Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-05
About The Citu

DR.. J. M. c. Covington and his
sister, Miss Emma Neal Coving-
ton motored to Sandusky, Ala
bama, Wednesday to attend the
funeral of Robert Cooper Cow
ington, their brother. They will
return Sunday or Monday.
Mrs. Addie F. Medlin of Little
ton Road, one of the hostesses
Monday afternoon when the Gar
den Club will entertain the Wo-
mans Club at the club house,
has many hobbies she enjoys,
her pets, a beautiful part-per-
sian cat, "Joel", geese, flowers,
(as her lovely yard at home in
dicates); bees, she has seven COL
onies and now she plans a
green house. Not only that but
she has many poems which she
plans to publish in book form
sometime In the near future.
The South Rosemary bazaar
was just getting off to a good
start when I stopped by there
early Friday morning and saw
them bringing in lard cans Of
barbecue and brunswick stew &.
The needle-work display was
very pretty.
Visual education is coming In
to its own. At the teacher train
ing school which was held at the
Presbyterian Church this week,
visual education had very
prominent part. A special study
was given to show the value Of
films in religious instruction. The
churches also are taking advan-
tage of their appeal. One of the
Presbyterian members was tell
ing of a full length movie at
their church recently, "Swiss
Family Robinson.
Orchids to the one having the
idea for decorating the main
street lights with those lovely
Christmas lanterns.
Congratulations to Miss Helen
Hawkins and Mason Harp who
will be married this afternoon
at the First Baptist Church, with
Rev. Gordon l.. Price, pastor,
officiating.
The J. E. McGees of Monroe
Street have DR.. and Mrs. Beck
with as their guests until they
find a house to move into since
the fire at their home this week.
The neighbors of the Beck
with's have done all they could
to store and dry off the house.
hold things not too badly dam
aged by the fire and water. The
Beckwith house will not be ready
to live in again before spring as
it will require severals months
to repair the fire damage.
Mrs. Beckwith had just finish
ed shopping and had stopped for
a talk with a friend and was
remarking about how she was
looking forward to Christmas
when all could be home this
year, when the fire alarm sound
ed. However, there is always
good to come from every ex-
perience, and this will give the
Beckwith's a chance to learn
how they are loved by their t
friends and in the years to come
they perhaps will look back on
this experience and discover 1t
was one of the happiest Christ
mas holidays.
Bride-elect, Miss Lib Price
Hines, whose wedding will take
place on December II has been
the honoree at many lovely par
ties recently in Roanoke Rapids
and Weldon, Whitakers and Scot
land Neck.
The many friends Of Miss
Martha Robertson Cherry areI
with the announcement |
this week of her engagement to
Albert Mccoy Shaw D.. the we'd
ding to be this month in Scotland
Neck.
Rev. and Mrs. w. r. Stevens
have returned from Philadelph-
ia where they were called on ac-
count of the illness of Mrs. Ste
ven's father a patient in the
Episcopal Hospital there. M r s.
Stevens reports her fathers
great faith was an inspiration to
his family. He came through the
operation successfully and is now
taking nourishment. Her brother,
Kenneth Hensley from Honolulu
IS still with his father.