Rosemary Busy Week In Local Items Police Court
A busy Rosemary week features a long police court docket from headlight violations to affrays and larceny. Notable cases include William McKinley Brown jailed on delaying an officer and Margaretta Brown’s affray case dismissed on costs.
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Rosemary
Police Court
William McKinley Brown
William
Margaretta Brown
Margaretta
Garland Maylton
Halifax
Pat Floyd
A. Pulley
Charlie Winfield
Clayton Smith
R. A. Beatle
Tom Bonnet
W. H. Deberry
Bessie Deberry
Giant Australian animal dwarfs farm pigs in size example
A recent display features a massive Australian creature weighing about 1,188 pounds and extending 8 feet 3 inches in length. At twenty-five months old it resembles a hippopotamus now and may grow into an elephant like form rather than a farmyard hog.
Gardener Barber and Goethe’s Pauan Completion
A major in an English regiment scorns incapacity and tests a sergeant by ordering a gardener to be barber to the company. The gardener questions the task but obeys. The note then shifts to Goethe finishing the dramatic poem Pauan, with work spread over nearly fifty years until completion just before his death in 1882.
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Pane
Ravet
Goethe
Pauat
Weekend gathering in Goldsboro hosts church group event
Tonight at 7 80 Mr Edgar Smith will meet with the Young Peoples Society of All Saints Episcopal Church. On Friday night October 26 teachers and girls of South Rosemary plan an entertainment titled The Spinsters Convention at South Rosemary School.
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One Young Peoples’ Society of All Saints’ Episcopal Church
Edgar Smith
South Rosemary
South Rosemary School
County Bankers Hold Meeting in Scotland Neck Bank
Representatives from Halifax, Rosemary and Scotland Neck attended a County Bankers Association meeting in the Scotland Neck Bank directors room. The agricultural committee urged planting large acreages in small grain and hay to supply forage next year, with a general program to be set in January.
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Itfield
Halifax
Rosemary and Scoland Neck
County Bankers Association
Scotland Neck Bank
R. S. Travis
Weldon
Norfleet
Smith
J. H. Alexander, Jr
Agricultural Committee
C. B. Littlejohn
Parent-Teachers Meet Opens New Year At High School
The Parent Teachers Association met in the high school auditorium at 3 45 PM with president Mrs J Stainback presiding Rev E N Harrison gave the invocation. New teachers introduced themselves. a committee was named to appoint Grade Mothers. A cannabis planting plan was discussed for spring. Pageant contest rules to stay same as last year. monthly winners rotate. Finance committee appointed: Mrs Arch Taylor Mr Barkley Miss Stribbling. Regular meetings set for the third Monday night each month to boost attendance.
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J. Stainback
E.N. Harrison
Misses Grimes
Smith
Mra. Thos
M. Jenkins
Three Ways to Wealth and Martial Law in England
The text outlines three paths to wealth: warfare plunder commerce and agriculture, praising farming as the honest route blessed by divine favor. It notes a claim that martial law has never been formally declared in England, reflecting historic debate on lawful authority and civil order.
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Frank
Hile
Kengland
Rosemary School Parent-Teachers Elect New Officers
The Rosemary School PTA held its first regular 1923 meeting on October 10 at 3 o'clock. Mrs. R. P. Beckwith was elected president, Mrs. E. N. Harrison vice president, and Mrs. C. B. Raiford assistant secretary treasurer. A committee was formed to select grade mothers. Miss Rawl, the new principal, outlined the double session schedule and the health campaign. About 20 parents attended, with more urged to come next month.
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Rosemary School
R. P. Beckwith
E. N. Harrison
C.B. Raiford
Red Cross Field Of Action Covers All the World
Represented by 93 668 members the American Red Cross spans the globe. Europe reports 4 088 members while Turkey Constantinople Chapter lists 3 545 and China 2 262. Africa India 224 Australia 29 and Vladivostok 100 show chapters worldwide with foreign membership totaling 3 990.
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Europe
Turkey
Activ
Constantinople
Chi
Africa
India
Australia
Vladivostok
Siberia
Philippine Islands
Washington
Navy
United States
Insular
Nourishment Scoop From A Hospital Ward
An old darky from Georgie is taken to a Charlton hospital after a nurse measures his temperature. During rounds the doctor asks how he feels and he replies he feels all right, claiming he has had nourishment from a “lady” who gave him a piece of tame muck.
