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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-26

i JOHNNY Long, of Guntown. to
}$ Mr.. Will Fowler. was quietly
- solemnized Monday evening,
5~,o$ the happy couple leaving
Immediately after the ceremony for
an eastern tour.
Y NJ. C. A. HUT OPENING.
The lovely Y. M. C.. A. hut at
Payne field was formally opened on
Wednesday evening with a beauti-
full program Of song and story rem
dered by some of Aberdeen's best
local talent, Mrs. Robt. Wayne Nc
Williams. one of the finest elocu-
tionists in the Southland. gave some
charmiog selections. while Misses
Rose Gillespie. jamie Maier and In
dia Sykes Houston, who are num-
bered among the States most tai
ented singers, gave vocal selections.
Miss Gardner. an operate singer
from West Virginia, was also vocal
contributor, while Mrs. Donnie Sykes
Napier was the gifted accompanist.
Lieut.. Langley. of Michigan, who
gave up 5000 week job in vau-
deville. to fight for the Stars and
Stripes, gave some wonderful piano
interpretations. Altogether it was
one of the loveliest performances
that will be given and will finger
long in the memories of both Off
GERS and cadets.
FOR MISSES BROWN AND CROSFIELD.
Mrs. Maynard Holmes and Miss
Anne Holmes gave beautiful party
on Wednesday afternoon in honor
of their house guests. Misses Brown
and Crosfield. The rooms were
prettily decorated and a charming
afternoon was passed by the fortu-
nate guests.
IN AND OUT OF TOWN.
Chancellor Mcintyre was in the
city this week.
Mr.. Thos. franklin has returned
from Sheffield. Ala.
Mrs. Jno. Mcmillan and Mrs. d.
Wade are guests of Miss Ruth Len
OR. near Muldon.
Misses Mary Louise Watkins and
Margaret Green are back from visit
with friends in Gadsden, Ala.
Miss Alma Lake is back from a
fortnight's stay in West Point.
Mrs. Wiley P. Harris and little
Grace are guests Of Mrs. Anna Wat
kins. on w. College st.
Mrs. Wolff is enjoying a motor
trip through the western states.
Mrs. Thos. Crymes is the guest OF
her mother, Mrs. Lucian Wood, on
Meridian st.
Miss Doris Murphy is visiting her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Liee Murphy.
on Commerce st.
Mrs. Sarah F. Hamilton has re-
turned from TupelO. where she was
the guest Of Mrs. Frances Hamilton
Mrs. Frank Moore. OF Dallas. Tex,
has been visiting Mrs. Stephens in
East Aberdeen.
Miss Annie Crenshaw has return
ed from the delta.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hal Parchman aud
two children are here from the delta
and are guests Of Mrs. Parchman
and Mrs. Kate Spraeins.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. B. Watkins
and children are spending = month
on the coast.
Miss Sallie Paine Morgan. Mrs.
=. Noon and Misses VIM. Peueh
az,d Clarence Eikner have returned
HON Blue Mountain.
The Rev. Thos. Lipscomb = baok
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-26

We will need no rubber stamp
statesmen in Congress when the war
ends"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1918-07-26
Personal
AND
Society Notes
(PHONE 68.)
MISS ANNIL MCFARLAND
WEDDING.

WEDDING.
}HE MARRIAGE OF MISS
i JOHNNY Long, of GuntOwn. to
~} Mr.. Will Fowler, was quietly
solemnized Monday evening,
.$ the happy couple leaving
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
RED CROSS ROOMS
OPEN DAILY 3 to S

The Red Cross Rooms at Roam
oke Rapids will be opened from
3 to 5 o'clock each afternoon,
November the first to fifteenth
for the inspection and final pack
ing of Christmas packages for
our soldiers and sailors on for
eign soil and waters. The post
master will not be allowed to
receive any packages except
the regulation size and design as
furnished by the Red Cross.
These packages can be obtained
by the presentation of the Off
cial Red Cross label obtainable
only from the boys overseas.
Rosemary people can leave pack
ages with Mrs. F. G. Jarman.
l5c postage will be required for
each package. For further infor-
nation as regards these packages
readers are referred to an article
in our last issue governing same.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01

