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rVtU A A' A' ft- i v c-r A a 'A A I ?f ft. La At, a fell f J ft- 3 I V . ---r-; J " Subscription $1.50 a Year in Advance Vumv VI. Number 50 ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C, MARCH 5, 1920 WNOuE RAPIDS PERSONAL! . ft t: ,D LOCAL ITEMS j Ali i It: ksi.n. Henry v.ai in Yaughan, of town Monday V.lSit M, :e s: 4f .t' S'l. Ml 4.('i('tru fc'icanci :1 T .,.,f.in nKnnU. i 'i'.r, 1 Saints Episcopal) Church t HlVat at $ will be Rev. Edward "'H'?A"il axtcr rector of Emmanuel , jiioh, Warrenton. The public k tfTirdiallv invited. B.I r Mrs. W. L. Long left for si'.ir;r, a , wnere sne was li on accent of the ill- r ness' tot her inotiKT, ij rs. rieatn. ire i;bJ to report that Mrs. condition is slightly im- H.af prov IHi. Mi . Emily Gooch, of Weldon, guet of Mrs. T. VV. M. for a few days. is th . The many friends of Dr. Pat chin will be pleased to learn that :. he is once more in our midst and will resume his practice here. Mrs. li. L. Coleman has re turned to her home in Beckwith, West Ya., after spending some -ttme here with her daughter -MibS Pearl Wilson. Mr. W: S. ' Saunders spent 'i spent several days in lireens- iro this week on business. 1 Mr. G. Yassell, of Pleasant Hill, spent Thursday in town. Misses Fannie and Claudia Taylor, of Richmond, were call ed home on account of illness. . .Jllr. Wade Marks, of Rich mond, was in town this week. Mr. Ed Woodruir spent a few . days in Rocky Mount this week on business. . Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bryant spent several days in Rich StmaTe-tfctrnrek: Mr. Abe Norinsky left for Mew. York this week. .Mr. R. 1). Webb, of Williams . ton, visited relatives here this week. ' 'ijiss Orie Mosely was called .to her home in Kinston. on ac ,: cout of illness. , Mr. and Mrs.' H. G. McDonald left this week for Oxford where Mr. McDonald is to be associated with the Orphanage. , ; Mr. P. C. Duncan spent a few days in Richmond this week on Jjusiness. Ir l'ruce Tiilery has returned ; ho've after spending several " - s m Raleigh. Mrs. T. M. Shock left for ''tUahoma this week after spend ing se eral days here with Miss Roa Smith. The pastor of the Baptist Church, who has been ill with ipfiuensa is rapidly improving and hopes to be able 'to hold his regular services Sunday the 7th. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Stainback left Tuesday for Baltimore, where they carried their son, Charles, for examination by a specialists at John Hopkins, 1 .GOWAN-TAYLOR , - Tie followin v'sf received announcement with interest t Wednesday. ' " l Mrs. John D. Blount i, announces the marriage of her r sister ;,. Mr. Annie Howerton Gowen r to !m " Dr. Job Taylor "intuprday the second day oi '.; March Y' . yeieen hundred and twenty ; R H'ky Mount, N. C. - Dr. and Mrs. Job Taylor will l at home after the twenty fill h of March, Roanoke Rapids, , i .--, ?ys Taylor was from Halifax I andjH already well Icnown by people of the community !, flu I'aoly welcome her as an ;-'knu)n to the life of our town. , Ifr. Taylor is president of the i"f Halifax Paper Corporation, in ' PIECE CP FUR FOUND J vn o.it' lost a piece of tile attending the funeral fur last The call- a' iuay, ol i T. ,1. Rook. 'V ntr can get the same by jF :gat this office. ROANOKE FIBRE BOARD CO. CHANGED HANDS MARCH 1 . Mr. A. F. Cayford and Associates of Pittsburg, Pa. Assume that Date. Control on A transaction of interest was consumated last week when Mr. A. F. Cayford and associates, of Pittsburg, Pa., purchased the controlling interest of the Roa noke Fibre Board Company, of this place. The transfer of the same being made March 1st. Mr. F. M. Brown, of Stuben ville, Ohio, a brother in law of Mr. Cayford, will manage the plant for the new owners. We understand that Mr. Brown will move his family here as soon as a residence can be secured. Mr. C. H. Satterwhite, who had charge of the office under the old administration, will leave the plant, his resignation, which wa3 placed in January, becoming effective March 1. Army Offers Opportunity For Education In the present recruiting drive to brfng the army up to its full strength, three branches of the service are already filled up and are no longer open for enlist ments, these branches are the Air service, Chemical Warfare service and the Motor