Halifax County Bar Association Forms via 1921 Meeting
A Halifax County Bar Association founded at a January 1921 meeting in the county courthouse with W. E. Daniel elected Chairman and W. L. Knight Secretary. The group adopted a uniform fee schedule for professional services and ordered any unlicensed attorney or nonattorney performing legal work for compensation to be reported to authorities. All attending lawyers joined. others may apply to the secretary.
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Halifax County
Court House
Halifax County Bar Association
W. E. Daniel
William L. Knight
North Carolina
W. L. Knight
Weldon, N.C
National Week of Song to Boost Roanoke Rapids
Roanoke Rapids joins a nationwide National Week of Song during George Washington’s birthday week. A community sing led by Prof Wade R Brown will be held at the Central School Auditorium Friday night February 25. Local residents and visitors are noted for travel and business. the piece includes regional notes on cotton production and local dwellers' activities.
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America
George Washington
Roanoke Rapids
Rosemary
Wade R. Brown
N. C. College For Women
Greensboro
Prof. Brown
Raleigh
Cedarwood Cemetery Association Forms Plan For Expansion
The Cedarwood Cemetery Association meets at the First National Bank Building to adopt a name and extend the cemetery. Plans call for future lots, land annexation, a surrounding fence, and beautification. An estimated $3,000 is needed to begin, and organizations are urged to elect representatives to fund the cemetery. The next meeting is Monday night February 28, 1921.
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Tce First National Bank
Cedarwood
Kreisler Recital Delights Raleigh Roanoke Rapids Audiences
Fritz Kreisler gave a recital at the ity Auditorium on Saturday night February 5th drawing many local music lovers from Raleigh and nearby towns. The program featured familiar and unfamiliar pieces with encores and Kreisler's Caprice Viennois. The crowd praised his violin and the performance. The writer notes a new auditorium in town and urges continued touring concerts in nearby cities.
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Roanoke Rapids
Raleigh
Fritz Kreisler
Ity
Kreisler
Sovenir
Object of the Truest Artists Reflected in Design and Emotion
A fragmented reflection on art and expression argues that true artists seek permanence in imagery while design channels sharper passions within a narrative or emotion. The text contends that art should be admired calmly, balancing enduring forms with reactive feelings.
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Reskin
Twin Beds Coming to The Peoples Theatre
Roanoke Rapids to host the Selwyn New York comedy Twin Beds at the Peoples Theatre with the original cast and a full scenery car, after extensive wire pulling by manager Paul Robinson. The one night engagement Wednesday February 16th offers advance seating at Taylor Matthews Drug Store.
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Paul Robinson
The
Peoples Theatre
Selwyn New York
Roanoke Rapids
Garrick
Washington
Fords Opera House
Baltimore
Colonial
Norfolk
Strand
Richmond
Taylor Matthews Drug Store
Fraternal Notes from Carolina Lodge 225 Meeting
Carolina Lodge No 225 1 0 F held a regular meeting on Monday night February 7 elected one candidate to the degrees and announced next Monday will confer the Introduatory Degree C A Dickens was named chairman of the membership campaign urged by the 6th District Supervisor Dr Bell of Belhaven Lodge 228 attended as a visitor and gave a constructive talk.
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Carolina Lodge No
O. F
C. A. Dickens
Bell
Belhaven
Mie
Ball
Brother Bell
Hipple Company Concert Closes Lyceum Season
The Hipple Company gave a delightful concert in the Central School Auditorium last night. A fair sized audience braved ugly weather to hear versatile musicians whose program and encores pleased the crowd. The performance closed the regular Lyceum season with Supt Coltrane announcing a post season program of three numbers.
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Hipple Company
Central School
Supt. Coltrane
Meeting of North Carolina College Women in Weldon
The Halifax County Alumnae and Former Students Association of the North Carolina College for Women will hold a regular meeting on Saturday morning February 19 at 11 00 in the Sunday School rooms of the Baptist Church Weldon All alumnae and former students are invited and urged to attend Miss Ethel Bollinger College Alumnae Secretary and Dean W C Jackson History Department will be guests Mrs Blake Hardy Weldon asks for early RSVP.
