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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1934
Page
2
A burglar used an ice pick to break in at two Halifax homes during a Monday early morning. At one house Charles Boykin and Tommy Morris chased the thief after he escaped with Boykin’s $50 watch and cash from Morris’s pockets. A similar porch encounter was reported at another nearby home. police search unavailing.
Miss Ruth Dickens of Enfield, an Agricultural worker at the Court House, broke several bones when her toe caught on a bicycle pedal at Virginia Beach Sunday. Mr and Mrs R W Millikin visited Colerain for the weekend. Miss Anne Hale stayed in Roanoke Rapids. Tommy Morris and Chas Boykin spent Sunday at Tuscarora. Applewhite and Gregorys rented a Carolina Beach cottage for the week. Ida Mae Cheatham and Dorothy Bennett visited Carolina Beach. Annie Jenkins and Sara Jennings stayed with Willie Jennings at Fairmont.
Local notes show crop remarks on soy beans defying drought. A series of weekend visits trail through family and friends with Mrs. W. T. Eyre in field and relatives from Rockingham Wake Forest Durham Darlington Scotland Neck.
Little Harry Bright celebrated his seventh birthday Friday night July 13 at his home on Madison Street. Guests included Pauline Christen C W Wood Mason Edwards Elizabeth Walker Mary Florence Bridges Lucille Davis Agnes Anna Mae James W L Violet Dean Hux and Bobby Bright. Sandwiches cakes and lemonade were served after games.
Mrs Lizzie Oliver and Miss Mary Lee Oliver returned to Flint Michigan after visiting Mrs Curt Taylor. J H Doyle and Tommie Doyle of Brink Virginia spent Saturday with local families. Mr and Mrs C T Miles and Mrs Roland Parker of Murfreesboro visited Womble and others at the Sanitorium. Fred Lynch and children of Macon visited Mrs Brown Thompson. Mrs Joe Williams and son Rudolph returned from Salisbury.
Bonthron in Europe Howard King visited his mother in Littleton Tuesday. Miss Emma Perkinson visited her parents at Norlina with guest Miss Annie Louise Perkins of Littleton. Misses Edythe Wright Eugenia Rook returned from Rich Square. Florine Holt returned from a vacation at Ocracoke Island. Mrs. J W Gibson returned to Norfolk after a visit. Ida Rook and Bruce Rook spent Monday in Jackson. E G Perkinson and son Rob with Annie Louise Perkinson of Littleton spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs W D Taylor. Mrs W Allsbrook spent days in Norfolk visiting Mrs W B Simmons.
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