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Reporter Visits Homes In City In Which WPA Workers Are Stationed Four Roanoke Rapids homes in Which WPA housekeepers are sta tioned were visited by a Herald reporter this week. The visits were made with Mrs. Annie C. Boseman, Chairman of the House keeping Aid Service of the WPA in Halifax County, as she made roytine calls for inspection. The first home visited was quar anteened as the children had Ger man measles. At the time of the visit the housekeeper was in the back yard digging around a rose bush root in order to get the bush to grow. The owner, who has been sick for some time, was out in the warm sunshine overseeing the job. She explained that the bush was very valuable and that she wanted it saved. The yard, which had been cleaned by the housekeeping aid, was almost spot less. The visitors did not enter the house. In the next home the visitors * were greeted at the door by a very Old lady who invited them in. The supervisor led the way through the house, which had the atmos phere of being well kept. In the large and light kitchen the house keeper was washing the dinner dishes. She scrubbed them until they shone. She was dressed in white uniform with a white cap, the outfit that all workers are re nnired to wear while on duty. An invalid of many years lies bed-ridden in the home next vis ited. She seemed cheerful in her snow-white bed and her light, freshly scrubbed room. The work er, whom the visitors found in the kitchen, told the supervisor that she had been washing earlier in the day. Her face was wet with perspiration. • The worker in this home, in ad dition to doing the washing and ironing, cooking, and keeping the house cleaned and in order, has volunteered on a number of oc casions to stay with the invalid when there was no one else to stay with her. The last home visited was a motherless home in which there are five children up to 14 years of age. The father, who is em ployed at one of the local indus tries, was making a cabinet for the home when the visitors enter ed. The housekeeper was clean ing up a bedroom in which one of the girls lay in bed, suffering from German measles. Another child played with a puppy on the floor. The housekeeper in this home keeps the house in order, the children batheo and clean, cooks, does the laundry, keeps the child ren in Ischool when they are well, churns and makes butter with * milk from a cow that the father Owns. ■tnese nouseaeepers receive irom the WPA about $32.00 up per month (fouf weeks). They are • allowed to work only six hours each day, with an extra hour thrown in some times. They receive their training at a training center in Weldon. There they are taught to wash, cook, sew, clean, give prescribed medi cine, care for the sick, and other things necessary in keeping house. Some of .the workers stay in a home only long enough to get the family straightened out after a case of illness; others stay longer. In the case of the motherless home, the worker will stay until school is out in June. In addition to the homes visited here Monday, the Housekeeping Aid supervisor told of other homes that the service has been into. One she recalled was the home (a filling station, partitioned for bed room and kitchen) in which a mother suffered from an advanced stage of cancer. She said that the home, wsen the Aid was call ed, did not have a complete change Of linen for the beds and that the mother’s bed needed changing at least three times each day. The kitchen, cut off from the com bined living- and bed-room in the back of the station, had only a stove and table. There were no S' cabinets, no places to put a dish away. The two-burner oil stove was piled high with silverware, chinaware, and pots and pans, the supervisor said. A housekeeper was put into the home, linens were supplied by the Aid, cabinets were made by the worker from orange crates and covered with cloth secured here and there. The house was clean ed up and put in order, giving the woman the privilege of dying in a well kept, clean home. | Enfield | •!- j Mrs. Harold Burrows entertained a few friends at a lovely party Thursday evening. Those present were Mrs. Emmette Marshall, Mrs. J. T. O’Neal, Mrs. Johnnie Q. Hof ler, Mrs. Gennie Bobbitt, Mrs. B. W. Burehette, Mrs. Jack White head, Mrs. D. B. Barnes, Mrs. Collins Cuthrell, Mrs. Henry Cuth rell, Mrs. Paul Condrey, Mrs. H. C. Futrell and Mrs. R. W. Baugham. MRS. HARRISON HOSTESS Mrs. Theodore Harrison was hostess at bridge on Tuesday eve ning at her home on “Sherrod Heights”. Ice cream pies and salt ed nuts were served to the fol lowing: Mrs. A. C. Nichols, Jr., Mrs. J. B. Britt, Mrs. Leonard Matthews, Miss Dorothy Flanders, Miss Blanche Moss, Mrs. Robert Barnhill, Miss Annie Mae Sherrod, Mrs. Myra Mann, Miss Nellie Bry an Newton, Mrs .Fred Wiggins, Mrs. Robert Whitaxer, and Mrs. John M. Sherrod. BRIDE-ELECT