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VoLl. No. 9.
ROCKINGHAM, N. C, JANUARY 31, 1918.
$1.50 PER YEAR
ATTENTION,
An Open Letter to the Merchants of
Richmond County. : Kind Words
versus Force-Grass versus Stones.
Flour and Sugar Prices, and Proper
Observance of the Law.
: TO THE MERCHANTS OF RICHMOND COUNTY : j
You have responded promptly, whole-heartedly, to my re-
; quest in the last issue of the Post-Dispatch. Your reports are com
bing in and are being tabulated. I confidently count on having
: your hearty help in enforcing the fooj laws. No man is perfect ;
; in every class of men,,a certain proportion will not measure up to
f the average standard. To them relate Fable No. 1 in old Noah
? ; Webster's Blue Back Speller-;,; '
An old man found a rude boy upon one of his .
trees stealing apples, and desired him to come
down: but the young sauce-box told him
plainly he would not Won't you?" said the
old man, "then I will fetch you down": then
he pulled up some turf or grass and threw at
him; but this only tnade the youngster laugh,
to think the old man should pretend to beat
him down from the tree with grass only.
"Well, well," said the old man, "if neither .
words nor grass will do, I must try what vir
tue there is in stones!" v
.... . . i , , t
There have been some complaints that sugar and flour have
cost some of bur merchants about as much as the price fixed by
- Mr. Page. When a retailer can show that his flour has cost him
as much as $11.75 per barrel delivered, I have instructions to grant
him an exception from the ruling, so as to permit him to sell that
particular lot at a profit of $1.00 per barrel. When he can show
that sugar has cost him 9 l-2c, a permit to sell it for 10 1-2 will be
, . given, applying only to that particular lot,. It is regarded by the
-'adrnMsttor'ltetr6fit"of 1c per pound on sugar and $1.00 per
barrel is enough profit under present conditions, and that the re
tailer is entitled to that much.
l am in receipt of a letter
Henry A. Page requesting:
1. That I demand of each retailer in
who have purchased flour in excess of one
2. That I immediately notify the purchasers whose names are submitted or
whose names I can secure, that they must return all flour in their possession in ex
cess of one barrel to the dealers from whom they purchased, these dealers being re
quired to take it back at the price they received for it
3. That I take every other means within my command to remedy this situa
tion just as promptly as possible.
4. That 1 submit to him promptly for indictment and prosecution the names
of any merchants who withhold information and any consumers who retain in their
possession more than one barrel of flour after they are given an opportunity to re
turn It to dealers. ,
Mr. Page demands immediate action in this matter and it is necessary that his
instructions be followed out immediately. I shall expect to hear from you within
three days, with list of people who have made large purchases of flour from you
during the past three months.
You no doubt know that the purchasers of excessive amounts of any foodstuffs
are guilty of hoarding under the Food Control Law passed by Congress Aug. 10th,
and are punishable by fine of $5,000 or two years imprisonment, or both, in addi
tion to confiscation of the goods; and that merchants making such sales are like
wise guilty thru their action in aiding and abetting which in the commission is an
.. offense against the law.
As stated above there will be no prosecution of either merchants or consum
ers who have violated this law if information is given promptly.
The prices fixed on sugar and flour is for the average man:
the man who comes into your store and lays down his money and
picks up his purchase and carries it home himself.
The man who wants it delivered: who wants it charged till
the end of the week : who wants it carried until Oct. 1st he is get
ting service and you have a right to charge for this a reasonable
price for delivery; a reasonable price for book-keeping expense ;
and, under our State law, 10 per cent for carrying charges, if fall
s terms are wanted.
- The editor of this paper gives me this space on the front
page. I am paying him the regular advertising rates. I am doing
this myself, without help from the Government. I cannot afford
v to have the papers mailed to non subscribers again. I will use this
space each week, when necessary, to keep you advised. It is all
the notice I :an give.
The great majority of the folks are going to do right. Al
ready they have voluntarily promised to bring back an excess of
40 or 50 barrels, and I have not heard from all parts of the county.
xThe fable of the boy that stole apples has served me for more than
half a century it will serve every man in Richmond county it he
will but read it aright.
W. N. EVERETT, (
Food Administrator for Richmond County.
(Since above was written and put in type, the followiugself-,
explanatory telegram was received from State Food Administrator
! Page): - . '-v , ' - . , '.. .JV ':.
' V U Raleigh, N. C. ..
; W. N. EVERETT, Food Admr. ";-f . ' r '
", ; Rockingham, N. C .
' Notify all merchants through your local papers no exceptions can be made to
new food administration ruling forbidding sale of wheat flour except in combination
- with equal amount of other cereals, Including com meal, hominy grits, oat meal,
rice, barley, flour, edible wheat shorts or middlings, corn flour, corn starch, soy
bean flour, - - -
. . ,-' PENRY A. PAGE.
MERCHANTS !
from State Food Administrator
my county a complete list of consumers
barrel during the past three months.
