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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1940
Page
3
An old column mixes an advertisement for a water softener with a humorous wartime tale of three escapees from Guernsey. The piece also riffs on poetry, readers’ notices, and a True Story anecdote about sailors misreading charts and ending near a filling station.
Dr. Albert S. Root of Raleigh reports diphtheria mortality in the United States about two per 100 000 and five to six per 100 000 in North Carolina with nearly seven percent of all U S diphtheria cases in the state. He advocates combined typhoid and diphtheria clinics in rural areas to boost inoculations, noting 1 200 children immunized locally and urging 50 percent vaccination coverage for county children under six to curb the disease.
Sergeant Clifford C. Floyd U S Army Recruiting Officer at Wilson North Carolina will be at the Roanoke Rapids Post Office Wednesday August 21 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm to examine and accept applicants for enlistment in the U S Army. There are unlimited white vacancies for Fort Benning Fort Moultrie Fort Bragg Camp Jackson and the Panama Canal Department and 12 vacancies for colored boys for the 41st Engineers Corps at Fort Bragg North Carolina. All applicants must be single of good character and able to read and write. White and colored youths are urged to attend for examination.
The American Guernsey Cattle Club reports that registered Guernsey bull Fairfield Cavalier 288250, owned by J. C. Eagles, was sold to R. H. Miller of Roanoke Rapids. The club based in Peterborough New Hampshire announced the transaction.
The Christian Science Society at 930 Roanoke Ave invites the public to Sunday service at 11 a.m. and Wednesday service at 8 p.m. The Reading Room is open Tuesdays and Fridays from 3 to 5. The Sunday lesson centers on Soul with Spirit as the previous week's topic, featuring Bible citations and passages from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
Misses Ruth Ezelle and Eleze Ezell of Rocky Mount were Sunday guests of Mrs. Clyde Shearin. Miss Argie Marbery returned to Raleigh after a week with Mrs. L. J. Jones.
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