Transport Corps. " The following branches are still open for applicants: Infan try, Coast Artillery, Corps of Engineers, Field Artillery, Ord nance Cor psf -Medical, Depart: ment, Quartermaster Corps, Re mount service, Signal Corps, Cavalry and Dental Corps, of these only the Field Artillery and the Corps of Engineers can now accept enlistments for one year, but all the branches but the three first mentioned have vacancies that may. be filled by three year enlistments. Applicants may enlist for any of these branches and be 6ent to any station within the continen tal limits of the United States where troops of these branches are now stationed, and the travel involved is entirely of Govern ment expense. From the time the applicant is forwarded to a recruiting station his expenses are all paid by the Government. The army now offers free edu cation and also has free trade schools, among other trades taught are: Motor Mechanics, Truck Tractor and Automobile driving, Machinists shop work, Plumbing, Electrician, Carpen try, Medical and Dental atten tion, food, clothing and lodging are furnished in addition to the pay. All interested may obtain ' in formation by applying at "Thompson Hotel" Roanoke Rapids, N. C, where a member of the recruiting service may be found between the hours of 11 A. M. and 1:30 P. M. who will be glad to talk to any one. Never before has such a broad choice of stations or branches of service been offered to appli cants for eniistment and never before have such opportunities for learning a trade been offered. A large number of young men of North Carolina have already enlisted, and the choice of branches of the service and stations will rapidly become smaller as the army fills up in response to the present oppor tunities of the service. CARD OF THANKS We take this method of thank ing our friends for their . many tender expressions of sympathy! during the illness and death of our dear wife and mother. May the richest blessings of the ; Heavenly Father rest upon your: town and its good people. W. B. Holt and family. SEABOARD OFFICIALS OFFER COMPROMISE ADDRESS OF PROF AKERS AT CEDAR FALLS Fellow Workers. Though 1 realize that what we have done is but naught compar ed to you, I am glad of this op portunity to tell you what Hali fax County, North Carolina, has done since July, 1915, in the con solidation and improvement of her schools. There are (W0, square miles in this county which lies on the divding line te tween the Piedmont ar.d alluvial sections. One-half of the county is hilly, the other, the eastern, is flat intersected by numerous swamps. These swamps cut the county into many long narrow communities more or less isolat ed. This condition, however, is being overcome by the good roads movement now so much ap preciated by our citizenship who last May voted $500,000.00 in Bonds to co-operate with the State and Nation in building and maintaining roads. At the beginning of the school year 1915-1910 there were 2,307 rural white children in Halifax County between the ages of 6 and 21 years, who should attend school in 37 one-room schools, 6 two-room schools and 2 three room schools. During this year we enrolled 09.5'i of these white children and 47 ',V of them were in school every day. Admitting that 30Vi. of the whole census had finished the county school system, were in school some where or for some reason or other we had no right to expect them in school, there was 22. 5 'a of the whole census out of school. More than 31' of the enrollment was out of school. No business concern running at a loss of 31 can last long. No system of schools running B9'- efficient can do for it3 patronage what it should. There was a distinct and definite problem presenting itself urgently for solution. How should it be solved? How should this condition be met? The good people of Halifax County are like the good people of other communities. They love their children as dearly as any people love theirs. They will do as much for theirchildren as others. Leadership is what is needed. As soon as the citizen realizes that his child is not getting an equal opportunity with others, he will set about to correct the defect. O! well, once and a while a man who does not be lieve in public schools, but they are rare. That this problem might be brought as close to the people as possible, this