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VOLUME TWENTY-ONE HOANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. IriUJRSDAY, OCT. ,0, uni-NUMBER S.XTEEN
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White Is Cleared In
Poison Biscuit Casej
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The Poison Biscuit case as it
was called when tried in August,
resulting in the conviction of
Will White young man of near
Scotland Neck, was reversed by
the State Supreme Court and a
verdict of Not Guilty ordered.
Young White was a free man
tonight. He had been found guil
ty by a jury on a charge of put
ting lead arsenic in the flour or
Mrs. G. T. Daniel. The Daniel
family was living with White’s fa
ther.
The Supreme Court ruled that
the Superior Court erred in not
allowing the defence motion for
a directed verdict of Not Guilty
because only opportunity to place
poison in the flour was proved.
The motive and possession of poi
son by White were never proved,
said the high court.
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WOMEN
TO HAVE
4 SHOWS
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The Roanoke Rapids Women’s
Club has engaged a series of four
entertainments to be held here in
the High School Auditorium in
January. The dates will be Jan
uary 14, 21, 28 and Feb. 4, and
the Club asks that other communi
ty organizations keep these dates
in mind in planning any local en
tertainments.
The first program will be a mu
sical revue, headed by Miss Lu
cile Elmore, young cousin of
Broadway’s Fred Stone, and the
second is the Davies Light Opera
Company. Preston Johnson, news
paperman and speaker, appears
on the third evening, and the last
program will be a three act play,
“Paupers and Pews”. Season
tickets will be available for the
series.
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LOCAL WOMEN JUDGE
The Womans Club at Halifax
held a flower show at their club
house today, with Mesdames C.
A. Wyche, Frank C. Williams and
A. Miekle, of Roanoke Rapids, as
the judges. The Halifax ladies
were invited to attend the Flower
Show to be held in Roanoke Rap
ids later.
New Securities Head
BS
WASHINGTON , . . James W.
l^andia (above), who served one year
as a member of the Federal Securi
ties and Exchange Commission, is
the new Chairman of the body, suc
ceeding Joseph P. Kennedy, resigned.
VOTERS
SELECT
OFFICERS
Hodges, Pendleton &
Wilson Elected On
School Board
Three members of the Roanoke
Rapids Graded School Board were
elected at the regular election held
here Tuesday.
W. T. Hodges led fhe ticket with
380 votes, A. O. Pendleton was
second with 333, F. D. Wilson was
third with 325. The fourth candi
date, L. S. Cannon, received 182.
The three high men were declared
elected.
Out of a total school district
registration of 1,132, there were
491 voters.
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The next Crippled Clinic will
be held at the Rosemary Baptist
Church in Roanoke Rapids on the
afternoon of Wednesday, Octo
ber 16th.
The clinic is free to all persons
in this section of the State unable
to pay for such service. Some fif
ty cases have been handled by the
local clinic, under the supervision
of Dr. Cole of Greensboro and Dr.
McGeachey, County Health Of
ficer.
UP AND DOWN WITH THE
^he Avenue Sditci
HIGHWAY Commissioner Will Woodard of Rocky Mount
has promised city officials that the Avenue will be extended
Irom First Street to the city limits on the North and im
proved to match the present Avenue surface. He also said
the State and V irgmia had reached an agreement to build a
new bridge over the Meherrin River so that Roanoke Rap
ld™ be brought; 20 miles nearer Norfolk and the Beaches
and East-West traffic will be routed thru this section in
stead of farther South. Mr. Woodard also promised action
on the surfac.,, ->,f the Lawrenceville Road.
PEASANT weather has speeded up work on the Municipal
Budding and the new Post Office building to the point
where they will be roofed in plenty of time before bad
weather sets in. The walls of both buildings are completed,
the roof of the P. O. building is just about on. The two
story, Georgian Colonial municipal building is going to be
one ot the finest looking city halls in the State.
CHASE-SHAFFNER wedding to be held at the Roanoke
Rapids Presbyterian Church this Saturday night at 8:30,
when Miss Josie Chase, daughter off Mr. and Mrs J T
Chase and Mr. John Francis Shaffner III of Winston-Salem
will be married, continues to hold the social spotlight here.
