LIONS SHOW NETS $700
ANNUAL FESTIVAL
IS SUCCESS FROM
EVERY STANDPOINT
Helen Stewart
Crowned Queen
Saturday Nite
With the crowning of Miss Helen
Stewart as “Queen” the Lions Club
Second Annual Mid-Summer Festi
val was brought to a triumphant
close at the Roanoke Avenue
grounds last Saturday night. Misses
Mildred Burton and Bertha Button
were “runners up” in the honors
for Queen, having sold the second
and third highest number of ad
vance gate admission tickets.
This year’s show neted the Lions
Club approximately $700.00, accord
ing to the best check-up that could
be made to date. Ted Speight,
ehairman of the Festival Commit
tee, left on his vacation Monday,
and it will probably be a week or
so before the final returns can be
tallied.
This year’s show netted the Lions
cess from every point of view, and
a great deal of credit goes to
Speight and his 12-man committee
that worked untiringly for weeks
preceding the Exposition.
The promotion was handled un
der a little different lines this year
as no outside promoter was em
ployed to manage the Exposition.
The Crescent Amusement Compa
ny, North Carolina concern with
winter quarters in Gastonia, who
furnished the midway attractions,
had a nice line-up of outdoor
shows, rides and concessions, and
obviously pleased the public, the
Lions Club and the Exposition
committee in every respect.
Business Manager Sherman
Husted, and Mr. McHenry, owner
of the show, were a great deal of
help to the committee in making
advance arrangements for the Ex
position.
All of the proceeds from the Ex
position will be used for the Lions
blind prevention fund, and will be
spent 100% locally. A nurse from
the State Blind Commission will as
sist a local eye doctor in holding
three clinics for children as soon
as school oftens, according to pres
ent plans. The children’s eyes will
be examined, and in as many cases
as possible—where it is impossible
to get them from any other source
-the Lions Club will provide the
necessary glasses or treatment
recommended.
Reverend L. I. Stell, pastor of
the Presbyterian Church here, of
ficiated at the crowning of the
Queen. Although handsome mer
chandise prizes had been arranged
for by the Lions Club, with the
alternate offer of a cash award, in
every single instance the young la
dies who won a coveted prize se
lected the cash. Miss Stewart,
Queen of the Exposition, received
a cash award of $50.00, for a to
tal of 363,300 votes. Miss Mildred
Burton received $25.00, with a cred
it of 198,000 votes, while Miss Ber
tha Batton received a $10.00 cash
prize for 176,400 votes.
Other young ladies who worked
faithfully for the Club in the ad
vance sale of tickets include:
Misses Carrie Byrd, Fannie Ste
phenson, Minnie Lee Medlin, Ag
nes Wood, Elizabeth Massey, Mary
Woodruff, Frances Ricks, Lucille
King, Mary Cannon, Elsie White
and Florine Clary.
Mrs. Edwin Akers was employed
to look after the girls in the ad
vance sale of gate admission tick
ets, and did a swell job of it, man
aging to keep an active list of con
testants interested and working at
all times several weeks prior to,
and during the Exposition.
FACTS vs. FICTION
By BILL RIGGANS
This weather we’re now having'
may be cool enough for you people,
but the boys around Roanoke No. 1
and No. 2 Club House are doing
their bit to warm things up with
plenty of good old fashioned set
back games. Whoever named this
game set-back sure must have
known all the fine points of the
game. C. Vaughan tells me he’s
the undisputed champ of this game.
I wonder if he’s played J. W.
Brown or Army Glover. Kinda
looks as if J. W. Brown is going to
have an art gallery of some kind;
he’s saving all his score cards and
I understand he’s going to have
them framed. Those games he lost
will probably be titled, “The one
that got away”.
Manager Singletary informs me
that the City will have a new wa
ter supply in the near future if
someone doesn’t fill up those holes,
created by those horseshoe pitch
ers, around the posts. Judging
from the above remarks one can
easily see that horseshoe is a very
popular game over at the Club.
