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while Roanoke Rapids had not

3,000 Auto Gordon Dobbins
: JOSEPH AYCOCK sold as

allotted time
many stamps
as
during the
postoffices in the
In N. Y. Hospital
larger cities, the number sold here
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FOUND DEAD AT Tax Stamps ranks
North
high in this section of
Carolina. There
Gordon Dobbins, son of Chief
only of Police H. E. Dobbins and Mrs.
are

2 MILL ON MONDAY
he
Sold Here
about 1,200 automobiles registered Dobbins, is in Presbyterian Hos-
in the city, he stated.
The original allotment of stamps
pital, New York City, where he
underwent an eye operation in the
ixu Eye Institute of that hospital, one
to be sold by the postoffice here
Coroner Rules of the largest of its kind in the

RABIES Postmaster L. G. Shell yesterday was 400, Mr. Shell

announced that the local postoffice added
stated, and world. Word received early this
that this supply was ex- week by his parents stated that he
Death Due To had sold between 3,100 and 3,500
hausted in a few days, and that was getting along fine.
automobile use tax stamps and
Electrocution IN THE that numbers of automobile own- the office ran out of stamps sev-
ers were coming in daily to make
Mrs. W. A. Daniel and Miss Ha-
eral times during the rush period zel Small of Charlotte
spent the
Joseph Aycock, an employee of | purchases. just prior to February 1st, the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. B. B.
,u The postmaster stated that, deadline for displaying the stamps. Wood ruff.

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Patterson Mill here, was instantly
kill* 3 when he came into con-
tact with a high voltage electric
COUNTY
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motor in the compressor room of
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the mill early Monday morning, ROBERT F. YOUNG, M. D.
1 and Coroner T. M. Cooper, of En- County Health Officer
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field, termed his death an accident Littleton is under quarantine for
f and ruled an inquest unnecessary. rabies after having been besieged
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Aycock, a machinist in the em- by three rabid dogs. One child
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ploy of the mill for the past four has been bitten severely about the
years, was found dead beside the face and is under the Pasteur
01 electric motor about 2:30 Monday treatment.
1 morning by another employee in The remainder of the county
the machine shop. He had been has been placed on the ‘alert’ in
01 dead about 10 minutes when found, order to prevent a further spread
'h according to Coroner Cooper. of this disease among the innumer-
ja Cooper, who with Chief of Police able stray dogs.
n< 1L E. Dobbins, was called to in- All law enforcement officers
'rl v istigate the death by mill offi- outside of corporate limits are
•3 cials, said that the position of the taking stray dogs without rabies
in
body when found indicated that vaccination tags to the nearest
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Aycock had apparently placed his town where the dogs will be held
!r hand on the 500 watt electric mo- for three days and if not claimed
3 tor in the compressor room and at at the expiration of this period
d the same time gripped a water will be destroyed. The officers of
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pipe, which was well grounded in
the concrete floor, with his right
the various towns are taking up
all stray dogs within the corporate
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hand, thus bringing the entire limits and carrying out the same
voltage, in contact with his body.
n He apparently died instantly. These measures are essential to
v The Coroner stated that machin- the control of this horrible disease.
d nwn mi.nn nloplm,
I don’t believe there are many
P hands on motors to determine folks in this county who will not
01 whether they are “running hot or cooperate in this program in order
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cold”, and that Aycock had appar- to protect our children against
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ently done this, and without think rabies. In most instances the
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ing had placed his hand on the children are the unfortunate vic-
grounded water pipe. The position tims of mad dogs, since they do
if of the body, and the fact that the not recognize the symptoms of
a
right hand of the victim was badly the disease in the dogs in time to
burned, caused the Coroner to re- protect themselves.
*■ construct the tragedy along these This article is an official notice
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lines, the official said. to the effect that the Rabies Law
Aycock was a valued employee will be carried out to the letter
* of the mill and had been employed in Halifax County effective im-
f there in the machine shop for mediately.
* three or four years, coming to the
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«ity from Weldon where he had
t been in the employ of the mill VALENTINE LUNCH
t there. He was 43-years of age,
e married and has four children. He A Valentine luncheon was given
and his family made their home
by the third year Home Econom-
f. on the Roanoke Rapids-Weldon ics class on Thursday, in the high
e highway. school dining room. The luncheon
>1 Fpneral services were held from was given for the purpose of
I the Williams Funeral Home here
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teaching the girls the importance

:1 Wednesday afternoon and burial of
food values in the diet and to
t followed in the Weldon cemetery.
learn to plan and serve meals.
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The table was decorated with

S llobt. L. Moms white cloth with a red stripe of

paper down the center of the ta-
ble and red ribbons with hearts at
a Dies In Weldon the end, running to each plate. A
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large Valentine cake served as a
1 Robert Lee Morris, 08, died Tues- centerpiece.
day morning at his home in Wel- Those who enjoyed the luncheon
’'•don, following an illness of several were: Miss Evelyn Gilliman, Ger-
’•days. aldine Britt, Charlotte Cole, Mar-
Funeral services were held from jie Williams, Dorothy Clary,
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“'the home on Wednesday afternoon Francis Gibson, Marjorie Kidd,
freshment...with the quality of gen- CARTON
^ at 5
o’clock, with burial following Dorothy Tyson, Josey Saddler,
in the family cemetery near the Ruth Smith, who acted as hostess, uine goodness.
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fairgrounds. The rites were in and Pauline White, who served as
charge of Rev. Mr. Davis and host.
{Rev. Mr. Jackson, both of Hert-
ford. Miss Grace Tanner has arrived
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Surviving are the wife, Mrs. in the city after a tour of sixteen BOTTIED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY
Luvina Morris, and three sons, states, starting in California, in a
{James C. of Roanoke Rapids, Her- trailer. She will enter William WELDON COCA-COLA BOTTLING WORKS, INC.
man T. of Woodiand, and Carleton R. Davie school, from which she

^Morris of Roanoke Rapids. expects to graduate this Spring.