Mrs. ia. Johnson, of Weldon
Chairman of Womans Division
of United War Work for Halifax
County has appointed Mrs. S. F.
Patterson, Chairman of Roanoke
Rapids Community, for the
Coming Campaign to raise funds
for the U. W. w. week beginning
Nov. 18th to 18th. The Red
Cross Conservation Committee
is very desirous of collecting as
many fruit stones and nutshells
as possible at once, every man
woman and child is to collect as
many Of the following as possible
and leave at Mrs. Job Taylor's
and Mrs. Sam Patterson's.
q. Peach stone.
b. Apricot pits.
c. Prune pits.
| d. Plum pits.
e. Olive pits.
f. Date pits.
o. Cherry pits.
IN. Brazil nut shells.
/. Shell Of hickory nuts, wal
! nuts and butternuts.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
POWELL. CHERRY

Cards of unusual interest to
the people of this Community,
reading as follow, were issued
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lafayette Powell
request the honour of your
presence at the marriage
of their daughter
Nancy Lucille
Mr.. Hayward Fartow Cherry
on the evening of Wednesday,
the thirteenth of November
at half after eight O'Clock
Smith Church
South Rosemary, North Carolina
At Home
after December the first
Roanoke Rapids,
North Carolina
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
COUNTY TICKET

For Solicitor 3rd Judicial District
GARLAND E. MIDYETTE.
Members General Assembly
Senators 4th Senatorial District:
GEORGE. A. HOLDERNESS
Edgecombe County.
W. L. LONG,
Halifax County.
Members House Representatives:
J. H. DARDEN,
F. M. TAYLOR.
For Clerk Superior Court:
S. M. GARY.
For Register of Deeds:
J. H. NORMAN.
For Sheriff:
J. A. HOUSE.
For Treasurer:
J. E. BOWERS.
For Coroner:
H. G. ROWE.
For County Surveyor:
A. M. ATKINSON
For County Commissioners:
W. R. HARVEY,
S. G. WHITFIELD.
J. E. BRANCH,
S. T. THORNE,
GEO. L. HAYES, JR.
For Members Board of Education:
w. E. DANIEL,
w. F. WHITE.
Members Good Roads Commission
A. B. SCHLICTER,
A. E. CARTER,
]. o. APPLEWHITE,
]. R. DICKENS,
S. P. JOHNSON.
P. H. GREGORY,
WHIT A. JOHNSON,
W. G. HEDGEPETH,
RUFUS CHERRY,
JOHN L. PATTERSON w
A. PAUL KITCHEN.
! c. p. BOUNDS
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
ROBERT X. ANDREWS
KILLED IN FRANCE
Had Been in Front Line Trenches Con.
tinuOusly for Four Month, Previou,
to Death

Chief of Police G. G. Hamlet,
received a telegram this morning
notifying him that his son-in-law,
Private Robert Lee Andrews was
killed in action on September 20.
Private Andrews was in the
first draft and trained at Camp
Sewer. He landed in France last
May and had been in the front
line trenches for almost four
months, previous to his death.
Private Andrews was well
known here having come here a.
bout four years ago from Haw
River. Three years ago he was
married to Miss Bertha Hamlet,
daughter of Chief of Police and
Mrs. c. G. Hamlet, by whom
together with his mother and one
sister, he is survived.
Much sympathy will be felt in
the community for the young
wife in the loss of her husband.
Later Friday, Private Andrews
wallet was received together
with a letter from Captain A.
Edwards, of the 18th Austria
lian M. G. Company, of which
Private Andrews was a member
telling of the battle in which he
fell and how he was killed,
which will appear in the Herald
next week.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
ZONES ESTABLISHED
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Cottonseed Prices Stabilized on High
Basis, $40 In Eastern Carolina,
$72 In Western Section.

Raleigh.-State Food Administrator
Henry A. Page has announced the
price OF cotton seed and established
two zones for cotton seed in North
Carolina.
The price Of cottonseed has been
fixed at q slightly higher average ng-
ure than the figure received for them
by farmers last year. Tho price Of
oil has been stabilized at the same
figure, thanks to the Food Adminis-
tration's influence with the rehnors
and compound lard manufacturers
through its control Of export sales OF
their product. The maximum price OF
hulls will be 500 per ton. The price OF
meal will be little higher At the mill
than 1t was last year unless the War
Industries Board can be influenced to
increase the price Of linters from the
present figure Of $%.s7 per hundred. II
the price Of llnters 10 increased. the
price Of meal will be doreased.
The price Of cottonseed was Axed
at the figure suggested by the produc-
ers Of cottonseed as represented BY
the Commissioners Of Agriculture and
farmers organizations throughout the
South.
The price for seed will range from
S64 to $72 per ton. depending upon
oil and protein content.
The whole South IL being divided
in zones. according to the oil and pro-
tein content in the respective sones
North Carolina will be divided into
two zones. The eastern zone showed
last year an average oil content Of
307 IL pounds per ton, and the price
of seed In this rome will be 80 per
ton. The content Of oil in the western
zone was 315 pounds per ton, and the
price Of seed in this rome will b VIZ
per ton. The eastern zone embraces all
Of that territory east OF the eastern
boundaries of Robeson, Hoke. Lee,
Wake, Franklin and Warren counties,
and the western rome the counties
named and all counties west Of them.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
For Superior Court Judges
Third Judicial District:
JOHN II. KERR.

