Roanoke Rapids Fire Dept Mourns Death of T. W. Marlowe
T. W. Marlowe 32 a Roanoke Rapids Fire Department city employee died Monday at Duke Hospital after a serious illness. The department volunteered for blood transfusions and thirteen were given in an effort to save him. Funeral services were held at 319 Monroe Street with interment in Roanoke Rapids Cemetery. Department members served as pallbearers. He was a Halifax County native.
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T. W. Marlowe
Roanoke Rapids
Kiwanis Clinic To Offer Free Examinations May 20
The Kiwanis Club will run a crippled clinic on Wednesday May 20 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the basement of Rosemary Baptist Church with Dr Cole of Greensboro in charge. The event invites those knowing crippled people especially children to bring them for free examination and treatment, held monthly.
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Kiwanis Club
Rosemary Baptist Church
Cole
Greensboro
Millicin of Halifax enters Democratic primary for House
Sperry C Milikin of Halifax announces candidacy for the U S House in the Democratic primary. Born in Halifax he is son of D J Milikin, long time local farmer. He tax collector for Halifax County two years, assistant manager of the County Reemployment Office, supervised the 1933 cotton reduction program under W C Davis. He has six years as chairman of the Halifax Methodist Church Board of Stewards and last year was elected town alderman atop the ticket. He is half owner of Halifax Mercantile Co.
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Sperry C. Millikin
Halifax
House of Representatives
D. J. Millikin
Halifax County
W. C. Davis
Millikin
Halifax Methodist Church
Halifax Mercantile Co
More Highways For This Section of State
The detour from Roanoke Rapids to Littleton will be treated with calcium chloride this summer. State Highway Commissioner W C Woodard reports contract letting on the Seaboard road in June and Roanoke Rapids Littleton project up for July consideration.
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Roanoke Rapids
Littleton
F. C. Williams
W. C. Woodard
Woodard
Seaboard Road
Weldon
Seaboard
Six Nurses Graduate From Roanoke Rapids Nursing Class
Six nurses from the 1936 graduating class of The Roanoke Rapids School of Nursing will receive diplomas at commencement on May 19 at 8 15 P M in the Junior-Senior High School Auditorium. Dr Beverley R. Tucker of Richmond will deliver the commencement address.
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Roanoke Rapids School
Tucker
School of Nursing
Mildred Evans
Vaughn
Clyde Butts
Enfield
Mary Ella
Roanoke Rapids Solicitor Candidate Faces Wade Dickens
Born in Scotland Neck, Bernard Allsbrook has practiced law in Roanoke Rapids since 1932 as junior partner at Zollicoffer & Allsbrook. His opponent is Wade Dickens of Scotland Neck, who has served since the court’s creation in 1931.
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Scotland Neck
Bernard Allsbrook
Halifax County
Oak Ridge Institute
Wake Forest College
Enfield
Roanoke Rapids
Zollicoffer & Allsbrook
Wade H. Dickens
Large Crowd Attends Roberson Funeral
Roy Roberson, 21, died at Roanoke Rapids Hospital at 5 a m Monday. One of the largest crowds in years attended the funeral at Rosemary Baptist Church Tuesday afternoon. Interment followed at Roanoke Rapids Cemetery. Survived by parents W H Roberson, three brothers Harry Eugene Kermit seven sisters. Pallbearers named.
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Roy Roberson
Roanoke Rapids
Rosemary Baptist Church
J. E. Kirk
Roanoke Rapids Cemetery
W. H. Roberson
Harry
Eugene
Kermit
Grady Baggett
Forty one candidates enter Halifax County races in primary
Filing closed for the Halifax County Democratic primary on June 6 with a large slate. Candidates cover State Senate, House of Representatives, County Commissioner, Recorder Court judge and solicitor, sheriff, coroner, and the Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District, with several unopposed filings in Weldon Faucett Township and other areas.
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Halifax County
State Senate
Julian R. Allsbrook
T. W. M. Long
Roanoke Rapids
House of Representatives
Tracyc Qualls
Hollister
L. W. Leggett
Hobgood
A. M. Atkinson
Enfield
F. M. Taylor
Brinkleyville
John H. Fenner
Halifax
Albert W. Oakes Jr
Weldon
Edward T. Harrell
Clyde H. Madry
J. L. Bass
Harry A. House
Thelma
T. M. Cooper
John B. Zollicoffer
Sam Young
W. E. Murphrey
Hugh D. Camp
R. E. Cleaton, Jr
M. H. Hedgepeth
Wm.s. Dean
Meade H. Mitchell
Register of Deeds
Henry T. Clark
County Board of Education
C. M. Dickens
Justice of the Peace
Faucett Township
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General Assembly
Harrell
McDonald
London
Kansas CiTy
Oscar
Askangas Ch
W. Bernard Allsbrook
Roberson Funeral
Clarence Edmunds
Bud Edmunds
Pete Gar
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