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f 11 ▼ yj way we used to write items about folks in the good old days and we still think it could be followed to day . . Provided, the correspond ent did not try to guess who slept in the upper. Or guess at any thing. It can be added that Frank C. Williams made an early morning trip to his former home at Frank lin, Va. to visit his mother who is seriously ill. —o— What all our folks do is always interesting . . Visitors, for exam ple. How many times have you wondered who Mrs. So and So. had visiting them, where they were from, how long they would stay, what they did? . . Just a phone call to The Herald from the hostess would have satisfied that craving for knowledge . . In short, folks, you must be our news eyes and ears for the duration and help us to get these interesting news items in . . One short item like that is worth a dozen long proclamations and dissertations on the danger of the bottle bug. —o— two weens ago, we piannea to go on our annual fishing trip with a bunch that had rather catch up on sleep than fish . . We did not say eat . . Something happened which ruined that trip. Last week we had a chance to go Dn a big yacht (inside the war zone) and fish for big fish . . Something else came up to ruin that plan . . Next week, we hope at last to take a trip which is our dream for these many years . . A trip to Detroit to see the World’s Best Battle for Softball Championship . . Today we were handed the following telegram: Carroll Wilson assigned to Worlds Championship Umpire Committee. Wire Acceptance Western Union, signed. Amateur Soft Ball Assn. M. J. Pauley Exec Secy” . . We followed them with you for the past four years . . This may be the last chance . . Here is a chance to go with important ex penses paid by the Natl. Assoc . . Would you go? What will hap pen? See next week’s thrilling episode. Sept. 8 . . What a day . . Birth day . . Morning and only a card from the life insurance company which has an uncanny way of finding out . . Then noon . . big meal when school is on . .A steak with trimmings and two much needed shirts to replace the two Ernest has his eyes on . . which leaves two in case you school teachers want to test your figures . . and then a little bragging un til John Mullis comes in the of fice and announces with tones as red as his hair that on Sept. 8, he is a grandfather . . Whereupon Sept. 8 takes on a new aspect for we find that John is so old, the writer is so old, and the grandson a day old, almost. We started to write some more but here it is Wednesday and with the labor situation like it is . . our boys being called to the service and printers right hard to get . . we ^realize that we are too late . . For Wednesday and Thursday bring a flood of late news which cannot be set up in type in time to make the last runs . . and must he held over if important enough to hold over for a week . . Now that the war is on and help getting scarce will you help The Herald by starting to send in news items on Friday and Saturday and Monday for the next issue? . . After all, our read ers in the camps and in Panama and the Canal Zone and in the Pacific Islands and in England and Europe and down in Egypt get the paper a little late and don't care whether it was this week or last when they may be months getting the paper . . The earlier you send it in, the sooner they know what the folks here are doing and saying and think ing .. . MAN BREAKS HIS ANKLE ON FOOT REST L. H. Pearce is in Roanoke Rap ids Hospital with a broken ankle as the result of an unusual acci dent. Mr. Pearce was in a Wel don Cafe Friday night and while sitting at the counter put his feet under the iron foot rest. When he started to leave he made an awkward step and hung his foot his ankle broke under the strain. Mr. Pearce, who is employed by the Virginia Electric Power Co. of Roanoke Rapids, is resting com fortably and hopes to be home in a few days. MRS. NORMAN ENTERTAINS Mrs. S. S. Norman entertained at a bridge supper at the Club House in Halifax Saturday eve ning. The hostess, assisted by Mrs. F. W. M. White, Mrs. A. L. Hux, Mrs. Turner Stevenson and Miss Ursula Marshall, served a chicken salad plate to the guests. At the end of the evening high score prizes were given at each table. Those getting prizes were Miss Nannie Gary, Mesdames L. H. Pearce, Milton Norman, Wil liam Penn, Donald McCluer, V. C. Matthews, Arthur Gregory and Misses Ann Hale, Ursula Mar shall, Effie Avent, and guest prizes were given to Mesdames William Penn, and Donald Mc Cluer. Miss Elizabeth Coppedge, bride-elect, was also given a gift. Other guests were Mesdames Jack Whitehead, R. L. Applewhite, Pry or Rodwell, Milton Read, Sidney Griffin, W. R. Caudle, Gilbert