Fourth Judicial District:
FRANK A. DANIELS
Seventh Judicial District:
THOMAS H. CALVERT.
Eleventh Judicial District:
HENRY P. LANE.
Thirteenth Judicial District:
W. ]. ADAMS
Fifteenth Judicial District:
FRANKLIN LONG
Seventeenth Judicial District:
T. B. FINLEY
Eighteenth Judicial District:
MICHAEL A. JUSTICE
Nineteenth Judicial District:
P. A. MCELROY
Twentieth Judicial District:
T. ID. BRYSON
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
CORPORATIONS
WITH HEARTS,
Mill Operatives Of Community Look.
ed after by Employers During In.
iluenza Epidemic

There might have been a time
when a corporation was AN in
stitution without a heart, and
there might be some of that type
existing to-day, but the large
corporations of our community
have proved to be different.
Their activities during the recent
epidemic of Spanish Influenza,
fully demonstrated that they
have hearts and noble ones, too.
During the epidemic Rosemary
Manufacturing Company gave
all their operatives rent for three
weeks, secured an extra corps of
of nurses; and turned their can
ming plant into a public kitchen
and had soup and other necessi-
ties distributed daily to those of
their village afflicted with the
disease.
Patterson Mills Company also
gave a weeks rent to their oper-
atives, but were unable to secure
a nurse, however they employed
a person to visit each home in
their village each day and every
aid was given their employees
during the epidemic.
The Roanoke Mills Company's
village, was the last section Of
our community to be affected
and they also are giving rent and
groceries to each person in their
village in need of help. Every
few days a representative, of the
mill visits each home and when
any one is found in need they
are supplied free. Besides this
their cannery has been converted
into a public kitchen and all need
ed nourishments are being pre-
pared and distributed to the sick
ones.
Similar work as mentions above
was done in other towns by the
Red Cross, but our mills do not
wait for outside help when their
people are in distress.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
UNITEDWAR
WORK FUND
Campaign to be Conducted Week Of
Nov. ll.lS. Rev. l. n. Taylor,
Local Chairman.

''The date of November 11-18
originally decided upon for the
United War Works Campaign
will be adhered to, inasmuch as
county wide reports indicate that
the Flu" is waning. This an
nouncement was made by Mr.. P.
H. King, Director of the United
War Campaign in the Southeast
ern Department, after he had
conferred with DR.. John R. Mott,
Director General of the United
War Work Council. This decision
was reached after careful consid-
GRAFTON, and consultation, and
after a personal conference with
President Wilson, and members
of the War Department.
The disadvantages of post
poning outweighed any apparent
advantages which might come
from such a delay, DR.. Mott
stated.
Mr.. King pointed out that al
tho health regulations might in
some instances perhaps prevent
the holding of large mass meet
ings, the local leaders throughout
the Southeastern Department
may be depended upon to exer-
else their careful, and best judge
ment, and ingenuity in adopting
plans to suit the changed condi-
tions.
The Fourth Liberty Loan was
carried through with stupendeous
success even in the midst of an
epidemic, and certainly the Unit
ed War Work Campaign Drive
can raise $170, 100000 for the
seven war work agencies, and
will not be adversely effected by
the unfortunate conditions pre-
vailing, Mr.. King gave his opin-
ion.
DR.. Mott impressed upon Mr..
King that the lack of large mass
meetings to push the campaign
would leave the people more time
to reach, think, and decide.
Both DR.. Mott and Mr.. King
have stated that the press will be
called upon and will no doubt vol
unfairly lend even greater assist
ance than they have already
given, and have planned to do,
for a wider use must be made of
the printed page, to offset the
lack of big meetings in carrying
the campaign through to a sue
cessful finish.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
ROANOKE RAPIDS PERSONAL
AND LOCAL ITEMS

