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democratic “Next President” Poll Choice1
|Franklin D. Roosevelt]
UP AND DOWN WITH THE
C?he Avenue
CHRISTMAS will come to the Avenue next week when the
colored lights will be strung up in the business sections of
the city. Many stores are putting in their Christmas win
dows this week and the Avenue is already getting the
Christmas atmosphere.
INVITATIONS to a dance at Washington, D. C. have been
received by friends here as follows: Mrs. Samuel Finley
Patterson requests the pleasure of your company at a dance
in honor of her daughter, Miss Mary Blythe Patterson
Tuesday evening, December the tenth at half after ten o’
clock at The Mayflower.
MILLION yards of flannels was purchased recently by the
government from Roanoke Mills Co. There’s little or no
profit in selling to the government but it does keep the
wheels turning, providing much-needed employment for our
folks.
BUSY and interesting time for everybody in a series of en
tertainments during the holiday season in Roanoke Rapids.
Some of those which come to mind are The High School
Glee Club musical, “In Old Vienna”, at the High School au
ditorium on next Thursday night, Dec. 5th; the Study Club
program at the High School Monday night, Dec. 9th, when
Professor F .H. Koch will read “A Christmas Carol” by
Dickens; the band concert and charity program of the Rose
mary Concert Band at the auditorium of the High School on
Wednesday night, Dec. 18th; the Community Christmas
Singing, date to be announced later.
PROMOTIONS have come to two Roanoke Rapids boys
working in the local Post Office. Hubert C. Wirtz, substi
tute clerk, has been promoted to regular clerkk. Joseph F.
Coburn, substitute carrier, has been promoted to regular
carrier. Pay increases accompany the promotions. Con
gratulations to these two young men.
CAROLINA took it out on poor old Virginia in the annual
Turkey Day track meet tdday. We lost track after the 10th
touchdown. There ought to be a law against it. To keep
up the tradition, the two should continue to meet at foot
ball but early in the season when Carolina needs the practice
or a breather. Other winners today: Davidson over Wake
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$1,000 IS
DAMAGE
BY FIRE
Fire played havoc with the
old Hockaday house on Jackson
Street between Third and Fourth
at 12:45 yesterday afternoon,
when a defective flue set fire in
the interior of the house between
the first and second floors.
It was a difficult fire to get to
and the Fire Department fought
a stubborn blaze between floors
and ceilings. A hole was burned
in the side of the house,
Mrs. C. M. Miller, owner of the
house, has a room there. She
rents the "balance of ", 1.
D. C. Boyd, who is a mechanic
at Williams Machine Works. Dam
age to the house and furniture is
estimated at $1,000.
GOES TO RALEIGH
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I
REVEREND S. J. STARNES
who Monday was appointed to the
pastorate of the Central Metho
dist Church of Raleigh after four
years at the Roanoke Rapids
Methodist Church. Mr. Starnes is
leaving immediately with his fam
ily for his new post.
Appointed to the Roanoke Rap
ids church was the Reverend E.
B. Fisher of Mount Gilead. N. C.
Returning to the Rosemary
Methodist Church is the Reverend
J. J. Boone, beginning his third
year. Other county appointments
made at the Wilmington Confer
ence were Halifax, J. Bascomb
Hurley; Enfield-Whittakers, R. L.
Jerome; Littleton, W. T. Phipps;
Scotland Neck, D. L. Fouts; Wel
don, J. O. Long.
Nearby appointments in this
district include H. A. Chester at
Garysburg, L. A. Watts at Sea
board, I. T. Poole, Northampton.
[Republican “Next President” Poll Choice
| William E. Borah!
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Union Thanksgiving
Service Held Here At
Episcopal Church Today
P. SATKO
CHAMPION
SHOOTER
250 hunting enthusiasts gather
eed at the Turkey Shooting con
test staged here this morning by
the R. R. Employees Social &
Athletic Club at the Bunker Hill
Rose Bowl.
Scores kept by Employment
Mgr. Frank Kemp show that Paul
Satko is undisputed champion in
the trapshooting contest, break
ing an average of four out of five
clay pigeons, and winning the big
turkey.
High hung the goose for second
prize in this event, said goose be
ing won by F. E. Singletary after
a five way tie with Millard Ed
wards, C. C. Jernigan, Zeb Grooms
and I. F. Rochelle.
Even hotter was the contest for
third prize, a rooster, finally won
by J. .E. Parker after an eight
way tie with Bill Regan, Jake
Burton, J. L. Delvage, Irby, M.
Lynch, F. C. Williams and B. J.
Lewis.
In the target contest, the first
prize turkey was won by J. L.
Delvage, in a class by himself on
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A union service of the Episco
pal and Presbyterian churches of
Roanoke Rapids, well attended by
members of other congregations
of the city, was held at the All
Saints Episcopal Church at nine
o’clock this morning.
This union service on Thanks
giving morning has now become
an annual affair with the num
bers attending on the increase
each year.
The first part of the service,
the regular Episcopal Thaksgiv
ing- service, was led by the Rev
erend J. N. Bynum and the ser-'
mon was preached by the Rev
erend Lawrence Stell.
A warning that Thanksgiving is
not for the material things of
life was the message of Mr. Stell;
rather it is a day of thanks for
the spiritual blessings, for friend
ship, a day for thinking of others
and of God, rather than of what
one has gathered unto himself.
A special offering- was taken
for the orphanages of the two
churches.
target practice. The second
prize goose was won by R. B.
Harlow without ties, but the third
place chicken had three ties in
Henry Fitts Jr., Curtis Jernigan
and J. R. Simmons, the latter win
ning out in the shoot-off.