EXAMINATION OF MEN
OF CLASS ONE
The Richmond County Ex
emption Board Monday
Began Examining Men of
Class 1 at Rate of SO a Day
Since Monday the Richmond
county exemption board has been
examining men of Class 1 at the
rate of 50 each day. 50 will con
tinue to be examined Friday and
Monday, after which latter day
the examinations will cease for
a week or so.
Out of the 50 called for last
Monday, 45 reported for exami
nation. 47 reported Tuesday, 48
Wednesday and 45 today.
Conducting the examination
Monday were Doctors ,McPhai
Everett, Mcintosh, Garrett, Ledr
better. Dr. James assisteowith
these five Tuesday. Every doc
tor in the county is invited; and
urged to assist in these examinar
tions. Assisting the local doctors
Wednesday were Drs. Kinsman
and James.
The Post-Dispatch last issue
published the names of the 50
who were examined Monday and
the 50 . Tuesday. Herewith we
give the names of those who
were called for examination Wed
nesday, 30th, and today, 31st;
and the list for Friday and Mon
day. No further examinations
will be made after Monday for
a week or maybe longer, the
board today deciding to hold up
after Monday in the exarninatiohs
in order that they may catch up
in the office work. .
The men of Class 1 called for
examination are: . V
Wednesday, Jan. 30th '
John Jones ;
John Hanson McCaw
William Herbert Bullard
Cleo Coachman
Minor Hinson
Vernon Forbis
Walter A. Phifer
Hector A. Little
Charlie Hamilton
Clarence Hartwell Hedgepeth
V. 'liam David Hudson
William Walter Graham
Rosco Covington
Frank Fuller
Will Dawkins
James Fetzer Lentz
John Skally Terry
Willie Shepherd Blue
William Fortney Graham
Danney Archie Snead
John C. McFadyen
Gernie Archie Patterson
Henry Clay Jenkins
Holland Gibson
Derious Covington
Henry H. Graham
Tillman Dunn
James McKenzie
William Clay Smith
Frank Stanback
Percy Church Coley
John Reddick
Thos. A. Parham
Elijah Twinney
Robt Fletcher Lisk
Will Fairly
Henry Rainwater
James Adair
Lacy Everett
Zebulon Gibson
Robt. Nichols Stansill
Jas. Daniel Evans
Cicero J. Covington
Irvin Quick .
Marvin Ogburn
JohnMcInnis
Claude Austin
Frazier Gregg
Joe Parker Wingard
1 Alex Monroe
Thursday, Jan. 31st
. Tom Johnson
"Andrew J. Cross
Lacy F. Tookes
Haywood James
Zack McDonald
Jas. Leak Little
Boyd Wallace r; ;
' Jas. Randolph Warmouth
Arthur Baxter Green
Joseph Franklin Leak
Archie Bennett Napier
Albert Terrell
Sam McRae
Sam McNeil
Howell Lee Hawley
Joseph R. Coley
Enoch Houston Chamberlain.
Lacy Lee Meacham
Joseph E. Turbeville
Qliver Jason Morgan
Vander Floyd
Rufus Mobley
Will Adams
Carl E. Garrett
Luke Nash
Robt. Lee Smith
Alec Walter Williams
Pinkney Elmore Gore
Malcolm D. McDonald
Arthur L Morgan ,
John William Hammond
JFurman Jas. McLeod
Alvie Chavis
Homer Nestor LeGrand
JohnBostick
Jas. Sam Thomson .
Lewis Talmage Nance
' Walter Cyrus Groves
Anguish Ellerbe
Wm. Henry Watkins
Jas. J. Cagle
Robt B. Dawkins
Arthur Peele
Jas, Luke Smith
Oscar Jacobs
Wm. Tell Smith
Luther Marvin McKenzie
Geo. Alexander
: Ira Davis
Friday, Feb. 1st
Walter S. Sedberry
Wm. Alonzo Moody
Jim William Currie
Thomas Bostick .
Marcus K. Little
Arthur Talmage Mcintosh
' Benjamin Alfred Capel
John Hailey
Buck Tom Rose
Walter L. Parsons, Jr.
John Kelson Gibson
Ellis Hatcher
Jessie Gardner
John Stansill Morse
Tom Allen
Ralph F. Brigman
Arthur Lee Robinson
Joe Edward Glasgow
James Lee Currie
John Crawford Watkins
Charlie Parks
Flowers Diggs
' Orville Dewey Wilson
James Azzie Dunlap
William Frison
Culpeper Mabry J
James Edward Wood
Silas Stewart
Luke Gibson, Jr.
Frank Wall
Henry S. Ledbetter, Jr.
Henry Raymond Howell
Ed Hammond
Edward H. Hurley
Benj. F. Reddick
Robt Weaver Gathings
James Ratliff
Wm. Hayes Powers
John Monroe Snead
Wm. Lacy Lampley
Sylvester DeBerry Luther
Caggie Terry
DeWitt Talmage Webb
James Clyde Hicks
Pearl Ingram
Lawyer Cameron
Clifford Calias Steele
Walter Coney Steele
Ozmer Lucas Henry
Chas. Jackson Fetner
Monday, Feb. 4th
Harrison Smitherman
Colfex Caldwell
Chester Leak v
Thomas Jones
Thomas Belton
Chester Griffin
Sunny Ford
Gene Little
Coley Smith
Peter Wall
Thomas Leak i ;
George B. Spencer
John Jones r '
John Turner
Walter Little '
LABEL
This space is devoted by the Post-Dispatch each week to "shop"
talk. If you are a paid-up subscriber, then what is written herein will
not interest you; but if you are behind on your subscription, then
EVERY WORD is written directly to you. Why read on credit?
