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• • Folks may wonder why we write this sort of
thing; just like they wondered when we said some
thing about Kenny Love’s passing away . . . It’s
just because we can’t help writing about those
who are kindly and friendly to us as we pass up
and down the Avenue.
• • Harry Norwood was one of those friendly
souls who thought we were tops, and always had a
smile and a friendly “hello” for us ... He raised his
hand in a friendly salute whenever we passed him
and he worked for us in those long, late hours
when the rest of you sleep, when the newspaper
must hit the mails . . . week after week he made it
possible, with the rest of a swell crew of boys, that
you got your paper, folded and mailed, at the
quickest moment all-night work would send it.
• • As we write this, Harry is gone, and three
more young friends are in a most serious condition
. . . Harvey Hazelwood, Jack Smith, Edward El
more.
• • We could lose a ball game, a dozen crucial
ball games, a thousand times . . . for, after all, it’s
just another ball game ... but when we lose friends
—crushed into eternity—it makes ball games and
all other things of life lose their importance and
fall away as we mourn for those who left us so
abruptly . . . , and those who are maimed and crip
pled the rest of their living days.
• • This is a right broad statement and it won’t
help us now that the boy is gone . . . Folks will
think us crazy and screwy about writing anything
like this: but, for some reason, we don’t know why,
we had rather have a friend like bow-legged Harry
Norwood than have some so-called friends in the
famous forties or the fortunate 400 . . . They may
not be any better. But they’re certainly no worse.
• • After all, we are human and full, of sin . . .
even the best of our deacons and elders ... and they
may not like that statement... but a friendly, hap
py, Harry Norwood, waddling his way down the
Avenue, did a whole lot to make life worth living
for a lot of us who find life’s living a hard lot.
• • This is not an obituary for the dead ... it
may not even be a lesson for the living ... it’s just
the way we feel about a good guy who has gone
West. . . and if you still can’t understand why we
wrote this sort of thing ... we can understand why
you didn’t. J
• O Good night, Harry.
Too Late To Classify
STRAYED or Stolen: Dark grey
Persian kitten, three months old—
Reward if returned to Mrs. E. B.
Bowman, 226 Jackson St.
USED CARS, Newsom’s Littleton.
Most of our used cars have New
Factory Motors and new Tires. J.
H. Newsom, Chevrolet, Littleton.
Come to Littleton and see J. H.
Newsom’s stock of used cars with
New Motors, cars that will give
you real SERVICE.
Buy a New Chevrolet or Ford
Motor now and pay for same this
fall. J. H. Newsom, Chevrolet,
Littleton.
Some good Chevrolet Trucks with
New Motors, come to J. H. New
som’s Littleton.
New Factory Built Motors Chevro
let J. H. Newsom’s Littleton.
New Factory Built Ford Motors
J. 11. Newsom’s, Littleton.
Best lot of USED CARS in Eastern
Carolina at J. H. Newsom’s Little
ton.
USED CARS-Newsom’s, Littleton.
Forty Used Cars & Trucks to select
from Newsom’s Littleton.
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Raging Elephant Injures Keeper
Still trumpeting with rage, Rosie, of Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephant herd, at
Toronto, Ont., is urged away from injured keeper Ed Lewis (arrow) of Herkimer, N. Y. Rosie seized
keeper Lewis in her trunk, whirled him into the air and dashed him to the ground, where another elephant
trampled him. Lewis can be seen crawling to safety while other elephants are brought up to help quiet her.
APPEAR BEFORE BOARD
FOR TEXTILE PLANT
I
The County Commissioners held
their regular monthly meeting July
3. All members and the County
Attorney were present.
Mr. Collier brought to the atten
tion of the Board the matter of
selling or disposing of the Garner
School Building; same was turned
over to Mr. Collier for disposal.
Mr. Wade H. Dickens, Attorney,
appeared befo; ■ the Board relative
to making deed for the Spruill
property in Littleton. Mr. Dickens
stated that he had an offer cf
$350.00 for the lot. It was decided
to deed the lot to the County and
Town of Littleton and let the Town
of Littleton sell their interest at
public auction.
Mr. Mullen and Mr. Davis came
before the Board in regards to a
textile building to be added to the
Roanoke Rapids High School, also
repairs to the ceiling in the audi
torium of the said school building.
No definite decision was made.
Mr. Bartlett, Secretary of the
Eastern Carolina Chamber of Com
merce. came before the Board
asking for a donation—no action
was taken on same at present.
Bids as follows turned in for
the Sanatorium laundry:
Johnson’s Laundry, R. R. __9!4c lb.
DeLuxe Cleaners, R. R._7!4c lb.
A. P. Ellis, Weldon_7%c lb.
Mr. V. C. Matthews, Supt. of
Halifax County Schools with the
members of the Board of Educa
tion came before the County Com
missioners requesting some mem
ber of the Board of Commissioners
to accompany the Board of Edu
cation on a trip throughout the
County and check up on the needs
of additional rooms and equipment
for the schools in the County. Mr.
Whitaker and Mr. Collier were ap
pointed to represent the Board of
Commissioners.
On motion seconded and carried
that E. H. Smith, Tax Collector, is
authorized to collect $1.25 tax on
each gasoline tank at all service
stations.
Meeting adjourned to meet again
Tuesday, July 4th.
Meeting Tuesday for the purpose
of checking and passing on a ten
tative budget for 1939. On proper
motion seconded and carried the
tentative budget as presented be
approved.
Daughter Born
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Tunnell i
of Swan Quarter, N. C. announce
the birth of a daughter, Grace E
lizabeth, July 21st. Mrs. Tunnell
was formerly Miss Lucy Bynum of
this city.
HOSPITAL
Out of town patients in the Roa
noke Rapids Hospital this week
are Roy Herman Clary, of Ankum,
Va.; W. H. Fly the, of Conway; T.
E. Outland of Conway.
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Dedication ceremonies for the
Northampton Courthouse at Jack
son will be held on August 7, when
the Northampton Superior Court
convenes. Speeches by Judge
Kerr, and Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn
will be heard at the dedication of
the renovated courthouse, a PWA
Project of an approximately $70,
000 expenditure.
The courthouse has been remod
eled from beginning to end, inside
and and out. With the finishing
touches added to the structure, the
building will be one of the most
up-to-date courthouses in eastern
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