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Roanoke R He APID RALD Volume I. Number 23. ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C.t SEPTEMBER 4, 1914. Subscription, $1.00 a Year PERSONAL AND LOCAL MENTIONS A Correction THE 1D1E RICH ROANOKE VALLEY LEAGUE GAMES Items of Local Interest in and Around Roanoke Rapids, Rosemary, and Patterson Mills TRACHOMA Covernmcnt Report of Investiga tion of a Rare Disease in North Carolina 33 Cases Found Treasurer's Report, Town of How Colleges Flatter Millionaires Roanoke Rapids as published in ' ,J n, Their flood Coin Miss Irene Andersen, has been in town visiting relatives this week. Mr. Ivey, who has been book keeper for the R. E. Shell Com pany for the past few months, has returned to his home in La Grange. The Ladies Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church will meet with Mrs. Job Taylor Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock. William Towe left Monday for Cary High school. Miss I.essie Buchannon return ed Friday after an extended j visit to her home in Junesboro land Wrightsville Beach. I Miss Nell Mercer has returned ! from a visit to Norfolk, Baltimore, land Washington. the issue of August 21, 1914. Outstanding Uncollected and Nt p.: J t . ( i o 1 1 ine u. t. muiic neaun ter- . . , ,,. i the sntmhr Am-i,.Un . n a r oo.o uweaa or lut.oi. i - vice sent an expert, Dr. A. D. A L. Clark' Magazine Stephen Leaeoek, who ! Foster, into North and South 3 & Treat is known as the Canadian Mark Carolina Lst fall to investigate "Twain, contributes another chap-! the extent and source of tracho-j A Statement 'ter of his "Arcadian Adven-i ; ma, a disease of the eyes. This tures with the Idle Rich." It is expert worked all winter and a take-off on the way colleges well into spring visiting some Replying to Plece that wa palaver millionaires in order to seventy one white schools and Published in this paper August get funda The millionaire in thirteen colored schools in North j 28th. of George Snotherly 's case ' hjg satire .g named Carolina. He examined over 12.- that I had aga,,, h.m I wi and the university ia plutoria 000 pupils. Only thirty-three ! y that I did not tell the sol.ci-, Universj of fc. h ft . it . 1 . i 1 t-ii t nor 1 nin nnr rn nv mm cr 1 . cases ot tne disease were touna, """" " North Carolina and one case l tor ne wa9 ine on,y one inai , saw the money and knew that I and Good Will Prof, and Mrs. A. E. Akers and children have returned from a visit to Mrs. Akers, parents at Mr. and Mrs. J. 15. Boyd left : Kim City, and Mr. Akers old on Tuesday for Charlotte where Mrs. Boyd will consult specialists. Mrs. Boyd has been suffering for sometime with a obscure of throat trouble. Miss Ruth Davis, of Atlanta, arrived this week. She is staying with Mrs. W. C. Alsbrook and will teach in the Graded Schools again this season. Rev. J. E. Holden, of Ridge way, spent Thursday night with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. House. home in Virginia. Prof, and Mrs. Akers, also visited in West Virginia. Miss Eliza Moore, of Green Championship in Doubt at Close of Season. Two Postpon ed Games Will have to be played to Decide. Roanoke Mills Leads and wiiljTie for Championship Honors in Any Event. Roanoke Rapids Defeats Rosemary Last Saturday 10 to 2. Pat terson Mills Defeats Roanoke Mills 3 to 1 in Hard Fought Game. in left it in the store and 1 was only 1 gone a short while and when I got back the money was gone, Now I had no need whatever to make a false alarm, ! for the money was mine to do as 1 1 please with it, and I had no STANDING OF THE CLUBS W L Pet Roanoke Mills 10 7 .588 Roanoke Rapids 9 8 .529 Rosemary -.8 10 .444 Patterson Mills 7 9 .438 Roanoke Rapids vs Rosemary in South Carolina. Of the thirty-three cases found in North Carolina, eighteen were found amonir L'U7 ouoils examin- ville. visited Mrs. W. P. Vaughan ed at the Indian School at Cher-, "u every 1 lum "uw 11 ".3- j sights with tie hope of interest ast weeK. okee. Xwain 1 nnntv. The hpav- 'u """ i"""6 n 1. t 1 . 