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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1934
Page
14
Weldon residents and visitors are listed with weekend and post weekend trips. Names include Hazel Neville Dorris Willey and Mrs H M Neville in Richmond Virginia Miss Louise Carter in Norfolk and many others visiting relatives in Rich Square Weldon and surrounding towns. The piece notes club activities and a Stedman Whiddon wedding trip to Gainsville Florida plus summer school at E C T C and a Bay View gathering.
Grayson Dickens has returned home from Park View hospital at Rocky Mount. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Gregory spent Tuesday in Richmond. Mrs. C. F. Musselman, Frank Musselman and Spottswood Butts spent Friday in Raleigh. Mr. and Mrs. Carleton Wilson and family attended the Wilson reunion at Warren Plains last week. They will leave this week for a two weeks visit to Asheville. Dr. F. W. M. White and Joe Butts, Jr., made a business trip to Wilson Tuesday. Joe Butts, Jr., will return to Washington, Sunday. Leonidas Hux motored to Durham Tuesday to bring back his sister, Miss Bertha Lee Hux who was operated on for appendicitis recently, Gene Hamill a former resident.
Mrs. Jack Young and Mrs. Tom White hosted a Thursday afternoon bridge gathering for six tables. William Medlin won high score and a guest prize. Kathleen Craddock and others joined the hostesses for refreshments at five.
In Weldon the seven month old son of Mr. and Mrs. J A Padgett was found dead in bed Friday at 2:00 AM. A physician said death resulted from strangulation due to whooping cough. Funeral held Sunday at 2:00 PM with Rev R S Fountain officiating. Interment in Cedarwood Cemetery. Survived by parents and several siblings.
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