Up and Down The Avenue With The Editor
Coroner says he would have given away many goats last week. Willie Stewart on Franklin Street got the goat. Freezing weather hit the South with snow sleet and ice, Roanoke Rapids faring better than many NC towns. The Avenue and city crews faced icy streets. Roanoke continued on back page.
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Billy
Herald
Willie Stewart
Franklin St
Southland
Roanoke Rapids
North Carolina
Warrenton
Winston Salem
Avenue
Roanoke
Sidewalk Project Expands as 40 More Men Hired
Foreman C H Byrd reports forty additional men will join the Halifax county sidewalks project by next week. The crew grew from 20 to 35 this week and could rise further. CWA officials deem the effort an emergency due to 8000 sacks of cement arriving, needing storage space and rapid use.
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C. H. Byrd
CWA
Halifax
J. B. Hall
Bicycle Thieves Arrested After Georgia Trip
Two new bicycles stolen from Roanoke Rapids High School on January 24 were traced to Wilson North Carolina and then to Georgia. Arrested are Zephy Mitchell 28 of Skippers Virginia and Jesse Rook 19. They had affidavits signed by Mitchell and Rook detailing the theft and trip to Georgia and traded the bicycles for shotguns.
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Roanoke Rapids High School
Wilson
N. C
Georgia
Zephy Mitchell
Skippers
Jesse Rook
J. T. Thomason
Thomason
Mitchell
Rook
Miss Hege Resigns From High Point School
Miss Josephine Hege daughter of Mr and Mrs F C Hege resigns as a High Point teacher to take a higher paying post in New Jersey. The Greensboro Daily News cites it as evidence of a broader exodus of good teachers from North Carolina cities since the 1933 state school law with Hege as the sixth High Point instructor to depart this year.
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Josephine Hege
F. C. Hege
High Point
New Jersey
Greensboro Daily News
North Carolina
Hege
Andrews
Fire destroys Newsome dwelling on Hamilton Street
Fire Sunday night completely destroyed the frame house and contents of Henry Newsome on Hamilton Street near the depot. The blaze started from a fire burning in the Newsome home while the family was away. Alarm came about 11 o clock as bitter cold and deep snow hampered early efforts. Firefighters saved the nearby home of William Bart.
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Henry Newsome
Hamilton
Jake Spires
Mr. Newsome
Newsome
William Bart
Evidence Sent to Solicitor in Murder Probe
The Pierce case moves to Solicitor W H S Burgwyn after a typed statement links Marvel Cullom and Ray Cullom to the crime night. Jernigan recants a frame plot while Mack Parker admits only a visit by Pierce and Rainey to his home. Burgwyn plans to quiz Rainey in Suffolk to test parts of Pierce story.
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Tavis Pierce
Ray Cullom
Billy Williams
Marvel Cullom
W. H. S. Burgwyn
Pierce
Jernigan
Halifax
Mack Parker
Lincoln Heights
Burgwyn
Rainey
Suffolk
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Altho the Cor
New Avenue
Foreman C. H. Byrd
Herald Office
Primo Camera
Tommy Loughran
Miami
Carnera
Jack Sharkey
New York
Lindbergh
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