Owls Boxing Team Opens 1939 40 Practice Season
The Roanoke Rapids Owls boxing team began 1939 40 practice at the Arena on Second Street with fifteen boxers training for a first bout around November. Frank Kemp, Ed Moseley, Dick Collins, Philip Hux, and Earl Wood supervise workouts as new robes arrive and plans for weekly Saturday bouts unfold.
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Roanoke Rapids Owls
Second Street
Frank Kemp
Roanoke
Patterson Mills
Ed Moseley
Dick Collins
Philip Hux
Kemp
Earl Wood
Roanoke No. 1
Moseley
Hux
Atlanta
Owls
Harvey King
Clyde Shearin
Patterson
DeWitt Babson
Wilmington
Dick Whitfield
Claude Taylor
James Shaw
Alexander Sherrin
Walter Brown
Walter Babb
Ford Buffaloe
High School
Charles van
Fred Babson
Roanoke Rapids
The
Mills
Pepper Couple Plans Sunday Visit to Scotland Neck
Mr and Mrs Donald Pepper will spend this Sunday in Scotland Neck visiting relatives and enjoying local sights.
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Mrs. Donald Pepper
Scotland Neck
Miss Blount Recipes For Ham And Pastries
Miss Virginia Blount home economist for Virginia Electric and Power Co shares ham based dishes. Ham Roll-Ups and Ham Puffs use ham carrots pineapple and pecans baked in electric oven. A ham pastry combines chopped ham egg tomato soup and crumbs for picnics.
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Virginia Blount
Virginia Electric and Power Co
Postpone Meeting for Fidelis Class at Rosemary Baptist
The Fidelis class will not meet Friday night due to a church revival. The next meeting is scheduled for the following Friday at Mrs. P. L. Matthews home on Washington Street.
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Rosemary Baptist Church
P. L. Matthews
Washington Street
Circle and Flora Dodson Circle Meet at Thomason Home
The Flora Dodson Circle of the First Baptist Church met at Mrs. N. B. Thomason’s home for their regular gathering. Afterward lemonade cake and mints were served to Mesdames Waters Buckner Womble Teele Thomason Morris Anderton Wrenn Askew Britton Myrick Smith Jernigan Garris Wood Gray Pitt Pitt Hutchinson Wood Mitchell Wrenn Ferguson.
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Flora Dodson
First Baptist Church
N. B. Thomason
Mamie Waters
G. E. Buckner
W. J. Womble
W. R. Teele
Nettie Morris
Mary Lee Anderton
Bronnie Wrenn
Sadie Askew
Rufus Britton
Walter Myrick
O. L. Smith
Curtis Jernigan
Blanche Garris
John Wood
R. E. Gray
Stella Pitt
John R. Pitt
Bennett Hutchinson
Misses Frankie Wood
Maggie Matthews
Nan Mitchell Wrenn
Drewsella Fergurson
Rudolph Williams and James Taylor Spend Sunday in Raleigh
Rudolph Williams and James Taylor were seen Sunday socializing with friends in Raleigh, sharing a casual day out with local acquaintances.
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Rudolph Williams
James Taylor
Raleigh
Calvary Church Sunday School Time Promoted
Calvary Church invites all to Sunday School at 10:00 AM Sunday morning and asks attendees to arrive on time and bring someone. Miss Josia Lee Marberey of Durham visited Miss Annie Lee Moon on Jefferson Street over the weekend.
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Josia Lee Marberey
Durham
Annie Lee Moon
Jefferson St
Colored Amateur Contest At The Pitts On Friday
The Pitts Theatre presents a series of film showings starting Friday with Amanda Duff and Kane Richmond in Escape. Irene Dunne and Fred MacMurray in Invitation To Happiness arrive Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday features Undercover Doctor with Lloyd Noland and Heather Angel, plus Sundown on the Prairie starring Tex Ritter.
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The
Pitts
Pitts Theatre
Amanda Duff
Kane Richmond
Irene Dunne
Fred MacMurray
Lloyd Noland
Heather Angel
Tex Ritter
Goofy Ritz Bros
Patsy Kelly
George O'Brien
Wednesday Bridge Club Meets at Mrs Wood Home
The Wednesday Night Bridge Club gathered at Mrs J A Wood's home with 12 players including Mesdames Graham Gibson Bullock Bunn White Kennemar Fitts Starke Sullivan Lupton Gilliam and guest Mrs Bernard Allsbrook. Mrs Kennemar won high score, Allsbrook second and floating prize. Chicken a la king and hot coffee were served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Wood
Pete Graham
H. E. Gibson
T. M. Bullock
Sam Bunn
M. F. White
Calvin Kennemar
Chas, Fitts
Francis Starke
Geo. Sullivan
J. R. Lupton
A. L. Gilliam
Bernard Allsbrook
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OWL
Miss Blount
Roanoke Rapids Building & Loan Association
W. 2Nd Street
Charles Norman Speight
Pauline Rivers Brewer
James R. Brewer
Fannie Greene Brewer
Thomas Mason Faison
Pinewood Drive
Columbia
S. C
Speight
C. H. Speight
Tidewater Supply Company
EXIDE
Brickell
Calvary Church
Loan & Insurance Con
W. Second St
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