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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1941
Page
5
A first person reminiscence recalls a wartime flu epidemic and a milder current outbreak. The writer describes survival with homemade remedies like sulphur charms, rubber boots, a porkstalk shotgun, and outdoor living while schools closed and neighbors fell ill. No one died in the account.
The Minstrel Revels of 1941 bows on Thursday and Friday with a hard working cast led by Roland Johnson as director. Despite inexperience the end men and circle deliver songs and jokes, featuring George Gurley Jack Hale Rufus Mountford Mac Outland Stonewall Cooper and more in a lively amateur performance.
Jay Sanders popular Rose Mary Band featured Beilg on drums Louis Johnson violin Marshall Cop pedge and William Sanders trumpet Tom McLendon guitar Milton Harris bass Raymond Taylor on piano with his fingers of rhythm. Seeing the show will convince you it is Thursday and Friday. Mrs. Ben Butler Mrs. S L Moon Miss Rachel Moon and Miss Patsy Moon visited friends in Norfolk and Portsmouth Virginia.
Andrew Jackson of Danville Virginia was summoned for his son Lloyd illness. Eldridge DeHart of Newberry South Carolina visited with brother Clarence De Hart. Edward Glover of Portsmouth Virginia spent Sunday with his parents. Father Tommy Curran of Durham was called for his mother. Mr. and Mrs. James Barrett were visitors in Henderson. Mrs. Beverly Moore and family from Portsmouth were guests of the Glover family. Reba Faison Allison Faison and Lynch Smith spent Sunday in Oak City. M. E. Faison and Earl Faison of Portsmouth spent a week with relatives. C J Souis Mamie Speight Sam Cobb W M Seuis and W K White attended Pentecostal Holiness District Conference in Williamston. Stanly Butler of Fort Jackson South Carolina spent the weekend with his parents.
Sunday schedule lists 9:45 a.m. Church School with W. G. Lynch, 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship with Holy Communion, 6:45 p.m. Devotional meetings for Intermediates and Senior Young People, 7:30 p.m. Worship with Sermon on the theme Prayer Changes People. You are cordially invited.
Sunday School at 9 45 AM and Sermon at 11 AM led by Pastor T E Tomerlin. Choir rehearsal Wednesday at 7 30 PM with urging for all choir members to attend. Mr and Mrs John A Carter spent Sunday in Vaughan.
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