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ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C, June 25. 1915.
Subscription, $1.00 a Year in Advance
Her
PLAYER'S CONTEST
NARROWS DOWN
PERSONAL AND
LOCAL ITEMS
Rev. Jesse Blaluek. of Conway.
i i t i- 1 9pent Monday in town.
Small Distance Separatet Leader in Race, De- j Mr3 FreJ M
cided Effort on Part of Any Contestant will Sunday from Williamston, where
Probably Land PrUC i she spent several weeks at the
I home of her patents, Mr. and
BONUS VOTES DURING s s "w;;n"
messrs. .1. i . t nase, t . a.
Wyche and W. L. Long motors.!
to Rocky Mount Wednesday.
W. L. Long spent the week-
TRl-TOWN LEAGUE
OPENED MONDAY
PLyi First Game Here This
Afternoon
BOOSTER TRIPS
FOR CHAUTAUQUA
CHAUTAUQUA WEEK
This week's standing uf the contestants is significant in that it
shows a closing up of the paps between standing of the different, end in Norfolk.
contestants. The finish is going to be interestinff. All of the , Misa Yetti Marks, of Greens
contestants, and especially the three highest are in easy reach of N ia here vjsjtjn(, .r
the other and it looks as if the contest had narrowed down to a , aunt'j Mrs ii. Marks.
fitht between these three.
The Herald d(Ks not care who wins the pzizes; iU principal con- J- lj- atterson attended the
opr., of n,,,, lies in the results achieved. One thing is dead ! meeting of the Cotton Manufac
sure and that is that the ground has not been thoroughly worked i turm Association in Charlotte
out yet. more subscriptions than have been secured yet can be got-1
ten by either of the contestants.
That contestant who gets out and goes to work and who goes to
work now before it is too late, is ths one who is going to take first
place.
Special Bonus Offer For Chautauqua Week.
During Chautauqua w eek, that is up to and including July 1,
double rotes will be given. In other words a club of ten new sub
scriptions turned in during this time will count for 200,000 votes,
ten renewals 100, 000 votes, etc.
Remember the contest is over now in six weeks, so it is up to
each contestant to get busy and do something.
The opening of the Tri-Town
League, composed of the towns
of Roanoke Rapids, Emporia and
t Franklin, took place on last
Monday, Roanoke Rapids playing
at Franklin.
The tirst game of the series to
be played here will be this after
noon when the Franklin aggre
gation goes up against Roanoke
Rapids. A complete schedule of
the League is printed elsewhere
on this page.
The Guarantors of the Chautauqua
have left do stone unturned and
no method uutrird in their
efforts to make Chautauqua
here a success.
WITH THE CHURCHES j QUUTAUQUA PEOPLE
wTi ARRIVED TO-DAY
Sunday School every Sunday ' RaiSf Handme and Commodious
Mr. lent ou Koanoke Avenue.
Chautauqua Parade and Tak-
ing of Chronophotographs
! Features To-day.
morning at ten o clock.
Whittaker, Stqierintendeiit.
Baseball Players' Popularity Contest
Below is given the standing of contestants according to votes
turned in up to Wednesday noon, June 23, 1915.
Clyde Mizelle 166.300
H.V.Welsh 106,600
Clarence Grimmer 89,900
N. A. Dodgins 36,150
A. G. Ausley 5,950
Ball Players Popularity Contest .
VOTING COUPON
50 v o r E S 50
If mailed or handed in before July 5, 19)5
NAME OF PLAYER
REPORT
Receipts and Disbursements of the Roanoke Val
ley League for the Season of 1915
KKCK1PTS
1916
Balance In Banks from 1914 Season
Interest on Savings Deposits at Rosemary H. & T. Co
May 1, Gate receipts
May 8, date receipts
May 15, (late receipts
May 22, liate receipts
May 29. (iate receipts :
June 6, (iate receipts
Julie 23, 11. W. Cherry & Bros., concession 0 games
NOTE: Gate receipts include sales of Season Ticket.
filSltUHSEMENTS
123.69
l.W
66.36
64.66
65.20
43.90
34.16
49 30
600
$424.30
this week.
Miss Sue Wutkins is spending
a few days here, the guest of
Mr. and Mrs. Wells. 1. Tillery.
Mortoman White returned from
Newport News. Tuesday.
Rev. W. A. Piland. of Mt.
Olive, was in town Wednesday
on business.
