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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1941
Page
18
The Rosemary Recreation Hall at 1100 Franklin St hosts square dancing every Saturday from 8 p.m. to midnight with round dancing between sets and music by Overton Cook and his Four Aces. admission costs 35 cents for men and 15 cents for ladies.
Mrs Frank Williams entertained her bridge club at her Roanoke Avenue home with four tables in the living room. Narcissus and early spring flowers adorned the setting and Mrs Gordon Bertstresser won the high score prize. Refreshments included a salad plate after play with guests including Frank Kemp P B E Ransom Pendleton Grizzard O Griffin T J Alford Carroll Wilson T B White Frank Wilson Gordon Bertstresser Lyle Wilson Crocker Maddry R P Beckwith Frank Meacham T L Martin Upshur Higgenbotham and Miss Evelyn Mullen.
Mrs J B Browning was called to Gainsville Ga last week due to illness and death of her father J E Davis has returned from a business trip to Atlanta Ga Mrs A J Sasser and family and Joseph Jolly spent Sunday in Wilmington visiting relatives Tom Long of Chapel Hill spent the weekend with his mother Mrs T W M Long Miss Lillian Lee and Miss Sara Crawford Towe arrived Saturday from Duke for spring holidays with their parents
Mr and Mrs R L Applewhite announce the engagement of their daughter Elizabeth Cheat ham Applewhite to Dr Henry Boone Grant son of Mr and Mrs J W Grant of Garysburg. The wedding is set for Tuesday May 20 at the Halifax Methodist Church. Elizabeth teaches at Halifax School. Henry is a Duke Medical School graduate affiliated with Park View Hospital Rocky Mount.
The Woman's Society of Christian Service held its March meeting at Mrs. Dora Hawkins home with eighteen members present. Mrs. Wesley Fulghum led an inspiring devotion on "Sharing for the Health of the World" followed by a salad plate served by the hostess.
Frank Williams Jr returns home this week from Woodberry Forest School to spend spring holidays with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Williams.
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