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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1935
Page
4
A busy quarter recounts local labor shifts with 2000 workers back after a strike and mill payroll gains. It notes crimes, weddings, funerals, school changes, church moves, political rallies, charity drives, and rising reports from Halifax County as 1934 nears year end.
December 6 notes report Rev J J Boone and Rev S J Starnes returning to city Methodist charges following the annual conference. The record lists several trial outcomes including Johnny Brown jailed 28 to 30 years for second degree murder and Jack Thorne acquitted of murder.
Fire Department Boys perform as Santa Claus while Mosley Newsom marriage is noted. A county home superintendent is shot by a 60 year old inmate during a confiscation of whiskey but not seriously hurt. Several deaths occur including Mrs. Rosa Bell Wright and Mrs. Mary E. Hawkins. Gassaway Owen begin Roanoke Avenue widening as rail collision injures several near Enfield.
Mrs. Pope entertained Miss Edna Pope of Norfolk Virginia as the guest of honor at a Friday evening bridge party. Sixteen guests attended and prizes were awarded to Mrs. W G Bunch and Mrs. George Lampley the guest of honor. A salad course with coffee followed at ten thirty.
A noted saying declares the men who move the world are the ones the world cannot move, honoring steadfast individuals shaping events beyond public influence.
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