Messrs. Joe Williams and Beau
ford Stanley spent Sunday in
i Vultare, visiting friends.
Miss Josephine Tillery is visit
ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
; Wells. D. Tillery.
Miss Irene and Helen Ander
son, of Weldon, spent Monday
night here with Mr. and Mrs. L.
O. Anderson.
Mrs. J. H. Rook and daughter,
, of Garysburg, spent Thursday in
I town.
W. V. Woodruff spent Thurs
day in Norfolk.
I The Camp Fire girls and Boy
i Scouts will serve refreshments on
the Chautauqua grounds and in
. the Presbyterian Church parlors
during Chautauqua week.
' Messrs. Win. T. Hogdes and
:L. H. Cullom spent Thursday
in Norfolk.
; Miss Maude Henry left Thurs
jday for Oxford to spend a few
I days visiting friends and rela-
tives.
! Hon. Claude Kitchin was
in town Thursday.
W.J. Norwood went to Nor
folk, Thursday to accompany P.
V. Matthews, who has been in
St. Vincents Hospital, home.
Miss Vergie Parker, of Raleigh,
is here visiting her grandmother,
Mrs. Harriett Smith.
last Monday afternoon an
advertising parade was made
through the towns of Enfield.
Halifax and Weldon. Fight
automobiles bedecked and bedi
zened with Chautauqua ensigns
and pennants, carrying the
Guarantors advertising commit
tees and the Rosemary Concert
Bund made the trip.
On last Thursday afternoon a
similar trip was made to Little
ton and Thelma. This boosting
and advertising of Chautauqua
of course means the moating
and advertising of this com
munitv in everv town visited as
FEATS EMPORIA well as the country through
which the parade passes. That
will be productive of good in
letting other people know what
a live community we have, no
one doubts. It should also be a
Five innings and tour to noth-1 trade stimulant, tending to make
ing lor the visitors, four to two filter numbers of the dwellers
FIRST PERFORMANCE 2 30 10 DAT
Concrete evidence of the fact
that Chautauqua Week has corne
for this community is shown by
the erection this morning of the
STANDING OK THE CLUBS
June 1915
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Franklin 2
Koanoke Rapid 1
Kmporia 0
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Tight Came and Home Boys Had
Horse Shoes in the Ninth Frame
Methodist Chunh
Rev. Win. Towe, Pailor
Roanoke Rapids:
Sunday school Sunday morning
at 9:4.7. W. V. Woodruff, Supt. '
Baptist Church
Rev. C. H. Trucblood, Pator
Sunday School everv Sunday ; "" ana communions tent
at i: 45 A. M. W. S. Hancock, Supt. Roanoke Avenue next to the
Services at ll:(Hi a. m. and new Presbyterian Church.
'S:,KI ' M- This tent is SO x 130 feet, is
Prayer meeting every Weiines- ,lululsomey liUe(1 up, alK, j. ttl.
day night at eight o clock. , . . .
Choir practice everv Friday ramproot even in the
hardest storms. It is more than
what we ordinarily understand
Rosemary Baptist Church by the word tent, for it is almost
Rev. B. E. 0'Bero, Pailor ,a portable theatre. It has an
Sunday School every Sunday um'le stae fitted with dressing
at 10 A. M. W. R. Williams, i a'l will he brilliantly
for the visitors w hen the home
in
the surrotiuding rural dis
boys went to bat in the last half t(.icts tllke advantage of the un
of the ninth, and the fans get- ,,uestioned advantages we have
ting ready to pull out for home t otlVr jW a Conimeroiat center
and explain how it was did! , over any other town in twenty
We said the home boys had mjes (lt: nHV
horseshoes, probably we should
Supt.
Services at ll:IMI a. m. Sub
First Christian Church
Raleigh 1.. Topping, Minister
Sunday School at it : -1 ,
C. H. Speight, Supt. Services in
Rosemary Opera House Sunday
morning and evening.
M.
Presbyterian Church
Rev. II. V. Morion, Patlor
have said that Kmporia had lost
hers. Itng's error let Smith in
to home plate and that wasn't so
rank, but Gallagher's mutV at
short scoring Ausley was worse
thun nnt'ttiinu th steorul nine
ever perpetrated. It took the lVstivt' m,,i"K lilst Tu,'silav
af.i. ,,,rof H,Hl-'m, i t.m : occasion being an entertainment
Hap
Baptist Philathea F.nterlaiuoirnt
Mr. and Mrs. .1. H. Williams'
residence on Hamilton Street was
the scene of a very merry and
encouraged the home team ali ; iven by the Philathea Class of
it, nan cusj in uh mnvuui
Church.
