Tuesday, January 22, 2019

A Fire, Local Deaths, School Honor Roll in Roanoke News' Local Intelligence, Jan. 23, 1919

From The Roanoke News, Thursday, Jan. 23, 1919

Local Intelligence

Farewell booze. The coming generations will not even know what it is.

Just as we go to press news reached us that Littleton College was totally destroyed by fire on last Tuesday night. We learn that the fire originated in the kitchen. All the students escaped without injury. Some of the girls lost all their clothing, as the building, which was a very large one, burned rapidly. A fuller account of the fire will be published in our next issue.

It is with great sorrow we announce the sad death of Mrs. M.A. Inge which occurred while on a visit to her old home in Emporia on last Monday morning, in the 30th year of her age. Mrs. Inge was here, on a visit, a short while ago, and left here apparently in perfect health. She was taken with influenza which developed quickly into pneumonia, with the above result. She was married about two years ago. We extend sympathy to the bereaved ones.

We regret to announce the death of Mr. W.B. Boseman, which occurred at his home a few miles from town on last Thursday night of pneumonia in the 69th year of his age. The funeral took place on Friday evening and the interment was at the family burying ground. Mr. Boseman was one of our most substantial farmers and a good, honest, reliable man. He was a member of the M.E. church. Our sympathy goes out to the sorrowing ones.

Died at the home of its parents in this place on last Monday night, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. G.H. Nash. The remains were taken to Portsmouth, Va., for interment.

Honor Roll

First Grade—Dorothy Jones, Piercy Williams, Ola Bell Whitehead, Dorothy Tillotson, Benjamin Merchant, Hood Hux.

Advanced First Grade—George Merchant, Kathleen Parker, Rebecca Johnson.

Second Grade—Evelyn Anthony, Maxine Drake, Ovid Pierce, Kate Pilley, Natalie Cole, Roy Allsbrook.

Third Grade—Frank Cole, Herman Farber, Shepherd Green, Clarence Taylor, Elizabeth Allen, Eleanor Barr, Elizabeth Chittenden, Florence Freid, Virginia Green, Janie Blalock, Mary Frances Parker, Mary Harrison, Virginia Sheffield.

Fourth Grade—Walter Lee Scott, David Jackson Ward, James Powell, Elizabeth Bounds, Alma Wyche, Mary Norman Harris, Eugenia Hudson.

Fifth Grade—Hazel Grant, Ruth Rittenhouse, Kennie Taylor, Elizabeth Green, Virginia Parker, William Pierce, Bernice Dixon.

Sixth Grade—Frances Scott, Theresa Marks.

Seventh Grade—Helen Rowell, Elsie Mae Crew.

High School—Louise Pierce, Grainger Pierce, Bessie Jones, Louise Hayward, Lucile Merchant, Mabel Holdford, Ethel Crew, Louise Farber.

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