Floods Close Halifax Mills As Caledonia Dyke Breaks
Heavy rains push Roanoke River to flood levels, breaching a 150 foot Caledonia dyke and flooding nearly 2000 acres in Halifax County. Roanoke Mills and Halifax Paper Co plants close. areas around Raleigh and Fayetteville fear further rises. Officials cite muskrat activity or root damage as possible dyke cause. state weather officials warn of continuing river rises and more road closures. Local mills suspend operations. Tar and Neuse rivers surge, with Tarboro and Greenville seeing banks overflow.
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Roanoke Mills Co
Halifax Paper Co
Caledonia
Halifax County
Roanoke
Oscar Pitts
State Penal Division
Roanoke River
Pitts
Raleigh
North Carolina
Lee A. Denson
Weather Bureau
Cape Fear
Fayetteville
Neuse
Smithfield Thursby
Caledonia dyke breach recalls costly history
Happy 4H Girl moved cattle as workers tried to reinforce the Roanoke River dyke when a sudden break flooded lower farm areas. About 3,000 bushels of corn were lost. no buildings or stock harmed. The Caledonia dykes, 3.7 miles along the Roanoke, have broken several times since 1910, last in 1932 costing $150,000. Built 1830 by slaves on Johnson plantation, first breached in 1865 washouts, rebuilt 1894 by convict labor.
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Caledonia
Roanoke
Johnson
Nurses Dance Draws Crowd at Nurses Home
About 150 people attended the annual Nurses Dance in the Nurses Home reception rooms last night. Dot Bennett and his Collegians provided music in what attendees called the best dance yet hosted by the local nurses.
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Dot Bennett
Collegians
Roanoke Mills and Patterson Mills form girls basketball league
Roanoke Mills Co number one and number two join Patterson Mills Co to form a fast girls league led by Cyntha Lowe Mildred Balmer Mildred Mitchell and Mildred Burton Coach Lefty Davis and managers lead the squads with captains Burton Newton and Mitchell. Rosters list players from all three mills and practice begins with a schedule to be published next week. Walter Morris received three months on vagrancy charge after kneeling and appealing to the law on a Buffalo street.
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Roanoke Mills Co
Patterson Mills Co
Cyntha Lowe
Mildred Balmer
Mildred Michell
Mildred Burton
Lefty Davis
Nmber Two Mill
Mildred Mitchell
Patterson Mills
Mill
Mildred Newton
Lessie Shaw
Rosa Mae Thompson
Mildred Leverman
Verlie Woodruff
Edith Morris
Mildred Shaw
Bashie Davis
Callie Livermore
Lucille Ferrell
Ollie Davis
Christine Jenkins
Dorothy Coronwell
Tiney Crumpler
Evelyn Beard
Lucille Beard
Arthur Cooper
Mickey Mitchell
Elizabeth Shearin
Dorothy Liffey
Louise Burton
Ruth Hopkins
Edith Blythe
Vivian Speight
Trammie Thompson
Willie Moore Revelle
Mary Saunders
Callie Mae Lattimore
Sarah Medlin
Mildred Edwards
Martha Bennett
Elma Ethridge
Mildreds
Walter Morris
Buffalo
Wo mans Club January Meeting Held In Clubhouse
The Wo mans Club met at the clubhouse on Monday afternoon with seventeen members present due to weather. Mrs. W. A. Thorne led the business session planning January February entertainments and ongoing fund raising. Welfare Department reported Christmas work. Chief Early spoke on highway and street safety with practical tips. Refreshments followed at five. Mrs. Sam Bunn hosted a bridge gathering with prizes to Mrs. Hubert Wirtz and Miss Edna Wafford. attendees listed include Ivy Mahon George Lampley A C George Eugene Wilson Allie Wood Morgan.
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Womans Club
W. A. Thorne
Early
Sam Bunn
Hubert Wirtz
Edna Wafford
Mesdames Ivy Mahorn
George Lampley
A. C. George
Eugene Wilson
Allie Wood
B. C. Morgan
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Prison Farm
Tarboro
Greenville
Rocky Mount
Roanoke Rapids
Wayne Co
Ast
Little Rock
Ark
Romayne Tate
Arkansas
President Roosevelt
Girls AT Mills
Meinute
R.J.Reynolds Tobacco_ Co
Winston-Salem
N. C
Mrs. Bunn
Weldon Production
Credit Association
Weldon, North Carolina
Weldon
Land Bros
Emporia and
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