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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1921
Page
8
A set of classroom poems about Christmas stockings and Santa. Children name Ben Ward Roy Thompson and Ralph Butts as contributors, with lines about Santa’s entry, stockings, and playful questions on how he travels. Poignant schoolhouse verse from young writers with holiday cheer.
A festive mood fills a Christmas Eve scene with singing and laughter as children look forward to tomorrow's toys and treats. Original poem by 8A Grade captures joyful anticipation and seasonal warmth.
In a ninth grade verse Mattie B. Askew writes of a Christmas tree bedecked with bright robes and lights, beautiful toys, bells, and a star, as children gather to sing carols in a stormy night.
Merry Christmas day the note invites joy and leisure with playful tone Roy C Thompson signs a festive message encouraging laughter and song on a lazy holiday afternoon
A fragmentary poem fragment notes children around a Christmas tree singing for toys Santa Claus will bring. The verse hints at a possibly original work with children’s chorus and holiday wishes.
A North Carolina district collector states that merchants and manufacturers can readily take their 1921 inventories to conform with the Revenue Acts of 1918 and 1921. The section on inventories empowers the Commissioner, with the Secretary's approval, to prescribe the basis for inventories when needed to determine income.
A 1921 bank committee resolves instructions on inventory valuation for tax purposes. It explains cost or market methods for merchants and manufacturers, adds transportation costs, and sets market price as the benchmark when open quotations are unavailable. The note stresses proof of both cost and market, careful record keeping, and approval requirements.
The Board accepts the resignation of Mr C A Wyche as President with reluctance after eight years of service. It thanks him for faithful leadership and vigilance guarding the association’s interests and security. He will remain a member of the Directorate and continue to serve.
Primary Department students at Roanoke Rapids and Rosemary organized a book fair during December. Teachers and children crafted items to sell raising 162 dollars split across booths. prizes honored originality and representation of children’s work. community support noted for its cooperative spirit and enjoyment.
Intense rivalry marked Book Week with prizes in grammar and high school grades. Miss Hearn’s grade won the grammar prize, Miss Lamb’s grade placed second. A confusion arose when pupils sided with the seniors turning some books to the eleventh grade, but the tenth grade won the overall prize by a narrow margin.
Rosemary parents gathered Wednesday afternoon with twenty-one attendees to discuss a school milk station. EB Coltrane highlighted milk access as essential, Miss Coble stressed child nutrition, and a milk allotment program was proposed offering a quarter daily milk for one week per child after holidays for twenty cents.
A lien for repairs performed in September on an Oakland automobile, stored since, totals 135 dollars. Under Section 2436 Consolidated Statutes of North Carolina the sale will occur at 1:30 o'clock.
Fragmentary OCR note records a 1922 event near a Post Office in North Carolina. Mentions cash bid, a person named Mary, and references to individuals and an attorney L.28-21-crd. Readable details are limited and uncertain.
Trustee Jos P Pippen will sell on January 5 1922 at Halifax Court House door at 12 M for cash the land described as western 106 feet along line Dobbs Street to Owens estate line 106 feet to a hotel tract then north 82 feet to the beginning in the town of Halifax Halifax County North Carolina.
Executors of the estate of Mra Missouri A Newsome announce a public auction at the Halifax court house door at ten o clock A M on January 9th 1922 for cash of real estate described as a stake marked parcel near the old Bacon path with a white oak pointer in the Howard Browning estate corner along Mrs M W Ransome line and its center.
C.E. Fosters survey dated November 1 1931 outlines Lot No 1 located near Littleton NC. The tract runs from an old red oak stump along an old road then traces Johnston and Brownings lines to stake and pine pointers. It measures forty six and one half acres more or less and lies beside No 8 division road with various course bearings and distances described.
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