City licenses urged to avoid penalties and local fishing tales
City officers survey all districts to issue delinquent dog and automobile licenses. Dr Bahnson Weathers reports an eight pound bass catch while Frank Sherry reels in a 180 pounder at Morehead City. Roanoke Rapids Oldtimers fish weekly, then host a dusk fish fry. Boys aged 8 to 12 invited to join the Boy Scouts under Bill Alligood at 7:30 PM Friday. Halifax County Farm Debt Adjustment Board names W F Joyner Fletcher Gregory Sam Dunn and R Hunter Pope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bahnson Weathers
Frank Sherry
Morehead City
Frank
Roanoke Rapids
Boy Scouts of America
Bill Alligood
Farm Debt Adjustment Board
Halifax County
Ehringhaus
W. F. Joyner
Fletcher Gregory
Halifax
Sam Dunn
Scotland Neck
R. Hunter Pope
Enfield
End of great circulation drive in Roanoke Rapids
The Roanoke Rapids Herald announces a climax to its August 11 drawing with two 1934 cars and trips to the Chicago World's Fair as top prizes. It urges readers to report subscriptions by August 4 to win a special $10 prize and stresses the gamble and effort behind the campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carolina
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Chicago
The
Herald
Accident Death at Seaboard
Rupert R. Edwards a 54 year old Seaboard man was killed instantly about 4 30 this afternoon when he fell from an old building he was tearing down. The chimney fell pinning him under wreckage and death was instantaneous. He leaves a wife mother five children four brothers and five sisters. Funeral planned for Friday August 3rd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rupert R. Edwards
Seaboard
Mr. Edwards
Northampton County
Edwards
Reynolds to Speak in Halifax County Meeting
United States Senator Robert R. Reynolds has accepted an invitation to address a county wide Democratic mass meeting in October. The Halifax Young Democrats group announced the date later and scheduled an executive session for August 20 with Senator elect Allsbrook set to speak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Democratic Club
United States
Robert R. Reynolds
Halifax County
Young Democrats
Carroll Wilson
Halifax Club
Leonidas Hux
Bud Dickens
Henry Willey
Reynolds
Washington
Rich Square
Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce
Wilmington
Halifax Club of
Allsbrook
Roanoke Mills worker dies after electric shock
George W. Widenhouse a 54 year old weaver at Roanoke Mills Number Two is dead after turning on a 220 volt switch in the weave room. A worker had warned of a short circuit minutes earlier and Widenhouse remarked he would not touch it before touching the switch. Pete Hux, a loom fixer, witnessed the shock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Widenhouse
Roanoke Mills Company
Number Two
Widenhouse
Roanoke Mills
Pete Hux
Trial of Hog Gang Next Week
L A Lonnie and Leonard Harris three brothers of Henderson face a Superior Court judge in Jackson next week on charges as members of a hog stealing gang active across Eastern North Carolina and Virginia. They have appeared at preliminary hearings and before several courts, a routine not unfamiliar to them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. A
Lonnie
Leonard Harris
Henderson
Carolina
Virginia
Jackson
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Newport
R. I
America
Doris Duke
Jamey Cromwell
Philadelphia
M. G. Mann
Raleigh
N. C. Cotton Growers Co-operative Association
Asheville
Geo. W. Widenhouse
Concord
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