First Air Mail Plane to Land Here May 19
Roanoke Rapids will host a National Air Mail Week event on Thursday May 19 at ten in the morning. The first air mail plane will land on the Littleton road beyond South Rosemary to receive mail to be flown nationwide and abroad. Postmaster L G Shell urges attendance and filming. a brief program and addresses are planned.
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Roanoke Rapids
United States
National Air Mail
L. G. Shell
Weldon
Air Mil
Shell
Littleton Road
South Rose
Post Office Department
Patterson Apts Ready May Fifteenth in Roanoke Rapids
Roanoke Rapids will open the Patterson Apartments after May 15 as announced by R D Beam of Wachovia Bank trust company Raleigh rental agents. The eight unit building developed from re remodeling the Patterson Mansion offers four and five room flats each with private baths servant’s entrance. Heat hot and cold water electric stove and refrigerator with individual electric meters. Remodeling by John F Danielson Company Raleigh E H Franks superintendent. project took about two months.
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Roanoke Rapids
R. D. Beam
Wachovia Bank & Trust Company
Raleigh
Patterson
John F. Danielson Company
E. H. Franks
Dancers Shine In Kiwanis Roanoke Rapids Program
Mrs. Tommy Holmes leads over thirty dancers in taps folk and ballroom numbers for a Kiwanis program. Postmaster L G Shell urges air mail week cooperation as F C Williams promotes air mail stamp use. Minstrel cast to perform at Chockoyette Country Club next Thursday evening. Metropolitan Life rep James Grogan elected to Kiwanis membership. Rev C T Rogers guest and H S Loy serves as program chairman.
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Tommy Holmes
Kiwanis Club
Roanoke Rapids
L. G. Shell
National Air Mail
F. C. Williams
Chockoyette Country Club
Howard Pruden
James Grogan
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Lynchburg Va
C. T. Rogers
Rosemary Methodist Church
H. S. Loy
Henderson Country Club Falls to Roanoke Rapids at Chockoyette
The Roanoke Rapids golf team defeated Henderson Country Club at Chockoyette Golf Club yesterday afternoon in a decisive match.
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Roanoke Rapids
Henderson Country Club
Chockoyette Golf Club
Halifax Democrats to Meet at 11 A M in Courthouse
Delegates from 17 county precincts will gather at the Halifax County Courthouse at 11 AM on Saturday May 14th to hear a keynote address and elect delegates to the State Convention in Raleigh on May 21st. The meeting will also set a county chair and address party welfare. Books open for county registration last Saturday and through May 21st. voters must register to vote in the June 4th primary. Registrars will be at precinct polling places this Saturday and next.
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Halifax County
Halifax
Court House
John W. Martin
Raleigh
Mrs C T Shaw Dies Sudden In Garden
Mrs T C Shaw widow of Thomas A Shaw died suddenly at her Roanoke Rapids farm home while at work in a garden. She was in her 68th year and survived by six daughters and a son. Her death follows the 1918 murder of her husband linked to Kid Cobb. she was a longtime member of New Hope Methodist Church.
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C. T. Shaw
Thomas A. Shaw
South Rosemary
Shaw
Virgie Shaw
Shelton
Kid” Cobb
New Hope Methodist Church
J. R. Jenkins
W. D. Allen
John Hoggard
Virgie
Ruth
Susie Shaw
Roanoke Rapids
Tragedy at State Line Drowns Three Boys Near Roanoke Rapids
Three colored boys drowned near the State Line a few miles from Roanoke Rapids last night. The victims were Thomas Jones 14 Walter Jones 29 and Arrela Blount 12. Two older brothers tried to save them but the boat overturned in eight feet of water. Sheriff searchers found the bodies at two this morning. The youths lived on opposite sides of the State Line with the Jones family in North Carolina and the Blounts in Virginia.
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State Line
Roanoke Rapids
Thomas Jones
Walter Jones
Arrela Blount
Fountains Creek
Blount
Walter
Wrenn
Jones
North Carolina
Blounts
Virginia
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Patterson Apts
Democratic Party
Halifas County
Kiwanis
Henderson
T. C. Shaw
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