general policy was adopted at the beginning of the year; That there should be held a two days teachers conference before the opening of schools, and a series of group teachers meetings to be held at designated centers during the school year. This method of holding teachers' meetings prevails to this day with the exception only that the two days conference is extended to three days. One day of this conference is conducted as a county-wide conference, to which we invite the Committeemen, about i(i, the County Board of Education, 3, the editors of the County Newspapers and others interested in education. At these county-wide meetings the editors discuss "How I Can Best Use My Paper for the Improve ment of the County Schools," the Committeemen "What Quali fications and Duties Have we a Right to Expect of our teachers?" and the teachers reply to the Committeemen with much zeal and interest on "What aid and Assistance I have a Right to Ex pect of my Committeemen. A NOTE OF THANKS I wish to thank my -friends land neighbors for their many kindnesses bestowed during the illness and death of my beloved husband. They will ever be greatly remembered Mrs. T. J. Rook. Member of Shifter Crew to Act as Guard While Yard Engine is Working at This Point. Will Not (?) Place Cars on Siding That Will Interfere With V i s i o n of ! Traffic Mr. Stanly, of the Seaboard Railway offers a compromise in ! the question of protecting the; traffic at the crossing of Roanoke: Avenue and the Seaboard tracks at Roanoke Junction. The com- promise, if instructions are fob j lowed closely, will not reduce the' danger but little. j The carrying out of Mr. j Stanly's instructions will render j useless a rather lengthy side! track. For this reason we doubt ; very seriously any improvement over the old situation. Gates or an electric signal should be placed at this crossing. We would like to know what our people think of Mr. Stanly's proposition as stated in his let ter to the Corporation Commis sion, a copy ot which is given 1 below: Mr.. R. O. Self, Clerk, Corporation Com. of N. C Raleigh, N. C. Dear Sir: Referring to my conference j with the Commission in Raleigh j last Monday a week ago in ro-j gard to protection of the cross-! ings at Roanoke Junction: i I beg to advise that in keeping; witn tne understanding then ar rived at, I have arranged, while the yard engine is shifting over the crossing referred to at Roa noke Junction, for one of the train crew to be stationed at this crossing for the purpose of warning approaching pedestrians and vehicles. We will also in struct our crew to place cars on either side of the crossing as far away therefrom as possible so as not to unduly interfere with the vision of those using the public road. Yours truly, (Signed) W, L. Stanly Asst. to Federal Manager. Regarding the above we wrote the Corporation the following letter March 4, 1920,. Corporation Commission, Raleigh, N. C. Attention of Mr. R. O. Self, Clerk. Dear Sirs: We thank you for your letter enclosing a copy of Mr. W. L. Stanly's letter in regards to the Roanoke Junction affair. WTe wish to state that we do not believe Mr. Stanly's sug gestion will help matters any at this crossing. The shifter is plainly visible to the traffic and has never injured anyone or damaged any property at this point. Consequently this order does not affect the situa tion at all. In regards "to placing of cars as far away from the crossing as possible so as to not unduly in terfere with the vision of those using the public roads." These instructions offer very little relief, if any, for the sim- pie reason the further - down this side tract the cars are placed the more they obstruct the vision. Besides freight cars on this tract, the freight office and warehouse render it impos sible to detect oncoming trains untill within twenty feet of the main line, which is by the way the real source of danger at this point. Your original order to the Seaboard that they place a watchman or an electric : signal at this point 'seems to us the only possible plan that will make this crossing sale tor the enor mous amount of traffic that passes over the same. Because of the ever increasing traffic and danger we .have de termined not to stop until we get relief. We want gates or an WITH THE CHURCHES All Saints Church (Epiicopal) Rev. Lewis N. Taylor, Rector RoMokc Atcsm Next Sunday is the third Sunday in Lent. 9:45 Church School and Adult's Bible Class, T. W. Mullen, Supt 11:00 Celebration of the Holy Communion and Sermon. 