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apids Herald i Volume I. Number 37. ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C, DECEMBER 11, 1914. Subscription, $1.00 a Year Roanoke PERSONAL AND LOCAL t OUTSIDE CAPITAL INVESTS BAPTISTS DECIDE 4AI IF AY rniiwTV I IN REAL ESTATE HERE TO CALL PASTORS , NFWQ ITFMQ ! Inkout! for "Hreezy next Thursday evening. Point' Advt. Proof that Growth of Community One Who Will Give his Entire Time is Mrs. W. C. Haughtry and children deft for Durham Wed nesday to spend the Christmas Holidays with relatives and friends. Sound and Strong Evi dence that Real Estate Values Here Will Not Fall to Roanoke Rapids Church and One to Reside in Rosemary and Preach There Part of Time Paved Street Boost Values Rev. Jesse Blalock Resigns Miss draco Crumpler of Frank lin. Va., arrived this week and is visiting in the home of Mr. and M.s. J. L. Britt. Mr. Alston, of Norfolk, Va., spent a few hours here this week mi business connected with the Alston Furniture Co. Mr. Charlie Jones, of Scotland Neck, is visiting in town this week. That the steady rise in the value of real estate in this com munity is based on healthy The Baptists of the eonimmrty ire planning to take a long st forward in the enlargement of growth and expansion has long their church work in th is com munity. Instead of having on tastor, as at present, to divid his time between the lloanok ' Uapids and Rosemary churches, the Roanoke Rapids church plan to call a pastor to give his whole Hme to the work of that church. Hartford, Conn., who had never 1n the Rosemary church will been in Roanoke Rapids before ,an a pastor wno wjll ive jn Evidences of material growth Rosemary and'devote the great- and prosperity were so apparent .r part 0f his time to the church to this stninirpr thnl Vip flirl nnl ,.,.,1. i, u: ui u-ic. uii-u ma ictuiiu uiiuuiui.iiu.-iii ui l,;(, : ,, tf. . .... iican-iiiv iu niveau ui itai i.iiau been maintained by the progress ive and foresighted business men of this locality. Proof that they are right conies in the most for cible manner in the purchase recently of a lot on Roanoke Avenue by a gentleman from S iperior Courtin Session. Crimi nal Docket Cleared Last Week. Civil Calendar Being Il'ard. New Term of County Officers HON. JOHN H. KERR SPEAKS MONDAY NIGHT At the Regular Meeting of the Board of Trade of Roanoke Rapids Township in the Old Opera House at Roanoke Rapids INTERURBAN SIDEWALK NEAR1NG COMPLETION Clearing and Grading Work Com pleted and Cinders Have Been Dumped and Levelled Over Large Part of Sidewalk WITH THE CHURCHES 1 Baptist Church Everybody Invited To Attend Help Needed To Complete Caie Again' Gurkln Dismissed Ha has Joe 1'rown, after a month's stay in Danville, Va., returned this week. Rev. R. L. Topping, of Wilson, A. L. Clark spent Thursday out of town on business. Christian Church Gleanings Tl.: .., ,1 the Rosemary Theatre Building he tQ thp ftmount of $m,oa Sunday and Rev Jesse Hh Su,Hlaybothmormngand n,ht When B 8hrpwd Northern busi. Z i Tv Miss Mary Holder, of Dunlop, ness man jumps at a propositus ( both churches, has tendered his N. C, has accepted a position as like that, it is proof positive ; resiprnation, pondinp: the action book keeper with the Alston Fur- that real estate here is a good 0f the individual churches. nitureCo. . investment. The granolithic paving recent ly put down in Roanoke Rapids had a good deal to do with the Rev. Je3se Blalock attended the sale mentioned above, the pro Baptist State Convention in ; tiertv in ouestion frontinir on the Raleigh this week. new sidewalk. This fact ouht Rosemary opera house was well : Henry Curkin r.s his accomplice. H. E. Dobbing took a hurriec1 ' to he an additional incentive to filled at both morning and even- am) s (lm'u' generally hehevee trip to Gatesville this week, his ' the real estate owners of thi? ing services last Sunday to hear .through th s section that (lurkn iniiioaa twiror tVm rfi.iivoru nf a community to carrv the imurove- the pastor of the Christian : wai m rady miT" responsible negro prisoner to the authorities ments forward, and continue the Church, there. work of putting "Roanoke Rap- -Mr. Joseph E (Reporte-d) Despite the