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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1931
Page
2
Residents and visitors crisscrossed the region over the weekend. Mrs Cleophus Bray visited Norfolk companions. Laura Brigham and Jack Brigham spent time together. families traveled to Lasker Rich Square Broadway Warrenton and Macon for visits and trips.
A jumbled list of 1930s North Carolina fiscal and constitutional actions outlines proposed amendments to the state constitution, school and highway provisions, budget controls, and commissions. Items include text book recommendations, ballot impounding, tobacco acreage edits, salary limits for teachers, competitive bidding for state projects, and university reorganization.
A 1931 legislature summary notes 400 plus laws and resolutions enacted or passed of public or general nature but under 300 of general interest. It lists resolutions to inform the Governor, journals and statutes printing, and commemorations such as Governor Gardner’s 40th birthday and the Guilford Court House sesquicentennial. It also records memorials and requests to Congress on tax rebates and foreclosure delays, plus notices of notable deaths from Longworth to Dillard.
A stream of proposed legal amendments covers education text book adoption, perch trap restrictions, tobacco leaf payment to order, trust fund investments, clerks of superior court, and tax sale advertising. Other items seek to extend alias summons, defer tax land sales, abolish special tax districts, allow partial tax payments, provide free vital records for veterans and beneficiaries, and adjust executor duties. The package also includes uniform weights and measures repeal, Workmen's Compensation exemptions, insurance rate regulation, coast and port investigations, and zoning changes.
Notice names Roanoke Rapids Graded School District and Lessie May Batts with K R Batts in Halifax County Superior Court. Document lists all persons other than the defendants as potential parties in the foreclosure action and notes court involvement.
Notice to all named claimants that an action has begun in the Halifax County Superior Court to foreclose tax sale certificates and liens on land in Roanoke Rapids Township near Rosemary. The property, Lots 1 and 2 on H. L. Bell and C. F. Zeller map, was conveyed to Lessie May Batts and K M Batts and re conveyed to Allen Go Trustee for HL Bat. Defendants must answer within six months or be barred.
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