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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1947
Page
10
Weldon residents share weekend visits with Richmond and Greensboro friends. Mentions of Spring holidays from Westminster Choir School, illnesses, and returns to health. Mrs Mary Rabil announces daughter Marguerite Rabil to Louis Kannon of Goldsboro with a fall wedding planned.
The Sunny Side Garden Club met Monday evening March 17 at the Business and Professional Women’s Club building hosted by Mrs. A C George and Mrs. George Pappendick. Forty attended as members praised spring flowers and viewed a film Tulip Time in Holland.
W V Secrest of Union County near Monroe wins the Philip W Pillsbury award for best state wheat in 1946. His test weight surpasses 60 pounds per bushel from a one thousand acre farm. Secrest is a director of NC Crop Improvement Association and the Agricultural Foundation at Raleigh and an officer in the North Carolina Seed men’s Association.
The tenth annual Fat Stock Show and Sale will be held at Smith's Warehouse in Rocky Mount on April 2 and 3. Open to the public and to 4-H and vocational agriculture members. Four Halifax county 4-H clubs enter calves prepped for exhibit with Edward Kerr of Weldon among exhibitors.
Arthur Whitehead James Condrey and Billy Bond of Scotland Neck 4-H clubs and Halifax County farmers are invited to view the show and cheer the boys participating. The item also notes bribe reporting issues and wartime secrecy discussions following V-5 Day.
The census reports 18 285 bales ginned in Halifax County from the 1946 crop prior to March 1, compared with 19 607 bales for the 1945 crop.
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