Local notes highlight church, college, and business moves
Miss Iola Stinson leaves for Littleton Female College and Elmyra Jenkins heads to Raleigh for St Marys. Jno L Patterson travels to Asheville to visit family, while Lillie Strauther goes to Louisburg Female College. Roanoke Mills tied to local sports row, amid letters from L S Mosher defending Roanoke Mills. Also notices on pruning pears, sidewalk fund, and town events with Rosemary and Forest City reports.
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Elmyra Jenkins
Raleigh
St. Mary's
Lillie Strauther
Louisburg Female College
Roanoke Rapids Board of Trade Meets Weary Sidewalk Plan
The Roanoke Rapids Township Board of Trade met at Rosemary Schoolhouse on September 14 with strong attendance. They discussed funding a Rosemary Roanoke Rapids sidewalk, cotton market moves, a toll bridge switch to free status, and a Beaver Company shutdown. Resolutions mourn the death of Marie R. W. Jordan, and the Roanoke Rapids Graded Schools opened with 484 pupils, rising to 530 next day amid overcrowded facilities and staffing details.
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Roanoke Rapids
Hart
Board of Trade of
Roanoke Rapids Township
Rosemary
W. P. Horner
M. M. Faison
L. S. Cannon
South
J. T. Chase
Board of Trade
Sea Pound
Beaver Company
E. E. Whitney
Beaver Board
Roanoke River
T. W. M. Long
C. A. Wyche
J. T.chase
Nina Gatlin
Old Rosemary
Katie Adkinson
Josephine Tillery
Minnie Hopkins
Patterson Store
Sarah Waller
Sue Watkins
Bessie Alston
Mabel Byrd
Nita Boyce
Lucille Edwards
Belle Graham
Irma Boyce
Weldon
Tider
Wedon
Supt
Akers
North Carolina News Roundup of Sept 12 Local Events
A Charlotte meeting urged Governor Craige to summon a special North Carolina Legislature to ease cotton woes and set up tolls to gauge withheld bales. The state corporation commission sued for 100000 inheritance tax, targeting the Tucker estate. In Monroe, two lovers died in Lakewood Park, sparking funeral arrangements. Asheville hosts the national insurance commissioners meeting led by NC’s James R. Youns. Falls Creek orphanage Kennedy Memorial Home opened near Kinston, and Winston-Salem hosts the Sunday School convention with notable speakers. The Detroit Free Press quotes a suffragette remark on preventive care.
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Charlotte
Cgovernor
Craijt
7Th Carolina
Mecklenberg
Raleisch
North Carolina Corporation Commission
North Carolina
Tucker
Raleigh
C. B. Howell
Lizzie Gri
Monroe
Lakewood Park
Lizzie Griffin
Miss Griffin
Howell
Salisbury
Seaboard Railroad
Asheville
National Convention of Insurance Commissioners
James R. Youns
Insurance Commissioner of
Taleivh
Federal Comptroller of the Currency
Staings
Kinston
Kennedy Memorial
The
North Carolina Baptists
Falling Creek
Thomasville
Winston-Salem
North Carolina Sunday School Association
Ings
Roscoe Taylor Dies at 29 in Rosemary Home
Roscoe Taylor died at his Rosemary residence last Friday night September 11 after a period of illness. He was twenty nine and survived by a wife with no children. The body was taken to Edgecombe county for burial.
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Garysburg
Sampson
Roanoke Mills
Mosher
L. S. Mosher
J. B. Buck
Rosemary
Edna May Buck
Roanoke Rapids
Edna May
Roscoe Taylor
Taylor
Edgecombe County
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Roanoke Rapids, Rosemary, and
Patterson Mills
Iola Stinson
Littleton Female College
Jno. L. Patterson
Sarah Marks
Mrs. Bb. Marks
J. W. House
Baltimore
Ladies Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church
George L. Hayes
Monroe Jenkins
Rocky Mount
C. J. Straughan
Burlington
Patterson Mills Company
Mra, Savage and Little Son
Norfolk, Va
J. W. Whitaker
Sanitary Barber Shop
T. J. Gay
Newport News
Charlina Hart
Mae Grizzard
Miss Butler of
Henderson
W. F. Horner
George Feild
West Point
Hame
G. L. Hayes
W. T. Glover
Rosemary Methodist Church
J. E. Dobbins
Forest City
N.C
F. C. Teepleman
Home Telephone and Telegraph Company
A. L. Slark
R. F. Inscore
J. M. Tompton
S. M. Thompson
Herald Office
B.S. Webb
Scotland Neck
Williamston
Rosemary BY
PLA
James Blackwell
John Simons
Emil Fischer
W. R. Vaughan
Boston Transcript
Marie
R. W. Jordan
Omaha
Roanoke Rapids Herald
W. C. Thompson
W. C. W. Adyt
Huey, Healy
New York City
United States
Royal Commission of England
Henry H. Goddard
New Jersey
Hasting H. Hart
Department of Child-Helping
Russell Sage Foundation
Japan
Great Britain
Britain
Italy
Europe
Lancashire
England
Wall Street Journal
North Carolina News
Old North
Man and the
Palm Beach
Detroit Free Press
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