Church Services Schedule and Invitations
Churches announce weekly worship times with services at 11 A M and 7 30 P M on Sundays and 7 30 P M on Wednesdays. The public is invited to all services.
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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1917
Page
1
Churches announce weekly worship times with services at 11 A M and 7 30 P M on Sundays and 7 30 P M on Wednesdays. The public is invited to all services.
Church notices list Sunday School at various times in Roanoke Rapids and Rosemary with supts W S Hancock J B Boyd and multiple services every Sunday at 11:00 A M and 7:30 P M Prayer meetings Wednesday night 7:30 Senior and Junior B Y P U times and junior choir with Sunbeam Band sessions noted. Visitors welcomed.
Pastor Rev. Stanley White leads Sunday worship at 11 00 A M and 7 30 P M with Sunday school at 9 45 and choir practice at 9 30. Visitors and strangers are invited as Boy Scouts receive a special 11 00 A M service.
The Methodist Church invites worshipers with Sunday School at 9 15 led by W H Woodrutt superintendent Preaching at 11 A M and 7 30 P M A prayer meeting is scheduled for Wednesday at 7 30 P M Rev Eugene C Few is the pastor.
Morning service on Roanoke Ave at Ninth St corner led by Minister Raleigh L. Topping. Preaching next Sunday at 11:00 A.M. and 7:20 P.M. at the Tabernacle Roanoke Ave location.
George F. Caraman died last Friday April 6 at his Roanoke Rapids home from cerebral hemorrhage. He was fifty, a resident three to four years, and survived by his niece Mrs. David Kidd. He came from Hyde County and was reportedly in good health until recently. The body was taken to Washington North Carolina for burial in the family graveyard.
Stella Virginia Cole two year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Andrew H Cole died at home in Rosemary last Friday April 6 after a short measles illness. Interment was held Saturday in Roanoke Rapids cemetery.
Roanoke Rapids brief notes coverMiss Lessie Hazelwood visiting Tarboro relatives and other local visits. The Rosemary Business Men's Association forms with officers L G Shell president and others to improve credit practices and merchant relations in town.
Mr David B H Stainback, a longtime Roanoke News associate editor and town official, died suddenly on Monday afternoon at the Terminal Hotel after a brief heart attack. Born 1851 in Brunswick County Virginia, he moved through Petersburg Enfield Weldon and finally served as registrar, clerk, collector, and JP while marrying twice and leaving five children. He was known as a cheerful, helpful neighbor and a trusted civic figure.
Mrs Hayes hosted the card club last Friday at her Rosemary home. The next gathering will be hosted by Mrs Wm Horner next Friday from 3 to 5 o'clock.
On Easter Sunday at nine o'clock Miss Polly Owens married Mr. Howard Garris in a ceremony performed by a minister of the First Christian Church at the home of Pearl Johnson in Rosemary. The couple, noted Rosemary residents, will reside in Rosemary after visiting Tarboro with relatives and friends in attendance.
The Peoples Theatre offers a ten percent bonus on Tuesday night receipts to the first ten men enlisting in the army or navy. Over a dozen locals have joined so far with two from Roanoke Rapids and several from Rosemary. Bonus payments Begin May 1 and are deposited at the First National Bank for Red Cross distribution.
Rev W R Shelton of Durham attends mass meeting and announces a Red Cross chapter in Rosemary and Roanoke Rapids. A large attendance plus a two town mass meeting planned with Tasker Polk to speak. Red Cross work explained and fund raising music planned.
Sixty four attended the women’s class led by the minister as teacher. The Red team leads 145 to 107. One addition to the church last Sunday night. The revival continues and the minister has married five couples in two weeks. The community knows him as the marrying parson. Ebenezer Scrooge is referenced in a Dickens tale with a character analysis. Rupert Julian to star in The Right to Be Happy at local theatres on Friday April 20. Rev J B Reynolds of Wilmington NC will assist in the revival Monday.
Prof. C. W. Wilson of Green ville Dean of the Eastern Carolina Teachers Training School will speak to Baraca Philathea classes at the Roanoke Rapids Baptist Church tonight at eight. He is described as brilliant and eloquent and the public is invited to attend.
The Roanoke Rapids honor roll lists John Roland Williams and J. J. Hummings for voluntary enlistment in the United States Navy.
The honor roll lists Ruth Jones Mildred Taylor Josephine Hege Vivian Edmunds Pearl Hamilton Nellie Jones Viva Williams Eula Collier Kathrine Jackson and Nellie Crutchfield for March in Miss Strauther's class.
Infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Claude Whitfield dies April 1 in Roanoke Rapids residence. Interment held at Roanoke Rapids Cemetery.
A mass meeting of Democratic voters in Roanoke Rapids is set for April 28 at the Lyric Theatre Building to nominate candidates for mayor and five town commissioners for the May 8 election. Published by the Town Democratic Executive Committee chaired by A. L. Chark.
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