7:30 Evening service and Ser mon. Ladies Guild meets at 3:30 P. M. Tuesday in the church. Election of Officers. Lenten Services on Tues day afternoon 4:30. Friday night at 8. Special preacher, Rev. Fredrick Diehl, rector of Rocky Mount. The Church with a Welcome.. METHODIST CHURCH Rev. Eugene C. Few Pastor Sunday Mar. 7, 1920. Sunday School at 9:45 A. M. W. V. Woodruff, Supt. Preaching services 11 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. Trayer meeting Wednesday evening 7:30 o'clock. Social sermon to parents at the morning hour. To all who desire worship with us, we open our doors of glad reception, Army Schools Promote Citi zenship Of a total of 172,206 enlisted reporting for duty, in a recent check to see what the army schools are doing for the promo tion of better citizenship and 100 per cent Americanism it was found that 93,423 or 54 per cent were receiving training that would fit them for vocations when returned to civil life. Of these men 24 per cent were ;as0 taking additionl training (educational) in the Army Schools that have been establish ed in 117 camps, posts and sta tions. A dozen special service school for cooks and bakers have also been established. The result of the educational schools were recently demon strated in the office of the Gov ernor of North Carolina when (4) young "Tar Heels", who five months ago could not read or write their names so were presented to the Governor. Those men had attended the school for illiterates at Camp Upton, N.Y. , and in four months had reached the sixth grade, having accomplished as mucn in five months as the average child in six years. The statistical branch of the General Staff War Department has issued a statement of bat tle deaths by states, resulting in the war with Germany. It is shown 79,475 "Tar Heels" serv ed in the war and 922 were killed in action or died of wounds resulting from action from the enemy. Of every 1000 of this 11.6 of those serving. The to tal number of the states dead from all sources is more than 2, 370 as that many memorial dip lomas from the French Govern ment are being delivered to the nextofkinto the dead. This number docs not induce all, as those haven't been delivered for the men who gave their busi ness concern or the name of some friend as the next of kin. The State of Montana leads in the percentage of her dead killed in action with 17.2 of every 1000. electric signal as we believe nothing short of one or the other will make this crossing safe or reduce the menace. Speaking for a large number of the leading business men of this community I ask the support of your commission in our fight for gates or an electric signal at this crossing. Please let us hear from you further in this regards. Yours very truly, F. M. Shuts. TOWN COMMISSIONERS ELECT FIRE CHIEF At a called meeting of the Town Commissioners held Tues day afternoon, Mr. B. R. Weeks was appointed Chief of the Fire Department. We understaud that Mr. Weeks will immediately organize a company of fire fighters. Mrs. Nora I. Dobbin Mrs. Nora I. Dobbin, the be loved wife of Chief of Police, Horace E. Dobbin entered into Life Eternal Tuesday morning at ten o'clock at her home in Rose mary. Mrs. Dobbin had been ill for several days with influenza. which developed into pneumonia causing her death. Although her many friends knew she was desperately ill yet the news of her death came as a shock. She was a devoted wife, a lov ing mother and staunch, loyal hearted friend. She became a member of the Baptist Church in early life and from this Church the funeral services were held Thursday af ternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. A, G. Carter, pastor, and Rev. Lew- isJN. Taylor, officiating. Inter ment was made in the local cem etery. The pall bearers were Messrs. Robert L. Dickens, L. G. Shell, J. W. Harrell, Clyde Taylor Louis Cannon, J. L. Cobb, C. F. Ogletree and Geo. L. Hayes. The hearts of our people go out in tenderest sympathy to her husband and little son Haskell, who are both confined to their beds and their relatives. She is also survived by her parents two sisters, Misses Mable and Ruby Moore, of Rose