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THE ROANOKE RAPIDS LI 17 RA I r\ N. C.’s TABloid I I J^B B Bfi More News — More | Picture NEWSpaper fl ■ B . > I I I I ■ ■ H I I I I ■ ■ ■ I I 4 I M Advertising - More — All Home-Print — ■ ■ V-^/lktC WJLrJtXVA.9 f IKdi M ^Bf Paid Subscribers ( S /MM nrAB/oirf^ S V VOLUME TWENTY-THREE ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. THURSDAY, MAR. 10, 1938 NUMBER 35 UP AND DOWN WITH THE Ghc Avenue • • L. S. Cannon, one of the old-timers in Roa noke Rapids, asked the following questions of members of the Kiwanis Club last Thursday night: What do you know about your home town and its industries? We won’t give the grades made by the club but here are the questions. See how many you can answer. Then turn to the back page of this section for the answers. Some of them are in approximate figures, no attempt being made to ascertain exact figures, but all are supposed to be approximately correct. 1. How many spinning spindles in our mills? 2. How many looms? 3. How many bales of cotton, approximate ly, do our mills use per month, one shift eight hours per day? 4. Approximately, bow many yards of cloth will mills produce (same running time as above) per month? 5. Give square feet of floor space in our largest store. 6. How many buildings in our Graded school system? 7. What is the approximate value of our graded school property? 8. How many students in our graded schools? 9. How many teachers? 10. How many women teachers? How many men teachers? 11. What is the K. V. A. capacity of Virginia Electric Plant at Roanoke Rapids? 12. How many churches in our town? 13. What is the distance in tenths of miles north and south (Roanoke Ave.) of our corporate limits? 14. Going back to our cotton mill machinery, which machine has a part called Hog Ear? 15. Which machine has a part called Trom bone? 16. Which machine has a part called lrum pet? 17. What machine has a part called Monkey tail? 18 What machine has a part called Lizzard? 19. At full capacity, how many lbs. of paper can our paper mills produce per month? 20. How many cords of wood will the paper mills use per month? • • It’s a new assistant Chief of Police for Roa noke Rapids. The name is Keith Dale Dobbins, the weight 8 pounds and the day of arrival in Roanoke Rapids was Friday, March 4th. Chief and Mrs. H. E. Dobbins are the proud parents ... Born Thurs day afternoon to Mr. and Mrs. Jake Lassiter, a son, Albert Wood Lassiter . .. • • Only bright spot in a “blue” issue is the re port from Postmaster L. G. Shell that postal reve nues at the Roanoke Rapids Post Office from Jan uary and February of 1938 showed a 12 per cent increase over the same two months in 1937 .. Wish we cquld say the same for mills and retail stores— MOTHER, 10 CHILDREN For the first time in 10 years, Mrs. Virginia Thompson had all her ten children together again. They held a re-union in Roanoke Rapids the othor day. Reading left to right: Woodrow Thompson, Mrs. Thompson, Ollie Paxon; 2nd row: Lena Thompson, James, Maud Cross, Roy; back row: Mary Davis, Bettie Huff, Charles and Addie War ren. Mrs. Thompson, who lived in Roanoke Rap ids for 30 years, is now living with a daughter in Durham. Her husband died ten years ago. All her children are living and it was a happy re-union in Roanoke Rapids. (Photo by Grant). ANDLETON, GURLEY ON ELECT'N BOARD Allen W. Andleton, Enfield at torney, and Byron Gurley, young Roanoke Rapids business man, re ceived the unanimous recommen dation today of the Halifax County Democratic Executive Committee as Democratic members of the County Election Board which will handle the coming June primary. Fourteen of the 17 members of the Executive Committee were present as Chairman John W. Mar tin of Roanoke Rapids presided. The recommendations were for warded to the State Board of E lections. Mr. Andleton served as chair man of the Board of Elections two years ago. He is a former Mayor of Enfield and a graduate of the University of North Caro lina. Mr. Gurley has lived in Roanoke Rapids since early childhood, grad uated from Roanoke Rapids High School and N. C. State College, is an ex-president of the Roanoke Rapids Lions Club and is an active church worker in the Rosemary Methodist Church. 12 YEAR OLD GIRL KILLED IN WRECK _ * Dies Before She Reaches Roanoke Rapids Hospital Virginia Lee Stratton, 12 year old girl, was almost instantly kill ed on the Lawrenceville Road late Friday afternoon when a truck, driven by Skidmore Rook, collided with the car in which the girl and her parents were riding. The wreck occurred at a cross roads near Bradley’s Store. The Strattons were on their way to Roanoke Rapids and Rook was traveling the opposite direction. Jl . ... . . . • i • The car is said to have been mashed against an embankment by the truck. An ambulance brought the girl and her mother, Mrs. H. M. Strat ton, to Roanoke Rapids Hospital. The girl was dead when the ambu lance arrived. Mrs. Stratton was able to leave the hospital Sunday. Funeral services for the daugh ter were held Sunday at Lawrence ville. Rook is under bond. P. M. Goodwin, brother in law of Dr. J. W. and A. N. Martin of this city, died today at his home in Gordonsville, Va. The Martins will leave here Saturday to attend the funeral. VOTE ON ST BONDS MAY 3rd The machinery was set to worb Tuesday by the City Board of Commissioners to enable the vot ers of Roanoke Rapids to vote on a $130,000 bond issue to pay the costs of the city’s part of storm sewers, curb and gutter and pav ing of Jackson, Hamilton and all side streets connecting those streets with Roanoke Avenue and for widening the paving of the Avenue from curb to curb. The date of the election was set as Tuesday, May 3rd, which is the same date for the election of two City Commissioners. Those whose terms expire are M. D. Collier in the North Ward and R. I. Starke in^.he South Ward. It is m.dov stood that -both will file for re ele’ction. City Clerk Ruby Wood filed a certificate of signatures of proper ty owners on the street paving project showing that 69.34 per cent of the number of owners repre senting 63 per cent of the front age affected were in favor of the assessments. The Board then passed a resolu tion approving and authorizing the improvements subject to an elec tion of the voters on May 3rd. An ordinance was passed authorizing the issuance of the bonds in the e vent the election carries and an other resolution officially called the election. A. E. Akers was appointed regis trar of the North Ward with J. H. Hines and S. J. Bounds as judges; Clayton Gurley was appointed reg istrar of the South Ward with C. C. Shell and Eddie Cameron as judges. Only other business of the ad journed meeting was declining to permit carnivals to show within the city limits. Mrs. George Funeral Is Yesterday Mrs. William George, 45 years old, died at the Roanoke Rapids Hospital Tuesday. She had been ill since Christmas. Funeral services were held yes terday afternoon at Williams Fu neral Home by Father Gorham with interment in Roanoke Rapids Cemetery. A native of Rocky Mount, Mrs. George had lived in Roanoke Rap ids for 25 years, had done business with the people of this community and the large crowd and elaborate floral offerings at the funeral at tested to her friendship with many people. Her husband and seven children survive: Earl, Nellie, Modell, Ed ward, Dorothy, Katie and William Jr. The family reside on South Roanoke Ave.
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