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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1939
Page
6
A flurry of weekend and weekly visits features residents in Raleigh Richmond and Norfolk. Travelers include Mrs W C Allsbrook Miss Ophelia Daniel Dr and Mrs Shannon and many others visiting family friends and attending events across Virginia North Carolina and Maryland.
The Weldon Boy Scouts Troop 11 won a Patterson Mill Pool meet over Roanoke Rapids troops 142 146 and 149 scoring 42 of 45. Bill Davis Meade Mitchell and Joe Baicy led in multiple events with Weeks Ferrell and others contributing. the Halifax County District team was named for Greenville on August 24 under Chief Scout Executive J J Sigwald.
Miss Blount spent August 1st and 2nd in Raleigh for the Home Demonstration Club Women of North Carolina annual convention. Naomi Shank from Richmond demonstrated electrical equipment. Local visitors and travelers including families head to New York for the World's Fair and visits to Charlotte and Elizabeth City. Rev J J Boone also visited.
Mr and Mrs E B Bowman and daughter Joy spent Sunday in Henderson. Mr and Mrs J C Leathare will spend the week at Johnson City Tennessee. Mrs Liddie Hall of Durham spent the week end with Mrs C O Byrd. Mrs Clarence Ball and daughter Patsie of Durham spent Sunday with Mrs Carl Churchill.
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