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Roanoke area and Halifax county items in August notices
Local items report community events from August including sports notes, obituaries, weddings and civic service. Highlights include school practice, a state title in 25 innings, road damage from rains, and Miss Nellie Smith funeral with church society meeting led by Mrs. M E Herman. F C Wood Jr leaves for Naval Training School in Norfolk.
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Halifax County
Alford
Akers
Nellie Smith
Washington
Halifax
PWA
F. C. Wood, Jr
U. S. Naval Training School
Norfolk
F. C. Wood
M. E. Herman
Missionary Society of the Enfield Baptist Church
Gertrude Britt
Ella Johnson
James Gray
Robert Kimson
D. Mac Johnson and
Rey
Sam T. Habel