Roanoke Rapids News Highlights War Hero and Local Theatre Reopenings
Volume V Number 45 reports Corporal Willie Higson of Company Tenth Infantry awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism near Hellicourt France on September 20 1918. It notes plans to reopen the Lyric Theatre closed since 1916, with local organizers Vincent and Matthews steering arrangements. Also covered are community notices from Sturday announcements, church events at Sturday and Louisburg Hloyes family updates, and War Savings stamps policies including redemption options and state totals.
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Willie Higson
Roanoke Rapids
M Mleteher Vincent
F J
J. A. Matthews
Lyric Theatre
Ars. Athall
Hale
War Department
Sturday
Fone
Rosemary
Fin
Avery
France
Company Tenth Infantry
A. S
Hellicourt
Higson
Rosemary and Airlie Boy Aid Rosemary Reported
Local notes record T M Jenkins visiting Richmond on business with Mrs Jenkins, families moving to Rosemary from Seaboard and Washington NC, Billy Sunday services drawing crowds, and new Rosemary Manufacturing Co hires. Also mentions tobacco yields, Coast artillery unit movements to port aboard South Dakota, and Corporal Williams linked to Joyner Jones Furniture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. Dayton
Washington, N.C
Rosemary
T. M. Jenkins
Richmond
Billy Sunday
A. L. Fox
Danville
Rosemary Manufacturing Co
W. C. Bass
Marriages in Roanoke Rapids United by Justice Dickens
John H Morgan and Ada B Lewis both of Roanoke Rapids wed last Saturday night. The couple plan to reside in Roanoke Rapids with Justice of the Peace J Knox Dickens officiating. Robert Pitts and Stella May Wood of Roanoke Rapids also married, to live here. Twenty five percent of the United War Work Campaign pledge was due in January. send a check to the campaign chairman Lewis N Taylor to ease many calls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Morgan
Ada B. Lewis
Roanoke Rapids
Justice of the St
J. Knox Dickens
Morgan
Robert . Pitts
Stella May Wood
Pitts
United War Work Campaign
Lewis N, Taylor
Postmaster Examination and Local Notices Chronicle
The page outlines postmaster examination eligibility for U.S. citizens aged 21 to 64 and directs applicants to obtain Form 304 from local postmasters or the Civil Service Commission in Washington. It also records church announcements, personal visits, and community notices from Roanoke Rapids and surrounding areas, including social, religious, and civic items from January 1919.
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United States Civil Service Com
United States
Civil Service Commission
Washington, D.C
Washington, D. C
Presbyterian Church Service Schedule and Notices
The Presbyterian Church lists Rev. Stanley White as pastor with Miss Julia Thompson as organist. Morning service at 11:00, evening service 5:00, Sunday School at 9:45, Bible class, and various groups meet weekly. Next Sunday marks the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple with a communion service at 7:30. Regular prayer meetings, choir rehearsals, and auxiliary group activities are scheduled, with attendance encouraged by the public.
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Epworth
A. G. Carter
Rosemary Baptist Church
Carter
Severl
Y. M. Coa
Joseph House
Enfield
Red Cress
I. L. Towe
Raleizh
Durhein
Williama Towe
Trinity
Temple
T. W. Mullen
Girls Friendly Society
Womans
W. Woodruff
Halifax County Honored Visitor Views Consolidated Schools
On January 28 Mr. E Eybers from the Union of South Africa visited Halifax County to study its consolidated schools. He traveled from Germany England and Scotland before arriving in the United States and studying New York North Carolina and Wisconsin schools. He toured Roanoke Rapids Graded School six Rural Schools Bear Swamp Hollister Brinkley No 1 and praised the buildings and equipment at consolidated schools while noting some mixed results in local white and colored schools.
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Eternal City
Roanoke Rapids
Herald
N. C
Scales
Guilford County
Stevens
Buncombe
North Carolina
Scales-Stevens
General Assembly
E. Eybers
Union of South Africa
H | County
Eybers
Germany
Leipsie
England
Scotland
United States
New York
Wisconsin
University of North Carolina
Umbe
Edge Iy
Roanke Rapids Issues Chicken Ordinance Warning
Police Chief C. G. Hamlet orders Roanke Rapids residents to confine all chickens at once. Violators face prompt prosecution under the new ordinance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanke Rapids
C. G. Hamlet
Blue Triangle Campaign Aims for One Million Dollar Help
Reconstruction era widens girl issues as 400 Washington girls vanish and 537 from North Carolina go to work in war effort. YWCA launches Blue Triangle Campaign February 6 to 17 seeking $14 751 from North Carolina to aid unemployed and prepare peacetime programs amid ongoing emergency funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Young Woman's Christian Association
North Carolina
Blue Triangle
America
United War Work Fund
Honolulu
Hollywood
Salt Lake City
Young Women’s Christian Association
Red Cross
Liberty Loan
Joans
Thone Dinky Belts In Bold Flight From Tailor
A terse notice describes Thone Dinky as a strong and fleet man who can outpace his tailor, with a Ginky belt tacked to his coat signaling a swift, evasive posture amid fashion pressures.
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AN Springs News
Mise Mae Tito
Louisburg
Hloyes
Arents
Mra
John
Sarah Towe
Louisburg Hloy
John Liles
Jeseth
Mro
Trueblood
Hldon
Till Liss
Liles
Assi
Jan
Mamie Green
Wm. Towe
Baty
Col
Cey
Win
Towe
Raleigh
Lois Iwley
Vicipal
Vociet Chareh We
Peter
Treasury Department
WIS
North
Arolina
First National Bank of
Airlie Boy
Qutay Sea
Halifax
Jenkins
R.L. Dickens
Cora Wilkins
Helen Wilkins
Protestant Hospital
Norfolk
William Sharp
Charlotte
Willis S. Whitaker
John Arrowood
Newport
Tenn
C. M. Jones
Cullom
Jackson
Chas
T. Windley
Belhaven
Vernon Buffalo
Tyt. Evans
G. E. Evans
James C. Spencer
Nannie Mary Collins
Wilson
R. L. Dickens
New York City
Geo. J. Hayes
Lillian Short
Jennie
Elizabeth Edmondson
Hobgood
J. W. Medlin
Sallie Medlin
Littleton
Laura Smith
Hazel Cobb
J. A. Moore
Carson
Memphis
A. P. Bobbit
Nashville
F. Dee
Royster
Royster Guano Company
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Iowa
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Astoria
Brest
Luby
Caldwell
Airlie
Baltimore Sun
Corporal Williams
Woc Williams
Joyner- Jones Furniture Company
Lewis
Wood Pitts
Coburn
W Hancock
Williams
Bias McRae
Baltimore
Ma Will Moor
Chiis, Roughton
Henderson
Lottie Green
Marthnor White
Newport News
Miss Pearl Robertson
Rocky Mount
Roger Warren
Marie Bishop
W. Gi. Hovkaday
of C. Vancan
Clayton
First Methodist Church Conference
E. C. Few
A. M. Proctor
Lee’y
Wilmington
N.C
All Saints Church
Epine
Lewis N. Taylor
Laura Carroll
Roanoke Avenue
Halifax County
Chicken Owners
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