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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-06-03
Nearest Mainland

The Gulf Hotel is nearest the main
land from Brownsville and Valley
points. Tell your hoatman 10 take
Won L. the Gulf Hotel.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-10-13
Hon. Claud Kitchln To Speak At
Rosemary

Unless something entirely un.
foreseen happensto prevent, Hon.
Claude kitchin will deliver 8
speech in thetheatre at Rosemary
on next Wednesday evening,
October rs. Arrangements for
this visit of Mr.. Kitchin's are
being made by Mr.. W. C. Bass
and DR.. T. w. M. Long. =
Mr.. Kitchin is one of the
most brilliant orators the Dem
odcratic party has produce
and standing as he does in the
foremost ranks of the dominant
party, his eloquence will have
behind it the full weight of
authority, After the President
Mr.. Kitchin has had probably
more than anyone else, the
responsibility of shaping the
destiny of the nation during
the last four years. His speech
at Rosemary will be worthy of
the immense audience that will
gather to hear him.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-10-13
~ INV YAK NnA
Registrars and PolIhoIders Ap.
pointed

At the meeting of the County
Board of Election held at Hall.
fax Monday the following were
appointed registrars and pollhold-
ers of the various precincts of
the county, the first named in
each precinct being the registrar.
Brinkleyville &C. A. Williams.
Jr., W. G. Vinson. ]. E. Harper.
Butterwood-A. F. Carter, J.
NJ. Harris. W. C. Best.
Conocanara Nick Fitzpatrick,
J. A. Dickens, Med. King.
Enfeld-S. B. Holloway, ST.,
D. H. James, J. D. Whitehead.
Faucets &C. N. Hamill, R. B.
Brickell, Jr., S. l.. Gibson.
Halifax E. N. Safer, W. B.
Drewry, G, W, Shearin.
Kehuke &C. J. Davenport,
W. N. Herring, |. M. Parker.
Littleton-W. A. Harvey, W,
L. Wiggins, R. H. Walker.
Palmyra &C. N. Andrews, C.
H. Robertson, Tom Cain.
Roseneath-J. M. Downing
Rufus Cherry, L. H. Lucas.
Roanoke Rapids "A. M. Proc.
tor, ]. T. Stainback, A. W. Har.
ris.
R. Rapids Precinct No 2.
T. M. Jenkins, Hannibal Shear.
in, l.. A. Daniel.
Scotland Neck-G. Lamb, C.
L. Mcdowell, Ed Powell.
Weldon d. E. Stainback,
Craig Cornwall, L. N. Green.
The registration books for the
general election which will be
held Tuesday, November 7th,
will be open from October 5th
to the 28th, inclusive.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-10-13
Debate at the Tabernacle

There will be a debate at the
Christian tabernacle on Saturday
night. These debates are grow
ing in interest. Numbers of
peopleattendboth men andwomen
1t is the purpose to try to de-
velopi in the power of speech.
Two of the ladies will debate
two weeks from Saturday night.
The subject for this time is; Re.
solved: THAT Woman Has More
Influence Over Man Than Money
Has. The affirmative will be
ably represented by Messrs. J.
]. Rose, P. V. Matthews and H.
T. Baton, while the negative
side will have Messrs. j. H. Gay,
w. J. Norwood and ]. C. Groce,
to uphold their side. There will
be a public debate on Thanks
giving night along with the 9th
er exercises. Come out and en-
joy a harty laugh as we'll as
learn something.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-10-13
Red Men Service

The Rosemary Camp of Red
Men turned out in a body about
fftystrong last Sunday and heard
R. L. Topping the Christian
minister, preach a special SER
mon to them. This was the first
service held for any secret order
in the tabernacle was well filled.
The sermon was divided into two
parts, Virtues and Qualities.
Three virtues were freedom,
friendship and charity which are
tenets of this order, ard four
are patriotism, honesty, sobriety
and integrity. The men march
ed in a body from their camp.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-10-13
Methodist Revival Begins Soon

The revival at the Roanoke
Rapids Methodist church will be-
gin Sunday a week, October,
22nd, and continue for several
weeks.
Rev. E. T. Liddell, of Phila-
delphia, will conduct it. He is a
noted preacher, forceful, conse-
Grated and gifted.
He was born in New York
State in 1877, was converted at
II years of age and began
preaching at 16.
Whiteside University Illinois
is where he graduated. He has
averaged 500 sermons a year for
every year since he began and
over so, 900 souls have been con-
verted under his ministry. This
will be the 18th revival in this
state. Nine have been conduct
ed in Norfolk, with $500 con-
verts there. He has conducted
revivals in Virginia, Maryland,
Philadelphia and New Jersey.
1903 was spent in Europe,
where he held services in Dublin
and Cork, Ireland, and Cheshire,
England. At the latter place
800 were converted. This was
the first church built by the
Wesleys. He would have spent
this year in Europe, but for the
war there. A brother of his is
a minister of the Presbyterian
church in Oklahoma. Relatives
of his live in Atlanta, Ga. Bro.
Liddell has a wife and one child,
a son, He asks the prayers of all
christian people.
The public at large are invited
to hear him.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-10-13
Church Contest