bad rainy day, c criminal docket of th ( oii.ty Si.perior Conn ( en clei red r.nd the civi ?u der 111 s 1 ecu taken up om ui ! rtar.t ca-es have com 1 1 j co! i t this time and it i the opinion of practic illy every bod,- who as a; tended that Judge Bon is the most lenient judgt that :i;is h.eld court in Halifax foi Ml 1 t;me. Th ' c;;. e of ti e State rgains Henr lluikir.s fi r being aecos sory b th ! efnre and after the fact . t e !i::;n'er of Thoma; Shaw .' V. Cobb has beei nol p s-si d with leave and goe; oirth ('.eld. Ibis case wil be remembered by practically all of the ciu, ens ot the community a? the entire eommur.ity was ir 'an up -oar of excitement at the timeo' the trial and executior of Cob ). Cobb confessed before his el 'ctrocutioii that he wa; tho guiltv of the murder and namee On next Monday night at eight I'ckvk, Honorable John H. Kerr, f Warrenton, solicitor for this Judicial District, will deliver an uldress before the Board of .'rade of Roanoke Rapids Town ship at its regular monthly meet og. This meeting will be held in the Old Opera House at Roanoke iupids, over Burnette and Jherry's store. Mr. Kerr's subject will be the .'ery appropriate one of "Oppor tunities of the Young Man of the South." Mr. Kerr is an able md interesting speaker and we vill feel sure there will be a large crowd of people gathered to hear him. Everybody is invit ed to attend this meeting, whether they are members of the Board of Trade or not, and a great many petiple will be sure to avail themselves of this opportunity to hoar Mr. Kerr, especially as it will be his first speech in Roanoke Rapids. The sidewalk between Roanoke Rapids and Rosemary, which has been talked about in the two towns for some months at last secerns to be Hearing completion. The work has been ilone bv the Rosemary M anu f acturi ng pany, the Patterson Mills pany, Roanoke Rev. Jesse Blalock, Pastor Services at Rosemary Sunday morning, at Roanoke Rapids Sun day evening. Bible School at 10:00 A. M., W. S. Hancock, Supt. Christian Church Raleigh L. Topping, Pastor Sunday school at Rosemary Com- Opera House at two thirty. Com- Come, C. H. Speight Supt, L. G. Rapids Power Shell Secretary. e ompany, mercnants 01 Uoanoke Rapids and Rosemary and others. The Rosemary Manufacturing Company have done more work on the sidewalk than any other one corporation or individual h o.Ovpa ; of the Gospel Theonlv thin, that remain to' Evening i rvices at the Peoples Presbyterian Church Rev. H. F. Morton, Pastor Services next Sunday morning; having started the work an t 11:15. at the Rosemary Opera completed a good deal of it them-, I'0ULse l' "The Jubilee bedonenowis to have cinders hauled, which can be gotten from any of the community's manufacturing plants, dumped on the sidewalk, levelled and rolled down. The Rosemary Manufacturing Company eiH'er to roll the sidewalk provided the Theatre at Roanoke Rapids, at 7:H0 P. M. Subject: "Faith, What is it?". Methodist Church Rev. Wm. Towe, Pastor services HONOR ROLL Mr. Goodman, of Petersburg, i spent several hours in town ' Thursday. j P. G. Flynn and family, of! Raleigh, have moved here to live. : Mr. Flynn has accepted a posi tion with the Rosemary Manu-1 faeturing Company. Miss Goldie Lister, of Green ville, N. C, who has been visit ing Mr. and Mrs. J. W. House, returned to her home last Mon-1 day. The Presbyterian Ladies Ait" Society meets on Tuesday after-; noon, December 15, at three j o'clock, with Mrs. Job Taylor. Mrs. Margaret Manning, ol . Richmond, Va., is spending sev- eral days here this week visiting j friends. Lucious Cullom, of Rosemary, j has accepted, a position with W. ; G. Lynch in his jewelry store ai ; Roanoke Rapids. . j Hancock-House Company wil 1 ids on the map." Johnston-House The Baptist church was the j scene of a beautiful wedding Wednesday morning, November 25th, when Miss Estelle House becam e the britle of Mr. Julian .VI. Johnston, of Littleton. The decorations werecharminp in their simplicity. A back ground of green foliage extended to the ceiling, with potted ferns ind white drapery effectively :arried out the color scheme of jreen and white. Before tN .eremony Miss Hattie Leggetl at the organ and Miss Louise Futrell