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VOLUME TWENTY-THREE ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. ^ THURSDAY, JAN. 13, 1938 NUMBER 27
MINSTREL
DATE SET
APRIL 1st
The 7 th annual Kiwanis Club
Minstrel-Revue will be staged in
Roar.oke Rapids on Friday night,
Apr/1 First. This is not an April
Foo‘1 joke but it was the only date
available by John B. Rogers Pro
ducing Co. with the services of
Jorhn (Slim) Hutchings, who has
so ably directed the last four
snows here.
/Rehearsals will start about March
'21st and all local actors are advised
' to begin their private rehearsals on
skits, dance numbers and songs at
once so as to be able to give an au
dition to the director on his arrival.
Dance teams, comedy sketches,
string bands and novelty teams will
be given a chance to “strut their
stuff” before the director who will
have several spots on the progra n
for short skits.
A packed house greeted the show
here last year and the proceeds of
that show has been used in helping
finance the 20 weeks dental clinic
for Roanoke Rapids school children
which is still under way. More
than 1,000 children have been ex
amined and several hundred have
received free dental work as a re
sult of this last year’s show.
The 1938 show will help continue
this fine work with a follow-up
clinic later and part of the pro
ceeds will also be used in providing
free school lunches for under
nourished school children.
J. M. Midgett
Funeral Held
Funeral services for John M.
Midgett, 77 years old, were held
this afternoon at the residence ol
his son, G. T. Midgett, 934 Cedar
St. by the Rev. J. L. Willis with
interment in Roanoke Rapids Cem
etery.
Mr. Midgett, who had been ill
several months, died Tuesday night
at the home of another son, H. H.
Midgett, 1016 Rapids Street.
Surviving are these two sons and
a third, B. R. Midgett of Hyde
County, three daughters, Mrs. A,
C. Jarvis, Mrs. E. P. Martin and
Mrs. Lucy Jarvis of Roanoke Rap
ids, a Sister,' Mrs. Sade Williams oi
Hyde County, and two brothers,
Adolphus of Baltimore, Md. and
Alfred of Hyde County.
Mr. Midgett came to Roanoke
Rapids from Hyde County many
years ago and he and his sons were
employees of Rosemary Mfg. Co.
Mrs Susie Colem'ii
Mrs. Susie Coleman, 70 years old
died yesterday afternoon at her
home at Barley, Va. Funeral ser
, vices were held today at Oak
Grove Church with interment ir
the church cemetery.
She is survived by her husband
P. C. Coleman, two daughters, Miss
Anna Coleman and Mrs. Miltor
Gorham of Spring Hope and one
son, Charley 'Coleman, of Balti
more, Md.
HALIFAX COUNTY OFFICIALS
Left to right: A. L. Hux, Clerk o f the Superior Court; County Commis
sioner June Collier; County Commissioner Marcus Perry; County Commis
sioner N. W. Warren; Sheriff Joe L. Riddick. This picture, in which The
Herald asked all county officials to pose, arrived too late for a cut to be
made for the Halifax County Today edition last week.
THE ROANOKE RAPIDS HERALD
EXTENDS INVITATION TO FASCINAT'G
NEW COOKING SCHOOL
UP AND DOWN WITH THE
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• • Saturday, Jan. 15th is the last day that car
owners of Roanoke Rapids will be able to get city
auto license tags for one buck. After Saturday,
the price goes up to $1.25 with the news that the
police will be after delinquents.
• • H. R. Tanner, 915 Jackson St., reported to
police Tuesday that his boy’s bicycle, a new one
brought by Santa Claus, had been stolen from the
home late Monday night or early Tuesday morn
ing.
• • a gang oi young rumans, saia ro nave ueen
the same group which has terrorized the town for
some time, are beginning to find that crime does
not pay. Their latest escapade was the theft of
valuable property from Roanoke Mills Co. These
same boys are said to have destroyed property on
clothes lines on Jackson St. recently ajid are the
same ones who a few weeks ago threw rocks at
milk bottles on Avenue porches. There are about
three in the crowd, ranging from 12 to 16 years in
age, utterly unafraid of the law, and quite cool a
bout their various escapades. Hardened young
criminals already and a menace to society, rotten
apples liable to Spoil a whole barrel of good ones.
Arrested several times, some of them look on the
whole thing as a clever joke. One has been to a re
form school. Police can’t understand why he wab
ever released.
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There is always something new
under the sun.
Entertaining proof of that state
ment will be presented by the Roa
noke Rapids Herald, which is
bringing to the Imperial Theatre,
in Roanoke Rapids, a motion pic
ture that pioneers in fresh, stimu
lating treatment of the oldest and
most important subject in the
world—Homemaking.
Long ago the Cooking School
graduated from a curiosity to a
popular necessity in many parts of
the country. Now it has graduated
again, leaping this time into Holly
wood stardom.
For this is no routine lecture, no
methodical demonstration which
the Herald will give to the women
of the community for two days
without charge, starting Thursday,
February 3rd, at 10 a.m.
The Herald takes a genuine
pride in being among the first to
sponsor “The Bride Wakes Up” a
full-length feature picture, directed
and filmed in Hollywood, with a
competent cast to interpret the ap
pealing story.
Women young and old, and men
too, will appreciate the humanness
of this romantic screen story, in
which home problems have beten.
approached from an entirely new
angle. Entertainment, profitable
instruction, humor and romance
are woven deftly into a production
which abounds in ingenious cam
era studies and remarkable close
ups. The camera has modernized
the Cooking School, magnifying
its benefits, losing none of its hos
pitable, friendly charm.
Experienced housekeepers will
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Fred Gupton
Is Fatally
Hurt By Fall
Frederick Gupton, 24 year old
Halifax County boy, died at 3 o’
clock this afternoon from injuries
sustained when he fell from a roof
at the West Halifax Resettlement
Farm.
Young Gupton, a sheet metal
worker on the project, died just as
he entered Roanoke Rapids on his
way to the Roanoke Rapids Hos
pital, immediately after the acci
dent.
He lived between Littleton and
Hollister.
His foreman, who was bringing
him to the hospital when death
came, reported that Gupton had
been working on the roof of a
house, fell off the roof and struck
his head on a saw bench below.
A great gash was torn in the skuH.
P. M. Bragg of Weldon was
treated for inpuries at the Roanoke
Rapids Hospital. Bragg, an em
ployee of Bounds Motor Co., was
working on the roof of a building
when he slipped and fell off the
roof.
Gang Leader
Is Sent To
Reformatory
Three young boys of Roanoke
Rapids, all minors, were sentenced
to the reform school in Juvenile
Court this week. One of the boys,
who had been to a training school
before, was ordered sent back a
gain, while the other boys were
placed on probation.
The boys comprise a gang which
has given local police much trou
ble. They were charged with break
ing in a local mill and a local
warehouse and there are several
other unofficial charges against
them.
The same crowd were arrested
here about one month ago but re
leased after being given a lecture.
Mrs. Pope
Hit By Car
On Avenue
Mrs. J. W. Pope was injured early
Monday morning when she was
struck by a car near the corner of
Roanoke Avenue and 3rd Street.
She was taken to the hospital
where she was resting comfortably
yesterday.
She received bad bruises but it
is thought no bones were broken.
Roland Coker is reported as the
driver of the car which hit Mrs.
Pope as she started across the
Avenue at 7 o’clock Monday morn
ing. Coker was arrested but was
later released at the request of the
Pope family.