Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-15
PEACE CELEBRATED
IN BEFIrTING MANNER
People Roanoke Rapids Township That Their Joy is Genuine
and Their Demonstrations Not Couet Coin by Subscribing
$4,000 War Work Fund Great Joicaon Meeting Held at
. Central School Auditorium Monday Evening.
$50 SCHOOL CHILDREN IN PARADE TUESDAY

A few minutes after the new
Of the signing of the armistic
by the German peace delegation
was received here Monday morn
ing, our Mayor, Mr.. ]. T. Chase
was busy with plans for an ap
propriate celebration Of this grea
event, which was the initial steI
towards restoring peace to a wal
torn world and the official seal
ing Of the fate Of one William
Hohenzollem and his entire fam,
lily of usurpers.
When details were decided up.
on, a circular printed in the
National colors and embellished
with an American Flag were
printed and distributed announc.
the jollifcation meeting to held
in the school auditorium.
The celebration was to start
at $50 P. M. by the blowing
of the whistles and ringing the
church bells of the community,
but it was found hard to keep
Roanoke Rapids part Of young
America in harness. However,
at $50 sharp the celebration be-
gan full blast and lasted late in
to the night. School children
and grown ups, too, had secured
horns and various other instru-
ments designed to make a noise
and proceeded to "open up.
At eight O'Clock the largest
crowd ever gathered together in
this community packed the large
auditorium Of the Central School
and its gallery also. Scores
were forced to remain outside in
the halls, and a large number on
the outside to Keep the Home
Fires Burning.
The program was opened by
singing America by the entire
audience, and was lead by a pick
ed chorusof 100 school children,
which was followed by an inspir-
ing prayer by Rev. Eugene c.
Few, of the Methodist Church.
Mayor Chase next introduced
the speaker of the evening. our
honored townsman, Senator W.
L. Long, who spoke impulsively
and impressively on conditions of
the present hour, paying just tri-
butte to our brave and victorious
soldiers and those of our Allies,
to Marshall Foch, the military
genius, who, together with his
able assistants, drove the Hun
from the soil of France, and al
most utterly crushed an enemy
to mankind, an enemy that had
been taught from infancy to be-
lieve his masters army was in
vincible, and urged the people
not to forsake now those lads
who had died and those who were
fortunate enough to escape death
in the inferno of Europe created
by the Hun. To prove their sim
cerity by giving the amount ask
ed for by the leaders of the War
Work Campaign before they left
the Auditorium.
At the close of Senator Longs
splendid talk, Mayor Chase came
forward with a brilliant and orr
ginal scheme. The Herald Pub
fishing Company had secured a
summary of the armistice terms,
which were read to Congress by
President Wilson during the
afternoon, over long distance
from the Raleigh Times, of which
there were some 80. Mayor
Chase's scheme was to sell the
audience for a certain sum per
each, the proceeds to be turned
over to Rev. Lewis N. Taylor,
the Chairman of the local Com
mittee of the War Work Cam
paign. The idea proved to be q
good one, and before the meet
ing closed our people had given
over $5, 10000 exceeding consid-
erably our quota Of $4,000. 90,
and proving another time that
our township is over 10O% Amer
icsn, (which lsads US to soy here