Standing Of the several church
es of the community in the
$1,000 contest now going on at
B. Marks Department store,
based on votes turned in last
Monday night, was as follows;
Methodist Chuch 1884
Baptist Church 1896
Episcopal Church 7,648
Christian Church 5,96l
Presbyterian Church 1892
Only a small percentage of
the votes issued have been turn
ed in as yet for credit and the
contest promises to grow inter
esting as it progresses.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-10-13
ROANOKE BAPTIST
ASSOCIATION CLOSES
Interesting and Profitable Session
Gratifying Reports Of In
creased Membership
NEXT MEETING AT WILLIAMSON

The Roanoke Baptiss. Associa-
tion, held at the Roanoke Rapids
Baptist Church this week, was
even greater than had been ex-
pected. The reports from all the
committees were very gratifying,
and nearly all the churches with
in the bounds of the association
are in a flourshing condition.
There has been an unusally
large number of new members
added to the churches. Several
new churches are in course of
construction, and many old ones
are being repaired. The contribu-
tlons from nearly all the church
es for missions and benevolence
were greatly increased over last
year S reports.
Prof. c. w. Wilson, of the
Greenville Training School, was
elected Moderator, Hon. W. E.
Daniels, of Weldon, Vice Modera-
tor, Rev. T. l.. Vernon, of Hob
good, Clerk and Treasure, and
Mr.. c. j. Austin, of Tarboro,
Historian and Auditor.
Many prominent leaders of the
denomination visited the associ-
alton and were highly delighted
at the work being done. There
were at least one hundred and
fifty visitors and delegates here
during the session.
The next session of the associ-
alton will meet one year hence at
the Williamson Baptist Church.
In behalf of the local church,
the pastor wishes to thank most
heartily all who have opened
their homes and aided US in en-
tertaining the visitors. With
out a doubt the many visitors
leave here well impressed with
the community.
Rev. R. Fl. Bowden, of Tar
boro. offered the following reso-
luton which was adopted:
Resolved, that the thanks of
this body be extended to the
pastor and members of this
church, and the good people of
the community for the abundant
hospitality and kindness shown
us while in their midst"
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-10-13
"The Girl He Couldn't Buy"

An entertaining theme with
four acts of powerful intense
drama, telling story that grips
the heart, and holds the audience
as few stories in modern fiction
are able to do, is said to be a
brief yet honest description of
what is furnished in THE Girl He
Couldn't buy" which has just
finished record breaking engage
ments at the Walnut Street
Theater, Philadelphia, and the
Lexington Avenue Theatre, New
York City, and comes to the
Peoples Theatre on Wednesday
evening, October, 18th. Every
incident from the rise of the
curtain, revolves around a young
girl, Hope Nelson, who has been
carefully reared in a home sur
rounded by every luxury. 1t is
the perfidy of her fathers part
ner that deprives her of fortune,
and subsequently her only living
parent, her father. Too proud
to call on her friends for assist
ance, she starts out to make her
own way in the world by secur-
ing a six dollar a week clerkship
in one of the large department
stores in New York. 1t is here
that the evil hand of David Burn
ham is again felt by Hope, and
through his malignant influence
she loses her position.
1t is with the assistance of Joe
Maynard, a crook who has climb
ed the fire escape and hid in her
room to escape the police, that
Hope is able to regain possession
of some mining stock certificates
belonging to her father, and
which had been stolen by Burn
ham, The recovery of the stock,
which had increased considerably |
in value since her fathers death,
restores to Hope her fortune and
assists her in working out the
redemption of Maynard.
Sumner Nichols, the author, !
has woven throughout the piece
beautiful love story, which
makes the play of an absorbing
and human interest. The play is
further enhanced by rich vein
Of comedy, delightfully."- new and
suffusing the whole play with
the CHEEKY optimism of its lik-
able characters.
THE Girl He Couldn't Buy"
comes with a splendid company
Of New York actors, and scenic
equipment complete in every de-
tail.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-10-13
United Sunday School Rally Day

