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Roanoke Rapids Herald

Location

Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Aug 10, 1939

Page

8

Community Notes Light Travel and Visits Across Virginia Beach

Numerous locals and visitors are listed with trips to Virginia Beach and Raleigh. J C League transfers to Norfolk. Mrs League and daughter Anne to join soon. Several families and individuals, including Johnston, Leach, Beaman, Lambeth, and May, spend weekends with relatives, attend events, or travel to Norfolk, Raleigh, Greensboro, and Columbia.

J. C. League Rose Norfolk, Va B. Ray Browning P. A. Johnston Jane Johnston Raleigh S. C. Beaman Mary Lyon Halifax Lelia Partin Columbia S. C John Partin Elizabeth Moore E. C. Bobbitt Bobbitt Inez J. B. Acree Milton Reid Baltimore Annie Price Greensboro Ike Rochelle J. W. Harvey Coley Clark Weldon A. W. Parker White Lake W.e Virgin Addie Newsom W. A. Johnston Lucy H. Moore Bertha Thrower Hertford J. H. Stainback Winston-Salem W. B. Chappel W. Carey Dowd Virginia Beach

Streamlined Forest Wire Kight ing Latest Anti Red Methods

An illustrated feature in The American Weekly previews new wartime tactics to blunt the Red menace. It highlights air supply bombs, the twelve minute well digger, the cyclone trench cutter, and other devices, to support the battle line.

Washington Times-Herald

Roanoke Rapids Lions Club backs pictorial rotogravure issue

C M Gurley president of the Roanoke Rapids Lions Club writes in support of Carroll Wilson's plan to publish a comprehensive pictorial rotogravure edition to promote Roanoke Rapids and Halifax County. He urges citizen backing and civic involvement aligned with state publicity efforts.

Roanoke Rapids Halifax County State Conservation Commission Lions Club C. M. Gurley Roanoke Rapids Lions Club

Banks Morris Welcomes Son in Roanoke Rapids Hospital

A son was born August 7 to Mr. and Mrs. Banks Morris of Rocky Mount and Airlie at Roanoke Rapids Hospital. Mrs. Morris is formerly Miss Winifred Nicholson of Airlie.

Clare Benthal Louise Copeland Woodland S. G. Daniel Louise Melson Bill Thrower Williamston J. H.thrower Paul Johnston Chas. Lambeth Lucy I. Leach Elberta Foster Virginia Beach Constance Ballance Kinston W. T. Person S. C. Beaman Cecil Beaman Raleigh Bert Schlichter Frances Schlichter Albert Fisher Norfolk W. H. May May H. A. Inscoe W. E. Wagner Hazel Inscoe Scotland T. N. Partin P. A. Johnston Elnora Lambeth Jean May Dorothy Johnston Garland May, Jr Carrie Helen Moore Warrenton Rebecca Leach W.W. Shaw Dorothy Craighill Rocky Mount E. B. Perry Raymond Pope Baltimore Mad Ivy Hale Walter Quarles Frances Person M. M. Riggan Hamlet Robert Andrews Roanoke Rapids Robert Odom Hollister Clement Pegram Grady Little Newport News J. J. Nelson L. H. Justis Roanoke Rapids Hospital Condi Banks Morris Airlie Morris Winifred Nicholson

Woman's Missionary Society Meets in Littleton

The Baptist Church society gathered Monday at Mrs. O L Currin's home with president Mrs. W F Williams presiding. Devotionals by Mrs. G A Hendricks centered on Carrying Out the Great Commission in the Orient. Speakers covered The Great Commission and The Orient, Palestine Today, Discipleship in Palestine and China, and Calls from the Orient amid a social ice course.

Littleton Woman's Missionary Society of the Baptist Church O. L. Currin W. F. Williams G. A. Hendricks A. P. Farmer J. J. Leonard Palestine C. M. Hale China S. B. Bobbitt

Lost Colony Fate Explained by Local Attorney

Land Breeze Littleton W. W. Taylor Jr prominent Warren County attorney returns from Manteo with a sweeping, humorous claim that the Mosquitoes ate them and that the Lost Colony’s fate should be obvious to visitors. The remark critiques historians and archeologists and riffs on radio advertiser statements.

Littleton W. W. Taylor, Jr Warren County Mr. Taylor

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