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Rapids f A TVTT.X Volume HI. Number 35. ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C, NOVEMBER 24, 1916 Subscription $1.00 a Year in Advance R Herald MOTHERS' DAY EXERCISES WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29 IKE DAY GUT Of 365 FOR THE OilPli.ttS The simple fact that there is' no one word in the English language? that will cause m-ws-paper readers to hesitate long .... enough to consider a suim-ei in EVERYONE IS CORDIALLY INVITED which they are not particularly ! interested, is the sole reason w by - The custom of observing Parents' Day in the Graded School : there are in North Carolina to- fean Petformance by One of the Best Minstrel Companies on the Roid Interesting Program Arranged for Central Schools at Auditorium and for Rosemary School in Rosemary Building was instituted here hist year but it was found that only the mothers day thousands of destitute orphan Attended.. For that reason it ha3 been decided to call it Mothers i children who cannot be admitted Mammouth Mill Will Locate in Roanoke Rapids in Near Future ROANOKE RAPIDS PERSONAL AND LOCAL ITEMS A SPLENDID SHOW Day. This is to be held earlier this year than last with the possibi lity of having a second one in the Spring. The fact that it is to be Mothers' Day does not preclude the fathers from coming and any one who is interested in the school is cordially invited. Wednesday November 20th, has been set aside as the date for this celebration. A short program is being prepared in both, such an increase in the gifts for schools. There will be an exhibit prepared in each room so that; this purpose that not one of the the mothers may be able to get some idea of what has heen ac- j little ones would be longer un- comuhshed during the fall. The invitations have been prepared; provided tor. by the children as a part of their work in English. Each child is preparing an invitation for his own mother. 2 A program of about an hour has been prepared. I These exercises will begin at 1:30 P. M., sharp. The exercises at the central building will be held in the Auditorium; at Rosemary in the Advanced First Grade Room. The program, are as follows: CENTRAL BUILDING Thanksgiving Hymn "Come Ye Thankful People" School Thanksgiving Proclamation - - Roger Warren How Thanksgiving Came to be a National Holiday Doyle Cannon Mothers' Dav : Lunette Stinson History of the Pilgrims Indian Cradle Song intoour orphanages because there 1.1 t,n 11. .1,1 Till t 1 1.1,(1 lTiii1K,uliill1- ably, if the mass of our ,.,.,Ih '"'hus, warcn me could be brought to understand Httraction at theCallipolis theatre this situation, there would he Saturday Twenty Tboiuand Spindle, Eight Hundred Foot Cotton Mill, Pro posed (or Erection on Jackson Street Roanoke Rapids Power Company to Build a Hundred Thousand Dollar Steam Aux iliary Power Plant VULTARE ITEMS It matters not how or why the.-.e children have come to the point of need. The condition remains nit ht, the DeRue Minstrels, was one of the most c . v "i offerings Manager Kauf man has ever bouked for the local play house, and was headed by i'illy and Hobby DeRue. The DeRue show will receive a warm TO ROANOKE RAPIDS that many of them are without welcome on their return date to I sufficient food, sutlicient cloth ing, or sufficient care, starting out on life's journey under a handicap that is unfair to them, to say the least. For the contin ued existence of this condition, brethren, we are about to tal e the responsibility. What are we Josephine Hege going to do about it? Men and Erma Cranwell I women ot North Carolina! with Gallipolis. They have one of the best minstrel shows on the road, j cotton mill, employing hundreds The performance was par excell-of people and adding at least ence;' The band led by Bobby two thousand people to the DeRue was one of the best ever ! P0Pult'on ot Roanoke Rapids Mr. W. A. Vincent spent the week end in Ebony, Va. R. H. Gray was in Roanoke Rapids Sunday on business. Rev. M. Y. Self and family spent Sunday night in the home of J. A. Vincent. Mr. and Mrs. Vaden Wynn spent Sunday in the home of R. W. Vincent. They were accom panied home by Mrs. Lena Wynn who will spend some time. William Vincent and Miss Riche, of Ebony, motored to i Lawrenceville Saturday to wit A twenty odd thousand spindle ; ness the basket Lull game. W. T. Tillar of Emporia, was in Vultare Monday on business. The Betterment Association j WILL ADD 2,000 PEOPLE Wilbur Anderton Dialogue Thanksgiving in the Farmyard Ray Edwards Paul Vaughan Katherine Jackson Otis Connor Willie Tripp Reva Killebrew Beulah Vaughan Thomas Robinson Johnny and the Pumpkin - - - Ralph Butts Gentleman Gay's Thanksgiving - - Fleeta Marks iThanksgiving Song School ,A Thanksgiving Victory - - Nellie