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Rosemary will send two men to the fourteenth State-Wide Safety Conference to be held at the Hotel Charlotte on May 20th, 21st, this week in Charlotte. Jimmy May field and Jay Sanders will be the men sent to Rosemary. Two full days will be devoted to dis cussing vital safety problems. The Conference is sponsored by the North Carolina Industrial Com mission. Mayfield and Sanders were both members of the Safety Class that graduated here in Jan. Announcement this week that Owen “Speed” Hux had been ap pointed District No. 1 softball com missioner to replace F. S. Kemp who has resigned due to lack of time to fulfill the duties was wel nrwnp. >!iQiy< here in Roanoke Ran ids. “Speed" has been connected with softball here in town since it started and is well liked all over the Eastern part of the State where he has played. He has com plete charge of the entire district and will appoint all City Com missioners in this district. We regret very much that Kemp had to resign as Commissioner of District No. 1. Frank has done a swell job, his district ranked third in total dues to the State Associ ation last year, and in addition has walked away with the State title four straight years. But other duties in addition to softball made it impossible for him to act as Commissioner. However he will continue as Secretary and Treas urer of the North Carolina Soft ball Association and still have an active interest in softball. OUR FIRST TRIP TO CAMP WHETSTONE Clyde Liske asked me to go out and act as judge on some of the various contests held at the new Boy Scout camp, the occasion was the District Camporee with Patrols from Littleton, Rich Square, Wel don, Roanoke Rapids, William R. Davie School and Camps Store .... The boys have a beautiful camp site . thanks to the interest and hard work of Don Tillar of VEP CO . Don deserves a world of credit for his interest and deter mination to see that the boys in this section have a camp site . well! he has picked an ideal spot drop out there sometime and look it over . turn left at Camps Store and follow the signs . its a credit to Roanoke Rapids . *********** The Veterans of Foreign Wars will be back on the job this Sat urday Night with another good old time square dance. The dances are getting better each week. The band gets tuned up around 8 P. M. and from then until midnight the crowds pour in the Armory. Music is by the same group of hill billy jive artist the Southern Melo dy Boys. Admission to all is the same.... Forty cents, and you get a swell evening of entertainment. PICKUPS N’ PUTOUTS Got a very nice letter from Melvin Dorsey of the WHITE WAY TAXI—Melvin is in the ser vice and located at Charleston, S. C.—He’s in the U. S. Coast Guard. Howard Pruden can be found at the Hotel Astor in New York this week—it’s_ that- National- Boy Scout Convention. -Home on leave this past week—O. B. Harris, Jr. who is a radio operator in the U. S. Nary—how’s about some more of that stuff O. B.—not bad? Russ DeBerry will definitely pitch for the Romancos again this sea son—if Uncle Sam don’t call him. The Romanco’s will open their season here June 11th with the Norfolk Navy Yard—not bad. Ro land Johnson claims that Clyde Holloman has the finest bean beetles in town. Adam Tolbert of Rosemary Machine Shop received a letter from Hurley Midgett this past week—from North Africa— said that he was talking with Joe Crawford, another local boy—bith says he’s getting on fine—Hurley boys are in the Army Air Corps —handling machine guns on a bomber—not bad! HALIFAX Sgt. Louie Millikin of Fort Bragg is spending a few days in Halifax with relatives. Messrs. J. M. Read, Swain Nor man, Junius Tillery, Silas Rowland and Walter Avent of Halifax were called to Warrenton Tuesday to a term of Superior Court as members of a special venire in a murder trial. Tillery, Rowland and Avent were retained as jurors, the others were permitted to return home Tuesday afternoon. Miss Barbara Coppedge is visit ing Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Pittman and family of Newport News for several weeks. E. L. Hillman of the First Metho dist Church in Rocky Mount will RETONGA A BLESSING STATES MRS. BURGESS - * Years Of Distress Relieved, She Can Eat Plenty And Take Pleasure In Her Housework Again, She States. Gives Retonga Strong Endorsement. Declaring that Retonga proved a *';essing to her, Mrs. M. S. Bur gess, well known resident of 119 Hardin St., Raleigh, adds her name to the hundreds throughout this section giving this noted herbal stomachic and Vitamin B-l medi cine their strong public endorse ment. I had suffered so much from nervous indigestion that I did not see how I could stand it much longer,” declares Mrs. Burgess. “My food just seemed to form a lump in my stomach and gener ate gas until I felt like the pres sure was going to cut off my breath. I felt badly undernourish ed, weak, and rundown, I was too