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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1947
Page
5
The Roanoke Rapids Girl Scouts sponsor a May 16 dance festival by the Perdue School of Dancing with 115 dancers rehearsing. Funds support Scout activities after cookie sales were canceled due to a fats and sugar shortage.
Robert Barnhill Jr. of Banfield fell from the top floor into the elevator shaft basement at the Masonic Temple about 3 PM. He remained conscious and was freed after plastering was removed, then transported to Rocky Mount hospital with a broken pelvis nose and finger dislocation. He is reported recovering with no lasting injuries expected.
In loving memory of Pearl Clyde Inscoe who departed this life April 18 1920 Today is a day of remembrance and many sad regrets spoken by Mrs Lucy Inscoe Nicholson in this remembrance note
Mr and Mrs Ollie Harton of Richmond visited their daughter in law Mrs Harton s parents Mr and Mrs D L Balmer. The week end was interrupted by the death of John R Harton s father. Mrs Jesse Helms hosted her bridge club at home on Hamilton Street with spring flowers and a prize for high score winner Mrs M C Newsom Jr. An ice course and coffee followed around ten thirty.
A partial guest list from a social event includes Mesdames Buster Seay George Nethercutt Eugene Shell Clarence Coburn Carlton Cannon William Shell Mayo Coburn and Hugh God. The fragment ends abruptly leaving attendees incomplete.
Miss Mamie Nash assisted Mrs Helms in entertaining and serving the guests as Iwin, Jack Vincent, Tommie Marriott, George Hayes Jr. and MC Newsom Jr. attended the event.
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