Crutchfield Dialogue The Story of the Pilgrims Martha Daughtry Julia Batton Lorena Evans Emma Smith ' Georga Felts Hinton Faison Howard Stinson What I'm Thank ful For Little Pumkim's Thanksgiing A Turkey's Soliloquy Thanksgiving Day Song Inquisitive Children Erma Hinson Agatha Moore Wilbur Wicker Mary McAllister Thanksgibbin .... Exercise Our Country Maud Jones Irene Hinson The Best Days The Loaf Thanksgiving at Grandma's Dialogue Thankful Children Blonnie Taylor William Edmonds ' Hazel Ezelle Hubert Lowder Play: I'd Be Thankful If - Seventh and Eighth Grades Thanksgiving Song . ... School ROSEMARY BUILDING Welcome Song - - - First Grade B Section notmirc. . Orlelia Rlpdap Thanksgiving - - - Ernest Whitakerj following The First Thanksgiving (Dramatization) - Ten Children 1 A Grade or withoutchildren of yourown), ' will von he willinir o sit down to ; m-u..i....;..:.. .i: . .i.;.Jlja"v . ..a.,B h.K u.m.c. i. , ; j j, year, unmoved, with the consciousness that there aer thousands literally thousands of helpless orphans in our good 1 State who have not the actual i Rev- and Mrs- M- Y- Self necessities of life: thousands of aVnt Tuesday night in the home ... . . i v x r i. n -i i heard in this city. The company, j is a by no means unlikely devel- l vuuare acnooi. which spent Sunday here at thePnient in the near future. The Messers R. 11. Gray and Wm, I Hsaimr hotel was composed of; matter is being considered; so; Vincent spent Sunday evening one of the most genteel and ! seriously considered that the with Misses Vincents. clever set ot theatrical men that ; dimensions oi me proposed nun ever visited this city. This Com- will appear here in the Garysburg Items have been worked out, severa desirable locations selected, power arrangements entered into, and a temporary organization is in process of being effected. The community receives this magnificent addition to its manufacturing industries due to the efforts of Messrs. S. F. Pat- J. A. Vincent spent Wednes day in Ebony on business. Mrs. R. E.BairdandMrs.King spent Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. C. W. Vincent. Carter Watkins, of Emporia, was in Vultare Monday on business. needy, neglected children asking ; am. weu : CA Wvcheand W L Lomr' Mr Gray and Miss to be received into institutions ' (-vs h,int" I ' V .. , ! Blanche Vincent were in Roanoke iu oe rcceiveu mio intauuiiouh , in interesting capital in the pro-1 D , , , , whose appeal the authorities arej Charlie Floyd, we are sorry to!position and a,soto the gratjfy. i KaPlds Wednesday evening, forced to deny because of limited ; say, is on the sick list again. j ino.p. ijuprai cn.mprs,t-Cin ,in th : A number of people from this Mrs. Henry Gray and daughter, 'of Richmond, spent last week in housing facilities; of insufficient food to sustain them; of in . ,,,! , i i , this community with her brother ; cessions as an rrancis weicnanu inai you nave none noiiiiug: j.. Auburn Daughtry to help correct it? Can yon J s s 1 j realize that such a condition is The community was sadly Mary Jones actually staring the people of j shocked on last Sunday when Claude Brown North Carolina in the face? Is it ! they learned that the soul of Ruby Stainback not enough to touch the generous : Mrs. W. M. Jordan had gone to Francis Hamilton j impulse - to move the sympathies : be with the father adn loved Beatrice Underwood more quickly than any other one oes. She leaves a husband, one i rhino-? little girl, and tive step children Bernice Peel Louise Jackson Gertie Wheeler Roxie Gregory part of the Roanoke Rapids Place expects to attend the Power Company in making con- "Birth of a Nation" Friday eve- inducement for nmB- locating here which amount to i Messrs. J. M. Ingram, Robert practically seventy thousands of Cleaton and C. Gray, were in dollars. ; Roanoke Rapids Tuesday. The character of product to be manufactured and the exact time x New Sickness Survey at which building operations will be commenced is still unknown.. Lfl3t April "the Metropolitan The mill, it built as at present , if. TnQronpo rnmnBnv ma,4a 0 iTtitmii tituii u'l fiti q (Ait r otirhr .... Ti,fl inmmj .if i .I'jv' fii.im tha : to mourn tlie loss. May the Uod . . . , , , moruioity survey among their two hundred and fifty thousand that she so faithfully served ,;;yan;w;;;; policy holders in North Carolina, adult males in the State, to say comfort and keep them ever true; , , , . . .This study reached 66,007 in- lenand child--until they meet where there is!, " ... . . ;uala (U4WJ white and Miss Margarette Abbotte re turned to her home in Hall wood Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. William Farber, of Littleton, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. Goldman. Messrs. Charlie Yates and Harry Duffe, of Seaboard, spent Sunday here