Miss Pattie Balm, Of Richmond,
Va, is spending several days
here with her parents.
Mr. A. M. Proctor spent Tues
day out of town on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. E. Faison
feft Wednesday for Norfolk,
after an extended visit here with
friends and relatives.
Mr.. R. T. Coburn, of Raleigh,
spent Monday in town on bust
ness
Mr.. J. H. Cranwell left We'd
nesday for Richmond, where he
went on business.
Mrs. Josephine Cherry, of
Rocky Mount spent Sunday here
with relatives.
Mr.. J. w. Perkins spent Sun
day in Rocky Mount.
Mr.. W. S. Saunders returned
from Brinkleyville.
Lieut.. Paisley Fields left We'd
nesday for Camp Lee, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs, G. D. Shell and
family mortered to Littleton
Sunday.
Mr.. Bruce Tillery left Wednes-
day for Asheville, after spending
some time here with his parents.
Mr.. j. L. Patterson and Rev.
L. N. Taylor attended the burial
of E. X. Graham, of Chapel
Hill, N. G. Monday.
7. M. Jenkins was in Richmond
Wednesday buying holiday goods.
j. G. Butts of Halifax was in
town Thursday on business.
The Local Lodge, Loyal Order
of Moose, after suspending their
meetings for several weeks on
account of the epidemic of Infu-
enza, will have their regular
meeting next Wednesday night,
November 9th.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
All Saints Church
EpiscopaD
Rev. Lewis N. Taylor, Rector
Roanoke Avenue

Next Sunday is the Twenty
third Sunday after Trinity.
9:45 A. M. Church School and
Adults Bible Class, T. W. Null
len, Supt.
II A. M. Celebration of the
Holy Communion and sermon.
7::30 Evening Service and SER
mon.
Today is All Saints Day-the
memorial day of the church year
services tonight at 500; choir
rehearsal at $50.
The public is cordially invited.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
ANXIOUS FOR BOOKS
American Library Association Pro
vIdlng Reading Matter for Boys
On Battle Fronts

Despite the fact that the ocean
transportation facilities are being tax
ed to the utmost, the task Of provid.
ing reading matter for the boys In
the trenches is being handled with
an efficiency and dispatch that 10 sur.
prising even to those who are closely
in touch with the situation.
The American Library Association.
which has shouldered the responsible
ity of collecting books. magazines
and newspapers by the millions In
every city and town throughout the
country, is distributing this huge
quantity Of reading matter TO the
men in France through the Y. M. Q.
A., the Red Cross. the Knights Of
Columbus and the Salvation Army.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01

Sunday School at 9:45 A. M.
W. V. Woodruff, Supt.
Services at HOO A. M. and
7:30P. M.
Preaching both morning and
evening by the pastor.
Prayer meeting Wednesday
evening 7:30 o'clock.
Teacher training class Wednes-
day night Immediately following
prayer service.
A welcome is extended all to
attend and worship with US.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
TWO DOORS OF HOPE

The General Assembly of 1917
saw fit in its wisdom to submit
to the people of the State two
Constitutional amendments. The
first amendment will secure to
every child in the State an op-
portunity to attend public schools
six months in the year. This in
creases the opportunity of the
child for education just fifty per
cent. 1t is hard t. believe that
any man in the State would be
willing to deny to little children
this larger opportunity to develop
all the faculties with which the
Creator has endowed them.
The second amendment pro-
vides that notes and mortgages
given in good faith for the pur-
chase price of a home, when said
purchase price does not exceed
three thousand dollars, and said
notes and mortgages run for at
least five years and do not carry
a rate of interest exceeding five
and one. half per cent, shall be
free from taxation.
The manifest purpose of this
amendment is to enable a poor
man to borrow money at a low
rate of interest, and on long time,
with which to buy a home. The
adoption of this amendment will
enable every honest, industrious
and economical citizen to become
a home owner.
The amendment is in line with
the Inaugural Address of Gov
ernor Beckett, in which he said
Il shall neither rest, nor permit
the State to rest, until every hon.
est. industrious and frugal man
who tills the soil has a decent
chance to own it,.
The amendment applies to the
home in the country, or the home
in the town. 1t is absolutely non-
partisan in character, and has
been endorsed by the North Car
olina Press Association, by the
Farmers Convention, and by a
host of men who have devoted
study to this problem.
Just as the school amendment
opens a schoolhouse to every child
this amendment opens a home
to every man.
tits earnestly hoped that every
citizen will vote the ballot upon
which is printed the words "Foi
Exemption from Taxation Of
Homestead Notes..
7. W. Beckett
Governor.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
TO THE VOTERS OF
HALIFAX COUNTY

