Local Indians Split Two Week End Drills At Williamsport Park
Local team plays two fast games against Williamsport with 17 year old Smith on the visitors’ mound. Johnson started, Birdsong finished, and errors nipped the home club as Rocky Mount rallied for three runs on a late triple. Wilton Dickerson made a superb catch and local fans saw a balanced display of speed and fielding.
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N.Y
Williamsport
Indians
Smith
Visitors
The
Philadelphia
A Johnson
Incas
Crowdy
Johnson
Birdsong
Simmons Park
le Indians
Ind
Slagles Lake
Rocky Mount
Rocky: Mount
Warnerly
Roanoke Rapid
Monk Crowder
Jy Whiting
Wilton Dickers
Travola Inn Opens For Business In Roanoke District
Travola Inn at Roanoke Avenue and Sixth Street begins operations this week after complete renovation. The corner residence offers a hotel like setup with more than six spare rooms, a twenty seat dining room, ice service, and modern heating. Bath rooms with hot water are adjacent to rooms and Mrs J B Cox leads the venture aiming for a homelike semi city credit to the community.
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Travola Inn
Roanoke Ave
6Th St
J.B. Coxing
Cox
N C C W Alumnae Banquet Held Here
The Halifax County N C C W Alumnae held a Saturday luncheon at Roanoke Rapids High School with Dr J I Foust NC W president as speaker on The Development of the Liberal Art College. Miss Clara Byrd and C E Peague attended with city and county school superintendents present.
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Halifax County
Roanoke
Rapds High School
J. I. Foust
N. Clc. W
Clara Byrd
Mumnae
C. E. Peague
Foust
Liberal Art College
Byrd
Peague
N.C. C
W. Davis
A.B. Akers
Annie Cherry
Roanoke Rapids
Local Girl Success in Recitals Highlight Pendleton Talent
Continued from page one, a Miss Pendleton, pupil of Lida Chapman, performs on the organ with a fine ensemble. The gifted young musician gave a recital earlier this year under Dean Hugh Williamson and received a reception from friends after the event in the halls at the college.
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Miss Pendleton
Lida Tn Chapman
Aldy
Arn
Hugh Williamson
Will Hays Appeals for Family Friendly Picture Programs
A letter from Carl E. Milliken endorses community planning for quality motion pictures. He urges parent teacher and minister involvement with theater owners to meet children's needs, promote best pictures, and use preview systems to secure unbiased judgments. The goal is family friendly "family night" programs across Roanoke Rapids and beyond.
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Roanoke Rapids
Carl E. Milliken
Will H. Hays
Motion Pictures Producers & Distributors of America, Inc
New York City
Old 1881 cotton price letter surfaces in folly
An 1881 letter from Jos. W. Jenkins & Co. to S. T. Ives, Aurelian Springs, details steady cotton prices in December including Good Ordinary at 10 1 4 cents and Middling at 11 3 4 cents. The missive, found by Ives’s daughters, notes a sale of 1 and a request to send another lot for better prices with net proceeds of 44.91 due.
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Jos. W. Jenkins & Co
Cotton Factors and General Commission Merchants
Baltimore
S. T. Ives
Aurelian Springs
J. L. Cobb
Lucretia Medic Cotton
Local Social Notes and Sale Ad From Roanoke Rapids
Miss Thelma Tillery and Eunice Outland visit Roxabel and Miss Gertrude Peares. Petersburg guests stay with Mr and Mrs A Wyche. West Point resident Buster Hodges visits town. Lloyd Hasty and friends spend Sunday in Norfolk. ABY chicks for sale Reds Barred Rocks Leghorns hatched Tuesdays Flyers D P Wire Dial R 411 6 Roanoke Rapi North Carolina Pares Een eee.
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Thelma Tillery
Eunice Outland
Roxabel
Gertrude Peares
Harriett Pope
Petersburg
A. Wyche
D. P
Roanoke
Rapi
North Carolina
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T. W. M. Long
State Senate
Peoples Theatre
George O’brien
Conchita Montenegro
Gay Caballero
Joan Bennett
John Boles
Robert Montgomery
Todd Garner
Freeman Kidd
Hengeytin
Af Newton
Vir Mrner
Skippe Vin
E. L. Travis, Jr
Halifax
N. C. C. W. Alumnae
Mary Miles Clark
Warrenton
Will Hays
Buster Hodges
West Point
Lloyd Hasty
Boob” Massey
Lloyd Johnson
Lucy Hasty
Norfolk
Bill Merritt
Chapel Hill
Irene Gordon
Nashville
Model
FORD
Tri - City
Rapids
Quentin Gregory
Superior Court of
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