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• • Foreman of the grand jury at this term of Halifax Superior Court and for the next 6 months is J. Sanders of Roanoke Rapids. Quick and effi cient work by the grand jury this week brought words of commendation from the presiding judge. • • Talk is alive on the Avenue again that anoth er big store might come to Roanoke Rapids . .. that a large new building might be erected for the new concern . . . that several concerns have had men here checking the sidewalk crowds at various lo cations. • • “The Lost Colony” will be broadcast at 8 p.m. EST over the Columbia Broadcasting system on next Wednesday. The broadcast, non-commercial, will last one hour with highlights of the drama which has already been witnessed by a quarter million people and those who attend next Wednes day night will witness the broadcast and after wards the lull play. • • Congressman John H. Kerr was speaker on the Kiwanis Club program last Thursday night. In quoting figures, the Judge got mixed up on his millions and billions of dollars and on some per centages. It was later discovered the Judge’s er rors had been the result of “typographical inac curacies” on the part of those who prepared his figures for him. • • A plea of 2nd degree burglary, accepted by the State, probably saved Whit Alston, 19 year old Halifax County Negro, from the death chamber. He had been indicted by the grand jury for first de gree burglary after being found under the bed of a Faucetts Township white girl. The penalty for first degree burglary . . . entering a place where persons are sleeping ... is death. • • Killing that dog on the main Street of Ra leigh the other day caused quite a furor in the Cap itol city. Crowds threatened officers of the law who had been told to kill stray dogs. The type of killing was brutal, but today comes another side of the story. A Raleigh witness says he saw the dog and it was having a running fit and frighten ing people when the officer hit him with a black jack ... Most dogs are harmless but there are a few which need killing, altho that killing should be hu mane . . . The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Raleigh is probably adding quite a few members these days. • • Speaking of dogs, we received this today from a Herald reader: So many readers told us about the pleasure given them by our editorial on the two collies that we are tempted to print more articles about dogs. One of our good correspond ence friends is Jobn H. Morse, Chicago, who ranks high as a dog lover. Jack writes that there is much to be said for preferring the society of dogs to that of people. “Dogs,” he says, “are much less boring. They demand less of your time and attention. They are not forever sniveling about their hard lives. They don’t gossip. If you are good enough to win their affection, it is yours forever. If you wish to be free from them temporarily, you can shut them in the basement. If circumstances indicate the need, you can erase them from this world forever and no one can say you nay. This latter is a privi lege that could be used on a goodly part of the human race without impairing civilization at all. For courage, for loyalty, for companionship—in deed, for all the qualities which make our brief day somehow worth while after all—give me my dogs this day instead of daily bread.” • • It is with genuine regret we learn today that Mr. and Mrs. Fred P. Wilmer will leave Roanoke Rapids the first of the month. Mr. W’ilmer has been manager of Halifax Paper Co. and will leave to spend several months in Sweden and other European countries studying pulp methods ... Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer have been very active in church and civic work since becoming residents of this city. They helped organize the first) Community Chest drive here which was so success ful and have I At World Poultry Congress 1 1 - f E. E. Metcalf, of Saugus, Mass., displays his imported Dutch Laced I I Barnevelders at the seventh World’s Poultry Congress in Cleveland,' 1 Ohio. Metcalf bought the Barnevelder for breeding purposes, producing ! a new breed, “White Americans,” which he claims are superior both for l eating and for egg-producing. been lately interested in getting a city library building . . . Their unselfish interest and energy will be sorely missed. ✓ ® • Harvey Hazelwood, injured three weeks ago in the auto wreck near Durham, was brought home yesterday. His condition is somewhat improved but doctors advised complete rest and few visitors until a little later . . . The condition of Jack Smith and Edward Elmore is fair but Watts Hospital sur geons have not yet been able to put their broken legs in casts. Weldon Woman Dies Tues. After Lengthy Illness Mrs. Annie Willey, 46, died in the Halifax Sanatorium Tuesday morn ing following an illness of five years. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock it the Weldon Methodist Church, with interment in Cedarwood Cem stery. Mrs. Willey, wife of the late Claude Willey, was born in Wel don and spent the greater part of her life in Weldon. She was the daughter of the late Charles and Annie Ruffin Smallwood. Surviving are two daughters, Miss Annie Pearl Willey of Weldon and Mrs. Edna Canipe of Creswell and five sons, Claude, Marcus, Ed gar, Ferrell and Luther Willey, all of whom reside at the home place near Weldon. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Temples of Statesboro, Ga., are visiting their daughter, Mrs. J. A. Wood, here this week. Miss Irene Clark has returned from a two weeks vacation at Vir ginia Beach and the Worlds Fair. _ Continental Distilling Corp., Philadelphia, Pa. 'Today’s Fashion i I *" ---; i On the evening scene. ; * * * By VERA WINSTON LINEN, pique and dotted Swiss • ;are all stars in the evening fashion \ sky. For that country club dance J there’s a pique voile, white with a ;] ■frose stripe. The bodice is surplice j jwith draped sleeves using the |itripe in two directions. The lower •] aorizontal band on the skirt tops a j fathered flounce. Black velvet sash 3 des in a bow at back. Bridge Party Halifax, N. C.—Mrs .W. L. John son entertained the members of her bridge club on Wednesday night. Those playing were Mrs. A. W, Perry, Mrs. V. A. Parks, Mrs. C. H, Boykin, Mrs. Russell Weeks, Mrs, C. E. Shaw, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. R. W, Millikin, Misses Vera Bobbitt, Clem Read. Edith and Effie Avent and Ursula Marshall. Miss Clem Read was winner of club high and Mrs, C. E. Shaw visitors’ high. At the conclusion of the game the hostess served a delicious ice course. • Whether the track is wet or dry, you're safe on General Dual 8s! Flexible ribbons of rubber wrinkle in squeegee action the minute the brakes are applied_ stop you quicker at 60 in the rain than ordinary tires stop at 50 in dry weather. General Dual 8s cost fe$s than a dollar more than ordinary tires. Get this safety on our liberal change-over offer. " GRIZZARD'S SERVICE STATION __ \ _ A
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