HONORED Miss Winnie Mae Neville, bride elect of the month, was honored at a miscellaneous shower Wed nesday evening with Miss Ernes tine Bellamy, Mrs. Betty M. Barn hill and Mrs. Leonard B. Neville acting as hostesses. The guests were received by Miss Gwendolyn Bellamy and were registered by Miss Ernestine Bellamy. The bride-elect was led to a shower of gifts by little Miss Billy Laverne Billups and Master A. T. Neville dresssed as bride and groom. MR. AND. MRS. NICHOLS HOSTS Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Nichols, Jr., were hosts to the Evening Bridge Club in their home Friday eve ning. Guests included Dr. and Mrs. P. W. Joyner, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Britt, Mr. and Mrs. D. Mac Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. R. Hunter Pope, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. White, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Dickens, Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Beal, Mrs. Holt Evans, Mrs. E. L. Petway, R. C. Dunn, W. N. Sherrod, Waverly White and John McGwigan. GUN CLUB MEETING The regular post-seasonal meet ing of the Spring Hill Gun Club was held in the Hut Wednesday night. Present at the meeting featured by a motion picture of deer hunting scenes, Were W. H. West, Rev. Ross Cadle, I. J. Gil lette, Fred Wiggins, John Me Gwigan, John Newton, and Levy Overton of Enfield; Tom Locke, of Scotland Neck; Bruce Taylor and J. A. Bennette, of Whitakers; W. M. Etheridge of Spring Hill; Mrs. Cuthrell Hostess Mrs. Ralph Cuthrell was hostess at an enjoyable club party in her home in Enfield Thursday evening. A sweet course was served to Mrs. Elmer Cuthrell, Mrs. R. C. Whitehead, Miss Corrine Hofler, Miss Frances Hofler, Miss Elsie Kimball, Mrs. Fred Hoyle, Miss Eloise Hardison, Miss Mary Mac Clark, Mrs. Henry Hilliard, Miss Eunice Cuthrell, and Miss Ernes tine Bellamy. Circle No. 2 Meets Circle No. 2 of the First Christian Church was hostess Saturday night at the home of Mrs. R. I. Riggins, honoring her birthday. After a social hour little Bobby Waters sang “Happy Birthday To You”, and led Mrs. Riggins into the din ing room where her gifts had been displayed on the dining room ta ble, centered with a lovely birth day cake. Cake and sandwiches were served to the following: Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Jenkins, Mr. and Mro Tl T . TWr a if r\ Mro W M. Waters, Mrs. Stella Wilson, Mrs. Lucy Evans, Mrs. R. G. Har ris, Mrs. Mollie Hardison, R. T. Turner, B. G. Gray and R. I. Rig gins. Revival Started A revival began at the House of Prayer on Ninth and Madison Streets Sunday night, March 9. Mu sic is by the choir. The public is cordially invited by the pastor, Mrs. H. J. Lynch. I _ ************ ¥♦ hfrf] •i : IDeldon ■ • > ,, *' +<H-4-fr4-t-+*-M»f +»* Mrs. George Joyner is spend ing several days this week in Richmond, Va. Miss Christine Alston spent Monday in South Hill, Va. Misses Janet Rawlings and Es tell Chappell spent Sunday in Portsmouth, Va. Miss Helen Rowell of Greens boro spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Row ell. Misses Frances and Agnes Oakes of Wilson spent the week end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Oakes. C. S. Vinson who has been sick at his home on Washington Ave. is improving and expects to soon return to his work in Halifax. Mrs. Rawls of Raleigh spent several days last week with Mrs. R. S. Fountain. Mrs. J. E. Michael has returned to Richmond, Va., after spending the week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Chappell. Miss Elizabeth Harnell of Greensboro spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Harnell. Mrs. Allen Pierce, Mrs. E. G. Clark and Mrs. Curtis Turner spent Friday in Richmond, Va. Taylor Oakes of E. M. I., Sa lemburg, spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Oakes. Negro Loses Eye Jack Jefferson, Severn Negro, suffered the loss of his right eye after an affray with another Ne gro at Severn Sunday night. The eye was cut so severely with a ra zor, hospital attaches say, that it had to be removed upon his ad mittance Sunday night about 10 o’clock. The Negro also received several slight cuts about the neck. Banner County Northampton County was one of the banner counties of the state last year in the production of cot ton, reporting a bale-to-the-acre average. The county was one a mong a dozen in the state with such an average. The value of the crop in the state jumped 61 per cent over that of 1929, 740,000 bales bringing a total of $36,150,000. Julian Fenner, of Rocky Mount; Harverson Ward, of Battleboro; Thomas Lawrence of Leggett; G. E. Beal of Red Oak; and M. H. Griffin, of Bailey. New officers elected were R. W. Etheridge, President; G. E. Beal, vice-president; John W. McGwig an, secretary and treasurer. Bruce Taylor arid Rev. Ben T. 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