with relatives and friends. J. L Price, w ho is now em ployed in City Point, Va., spent Sunday here with friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Tillery went to Richmond Monday where Mrs. Tillery consulted a specialist. Mr. Tillery returned Tuesday and Mrs. Tillery will remain in Richmond for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor West left Saturday for Chester, Pa. where they go to make their home. Mrs. J. M. Underwood who has been spending some time in Asheville for her health returned home Wednesday night. The Presbyterian Aid Society will meet next Tuesday after noon with Mrs. Fred Peck, at the home of Mrs. L. O. Anderson. Earnest Moore, of Franklinton, is spending some time here with friends. Mrs. Mark Chandler returned to her home in Portsmouth Sun day after spending several weeks here with her parents Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Allsbrook. ,R. M. James spent Monday in Richmond on business. ROSEMARY PERSONAL LOCAL ITEMS . AND nothing of the womer more good byes. The family Herman Browning iren, would easily provide nomes; -' - - l"",J The tenements will be built on I for all needy and dependent i have the prayers am. sympathy , and Henry; widows and orphans. Hut all are ;oi nianj menus 22,539 colored), distributed in seven districts grouped about Asheville, Charlotte, Salisbury, asked to lend a helping nana i The box party given at the s;de of the tenements of the during the thanksgiving festivi ties of 1916, Bear in mind that contributions may be forwarded through your church, your lodge. or Streets adjoining and on the south :Greensb0;Oi R&M J. L. Green arrived this week from Laurinburg N. C. and re sumed his position with the Rose mary Manufacturing Company. Miss Agnes Wright, of Vaughan, is here for a few days visit to Miss Maude Thompson. G. E. Rose who has been spend ing the past two months in the Mountains of Virginia for his health is here for a few days visiting friends. T. A. Cooper and J. B. Pearce, of Weldon, were in town a short Song "God of the Harvest" Recitation .... Thanksgiving - A Modern Thanksgiving Story A Boy and His Stomach The Thanksgiving Story (A reproduction) Love and Laughter - Thanksgiving Song , Thanksgiving in History How Shall We Give Thanks The Day of Thanksgiving Thankful Jimmie The First Thanksgiving, Boston 1631 Thanksgiving - Song "Cheer All Cheer Our Pilgrim Fathers" School Byron Gurley Twelve Children Margaret McDonald Howard Cassady Sallie May Stallings Fourth Grade Eight Children Howard Speight Cooper Grizzard Sam Sledge Mdver School last Wednesday Roanoke Mills Company. Over nii hr wa-, we are glad to say. a;a hundred tenements are con- success. The cake for the pretti-1 templated. While the site above has not been definitely determined upon, the Roanoke Rapids Power Com- and Wilmington. The Mountain ' while Tuesday on business. est rl was wo i by Miss Lizzie individually. Either of the i Cam p, who received eight hun dred and twenty live votes, the cakt? brought $20.35. The boxes j )iany have offered to give the region included 2911 persons, the Piedmont section 46,942 and the Coastal Plain 16,154. The morbidity rate was 28.5 per 1000 persons examined, which is somewhat higher than similar investigations have shown in Rochester, N. Y. and Trenton, The delay in the completion of the work on Roanoke Avenue between Second and Third Streets is proving exasperating and cosily. It is duo to a delayed shipment of terra cotta pipe f om Pomona, N. C, which is to be used to connect up the drains from the store buildings on the east side of th? Avenue. Presbyterian Orphans' Home: W. T. Walker, Superintendent, Barium Springs. Methodi.it Orphanage: A. S. Barnes, Superintendent, Raleigh. Nazareth Orphan Home: .1. W. Bell, Sjperiiite:nient, Cnsiont. Christian Orphanage: O. D. RnlanrlJnhnsnn'J0""1"1- Superintendent, E:on Eula McGowand Cof , . n . , School ! ieth0l'l!t Proetstant C hildren s ! Home: II. A. Garrett, Superinten- THE RIVER ROAD SCHOOL " " cmI Horn,, Walter ENTERTAINMENT P0SP0NEDjThomp8O, su,rr,ite.,dent, w;.. The entertainment scheduled ;ston-Salm. to be held at the River Roadj Thompson Orphanage; W. .1. School on Thanksgiving Night, Smith, Superintendent, Charlotte. November SO, lias been pOatpon- Children's Iluine Co. it ty; L 1'. named orphanages, and others, will appreciate your generous assistance: I were sold next. Miss Odessa mill site entirely and have made Thomasv.lle baptist Orphanage: . R0 ,ve!l's box prought $3.8!). total i liberal and substantial reductions I i t J ,'., V Yk M. L. Kesler. Superintendent, collection $30.50. Y. P. O. U. ex- on the tenement lots an don other u:' u' f .Qfa fh V Ihomasville. i tends its thanks to the public, lots. In addition to these con- who attended and helped to make ; cessions, the Power Company is it a success. ! offering a low power rate and has obligated itself to erect an counties 2a6) auxiliary sieain power (jiaiu ui 1 1500 k. v. a. capacity, which will! totton Mill Illness Miss Virginia Garner and Mr. cost not less than $100,000.00.1 More than 9000 nersons reach highest rate in the mountains (37.4) and the lowest in the tide water region (25.7) while the intermediate rate is in the mid- Garner-Allsbrook Robert I'. Aiisbrook were married j This steam plant will insure con-, ed in this survey were engaged J. W. Harrison spent Sunday in Brinkleyville with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Harrison. J. R. Liele, of Aurelian Springs, spent a few hours here Wednes day on business. In the absence of the pastor of the Baptist Church Sunday, Prof. A. M. Procter filled the appoint ments at both morning and even ing services. R. L. Dickens spent a few days ; the past week with relatives and friends in Enfield. A large crowd of people from here spent the day Sunday near Franklin, where they witnessed the unveiling of a monument by the Iocal Camp of Woodmen over the grave of W. R. Munford at the home of the bride's slant uower service everv day in textile manufactures, chiefly father, Mi. .1. 11. Garner, : in the year regardless of high or i in co,uon mills. The morbidity . .,. n !, f. i rate for these was only 23.4 as ... i urn ....puw. .umy, .u . compared with 2S.5 for the whole ! vi In Fhurs l iy evening. Due The erection of the plant at ,lirv,PV Thu inr rate l trim ; t inclement weather only a few present contemplated will mean for male and female, white and ; a deceased member, of the more intimate friends ! a great addition to the population negro, and not only for "all ages j anr Mr8 u E Matthews w.r- i.rei,t to witness the; of the community, increased . S01 after a'short visit ,u:et h.oe ceremony which was i business opiortuhities, and great- sijered." This contrasts strange-! here to their parents Mr. and per.'ormod bv I'-v. Ceo. S. er land values. It will be, by far, v with' mortality statistics which Mrs. J. E. Matthews returned Bearden, of th Methodist church the biggest thing for Roanoke ; give a high death rate, especially horns Tuesday. of this citv. Kapios that has occurred since irom luoercuiosis, among textile. uod Mm. A!!s!r..r,k v. ill ed on account of the absence of Putnam, Superintendent, Greens-1 re.ide t the ti.i.iw nf Mr. Alls- the teacher on that night, until' Thursday night, December 7. ; Everybody i t cordially invited to attend this entertainment on; Thursday- night, December 7. ' HERALD'S CHRISTMAS CONTEST NOMINATING COUPON I hereby nominate -- District No. in the Herald's Christmas Contest. THIS COUPON GOOD FOR 10,000 VOTES Date, Nov 1916. Sipied . Name ol parton matting nomination will not bo publUhed. boro. j brook's parents in Roanoke Rap- Odd Fellows' Home: Chas. O. i i,ls. Mr. Alls'orook is engaged Baird, Superintendent. Golds- j-, i he a ito-nobile transfer busi boro. ne-js in this city whrne he has Oxford Oryhan Asylum: R. L. 'many l'rie-ids. Mrs. Allsbrook is Brown, Superintendent, Oxford. , from the Shiloh Methodist Church The Pythian Orphanage: C. W. ; section just over the river in Pender, Superintendent, Clayton, j Northampton county and is a Eliada Orphanage: L. B. jvery popular and attractive Compton, Superintendent, Ashe-'young lady. ville. ! 1 Respectfully, j No deaths have been reported M. L. SHIPMAN, to the Registrar of Vital Statis JAMESR, YOUNG. ' ties during the last two weeks, HIGHTC. MOORE, 'which breaks all records, we publicity committee. think, since the inauguration of Rauicii, N C. the Vital Statistics Registration. tho erection of.Romioke Milk, employees, but it accords with; J W. Mullen tpent the day A community ot eight thousand Stiie's contention that the health j Wednesday in Scotland Neck on in the mill villages is generally peojile, a twwn of five thousand is, better than in the neighboring one of thest-ongest probabilities ! country district from which of the near future. Who can most of the workers are derived, doubt that this development will I -University News Letter, be followed by other develnn- - ments which will make the com munity so large as to render its ; opening up by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad inevitable? business. W. T. Clark, of Aurelian Springs, was here a short while Wednesday on business. The November Term of Halifax County Superior Court will con vene at Halifax on next Monday, . I nm . l T 1 l 1 . iovemDer u, wan juukk wxihi presiding. A full civil and crim inal calendar will probably insure a two weeks term of court HZRALD'S CHRISTMAS CONTEST VOTING COUPON 100 VOTES 100 If mailed or handed in before Dec. 4, 1916. 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