City Softball League Opens Monday Night
The city launches its first NA S A league with a May 19 opener at Roanoke Mills Park. Roanoke No 1 faces Rosemary Romances in a lights game, followed by Roanoke No 2 versus Patterson Mills.
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National Amateur Softball Association
Roanoke Mills Company
Jackson Street
Roanoke No. 1
Rosemary Romances
Roanoke No. 2
Patterson Mills Company
Roanoke Mills Park
Halifax Paper Company
Rosemary Bees
Roanoke Mills
City Softball League
Talton O Briant and Gates Visit Ties to Rice
Mrs Talton OBriant spent Tuesday in Norfolk. Misses Betty and Virginia Gates were weekend guests at their home in Rice, Virginia.
Lt. Graham Dean Ill in Louisville Hospital
Word reached here that Lt. Graham Dean son of Mr and Mrs W S Dean remains critically ill in a Louisville Kentucky hospital He has undergone three major stomach operations and an additional neck glandular operation W J Norwood reports the elder Mr Dean and his wife remain with the patient in Louisville in good spirits despite the illness
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Graham Dean
W. S. Dean
Louisville
W. J. Norwood
Dean
Rosemary Manufacturing Company
Second Son Auto Victim Continues From Page One
Phyllis Hodges of the home and Herbert Hodges brother of the boy killed last Sunday were connected to a fatal wreck on Lawrenceville road. Donald Gray, near Moore, and the driver Rufus Oy of Gaston were shaken but not seriously hurt. Herbert died of a fractured skull after the car rolled over. The boys, knocked unconscious, could not explain why the vehicle overturned.
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Phyllis Hodges
Herbert Hodges
Rufus Oy
Gaston
Lawrenceville Road
Hodges
Gets Office In Nurses' Organization
Miss Irene Clark of Roanoke Rapids was elected vice president of the North Carolina Nurses Anesthetists Association at a Raleigh meeting. Miss Carrie Salmon of Park View Hospital Rocky Mount was chosen president. Miss Jamie Henley of Gastonia became secretary treasurer. The first such group in North Carolina was formed by nine volunteer members at the Sir Walter Hotel.
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Irene Clark
Roanoke Rapids
North Carolina
Union
South Carolina
West Virginia
Maryland
Virginia
Mrs Jenkins and Mrs Neal in Richmond Saturday
Mrs T M Jenkins and Mrs L B Neal spent Saturday in Richmond for a brief visit.
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T. M. Jenkins
L. 3. Neal
Richmond
Weldon High Seniors Prepare for Friday Graduation
Weldon High School seniors are slated to receive diplomas at graduation exercises on Friday May 16 in the high school auditorium. Henry Ellis Petersburg Va superintendent will deliver the address. Class Day exercises were held tonight and the baccalaureate sermon was given Sunday by Rev H B Porter.
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Weldon High School
Henry Ellis
Petersburg
Halifax School
Anna Kitchen Josey
County Board of Education
H. B. Porter
First Methodist Church
Wilson
Roanoke Rapids
Hardy Rites At Corinth Sunday
Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Gllington Hardy age 80, widow of S. T. Hardy, were held Sunday at 3 PM at Corinth Church near Littleton. She died Friday at her daughter’s home. Survivors include sons J. P. Hardy of Houston and B. F. Morris, and daughters Nannie Inscoe and G. D. Insco, all of Littleton, plus two brothers E. T. Ellington of Hollister and J. E. Ellington of Columbus. Numerous out-of-town relatives attended from Winston-Salem, New York, Nashville, Durham, Richmond, and other cities.
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Annie Gllington Hardy
S. T. Hardy
Corinth Church
Littleton
G. D. Insco
B. F. Morris
E. T. Ellington
Hollister
J. E. Ellington
Columbus
Ohio
J. M. Riggan
New York
W. G. Bobbitt
W. R. Webster
Emily Franklin
John Shoah
Palmer Bobbitt
Kenneth
Agnes Bobbitt
Winston-Salem
Eugene Nelson
Ettrich
W. R. Hardy
Nashville
C. T. Hardy
Durham
Bonney Morris
Warsaw
Clifton Morris
Richmond
Virginia Inscoe
Anderson
S. G
T. F. Partin
High Point
Norman Lovelle
Columbia, S. C
Mrs George Hostess Bridge Club Party
Mrs A George hosted her bridge club Tuesday evening at her home with spring flower arrangements. H B Gibson took second prize and Edna Wafford earned high. Refreshments included a salad course with coffee and a list of guests featured Mesdames Adams Alligood Bunn Mahorne Pappendick Snoot White Wirtz Gibson Edwards Curran and Edna Wafford.
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A. O. George
H. B. Gibson
Edna Wafford
Mrs. George
Mesdames T. N. Adams
Bill Alligood
Sam Bunn
Oey Mahorne
George Pappendick
E. B. Snoot
M. F. White
H. C. Wirtz
H. E. Gibson
J. D. Edwards
Jimmie Curran
Injured In Wreck On Gaston Highway
Francis Curry of Roanoke Rapids was treated at the hospital Sunday night for injuries from a head on collision on Gaston Highway few hundred yards north of the Gaston post office. Junious Johnson of Roanoke Rapids driven by Nellie Harris of Garysburg caused the crash. Harris said Johnson was on her side with no lights. Curry had a head wound, was not admitted. No arrests by morning. Johnson denied the charge. Both cars were demolished.
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Francis Curry
Roanoke Rapids
Junius Johnson
Nellie Harris
Garysburg
Gaston Post Office
Curry
Harris
Johnson
Headon
Out-of-Town Patients Listed at Roanoke Rapids Hospital
Among the patients at Roanoke Rapids Hospital this week are Mrs. W. T. Clary of Brunswick Virginia Mr. B. C. Clary of Lawrenceville Virginia Mrs. E. L. Delbridge of Skippers Virginia Miss Sarah Grant of Jackson Roy Melvin Lassiter of Milwaukee and Clifton Moore of Garysburg.
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Roanoke Rapids Hospital
W. T. Clary
Brunswick
B. C. Clary
Lawrenceville
E. L. Delbridge
Skippers, Va
Sarah Grant
Jackson
Roy Melvin Lassiter
Milwaukee
Clifton Moore
Garysburg
Cotton Week Planned in Roanoke Rapids
Merchants in Roanoke Rapids plan National Cotton Week from May 16 to 24 with a proclamation by Mayor Bernard Allsbrook. The Merchants Association sponsors the event as posters and banners arrive for display. Stores will feature extensive cotton windows and ready-to-wear outfits.
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Roanoke Rapids
Bernard Allsbrook
The
Merchants Association
New York
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Roanoke Park
the Herald
Romances
Softball Association
J. R. Meikle
F. S. Kemp
Shearod Crumpler
James Tucker
Rosemary
J. W. Brank
Patterson
H. L. Schaaf
Halifax Paper Co
H. E. Lee
Wilton
Dickens
Clarence Byrd
Wilbur
Outland
Puck
Baltimore American
Herbert
Nurses’ Organization
Weldon
Hardy
Corinth
PND Oiers
Fannye
Orten
Roanoke Avenue
Peoples Theatre
N.C
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