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THE ROANOKE RAPIDS ~ XT , Do Your Part - £ur CRy Needs Send In Your Fn e Fight ng Pledge To-day! Equipment! S r VOLUME TWENTY-ONE_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C._~ w THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 1935 NUMBER TWELVE LOCAL MERCHANTS PLAN MONTH’S TRADE EVENT From October 14th until Ntivem- j her 14th, members of the Roanoke | Rapids Merchants Association will stage five weeks of a special trade; campaign, it was decided at a meeting of the Association here this afternoon with a majority of the members attending and en thusiastic about the plan as pre sented by President t. ( . Shi -- The Month Trade Event will ire advertised over this entire trade area and will be featured by spe cial prices on all merchandise handled by members of the Asso ciation. The event will end on Novem ber 14th when an automobile will j be given away to some fortunate shopper during the month’s spe cial campaign to make trade frineds for Roanoke Rapids. Oth er valuable prizes will be given a w ay on this day which will be marked by a special program planned to bring thousands to town. Full details will be pub lished later. President Shell ap pointed a committee of five to handle the details. William Harris III, manager of the new R. R. Bonded Cotton Warehouse addressed the Associ ation and explained how the new enterprise should help Roanoke Rapids. This project was started by the Merchants Association. -J. J. Wade reported it was almost certain a peanut buyer would he here this season. Anti-peddler cards furnished by the Association were distributed to the member ship. Where Tall Corn Grows ———— I El) W. . LILES of Aurelian Springs shown with a portion of his com crop of this year. Mr. Liles, prominent farmer of that section, is very proud of his good crop this year and estimates he will average 50 or more bushels to the acre. Altho it is lows where the tall corn is supposed t( grow; according to S. L. Wilson of Clinton, Iowa, who with Mrs Wilson, is visiting his son, Lyle in Roanoke Rapids, this pictur may give Iowa farmers somethin; to think about. UP AND DOWN WITH THE 'Ghe Avenue St/Hoi AVENEWS: Frank R. Kendrick, popular mail carrier, is very ill at his home and will be confined for some time.-—Ollie Acree, Wilson Byrd and Allen McNeill have left to enter Guilford College. They go with second year men Joe McCommons and Alton Davis. All will be football candidates.—George Nethercutt and Gene Shell have enter ed the University of North Carolina.—Irvin (Half Pint) Dickens will go to Wake Forest where he will go out for basketball and baseball. —James McDonald, very ill at Henderson, was brought by relatives to the Roanoke Rapids Hospital last night.—Senator J. R. Allsbrook has been ill at home for several days but is much better today.— Swayne Norman of Halifax, who has been critically ill at the local hospital, has been pronounced out of danger by attending physicians. —Next Crippled Clinic sponsored by the Kiwanis Club will be held here in the basement of thel Rosemary Baptist Church at 1 o’clock Wednesday, Sept. 18th. All cripples within a radius of fifty miles of Roanoke Rapids are invited and urged to attend. Dr. Cole of Greens (Tum Over) HIT-RUN DRIVER IS HELD Injuries of Cyrial Waters Not Serious; Negro Is In City Jail -o-• The condition of Cyrial Waters. 10-year-old city schoolboy, victim of a hit-run driver on the Avenue yesterday afternuy;. was describ ed as not serious tonight at Roa noke Rapids Hospital, where he was taken for treatment after th accident. Joe Johnson, 30-year-ol colored man is held in the city jail (Turn Over) First Eagle Scout EUGENE SHELL. 18 year old son of Postmaster and Mrs. L. G. Shell, ’ has been made Roanoke Rapids’ first Eagle Scout, the highest rank a Boy Scout may at ain. He is shown here wearing lis Eagle badge. He is a member if local troop 42 of which Bill Al ligood is Scoutmaster. A local court of honor awarded him the honor on authority of J. J. Sig wald, scout executive of East Carolina Council. In addition to scout and scholastic honors, Eu ;ene was one of the finest ath letes to graduate from the Roa voke Rapids High School where he was co-captain of the basketball team and right fielder of the State 'hampionship baseball team. He entered the University of North Caroliiff as a freshman this month. The highest Scout rank was conferred on him just before he left for Chapel Hill. Elected President R. LESLIE TOWE, who Tues day night at the annual stock lolders meeting of the Roanoke Rapids Building and Loan Associ .tion, was re-elected President for he coming year. A splendid re port by the management showed a steady increase in business during the past year. Six loans for $12, 000 were approved by the direc tors Tuesday night. •— -o Farmers’ Section -o In this issue of The Herald is our special section for the Farmer and his family which we carry once each month. Series Line-Ups The line-ups for the Soft-Ball series will be as follows: ROANOKE NO. 2 WEAVER1 O. Hux, 3rd base Cooper, 2nd base Grumpier, rt. field Davis, roving field Bailey, catcher Jenkins, 1st base Renn, center field R. Lisles, shortstop D. Lisles, left field Cashwell, pitcher Gossett, L. Hux and Car lisles, substitutes. ROSEMARY NO. 3 SPINNERS Outland, 2nd base Hansley, catcher Smith, shortstpo C. Everett, left field R.vals, roving field Hall, center field R. Everette, 1st base J. Hudson, 3rd base Jones, right field Hancock, pitcher SERIES TO START ON SATURDAY ' -0 Soft Ball Champs To Fight It Out in 3 Game Series For City Pennant All Roanoke Rapids is excited over the Little World Series which starts here Saturday afternoon when the champions of the Roa noke-Patterson Soft-Ball League play the champions of the Rose mary League for the city cham pionship. The Weavers of Roanoke .Mills No. 2 won the right to enter the series by defeating the Patterson Weavers in a final game yester day afternoon before a crowd of" more than 500 soft ball fans. They will play the Rosema»> No. 3 Spinners a three game series which starts Saturday at 3 p.m. at Simmons Park. The second game will be played at the park at 3 p.m. Sunday aft ernoon and the final game, if nec essary, will be played jMonday afternoon. A last minute shift is reported from the Rosemary camp. Hall, star twirler, will be shifted to outfield in place of Birdsong who is in the hospital. Hancock, who has won all his 7 games this year, will be on the mound for the Spinners. Hall will be saved for the second game. Henry Cashwell, ace pitcher for Roanoke, said last night he would pitch both games for his team and win them. He said he was even better his second game than his first. The two teams will play in spe cial uniforms. A parade will form at one o’clock at the Junc tion and pass thru the city adver tising the game. Just before the game starts at the park, there is a special ceremony to mark the official opening of the series. A record crowd is expected. Among the fans will be those who have not seen a game of soft ball, played on a smaller diamond and with a larger ball than reg ulation baseball. There were twelve teams in the local mills this year, representing various de partments, and the two teams who will fight it out this week-end represent the champions of the various departments and millB. l- .. i • .irii-Hak'Vi -«-•. b.. SiLi,
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