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Vol. 1. No. 47
ROCKINGHAM, N. C, THURSDAY Afternoon, OCTOBER 24, 1918.
$1.50 PER YEAR
1 Richmond Coty
Soldiers
Don't forget to turn your clock back
an hour next Sunday.
Fred Patterson, of Concord, a former
star U. N. C. baseball player, lost a leg
in action in France several weeks ago.
Miss Blanche Ingram Saturday sub
scribed for Z. O. Ingram, who is over
yonder in Co. H, 321st inft, A. P. O. 791.
Zack Chavis is another Richmond
county soldier getting the home paper.
He is at "Camp Sevier, Q. M. C, Recla
mation Farm."
Carl R. Roller is the latest Post-Dispatch
subscriber in France. He is over
there in Co. G, 166th infantry. J. S.
Roller subscribed for him.
Fifteen thousand retreating German
soldiers cut off by Belgian troobs were
Saturday interned by Holland. That is
just as good as capturing them and cer
tainly cheaper.
The Post-Dispatch still has on hand a
number of those copies that contained
the full list of 2679 Sept 12th registrants.
Five cents a copy. Better get one and
file away for reference years hence.
James Blake Neill is in the Students
Army Training Corps, Co. B, University
of Georgia, Athens, Ga. He is taking a
medical course. James is a son of Mrs.
Lilly Fowlkes Neill, of 608 West 37th St.
Savannah. . ,
The Fuel Administration estimates
that a million barrels of gasoline were
saved in this country by observance of
gasless Sunday, the request for which
was last week withdrawn. Those citizens
who failed to heed the request during the
past two months have had their measure
taken, and the record will stand.
An all-American bombing expedition
occurred behind the German lines near
Verdun last Friday. 140 machines took
part, and every one returned unharmed.
Not only did the bombs do much damage,
but the scout planes that accompanied
the bombers shot down 12 enemy ma
chines. The conscientious objector sees a
"hard" time, to their way of thinking. A
court-martial at Camp Meade, Md., last
week sentenced a "conscientions objector"
to hard labor for a term-of 15 years; he
had refused to do farm work, or put on a
uniform or work in the utilities detatch
ment of the quartermaster's corps. Looks
like such an undesirable citizen got off
tight with 15 years.
A new infantry officers' training camp
will be opened at Camp Fremont, Califor
nia, between Nov. 25 and Dec. 1. It will
accommodate 20,000 men, of which this
State can send 410. Applicants must
come from civilians between ages of 18
and 46. If you wish to try for this two
months' officers training camp, write
Major Hulvey, Commandant at the State
A. &. E. College at Raleigh for application
blank.
L. C. Cole, in writing the paper his
change of address to "11th Service Co.,
Fort Sherman, Canal Zone," says:-
"I have just been transferred from the
Pacific side of the Canal Zone to the At
lantic side. My work consists of tele
phone work and construction work of
the Signal Corps; also have duties in the
Pigeon Section. We train hundreds of
homing pigeons- that valuable bird that
is doing such splendid messenger service
over yonder. Their speed is 70 miles an
hour.
'"Receive the home paper regularly;
rarely does a copy miss coming. It is
worth its weight in gold to me.
"It is my highest ambition to go across,
but as an enlisted man has to serve three
years in the Canal Zone unless ordered
away on special orders, it looks now that
I will be unlucky as to miss getting over
in France and doing my bit there. We
fellows here feel it keenly that we are
not allowed to go across.
A letter from Jennings Gerald, Co. L,
119th infantry, to his sister, Mrs. J. M.
Stankwytch, written Sept 23rd, in part
says:
"Nights are surely cool here, and es
pecially the early mornings. It is a great
experience going over the top. You
either have to kill or get killed. Fortun
ately so far I have done the former. My
pal H. H. Hall was killed in 30 yards of
me recently. I have accounted for sev
eral Huns myself, and hope FU get many
more. We have been In a part of Belg
ium, but are now again in France. Tell
the boys that they had better get in . the
army, the life is a lot better than staying
at home. But if they do stay at home,
then everyone of them ought to save and
buy War-Savings Stamps to the utmost!"
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And still another P.-D. reader in France
is J. Robert Waddell, U. S. Marine Corps,
A. P. 0. 727.
f. R TVanc a memher of th S. A. T.
C. at Trinity, is recovering at-Watts hos
pital from a relapse or innuenza.
