Pneumonia Fatal Thieves Loot Triple A Grocery Co
Thieves broke into the Triple A Grocery on Roanoke Avenue and escaped with at least 200 in wholesale value. They forced the front door with a crowbar and padlock, taking cigarettes, snuff, candy, and 190 cigars. Officers pursue clues with a liberal reward offered for return of merchandise and arrest of suspects. Charles Ogletree and manager George N. Taylor alerted police at 7 am.
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Triple A Grocery Co
Roanoke Avenue
Seans
Carl Green
Paul Lewter
North Ward
First St
Mr. Green
Triple R
Charles Ogletree
George N. Taylor
Triple A
Roanoke Rapids News Roundup and Local Happenings
The Herald reports increased paid advertising and urges earlier copy for news items due to a new schedule. Civics meeting set for Monday at 3 pm at Mrs. W. T. Lamm’s Roanoke Avenue home. Dick Martin, Rhythm Aces drummer, to perform at Imperial Theatre shows this weekend. A 7 pound turnip now weighs 5 pounds 10 ounces, grown at Bracey Virginia. L J Jones rebuilds a bungalow on Hamilton Street after a recent fire. City employs about 40 men on Federal Aid relief projects including street openings and cemetery work.
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Dick Martin
R. L. Martin
Virginia Electro and Power Co
Rhythm Aces
Dan Fitch Co
Wich
Imperial Theatre
Young Martin
Roanoke Rapids
Etherdge
Bracey
L. J. Jones
Hamilton Street
Auburn Daughtery
Local Construction Crew Starts Big Project Near East Seventh
A 25 man crew for Fiske-Carter Construction prepares for large scale work within days. Three applications per job, local labor priority, and about 30 more workers to be notified next week. First tasks include the outfall line from East Seventh Street to the canal and sewer work on Jefferson Charlotte and Marshall streets as material arrives.
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Fiske-Carter Construction Co
W. E. Baker
East Seventh St
Jefferson
Fifth
Charlotte
Marshall
Fathers Meet Roanoke Rapids Parents in January Night
A joint meeting of all Parent-Teacher Associations in Roanoke Rapids city schools will be held in the High School auditorium Tuesday night at 8. The event aims to attract more fathers, with room prizes for the most fathers and mothers. Speakers will address school issues in Halifax County. Superintendent Baker calls it his hardest job amid local engineering and RFC pressures as he pledges a top sanitary water system.
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Roanoke Rapids
Halifax County
Supt
Baker
Engineer and Sanitary Board
RFC
Nine year old girl dies as pneumonia claims lives in Roanoke Rapids
A weekend pneumonia outbreak in Roanoke Rapids claimed three lives including 9 year old Rachel May Starnes daughter of Reverend S J Starnes of the First Methodist Church. Also dying were Mrs Minnie Garner and infant Dale Martin. Funeral services for Rachel May Starnes were held at the First Methodist Church with Presiding Elder L B Jones officiating.
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Roanoke Rapids
Rachel May Starnes
Minnie Garner
Dale Mar
S. J. Starnes
First Methodist Church
Mrs Minnie Garner Dies of Lobar Pneumonia
Mrs Minnie Garner 44 wife of B M Garner died at the local hospital from lobar pneumonia Saturday. Funeral services were held at the residence of Mrs W R Curtis on Washington St with Rev D M Sharpe officiating and interment was in Roanoke Rapids cemetery. She was a native of South Carolina and had lived here for several years. Her sister and other relatives from South Carolina attended. Mrs Garner was widely known for neighborly deeds in Patterson town.
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Minnie Garner
B. M. Garner
Lobar
W. R. Curtis
Washington St
D. M. Sharpe
Roanoke Rapids
South Carolina
Infant Dale Martin Dies During Visit in Chester
Pneumonia claimed a third victim yesterday. Five month old Dale Martin, son of Mr and Mrs Sam Martin of Chester South Carolina, died while visiting Mr and Mrs H J Bennett on Williams Street. The funeral will be held today in Chester.
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Dale Martin
Sam Martin
Chester
S. C
H. J. Bennett
Williams St
Sister of Local Druggist Dies Friday
O. Grittin, a Bailey North Carolina druggist, was summoned to his sister Mary E. Thompson's bedside last Friday as she died Sunday night after months of illness. Funeral services were held Monday with burial in the family cemetery. She is survived by her husband Phelan Thompson, four children, her mother, six brothers and one sister. Mr and Mrs R E Cleaton Jr return from a Florida motor trip visiting notable resorts.
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O. Grittin
Mary E. Thompson
Bailey
N. C
Griffin
Phelan Thompson
Thompson
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Civics Department
Womans Club
W. T. Lamm
Babe
Ruth
Swat
New York
Yankees
Starnes
Jackson Street
L. B. Jones
Rocky Mount
Sarah Towe
Mary Coburn Woodruff
Beulah Cook
Bernice Tudor
Margaret Hines
Mary Frances Taylor
Durham
R. E. Cleaton, Jr
Florida
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