with violin renderec several selections. Mrs. Ather- :on Johnston, ot Littleton, sanp "I Love You. " and Mrs. VV. H. vicDowell sang Whisper And 1 time and the occasion. vV' ill Hear." On Tuesday night after Christ- Promptly at 9:30 the wedding nas there will be a big Sunday narty entered the church, to the School social held at Rosemary nusic of Lohengrin's wedding i.'or the Sunday School students. narch. for the murder of Thomas Shaw Cox conducted than was Cobb. the Christain Endeavor in the Other cases (lispo-e, ;1 were as : gallery of Rosemary opera house, follows: Alex Maddrey, a sault, ' A large crowd was in attendance. P'od gu hy, three months or, Mext meeting will be held first county roads; Elgie Johnson, Sunday evening in January, 1915. larceny, lei guilty, thirty days; Mr. L. G. Shell is le'ader. on county roads: Bonnie Walston, One hundred and fifty-seven carrying concealed weapons, $10. ittended the Christian Sunday 0,1 "np i"1'1 l'(,sts: Lonnie Whitley, School last Sunday afternoon. carrying concealed weapons, Mrs. C. H. Speight handed in l'h'd guilty. 10.wi line and costs: i nice sum of money which she ' Moses Hal1, larceny, verdict of had secured to be aonlied on ' guilty, thre months on county Seventh and Eighth Grades Seventh Grade: ' Estelle Hamlet, Eugene Lehman, Clyde Taylor. 98 87 Sundav mnrn in r aorvinaa rt cinders are dumped and levelled Roanoke Rapids at eleven o'clock, on same The public is request- Subject "Religion in the Home", eel to help in any way they can Sunday Schoo, at 9:45 M in order that this sidewalk can w. V. Wooduff. Superintendent be finished before bad winter Evening Services at Roanoka weather sets in. If you have a Rapids at 7:30. Subject: "Tuber team you can spare for a day, its culosi9t It3 Cauge8 Prevent()n work on the sidewalk will help anj Cure" .1.. r, ! , ' greany. e oniriuuuons towarus Sunday School mring learns anu moor will be Sundav gladly received by Mr. R. L. Towe, at the First Nationa i)Y of Roanoke Rapids. 9ti 95 90 95 juilding the Christian Church, roads: M. K. Jacobs, selling liejuor, The funds are steadily increasing. verdict of guilty, $15.00 fine and Vlr. L. G. Shell is treasurer of ! costs; Will Bailey, carrying con the committee. Any contribu- cealed weapons, pled guilty $10. tion will be highly appreciated. 00 fine and 1 1 sts, Matthew Allen. The Christian Sunday School carrviiu: o iceale I weapons, plot .s planning a big rally-day, the , Kuilty sixtv ,,.lys oa the coanty Hint ouiumv ui uic iicv itdi They have set as their aim to have five hundred present on that afternoon. Don't forget the First came the ushers, Messrs. dwin Gray, of Littleton, and Rav Bovette. of Scotland Neck: be closed on Christmas Day anc ; James Loftin, of Rosemary, ane Horner School at Charlotte the Saturday following. Will open again Monday morning, j We respectfully request that out customers will place orders foi their needs by Christmas Eve. t Advt. On Thursday evening, Dec. 1 17th, 1914, there will be given i , play by the graded school facul ty in the Peoples Theatre. Ad mrssion, 50, 35 and 25 cents. Alter the play moving picture will be given free. -Advt. foe House, of Scotland Neck. 'Mowing them were the little Utendants, Misses Elizabeth launey, of Scotland Neck, and Irace White Savage, of Rocky The Horner School has a dis tinguished history and is now advancing to gre'at prosperity in its new home at Charlotte. In .he fire at Oxford the school records were destroyed and to dount, daintily attired in ac- restore this loss a list 6f the ordin pleated dresses and carry- former students will be published ng baskets of roses. Next came in the next catalogue. All the Jessrs. James Livermon ano 0ld boys are requested to send rheo. House, dressed in charm-' j. j. Horner, Charlotte, N. C, ing white serge suits. Follow- their present address and the ;ng them came Miss Salhe Mae , names of the members of their Josey, the maid of honor, dressed casg and date o. attendance, m white cloth costume and black 1 : roads; Elijai Anthony, trespass, ', pled guilty, sixty davs on countv I roads; Luther Powell, larceny, pled guilty, eighteen months on county road-f De.it Herbert, as sault, pled guilty, $10.00 fine and costs; Bad i aye, assault, pled guilty, four months on county roads; Joii Iarris, a rying concealed weapons, pled guilty, thirty. days ) ouniy roans, to be held f jr s e .i of No-tl amp ton county; George Martin, lar ceny, pled g li ! i.ie months on county roa s; Henry Arm stead, assiult and battery, pled guilty, $50.10 line: Albert Hop kins, distur i i ; ublij worship, pled guilt.