mary and four brothers, Messrs. M. E. Moore, of Portsmouth, Westley M. Exum and Percy Moore, of Rosemary. Attending the funeral from out of town were Mr. W. H. Mark, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Collins and two children, Mr. R. V. Moore, of Richmond and Mr, Dobbins father and brother from South Carolina. NEW WORLD PROGRAM DEVISED BY CHURCHES By 8. EARL TAYLOR DR. S. EARL TAYLOR, General Secretary Interchureh World Movemnet It t hrist, on the day He was born, baa started on a tour to preach in every village in India, He mould still bave 30,000 more to visit. We now believe we bave found a war by wbicb tbe leaders ot the Prot estant churches can sit around a com mon table and have the Christian pro gram of the entire world laid before them. By means ot the Interchureh World Movement we can see where the Methodists are, and where the Baptists are. We can see the general outline of their forces, their present status in this great world struggle, and may also have some idea of the unoccupied places, and what may be done by all of us to enter these unoc cupied parts of the world field which Christ sent us to occupy. ft fi"3?Sf I J tiWMi.iiilinl.'lTiiiii iirrirranilir il Miirinlj AND Mr. C. B. Compton, of Balti more, was in town Tuesday. Mr. I. Gardner, of New York City, spent Tuesday in Rose mary. Miss Anna Rowe, who has served efficiently as director of the canning and dehydrating plant and teacher of domestic science for the Rosemary Mfg. Co., left Monday to take up her duties as county demonstration agent for Durham County, with headquarters at Durham. Miss Rowe has made scores of friends since she has been in the community who deeply re gret her departure. Mr. W. P. Williams, of Peters burg, was here Tuesday. Mr. J. B. Powell, of Rocky Mount, was in town Tuesday. Mr. D. P. Wike spent the week-end in Charlotte. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Drom- goole, of Northhamption County, spent the week-end here. Mr. Luther E. Ogburn, of South Emporia, was in town Tuesday. The family of Mr. R. D. Jen kins county welfare officer, have arrived from Rosman, N. C. and are occupying the residence re cently vacated by Mrs. F. M. Hight. Mr. L. A. Windell, of New York, was here Tuesday. Mr. Thomas M. Jenkins left Wednesday afternoon for a busi ness trip to Richmond. Three new enterprises were added to the business life of Rosemary this week, J. L. Cobb and Co., the Braswell Furniture Co., and the William Wood Co. Mr. Cobb is opening and ar ranging his stock of men's fur nishings in the building vacated by The Johnson Barber Shop, which has moved into their new parlor next to the Rosemary Banking and Trust Co. Mr. Cobb and his associates are, planning to equip a haberdash ery worthy of the name. The Braswell Furniture Co., have just moved from Roanoke Rapids, where they occupied a store in Horner Building. ' The Rosemary Banking and Trust Co., are occupying their handsome new quarters. Mr. William Wood has opened a grocery and feed store just north of the new bank building. Mr. O: J. Mathis, of Raleigh, spent Saturday in town. Miss Annie Medlin will hold her Spring opening next Friday and Saturday. Mr. J. M.. Hawkins, of New York, was in town Monday. Mr. T. B. Reynolds, of Raleigh spent Monday in Rosemary. Mr. L. H. Chesson, of Hender son, was here Monday. Mr. Garrison Medlin, of Mon roe, was in Rosemary Monday. Miss Mamie Fulgham spent the week-end with Miss Ai.nie Medlin. Mr. J. H. Griffin, of Atlanta, was in town Tuesday. Mr. T. O. Vaughan, of Wel don, was here Tuesday. MRS. JOE NEAL ROSEMARY FERS0NAL LOCAL ITEMS Mrs. Joe Neal died at her '' home near Rosemary yesterday morning after an illness of ' several days. She suffered from influenza which developed into pneumonia. , ' A very deep symyathy is felt for her devoted husband and five children who survive her.'1 ", ' As a mother, as a wife, a3 a friend and neighbor, she was 1,1 an inspiration to all who were fortunate enough to know her ' ' She was a consecrated member u of Smith's M. E. Church. Fnner- . al services are to be held this- " afternoon by her pastor, Rev.1 '"' C. M. Lance and the" burial will be made in a private ceme-',,, tery near her home. ' : : . ;-; ...""'' p 1 1 :j il '''' v', j H. ,; , rj -ar T- - 1', - 1 - - ' i
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