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HAWKINS CHAPEL Edith Hurst is spending this week in Roanoke Rapids with rel atives. g B. Fowler from Sanford spent Sunday here with his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Porter from Littleton spent Sunday with Mrs. Birdie Hawkins and family. Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Morgan and children visited Mrs. Hattie Wood ruff Sunday. Mrs. Eugene Powell and son spent Saturday with her mother, Mrs. J. W. Hale. Mrs. Eliza Cullom is ill at her home here with pleurisy. Friends wish for her a speedy recovery. Bernice Smith spent Friday and Saturday night with Mrs. J. W. Hale. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Alston from Hollister spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Pittard. Mrs. Alice T. Greene spent Fri day and Saturday night with Mrs. Andrew Pittard. Mr. ana mi - and children spent the week-end in Asheboro with Rev. and Mrs. H. S. B. Thompson. Mrs. Early Hurst and children visited Mrs. Eliza Cullom Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Haywood Glasgow and son were visitors in Roanoke Rapids Sunday. Friends will be glad to learn that Leonard Hurst has returned to his home here after under going an operation for appendicitis week before last. Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Greene and children, and Mr. and Mrs. Joy Lee Hurst were visitors in Weldon Sunday afternoon. HAWKINS CHAPEL Sunday School Sunday a.m. at 11 o’clock. Come and bring your friends. HURST - GREENE On February 14, 1942, at Em poria, Va., Eunice Greene, daugh ter of Mrs. Alice T. Greene and the late GecCge Greene of this community was married to Joy Lee Hurst, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hurst of Maryville, Ten nessee. The young couple will make their home in Roanoke Rap ids for the time being. Mrs. J. hi. lickie Passes In City Early Tuesday Mrs. J. E. Tickle, member of a well-known and prominent local family, died at her home, 835 Ham ilton Street, early Tuesday morn ing following a short illness of pneumonia. She was 51 years of age. Funeral services were held from the home Thursday morning, with Rev. Paul H. Fields, pastor of Rosemary Methodist church, of which the deceased was a mem ber, in charge of the last rites, assisted by Rev. Daniel Lane, pas tor of First Methodist church, and Rev. W. O. Cobb, Lutheran minister of Rocky Mount. Interment fol lowed in Cedarwood cemetery. Mrs. Tickle was a lifelong resi dent of the city and was promi nently identified with the church and social life of the town. Surviving are the following chil dren: Mrs. Wilmer Collier of Roa noke Rapids, Murphy, of Washing ton; Herman, of Tuczon, Arizona; Joe, of Washington; Nathan, of Roanoke Rapids; John, of Wash ington; James, Esther Anne and Priscilla, of Roanoke Rapids; one sister, Mrs. Willie Moody of the city; and two brothers, Raymond and Emmett Matthews. Several grandchildren also survive. Attend Funeral A number of friends here attend ed the funeral in Petersburg, Vir ginia of Mr. Ridley Meacham on Monday afternoon. Mr. Meacham was a brother of Mr. Tom Mea cham and both of them had spent lots of time with relatives and friends here. His death was a shock to *his many friends, al though he had been in declining health for some time. ENLARGE CITY DRUG STORE — Staff Photo Taylors Now Has Added Space In Front And Rear The above photograph will give you an idea of the new appearance of Taylor’s Drug Store, located at 1018 Roanoke Avenue, since the store was recently remodelled re sulting in added spacing both the front part of the store and the prescription department. Feeling the need of more space for customers of the fountain, one of the most popular departments of the popular uptown pharmacy, as well as needing more room and better working conditions in the prescription department, M. C. Savage decided to make the addi tion and utilized storage space lo cated at the rear of the store to give him the gain in space at the front. The result is one that is most pleasing to the eye as well as adding greatly to efficiency and working conditions. "While we haven’t gone in for any expensive or elaborate fix tures,’’ Mr. Savage said, in ex plaining the expansion program, “we believe we have made a move that will enable us to be of better and more efficient service to our customers, and after all that is what we are striving for.” Savage came to Roanoke Rapids from Rocky Mount, where he had been identified with the retail drug business for 11-years, in March, 1940, to take over the man agement of Taylor’s. He later be came the proprietor of the store, and operates it at present with the aid of three regular employees, with extra sales-help employed o ver the week-ends and during “rush” seasons. Alton Gurganus is employed in the prescription department while J. D. Edwards, popular local man, looks after the “front-end” of the store. Other employees include: Coyt Brown and Bobby Martin. Savage is a resident of Roanoke Rapids and lives with his family in the Chaloner Park section of the city. Miss Vera Bullock of Veterans Hospital, of Augusta, Ga., spent a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Bullock. Jack Erwin, P. D. Howell and Tommie Merritt of Arlington, Va. spent the week-end here. Miss Gracie Simms of Newport News spent the week-end here with her mother. -7 Plan Now - to take the family out to Sunday Dinner. They’ll en joy it for a | change and you’ll find it inexpen sive to dine at the Bakery Cafe Roanoke Rapids has voiced its instant approved of the new management at the Bakery Cafe. (We know, because our first customers keep coming back). We’ll be glad to serve you! Bakery Cafe Under New Management of — Mrs. J. C. Wells Mrs. Cary Massey Miss Cora Edmonds of Bruns wick visited her sister, Miss Hen rietta Edmonds, during the week end. City To Send Cop To War Traffic School --- » Edward Scheidt, Special Agent in charge of the Charlotte office of the Federal Bureau of Investi gation, announced today that in vitations have been extended to law enforcement officials in Hali fax county to attend a War Traffic School which will be held in Cha pel Hill, March 2-7. Mayor Kelly Jenkins said that one of the members of the local police force would be sent to the school, but had not yet decided which officer would be sent. This school is one of a series of six-day traffic schools being con ducted by the FBI in 120 strate gically located cities throughout the country. One of these schools is in progress at Charlotte this week, and similiar schools are scheduled to be held at Chapel Hill, March 2-7; Asheville, March 23-28; and Wilmington, March 30 to April 4th. The schools may be attended by heads of law enforcement organi zations and traffic departments of law enforcement organizations, traffic officers, officers who may assist or be in charge of convoy work, instructors of police train ing schools, police traffic accident investigators, and auxiliary police who have already entered on duty. —for your gratifying response and approval of our recent announcement of the fact that WE HAVE ENLARGED OUR PRESCRIPTION DEPT. and have also added to our facilities for giving you — THE BEST SERVICE at our FOUNTAIN and on all other services offered by this drug store .... We are happy, indeed, to reflect that our r e.c o r d in Roanoke Rapids is one of "GROWTH-by SERVICE!" and we will always try to merit the confidence you have placed in us by giving you — BETTER SERVICE and QUALITY | MERCHANDISE TAYLOR’S DRUG STORE Dial R-321 — We Deliver M. C. SAVAGE, Proprietor
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