-, e nun, tns on county road , s. rob! ery, verdict of g .i . v years on county road All of the newly elected county Eighth Grade: Sallie Medlin, Reba Upton, Ruby Short, Doyle Cannon, Pauline Ashworth, Stanley Welsh, Miss Belle Graham, Teacher. The requirements for this Honor Roll are rather strict and the bov or irirl whose name an- froln Rosemary - - n --r pears on same is worthy of com mendation. The requirements are: an average of 95 on recita tions, not over three absences and one tardy during the month, and satisfactory deportment. Bank at Rosemary morning at 9:45, J. B. Boyd, Superintendent. Evening Services at 7:30, con ducted by Wm. T. Glover. Come and worship with us. WINNING HONORS This sidewalk will be a great thing for pedestrians who are now liable to injury from the many cars constantly travelling up and down the avenue. Espe- cially will the sidewalk be a State's Health Exhibit Wins First great thing for the small chil-; Honors in Florida dren who walk it twice a day to the Graded ,.. - . School. l7 ' c 1. . "' iwin Carolina to tne iront i It is certainly to be hoped that funds and teams for the small amount of work remaining to be done can be secured promptly and the work pushed forward to completion. ROBESON COUNTY HEALTH officers took the oath of office at Ialifax Monday and entered ipon their respective duties. The county board of commission ers organized and elected W. R. Harvey, Chairman. The other nembers of the board are W. F. Morner, J. E. Branch, S. T. Thorne, S. G. Whitfield. Geo. C. .Ireen was re-appointed county attorney and W. B. Drewry was re-appoin ed superintendent of the county Jiome. i picture hat, carrying white chry- j .santhemums. mi- . i 1 . 'cu-fi, i;h',.:,i..( tu men came me urine wanner. I he Ladies Aid Society-of the . bpoth Mr John w q . Rosemary Baptist Church have , pu)Unok0 Rapids, who gave her I opened up a bazaar in the new! away. She was met at the altar building of Moore and King ; by the groom, who entered from where they have plenty of some- j the side door with his best man, thing good to eat and many other ! Writer ttoj. things for sale, the proceeds to .m)ressive ceremony, pronounceo be placed to a most worthy cause, the werds that joined theii n w ii- t . .u,i lives. The bride was dressed in Rev. William Towe preached a . a handrtome blue cloth suit and most powerful and appreciate, carried a bouquet of bride's roses, sermon Sunday morning in the , Mrs. Johnston is the youngest Rosemary M. E. Church to the daughter of Mr. John House, of local lodge of Odd Fellows. All Scotland Neck, and is loved by .. , ,., her friends here and throughout who attended this service wer, the Slate for ncP swm and at. well repaid and many have said tractive lisiMsitiun. it was erne .of the best sermons Mr. Johnston is a man of storl thev had ever had the pleasure ' ing worth and splendid business of listening to- Notice Advertised list of mail at Roa noke Rapids Postomce. Mr. W. T. Collins, Mr. Willie Jeams, Mr. Edmund Lemay. Mrs. Anty Robertson, Mr. James Per-j Johnston, of Littleton, and Mrs. tiller, Mrs. Mary Pinkham. R. L Savage, of Rocky Mount. ability. The popularity of this young couple is attested by many . handsome and valuable wedding gifts.They left Wednesday morn ing for an extended trip to Florida after which they will be at home in Littleton. Among the out-of-town guests were: Mr. and Mrs. (J. B. Crews, of Rosemary; Miss Onie Leggette, of Hobgood; Miss Goldie Lister, of Greenville; Mrs. Atherton We arc All Going to Give Christmas Presents "! Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without them. The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of cordiality, of good will, of friendship, and this spirit is fitting ly expressed by that thmightfulness of others which prompts the Christmas Gift. :' " In this, our Christmas Shoppers Fdition, yon will find much of the Christ mas Spirit it permeates through. the columns of reading matter into the advertisements. T Read the ml eriiseineiiis rareiully they are the printed sales talks of the progressive business houses of our community. The stores of these mer chants are filled with Christ nuts Gift articles at value's that surpass, we be lieve, those ( tVered in any other community anywhere near our size. You can depend upon the goods advertised in these columns the merchant who advertises is the merchant who is trying to build up a reputation in the emly permanent way there is -by giving good service, honest dealing and true value for every dollar. "I We believe these advertisements will help you solve the problem of what to give and where to buy it - we believe your reading them carefully wtll save you time and money. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. again. This time its in public health matters at the Southern Health Exhibition held in this city in connection with the meet ing of the American Public Health Association. The health exhibit made by North Carolina was well ahead of that of any other Southern State. This was WORK PHENOMENAL the verdict of every visitor to the exhibition and there were about 14,000 of them. Many of Death Rate Reduced One Third the prominent health officials from Canada and our Northern Robeson County has reduced and Western states expressed its death rate from 18 per thous- surprise that the South and es and to 12, Considering that the pecially North Carolina, should county has only 45 per cent white ; be forging to the front in health population, 55 per cent being work so rapidly. In fact many indians and negroes, and that expressed the feeling that North the death rate of the negro is Carolina's exhibit not only ex over 40 per cent higher than that ceeded any other exhibit at the of the white, and that in Exposition but it also exceeded illiteracy it is 29. ti while the whole any other single exhibit at the state's is only 21.3; and, further, International Congress on School that its area is larger than that Hygiene held at Buffalo a year of the average county and lies in ago and had but few peers at the malarial district, the record the International Congress on it has made in health work for Hygiene and Demography held the past three years, or since it at Washington tvio years ago. employed a whole-time county , North Carolina's exhibit is health officer, is marvelous. divided into four parts, one on To the county it means that patent medicines, one on tuber there has been a saving of oneculosis, one on child hygiene and hundred lives every year or, in one illustrating the progress of money value, $290,000, since the health work in the state, employment of a whole-time The Southern Health Exhibi health officer. What is more tion closes this week and North remarkable, the death rate from C irolina's exhibit will be return preventable diseases has been ed to Raleigh. Hereafter it will reduced 70 per cent. That from be loaned by the State Beard cf malaria alone has been reduced Health to any convention, club. 75 per cent. fair or other organization that wishes to use it, free of charg, provided packing and tranaporta Notice tion charges are paid. 1 1 hv m qualified ns wtininislrHtor of the estate of the late J. C. Kelly, this , is to notify all persons having, .-lain.s .. nrnm,t tK.t r,VI .. against said estate, to present them be- i r -...... ..vn, u fore the undersigned duly verified on Smoke if she WOuid marry me," or before October 30th, 1H15, or this :, tu AanwnA 1 !,:., notice will be pleaded in bar of their i Sald . dlSCOUrged-lookin recovery. 'man. "What did she say?" All persons indebted Ui said estate . cu i i . i . i uiic icauuKCU U1BI HU. UIU 1101 care to be utilized as an excuse i for any personal economies I might contemplate. "-Washington Star. will please make immediate payment to j This the 30th day of October, 1014. a. r. r ATTEKSON, Alim. - of the Estate of J. C. Kelly. Jw. L. Long, Atty. 10-30-6t. 1 'f n 1 H 7 it i i :4 It M $ a. X... lfchlll.ll .
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