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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1935
Page
5
The Kiwanis Club sponsors a monthly free clinic for crippled persons led by Dr. Walter F. Cole in Roanoke Rapids July 10. Diagnosis and treatment free for those unable to pay, with outreach to crippled children and residents within 50 miles.
Heathsville Woman's Club notes the death of its oldest member Mrs. R. A. Light on May 17 1935 at 76. The group honors her service and kindness and adopts resolutions including submitting to God and extending sympathy to her family. Copies are sent to the family club secretary and county papers. The poem expresses loss.
Engineers describe a brake testing device as ideal for accuracy and simplicity used by the Brooklyn Edison Co. It mounts a speedometer on a fifth wheel and uses a gun blast mark to measure stopping distance. A Hudson car test showed stops averaging about half the police standard distance.
Paul Spencer, 23, convicted of second degree murder, fled Caledonia prison farm with five companions two weeks ago. His body was found in the Roanoke River near Caledonia by a fishing party, while John Henry Lowder, missing companion, is thought dead. Four others captured. Iva King suspended. David Dew recaptured after breakout using a screwdriver improvised from a bucket handle.
Sarah Babb a 17 month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Jimmie Babb died Thursday morning June 27 at her Monroe Street home from whooping cough and heart trouble Funeral services were at Ashley Grove Church conducted by Rev Gordon Price Interment was in the churchyard Surviving are her parents two sisters Lucy Mae and Margaret and a brother James all of this city
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during the illness and death of our daughter, Sarah Babb. Appreciation for the floral offerings. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Babb and family.
Residents and visitors travel between Burlington, Skippers, Norfolk, and other towns. People like Mrs Anne McClure and Corrine McClure visit in Burlington. Misses Collins, Wilkerson, and Jernigan travel to Washington and Gatesville. Some attend funerals in Tarboro while others visit relatives in Franklin, Weldon, and Lawrenceville.
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