The Rosemary-Roanok Rapids
Sunday School Association will
observe a Rally Day on the fifth
Sunday in this month, October
10Th. The rally will be inter
denominational and all churches
and Sunday Schools in the two
towns will have part in it. The
desire of the association is
to make the day of real value
from both educational and
spiritual standpoint.
The securing of DIR. E. W.
knight, Of Trinity College for
one of the chief speakers will
make this a certainty. DR.. Knight
is prominent in Sunday Schoo
work in the state and is TIE
author of several hooks dealino
with the Sunday School aud its
problems. He will speak in the
cubic school auditorium on Sun
lay morning 10 all the adults Of
he town and Sunday Schools,
\ speaker for the Younger peo
ple and children will address
them at the same ii @ in the
Presbyterian Church. His name
x,ll be announced later. The
Rosemary Band will furnish tht
music at the Auditorium.
All Sunday School officers anC
teachers are asked to meetin thu
Presbyterian Church on Frida.
night, October 10th, for a con
ference to form the al plan'
for rally day.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-10-13
Her Pair Of Shoes

The girl worked in a five and
ten cent store for the munifcent
wage of $5 a week. Her mother
took in washing to help support
the family consisting of two
smaller children, and a lazy, good
for nothing father. This man
was too lazy to even look for
work. He would leave home late
in the forenoon and sit all day
on park benches, reading dime
novels. He spent his evenings
and mornings lying in bed, read
ing novels, smoking his pipe and
rushing the can"-his wife and
daughter providing the money.
The girl needed shoes. The
wrecks she wore were falling
from her feet. To prevent pick
ing up splinters from the rough
boards on which she stood all
day behind the counter, she pro-
tected the bottom of her feet by
inserting pasteboard insole. Her
evenings she spent with her feet
in hot water to reduce the swell
ing and soothe her tired feet.
Each week she took her un.
opened pay-envelope home to her
mother. Each week she was
promised So with which to buy
new shoes. But there was al.
ways need for the money she
earned to support the family lar
der; to provide beer and tobacco
for her lazy father. Just how the
half-slave shop girl finally sue
cumbed to relentless fate ard
"sold out for a pair of shoes" is
to be pictorially related in Blue
bird Photoplays at the Peoples
and Rosemary Theatres on Friday
October the Goth, in a great,
moral and sociological revelation
entitled Shoes.
There is a lesson in this feat
ure for every father and mother
who have made themselves re-
sponsible for the Welfare of a
,.ausaler ii eAt ounds the great
est problem ever essayed in NOV.
ing pictures and does it deftly.
clean,y an with gripping inter
est.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-10-13
ROSEMARY PERSONAL AND
LOCAL ITEMS

i T. M. Jenkins is in Richmond,
this week attending the Virginia
State Fair.
The Presiding Elder, Rev. J,
D. Bundy, Of Weldon, preached
an eloquent and inspiring SER
mon in the Methodist Church
Sunday e,ening.
J. E. Matthews left for Rich
mond Wednesday where he will
attend the Fair.
Mr.. Charlie Griffith and family
after a few days visit here to
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Lehman
returned to their home in Wins
ton Salem Monday.
J. E. Robertson, of Heaths-
vile was in town Wednesday on
business.
S. B. Butts, Of Halifax was
in town Saturday.
Sunday morning at II O'Clock
in the Rosemary Baptist church,
Rev. A. G.. Chaffin will preach a
special sermon to the Wood
men of the World" all visiting
Woodmen are invited to partici-
pate. Public is invited to at
tend.
Mr.. T. w. Mullen and family
motored to Petersburg Saturday,
where they are spending this
week with relatives and friends.
Mr.. A. P. Thompson and family
of Halifax spent the day here
Sunday with friends and relatives
The Red Men" turned out in
a body Sunday and marched to
the Christian Tabernacle where
they listened to an appropriate
and most eloquent sermon by
the pastor, Rev. R. L. Topping.
w. L. and N. B. Dickens, of
Aurelian Springs, spent a few
hours here Tuesday on business.
]. E. Pepper of near Littleton
was in town Saturday a short
time on business.
J. H.Raegan, of Arden arrived
here Tuesday and has entered
into employ of the Patterson
Mills Co.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-10-13
STANCELL ITEMS

Miss Virginia Bradley, Mr.
Ned Dromgole and Mr.. Ton
Biard were callers at the home
of Mr.. E. M. Clements Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. Annie Grant, Miss Mary
Lawrence and Messers HOTTER,
Steele, Davis and Cleaton attend
ed the Carnival at Weldon Satur'
day night.
Mr.. George Steele spent Sun
dap and Monday with his mother
at Warsaw, N. G.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-10-13
MFR. Robert Cleaton spent Sun
day in Emporia.