1 iest infection amnno- the white 1 8D0Ut it rranK uooinson returned 0 Tuesday from Hamilton, where was in Caldwell County while he had been visiting reiatives lighter infections were found in r. t., i Cherokee and Mitchell Counties. iui uic Muai ich ecus. , rt : Li -c u v Only one negro was found to U1UUK"1 U1 YVU"UI"W,"8 "-"c ' busts of men Mr. 1.. ioue.e1iuus weeK have trachoma. That case was u' u ' '"'"and bare necks, and the edge of twirled the pellet for Rosemary, for Raleigh. N. C, where he has one of the pupils at the State ; to me and talked with me and j & toga cast oyer each i made hig firgt appearance in the , T , ,,, jieupuinuie o "Who would these be?" asked box this season. Johnson only iur rranK ooyner 01 weiuon 01 me supermienaeni 01 ruouc This case came from Wilson N. wisneu 1 wouiu wimuiaw we was in town Sunday. (Instruction of Wake County. C. j case, and as I expected to make Mrs. Charles A. Owens and ' Mr- Towe sPent the summer i n I Trachoma is a disease of the : this mv nome 1 wanted to be .Innntinn rioanoKe napius, oeing employed 1 eves and eyelids. It is usua v inenuiy wun everyoouj. 00 1 dent is Dr. Boomer and the prin cipal professor, Dr. Booster. Drs. Boomer and Booster are in the following passages taking Tomlinson around Plutoria Uni-l versity and showing him the! A bitterly (?) contested game ing him and obtaining a gift --one in which the Kosemary from him. Following is an ex- team played under hard luck, tract: ; The game was called by agree- "Here and there in the hall ment in the seventh inning with set into niche3, were bronze the score standing 10 to 2 in fav- with Roman faces or of the Rapids. Johnson, who How They Play Tomorrow Patterson Mills vs Roanoke Mills: (first Game) Roanoke Rapids vs Patterson Mills Roanoke Mills vs Patterson Mills I Tomlinson, pointing at them. i worked three innings children of Annapolis Maryland, andMrs. Jesse E. Har den and children, of Baltimore, are visiting in the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Welsh, Sr. All depositors will please bring in the savings pass books and have interest credited. First Na tional Bank of Roanoke Rapids. Mrs. J. B. Greene, and family left Sunday for Hoffman, where they will spend a months vaca tion after wnich they will make their home in Darlington, S, C. J. L. Anderson, of Canada, ar rived Saturday, and has accepted a position with the Patterson Mills Company. Miss Mabel McMurray is at home from a visit to Ocean View and Weldon. Mrs. E. H. Adkins and little son returned Saturday from Henderson where they had been visiting relatives. Miss Lucy Butts of Garysburg was here a few days this week visiting her brother Mr. J. G. Butts. Miss Cullon of Littleton is here visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Cobb. Mrs. J.T. Garner left this week for Raeford, N. C, to visit her father ! Mrs. Lucretia Webb returned home Saturday after a visit to relatives and friends at Aurelian Springs. Mr. N. D. Cox left Tuesday for Richmond, Va., where he has accepted a position. Mrs. ' Addie Speight after a months' visit to her brother in Greenville N. C. returned home Friday. Miss OJia Howell of Baltimore Md. is here visiting in the home ' of her aunt, Mrs. S. A. Brown. I Miss Annie Medlin is in Balti more this week, purchasing fall and winter goods for her milli nery store. . Mrs. M. V. Froelich has re turned home . after several month's stay in Greenville N. C. Mrs. Gay of Newport News Va. is here visiting her sister Mrs. Charlena Hart T. O. Vaughan of Weldon was in town a few hours Monday on business. Mr. Nick Jarratt, of Jarratts,. Va., spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Butts. W. F. Lee North Carolina Potato Patch re- by the First National Bank, and contracted by using the same so ut rom wnat tney Put his many friends here greatly re- towel, soap or wash basin used ' in tne PaPer does not seem a9 if gret to see him leave. He pre-' by a person having trachoma. 1 1 Ened much of their friend fers educational work to any The disease is rather prevalent sh'P- other however and his many among certain foreigners whoi I did not write this for them friends here feel confident that j come to this country. Recently a'one- I wanted the people to he will make good in every sense 'it has been found to be quite know I was not a man of that of the word in his favorite voca-prevalent in the mountainous 'kind. tion. Mr. Towe was Secretary of parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, the Board of Trade of Roanoke j Virginia and West Virginia. Rapids Township while he was Hence the investigation in North here and was indefatigable in and South Carolina. his efforts in the interests of Dr. Foster's conclusions that organization and he will be garding trachoma are: greatly missed by the members . 