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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1941
Page
10
At a Suffolk Kiwanis Club gathering last week two speakers discussed vocational guidance in public schools. Miss Irma Hurff, director of Vocational Guidance for Suffolk Public Schools, and W. T. Harry, Suffolk High School principal, spoke under R. W. Vaughan’s direction.
Funeral services for Jim H. Byrd, 87, were held from the home in Scotland Neck with Rev. W. E. Goode presiding. Burial followed in Episcopal Cemetery. He had been ill for years, a Northampton County native who lived 20 years in Scotland Neck. Surviving are six daughters, three sons, and one sister.
Weldon Allen Pierce spent a few days in New York last week. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Grant of Rocky Mount spent Sunday with relatives here. Miss Grace Green of Swansboro spent the week end in Weldon. Mrs. J. W. Brown spent Wednesday in Richmond. Mrs. Lawrence McKirdy spent Saturday in Rocky Mount. Miss Frances Oakes of Atlantic Christian College spent the weekend at her home here. Mrs. Annie Sears of Emporia spent several days with Mrs. H. W. Crouch and left for Brodnax Thursday. Miss Lucy Cameron of Clinton and Miss Catherine Shankle of Burlington visited friends here recently. Mrs. W. W. Wallace and Miss
Mrs. Eva Bishop and others hosted the Junius Daniel Chapter U D C in Richmond. Plans were made to send Christmas boxes to the Confederate Home in Fayetteville and Britain bundles were arranged for with a December 16 deadline. The program featured a lecture on Tennessee leadership during Reconstruction and reports on the National U D C Convention.
Tilghman Jr Chas R Daniel Haynes D W Seifert R T Daniel Ella Mitchell and Mrs Quinton Gregory of Halifax named as local charity committee members.
A string of local residents and families travel and visit relatives across Virginia. Mrs T B Browning and friends tour Richmond while the Parkers visit Jackson and Elmore family hosts in Newport News and Norfolk trips include Mildred Burton Juanita Underwood and Gladys Elmore among others.
Burt and Mrs Bernard Hux with son Donald spent Sunday in Scotland Neck. Leonard Glover and daughter of Norfolk visited E. B. Glover and family. V C Morgan family and others visited Greensboro. BE Parker of Weldon and L L Storey visited Petersburg. Mrs J R Melton of Norfolk returned home after a stay with her sister Mrs R J Rightmyer.
The family of Mrs. E. T. Medlin expresses deep appreciation for the kindness and sympathy shown during their bereavement.
Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Ellis and Miss Arlene Murray spent Saturday in Franklin with G. L. Gibbs, who was ill. Walter Kendrick of Norfolk spent the week end here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Kendrick.
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