Mr.. Robert Cleaton spent SUM-
day in Emporia.
Prayer Services are held al
Oak Grove Church every Sunday
night at 7:3O.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Shaw, DR..
and Mrs. T. H. Valentine called
in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. D.
H. Rainey Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Annie Grant spent Satur.
day night and Sunday in the hos.
pitable home of Mr.. and Mrs
7. E. Hotter.
Mrs. John Shaw, Mrs. Chapman
and Mr.. Junius Wren motored to
Emporia Sunday morning.
Little Miss Katherine Moody,
of Henrico, spent Monday night
with little Lottie Grant.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-10-13
Volume III.---Number 2:
ROANOKE RAPIDS PERSONAL
AND LOCAL ITEMS

The Ladies Aid Society of tn
Methodist Church requests tha
if there should be any one VIII
has not received the Holland
Magazine" to notify Mrs. Geo. S
Bearden.
Mr.. and Mrs. Miles andMiss Mag
gle Davenport, of Hamilton, at
tended the association here this
week.
Rev. Jesse Black, of Severn
attended the association here
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. D. Shell,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Woodruff anG
Joe Williams motored to Rich.
mond Wednesday to attend the
fair.
Leroy Everett and Paul Peele,
of Hamilton, were in town a few
hours on business Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Vaughan
and children and Miss Snodie
Moore attended the Richmond
Fair this week.
The Presbyterian Ladies Aid
Society will meet with Mrs. DR..
Beckwith on next Tuesday after
noon at three o'clock.
J. M. Underwood left Saturday
for Ashville, N. c., where he
will spend several days with Mrs.
= Underwood, who has been spend
ing some time there for heI
health.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. R. Mohorn
and Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Collier
attended the Richmond Fair
this week.
J. Goldman attended the
Sixth and Eighth District /. 0.
O. F. Conventions, held in
Wilson on last Wednesday, as
a delegate from Carolina Lodge
No. 225. the local lodge of Odd
fellows.
Rev. Stanley White, of Cord
onsville, Va, arrived last week
and delivered his first sermon as
pastor of the Presbyterian Church
on last Sunday.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-10-13
Notice

Advertised mail in the Roa-
noze Rapids Postoffice.
Messrs. Willie Bucks, Charlie
w. Davis, r. E. Johnston, Rich
ard Madry, Eddie Sadler.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-10-13
|. 0. OF. Deputy Grand Masters
Reception

/ Carolina Lodge No. 225, |.
@, o. F., will be visited at their
regular meeting on next Monday
evening by d. G. NJ. Calvin
Woodard, of Wilson. who will
address the members of the
Loage.
A resident members request.
ed and visiting brethren cordially
invited to be present. Refresh.
msnts will be served.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-10-13
ROMANCE'S OF THE
RECORDERS COURT

Billie Coleman, drunk and
disorderly, $500 and costs.
]. W. Lynch, small affray
with ]. Goldman, $1.O0 and
costs.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-10-13

Nessrs, C. j. Topping, Harry
Philips, H. H. King, Nat Hocka-
day, Carl Graham and Holland
Brantly motored to Halifax Sun
Ay,
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-10-13
CAUGHT IN THE WIRE ENTANGLEMENTs

AS THE SUPREME COURT
CANDIDATE CANNOT SAY WHAT
HE WOULD HAVE DONE If IN
PRESIDENT WILSON'S PLACE,
OR WHAT HE WILL DO IF HE
SUCCEEDS HIN AS lie IS
CERTAIN ONLY OF THE WRONG
FULEESS OF EVERYTHING THE
ADMINISTRATION HAS DONE =
HIS INDUCEAiEET TO. CHANGE
OUR FOREIGN POLICIES WILL
BE GREAT. WILL 1T BE A
CHANGE TO SUIT GERMANY,
OR HAVE TIE COUNTRY GET
INTO SOME SORT OF FIGHT?-
From an article by Rich
ard 0lney in The New York
World.
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-10-04
INDIANS DO NOT
 WORRY ABOUT DYES

