Roanoke Rapids Schools Eye Record Enrollment This Year
City schools plan morning opening at 8 30 with enrollment likely to surpass last year’s 2686 total, 2308 white and 378 colored. Strong first grade turnout at Central and Rosemary Graded Schools prompts possible expansion, four rooms added on half day plan, more buildings needed if growth continues. First general teachers meeting set for Friday afternoon. white staff 70 teachers, colored staff 8.完整名单见本期其他页。
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Davis
Central
Rosemary
Roosevelt Voting Appeal and Local Notices
A former appeal urges Roanoke Rapids voters to support Roosevelt with $1 contributions aiming to mobilize 20 million Roosevelt votes. Local items note stores open Wednesday afternoons starting September 7, a choir pianist appointment, and heat relief stories. A horse show was reported with a bathing beauty contest in Rich Square in which Miss Susie Moseley represented Roanoke Rapids.
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Roanoke Rapids
Susie Moseley
Rich Square
Carolina
Cleophus Bray
Engagement Notice for Ruby Shell and Lloyd Allen
Mrs. C. E. Shell announces the engagement of her granddaughter Ruby Lucille Shell to Lloyd Bennett Allen. The wedding is planned for October.
Reverend Bradley Back From South Carolina Trip
Rev. S. H. Bradley and family returned Wednesday morning from a trip to South Carolina. Church services are set for Sunday morning at the Presbyterian Church with no evening service. Mrs. J. W. Bradley, mother of Mr. Bradley, is arriving this week on furlough from China where she has served as a missionary for thirty years. Red Sharpe visited Nags Head last week as plans proceed to organize larger spy Scout units under Scout District Chairman T VY. Mullen with Rockingham’s Charles B. Benbow. Local volunteers join committees led by B. B. Manning and Howard Pruden to arrange Troop Organization, Civic Service, Health and Safety, and more. A citywide troop survey will determine sponsor groups, including churches and clubs, with finance chief Pruden arranging funds for the Tar Heel Council allotment.
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S. H. Bradley
South Carolina
Presbyterian Church
J. W. Bradley
Bradley
China
TVY
Court of Honor
Fletcher P. Dickens
Board of Review
Alfred Martin
Civic Service
C. W. Davis
Rev. S. H. Bradley
A W. Meikle
Health and
Jake Burton
Charles Speight
J. T. Chase
D. Brown
Messrs Bradley and Speight
Pruden
Roanoke Rapids
Tar “Heel
Miss Fannie Harris Wins Trip to New York City
Miss Fannie Harris departs tomorrow for New York City as a free trip winner from the News and Observer. She will travel from Raleigh with other winners, accompanied by chaperones, with all expenses paid. The program rewards securing paid Raleigh subscriptions, and the party stays over the weekend returning the following Tuesday.
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Fannie Harris
New York City
News and Observer
Harris
Raleigh
Womans Club to Meet on September 12
The Womans Club will hold its first meeting of the club year on Monday afternoon September 12 at 3 o'clock in the club building. Mrs Wade Dickens of Scotland Neck will address the group as chairman of the 14th District. Members are urged to attend.
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Womans Club
Wade Dickens
Scotland Neck
Gins First Bale Here This Year At Roarke Rapids
Kennie Collins again gins the year's first bale at Duke Wade's gin in Roarke Rapids on Monday August 29. The bale, bought by Rosemary Manufacturing Co, earned market price plus a premium of eight and three quarters cents and a five dollar bonus for the first bale 1932 cotton. Mr Wade notes Collins has been first at his gin for 14 years. This year heat and drought set a record for early cotton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennie Collins
Roarke Rapids
Duke Wade
Kennie
Rosemary Maufacturing Co
Wade
Collins
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Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States
James A. Farley
Democratic National
Evangeline Pendleton
Carrie Faulconer
Miss Pendleton
A. O. Pendleton
Roanske Rap
U. S
Canada
Herbert Hoover
Billy
Marine Corral
Camp Rapidan
Columbus
Ohio
Gov. Roosevelt
Fead
National
Moose Lodge
James J Javis
Cabinet Memor
Moose
Eagle and Shrine
Red Sharpe
Nags Head
Spy Scouts
Iowa
James J. Walker
New York
N. Y
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