Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-12-13
ROANOKE NEWS

ROANOKE, VA, Dec. 10.-Mrs.
Mary J. Colvin. AIS Tenth Avenue,
N. E. spent Thanksgiving in Wythe
Willie. Va. with her SISTER, Mrs. Bes
sic REYNOLDS. She had very pleas
ant stay around hte homestead of her
early childhood.
Mrs. Lizzie White. Oil Fifth Ave
nue.. N. e., is much improved.
Mr.. A. F. Brooks has been retired
and pens,oned at $50 per month, af
ter SO years service as Il carrier at
the Roanoke Postoffice. We should
feel proud of such a record.
VIZ note with delight a circular
sent out by the Insurance Commits
sioner, Colonel Joseph Button show
ing that on November 20, the rece1v
ership for the Order of knights Of
Pythias and the Courts of Calanthe
was vacated. Also a proclamation
by Grand Chancellor w. B. F. Gro
well naming Sunday, January IL
1925 as a day of thanksgiving, order
ing all Lodges to assemble and give
thanks to God. Grand ChancelloS
Crowell has made three new Lodges
and expects TO make the fourth next
Tuesday night. This week he y
speaking throughout Southwest Wiz
g,nia, closing in big mass meeting
at Bristol, Va.
J. A. Prunty, 607 Seventh Ave
nue. wishes to thank tho nurses OF
BurrelI Memorial Hospital for their
kindness while he was there and also
to thank his friends for their kind
Mess and the N. and w. yard brake
men for their kindness and a purse
of $29.13. He is very thankful to
be able to be out again.
We wish to take this method in
thanking the many friends for their
sympathy and the many acts OF kind
ness, also for the beautiful florat
designs and the use of their cars In
our recent bereavement in the loss
of our sister and daughter. May Gods
richest blessings attend thee.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. H. NOEL, Mrs.
Lucy Ndall. S. H. NOEL, Jr, Mrs.
Ida M. Williams.
Mr.. c. H. Howard is slightly i'm
proved. a-iSd Sas] ~
Miss II. ]. Wheaton of Northwest
Fairfax Avenue, who has been indis.
posed for about five weeks, is some
what improved. Miss Wheaton rs
greatly missed in church circles, es
pecially in Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church
work, from the Sunday School to
the chair.
The Roanoke Nurses Association
wishes to thank all who helped to
make their turkey dinner the most
popular feast of the season. This
dinner was cooked and served by the
nurses in uniform, at the residence
of Nurse Schley, 204 Fourth Avenue
N. w. More than It's dinners were
served and sent out November 20
between the hours of IL and 1. Many
dinners We're sent to the Jefferson and
Lewis Gale Hospital and Roanoke
Hotel which proves the high respect
and hearty cooperation Of the public
at large toward the nurses.
Rev. w. R. Hewerton, D. D. OF
Mt. Zion A. NJ. E.. Church delivered
most touching and wonderful mes
sage in the morning on "Our Risen
Lord and Saviour of Mankind Sun
day morning. At night he preached
another beautiful sermon, subject,
"The Touch of jesus. 1t was com
munion day. The Offering for the
day was sos. 90.
Rev. Howerton has not been well
during the past two weeks, but he
is holding up like hero.
The feast given by Mrs. Sallie
Casey for her church was quite
success. SIS. 90 was realized.
Mrs. Sallie Casey and part of her
family motored to Balleyhack last
Saturday to attend the quarterly con-
ference.
Mrs. Tishie Cousin continues quite
indisposed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Deering were
visited DV CuS SUNK OHuue,y, D0SNAh
her Z and left bouncing baby boy,
They reside in Vinton.
Mrs. Lizzie Poindexter lis still all,
ing from long Illness.
Mr.. Robert Smith, one of Roanoke's
early pioneers of the days when IL
was known as Big Lick, died here
last Friday and his funeral took
place Tuesday, the 9Th at 3 o'clock
from the Mt Zion Baptist Church,
Rev. w. w. Hicks officiating in the
pulogy. Mr.. Smith was a fine Christ
ian character among one Of the men
the writer met in the early settle
ment here 43 years ago, before the
incorporation of the city.
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