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THE ROANOKE RAPIDS — HERAT n I I CAROLINA'S ilRSlN^ I M -^ 'TABAtfrf^KNEWS/wiMiT JLm^ S V VOLUME TWENTY-ONE_ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. ~ THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 1935-NUMBER TWENTV RED CROSS WORKERS PLAN ROLL CALL 1qS,£S,r?n L £hai™an °f the R°anoke RaPids Chapter of the American Red Cross, and his workers in the 1935 Red Cross Roll Call, wh( met at the Baptist Church here Tuesday night and made plans for the membershin drive which begins in Roan ke Rapids and all over the United States on next Monday, November 11th. One thousand jp id members of the local Red Cross Chapter is the goal. (See inside for story of meeting.) Photo by Vries. Merchants Award Prizes Here Thursday Night November 14th UP AND DOWN WITH THE £>he Avenue The Roanoke Rapids Chapter of the American Red Cross starts its annual Roll Call for members on Armistice Day, next Monday, November 11th. Every man, woman and child in Roanoke Rapids townshi), Littleton and Butterwood townships, will be given an opportunity to join. Wear your Red Cross tutton during that period starting Monday and lasting thru Thanksgiving Day, which will show tie world you are a Red Cross member. SUNDAY closing of restaurants and filling stations will come up for discussion at a public meeting announced by the City Board of Com missioners for next Tujsday afternoon at 3 o’clock. At present, all places of business are dosed by city ordinance during church service hours on Sundays. Restaurants and filling stations are making a plea to be exempted fr<>m this order and have so petitioned the Board. The hearing is set so that both sides of the question may be heard be fore any official action is taken, if such is done. -o—— BUILDERS of new homes in Roanoke Rapids are requested by the Sanitary District to notify that department of their intention to build in case their proposed homes are going to be in locations where there are now no water arvd sewer lines. Then they can be told whether or not lines.can be run (•> their new homes, thus saving the property owner, a lot of trouble and exoense. -o THE following new buildings in the South Ward are under construc tion: Miss Lelia Eury, 1023 Hamilton St., 6 room Bungalow; W. A. Meirritt, 1119 Hamilton St., 13 room house, 2 stories; J. A. Pridgen, 920 Jackson St., 6 room Bungalow. -o RECENT new members of the Young Mens Civic Club of Roanoke Rapids are W. C. (Red) WjjF f, Edwin Akers, Jimmy Womble and Dot Bennett. , W j* '] (Continued on Back Page) | Next Thursday, November 14th, is the day when the Greater Roanoke Rapids Trade Days end with a monster celebration in front of the Roanoke Rapids High School and i the awarding of prizes to forunate shoppers. MEDICS MEETING TONIGHT The Halifax County Medical So ciety is meeting at the Roanoke Rapids Hospital tonight with a bout thirty doctors present. Guest speaker on the program is Dr. F. S. Johns of the Johnson-Willis Hospital, Richmond, Va. Dr. J. M. C. Covington, local physician, is also on the program. Guests will include doctors from Northampton County, Warren County, Emporia and Lawrence ville, Va. The meeting starts with a ban quet in the Hospital dining room, at 6:30 tonight. Hobbs—Pearson Mrs. Bertha Clark, of Sanford, announces the marriage of her daughter, Mrs. Marion Clark Pearson, to G. T. Hobbs, of Roa noke Rapids, at the home of the bride on Saturday evening, No vember 2nd. Mr. and Mrs. Hobbs will make their home in this city, where Mr. Hobbs is cashier of the Citizens Bank and Trust Co, This is last and final notice to all persons in this trade territory to bring their tickets, along with those they get up until 6 p.m. next Thursday, list them on a sheet of paper, and attend this great out door jubilee of the Roanoke Rap ids Merchants Association. Those paying up back accounts during the coming week will find it well worth their while, if deal ing with Association members. On next Thursday night at 6 p.m., the program starts on the steps of the High School. There will be an hour of entertainment before the prizes are awarded. The main feature on the enter tainment will be a fiddling, mu sical and singing contest • a reg ular Major Bowes Amateur Hour - with prizes to those the crowd likes best. All fiddlers, instrument players, small bands, and singers who wish to enter this contest must register with Miss Lillian Belle Jenkins, secretary of the Merchants Asso ciation on the second floor of the Imperial Theatre Building, before 5 p.m. next Thursday. She must have her complete list of entrants by that time. This program will be broadcast over loud speakers as will the a warding of the prizes later. The (Continued on Back Page) NEW YORK GIRL AND PILOT DIE Ann Mullon of New York City died in the Roanoke Rapids Hospital at 3:30 this afternoon from injuries re ceived when the airplan • in whMiShe and her sistetf'V -v i ‘ -re riding crashed near Broadnax, Va. at noon. The pilot, Lafayette W. Roth steen Jr. of Port Washington N. Y., was instantly killed and the sister, Vivian, is in a Petersburg hospital where she is not expected to live. The girl brought to the local hospital never recovered con sciousness. She was brought here by Dr. C. L. I’urdy of Broadnax who said the crash happened a bout four miles from his home. She suffered internal injuries in addition to both arms and both legs being broken. Local phj - sicians worked in vain over her for two hours. Another car took the injured sister to Petersburg and a tele phone message late this afternoon was that her condition was very serious and she was not expected to live. She was on the operating ta! le then. Mrs. YV. M. C. Anderson of New York, another sister, was notified late this afternoon by officers at Lawrenceville. She said the two girls had chartered a plane to travel South. l he sheriff of Brunswick coun ty notified Undertaker J. H. Wrenn tonight that he had talked ”* with the dead girl’s mother who said a New York undertaker would arrive in Roanoke Rapids in the morning to accompany the body back to New York. A Negro near White Plains, Va. was the only eye witness to the crash. From his description it ap pears the plane ran out of gas and the pilot was seeking a spot to land. He was heading for an open field but the engine went dead on him before he could make it and the plane crashed into the woods. Rothsteen was instantly killed, his body being badly mangled. On him was found a card which show ed he was a licensed transport pi lot and had been for five years. Another card was that of Ifar (Continued on Back «*»•»>
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