Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-06-03

Governor w. p. G. Harding of the
federal reserve bank, speaking in Mash
vile, Tenn, recently, declared that the
world outlook is brighter than It has
been in months.
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, American
ace, known all over the world, had a
narrow escape when his plane smashed
In landing at Cheyenne, Wyo., recently.
The Federal International Banking
company. during the first four months
OF It's existence, loaned $3,152, SS9.17,
It is announced in New Orleans. almost
solely In the financing of export ship
ments.
Mrs. Arthur A. Hanna, wife of Lex.
ington. Tenn, lumbermial., was Stuck
by bullet and fatally wounded at her
home when her husband mistook her
for burglar. Hanna said he was not
aware that his wife had left her bed
and mistook her for a burglar.
Fredericksburg, Va, probably the
second oldest city IN the United
States. and which was the landing
place of Capt. John Smith and his par.
ty of Adventures in 1903 the year after
the settlement of Jamestown by the
English, celebrated its 25Oth anniver-
sary May %.
The sixty-third annual meeting Of
the general assembly of the United
Presbyterian Church of North Amer.
lea has opened in Philadelphia with
80 commissioners, representing sixty.
three presbyteries of America, in at
tendance.
The Union Pacific has acquired con.
troll of the Los Angeles and Salt Lake
railroad by purchasing the stocks and
bonds Of former Montana Senator w.
A. Clark and his associates.
Roy Powell charged with having
recently slain Rev. r. F. East, a min
lister of the Poplar Springs, Alabama,
communitl, was shot and. probably IA
tally wounded by officers who attempt
ed to arrest him.
Mariana has taken another step in
the direction of progress. This step
was the organization of local chap
ter OF the Florida Federation of Bust
ness and Professional Womens Clubs.
The meeting was largely attended and
was presided over by Miss Lillian Kill
patrick, an active business woman OF
Mariana.
Determination to insist upon moth
ing less than actual union with the
other branches Of the Presbyterian
church was expressed at the 1880 gen.
eral assembly of the Presbyterian
church In the United States, in ses.
sion at Winona Lake, Ind
More than 100 new wage disputes.
submitted by railroads of the country,
In which the roads ask reduction of
wages all along the line, are before the
railroad labor board, sitting In Chi
cago. to be adjudicated.
Governor Taylor Of Tennessee re-
Gently pardoned seven men in jail in
connection with the Killing of w. A.
Benson, strikebreaker in Nashville.
Tenn.
The sheriff of Cherokee county.
Georgia, was wounded and a deputy
killed by unknown parties as the off.
,ers were taking an alleged moonshiner
to iail at Ballground
Rev. Louis Seymour Nudge of Harr-
'isburg, Pa, was elected stated clerk
If the Presbyterian church at the 133d
general assembly at Winona Lake, Ind.
fie will take office April l. 1922
volunteer policemen commanded by
Captain Brockus secuted among the
bordering the Tug river.
". Va, where for more than week
hidden riflemen have fired upon min
ng villages. They were unable to
Dcate a single sniper and returned
0 WILLIAMSON, w. Va, with the report
hat the "entire front" was quiet.
A dispaltch from the Philippine ISL
nds sayf that the car Of Maj. Gen.
eonard Wood fell into the Pinacan-
uan ryyIr while being ferried across
le "a b. The general, however. es-