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THE ROANOKE RAPIDS j N. CVs TABlo 1<1 I j Picture NEWSpaper i — Ail Home-Print - I n_^___ _^^^b ^^b VOLUME TWENTY-FOUR ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. _THURSDAY, MAR. 2, 1939_NUMBER 34 - ' ' ‘ * - • • ' • ' ‘ - .V. _ HI-YAH! HERE MARCH 16th and 17th vfxasssmtsssmmKsssmfftsssi One of the many scenes from the 9th annual Kiwanis Club Show, “Saw dust & Spangles”, gigantic Circus-Minstrel-Revue to be staged here Thursday and Friday night, March 16 and 17. Tickets go on sale tomorrow'. Talley Will Hurl For Wilson Club Wilson, Feb. 20.—Lefty Joe Talley, star college and semi-pro pitcher, has signed with the local club of the Coastal Plain League, officials announced today. Talley, Mebane youth, was an ace performer last spring for Coach John Caddell’s Wake Forest team. During the summer, Mebane Joe pitched for the Roanoke Rapids Owls, State semi-pro champions. Talley was named on the All American squad selected at the Na tional Semi-Pro Congress’ tourna ment in Wichita, Kansas. Wilsbn officials today also an nounced that Max Sandler, Phila delphia semi-pro outfielder, had signed a contract. He hit .347 last summer in Philadelphia’s City League. He is an alumnus of a baseball school and was among four of the school’s alumni chosen last spring for a sojourn as guests of a major team. 1 \ UNIDENTIFIED MAN KILLED BY TRAIN AT HALIFAX TODAY An unidentified white man was found dead on the railroad tracks near Halifax early this morning. It is not yet known whether he was a local man or a hobo. The body was discovered about 3 a.m. by the train crew of a Southbound Atlantic Coast Line train and it is figured that a Northbound train which passes thru about 2 a.m. was the train 'which hit the man. Parts of the body were strewn up and down the tracks. The right leg was torn from the body and the left leg had been severed. The man’s face was not marred beyond recognition and this will be the only means of identification as there were no papers or items on the person. ) The dead man was about 25 to 30 years old and weighed about 165 pounds. He wore a green sweater, blue shirt and dark trousers. Coroner T. M. Cooper was cglled from Enfield this morning and held a temporary investigation after which the body was removed to an Enfield funeral parlor. The train hit the man a mile and a half North of Halifax near a foot path leading to the old Whitehead farm on the Chantilly road. One theory is that the man was a hobo and fell between the cars. A handkerchief with four knots at the corners was found near the body. Others say the man was too thinly clad to have been hoboing. The other theory is that he was a local man returning down the path from a nearby settlement. REHEARSALS START FOR ANNUAL SHOW OF KIWANIS CLUB “Sawdust And Spangles”, Circus-Minstrel-Revue, To Be Staged Here Thursday And Friday Nights, March 16 and 17 Rehearsals started this week on the 9th annual Kiwanis Club show, “Sawdust and Spangles”, an elab orate circus-minstrel-revue which will be staged at the High School auditorium in Roanoke Rapids on Thursday and Friday nights, March Kith and 17th. This year’s show will be tops in entertainment for old and young, combining all the best features of a "Big-top Circus” with the old time Minstrel and Revue brought up fo date. 150 persons will take part in the big show, probably the largest number to ever participate in a Roanoke Rapids’ stage show. The production, Sawdust and Spangles, according to director John (Slim) Hutchings of the Rog ers Producing Co., will carry out the idea of the circus, in every way, from performers to pink lem onade. Glittering costumes, gay music, serpentine dancers, tight rope walkers, wild animals, funny clowns and all the other circus characters will be there. me cowpoy-mmstrei second part, the Wild West show that always comes after the circus perform ance, with black-face cowboy comedians strutting their stuff and white cowboys and cowgirls sing ing those Western and mountain ditties, will satisfy everybody. Tickets go on sale this weekend, according to Chairman Ned Man ning; Frank Sherry is in charge of ticket sales. All characters will be cast this week and a complete list of those appearing in the big show will be published next week. UV><ga/DOW • • Bain and snow this week have slowed up work on street paving. Hamilton Street is finish ed as is all of 1st, 2nd and 3rd Streets. Widening of Jackson is just started good as the bad weather sets in. • • Like man bites dog makes news, so does horse hits car, when it is so often the other way. Yesterday, the Rev. E. B. Fisher and George N. Taylor were returning from Richmond. At Em poria they met a runaway horse. The driver had already jumped from the wagon. The horse stop (Continued on Page 6, Section A)
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