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Ralph Bethel and his Pinnellsj softball team from Richmond will be at Ledgerwood Park Friday night for a double-header. Pin nells finished in second place for first half honors in the Capitol City League. Dave Garland and Fred Beilfuss will hurl for Pin nells. Game time is 8:15 p.m. Ad mission fifteen cents. Rocky Mount Gallopade All Stars will return to Ledgerwood Park Saturday night for a return en gagement with the Romancos. Red Coley will pitch for the visitors. Game time is 8 p.m. sharp and ad mission will be fifteen cents. —o— On Friday night the Rosemary Bees will journey to Rocky Mount for a double-header with Cara mount Mills starting at 7:30 p.m. On Monday night they will play the Murfreesboro Night Raiders at Murfreesboro. Game time will be 8 p.m. —o— The Bees are setting a hot pace in the City League, racking up two shutouts this week against league opposition. They defeated Patter son 3-0 Tuesday night and white washed Halifax Paper 2-0 V. ednes day night. The Romancos will announce next week what two players they will pick from the City League. Under A.S.A. rules the winning team in a City Softball Tournament can pick two extra players from the re-1 maining teams. The two men pick- ; *id must have the full approval of their managers before being, trans ferred. Roanoke Rapids Textile All Star ( Girls will play Virginia Dairy at Richmond, Va. on Saturday night. First game 7:30 p.m. Coach Riggan plans to leave for Richmond around S p.m. —o— Another big square dance Satur day night from 8 till 12 midnight. One of the largest crowds of the season packed Ledgerwood Hall last week to dance to the music of the Carolina Troubadours. Admis sion is: ladies fifteen cents; gen tlemen thirty-five cents. o Russ Deberry will probably be back on the firing line by the first week in August. Plans call for the splint to be off this Sunday. Then at least a week of light throw ing before attempting a come-back, o Pickups N’ Putouts: El Swinko Lee, who is known as the “Lone Wolf” of the Romances —will hurl at least one game each against Pinnells and Rocky Mount —Side glances of the Romanco-Red Raider tilt last Wednesday night— Roland Johnson—Frank Kemp— I Lonnie Blackwelder—all drinking a i Rod Rook Cola—George Fisher sit ting back of the dugout—getting a big kick out of the game—Lindsay Sadler and Speed Hux getting friendly—Knox Rogers hitting the ball with his fist after walking a batter—Clem Brown, Acy Carlisle and Johnnie Wrenn taking a rest after loafing on a “Lazy Day”— Roanoke No. 1 finally hit the jack pot, walloping Patterson 6-1—These Roanoke No. 1 boys deserve a lot of credit—you’ll have to hand it to them—There’s a lesson in their attitude!—What team in the State would keep on fighting and trying after losing fifteen straight in a league—None!—That’s why I say they are the berries—and I mean it! Damage Of Weldon Fire Set At 51,200 Fire Chief D. R. iVledlin of Wel don announced today that no esti mate has yet been made of dam age to cotton in a bonded ware house of that city which was burn ed in a fire last Thursday after noon about 4 o’clock, but damage to the old Weldon Livestock Com pany building and farm implements in it was approximately $1,200. The fire, which broke out in the livery stable, was the worst Wel don has experienced in some time. It' took the combined fire depart ments of Weldon and Roanoke Rapids about an hour and forty five minutes to get the flames un der control, and if the wind had shifted the fire might have spread through the surrounding Negro section. As it was, Chief Medlin said, the wind was blowing away from the houses of the Negroes toward the cotton warehouse. Thirty-two bales of cotton were damaged by the warehouse fire, which caught irom the livery sta ble where a large number of farm ing implements were stored. There were a thousand bales of cotton in th warehouse, the roof of which was considerably damaged. Local firemen assisted the Wel don fire department in extinguish ing the blaze. Mrs. Carl Murray and sons, Carl Jr., and Billy, have returned from a visit with relatives and friends in Philadelphia, Pa. Miss Elaine Welch returned Saturday after spending the past week with her sister, Mrs. W. P. Boone, Jr., in Scotland Neck. I START NOW to SAVE for your HOME! “T omorrow may be too late!” Roanoke Rapids Building & Loan Association 10 W. 2nd Street Phone R-527-1 A GLIMPSE OF LIFE IN THE ARMY When Company B, 105th Medical Regiment, was on maneuvers in Tennessee recently actual battles were simulated during which some of the assumed casualties are shown in the picture on the left, after re ceiving first aid treatment of splints and bandages. The center photograph shows what a typical soldier looks like in camp. The above important cog in Uncle Sam’s fighting forces is Pfc. John “Gentleman Jeff” Matthews, Number One glamour boy of Com pany B, according to reports from Fort Jackson. Captain Thomas J. Taylor is shown in the picture at the right, “somewhere” in the woods on field maneuvers giving orders and bearing the same hardships that the boys went through during the action in Tennessee. Ashton Is Agent For Pyrofox Gos And Ranges Here Announcement is made this week by the Emporia Gas Co., of Em poria, Va., of the appointment of L. A. Ashton as Roanoke Rapids representative for them in the sale 1 of Pyrofax Gas and Majestic Gas ranges. At present Mr. Ashton has a rep resentative showing of the new ranges at his home at 102 East 10th Street, and is prepared to ser vice customers in Roanoke Rapids and surrounding territory with prompt delivery of gas in steel cylinders. Originally perfected to serve ^ 1 ■ ' : customers who lived beyond the gas mains in cities where artificial or natural gas was available, its use is said to have spread rapidly in recent years to smaller communi ties not enjoying gas service. Pyro fax gas is described as a highly refined hydrocarbon gas, and is said not to be poisonous. It is de livered in steel cylinders each hold ing 100-pounds of gas, which is said to be enough to last the average family two to four months. Pyrofax gas is being successfully marketed in Emporia and other nearby towns, and several families and restaurants use the gas in Roanoke Rapids. Ashton plans to maintain a downtown display room for the ranges at a later date. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jenkins spent Sunday at Tuscarora Beach. TOWN TALK Misses Dot Frahn and Ann Boyd Hawthorne of Daniel Town, Va., spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hawthorne. Private William H. Evans of Fort Jackson, S. C., spent the week-end with his mother, Mrs. J. D. Evans. Mrs. J. C. Finch returned Sat urday from a week’s visit to her sister in Portsmouth. She attend ed the wedding of her nephew, Loyd Jordan, at Ocean View on Wednesday. Mrs. Margie Dibbs left Wednes day for Petersburg where she will make her home with her husband, Fred B. Dibbs. '* ■ ■ WE "CONGRATULATE" LEGGETT'S | U ^ • - » I upon the opening of their new "STREAMLINED" " DEPT. STORE! Roanoke Rapids has enjoyed the reputation of being — "The Show Center" \ for a wide area over a number of years now. Such modern new stores as Leggett’s and others ft i that have recently opened here— 1 together with the many fine ones ft \ we now have, will gain for us a f * reputation for being — | "THE SHOPPING CENTER" * for just as large an area. We welcome them, and promise in the future I —as in the past—to do our share to give Roanoke Rapids Shoppers: "THE VERY BEST BN ENTERTABNMENT" I f --ROANOKE RAPIDS THEATRES PEOPLES ■— = 1 ■ * IMPERIAL it ROYAL I
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