Local Couple Reports Rats From Campfire Smell
A husband and wife recount a camping vacation last summer when the odor from cooking attracted rats. They moved into town to seek aid and noted ongoing concerns about pests and sanitation.
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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1923
Page
3
A husband and wife recount a camping vacation last summer when the odor from cooking attracted rats. They moved into town to seek aid and noted ongoing concerns about pests and sanitation.
Local ad promotes RAT SNAP poison for rodent control with three sizes priced at 35c 65c and $1.25. The publisher Roanoke Pharmacy Co Roanke Rapids NC guarantees the product and urges farmers storekeepers and housewives to use it to protect crops and homes.
Notice of sale under trust deed by trustee on land parcels in Roanoke Rapids, Halifax County. Description includes lands bounded by Kenny Love and Willie Love with lines and points, beginning at a rock and iron stake, totaling about 14 3-4 acres. Sale set for July 25, 1924 at 11 AM at the Post Office, Rose Mary, N C, to the highest bidder for cash.
A historical note records identical lands conveyed to Grant Johnston and others by deed from Lance Smith dated January 8, 1921. The document is dated June 21, 1998, signed by William L. Knight Trustee.
By order of trust, Dickens, Trustee, the 1919 deed secures notes. On Monday in August, 1428 at 12:30 PM, in front of Roanoke Rapids post office, sale of house and lot No 18 on east side of Hamilton Street for cash to the highest bidder. Lot fronts 32 feet and runs back 140 feet to an alley as per Roanoke Rapids plat recorded in Halifax County North Carolina.
In North Carolina Hampax County Superior Court plaintiff Mrs Lindia M Holland sues defendant Lindia Holland in a summons and action proceeding. The document, though fragmentary, lists Jason C as a party or related attorney in the case.
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