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' TJE ROANOKE RAP.DS -- Greater Roanoke ^P^ - I I [Days Campaign I ■ ■ CAROLINA'S nRST^V I J K,S VOLUMETWENTY-ONE-ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C.-;_^gSTy. o<:T. ,7. Ig- n™«™™ UP AND DOWN £?he Avenue WITH THE EDITOR CONGRESSMAN J. H. Kerr vis ited friends in the city for a brief interval Wednesday afternoon. The Congressman was enroutg to and other Eastern (;T%i ilna towns, but stopped over long enough to exchange greetings with several local friends, who had not seen him since his re cent injury to his knee, in a fall in Washington. He expressed ap proval with the progress in the building of the local Postoffice, and stated the Roanoke Rapids building, in his opinion, will have one of the most modern work rooms of any Postoffice in the State. DELEGATES this week to the Carolinas’ District Kiwanis Con vention, held in Charleston, South Carolina, are Mr. and Mrs. Alfred N. Martin, and Rev. and Mrs. L. Irving Stell. They left Roanoke Rapids Wednesday, driving thru, and are expected back some time Friday. FIRST DEER killed this season is reported by the hunting party of J. C. Smith, just returned from Columbia, N. C. T. M. Edmond son and M. W. White accompanied Mr. Smith on the expedition, and report conditions most favorable for a big season. PRESIDENT Curtis C. Shell, of the Roanoke Rapids Merchants Association, attended a meeting of the directors of the State Mer chants Association, of which he is a member, at Salisbury, Tuesday of this week. Mr. Shell stopped over in Raleigh long enough to take in the State Fair, and re ports a very pleasant trip. STOPPING OVER in Roanoke Rapids tomorrow afternoon, Fri day, will be five former Yellow Jacket Athletes, now with the Guilford College football squad: Ollie Acree, backfield man, Wilson Byrd, Alton Davis, and Joe Mc Commons, linemen, all regulars on the squad, and Allen McNeil, sub stitute back. The Guilford squad is on their way to meet William and Mary, at Williamsburg, Sat urday. FAKE WARNINGS by parents to children are frowned upon by doc tors, according to a story coming BANDIT GETS 5 MONTHS -—0-— City Youth Must Also Serve Six Months Suspended Sentence -o Johnny Joyner, local white man. •>und the‘away of the transgressor •ard this week when he faced Re order Court Tuesday on a charge •f larceny of clothing from the ipstairs rooms of W. H. Wil iams, who lives over the Auto Service Station, at Roanoke Junc ion. Joyner was given a sen tence of 5-months on the roads, nd ii was found that a suspend 1 sentence of 6-months already ung over him, so Johnny will be afely put away for the next 11 lonths, barring pardon or parole. It seems that Joyner strolled ipstairs over the filling station, •here several families live, last 'uesday night, and attempted en ry into the rooms of Williams. Ie knocked at the door, Williams said, and was told to leave the building. It is alleged that he was seen taking several articles of clothing before he left the premises. Williams reported the incident to Sergeant Kirkland the next day, and Kirkland effected the irrest, ending in his prison sen tence this week before Recorder’s Court. Horace Sykes, Enfield youth, was caught after he had broken into and entered the rooms of S. W. Ferguson, who lives in the same buliding, the next night. Police at first worked upon the theory that Young Sykes was prompted to break into Ferguson’s rooms by two other men, though circumstances have failed to con nect the two incidents. -o GROCERY MAN DIES SUDDENLY Well-Known Weldon Resident Drops Dead In Place of Business Wednesday M. S. Mountcastle, 65-year-old Weldon resident, dropped dead in (Continued on Back Page) | To Wed Lawson Little CHICAGO ... Miss Dorothy Hurd (above), 18-year old daugh ter of Mrs. Robert Maxon of Chicago, is to be an autumn bride of W. Lawson Little, British and American amateur golf champion. Announcement of the engagement was made last week. NO CLUES DAYLIGHT BURGLARY Theft of Money From Avenir Home Last Friday Still Remains Mystery -n-. The home of Mrs. W. H. Bab cock, 712 Roanoke Avlnue, was entered last Friday morning about 10:30 o’clock, by a thief, or thieves, who escaped with about $30. in cash, stolen from one of the rooms, and today police are without a single clue to the rob bery, which, by reason of the fact it was committed in daylight, is one of the most daring yet to lie staged here. ' The money was stolen from the room of Miss Amanda Tillman, member of the local High School faculty. At the time of the entry by the intruder, Mrs. Babcock was in the basement of her home. Hearing someone upstairs, she supposed it was one of the roomers, living at her home, and did not investigate immediately. Later, when she heard someone, apparently run ning out of the house, she came upstairs to investigate, and found the money had been stolen. -o— Ask Merchants for Trades Day Coupons! WIDE TERRITORY IS thoroughly COVERED WITH ADVERTISING 10,000 Handbills Are Distributed Over Forty-Mile Radius By Special Committee ot Merchants Association Monday-Tuesday -O Inaugurating one of the most ambitious trade expansion campaigns ever launched by any small city in Eastern Carolina, the Roa noke Rapids Merchants Association Monday officially started the ball rolling in the “Great er Roanoke Rapids Trades Days” campaign, calculated to cause many thousands of dollars to be spent with local jnenhants that have heretofore been going outside the community. The drive is sponsored by fifty or more members of the local Merchants Association, and will come to a climax on Thursday, No vember 14th, at which time nearly $1,000.00 in free prizes will be awarded winners of the campaign. I First prize award in the campaign is a Chevrolet 2-door sedan, which has been pur chased from, and is on display at the local show-rooms of the Tri-City Motor Company. Second prize will he a $ 100.00 Bedroom Suite (or living room suite, if the winner so desires) to be purchased from Shell Furniture Com pany. Third prize is a six-tube, console model radio set, purchased from and on display at the show-rooms of E. W. Smith, local electrical ap pliance dealer. However, the greatest appeal of Roanoke Rapids merchants participating in the drive, lies in the fact that each and every one of them are offering “special values” and inducements in order to attract outside trade to the city. During the thirty-days campaign, many out standing buys will be featured by local stores. To advertise the special event, 10,000 four-page handbills, or “broadsides” were dis tributed over a thirty-five mile radius, by crews working the trade territory Monday, of this week. To supervise this work, fifteen men, recruited from the ranks of salesmen, clerks, etc. of city retailers volunteered their (Continued on Back Page>
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