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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1938
Page
8
Consumers Information notes the United States leads in testing methods that ensure performance. A firm cites 25 percent of labor and production costs devoted to testing vacuum cleaners. The article shows two of 600 production operations including balancing the fan and a government test block inset.
The Halifax County Epworth League met Tuesday night in Weldon at eight. Alice Moore was elected president and Louise Sullivan vice president. Rev. E B Fisher led prayers and Prof. Morris Clary spoke on What Is Your Belief. The event ended with refreshments and a benediction.
Mrs Pete Graham hosted a very lovely Christmas party on Thursday evening last week. Guests gathered in the living and dining rooms where tables were set for players and festive evergreens with holly and red candles formed attractive decorations.
Twenty guests played five progressions with Mrs. Zeb Denny winning high and Mrs. Tom Cheek second. Mrs. D. C. Clark received a floating prize. Refreshments included ambrosia and fruit cake. candy favors on each plate. Guests enjoying Mrs. Graham’s hospitality were Mesdames A. George, Sam Bunn, John Marcus Smith, Elmer Starke, Bahnson Weathers, George Hayes, J. A. Wood, Cranford.
The Rosemary Recreation Club Little Theatre presents Grandma's Christmas, a one act comedy with eight characters, next Thursday night at the Rosemary Recreation Club. After the play a Christmas round dance runs until midnight, followed by a Christmas Eve square dance and Christmas night carol singing through the village.
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