The house was beautifully
decorated for the occasion and
the features of the evening's
entertainment were games and
music. Ilelieious refreshments,
consisting of ice cream, cake,
etc., were served.
Among those present were
Misses. Maude Wilkinson, Ixittie
1916
Keu. 27,
March 2,
March 2,
April 6.
May
May
May
May
May
May
May
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May
May
May
May
May
May
Mav
May
May
May
May
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May IS,
May IS,
May IS,
May 22,
May 22,
May 22.
May 22.
May
May 26,
Mav 25,
May 29.
May 29,
May 29,
May 29.
May 9,
June 2,
Juno. 6.
J une 6,
June 6,
June R.
June B,
June 8,
June S,
June 10,
June 14
June 14,
June 14
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Paid J. T. Stainback, for 1914 service
I'aiiTHerahi Pub Co., Advtg. & prtg.
Paid Dr. 11 H. Foster, work done for H. Fitts ...
Paid Herald 1'ub. Co.. 2 l-oose Leaf Hooks & tile.
Paid Will Snipes, Kepairs to Park
Paid Jim Snipes, Kepairs to Park .
Paid W. I. Vauirlian, Umpiring .
Paid C. W. Welsh, selling tickets
Paid A. L. Koberson. taking tickets
Paid M. M Kaison, stamps.
Paid H. W. Cherry ii Bros., balls, etc
Paid Herald i'ub. Co., pub. rules, prtg. A advtg.
Paid W. P. Vaughan, Umpiring
Paid W. j). Tillery. supplies
Paid W. E. WoodrulT, 2 weeks grandstand
Pawl C. W. Welsh, selling tickets
Paid A. 1.. Koberson, taking tickets ;
Paid H W. Cherry Ik Bros., balls
Paid W. P. Vaughan, Umpiring .
Paid A. 1.. Koherson, taking ticket
Paid J. ('. Smith, scoring
Paid C. W. Welsh ticket selling
Paid 11. W. Cherry Bros., balls
Paid T. W. Mullen, pro rata apportionment
Paid W. D. Pass, pro rata apportionment
Paid S. J. Bounds, pro rata apportionment
PaidJ. B Boyd, pro rata apportionment
paid R. M. Brown, lumber
McMurray, rent lor 1916
Cherry & Bros., balls, basea, plates..
Vaughan, Umpiring
Uoberson, Ticket taking
Woodruff, 2 weeks grandstand
Welsh, ticket selling
Paid J. M
Paid 11 W
Paid W. P.
Paid A. L
Paid W K.
Paid C.
Paid J.
Paid II
Paid I)
Paid C. W
r aid A. I
PaidJ. B
Paid O. C.
Paid A 1.
Paid H W
F. Welch, Umpiring
W. Cherry & Bros., balls
C. Fitts, Umpiring
Welsh, ticket selling
KoLelavli, ticket UtliLg
Zollicolfer, auto hire
Fitts
Uoberson. taking ticket!
Cherry A Bros , balls
Paid Herald Pub t o , prtg , etc
Paid C. W. Welsh, ticket selling
Paid A. B. McAlister. Umpiring
Paid W. E. Woodruff, 2 weeks grandstand
, Paid N A Dodging, con ipensa lion for injuries..
, Paid W. D. Tillery, supplies
, Paid Hancock-House Co., supplies
, Paid W. D. Tillery, supplies
Paid Dr. It. P. Beckwith, refund season ticket
Paid B. B. Taylor, work on grounds
Paid W. J, Norwood, refund season ticket
Paid Herald Pub. Co,, prtg
J. T. Sta'inack. 1916 services
Herald Pub. Co., Publishing this statement
Apportionment to Kosemary team
Apportionment to Patterwn Mills team
Apportionment to Roanoke Mills team
Apportionment to Koanok Kapids team
26.00
10.60
20.00
7.46
13 60
4.60
6.00
2.00
1 25
1.00
9.IU
20.16
6.00
4 02
1.00
2.00
1 25
7.50
6. 00
1.26
1 25
2 00
8.76
6.K6
6.85
6.86
6.86
28.00
12 26
36. 25
600
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2 00
3.00
12.50
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1 60
300
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2 42
1.60
7.60
1 60
2.70
12.60
6.66
13.83
13.83
13.83
13 K2
1124.30
Mr. J. H. King spent Thurs
' day in Norfolk.
