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Numerous Social Visits Spanning Towns and States
A busy week of social visits and weekend trips runs through town with Miss Nita Turner in Garysburg visiting Mrs. Cebron Jordan. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Draper and James Draper from Newport News guesting Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Smith. Many locals host relatives and friends in Skippers, Raleigh, Nashville, Richmond, and beyond, including trips to Ocean View, the World’s Fair in Chicago, and vacations to Fayetteville and White Lake.
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Nita Turner
Cebron Jordan
Garysburg
Wallace Draper
James Draper
Newport News
R. P. Smith
Hugh Rook
Margaret Anne
Ida Rook
Bruce Rook
Margaret Robinson
Pearl Armstrong
Rachel Wood
Thelma
Joe Williams
Charlotte
Bernice Riggins
Chapel Hill
Edith Tippett
George Harvey
Hopewell
Dorothy Pope
Bill Parker
Seaboard
Ocean View
Liv Champion
Ed Champion
Greenville
S. C
Edythe Elmore
E. A. Telliga
Weke
Irene Gordon
Nashville
W. C. Allsbrook
Dink Gordon
Bennie Allsbrook
Mary Ellen Wicks
Maggie Mangum
Weldon
Emogene Robinson
Lawrenceville
Margy
Elizabeth Robinson
Skippers
Eugenia
Rook
R. B. King
Margaret
Geraldine Britt
Nick Gassett
Smithfield
J. J. Smith
Emporia
Town
Elsie Warrick
Raleigh
Bee Mincher
Petersburg
Robert Lowe
Mason
Thad Lynch
Joe Loomis
Roxboro
Audrey Hardy
Chicago
L. R. Pearson
Rosa Chambliss
Triplet
Pattie Lynch
Bertha Pearson
Edward Allen
Barley
Ralph Leonard
Tenn
Rheuben Wrenn
J. W. Wrenn
Norbon Hudgins
J. T. Pearson
Fitzhugh