1. That it exists to some ex of the Board of Trade and others, tent in several isolated moun- j tainous sections of North Carli- "0BEYTHELAW" na- m ,,,,, I 2. That only in the Cherokee D ,. n j ,1 v. 1 c. I Indian School had measures been , ,utuU1 S u..uC. iu ,u. Jla- 1 taken t0 determine the usncs Law coming napiaiy j 0f the disease and control j spread. No less than six indictments I 3. That foreign immigration and convictions have been se-' played little or no part in intro cured within the last two weeks ducing trachoma here, under the new law requiring the ' 4. That the negro is practi registration of births and deaths. ;cally free from the disease. All these prosecutions were made 5. That present cases should against doctors who for one cause , be treated to prevent further or another had failed to reg-i spread of the disease N. C. State Board of Health. "Some of the chief founders and during that time he and benefactors of the faculty" held the Rapids down to only answered the president, and at eight runs. It was a great pity this the hopes of Tomlinson sank j that they took him out as he was in his heart. For he realized! just getting his control down t0 the class of man one had to be long to in order to be accepted j as a university benefactor. 1 "A splendid group of men, arej they not?" said the president, j 'We owe them much. This is a fine point. The features of the game were unquestionably Johnson's pitch ing, Sox's fielding and Teague's batting. Sox made only three errors during the game, but then the late Mr. Hogworth, a man of , he had only three chances: there singularly large heart.' Here he is no telling what he might have ister births. In mo3t cases the doctors acknowledged that it was a matter of negligence on their part, pure and simple, and expressed an appreciation of the value and importance of the law and promised not to be delinquent in such matters hereafter, In such cases an effort has been made to secure the minimum fine. The doctors .caught in the me3h of the law are as follows: Dr. A. A. Bulla, Davidson County, Dr. R. II. Morefield, Stokes County, Dr. J. P. Hoskins, Eden ton, Dr. Charles E. Cheek, Wake County and Dr. H. H. Cauble, Kannapolis. This law has now been in very successful, operation for the last eight months and all doc tors, undertakers, midwives and others having to do with it have had opportunity to become ac quainted with its provisions. It I will be readily seen that a partial John Lawrence Wicker j pointed to a bronze figure wear-' done had suitable opportunity ', ing a wreath of laurel and in-! arisen. As it was, he was on the Washington, D. C, Sept. 3. ' scribed 'Guliemus Hogworth, ! job every time. The North Carolina Irish potato 1 Litt. D. ' 'He had made a great I At the end of the third inning, patch contains 30,000 acres this ' fortune in the produce business ! the Rapids changed their battery year and total production will be ' and, wishing to mark his grati- J by retiring Hughes to second base annroximatelv 1.693.000 bushels. ; tude to the community, he erect-! and putting Hilliard in the box. according to estimates made to-' ed the anemometer, the wind dav bv the United States Crop measure, on the roof of the Reporting Board. The condi-1 building, attaching to it no other innings he pitched presence tjon 0j the crop js g2 per cent of condition than that his name ts nnrmol onH tho nrira at thonrea. should be nnnted in t.hp weeklv ent time is averaging around 96 j reports immediately cent per bushel. In Continental United States there are 3,708,000 acres planted bugg, who founded our lectures ', losing of Saturday before last's to this nroduet and this vear's ' on the Four Gospels on the sole ! game to the Roanoke Mills. production is estimated at 360,-'stipulation that henceforth any 614,000 bushels by the Federal , reference of ours to the Department of Agriculture. This Gospels should be coupled his name. "What's that after his name?" asked Tomlinson. "Litt. D., said the president, our Hilliard held the Rosemary team down to seven hits in the four This