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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1935
Page
3
The Flower Show at the Woman's Club House on Thursday October 17 showcased top displays. Prizes honored numerous exhibitors for best specimens, collections, and artistic arrangements across dahlias, seasonal blooms, and mixed flowers, highlighting community effort to beautify Roanoke Rapids.
Oberlin M. Carter 79 seeks to resent an unfair removal from a ring career in a case described as the American Dreyfuss. The piece lists recipients in a fair with multiple first and second prizes for plants and home décor including chrysanthemums, end tables, artistic arrangements, old flowers, and floral specimens among handlers Mrs. L. S. Cannonist Mrs. R. I. Starke Mrs. A. O. George Mrs. Lucille Smith and Miss Hazel Cobb in a community event.
Notice states the sidewalk improvements in Roanoke Rapids are finished and the assessment roll filed. The Board set assessments at twenty five cents per lineal foot with 5 percent interest. A public hearing on objections will be held on the first Tuesday in November 1935 at 3:00 PM.
Mrs. Fred M. Parker a former Enfield resident died at Rocky Mount Hospital after months of illness. Funeral services were held at the Good Shepherd church in Rocky Mount led by Rev. F Hl Craighill and Rev. Benjamin Brodie with burial later. She was 50, a Connecticut native who moved to Enfield and later Colonia with husband Dr. Fred M. Parker, prison camp physician, and survived by three daughters Helen Parker of Nashville Tennessee Mildred Parker of Dallas Texas and Mary Parker.
Parker, a student of Meredith College in Raleigh, and one son, Gorlon Parker.
The Rosemary Parent-Teacher Association met at the Rosemary school building on Oct 10 at 4 pm. New officers announced: Mrs Clyde Martin president Miss Thelma Garriss secretary and Mrs Frank Kendrick treasurer. Miss Hazel Whitehurst and Verna Boykin provided music. Refreshments followed. Boykin grade had the most mothers.
Misses Betty Gates and Virginia Blount spent the weekend in Farmville Virginia. They were accompanied home by Miss Virginia Gates who has been very sick but is now able to resume her teaching duties.
Local social notes from Messick Virginia Newport News Red Oak Durham Portsmouth Hopewell and Rutherfordton recount visits and weekends. Families mentioned include Leslie and Joe Smith E J Harrell Emmett Wright Carrie T Smith Olga Boyd and A R Winslow with several multi town stops and hostings.
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