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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1935
Page
5
A joint PTA meeting will be held in the High School Auditorium next Monday evening January 21 inviting all parents especially fathers to attend. Ra leigh’s Cale Burgess will be the principal speaker addressing the school situation today. The event supports the PTA legislative program this year.
Fidelis Class of the Baptist church at Littleton hosted a surprise party and shower for Miss Edna Walker, member of the congregation, ahead of her marriage to Robert Conroy Speight of Roanoke Rapids. The event featured a line surprise at the door, a cake cut with the ring, and a table of gifts plus peach cream and cake. Attendees included Miss Edna Walker and numerous invited guests.
Mrs. Wilber Anderton hosted the Blue Monday Club on Monday afternoon with eight players. After an interesting progressive contract game, the high score prize went to Mrs. Fletcher Dickens. A salad course followed for Mesdames J. W. Harrell, J. T. Chase, Jack Young, H. S. Loy, Fletcher Dickens, Robert Cleaton, W. A. China and J. M. C. Covington.
Miss Helen Richey, 25, becomes the first woman to win the right to wear Uncle Sam's airmail wings. She flies the Washington to Detroit route and has logged over 1000 flying hours.
Mrs Hugh Camp presided over a Monday evening bridge gathering with three tables of players. At 10:15 Miss Margaret Clark won high and received a sport handkerchief. a salad course followed after six progressions for a group of guests including Mesdames Loy Martin Allsbrook Pruden Heydenroth Stewart Jackson Dickens Hayes and Misses Tran son Clark Beckwith.
Ladies Aid Circle No. 2 met with Miss Rena Radcliffe on Monday night. The 14th chapter of John was read and discussed. Roll call and minutes of the last meeting were read. Old and new business were discussed. Refreshments followed for named attendees.
Mrs. R. M. Pope hosted Edna Pope of Norfolk Virginia as a guest for the past week.
Mr and Mrs J C Williams and children of Greenville visited the Boyd family Sunday. Frances Grant spent the weekend in Portsmouth with relatives. The Turner sisters visited Weldon with their mother. Spurgeon Purnell announces the birth of a son on January 13.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr and his new wife Helen Warner of Clarksburg W V are honeymooning in Nevada. The former Mrs W H Allsbrook is visiting relatives in Norfolk while social figures in Virginia report numerous visits and family news. A birth is announced in Roanoke Rapids Hospital Nira Jean Edwards born Friday January 11. Mrs W H Allsbrook returns to Norfolk with Miss Bennie Allsbrook after spending time with family in the area.
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