game closes the season as far as the Rosemary team is con - beside the ' cerned. They have no postponed velocity of the wind. The figure games to play offandtheir chances beside him is the late Mr. Under-! for the pennant ended with the After an illness of only a few days.John Lawrence Wicker.aged : two years, eldest son of Mr. and : Mrs. Charles W. Wicker, died at the home of his parents in Roa inonke Rapids on last Thursday ! at one o'clock. The little fellow had been sick only thirty six hour3 when the ' end came. Owing to the nature of the illness, membranous croup, a prompt interment ! was advised and the body was i interred in the Roanoke Rapids ! cemetery on Thursday afternoon at seven o'clock. The sympathy of the entire community goe3 out to Mr. and Mrs. Wicker in their bereavement. Time's Change year's crop will exceed the aver age crop of the past five years by approximately 4,000,000 bushels. The nation's produc tion last vear was 331.525.000 ' Doctor of Letters, bushels, was produced on 3,668,- degree. 000 acres of land and sold fori We are always hapyy For further information Four ; up is given below: with Rosemary: Cunningham, lb Dobbins, cf Cushing, ss Welsh, 3b and p honorary j Sox, If and 3b j Brown, 2b and If to grant 1 Johnson, p and 2b line- $227,903,000, or an average of 90 cents per bushel. - Burglar's Valuable Secret Mr. Manhattan who belongs to several clubs, walked into the police station, relates The Hous ton Post. "I hear," he said to the sergant at the desk, "that you have caught the burglar who broke into my home a few nights ago. " "Yes," replied the sergant. I "Do you want to see him?" "Well, I'd like to ask him how ; he got in without waking my iwife. I've been trying to do that for the last 20 years." it to our benefactors by a vote of , Collins, c j the faculty." ! McAllister, rf j "Here Dr. Boomer and Dr. I Booster wheeled half round and Totals, I looked quietly and steadily at the Roanoke Rapids: I Wizard of Finance. To both Hilliard, 2b and their minds it was perfectly plain ' Teague, 3b ; that an honorable bargain was 1 Mizelle, ss I being struck. j Hughes, pand 2b j "Yes, Mr. Tomlinson, said the Edmondson, cf ! president, as they emerged from : 0. Fitts, rf j the building, no doubt you begin j N. Fitts, lb j to realize our unhappy position. ! Purcell, c Money, money, money,-- he re-jH. Cherry, If peated half musingly. If I had the money, I'd have that whole i T, tals, building down and dismantled in , Earned Runs: Roanoke Rapids AB R H E 4 0 11 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 12 0 3 0 13 3 0 0 0 3 12 0 2 0 0 1 3 0 10 27 2 7 5 ABRHE 4 2 2 0 4 2 10 3 0 2 2 2 10 0 3 0 0 0 4 10 0 4 2 2 1 4 12 0 3 10 1 31 10 9 4 compliance with the law gives only incomplete and inaccurate ; A love sick young man in Ky. statistics which render the work Was turned down by a golden-; of all the others of little or no : haired dy. value. Hence the need of fully j For two years she's been wed, complying with the law from , And her hair is now red, start to finish. N. C. State And jilted young man says; "I'm Board 0 Health. ly. ! Cincinnati Enquirer. ! Business Changes Name John "Is she proper?" Jack "You bet; she is so prop er she won t accompany you on 1 a piano unless she has a chape ron." Boston Globe. J. H. Fort, is visiting here this week. R. B. Hayes leaves for Chapel Hill on the 3rd to enter the University of N. C. Hotel Waiter "Come sir, you really must go off to bed, sir. (Yawns). Why, the dawn's a-breaking, sir," Late Reveler-"Let it break and put it down in the. bill, wait er." Punch. Miss Nellie Wright after an ev tended visit to Miss Maude Thompson left Sunday for home in Littleton. ! No Seeker After Truth Having been sole owner of the friends ! business known as that of Webb ' "George, "said the wife to herj !& Jones, Roanoke Rapids, N. generally unappreeiative hus-j Dr. C. since I first came to Roanoke band, how do you like my new ; make Ranids. N. C but never havintr hat?" as to what changed the name of the said "Well, my dear, " said George, business until recently, 1 hereby with great candor, "to tell you'agnosis?" take this means of announcing to thptrnth. , n R"Nnt thnt a fortnight." j 5, Rosemary 0. First on Balls: ; Off Johnson 1, Welsh 0, Hughes !0, Hilliard 0. Left on bases: Notice ; Roanoke Rapids 5, Rosemary 5. j Two base hits: Hilliard 2. The following list of mail re- Struck out by Johnson, 1. Welsh, mains unclaimed in this office. 