Lions Club Sets Roanoke Rapids Mid Summer Festival
The Roanoke Rapids Lions Club announces the second annual Mid Summer Festival August 8 to 13 at the same site as last year. Crescent Amusement Company to operate rides and shows. Proceeds fund blind charity and eye clinics. Queen contest offers $100 plus prizes.
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Roanoke Rapids Lions Club
Ted Speight
Crescent Amusement Company
A. J. Grey
Lions Blind
Lions International
Durham
North Carolina
Gastonia
Sherman Husted
Roanoke Rapids
L. C. McHenry
Virginia Electric and Power Company
Owls Set for Crewe Doubleheader Sunday Afternoon
Roanoke Rapids Owls face Crewe, Virginia in a Southside League doubleheader Sunday at 2 p.m. New pitcher Walter Davis earned a win over Norfolk Monarchs. Next week the Owls head to Greensboro for the State Semi-Pro Tournament July 13–23 with Wichita, Kansas, as the ultimate goal.
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Crewe
Walter Davis
Concord
Norfolk Monarchs
Owls
Greensboro
Witchita
Kans
McCreary Eagles
Roanoke Rapids
Roanoke Rapids Owls
Lawrenceville
Joe Talley
Wake Forest
Joe
Hit-and-run claims Roanoke Rapids textile worker
William Frank Edwards a Roanoke Rapids resident and former Roanoke Mill No 2 employee died in a hit-and-run on the road between Roanoke Rapids and Weldon. Investigators traced the incident to a truck from High Point operated by Henly. Coroner T M Cooper noted Edwards had asked about a train to Thelma before his death.
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Selma
N. C
William Frank Edwards
Roanoke Rapids
Edwards
Roanoke Mill No. 2
Weldon
Roanoke Rapids Hospital
George W. Edwards
L. H Bottoms
High Point
Henly
T. M. Cooper
Halifax County
Thelma
Littleton
Cooper
In Old Chicago Pitts-Emporia Engagements
For three days July 10 11 12 the New Pitts Theatre Emporia presents In Old Chicago with Tyrone Power Alice Faye Don Ameche and a Chicago fire scene cost over two million. July 13 14 shows Battle of Broadway with Victor McLaglen Louis Hovick Brian Donlevy. Friday features Gunsmoke Ranch starring the 3 Mesquiteers.
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Sun-Mon
Tue
Tyrone Power
Alice Faye
Don Ameche
Old
Chicago
New Pitts Theatre
Emporia
Hollywood
Pitts Theatre
Victor McLaglen
Louis Hovick
Brian Donlevy
Kiwanis Program Highlights Cotton Quality and Seed
The Kiwanis Club hosted cotton officials from North Carolina and the U S Department of Agriculture with over 800 community leaders in attendance. Speakers Kime and Shanklin urged uniform quality, choosing a few top varieties, improved ginning, and pure seed, noting widespread adoption in the Southwest and local plans for an experimental cotton plot near the city. The club will meet at Aurelian Springs next Thursday.
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Kiwanis Club
N. C
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
W. S. Dean
Ed Liles
Sterling Johnson
L. D. McGraw
Dave Clark
William Pierce
Charley Shields
B. B. Everett
W. O. Davis
Messrs. Kime and
Shanklin
North Carolina
Dean
Aurelian Springs
Horizon opens tale of Atlantis memory in Opal Read
H Bedford Jones author of Portals of Elusion recounts a vivid Atlantis memory sparked by an iridescent opal described in The American Weekly. The piece appears in Sunday's Washington Times feature.
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H. Bedford-Jones
Atlantis
Washing Times
Attend Funeral At Rich Square
The funeral for Miss Irene Bryant was held in Rich Square on Sunday. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bryant and children, Rosa Clyde, James Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Bryant, Mrs. Paul Woodruff and daughter Hattie Mae, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Davis and daughter Elizabeth, Miss Fannye Bryant, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bryant, Howard Taylor and daughter Ruby, and A. J. Bristow.
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Irene Bryant
Rich Square
Lloyd Bryant
Rosa Clyde
James Thomas
T. B. Bryant
Paul Woodruff
Hattie Mae
C. L. Davis
Elizabeth
Fannye Bryant
Herbert Bryant
Howard Taylor
Ruby
A. J. Bristow
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Lions Club
R.A
Aas
Nethercutt
Bouza
Irving Dickens
The
Jacobs
Sanford
Rapids
Ricks and Market
Talley and Nethercutt
NEW Pitts
Virginia
Thur
Broadway
Frei
Gunsmoke Ranch
Beverly Roberts
W. F. Edwards
Old Chicago
Pitts - Emporia
America
Yankees
Kiwanis
Eaday
Miller High
Oslo
Miller Brewing Company
Milwaukee
Littleton, N.C
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