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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1937
Page
8
Gaston High School announces Dr Edward Jordan of First Presbyterian Philadelphia will deliver the baccalaureate sermon on May 2 at 11 pm. Graduation exercises will be held May 6 at 8 pm in the school auditorium with Dr J W M Long Roanoke Rapids delivering the address.
The 4-H Club presented The Special Chair a one act play at Chestnut School on Tuesday night April 20 to about two hundred patrons. The story centers on a farmer clinging to an old home after his wife dies, while his children threaten to leave as the plot unfolds. Whitakers Chapel quartet sang four selections and the program included recitations and sales with refreshments served by 4-H members.
Members of the Community Club and former Ladies Club of Weldon met at the community center to pursue a new public swimming pool for Weldon. Funds from the dissolved Womans Club treasury will aid the project. The old Oil Mill property will host the pool and a Boy Scout headquarters with plans to convert a large building into a club house.
A resident fell from a roof injuring a hip and is now improving after bed rest. Roanoke Rapids Hospital patient Miss Katherine Mitchell is at home. Visitors include Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Knight and son from Norlina, Miss Edith Fulghum with Miss Virginia King, Miss Sallie Ann House and Mrs. Mary Buerbaum from Thelma in Washington DC, Marcus and Randolph Allen from Warrenton with M. H. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Harry House in Roanoke Rapids, and Mrs. Walter Myrick from Littleton with sister Mrs. M. A. Sillery.
Mrs. W H Arrington of Ebenezer announces the marriage of her daughter Lucille to Mr William Keeter son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Keeter of Hawkins Chapel on Sunday April 11 at Emporia Virginia The couple are at home with Mr Keeters parents.
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