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VOLUME TWENTY-TWO ROANOKE RAPIDS, X. C. _THURSDAY, OCT. 8, 1936 NUMBER FOURTEEN
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WIFE WOUNDED BY HUSBAND
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MAIN SPEAKER
D. L. Ward, secretary of the State
Democratic Executive Committee,
who will be the principal speaker
at the dinner to be given at the
Dixie Inn at Wilson at 8 p.m. this
Saturday night by the Young Dem
ocrats of the 2nd District.
Oldest Man—
Mills Here
Lead Nation
With Raise
Roanoke Mills Co., Patterson
Mills Co., and Rosemary Manufac
turing Cow, the three local cotton
mills, this week announced an in
crease in wages.
The amount of the increase at
all the mills was five percent to all
employees, five cents on the dol
lar. The wage increase will be in
cluded in the paycheck which will
be received next Friday, October
16th.
It is estimated the total raise of
wages in all the mills is about
$125,000 per year.
So far as is known here, the local
mills are about the first in the
Nation to raise wages. A mill in
South Carolina this week also an
nounced a five per cent increase
and there is no record of any oth
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Young Brother
Captain Charles Riggan (left) oldest man in Halifax and Northamp
ton counties the death last week of his sister, Mrs. Betty Inscoe, 96.
Captain 'Afjk fl Rs 94 and a veteran of the War Between the States. To
the right is.'^amuel Riggan, the Captain’s kid brother. He is only 87.
They are wirfi their niece, Mrs. Lizzie Connor, 983 Franklin Street* Roa
noke Rapids.
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SHE IS IN
HOSPITAL.
HE IN JAIL
Mrs. Allen Thompson, 18 year old
bride of six months, lies in the Roa
noke Rapids Hospital with a shot
gun wound received at the hand of
her husband in what both wife and
husband insist was an accident in
their home on the South Rosemary
road Monday night.
Mrs. Tho mpson has a good
chance to recover, according to at
tending doctors. Meanwhile, until
the status of her condition is cer
tain, her husband is in Halifax jail
with no bond having been set.
The shooting was about supper
time Monday night. Thompson,
who lost an arm in an auto wreck
about five years ago, says he pick
ed up the shotgun and had it a
cross his lap, cleaning off some
cobwebs. He told police he sprung
the hammer back and it did not
hold, the gun going off and the
shot hitting his wife. Mrs. Thomp
son says her husband was cleaning
the gun when it fired accidentally.
He took her to the hospital fol
lowing the shooting and was later
taken into custody by £hief of Po
lice Dobbins under a charge of as
sault with a deadly weapon with
intent to kill.
The charge is based, according to
police, on testimony from those liv
ing in another part of the house
who say the Thompsons had been
quarreling over the week-end con
stantly, the wife had been crying a
lot and just before the shooting
they heard loul voices in the
Thompson room.
Police also say their investigation
showed the load from the gun hit
the top of' table, that it ranged
downward and the wife received
the glancing shot. They say this
shows Thompson was standing up
and not sitting as he claimed.
The husband drives a local dry
cleaning truck and is said to be an
expert driver despite his handicap.
Friends say he deplores the shoot
ing, insists it was accidental and
is worrying much about the condi
tion of his wife.
Horrible Death
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Democrats
Plan Rally
At School
U. S. Senator Robert R. Reynolds
wilt speak at the Roanoke Rapids
High School auditorium Monday
night, October 12th, at 8 o’clock,
according to an announcement
made today by Dr. John \V. Mar
tin, County Chairman.
The Senator, "Our Bob”, as he is
known over the State, will speak
for the National and State Demo
cratic nominees and his own pecu
liad style will appeal to those In
Roanoke Rapids, Halifax and
Northampton counties who have
never heard him. A1 voters are in
vited to hear him.
Monday is the only open date
Bob had left between now and the
election. He is a popular speaker
whose schedule has now been com
pletely filed, according to State
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REPUBLICAN
Gilliam Grissom, Republican nom
inee for Governor, who will speak
at the Roanoke Rapids High School
auditorium at 7:30 p.m., Friday
night October 16th, in the interest
of the Republican State and Na
tional ticket.
Our Bob Coming
Robert R. Reynolds, United States
Senator, who will speak at the Roa
noke Rapids High School auditori
um, under the auspices of the Hal
ifax Count}' Democratic Executive
Committee, on next Monday night.
Bob is speaking in the interest of
President Roosevelt and the State
Democratic ticket.
BAND LEADER
Wesley Kay, talented orcliestra
leader and radio artist, who will
bring his band here this Friday
night for a big dance at the down
town hall, sponsored by Messrs. A—
cree and Levy Overton.