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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1931
Page
2
Local social notes record visits and travel from Roanoke Rapids to Norfolk and Baltimore, with many families and individuals visiting relatives, attending bridge parties, and hosting club meetings in Roanoke Rapids and nearby towns. Activities include hospital stays, visits, and weekend gatherings, plus multiple bridge club events with prizes and desserts.
Mr E Stainback and family express sincere thanks to the community for kindness during the illness and death of their wife and mother. The remembrance of them will be held in fond memory.
In loving remembrance of Benjamin F Armstrong who died Sept 28 1030. Frecious loved one you have left us. Forever in this world. But we hope to meet our loved ones in heaven. We have lost our darling father. He has bid us all adieu and gone to live in heaven. Oh that dear one how we all loved him. But an angel came for him and took him from our home. Lettie Armsit ters, Golda, Pearl, Vi guiline.
Sunday September 27 at St Job's Catholic Chapel corner Hamilton and Ninth Streets 8 am Low Mass sermon on The Outward Sign Holy Communion Benediction and Sunday School Confessions 7 15 to 7 55 am Masses at churches in Scotland Neck 751 North Main St 11 am Rocky Mount corner S Franklin and Chester Sts 11 Tarboro 1008 St David Street 8 am Everybody invited to services at each place.
Halifax happenings note several residents traveling and visiting nearby cities. Shenandoah Valley Academy student Stedman left Wednesday for Winchester Virginia. Elizabeth Boyd and Jack Tilft planned to enter the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill session. Mrs W D Burwell of Henderson visited her sister Mrs B M Gary and Miss Nannie. Lizzie Wilkinson and John Haynes arrived from Goldsboro and Reid for a weekend with Quentin Gregory. Lilly Kenner joined W E Fenner in Rocky Mount for a few days. Several grand ladies and gentlemen, including Quentin Gregory and Turner Stevenson, spent Monday in Richmond.
Several property transfers are recorded in the Halifax County Register of Deeds. Among the items Edward E Rhodes Sub Tr Essex NJ to Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co Newark NJ 125 78 acres Weldon Township. Enfield Town to W J Brown cemetery lot Enfield Township. Weldon Hotel Co Inc to Roanoke Hotel Corp Terminal Hotel lot and improvements Weldon furniture fixtures machinery equipment. Mamie Euston to W J Aneston first parcel 21 acres Tarbo road Halifex County second parcel lot Hobgood. R J Madry to Lena T Madry 50 acres Palmyra Township.
Public sale by trustee A L Clark on October 24 1981 at Roanoke Rapids NC for cash to satisfy a note secured by deed of trust dated January 80 1929 from Emma Lee Hasty and W S Has ner to A L Clark. The property includes a house and lot near Rosmary Oxford and Roanoke Rapids along State Highway 40 described as Lot Forty Three 23 with 150 feet on Highway 40, formerly owned by Virginia Carolina Power and later Roanoke Rapids Properties Inc. The notice dated September 22 1931 and posted by Parker Allsbrook attorneys.
By virtue of a March 16 1929 deed of trust George D Sledge and Ermma Sledge conveyed property to Julian I Allsbrook trustee. Default in payment noted in Halifax County North Carolina records Book 300 page 377.
The undersigned trustee will offer for sale at public auction on the 22nd day of October 1981 at 12 o'clock noon at the pay office door in Rosain Rapids, Halifax County, NC. The real property lies in Fausche Township and is described as a tract adjoining B F Powell and the late Ichabod Powell, bounded by B F Powell, Quanky Creek, Ichabod Powell lands, and Hilliard Tony lands, containing forty two and one half acres more or less. This notice dated September 8, 1981, by Sultan R Allsbrook trustee.
Mrs Gertrude Hoover Twisdale and G Badger Read hosted a birthday supper at Rest Haven Middlebury honoring Mrs Mary L Read and Miss Laura Read whose shared birth date was noted. Guests included numerous locals from Henderson Weldon Norlina and Washington DC. bridge club members later gathered for cards with prizes and a salad course to finish.
Trustee T W M Long will sell ten lots in Halifax County Roanoke Rapids Township near Rosemary on October 3 1931 at 11 30 am at the Halifax Court House door for cash. Lots 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 and 40 front 30 feet along Jefferson Street, extending 140 feet to an alley, described by plat on record in Plat Book 3 Page 65 with reference to Virginia Carolina Power Company lands. Rosemary NC August 27 1931.
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