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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1918
Page
4
The Roanoke Rapids Herald calls for Third Liberty Loan support, celebrates local charity events, and urges Clean-Up Week. It notes draft farm labor reforms, reports on Halifax county volunteers heading to France, and praises Scotland Neck’s bond drive while urging Roanoke Rapids to contribute.
In spring householders turn toward cleaning, driven by perennial urges to tidy. The seasonal urge to declutter reflects broader habits of renewal as homes shed dust and disorder.
After a harsh winter residents are urged to clean up premises and plant crops, replace open privies with sanitary ones, and install screens. The Insurance Department and State Board of Health promote Clean Up week from April 15 to 20, highlighting losses from unsanitary trash and open privies, with placards and literature available from Raleigh.
North Carolina farmers have the greatest wartime opportunity to boost food production through better soil, fertilization, and especially the use of wood mold and leaves. The state’s fertilizer bill totals about 35 million dollars, with manure and crop value gains estimated at 50 and 25 million dollars respectively. authorities urge utilizing forest leaves to add fertilizer value and raise yields amid labor shortages and high prices.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust by T P Price and Margaret Price to secure indebtedness, recorded in Halifax County. Default occurred and at noon May 16 1918 in front of the Halifax Court House doors an auction will sell for cash a forty acre tract in Littleton Township bounded by Eugene Johnston and others, with plat by Chas FE Foster dated July 29 1910. Wm L Knight, Trustee.
Notice under a trust deed dated September 19 1916. Trustee will sell at public auction on Saturday April 26 18 at 12 noon in front of the Post Office Town of take Rapids NC. Property in Roanoke Ridge Township Milifas County NC described as Patterson and Horner land formerly Pattie Gee land. Beginning at Sixth Street North side, 200 feet along Sixth Street, 441 feet north, 200 feet west to boundary, 441 feet south to Sixth Street, two acres.
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