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Halifax County
North Carolina College For Women
Weldon
Baptist’ Church
Ethel Bollinger
W. C. Jackson
History Department
Blake Hardy
Aurelian Springs Club Elects Officers At Meeting
Aurelian Springs Club met in the high school room last Thursday February 9 with 20 members. Elsie Butts was elected president and Clemmie Chiester secretary as officers were chosen and the group organized for real work.
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Misa Leatherwood
Elsie Butts
Clemmie Chicester
Clemmie Chiester
Rosemary Laundry Co to Begin Full Operation Monday
Mr. O. L. Smith, manager, states that installation and testing of machinery are complete. The Rosemary Laundry Co will start full scale operations Monday at the Roanoke avenue plant near the junction, offering flat work and rough dry services.
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O. L. Smith
Rosemary Laundry Co
Roanoke Avenue
WITH THE CHURCHES Lent Services Schedule
Next Sunday marks the first Sunday in Lent with 11:00 A M Holy Communion and sermon. An 7:30 evening service and sermon, 9:45 Church School under Mull en. Ash Wednesday service is Wednesday at 10 A M with Holy Communion. Friday night 1:30 features Rev E W Baxter of Warrenton as special preacher. The Church with Welcome.
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Mullen
E. W. Baxter
Warrenton
Presbyterian Church Sunday Services and Recital Schedule
The Presbyterian Church will hold Sunday School at 10:00 A M Morning Service at 11:00 A M and Afternoon Service at 5:00 P M conducted by Rev James Fowl The afternoon service continues through February The vesper service will be followed by a short organ recital by Mr Stanage All members of the community and strangers are invited to attend
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James Fowl
Stanage
First Christian Church Notices and School Schedule
Sunday services at ten and eleven o'clock with Sunday School in the morning and evening worship at seven. The church is housed in the Hayes Supply Building, now Rosemary Opera House. A Minnesota farmer donated the church materials and a Topping family member is superintendent. Also included are notes on insect sounds and water clarity in shallow depths.
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Minnesota
Christian Church
Predera
Secasa
T. J. Topping
Hayes
Rosemary Opera House
Motion Pictures in School First Show Next Monday Night
After repeated efforts arrangements are about complete for motion pictures in the school at regular intervals. The first picture will be shown next Monday night Americana featuring Douglas Fairbanks. An admission fee of ten cents will be charged. Feebleness remarks on patience and temper follow from an Exchange quote.
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Douglas Fairbanks
Hollister Sees Upbeat Jazz Minstrel On Friday Night
Hollister residents attend an all round up-to-date jazz minstrel show on February 25 as the town anticipates Friday night March 4 when Aurelian Springs will present the play Better Than Gold. Miss Evan Cunningham and Miss Binford host a Tuesday evening club with refreshments provided. Guests include Mrs. Dr. Palmer and Mrs. Hill. Mr. Bruce Tillery of Wake Forest visits family in Hollister.
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Hollister Communy
Hollister
Evan Cunningham
Miss Cunningham
Binford
Dr. Palmer
Hill
Aurelian Springs
Valuable Japanese Plant Turns Bark Into Leatherlike Material
A Japanese plant, the miteumata shrub, yields inner bark processed into a tough, calfskinlike substance. It becomes 80 percent transparent and highly pliable, rivaling French kid leather in strength and texture.
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Japan
Darkness Destroys Goldfish Vision After Three Years
Ognes kept goldfish in absolute darkness for three years with ample space and food. The experiment produced total blindness as the rods and cones of the retina disappeared, reported in New York.