Vaughan, Z. T. Cox, W. L. John son, P. C. Millikin, V. A. Parks, Hugh House, Caswell Shaw, Ju nius Tillery, Misses Myrtle Phipps, Katherine Wallace, Edna Camp bell, Sarah Jennings. County Officers Entertain Wives And Assistants On Thursday afternoon the men who hold county positions with of fices in the courthouse in Halifax entertained their wives and all other workers at a barbecued chicken supper. Hosts for the evening were Messrs. Harry Smith, Eddie Ricks, who also served as master of ceremonies, Meade Mitchell, C. S. Vinson, Sammy Dickens, Jack Whitehead, A. L. Hux, W. O. Lawrence, Harry House, Marion Inge and G. A. Hux Jr. Soft drinks, chicken, slaw and corn bread were served to the 30 guests present. SHOWER Mrs. Stella Wilson and Mrs. Ma con Radcliffe were joint hostesses Thursday night at a lingerie shower honoring Miss Maybelle Radcliffe, bride-elect, at the home of Mrs. Wilson. Contest prizes were awarded to Mrs. R. V. Hope, Mrs. William Poindexter, and Miss Marguerite Camp. Music was enjoyed through out the evening. Fruit cocktail, cake, candy and peanuts were served to the fol lowing: Mesdames M. H. Waters, Ft. G. Harris, S. J. Barnette, A. W. Lynch, R. V. Hope, S. J. Sadler, Bill Peede, William Poin dexter, T. B. Browning, Wylie Hawkins and Bernie Barnes; Misses Frances Grant, Maggie Lee and Rena Radcliffe, Blanche Dav enport, Mary Walter Shell, Mar guerite Camp, and Elizabeth Bar nette. WOMEN’S CLUB The Roanoke Rapids Women’s Club will meet for the first meet ing at 3:00 o’clock Monday, Oc tober 5, at the Club House. School has started and sidewalks and streets of Roanoke Rapids are again filled with our children . . Please be careful, Mr. Motor ist. Please drive slowly now when school turns out . . Children are so young and thoughtless. —o— More bicycles now than ever be fore makes the going still slower . . Motorists who still have tires and gas should be very careful . . they may soon be in the minority . . as a matter of fact, our supt. is seriously discussing the pur chase of horse and buggy . . and imagine it . . for business pur poses only. —o— Parents should continue to cau tion their children to be careful in using the streets for bicycle traffic . . Bicycle riders should observe all traffic rules, regard less of their age . . Two on *a bi cycle is most dangerous and a jury would probably refuse to con vict in such a case. * —o— Teachers are back with us and we welcome them with open arms . , (there’s something wrong with that sentence). The teachers are back with us and we welcome them. Supt. Charley Davis has not yet reported to this column exactly how many teachers are in the Roanoke Rapids schools this year but we can see from a casual survey that there are many new faces . . The teachers who have been with us in the past know how happy we all are to have them back home again . . The new rteachers will soon find that this is a place where they will soon feel perfectly at home be cause we are just as happy to have them . . While we have made no official check yet, our young spies at school tell us sev eral of these new ones compare most favorably with the latest crop of Movie Starlets . . Regard dess, this column joins with Roa noke Rapids in a real welcome to all of you. —o—■ Despite our advice, our paid cor respondents as well as the rest of you still send in items about the boys in service as if it were a social item about a business man . . “Mr. Lyle M. Wilson of Fort Bragg visited friends here last week.” . . NO . . Let’s try again. Private Lyle M. Wilson, now stationed at Fort Bragg in the Officers Training Corps, was here on a week-end furlough last week. His present address is Box X, Co. X, X Regiment, XXX, Fort Bragg, N. C. The boys in uniform know ex actly what we are trying to do . . To train you all to give their rank, branch of service, why they come home, how long they will be with us, and what their present address is . . Then everybody will be happier. (Which brings back this thought: as a paid corres pondent back years ago we never read anything in the newspapers except what we wrote . . so may be) These war times may yet turn us back to items which are short news items about what folks are doing (not bridge parties only) such as happening to report that Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kemp and Mrs. Frank C. Williams are visit ing relatives in Western Virginia this week while Frank C. and “Little Frank” are in New York on business for Big F. and pleas ure for the son who has worked hard this Summer in the Weave Room at Roanoke Mills No. 2 and gets a few days off before going back to the grind at Woodberry Forest. Will Manning, President of Rosemary Mfg. Co. accompa nied them up to N. 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