Purslane novel reflects Southern rural life through Bernice Harris
Review of Purslane by Bernice Kelly Harris of Seaboard North Carolina. The story centers on the Fullers and their kinfolks, sharecroppers and town visitors around Raleigh. It portrays daily country life with humor and tragedy, detailing farming, church rites, births, weddings, and everyday exchanges.
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U. S
Webster
Bernice Kelly Harris
Seaboard, N. C
Raleigh
Christian Science Society Services and Reading Room Schedule
The Christian Science Society at 930 Roanoke Ave invites attendance at Sunday 11 am services and Wednesday 8 pm meetings. Reading Room open Tuesdays and Fridays 3 to 5. Sunday lesson sermons discuss Christ Jesus with references from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
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Roanoke Ave
Christ Jesus
Christian Science
Jesus
Israel
Mary Baker Eddy
God
All Teachers Hired For Coming Year
Roanoke Rapids schools announce a full quota of teachers for the coming year under Superintendent W. Davis. The last two hires include a music instructor and a manual arts teacher. Miss Jane Glenn of Westfield New Jersey will handle choral work in the junior high. She is highly recommended and graduated with honors from Teachers College of Columbia University.
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Elizabeth
N. J
Stephen J. Prosen
Charleston, Til
Eastern State Teachers College
Illinois
Roanoke Rapids
W. Davis
Jane Glenn
Westfield
Miss Glenn
Teachers College of
Columbia University
Local residents and visitors spend weekends at Ocean View and nearby resorts
Weldon and Roanoke Rapids families travel to Ocean View Nags Head and Willoughby Beach for weekends two weeks or a brief visit. Notables include Miss Lena Ann Riddle in Jonesboro N C and Dr R P Morehead visiting from Wake Forest. Families like Willey Draper Hargrove Carter and Robinson join relatives in Goldsboro Raeford Nag’s Head and Richmond for extended stays.
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J. A. Harvell
Elizabeth Harvell
Ocean View
Lena Ann Riddle
Jonesboro
N. C
W. H. Anthony
Willoughby Beach
Evelyn Mitchell
Richmond
B. F. Willey
Tarboro
Willey
Telephone Company
W. E. Carter
Helen Collins
D.O.K.K
Goldsboro
Albert Browne
Panama City
Fla
L. C. Draper
B. P. Robinson
Ruth Robinson
Raeford
Ella Mitchell and
Picnic First-Graders All Bring Chocolate Cake
New Braunfels Texas reports forty first graders planned a picnic with mothers supplying food. Men on the seawall trade tales of fishing and sharks. A ghost story recounts a woman seeing a dead cousin at her bedside, verified only later.
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New Braunfels
Tex
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Seaboard
North Carolina
John Fuller
Deb
Nick
Joyce
Morehead
W. H. Pruden
Christian Science Society
Roanoke Rapids Building & Loan Association
W. 2Nd Street
Weldon
Tillie Gray
Charlie Harlow
Roger Harlow
Bernie Moody
Louise Rooke
Camps Store
O Lean View
EXIDE
Brickell
aTay
Jim Styron Jr
National Loan & Insurance Co
W. Second St
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