eure of Gates County; edu
cated at the University of North
Carolina; practicing attorney at
Winton since 1922; Member House
of Representatives 1929; Principal
Clerk House of Representatives
1931, 1933 and 1935; active, filling
speaking engagements in every
Democratic campaign since 1920;
Democratic Presidential Elector
(Roosevelt ticket) for First Con
gressional District 1932, making
thirty-two speeches in that cam
paign from the mountains to the
coast; married Miss Minta Banks,
Winton, and have two children (son
and daughter); member Christian
Church; now a candidate in next
Democratic Primary, June, 1936,
for Secretary of State.
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FUNERAL
FOR MRS.
GREEN
City Resident Dies At Local
Hospital Early Tuesday
Morning
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Funeral services for Mrs. Paul
Green, city resident who died in
Roanoke Rapids Hospital at 6:30
A.M. Tuesday, June 11th, were
conducted from the home at 411
Charlotte Street, Wednesday af
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NONE YET
IN THIS
COUNTY
City Health Officer,
Dr. Martin, Tells Club
Of Infantile Paralysis
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One case of infantile paral
ysis, now in mild epidemic
form in the State, is suspect
ed at Garysburg where phy
sicians are closely watching a
young child who shows every
symptom of having the dread
ed disease.
No cases are yet known of
in Halifax County, according
to Health Officer Dr. Mc
Geachy, altho a total of 82
cases have been reported in
the Eastern part of the State.
Tonight, Dr. McGeachey, County
Health Officer, said there was no
reason for alarm in Halifax Coun
ty but he did warn parents, at all
times, regardless of epidemics of
' any kind, never to take children to
places where there was any sick
ness.
In a talk to the Kiwanis Club
tonight, Dr. John W. Martin, City
Health Officer, told of the nature
of the disease which did not occur
in epidemic form until 1905, with
the worst epidemic in 1916 when
4,000 cases were reported in the
U. S. in a single month.
He said there were three stages:
1. colds, sore throat, etc. 2. the
meningeal -(Stage with irritation,
stiff neck, pains in legs and irri
table temper, and 3. the paralytic
stage.
There is a germ which has not
yet been isolated which is gotten
by direct contact thru nose or
throat.
The warm months show most
prevalence, from July to October.
Ten days from time of exposure is
the incubation period. No age is
exempt and in epidemics many a
dults have it, altho children are
most prone.
President Roosevelt was a vic
tim of it. Very young infants do
not have it. Children two years
old comprise the largest group.
It affects the spinal cord and
sometimes the brain. In the third
stage the legs are more frequent
ly paralyzed than other parts of
the body and a combination of
arms and legs comes next.
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