Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-26
ABOUT The Citu

Mr.. Tickle, if he can't learn
will YOU sell it to my daddy for
me? My daddy has lots and lots
and lots of money" and as an
afterthought, maybe.
A thought -
l wonder if we realize that
there is more than fifteen mil
lion dollars in wealth in Roa-
noke Rapids.
On last Sunday morning at
the Episcopal Church service,
the congregation hearing Miss
Mary Speight singing a solo so
divinely, little realized the di-
fficulty she was having. Miss
Speight goes on to say There
was only one fly in the church
and he came and sat on the end
of my nose. I was afraid to OPP
en- my mouth too wide for fear
he would venture down my
throat. He was tickling me so.
that between breaths I tried to
blow him off. When this failed
rItedi ?:ly
I tried to turn the pages OF the
music fast enough to remove
him but he continued his field
day on my nose. How I got
through I will never know.
Someone asked me later if l
had an itch"
This difficulty matched those
of a local girl had in an ANA
teur stage play. She was to
have gone off stage and return
eating a huge slice of cake. The
play was in full swing, the act
ress left the stage and returned
eating her large serving of cake.
With the first bite she discover
ed the cake was completely COW
cred with little red ants. The
show had ito 60 on" so she fin
ished up the cake with relish.
They say" that it is TOGO bad
that one cannot purchase will
power like a pound of butter.
This is surely true when 1t
comes to reducing. A certain
modest matron on Madison
Street has such mastery of her
self she has lost thirty pounds
by adhering to her diet.
Housewives can be absent
minded as we'll as the professors
Mrs. E. C. Ashby of Whining
ton. Delaware, while visiting
here recently admitted her mem
bership in his group. 1t was her
custom to read and enjoy her
morning mail with coffee at
fast.
On this particular morning
she went out and brought in the
morning mail as usual. No soon
er had she settled herself at the
breakfast table than she dis
covered she did not have her
mail. After searching the house
over she gave up. 1t was not un-
til noon when she went to the
refrigerator that she found heI
mail cooling beside the milk.
Friends of Mrs. Gertie Shell
will be delighted to learn thai
she is now enjoying the thrill e
person gets the first time they
drive a car.
We are sorry to learn thai
Mr.. R. H. Cooksie is patient II
Watts Hospital in Durham. Hur
ny back, Mr.. Cooksie, you art
really missed.
Word was received this wee}
from Mr.. and Mrs. Garlane
Warrick of Mesa, Arizona. TIT
Warricks, residents of Roanoke
Rapids, have been away severa
months due to Mr.. Warrlck'
health. They send big hello tt
their many friends and feel rea
homesick when they think OF 81
many past good times here.
The phone had to ring on.
once when the Stokes children
Uncle Roger Cant of Burlington
called to give them their choic
of a pony. Kenneth hurried t
Burlington to make the selectlor
Now he has returned with nj
pride and joy, Brownie Stokes
A neighbor has reported
new fall bulb supply is in, in
Guiding beautiful double yello'
. hycinth.
Mrs. Durham asks that littl
, Master Jerry Leedy not sill
. away again just when she
about to hug him like he dl