Henry Cashwell and Johnnie
Renn, the “Iron men of Softball”,
are no softies when checkers are
concerned. Both boys play a nifty
game, but Johnnie seems to be a
three-letter man as he plays set
back, Ping-Pong or checkers with
equal skill. Plans are now under
way to organize a tournament for
checkers, set-back and ping-pong.
Any suggestions you may offer
will be appreciated.
There were 615 persons who
made a guess on the jar of beans
last week at the Club. Vernon Rog
ers guessed the correct number
and was presented with a one dol
lar bill by J. O. Brown. This week
J. W. Brown is offering one dqjlar
to the person or persons guessing
nearest the number matches dis
played in a jar over at the Club
entrance.
Saw the game last Sunday be
tween Rosemary and Goldsboro.
Don’t think I ever saw a better
game. This boy, Guilfoyle, really
got something that should go a
long way in this state race. Con
gratulations, Bill, and may you
continue to win ball games.
No Successor Is
Named For Post
Vacated By Reid
No successor to P. A. Reid has
been chosen for Roanoke Rapids
High School principal. Several
members of the school board have
been called out of town on business
or illness, and C. W. Davis, citj
superintendent, thinks that it will
be the middle of next week before
a meeting of the board can be
called to decide upon someone tc
fill the office. At this time Mr.
Reid’s successor will be named.
Dr. E. D. Harbour
Eyes Examined
Glasses Fitted
Prices Reduced. Office over
Shell Furniture Co.
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SOFTBALL TEAMS
PLAY FOR STATE
TITLE NEXT WEEK
Rosemary Mfg. Co. girls and boys -
softball teams will leave here next
Thursday for the State Softball
Tournament in Greensboro, N. C.
The tournament will start Thurs
day night, Aug. 25, and run thru
Friday and Saturday, 26th and
27th. The Romanco’s men’s team
with a season’s record of thirty
wins and two losses will clash with
the winners of the High Point
Tournament at 7 o’clock Thursday
night in the Greensboro stadium.
The semi-finals will be Friday
night and finals Saturday night.
Russ Deberry will hurl the open
ing tilt for the Romanco boys, while
Marjorie “Snag” Lee will be on the
firing line for the girls. The win
ners of the N. C. State Champion
ship will represent North Carolina
in the World’s Softball Champion
ships in Chicago, 111., Sept. 7-8-9-10
11. Headquarters of the Men’s
Tournament will be at the O. Hen
ry Hotel in Greensboro.
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Annual Reunion
Of Blue & Grey
Held Baltimore
The annual reunion of the 29th
Division Association will be held
in Baltimore, Md., September sec
ond, third, fourth, and fifth. Ac
tivities will be centered around the
Lord Baltimore Hotel, and mem
bers of the "Blue and Grey” are
assured of a good time with their
comrades.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Clary and
daughter, Bette, are spending their
vacation at Buckroe Beach, Va.
and Baltimore, Md.
Mrs. Clyde Stubbs of Rocky Mt.
is spending the week with Mrs.
George Wallace.
FUNERAL
FOR CITY
PIONEER
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday, August 17th, at Williams
Funeral Home for Mrs. Carrie
Bowers of Roanoke Rapids, who
has been ill for three weeks at
Roanoke Rapids Hospital. She died
Tuesday, August ltith.
Rev. F. W. Haynie conducted the
services assisted by Rev. C. T.
Rogers. Burial was in Roanoke
Rapids Cemetery.
Mrs. Bowers is survived by a
daughter, Mrs. Lee Byrd, a step
son, W. C. Bowers, and a son, Mr.
Eb. Sprouse, of Charlottesville, Va.
« Pallbearers were: C. O. Byrd,
Walter Bowers, Wilson Byrd, John
Byrd, Irvin Byrd, and Clarence
Byrd.
The wife of the late W. T. Bow
ers, Mrs. Bowers has lived here for
forty years. Her husband died in
1929.
Miss Marjorie Keene has return
ed from a visit to Norfolk, Va.
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