6, Hughes. 2, Hilliard, 2 Hit by Same will be held One Week and ( P'tcher: Hughes, Collins. Hits if unclaimed will be ssnt to the ' off Johnson 7, 3 innings; Welsh Division of Dead Letters. 2, 4 innings; Hughes 0, 3 inn- Respectfully, i'ngs; Hilliard 7, 4 innings. W. C. Bass, F.'m. I Time: 1:20. Umpire: Welch. Mrs. Mollie Battin. S. C. ! Daughtry, T. T. or L. T. Daniel, A Correction J. O. Gray, J. O. Hockaday, I This game was principally a pitcher's battle, Barnes for the Patterson Mills pitching proba bly the best game that has been pitched in the league this season, holding the Roanoke Mills down to two hits for the whole nine innings. Pace, for the Roanoke Mills, pitched a good game, al lowing only five hits. No earned runs were made on either side, three errors by the Roanoke Mills in the second inning, coupled with two singles bring ing in the winning runs. In the first inning the Patter son Mills scored one run, Daniel's, on Daniel's single, a stolen base, Barber's error and the throw home from Barnes' sacrifice fly to left field. In the second frame the Patterson Mills scored two more runs. Towe went to first on Johnson's error, to second on a passed ball through Barr and scored on Mosher's single, Far rell flew out to left field Kelley singled, advancing Mosher to third, and stole second. Daniel took first on Pace's error, advanc ing Kelley to third and scoring Mosher, stole second, Hayes popped out pitcher to first, Teague ditto. The Patterson Mills did not score again. The Roanoke Mills team tightened up and in only one inning (seventh) did they get a man as far as second base. It was three up and three down, only two hits gotten off Pace in the last five innings, Roanoke Mills did not score until the seventh inning. Klein got on first with an infield hit and stole second, taking third on Daniel's wild throw to second. Johnson grounded out to first. S. Barnes snigled, scoring Klein. Bland popped out to third. Pace whiffed. Roanoke Mills couldn't score in the next two innings and the game was won, Patterson Mills' half of the ninth not being play ed. Mosher's sensational catch in the ninth was one of the fea tures of the game. For more detailed information, reference may be had to line-up given below: Roanoke Mills: C. Grimmer, rf Hales, rf R. Barnes. 3b Saracene, cf and 2b Klein, If andcf Johnson, ss S. Barnes, lb Bland, If Barber, 2b Pace, p Barr, c Mode Henderson, Miss Murrah Hawkins, Jas. Wheeler, Mrs. A.-"Why do you always Ella White, MissPollie Ann Wil such particular inquiries liams, Johnie Oneal, S. M. Par ker, M. A. Pamer, Miss Willie P. Perk, Mrs. S. A. Smith, Miss Laura Thompson, Mrs. Lillian your patients eat? ! Does that assist you in your di- In the line-up of the Roanoke Mills-Rosemary game of August 22, 1914, Johnson of Roanoke Mills was charged with four errors. This is incorrect. Due j to a change of positions while the game was going on two errors j Totals, I Patterson Mills: 1 Daniel, c i Hayes, If Teague, 3b I Barnes, p Zollicoffer.lb Towe, ss I Mosher, cf , Ferrell, rf I Kelly, 2b AB R H E 3 0 0 0 10 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 110 4 0 0 1 4 0 10 2 0 0 0 10 0 1 3 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 33 1 2 4 4 112 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 3 10 1 3 12 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 2 2 30 3 5 7 t ri n i-iiitilin that tVia tiairl Hiiainaca iii vm thw ,)oto ho nH,.tri . Stop right there, George! If H en able3 me to ascertain their social Thompson, Miss Idia Underdow, ; which should have been charged Miss Kattie Johnston, Messrs 1 to Minton were charged to John- her . in the name of B. S. Webb. iAdvt 4t. you're going to talk that way 'position and arrange my fees ac- E. H. Johnston & Co., Miss Ethel son, Johnson and Minton making about it I don't want to know." 1 cordingly." Topeka Journal, i Mason, Miss Annie Poarch. two errors each during the game. Totals, Earned runs: None. Left on bases, Roanoke Mills 5, Patterson Mills 4. Two base hits: Kelly. Struck out by Pace 6, Barnes 9. Time: 1:30. Umpires: We'ch and I Pierce. ,4 - , : i K M .limn it'. - 'nin n TilIt