Why let your arrears continually stare you in the face each week?
Are YOU proud of a label that shows you are behind? Resolve to
have this changed. Write or come to the Post-Dispatch office and
get square on this subscription matter. Don't wait for the paper to
send you a statement The top label shows your Dispatch subscrip
tion; the bottom label is that of the Post Add $1.50 to the amount
owing to Dec. 1st, 1917, for a new year for the Post-Dispatch.
Charles Smith
Waddell Kirkland
John Wright
Preston Chambers
Lee Lentz
Wade Yates
Hampton Miller
William Stanback
Luther Dove
Hayse McRae
William Bethea
Willie McMillan ;
Jarvis T. Williams
John Edgar Robinson
Thomas Arthur Mumford
Lola Dumas
Richard Wall
JohnStaten
James White
Henry Haley
Talmage Morrison
Lacy LeGrand
Roy Edwards
Arley Walter Allen
Alonzo Ellerbe
Aaron Dumas
Purvis Williams
jonas McRae
Olyn Marcelous Wilson
Willie Simmons
James Manning
Curtis Baldwin
Archie Allen
Will Ingram
Kenny Martin
m
Marriage License.
The following secured licenses
from Register of Deeds during
the past week:
Chasten Guy Winn and Mar
guerite H. Horton, white, 26th.
Henry DcGraffenreidt and Effie
Wright, col., issued the 26th.
Ernest Heard and Lenora Smith
col., issued the 28th.
JoeMcCall and Nellie Little,
col., issued 29th.
Joe Worth, Jr., and Flonnie
Wall, col, issued 29th.
James Walter Davis and Lucy
Hunsucker, white, issued 30th.
An item in this paper last issue
stated that Miss Allie Legg had
purchased a Hudson Four, the
car was a BuickJjbur instead.
On Providing For
the Future.
Take home to yourself this thought : "WHAT IS TO
BECOME OF ME WHEN I AM NO LONGER
ABLE TO EARN MONEY BY MY
BRAIN or BODILY LABOR?"
PERHAPS YOU DO NOT KHOW
that only ONE man in . 10,000 is self-supporting at
the age of SEVENTY. That in the United States
there are now 125,000 former W AGE-earners SIXTY
FIVE years of age or more, who are dependent upon
public and private charity at a cost of $220)000,000:
that there are 300.0Q0 OLD MEN and WOMEN in
homes whose up-keep costs $50,000,000 annually..
We live in an age when a salary means only bread and
butter, and a place to sleep. What will happen when
- wegrow old? We will be PENNILESS and HOME
LESS if we CONTINUE as we are GOING.
We must each day--each week, meet not only the current
expenses, but also tJie expense of some FtrrURE time.
Now a provision against this unpleasantness is to open an
5TPDAYi$l e 0NLY SAVINGS
BANK in the County; deposit a part of each week's
, salary, and let your money work for fyou. , ,
This Bank is Open Every Saturday Until 5 O'clock.
THE RICHMOND COUNTY SAVOiGS BATH.
ROCKINGHAM, N. C
'Heatless' Day Here.
Monday was observed in Rock
ingham in fine style as "heatless"
Monday, a holiday, and a general
period of rest for the business
folks. The government's closing
order, for the purpose of conserv
ing the coal supply, was lived up
to in spirit and letter, and a veri
table period of rest and quietude
was made of the day. ;. ?. a .
All mercantile stores were
closed. The grocery stores kept
open until noon, and then closed
for the balance of the day. The
drug stores remained open but
sold only medicines and drugs.
More than one tobacco-loving
citizen had a efrong desire for a
smoke Monday and had no to
bacco. The barber shops were
also closed. The picture show
is allowed to run on Mondays,
but is closed on Tuesdays.
The government's order issued .
Jan. 18th that all places of busi
ness that burn fuel be closed for
ten successive Mondays, includ
ing factories and manufacturing
plants not engaged on govern
ment work, has been acquiesced
in by the nation gladly and pa
triotically. The order specifi
cally states that if the Mondays
be warm and no fires necessary,
then the stores etc, may remain
open. But the people are, cer
tainly for the present closing up
anyway on the designated days.
Of the 10 Rockingham cotton
mills only 2, Great Falls and Led
betters, operated Monday; they
are engaged on government work
and were permitted to run. We
understand tnat those mills that
did not run paid their employees
half time. A ruling by Fuel Ad
ministrator Garfield today allows
hydro-electrically driven mills to
run on heatless Mondays where
such operation does not in the
slightest increase the use of fuel.
The Post-Dispatch is unable to
state today just how this new
ruling will affect the electrically
driven mills for next Monday.
Miss Allie Legg is in New York
City on business.