Final rehearsal will be Friday ni'ght after which the wedding
party will be entertained at Littleton by Mr. and Mrs Cleve
Stallings. Miss Emily Stallings, the maid of honor,'was a
schoolmate of Miss Chase at Salem College.
EXPECTED in Roanoke Rapids for the wedding are Mrs.
Josephine Shaffner, mother of the groom, Miss Josephine
Shaffner, sister, Mr. and Mrs. Fries Shaffner and Mr. and
Mrs. Francis Shaffner, brothers and sisters in law W F
Shaffner Sr. and Jr., Miss Etta Shaffner, Mr. and Mrs"
Henry Fries Shaffner, Miss Virginia Shaffner, Louis Shaff
ner, John Fries Biair, Mr. and Mrs. Shelbourne Johnson, Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Steele Jr., Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Smith, Miss
Augusta Brown, Messrs Stratton Coyner, Ralph Ogburn
and John Foster, all of Winston-Salem; Mr. and Mrs J L
Green of Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hicklin of’Balti
more; Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Leonard of Norfolk; Messrs, andj
Mesdames J. G. Holtzclaw, S. A. Lipscomb Jr., Hunter Bar
bee, R. G. Carroll, A. G. Morgan, L. F. Reigel, P. F. Swazey,
H. V. Whitney and Miss Bessie Lamkin, all of Richmond,
Va.; Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Goodmon, Misses Ruth Norton,
Edna Barnhill and Ora Finch of Williamston. Miss Frances
Adams, of Monroe, classmate of Miss Chase at Salem, and
the groom arrived this afternoon. Chet Chase arrived from
Davidson College this morning.
MAJOR and Mrs. Newsome and M. C. Jr. returned Monday
afternoon from Fremont, Ohio, where Major received a
broken jaw in an automobile wreck that was fatal to C. M.
Stevenson of Jackson. Major is able to resume his business
duties here. Elton Outland of Woodland, third member of
the party, is still in the Fremont hospital in a serious con
d£ion. His skull was fractured.
RECRUITING Officer from Fort Monroe, Virginia, visited
Roanoke Rapids today, and stated that all recruiting activ
ities have been suspended for approximately two months.
He also stated that any applications received would be filed
and the applicants notified immediately upon resumption of
recruiting which is expected to reopen about January 1,
1936. Anyone desiring to apply for enlistment should sub
mit their names to the Recruiting Officer, U. S. Army, Fort
Monroe, Virginia.
NIGHT school in Roanoke Rapids will soon start and all
those interested should get in touch with Supt. C. W. Davis
before next week.
FOUND IN
BEDROOM
EARLY A. M.
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Horace Sykes Arrest'd
In Ferguson Apartmt.
Early Today
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Horace Sykes, Eufidi
youth, is in the city jail to
night awaiting a possible
j charge of first-degree bur
I slary, the result of his forc
ible entry into the apartment
of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Fergu
son, who live over the Aute
Service Station, at Roanoke
Junction, early this morning.
Sykes is about nineteen. There
is every indication that he was
drinking Wednesday night; there
is little evidence that he is a bur
glar, or second story man (he
didn’t even have a gun at the
time of his arrest) but neverthe
less, house-breaking is a serious
charge<in the old North State, and
it is possible this youth may feel
the full sting of the law before
he is released. The law provide*
that men may die in the electric
chair for the crime with which he
is charged, and, drunk or sober, a
man who enters another’s home
while he is asleep with the in
tent to rob or any other, must be
punished.
Furgeson is an employee of the
Auto Service Station. He and his
wife live in the rooms over the
station. He works hard, and
sleeps hard, as he told a Herald
reporter today, but his wife is a
light sleeper, and is easily a
wakened. This morning, slightly
before 3 o’clock, Mrs. Furgeson
heard a man enter the bedroom in
which she was sleeping with her
husband. She heard him, and she
could see him from the light com
ing through the windows and hall.
With rare presence of mind, she
hesitated in awakening her hus
band abruptly, so she stealthily
punched him until he was awake.
Upon being awakened, Ferguson
looked around and quickly per
ceived the intruder.
In a flash, he was up, out of
bed, and in another flash, he had
his man securely “headlocked’’ in
his two strong arms. Ferguson
changes tries in his daily work,
those big truck tires. He’s got
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