Misses Clara Thompson. I rma
jandKunice King spent Thurs
day at Ocean View.
j K. B. Glover and children
I spent Thursday in Oxford
l W. C. Bass spent last Thurs
Iday in Norfolk.
S. F. Patterson attended the
: meeting of the Cotton Manufac
turers Association in Charlotte
' this week.
J Mr. Fred Henry of Suffolk Va.
i visited his sister Mrs. H. B. Fos
! tr Sunday.
; Misses Irma and Nita Boyce
of Rich Square N. C, are visit
; ing Mrs. .1. W. House.
! Mrs. V. P. Vaughan returned
last Tuesday from Richmond.
! Va., where she carried her little
daughter Alma for an operation
I for the ear.
J. L'. Loftin is attending the
annual meeting of the National
Di UKgiats Association in Detroit,
Mich.
Mrs. R. H. Rook who recently
had two operations performed
had to return to the Roa
noke Rapids Hospital on last
Wednesday night for another
operation.
Miss Fannie Greenberg and
Messrs. Jake Esterson and Joe
Williams spent Thursday in Norfolk.
tenth to bat in the winning run.
The features of the game were
River's stick work, four hits, one
of them u double, in five times
up. and Zollicolfer's work at
second.
Score: R H K
Kmporia 101 HOOlKIO 4 11 it
R. Rapids 000 002 002 1 5 11 2
Unttjpip fur Knitutriii KriuiSM
Rivers and Ung. For Roanoke (:n. Srah Stanley Mary Lan
Rapids. Cherry. Dodgins and i Lucy Barrett Mary Stan
arr ley, tannie Mr.ell, Mrs. P. 1.
- - Taylor, Cora Brantley, Anna
Rosemary Defeats Patterson Mills Ganoway, Rosa Harrison, Lula
j Brown, Lether Kdwards, Mrs.
Last Saturday's game proved ;J- K. Bucknen. Pearl Andrews,
to lie another defeat for the Pat-: M'ze". Margaret Hoskin.
terson Mills kiys. the score being lfs Williams. Ruth Cumins.
7 to 5. Full particulars of this Messrs. R. M. James, T. M.
game are not available. We re- Faison, Rev. H. C. Truehlood.
lied on getting this information M- r:- Faison, J. L. Price. R. L.
from Mr. Sorrell of the Patter- Barrett, John Sale, W. .1. N..r
son Mills team who failed to fur- wood. Taylor West, J. W. Brown,
nish same, therefore we do not rnk Williams, Joe Williams,
hesitate to say that we think lie and Buford Stanley.
must have been the contributing
cause to the Patterson Mills de
feat. We simply have to get
even with him some way.
Next Saturday's game at Rose
mary will be played in a fenced
lighted by olectric current fur-
ct: nisbed by the Roanoke Rapids
Power Company.
The seating arrangements are
all that could possibly lie expect
ed consisting of about 1150 com
fortable folding chairs. One will
not leave Chautauqua with ach
ing' back and consciousness of
hitherto unsuspected muscles,
that much is certain.
Around the entire tent will be
stretched a canvas fence six feet
high. Kverything possible wili
Sunday School at ten o'clock, be done for the comfort and ac
Morning service at 11:H) commodution of the Chautauqua
o'clock. Subject: "The lndispen- patrons. An arch of brilliant in
sable Book". Kwiiing service candescent lights will be stretch
at S;00 o'clock, Subject; "What ed across the Avenue at the lo
Sliall 1 Do to Be Saved? cation of the tent.
The complete schedule of
Chautauqua Week is published
; in this issue. Due of the most
interesting features of to-night's
Many of the complaints made 'performance, which begins at
by subscribers that their ,.it,lt .h,,,. wiH be the showing
telephones do not talk up ,,t- Chronophotographs uf Koa
und that they cannot hear or be mike Rajtids scenes, the 'parade,
hetrd. are frequently due to l i.row,!ti
improper meth. id of the suhscrib-, j,r ( A Downey, who ar
ers in talking into the telephone, j nvt.( Thursday, will be the plat
Some subscriberhilk "at it." j form superintendent of our Chau-
some "away from it." and si tiiuiiia anil will deliver a series
"as though the telephone did not i ( ,.t.llirM im children which,
exist." The proper way to use wm(l interesting to every one
a telephone is to talk directly in , u, .ars thHn, wj . of pei.u.
to thetransmitter. j liar interest and advantages to
Teleph. 'no engineers have made 1 1. moihc-s f the community,
elebtirate tests to show the elVect ! ''heir attendance is especially re
on transmission expressed in uuested on this account.