nervous to sleep much, and mornings I could scarcely drag myself into my clothes. I was forc ed to take strong laxatives and everything I tried to do seemed a burden. MRS. M. S. BURGESS “Retonga relieved me in so many pleasant ways that I cannot find words to express my thanks. My appetite is much better, my food seems to give me lots more strength, and my nerves have set tled down. I sleep splendidly, and the sluggish elimination is reliev ed, which in itself is a blessing Retonga’s the grandest medicine I ever saw.” Thousands praise Retonga. Ac cept no substitute. Retonga may be obtained at Rosemary Drug Co.,—“The Rexall Store” (AdvJ hold revival services at the Meth_ odist Church in Halifax beginning Sunday night, May 23 at 8:30. The public is cordially invited to attend. Mrs. A. L. Hux left Sunday for several days visit in Wilmington with her mother, Mrs. S. A. Carr and other relatives. Mrs. Charles Hale has returned to Halifax from a 10 days visit in Scotland Neck with her daughter. Mrs. Junius Tillery and daughter are visiting in Oxford with Mrs. Tillery’s parents. Cam Matthews, son of Mr and Mrs. V. C. Matthews, is confined to his home with whooping, cough. First Sgt. Lacy Morris of Camp Alliance, Arkansas, spent the past week end with his wife and rela tives in Halifax. T~\ If /"'I_1_11 __ _cc w* YYUU OUX1CX ed painful injuries several weeks ago when she fell in her yard and broke a bone in her wrist is re ported to be resting comfortably at her home in Halifax. Miss Thelma Elliott of Hertford is spending some time with Miss Edna Campbell. Capt. and Mrs Boone Grant and small son have moved to Ft. Ben ning, Ga. where they will make their home until given further or ders. Mrs. William Penn and daughter, Judith, left Tuesday for Fort Sill, Okla. where they will join Capt. Penn and make their home. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Sharpe of Raleigh were visitors here during the week-end. Sergeant Eli Gukick and Mrs Gukick with their daughter Mar garet left Tuesday for Morristown, Pa. Miss Sara Cox of Chapel Hill spent the week-end here with her parents Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Cox. .. .. New Word In Northampton NEGROES EXPLAIN *j 'YOMPED'TO JUDGE Term Is Very Descriptive The Southern Negro has been credited with adding much “slanguage” to the English language, some of which has become universally used that one might almost expect to find the terms in the dictionary today. * — 1 ’ i - - i-i TVT^ .A. _ gro fracas in Northampton County resulted in heavy doctor’s bills— and an addition to the already over - crowded English language, when the affair came to trial in Northampton’ county recorder’s court last week. It seems that cases involving knives and clubs and fists and abusive language have long need ed a descriptive word such as “yomped” to tell exactly what force was used in what manner. Leslie DeLoatche, who suffered a bad shoulder wound in the battle of Hare’s School, introduced it Wednesday when he told how Shorty Darden “yomped” him in the arm with a pocket-knife. Later, DeLoatche admitted that he had “yomped” Shorty in the face with his fist. The term left nothing to be added; “yomped” described exact ly how hard and with what re sults the blows were dealt. It gave to Recorder Eric Norfleet a complete word picture of the tangle and he dealt out justice accordingly. A third man, Walter Martin, who threshed the air ineffective ly with a switch-blade knife while the Darden-DeLoatche melee ran its bloody course, was found guilty along with the other two of en gaging in an affray in wHTth deadly weapons were used. The three were ordered to serve sixty days in jail each or pay court costs and medical bills amounting to HALIFAX GARDEN CLUB The Halifax Garden Club held it’s May meeting Tuesday after noon at 3:00 in the home of Mrs. C. Hale. The meeting was ea]fcd to order by president, Mrs. F. W. M. White, followed by the reading in unison of the dub Collect. Mrs. R. L. Applewhite acted as secretary in the absence of Mrs. V. C. Mat thews. She read the minutes^ of the last meeting and called the roll^ to which 14 answered present. A program was given on “Roses”. Those taking part were Mesdames F. W. M. White, Turner Stevenson and Gilbert Vaughan. The host^ps served tea and cakes to those pres ent. The next meeting will be held in June with Mrs. R. L. Applewhite as hostess. I SHOPPING j 4 Effective WW l/f|l/^ | i jUNE2nd- ttL- tiilu I *1* *S* I •% »% ! BEGINNING WEDNESDAY. JUNE 2nd t | LEGGETT'S DEPARTMENT STORE i | WILL CLOSE AT 12 O'CLOCK NOON { i EACH WEDNESDAY THROUGHOUT I | THE SUMMER MONTHS OF JUNE, | | JULY AND AUGUST. £ ¥ ¥ i + YOUR CO-OPERATION IN OBSERVING OUR NEW * t STORE HOURS WILL BE APPRECIATED! $ || — | c rcttq! Open Until 9 L Li U L I I W | J O’clock Saturday DEPARTMENT STORE | jU4HMMl44.44444..M44.4^44.4.4-4444f444-4»4»444-4444*4.*4.*M.,hJ..t im t
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