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THE ROANOKE RAPIDS fes? I H r) lpS£-J ^-r * * '^TABAA/.—tNEWtowiT S_/ VOLUME TWENTY-ONE ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C._ THURSDAY, OCT. 24, 1935 NUMBER EIGHTEEN WELDON MAN KILLED IN REPOSSESSED CAR YIPPEE—LET ’ER GO, BOYS— BETTY CASE, famous cowgirl and wife of Jack Case, owner of the Rodeo which is showing at Simmons Park here to night, Friday and Saturday nights, with a Saturday after noon matinee. The Rodeo is sponsored by The American Legion pojst of Roanoke Rapids and Weldon and features a wedding on horseback Friday night, a special matinee for children Saturday afternoon at which a special group of crippled and un4erprivileged children will be admitted free, and a bang-up, shoot-em-down finale Saturday night. UP AND DOWN WITH THE Ghe Avenue TRADEItAYS in Roanoke Rapids started Oct. 14th with a real bang and last week-end saw hundreds of new faces here shopping and ask ing for the trade tickets which will be good on the night of November 14 when the event ends. One point was brought out in a meeting of directors of the Merchants Association this afternoon. No merchant in Roanoke Rapids is eligible for prizes. The rule applies whether a member of the Association or not. The1 Association is trying to assure some shopper getting the prizes offered. Another point to remember is that only one prize to a person. These details will be explained in full in another 4 page handbill which comes out Nov. 4th. FIFTY cents an hour will be paid by the government for an unskilled laborer under a Civil Service examination announced by Carl Church ill, Secretary of the local C. S. Commission, to whom appplication must be made in person. The workman will be used around the new Post Office Building in Roanoke Rapids. There is no educational test but a stiff physical one. Among other things applicants will be required to shoulder and carry a sack and contents weighing 125 pounds. In other words, strong backs are needed for this job. (Continued on Page 29) BROTHER STABBED MAY DIE Stabbed by his own brother Sat urday night, Ruffin Scott, colored man across the river in North ampton, is in the Roanoke Rapids Hospital today in a dying con dition. The brother is i«* b,il at Jack son awaiting' W, uine of his brother’s condition before final charges are placed against him. The fight is said to have started over a question of a debt between the two men. The wounded man was stabbed twice: one deep wound is ir> the breast near the heart, another is deep into the abdomen. Attend ing physicians have only slight hope for his recovery, due to loss of much blood and the. depth of the wounds. JACKSON MORTICIAN LOSES TOE -0 Robert Grant, undertaker from Jackson, lost two toes in an au tomobile mishap in Weldon Friday night. . Mr. Grant was undertaking to get a car started on Elm Street; Miss Tiny Gregory was at the wheel. When the car started Miss Gregory was unable to control it and Grant tried to jump in the car to help her. The car turned over and the door caught Grant’s foot and cut off his toes. Miss Gregory was bruised. Mr. Gregory, when last heard from, was getting along nicely. TWO HURT IN WRECK Two brothers. .John and Virgil Shipes of Charlotte, were bror ht to the local hospital Monday sui fering from injuries when their new car turned over near Halifax. Virgil received a scalp wound but was able to leave the hospital yesterday. The younger brother is still there with a severe leg wound. AUBREY BOSEMAN DIES IN CAR TAKEN FROM ORGANIZER J. DOOLEY Aubrey H. Boseman, 24 year old automobile salesman of Weldon, was instantly killed early Monday night near Manchester, Cumberland County, when a repossessed car in which he was riding plunged thirty feet into a creek. Bose mart had taken the car from J. Dooley, former U.T.W. or ganizer here and was returning fjie car to the E & T Motor Co^ Chevrolet dealers in Weldon. ^ 1 * t Dooley had purchased the from the Weldon concern When he was in Roanoke Rapids and Weldon a year ago. Failing to make the payments recently, it was necessary to repossess the car. Dooley had returned to Fayetteville and Boseman left Weldon about noon Monday on the train to get the automobile. The fatal accident happened on the road from Fayette ville to Sanford at McDuffie’s Creek. Boseman either hit the bridge or missed it and plunged into the creek. The car was demolished. The body and wrecked car were discovered by passing motorists who notified the police. At that time there was no means of identifying the body and much confusion re sulted. It was not until Tuesday the body was identified. A card in the pocket ot the dead man was that of S. Chippendale of Ocean View, Va. The hat bore a Weldon trademark. Police got in touch with Chippendale’s family at Ocean View but from the description of the body they w'ere able to tell police the dead man was not Chippendale. Thru the State license bureau the car was traced and with the Weldon hat-mark police w’ere able to fit the story together and get the proper identification. Another thing which threw the investigators off the track was the presence of a number of application blanks for membership in the United Textile Workers of America and officers thought at first the dead man was an organizer for that organization. These blanks were evidently property of Dooley left in the car when it was given up to the dealer. Funeral services for Boseman were held at the home in Weldon yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock with interment in Cedarwood Cemetery. He was the son of Mrs. Anna Boseman of Weldon and was born and reared there. Four sisters and three brothers a^so survive: Mrs. Bernice Powell, Mrs. Charlie Shaw and Mrs. H. C. Johnson of Weldon and Miss Li'llie White Bose man of Clinton; Billie and Jessie Boseman of Weldon and Russell Boseman of Lillington. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT BY MAC JOHNSON Robert Ivey, popular young grocery salesman of Enfield, was accidentally shot by D. Mac John son, of Enfield, while hunting irrels in the Creek Islands i„ Enfield early Tuesday room ing. The local men were hunting 'it two separate parties, Ivey getting a full load of small shot in his head, neck and shoulders at a distance of forty yards. Mr. Ivey was treated by local doctors and although painfully hurt, he is not considered serious ly injured. - - - o— Infant Son Dies The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. P. F. ^Johnson, 1031 Vance St., died Wednesday morning. Funeral services were held that afternoon by Rev. J. E. Kirk.
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