' William Head is recovering from the
flue at the Naval Training Station a
Charleston. He is now a first-class hos
pital apprentice.
J. A. Morse Thursday received word
that his sons, John F. and Frank S., had
landed safely at a port in Sibera, as part
of the expeditionary forces.
Henry H. Graham has been quite ill
with influenza at hospital at Camp Colt,
Gettsburg, Pa., but is now recovering.
He is a son of D. G. Graham, Ellerbe.
All the American dead in France will
be taken home after the war, according
to orders received by army chaplains. All
graves are being marked with this plan
in view.'
Mrs. Annie McKay, Marston, Rt 2,
besides having the home paper to Hillery
H., in France, is now sending it also to
Oscar J., who is over yonder ' in Co. E,
Mechanic Repair Shop Unit, 308 M. G. C.
Ozmer L. Henry sailed the first of the
wool; fnr Rntrlanrf. From there he will
go to Messopotamia to be engaged in
War Y. M. fj. A. worn, ne nas Deen in
New York for several months in charge
of the Southern Division, War Y. M. C.
A.
Willie F. Baldwin is in a very serious
condition at the base hospital at New
Cnmberland, Pa. Suffering from pneumonia-influenza.
Baldwin was sent to
Syracuse July 30th for limited service,
and was later transferred to New Cum
berland. He is a son of Mr. W. W. Bald
win. Henry Dockery, who was sent to camp
in May and to France in August, is now
in an artillery officers' training school
over there; at the Saumer Artillery school.
France. William Dockery and Wm. Harry
Entwistle are understood to be placed in
training schools for officers, and probably
by now are taking the prescribed courses.
Extracts from a letter from Corporal J.
Crowell Shankle, Co L, 16th infantry, to
Mrs. Chas. P. Tyson, written Sept 25th,
has this to say of Willie Shankle's death:
"Willie was hit by fragments of a high
explosive shell, a peice piercing his heart;
death was instant and he suffered no
pain.
"Would like to be back home, but will
of course stay to the finish. Have been
through so much, that to miss the rest
would be hard."
TEACHERS PAID
State Supt. Joyner Rules That
AH Teachers of Schools
Closed by Epidemic Should
Be paid Salaries in Full.
The following received by Supt
L J. Bell on last Saturday from
State Supt. of Education J. Y.
Joyner with regard to the salaries
of teachers of town and county
while the schools remain closed
on account of the influenza epi
demic explains itself.
"Raleigh,
Oct. 18th.
To County Supts:
Teachers in schools that
have been closed on account of the epi
demic of Spanish influenza are legally
and morally entitled to draw their salaries
under their contract for the time
intervening between the closing of the
schools and the reopening of the same.
I am advised by the Attorney General
that this is the law and I am sure thai it
is in accordance with the Gospel.
Very truly,
J. Y. Joyner."
This will mean a cut in actual
teaching term of all schools
closed by the order of the County
Board of Health. These schools
are Hamlet, Rockingham, Derby,
Norman, Ellerbe, Fee Dee, Cor
dova, Rohanen, Roberdel, Zion,
Williams, Cameron and Hottman.
Without delay the school com
mitteemen of the above schools,
as well as the teachers of the
Rockingham city schools, who
had gone to their homes, were
notified that full salaries would
be paid for all time the schools
should remain closed.
Liberty Loan.
' The total subscriptions for , Richmond
countv for the Fourth Liberty Loan will
possibly amount to $650,000. The exact
figures are not avauwie tms wen. ... Al
ready, however, $610,000 has been ac
rniinfrrl for. - The auota was $500,000,
i Over 1500 people subscribed. ,
Turn Time Backward.
From 6 p. m. Saturday, Oct.
26th, to 6 a. m. Sunday, 27th, will
be exactly 13 hours, regardless
of the fact that the dial of the
clock contains but 12 numerals.
Incidently, our people will have
an opportunity to make up that
hour of sleep lost last April when
the hands of the clock were
moved up an hour.
The order of Congress advanc
ing the time one hour, effective
Easter Sunday, expires on next
Sunday morning at 2 o'clock and
from thenceforth the standard
time, as prevailed before the en
actment of the order, will be in
force. At 2 o'clock next Sunday
morning all clocks, watches etc
wiil be turned back one hour.
