Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-12-02
Domestic

A man identified as George Felt, IS,
a former brewer of Chattanooga,
Tenn, committed suicide recently by
inhaling gas at boarding house in
Cincinnati, Ohio
Glenn sutton aged 90 Of Morgan.
town, w Va, an engineer for the
West Virginia Utilities company, was
killed and an assistant was seriously
injured recently when an explosion
wrecked the gas compressor plant OF
the company.
Dr. Max Heiner, OF New York City.
VINO has recently returned from En-.
rope. reports that cancer OF the face
is being successfully treated by the
use OF radlum.
The bridge tender at Longport N
j. noticed buzzards flying around a
particular spot He got skiff and
rowed and poled to the center of the
buzzards circle There he found the
body OF one OF the eleven fishermen
who went out from the village OF An.
glesea recently and were oyertaken
by storm and lost.
The directors of the Christian Sci.
ence church, In suit against the
trustees OF the mother church in Bos.
ton, won out, and the court decides
that the directors have authority to
remove the trustees.
1t is stated from Richmond, Va, that
there is probability that Marshal Foch
will cancel his entire southeastern
itinerary.
Announcement Is made after con-
ference at Memphis, Tenn. between
Asa J, Rountree Of Birmingham. Ala,
director general of the Bankhead
Highway association, and represents
tives of the state branches of the or.
ganization in Tennessee, Mississippi
and Arkansas. that the next annual
meeting Of the association will be held
in Phoenix Ariz, April 24-29, 1922.
A short address the regiment OF
twenty four hundred midshipmen
marked the visit of Marshal Foeh to
the naval academy at Annapolis Md.
He was given great ovation.
Thomas NJ, Price, merchant Of
Waco, Texas shot and fatally wounded
his wife at Gulfport, Miss. as they
alighted from Gulf and Ship Island
train that had just arrived from Jack.
son. Miss.
ley Prevon, known In musical com.
edy circles as ley Provost, gave eyi.
dence against Fatty Arbuckle through
which the state is going to try to hold
him guilty OF manslaughter In connec-
ton with the death of Virginia Rape.
in the celebrated San Francisco homi.
eide.
Oliver Vandervort, %. who claims
to be fur dealer, in Wilmington. Ohio.
is held under murder charge In the
Clinton county Jail following triple
murder at Cuba, village near that
city.
Miss Grace Halstead, nurse who
attended Miss Virginia Rape at the
time OF her death in sanitorium at
San Francisco testified in the Roscoe
Arbuckle trial that bruises found on
the girls body could not have been
inflicted after her death.
The Automobile Association. In SEES.
sion in Detroit, announces that 1t will
make an effort TO increase the mum.
Der OF automobile clubs throughout the
country and bring about a closer co.
operation between various clubs for
the benefit of the members.
New York babe Marshal Foch "au
revoir" November 20, sending him of
on a swing about the continent that
will not end until December 20, when
he returns to New York to sail the
next day for France.
come effective before Christmas.
The provisional government OF Dis.
trict II, United Mine Workers Of
America, recently issued a proclama.
ton from Pittsburg, Kans., to all 10
Gals and members OF the district re.
voking the charters Of locals which
did not resume work on November
t6 and suspending the members.
The United States railroad board an.
nounces that new working rules for
he six shop crafts will probably be
completed and issued In time to be-
A movement to educate the people
II the world to live one hundred years
8 suggested by DR.. Stephen Smith.
10 years old, who declared In an ad.
lress, In New York City, that the Mo-
aic law limited the span of life to
hree-score years and ten was all
wrong. He pointed to the fact that
aoses himself proved the falsity OF
be law by living forty years beyond
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