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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1939
Page
6
Reader notes blend playful puzzles with social observations. A missing eyebrow tweezers mystery resolves as a cook’s turkey pin feather removal is revealed. A wedding cake inquiry yields no favors found, while musings turn to war and Don Quixote analogies about bombing and windmills.
The Enfield community reports the marriage of Dr. Ben D Mann formerly of Enfield now of Columbus Georgia to Mrs Thelma Gilmore of Columbus on December 25 They honeymooned in Florida and now reside in Columbus Dr Mann is son of the late B D Mann Enfield The week features a Missionary meeting at Enfield Baptist Church with twenty four attendees and club gatherings including the Thursday Bridge Club enfield garden club announces a benefit event January 20 at the Masonic building Also noted are local weddings births and sports notes including football letters to seventeen Enfield players and a birth announced for John Cannady Williams II in January 1939
The Enfield district records health updates and social events. Paul V. Brown Jr. returns home from Rocky Mount Sanitarium after an operation, and Betty Lou Gladstone earns a beauty contest cup in Reidsville. The U D C adds The Rise of the Confederacy volumes to the Enfield library memorial shelf. Barbara Ann Smith is born at Rocky Mount Sanitarium, with Mrs. Smith formerly Almeda Cameron.
James Lawrence colored assault with deadly weapon prayer for judgment on costs and $6 Estelle Anthony. Clarence Anthony colored assault with deadly weapon not guilty. John Pittman colored liquor 60 days on roads. William Daniel colored driving without lights remanded to Justice of Peace. Nora Lawrence colored assault with deadly weapon prayer for costs and $9 doctors bill and two years good behavior. Robert Lee Powell white reckless driving prayer for judgment on costs. Wade Cooper and Shelton Furgerson white assault with deadly weapon not pros with leave. George Eddy colored obtain money through trickery 8 months roads after 60 day sentence. Pleasant Staton colored assault 0 days road sentence.
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