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Darky
Georgie
Averzbody
Churches Notice and Sermon Highlights
With the churches a. E. Church South Rev. Robert Hamen Nin Me KYL fee teacher of Borren Clie Prot KL Elmore Pres Epworth League 9 45 A M Sunday School 11 00 A M Sermon by Pastor The Rich and the Poor Meet 7 30 P M Sermon by Pastor Short New Testament Questions Continued Dr Adam Clarke in commenting on Pauls exhortation to the Thessalonians Despise not prophesyings says Do not suppose that ye have no need of continual instruction without it ye cannot preserve the Christian life nor go on to perfection God will ever send a message of salvation by each of his ministers to every faithful attentive hearer Rev Lewis N Mrs Katherine Webster P Roanoke Ave The church helps a man from his moral ruts and starts him on the highway of right thinking no right living The longer we travel in ruts the deeper they become and the more difficult it is to get out of them Turn on the road to the church All Saints Church invites you next Sunday the twenty first after Trinity Servi 7 30 A M Holy Communion 9 45 church school bibl iasses for adults and children T W Mullen Supt Morning service and sermon at 1 Night service and sermon at The Young Peoples Society ill meet tonight with Edgar Smith Choir rehearst Wednesday night 7 45
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Adam Clarke
Paul
Thessalonians
All Saints’ Church
T. W. Mullen
The
Young Peoples’ Society
Edgar Smith
Presbyterian Church Service By Union Theological Seminar Leader
Mr Joe Mack of the Union Theological Seminary Richmond Va will conduct services both morning and evening at the usual hours The public is cordially invited to attend.
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Joe Mack
Union Theological Seminar
Richmond
Canning Exhibit Shines at Patterson Mills Cannery
A Friday afternoon show at Patterson Mills Company featured potted plants and abundant cut flowers, with colorful posters by Miss Grimes’s fifth grade pupils. The display showcased canned fruits vegetables preserves jellies and pickles, highlighting a successful canning season. Mrs J Z Delane supervised with Miss Lillian Pettiway assisting and thanks the public for strong attendance and interest.
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Patterson Mills Company
J. Z. Delane
Potato cultivation sparks historic English opposition
In early 18th century England efforts to promote potato farming faced backlash as conspiracy rumors and religious claims spread against the crop. A 1720 Scottish attempt to introduce potatoes was denounced from pulpits, with critiques labeling them unbiblical and linked to the Adamic fall, leprosy and fever. An Arkansas man later faced violent crime involving his wife.
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Adam
England
William Corbett
Scotland
Real estate profits taxed. IRS to review 1919 1922 gains
Investigations by field deputies of the Internal Revenue Service find hundreds of taxpayers may have omitted profits from real estate sales in their income tax returns for 1919 through 1922. The collector orders transcripts of doubtful transfers and voluntary amendments to avoid heavy penalties, noting misinterpretation of law and prior publicity as causes. Several local residents and visitors are listed among chain of town notes and social visits. Regular Baptist services are announced for Sunday.
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Internal Revenue Service
Revenue Department
United States
Parent Teachers Meet at South Rosemary School
The parents and teachers held their first business meeting on the first Friday night in October and planned for a general meeting held last Thursday night October 1. Rev J D O Aviant urged cooperation to foster harmony and love. Mr A B Akers county superintendent spoke on Parent-Teachers Association benefits with statistics on school attendance and county expenditures. Rosemary Quartette and Rosemary High School orchestra provided music for all ages.
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South Rosemary School
J.D. O'Aviant
A. B. Akers
Rosemary Quartette
Orches
Rosemary High School
Rosemary Roanoke Rapids Woman's Club meeting announced
Women in Rosemary or Roanoke Rapids are invited to meet at the High School auditorium Monday afternoon at 3:20 PM for an organizing session with a guest speaker from out of town.
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Rosemary
Roanoke Rapids
Organization
Woman's Club
England's Diving Thrush Demonstrates A Waterbird Thrush
An authority describes the English dipper as a thrush that hunts underwater for aquatic beetles and insects. It periodically dives with its head submerged but retains nonwebbed feet and lacks full diving bird characteristics.
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England
Roanoke Rapids High School Defeats Red Oak 20–0 on Home Field
Roanoke Rapids High School football team avenged last year's two to one defeat by beating Red Oak High 20 to 0 on their home field. The first half stayed scoreless before Roanoke Rapids surged in the second half with strong play from Bain Vaughan and Vincent. Capt Avant led Red Oak as the standout for the visitors. The locals head to Rocky Mount Friday afternoon and expect a tough test there.
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Roanoke Rapids Hig
Red Oak High
Hatuday
Bain
Fred Vaughan
Vincent
Avant
Avant, Was the Shining Star
Rocky Mount
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