City Accepts WPA Grant for Roanoke Rapids Street Paving
The Roanoke Rapids city board accepted a WPA grant covering 45 percent of paving costs. Final specifications were to be prepared for August bids. The city will maintain a road from the state highway to the old bridge site and consider surfacing costs. Outside shooting galleries must close or move to fireproof structures. police to curb speeding on 10th Street. Sunday activities and protests discussed.
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Roanoke Rapids
City Board of Commissioners
Christie
Tenance
Roanoke No. 1
Halifax Paper Co
10Th Street
10Th St
County Women to Meet at Hollister
Halifax County Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs holds its summer meeting July 19 at 10 30 a m in Hollister M P Church. Frances MacGregor Assistant State Club leader discusses The Parents Part in a 4 H Program and directs activities. Rev E B Fisher of Roanoke Rapids First Methodist Church speaks. chorus by Hardrawee Heathsville Hollister Aurelian Springs Ringwood clubs. Bring 1938 yearbook and box lunch. Luncheon served by hostess club.
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Halifax County
Hardrawee
Heathsville
Hollister
Aurelian Springs
Ringwood
Specimen Fees Charged by Halifax County Health Department
The State Laboratory of Hygiene will sell specimen containers to county health units on a non profit basis due to increased specimen volume. A ten cent fee applies to sputum Wassermann feces urine typhoid para site examination typhoid culture chancre serum Darkfield and throat swabs. Water analysis requests cost fifty cents per specimen. Monroe Starke and L H Taylor spent the 4th at the beach.
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Health Dept
Halifax County Health Department
State Laboratory of Hygiene
Wassermann
Custody Battle Over Five Month Old Child Weighs Local Dispute
Recorder Judge Daniel reversed Mayor Jenkins judgment finding Fannie Franklin Eddie Abernethy and Ben Abernethy guilty of disorderly conduct who were fined. The five month old child custody case centers on allegations of assault by the in law trio against Raymond Abernethy family. Baby ill in Roanoke Rapids Hospital. Other relatives travel for visits in Hazleton Zebulon Tarboro.
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Daniel
Halifax
Jenkins
Fannie Franklin
Eddie
Ben Abernethy
Raymond Abernethy
Roanoke Rapids
Raymond Abernethys
Roanoke Rapids Hospital
Roanoke Rapids Enacts Night Parking Ban on Main Avenues
The city board of commissioners passes a new ordinance prohibiting parking on business streets from 2 to 6 am to allow street cleaning. Roanoke Avenue sections 1st to 3rd and 9th to 11th are affected. The street superintendent may tow vehicles with fees up to 0 and a 5.00 fine applies for violations, effective August 1.
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Roanoke Rapids
City Board of Commissioners
Roanoke Avenue
Conway Boy Dies at Roanoke Rapids Hospital
Little five year old James Elbert Lassiter, colored, of Conway, died at Roanoke Rapids Hospital on July 3. He was the son of Winnie and Lonnie Lassiter and was buried near Conway.
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James Elbert Lassiter
Conway
Roanoke Rapids Hospital
Winnie and
Lonnie Lassiter
Son Of Seaboard Couple Dies At Hospital Here
Funeral services were held at the family cemetery in Seaboard for Clarence Ford six months old the only son of Mr and Mrs Horace W Ford of Seaboard He died at Roanoke Rapids Hospital on Sunday July 3rd George Grizzard of Washington DC visits his grandmother Mrs J M Grizzard and Mrs Page Taylor of Richmond VA returns home after a stay with her mother also Sara Crawford Towe and Lillian Lee attended a Young People conference in Louisburg last week.
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Seaboard
Clarence Ford
Roanoke Rapids Hospital
Horace W. Ford
George Grizzard
Washington, D. C
J. M. Grizzard
Page Taylor
Richmond
Sara Crawford Towe
Lillian Lee
Louisburg
Enfield halts power deal and Roanoke mix ups in town notes
Enfield renews a five year wholesale power contract with Virginia Electric and Power. Halifax plans a separate exchange due to heavy telephone demand. An altar gift for the local Catholic Church was misdelivered to Roanoke Rapids and then to the First Baptist Church of Roanoke. Town anecdotes recount a bar story and a July 4th city court note with no Black defendant. Moving through Avenue cleanup, locals applaud parking rule enforcement. Ex-Dallas resident Ilia Stell visits with Reverend L I Stell.
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Enfield
Virginia Electric & Power Co
Halifax
Weldon Exchange
Wm. Wolhar
Roanoke Rapids
First Baptist Church of
N. C
Dan’l Boone
Fort Landing
Jenkins
Ilia Stell
Dallas
Texas
L. I. Stell
First Presbyterian Church
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WPA
State Highway Commission
Monroe Starke and
L. H. Taylor
William H. Thorne, Jr
Elizabeth Thorne
W. H. Thorne
Hazeltown
Sara Elizabeth Jenkins
Zebulon
Tarboro
NEW Law
Ave
Vogue Beauty
Lady Fair Beauty Shop
Duchess Beauty Shop
Ralph Warrick
Roanoke Rapids, N. C
D. W. Etheridge
Dial
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