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Ognes
New York
Powelltown Items and School Club Activities
Mrs Uhas returns home from Roanoke Rapids Hospital after illness. Carolina Literary Society of South Rosemary High elected Nellie Williams president Clyde Rook vice president Edna Tickle secretary treasurer. A debate group including Mattie Hudson Helen Powell Lewis Johnson and Dick Brown praised. The Society meets February 11. Services at Smith's Church drew a large attendance with Sunday School next week at 10. Domestic Science Club heard from Mrs Smith district demonstration agent. Ministre Show at South Rosemary February 14 promises simple but funny entertainment. High School to present Cora's Callers and a free evening program at South Rosemary School February 23 with songs drills readings and plays. 7:30 PM admission 10 cents.
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Uhas
Jonson
Roanoke Rapids
Carolina Literary Society
South Rosmary High School
Nellie Williams
Clyde Rook
Edna Tickle
Secy
Treas
Mattie Hudson
Helen Powell
Lewis Johnson
Dick Brown
Smith's Church
South Rosemary
Cora
George Washington
South Rosemary School
Notice of real estate foreclosure in Halifax County North Carolina
Notice is given that by virtue of a deed of trust from W F Horner to Geo C Green trustee dated January 1 1915 and recorded Book 24 page 68 Halifax County the undersigned will sell at the post office door Thelma North Carolina on March 12 1921 the property described as a tract of about 206 acres in Littleton Township bounded by Great Creek Eaton s Ferry Road Punkum Branch and the Thelma Brinkleyville road with two excptions totaling roughly 50 acres. The sale is to satisfy the indebtedness secured by the deed of trust and the undersigned is the trustee Geo C Green.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
Robeson County
United
States
Johnson
Sampson
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
Halifax County
Scotland County
Robeson
W. F. Horner
Geo. C. Green
Truxtee
Thelma
N.C
Littleton Township
Brinkleyville
Great Creek
Eaton's Ferry
S Gum
Punkum Branch
Eaton's Forsey Road
Brink
Geo. C. Greens
Remarkable remarks on language and malaria dosing
A Boston Transcript excerpt cites Conan Doyle praising a dictionary and recounts a Watson remark. An authority, Dr. C. C. Baas of New Orleans, comments on quinine dosing for malaria in children, noting that infants under one year require one twentieth of the adult dose and children ages one to fifteen require one tenth.
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Watson
Bulla Conan Doyle
Dic Vonary
Boston Transcript
C. C. Baas
New Orleans
IRS Representative to Aid Roanoke Rapids Taxpayers
A representative of the U S Internal Revenue Department will be at the First National Bank in Roanoke Rapids on February 21 and 22, 1921, to assist the public in preparing 1920 income tax reports.
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U. S. Internal Revenue Department
First National Bank
Roanoke Rapids
Roanoke Rapids Plans Sale of 275000 School Bonds
Roanoke Rapids Graded School District seeks sealed bids by February 28 1921 at the First National Bank for 275000 in coupon registerable bonds dated January 16 1921. Bonds pay 6 percent interest semiannually and mature serially through 1982 with principal and interest insured by Hanover National Bank. Proposals require certified check equal to 2 percent of face value. delivery follows accrued interest and bond validity opinions.
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Roanoke Rapids
Halifax
N. C
First National Bank
Halifax County
Reed
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Joe Butts
Miss Lucutts
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J. W. Taylor
Lewis Jones
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B. Marke
J. H. Harrison
Philadelphia
F. M. Coburn
J. M. Jackson
Goldsboro
Bettie Hooks
Majorie Mendenhall
Fremont
Mary Duke
Charlottesville
Myrtle Smith
Bethel
Louise Smith
Rey
L. B. Jones
Tarboro
Jones
Abe Norinsky
Boston
Job Taylor
C. E. Murray
Mary Powell
Lucy Crisp
Eunice Jerome
Jackson
R. L
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Durham
C. H. Satterwhite
J. O. Brown
Fannie Marks
Troy Liverman
Wilson
B. Marks
Cemetery Association Meets
Ritz Kreisler
C.F
Meeting of
North Carolina College Women
Aurelian Springs Club News
Rosemary Laundry Company
All Saints Church
Lewis N Taser
Remaie
First Christian Church
R. L. Topping
Charice Warren Stoddard
Cnargea
Hollister News
Bruce Tillery
Wake Forest
Powelltown
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