Dedicated issue honors Roanoke Rapids matriarch Inscoe
The Herald dedicates this issue to Inscoe a 95 year old great great grandmother the oldest mother in Roanoke Rapids and a four generation presence. Also notes Avenue in the South business section opening traffic new curbs gutters and wider sidewalks with North Ward street due next week. Impressive Nurses graduation at the high school with Mae Gribble Derrie Winstead Louise Thomas Daniel. Donkey baseball match results Kiwanis against Ahoskie at Rocky Mount with Donkey John Dillinger Rider Wilbur Anderton scoring the winning run.
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the Herald
Inscoe
Roanoke Rapids
Earth
Mae Gribble
Hayesville
Derrie Winstead
Elm City
Louise Thomas Daniel
Rougemont
Kiwanis
Ahoskie
Rocky Mount
Wilbur Anderton
John Dillinger
Negrow Killed by Car on Weldon Fill
John Hockaday a 50 year old colored man was struck and killed at midnight on the Weldon fill near the highway when Dr. R P Beckwith could not see him due to blinding headlights. The coroner exonerated the driver and local officials seek widen the fill and move the fence to improve safety for pedestrians at night.
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Weldon Fill
John Hockaday
R. P. Beckwith
Weldon
Beckwith
Cooper
State Highway Dept
Stanley Cashed Two Checks On Leaving
Stanley, charged with embezzlement, was brought back from Delaware by local police. He cashed two checks belonging to other Patterson Mills Co. employees, part of an earlier claim he had cashed eight. The two checks totaled a little over 30 dollars. He is jailed in Halifax and to be tried in Superior Court.
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Julian Allsbrook
Halifax County
Greensboro Daily News
House of Representatives
Halifax
Edgecombe
Allsbrook
Swain Loy
O'Neil Stanley
Delaware
Patterson Mills Co
Stanley
Minstrel Feast Celebrates Local Talent At High School
More than 100 members of the Minstrel caste and Kiwanis Club attended a love feast of barbecue stew and trimmings at the high school. The supper honored the club’s help with recent minstrels as J Saunders and his band played. Miss Height and Sterling Pierce sang solo numbers.
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J. Saunders
Miss Height
Sterling Pierce
Local Police Freed of Assault Charge
Policemen Massey and Keeter were freed by Recorder Daniel on a charge of assault. Jewel Gray of Littleton accused them of shooting tires off his car while pursuing him after a drunken driving conviction in Superior Court. Attorney Julian Allsbrook argued it was the officers duty to stop a drunken driver.
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Daniel
Jewel Gray
Little
Ton. Gray
Julian Allsbrook
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