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VOLUME TWENTY-ONE ~55an5kE RAPIDS. N. C. TWiTsoIyW 2, -
^ ~^ ----&DAY, NOV. 21, 1935 NUMBER TWENTY-TWO
Stores Close 28th
Open Nights from
Dec. 13 to Xmas
At the regular monthly meeting yesterday afternoon,
the Roanoke Rapids Merchants Association heard final re
Cn ™ ^ Month Trade Days Event and made plans for
Thanksgiving and Christmas business.
ThJi WaS- VOt^d byJhe memDei-ship to close all stores on
Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 28th
it was also voted by the mem
bership to stay open nights, start
ing Friday, December 13th and
continuing until Christmas. Be
ginning on Dec. 13th all retail
stores in Roanoke Rapids will stay
open until 9 p.m. on week days
and until 10 p.m. on Saturdays.
A final financial report on the
Trade campaign by the secretary,
Miss Lillian Belle Jenkins, show
ed all expenses of the campaign
paid and a surplus of $200. It was
voted to keep this amount in a
special fund for the next trade
campaign.
The Merchants Association will
sponsor the Christmas Lighting of
the four business blocks on the
Avenue this year and a special
committee was appointed by Pres
ident C. C. Shell to call on all non
members of the Association for
contributions to defray part of
UP AND DOWN WITH THE
£?he Avenue
THURSDAY of next week will see the close
of this year’s Red Cross Roll Call. Only a
partial report was made last Friday night.
At that time 320 members were reported
with a total cash amount of $346.94. This
was at the end of the first week and did not
include any report from Roanoke No. 1 Mill
or Patterson Mills Co. Major Bill Hodges
of Roanoke No. 2 reported $40.31.. Maior
r^aul Keid reported $66, almost one hundred per cent for the
*9^C^ers ^oan°ke Rapids. Major Noah Sadler reported
from Rosemary Mfg. Co. employees. Major Alfred
Martin reported $52.88 from business houses. Major W. A.
Thorne reported $47.50 from business houses. Mrs. W. A.
Thorne, in charge of the booths at the post office and drug
stores led with a report of $81.
SAFETY Sam reports on the driver of car with license num
ber 4J4117, a man who always holds out his hand with the
proper signal before he drives his car into a parking space
on the Avenue. If this driver will call at The Herald office,
he will receive a free ticket to either of the Roanoke Rapids
theatres.
CRIPPLED Clinic for the month of December will not be
held as the date comes so near to Christmas. The next
regular clinic will be held here the third Wednesday after
noon in January.
NEW members of the Kiwanis Club introduced tonight
were Clyde Liske and Kinsey McWhorter, the latter trans
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the expense. The committee is A.
N. Martin and H. S. Loy for the
South end, F. M. Coburn and
George N. Taylor, North end.
Various members reporting on
results of the trade campaign
which ended last Thursday night
v ith the largest crowd ever as
sembled here told how their busi
ness had been helped from ten to
twenty-five per cent during the
month, with the jgreatest good
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WRECK IS
CAUSED
BY DOG
John Buck of Hoanoke Rapids,
accompanied by a Jones boy also
of Roanoke Rapids, while round
in* the bend just beyond the N.
B. Filling Station Sunday night,
turned over a new Buick roadster
belonging to Buck.
A dog ran in front of the car
and Buck, not being accustomed
to hydraulic brakes, attempted to
stop too suddenly and the ear
turned over. The car was badly
smashed but neither of the occu
pants hurt.
Collier—Curran
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Collier an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Margie Collier, to
Mr. James P. Curran, the wed
ding to take place on December
20th. Miss Collier is one of Roa
noke Rapids’ most attractive and
popular young ladies and her host
of friends here and throughout
the state will be much interested
in her engagement. Mr. Curran
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Curran and has lived in Roanoke
Rapids for the last five or six
years. During that time he has
made many friends. They will
make their home here.
TO PETERSBURG
A. J. (Jack) Young, Manager of
the Roanoke Rapids District of
the Virginia Electric & Rower Co.
who will leave next week for Pe
tersburg, Va., where he has been
promoted. He has been a resident
of Roanoke Rapids for the past
nine years.
Frank M. Sherry has been pro
moted to the position of Manager
of this district. K. McWhorter of
Petersburg w ill take Mr. Sherry’s
present position as superintendent
of the distribution department.
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BROKEN
BY CAR
George Justice, Jr., six year old
boy, suffered a broken leg and
cuts on the head this morning
when struck by a car driven by
H. D. Allen, manager of the Econ
omy Auto Store.
The boy lives upstairs over the
Olympia Cafe and had been a
cross the street to a store. He
was crossing the street" when hit
by the car in what observers say
was an unavoidable accident.
Mr. Allen stopped his car al
most immediately. Persons who
saw another car leaving the scene
of accident, going in the opposite
direction, were confused as to
which car had hit the child. He
was taken to the Roanoke Rapids
Hospital and leg set and put in a
cast. Hospital authorities say his
condition is good.
BIG UNIT
FOR LOCAL
DEPARTMT
The new $10,000 fire truck
for the Roanoke Rapids Fire
Department arrived here this
morning and was unloaded
and assembled this afternoon
by field engineer Eaves of
the American T ’-Fr° -J? Co.,
om whom the truck wJ
t 'rchased.
The truck is an Invader
750 gallon pump and hose
motor car with booster tank,
the same type used by the
large cities and capable of
throwing several streams of
water over any Ijiilding in
Roanoke Rapids. *
File chiefs from several cities
in the State were here today in
specting the truck.
Truck drivers in the local de
partment will be instructed in
the operation of the new truck by
Mr. Eaves who will make several
tests before the final acceptance
by the city.
Fire Commissioner George Tay
lor states that more men are need
ed for the new department from
the South end of the city and
volunteers should see him or Chief
Jack Lipscomb at once.
The new truck is one of three
units which will comprise the en
larged department. A hose and
chemical truck is being purchased
from the Lumberton Fire De
partment and the present truck is
being improved with the installa
tion this week of a booster tank.
Until the new municipal build
ing is completed, the big truck
will probably be stored at night
in one of the local garages. Work
is being rushed on that portion of
the new building which will house
the Fire Department so that all
units can be placed there as soon
as possible.
Upon installation of and ap
proval of the new units and the
new department members, fire in
surance rates in Roanoke Rapids
will become lower. Many citizens
and business firms have agreed to
pay one year’s saving on fire in
surance to a fund which is being
used to help purchase the new e
quipment.
Those who have not yet agreed
to do this should see the Fire
| Commissioners.
The honor roll to date of those
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