Tuesday, November 9Th is
election day. The political situ-
alton in North Carolina from the
democratic standpoint is serious
this year. The normal democrat
ic majority in North Carolina in
years, when no President is elect
ed, is about 3d. 1t has been
estimated that there are absent
from North Carolina at least 80
600 voters, and more than two
thirds of this number are demo-
crates. Some of the absent vote
will be cast, but nothing like the
full vote.
Our President and party leader
has appealed to the electors of
America to see to it that the pre-
sent complexion of the United
States Senate and House of Rep
resentatives be maintained. The
Republicans throughout the
nation, from Roosevelt down,
are doing everything in their
power to hamper the present ad-
ministration by electing a repub-
lican majority in the United
States Senate and in the House.
The Republicans in North Car
olina are likewise doing their ut
most to defeat the State ticket.
In the western part of North Car
olina where the Republicans are
strongest, this effort is especially
strong, and unless those counties
in North Carolina in which the
democratic party is uppermost
and the Republican party is
negligible cast a full vote, there
is grave danger of North Caro-
lina's having a Republican ad-
ministration.
In the east, we are not troubled
by the republican pest, therefore,
are apt to minimize any possible
danger from this cause.
Let it, therefore, be the per-
sonal duty of every registered
voter in Halifax County to 60 to
the polls on November 5th and
cast his vote for the full ticket.
Let it likewise, be the duty of
every voter to see that his neigh
Dor votes on that day, and there
by respond to the call of our Pres.
ident, our party leader and the
Commander-in-c of the
American Army.
No one can better serve the
soldiers who are at the front than
by voting the full democratic
ticket, for in that way. he will be
upholding the hands of our Com
mander-in-chief, and likewise
will be minimizing the dangers to
our army abroad by eliminating
dissension from the ranks of our
national councils.
Apathy, or failure to vote on
November 9Th on the part of the
democrats is equivalent to a vote
for the republican party. Are
you willing to aid the enemy?
If not-vote. See that your
neighbor votes. See that every
one that is entitled to vote, does
vote. This is your duty-per
form it.
Geo. G. Green,
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
AN OMISSION

Mr.. CA. Wyche has requested
US to state that in preparing
the names of purchasers of
bonds in the Fourth Liberty Loan
last week, the names of Mr..
and Mrs. D. L. Leslie were mad.
vertantly omitted. Each pur.
chased a $4,000 bond.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
For United States Senator:
F. M. SIMMONS.

For Representative in the 66tl
Congress, Second District:
CLAUDE KITCHIN.
For Members of Corporation
Commission:
Term of Six Years:
GEO. P. PELL.
Term of Two Years:
ALLEN ]. MAXWELL
For Chief Justice Supreme
Court:
WALTER CLARK.
Associate Justices Supreme
Court:
WILLIAM R. ALLEN.
PLATT D. WALKER,
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
NOT CLOSED FOR SEASON

Miss Whitaker supervisor of
the Roanoke Mills Cannery
wishes to correct the impression
existing that the cannery has
closed for the season. AS soon
as normal conditions in the vii
lage are established the cannery
will open again for canning.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
WITH THE CHURCHES
Presbyterian Church
Rev. Stanley White Pastor,

Sunday School 1000 A. M.
Morning Service HOO A. M.
Evening Service 7:30 P. M.
Prayer meeting on Wednes-
day 7:30 P. M.
Young Peoples meeting on
Friday 1880 P. M.
The sacrament of the Lords
Supper will be observed Sunday
morning at the morning service.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01

The regular services will be
held at Rosemary Church HOO
A. M. and 7:30 P. M. Sunday
School at 1000. F. G. Hege,
Supt.
Prayer meeting and Choir
practice Wednesday at 7:90P P. M.
A cordial welcome is extended
to all.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
DEATHS

Nellie, the one year old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. C. B.
Johnson, of Rosemary died
at the home of her parents.
Tuesday Intenment was made
Wednesday in the Roanoke
Rapids Cemetery.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01

The death angel entered the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Jean
Moore Monday and claimed the
soul of Carroll Moore, their eight
months old baby. The body was
buried Tuesday in the Roanoke
Rapids Cemetery, Rev. 3. G.
Few conducting the services.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-11-01
Save YOUR fruit PITTS

Our Government Needs them for Max
ing Gas Masks for the Boys Over
There