Manufacturers all over the country are complaining of the shortage of dyes: clothing makers are threatening to dress us in garments white as snow; the time is coming, say the ink manufacturers, when we must rely on the red fluid made famous by Captain Kidd and other pirate bands when we want to write check. but Chem, bet ter known as Steve, an Indian and manufacturer of British Columbia worries not
 He makes his own dyes. and wheth- CT any more are ever imported from Germany, or whether American chem ists solve the secrets. are alike mat ters of supreme indifference to him. So long as his klutchman and his ten as, or in English, his wife and daugh- ter, retain their strength, he will pose as a manufacturer and turn out the same mat and basket goods. having the same bright colors as the utensils his forefathers used as berry contain CTS and cooking vessels when the foot of the white man was foreign to these shores.
 All the specimens of the handiwork of the women shine forth in gay col ors, and all colors are obtained by the klutchman, according to the simple process known for thousands of years
 The black. and it is a black that will not fade. is obtained by covering the rushes, grasses or bark with the black mud of the swamps, which gives a lasting jet equal to any imported dye the red is obtained from the bark of the alder; pink from a weaker solu- ton of the same bark; brown comes from the familiar bark of the hem lock and yellow is boiled ou; of the root Of the Oregon grape.
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-10-04
EskimOs RaCially Kin
 To Tartars, His Theory

After making a careful study of the Eskimo people of the Far North. pr. Iudson Daland. professor at the Uni yersity of Pennsylvania. who return ed Monday from Alaska. is of the opinion that the northern tribes of Alaska are descended from the Tar. tary races.
 The peoples'of both countries are alike in many characteristics, he said last night at the Hotel New Washing ton.
 Dr. Daland expressed the opinion that two travelling doctors should be furnished by the government to fur nish treatment for the natives of Alaska, and that the natives should be made to pay for the medicine which they use.
 The reindeer has done wonders towards elevating the native of Alas ka to a higher stage of civilization" he said. Dr. Daland thinks Alaska has a wonderful future. as a mineral coun- try first: as a fishing country second. and as an agricultural country a bad third-Seattle Times.
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-10-04
WHALING DAYS ARE OVER.

At the outbreak of the American Revolution and for a period of seventy five years following the conclusion of that struggle whaling was the most important branch of the American fisheries. From 500 to roo vessels sought whales in all the oceans and seas O fthe world. and in one year New Bedford alone sent out 800 yes sels. whose cargoes of bone and oil were the basis of the industrial life of the city
 The pursuit of sperm whales reach ed its climax in 1897, when oil valued at nearly $4.5000O0 was brought in, mostly from the south Pacific The height of the industry was in 1S46. when 70,000 persons derived their support from whales and 720 vessels. valued at s21.000,000, were engaged.
 For more than fifty years the fishery has been declining, and in numerous ports that once derived most of their wealth from the industry there have Tor a long time existed only memories of former greatness. For number of years the sperm. right and bow head whales that supported the fishery in early years have been very scarce and their pursuit has been improbable, and the present importance of the whale fishery, amounting in value to less than per cent Of the American fisheries, depends on the taking from shore stations of species of whales that formerly were for the most part neglected.
 The glory of the whale fishery has departed forever. and the commercial if not the biological extinction Of all kinds of whales is proceeding rapidly. undeterred and unlamented by the principal maritime powers.-Hugh NJ. Smith in National Geographic Maga- zine.
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-10-04
MEANINGS OF DREAMS.

Scientific dream interpretation helps us to see ourselves as we really are, gives us intimate glimpses of the sub conscious as well as conscious desires, fears and modes of thinking that en- ter into the making of our character and the shaping of our conduct, ac- cording to H. Addington Bruse in the Mothers Magazine
 The compilers of the gaudy little paper covered dream books once so much in vogue went rightly enough on the theory that dreams are symbol ic But they erred by assuming that they are always symbolic of future events and that any particular dream element can always be interpreted as symbolic of the same kind of future event
 Those who expect modern science to provide them with dream manual akin to the old dream books, so that every one may become his own inter- preter at a glance, are consequently doomed to disappointment Accurate dream interpretation almost always means time and effort. But it is well worth the trouble it costs. All who would discover unsuspected weakness es and defects in themselves. who u-OuId gain q m Q vir017r1 of baaIfo han piness and efficiency through right Hv- ing, will do well to seek to have their dreams analysed.
 And it is not only for the light if throws on ones nature and character that scientific dream interpretation is worth while. There are dreams which rightly interpreted throw light on the state Of the dreamer's physical health, sometimes enabling action obe taken that will avert serious disease.
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-10-04
CRooKEDNEss RAILROAD IN THE
 WORLD.

Up California's Tamalpais runs the crookedness railroad in the world Of the eight miles of track the longest is but 413 feet In one notable instance the road makes five complete loops and ties two complete bowknots to attain an elevation of ninety feet. The end Of the line is about half a mile higher than the starting point and there is not one particularly steep grade in the entire system.