Speak Into The Transmitter
miles of No. Hi B. & S. copper
circuit from the varying distance
This community has the great
good fortune of being able to se-
or me
istance
of lips from the transmitter. (.llre Chautauqua, denied to
larger towns who do not wssess
the civic pride and progressive-
loss transmission .ss ,,f ,.. jt js now strictly
to o7 ni'lt'S, two t the oeoiile of th is eam-
inunity to take advantage in full
measure of the magnilicent op-
They are the authority
following ligures: Lips
one inch,
equivalent
inches I2S miles, three incite.
17'.- miles, four inches, 21S miles
Madge Dorsey
Death visited the home of Mr.
and Mrs. M. K. Dorsey in the
Patterson Mills village on last
It is true that the telephone , portunities otl'ered them during
has been in common use for a the next seven days,
great many years yet it is also a
fact that a large percentage of
telephone users do not speak in-.
to the transmitter. To do this
has a two-fold advantage; it en-
Miss Mary Cherry Entertains
Miss Mary Cherry entertained
park and with completed grand- Tuesday, taking away their little
stand. Work on fence and daughter Madge, aged nineteen
grandstand is being rushed and months.
the contractors have promised to Little Madge had been ill for
have everything in readiness by several weeks and her death was
Saturday atternoon. not unexpected, ineitoily was
taken on Wednesday to lrontown.
Mrs. Frank Joyner Entertains N. C, for interment in the fami-
; ly burying ground.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey 's many
Presbyterian Church met with friends in the Patterson Mills
Mrs, Joyner on Tuesday after-: village and elsewl.ere sympa
noon. The meeting was conduct- thize with them greatly in their
ed by Mrs. Wyche in the absence bereavement,
of our President. Mrs. Job Tay
lor. Plans were discussed and ( 'k awkoku C n'TACK Visitors
made for the serving of refresh- to0l.ean View. Va.. will find ex
ments during the week of Chan- (.f,1,,,lt ai.n,nim(Mutjlls t (he
lauqua here U-ginning Friday ('rawlord Cottage, near thei'avil
niKi.t. The Camp Fire Girls will jn Hotel and places of Amuse
serve cream one night. The Boy (I(.nt This cottage is in charge
Scouts one night and the Aid So- (lf Mrs Tna,, Mallhmu ,,(
ciety one night. The proceeds to 1! Mrfl Manning is
be applied where they are most we knnw t(J Inany of tmr reaJ.
needed by each society . Mt She is the widow of the late
The attendance was good and Tm(i R Mttniun? who waj UIie
other plans were discussed also. nf ttlH mu.t IU),.Hr ll(JW,TlflIlt.r
ables the person at the other end several of her friends on last
of the circuit to hear you per-i Wednesday night at her home in
fectly. and keeps, in part, at Roanoke Rapids. Rook was the
least, the "stander-by" from feature of the evening- which
hearing what you have to say. i was heartily enjoyed by all pres
The next time you talk local or ent. Delightful refreshments
longdistance, - speak into the ' were served by the hostess,
transmitter -- and ask the party Among those present were
you are talking to to do the Misses Kra Burnett, Iessie Bray,
same, and note the wonderous Mary Cherry, Flossie Smith,
change, and what a pleasure it is Messrs. Harvey Taylor, William
to "Gift the Miles withSpeech." Hodges, and Buford Stanley.
TRI-TOWN LEAGUE
Schedule 1915
The man with a cool million
always gets a warm reception.
After the nice refreshments the
society was dismissed to meet
with Mrs. Mosher next time.
Jack Slow buy - May I - er - kiss
you?
The Girl -What do you want,
written permission?
men in the State. Mrs. Manning
will make your visit very pleas
ant, and you will find at her cot
tage real home comforts with
the best cuisine obtainable and
rates very moderate by the day,
week or month.
At At At
Franklin KmM.riit R. Rapids
Franklin Read the ,K,ly , ,,! July lti. 17
Aug2,kTl.hV AugG-7
June'- 29 July 2,3,10'
Kmporia July 2t, 2 Herald for . .
Aug. 9, 10 at 21
June 21 22 'Doubleheader
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