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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1938
Page
9
A cookbook style note extols tomato salads for year round appeal. It promotes Miracle Salad Dressing and a poinsettia cut tomato centerpiece with cauliflower, celery, and peas, served with Miracle Whip and salt to taste.
Acme Grocery Co of Weldon introduced a new vacuum packed coffee named Acme Blend. The ground blend suits drip percolator or boiled coffee and is gaining sales in Halifax County. A Cooking School prize distribution will promote it at Imperial Theatre. Virginia Branch, Meredith College Piano head, left Raleigh for the fall term. Mrs. J Holt Evans returned from Nags Head with her children Betsy Ann and Don. Lizzie Sherrod and Annie Mae Sherrod visited relatives in Rocky Mount. Jean Bobbitt returned from Virginia Beach after a week there.
Mrs Bennie Bobbitt hosted the Junior Contract Club at her home Friday evening. Mrs Robert Ivy and Mrs Harold Burrows won high and second high scores and received prizes. Ten to twelve players attended with refreshments served at ten thirty. Marilyn Habel and her parents Rev and Mrs Sam T Habel were guests at a party hosted by Lorene and Annie Luther Ransome before she departed for Edinburgh Scotland. Guests gave gifts and were instructed to open one daily on the voyage. Ice cream and cake accompanied the refreshments.
Families and friends share weekend travels to Virginia Beach and Wilmington. Births, marriages, and schooling moves are noted, including a Washington son born September 5 and the Stott Steinberg wedding in Wilson with plans to reside in Enfield. Cecil Coburn begins VMI at Lexington as others visit Suffolk and Richmond during the period.
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