The change in time will nec
essitate all trains that leave their
starting point before 2 a. m. Sun
day standing for one full hour at
the station where they happen to
be when 2 a. m. arrives. Last
April when the time was advanc
ed, the trains simply ran an hour
late; but trains cannot run ahead
of their schedule and so the
wheels of traffic will have to stop
Sunday morning for an hour to
return the schedules to normal.
Don't forget to turn your watch
back one hour Sunday.
If your name is not on the reg
istration books, you cannot vote
Nov. 5th. Books close Saturday.
Gasless Sunday.
The Fuel Administration an
nounced on Thursday of last
week the lifting of the ban on
gasolineless Sundays. The em
bargo has been splendidly ob
served in Rockingham and sur
rounding community. The cars
for the past few Sundays were
shut up and the people walked.
But now the object of the Fuel
Administration has been accom
plished, over a million barrels of
gasoline have been conserved,
and the order is lifted. And the
difference between the man who
observed the request and the man
who didn't is the difference be
tween a patriot and something
else.
Cotton Nearby Counties.
The government figures for
cotton ginned to Sept. 25th this
year as compared with the bales
ginned to Sept. 25th of last year,
for our neighboring counties are
of interest :
To Sept. 25 1918 1917
Anson 6,407 3,133
Chatham ..... 210 3
Hoke. 4,181 2,047
Lee 652 81
Montgomery.. 478 106
Moore 313 1
Richmond .... 4,437 1,466
Robeson 13,147 8,017
Scotland 11,020 6,519
Stanley. 251 1
Union 1,836 82
State 78,654 27,827
Cotton today 28 3-4c. Spots up 10
poin's, closing at 31.55. ,
Register To Vote.
The registration books for Nov.
5th election will close Saturday
night. If your name is not on
the books, attend to the matter
AT ONCE. Failure to have your
name on the books will keep you
from voting,
On page 3 the quarantine de
livery hours of Everett Hardware
Co. Their truck will have a reg
ular schedule to the various exits
of the city while the quarantine
lasts.
FAILED TO FILE
Names of 29 Sept. 12th Reg
istrants Who So Far Have
Failed to File Their Ques
tionnaires. Out of 1165 questionnaires sent
out to the Sept. 12th registrants
every one has been properly re
turned to the exemption board
but 29. This is a splendid rec
ord. Doubtless some of these 29
have sent their questionnaires,
but they may have been miscar
ried in the mail. Others of the
29 may have failed to receive
them.
The following are the 29 who
have so far failed to return their
questionnaires. If your name
appears in this list, you had bet
ter see the board without delay
and either return your question
naire or get a new one. This is
important, in order to forestall
further action.
19 Sandy Smith
14 Joseph Elonza Davis
22 Harvey Brooks
244 Alfred Covington
248 Clarence Covington
250 William Quick
260 James Quick
266 C.L. Little
267 Adlis McQendon
375 Clarence Sanders
410 Nelson Robinson
608 Herbert Cornell
696 Lawrence McKay
744 Lee Jackson
1018 John Cobb
1476 Jas. Byrd Shropshire
1518 Charlie Baxter Lilly
1673 Calvin Stanback
1782 Anderson Massey
1783 Jessie Smith
1784 James Edgar Terry
2125 Ben Miller
2517 Wm. Lee Fletcher
2520 Wellington Smith
2626 Walter Onslow Whitter
2651 John Dunlap
2668 Culpepper DeBerry
2669 James Singleton
2686 Wm. James Sloan
Western M. E. Conference.
The annual conference of the
Southern M. E. Church, Western
North Carolina District, which
was to convene at Monroe Nov.
5th, was postponed indefinitely in
a called session of the presiding
elders at Charlotte Tuesday. The
posponement is due to the influ
enza epidemic.
Definition of Hell.
Said a Rockingham merchant
last Saturday when the quaran
tine was on strict, and not a
person on the streets except the
clerks:
"Some folks say dere vas no
hell, but if dere vas no hell, vere
in hell has bisniss gone?"
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.life which can be . completely destroyed'.
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THIS BANK 13 OPEN EVERY SATURDAY UNTIL FIVE O'CLOCK
QUARANTINE
1300 Cases Influenza in
County. 90 in Rocking
ham. Quarantine of Rock
ingham Made Tighter.
Possibility of Its Being
Lifted Next Week.
The influenza epidemic in
Richmond county continues un
abated. The estimate of cases
is 1300.
