Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-10-29
Domestic

sell 1t south was adopted as the
keynote and slogan of the $4,000 ad.
, Vertlsing campaign at New Orleans.
La, southern newspapers are to use
70 advertise the south In other sec.
lions of the country.
The Sugarland Industries and four.
teen Wholesale grocery concerns over
Iexas, have been indicted by the fed.
eral grand jury at Houston, Tex.
Charges of fraud and deceit against
Ralph Greenleaf, pocket billiard
champion, are made by Robert L. Du.
val IN supreme court action started
by him at Saratoga Springs, N. Y, as
result OF a pocket billiard match,
played between the champion and
Joseph Concannon in August, when.
II Is claimed, as Mr.. Duyal later learn.
ed, that the two players agreed be.
tween themselves that the match
should be purely an exhibition affair.
The highwayman met success in
Birmingham. Ala. where, according
to police record. robbery was com.
mitted every day in the month during
october, twenty-five being holdups.
An editorial calling upon all Meth.
odist voters, regardless of party, to
support the League OF Nations, ap.
paered in the Northwestern Christian
Advocate. Methodist organ.
Resolutions were passed by farmers
at Sumter, $. c., calling Tor the gov
ernors OF all the cotton growing
states TO call a special session of their
legislatures to pass laws prohibiting
the planting of cotton in 1921.
Liberty bonds. war savings stamps,
silver and jewelry valued at $4,000,
were taken from the vault of the
Bank OF Trenton. at Trenton, S. C.
Forty Postal telegraphers were on
strike at Chicago following the aboli.
ton by that company of the bonus
system for excess messages. Paul F. |
Schnurr, international secretary of
the Telegraphers union, is expected |
to attempt to adjust the differences.
Agents of the New York state attor.
ney generals office raided the office
of John T. Hettrick, attorney for
groups Of master plumbers, stone cui.
tiers and heat and ventilating contrac.
tors. and seized documents and rec.
ords which will be brought before the
joint legislative committee investgat-
ing an alleged building materials trust
Asheville, N. G.. will oppose to the
end the proposed advance to eight
cents for car fare, petition for which
was filed with the state corporation
commission. The company won an
increase of one cent last year after a
prolonged fight.
Three bandits obtained $4,000 in
cash and $4,000 in negotiable papers
when they held up Carl Maurer. a
bank messenger at Chicago.
United States Senator Claude A.
Swanson. of Virginia, who suffered
heart attack while speaking at Roa.
noke. Va, before a democratic rally.
has sufficiently recovered to be able
TO leave for Washington, ID. c.
The senator who said he had gotten
up from his sick bed to keep his APP.
pointment, characterized the attack
as being similar to one he suffered
while speaking in the senate last April
Mrs. Mary C. Solomon, ninety-three
years old, the only living mother OF a
Confederate soldier in Mississippi.
won first prize at the DeSoto county 4
lair for being the most accomplished
lorsewoman. I
Because they had secured license
n Virginia, 1t was necessary for Miss
Lena May Leffel and r. l.. Griffin OF
3luefield, w. Va, TO be married in ,
hat state. So the street railway
company for which Griffin works ran ,
! special car over the state line and .
he ceremony was performed on the
ar.
Local cotton ginners OF York, s. c..
AVE announced reduction OF twenty [
ents per hundr, d for ginning cotton. &
The action is taken, 1t is stated, be- b
ause of the low price of cotton. .
The old family dog OF the Herman
Harris family at Alexandria. La, gets
N extra large bone these days, and ;,
here's good reason. Mrs. Herman n
ost a roll containing sos. She 6
bought she lost it out of her auto
Mobile. and her surprise was great
Then two days later the dog turned
p with the money in his mouth. l
Where he got 1t is mystery. J.
Wilbur Byars, Lawrence county, =
cotton planter. ignored the I;
farming sent him by night riders. was \
everely whipped. :,