On Thursday of last week
Health Supervisor J. M. Maness
placed Rockingham under strict
quarantine, with guards at each
exit to prevent passage coming
in. Up until Wednesday no ef
fort had been made to prevent
people leaving the town. But
now to better enforce the quar
antine, the guards have been in
structed to shut the city tight
to prevent people leaving or
coming in. This also applies to
railroad traffic.
Also, effective Wednesday
night, that portion of Great Falls
mill village which lies is Rock
ingham was included in the city
quarantine, and the guard placed
at Great Falls creek bridge in
stead oi at the iiaciccts corner
as heretofore. (When the quar-j
antine was instituted, the village I
of Great Falls was not included
in the city quarantine; now, how
ever, in view of the new hospital
built at Great Falls, the lines
have been placed at the creek.)
On Monday night the barber
shops of the city were ordered
closed until the quarantine is
lifted.
So far there have been reported
to health officer Maness, at his
office in the opera house build
ing (phone 321), 90 cases for the
entire town, including the town
portion of Great Falls. Two
deaths have occurred, one white
and one colored.
On Monday the quarantine
was made even more effective
by quarantining the homes
where cases appear. Placards
are placed on each home in which
is a case, and no one can leave
that home until four days have
elapsed after the latest case in
that home.
Dr. Maness can really give no
estimate as to when the quaran
tine can be lifted. He informs
the Post-Dispatch that it will
certainly continue all the present
week; and lifting it next week
depends upon the further spread
of the disease.
8 new cases were reported for
Rockingham for Wednesday.
As will be noted - from the
elatively few cases in Rocking
ham, the epidemic is well in hand
and the conditions vastly better
than in a majority of places; but
the Quarantine and other Drecau-
tions is to KEEP the health con
ditions good and to PREVENT a i
real spread. "A stitch in time." I
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Rockf nf nam, N. C.
The ONLY SAVINGS BANK in the
The cases so far reported daily
for the county, are as follows;
these total 1009, and there were
several hundred cases before the
reports were begun:
Oct. 15th 220
Oct. 16th 144
Oct. 17th.. 161
Oct. 18th 112
Oct. 19th 79
Oct. 20th.. 68
Oct. 21st.: 69
Oct. 22nd 79
Oct. 23rd 77
Almost the entire county is
under quarantine. Ellerbe, Nor
man, Hoffman, all of Wolf Pit
township, Rockingham and the
ten cotton mills are under strict
quarantine. Bars are across the
store doors at Ellerbe, and cus
tomers are served goodsby bring
ing it without. The same ap
plies to stores at Roberdel Nos. 1
and 2. Two guards are on duty
at the two leading roads at Rob
erdel No. 1 to prevent entrance. "
The Rockingham Red Cross
Chapter has been doing splendid
work. Sewers are busy morn
ing and afternoon (including last
Sunday) making masks, aver
aging 225 each day. People who
come in touch with patients are
urged to wear these, but not
over two hours at a time; the
mask should then be sterilized
by boiling and a new one put on.
These masks can be secured
from Dr. Maness, with whom the
Red Cross is heartily cooperat
ing. The Great Falls mill company,
through Mr. Gore, at the begin-.,
ning of the quarantine last week
began the erection of a hospital
on the hill 300 feet east of the
mill, on the main street. The
building is 24 feet wide by 75'
feet long. The sides are walled
four feet up with heavy 13-ounce
government duck. This allows
an abundance of fresh air ven
tilation; at the top of the sides
are other rolls of duck that can
be lowered in inclement weather
so that the building will be com
pletely encased. A stove is with
in. Rnnning down the length of
the building is a duck partition
to divide the male and female
patients. The mill built the hos
pital and the Red Cross has
equipped it and will supply soups,
etc. Three Red Cross nurses
are in charge, the mill paying
for two and the Red Cross for
one; they are Miss Lillian George,
of Wilmington, Mrs. Morgan, or
Hendersonville; and a colored
nurse from Raleigh, Mary Grif
fin. The hospital was opened Wed
nesday afteruoon; seven patients
were at once carried there, these
being Mrs. J. W. Goodman; Mi s.
Martha Andrews, Miss Grady
Hart, Mrs. Ella Coble, Miss Viola
Andrews, Mr. J. P. Jenkins and
a Mr. Yates. Four additional
patients will be placed there this
afternoon, and more Friday.
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