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COTTON ROCKINGHAM Today, July 15, ' Good Middling 00.00 Strict Middling .40.00 Middling... 39.00 Lower Grades. , 22 up SUBSCRIPTION RATES : One Year $2.00 Six months $1.25 Three months .75 Single copies 10c each X Vol. 3. No. 33 ROCKINGHAM, N. C, THURSDAY Afternoon, JULY 15, 1920. $2.00 PER YEAR m 1 i A PILGRIM'S PROGRESS Letters from Mrs. Lucy P. Russell, Who Sailed from New York Jane 12th, 1920, for a Tour of Europe. Written Expressly for the Rockingham Post-Dispatch. LETTER NO. 2. 1 1 1 BOARD OF EDUCATION The Pilgrim's Farther Progress. "Exeter, England, June 22nd, 1920. People in England rise very early. They have to in order to polish all the leaves on the trees, sand paper the roads and mani cure the cows. But to begin where I left off we sighted land about 4:30 Sun day afternoon, June 20th, and the British on board went quite wild and we all grew excited and gay and even sentimental over our last night on the top deck with nothing but our sins between us and heaven. We had breakfast Monday morning at 6:30 and enjoyed a clear view of the rugged, beautiful coast of Eng land, with its white cliffs, curv ing bays and the many boats of every kind yet invented that thronged the channel. We reached Southampton about 10 o'clock after receiving another welcome from an airship which whirred above us and dropped letters and flowers for Mary Pickford and Douglass Fairbanks. An immense crowd was waiting on the dock and thronged around Mary so that a policeman had to pick her up and carry her to a car, Douglass trotting behind. Inside the dock pandemonium reigned as every one of the 2200 passengers- tried to find his or her baggage first; our party was at last collected and the party separated temporarily, part going direct to London with friends and Chas. and I climbing into a "hackney coach" to go across the city to the Salisbury station. Why do you suppose an English "hack" exposes the passengers to all sorts of weather while in front is an over-shadowing hood that keeps him from seeing even the horse ? We stopped at a little tea room and had a "meat pie" about the size of a saucer, a big slice of currant cake, a cup of good tea for 19c; in New York it would have been 85c at least. The little toy trains are very comfortable and very fast and I dislocated my spectacles trying to see out of both sides of the car at the same time. I could not bear to miss one of the beau Continued on Page 10. Mangum and Baldwin School Districts to Consolidate. Harrington to Con solidate with Rockingham School. The County Board of Educa tion was in session last Monday, present being W. N. Everett, Jr., chairman, J. M. Dockery and David Parsons and County Super intendent L. J. Bell. A delegation was present from Steele's township asking that the Mangum and Baldwin school districts be consolidated, and that a new school be built midway between. The Board agreed to furnish all materials provided the two disticts haul same and erect the building according to State specifications. And so the Man- gum-Baldwin districts are des tined to have a modern two teacher school. A petition from the Harrington school district to let them be con solidated with the Rockingham citv school, was granted. This school is five miles north of Rock ingham. Scott Under Bond. On June 12th Dave Webb, of West Rockingham, while under the influence of whiskey, was badlv cut and robbed. It was feared at first that he would die. A pegro, Simon Scott, was ar rested next day in Wolf Pit, charged with the assault, and lodged in jail. Bond was denied until it was sure Webb was out of danger. . And so on last Saturday Scott was allowed to give $1000 bond (furnished by W. A. McDonald) and he is now at liberty; the pre liminary hearing will be held Fri day afternoon, July 16th, before Squire Steele at 4 o clock. Scott asserts that Webb was drunk and asleep in or under his wagon and that when he tried to get it to go home, Webb attacked him and the cutting was in self-defense. At any rate, the matter will be aired tomorrow before Squire Steele. Powerful Ignorant or Nervy. Turner Larken, a Haywood county citizen, is either mighty ignorant or wonderfully nervy. Several weeks ago he shipped a quantity of whiskey in a rubber hot water bottle to a friend at Badin, and not only plainly wrote his name on the package to be returned to him in case of non delivery, but had it insured. The bottle leaked, the "cat was out of the bag" and government authori ties by means of the return ad dress got hot on Larken's trail. And Larken also had the nerve to put in application for the in surance! He is now under bond for trial. Superior Court. Civil term of Superior Court will convene here next Monday, 19th, with Judge P. A. McElroy presiding. The calendar of cases can be seen elsewhere in this issue. On the following Monday, July 26th, the criminal term begins with the same Judge presiding. It is presumed the Foster Parsons case will come up at the July 26th term. The jurors drawn for the July 19th civil term are: J C Cole R H Holyburton J R Jarrell W T Chandler W B McKenzie F L Maloch v H S Hugging H M Carter H H Brown WBCole J W Patrick R V Ussery David Peele R L Steele W K Diggs Grady Covington W J Galloway J F Hicks C W Ingold Prirtce O'Brien J W Meacham T B Matheson W A Mcintosh E R Hudson Electric Current Off. The Post-Dispatch is delayed this week's issue by lightning striking one of the lines near town and cutting off the current for several hours this Thursday afternoon. The current came back on at 6:15, but too late for the paper to "make" the 7.40 eastbound train. Lay it to the lightning, and not to the paper. New Auto Agency. Mr. Horace Moore today (Thursday) rented from A. W. Porter the 50x100 garage building next to the Pee Dee Motor Sales Co., at the "Rockets", and takes charge tomorrow. He will handle the Chalmers and Dort cars besides run ning a garage and repair department. Rham vs Sanford. Rockingham played. Sanford here this Thursday afternoon, winning by score of 3-2. Sanford scored two in the third inning on two errors and a hit. In the seventh Rockingham scored on doubles by Beard and Black, and single by Sides and sacrifice by Atkinson. The single of Sides brought in Black and Beard, tying the score, and then he him self tried to come in from third and in the chase, trying to run him down, the Sanford players claim he got out of run ning ltne. The Rockingham players deny this, as serting the third run was clearly made, and Umpire Nance ruled that it was safe, hereupon, the Sanford team refused to continue play, though only two were out, and so the game ended, according to the umpire's ruling, with the score 3-2. But, as noted, the game is disputed, arH according to Sanford the score should be only 2-2. As to which contention is cor rect, the Post-Dispatch is not at present prepared to say. Beard pitched for Rockingham and Bry son for Sanford. Rockingham plays Monroe at Monroe Saturday, and.Lincolnton at Lincolnton Monday and Tuesday. Coppedge-Dawson. Friends in the county where be is deservedly popular will be interested in the announcement of the marriage on last Saturday of Mr. Hervey Coppedge to Miss Mae Dawson, of Columbia. The ceremony was performed at Ben nettsville Saturday afternoon, the couple returning here later in the afternoon and catching the night train for Wrightsville where they stayed until Tuesday. At pres ent Mr. and Mrs. Coppedge are at the home of his parents, Rev. and Mrs. W. R. Coppedge. D Did He Have Any Insurance? After every fire, this question it invariably asked. ( It ought to be a needless question, as every man ought to have a full protection against fire on his house, his furniture, bis outbuildings, his stock, his auto. We insure anything you have. Call or write to us and our representative will come to see you. Richmond Insurance & Realty Company A. G. Corpening, Sec-Treas. Office in Hotel Building. MORRISON'S MAJORITY 9,259 Official Count Gives Morri son 70,332, Gardner 61,- 073 a Majority of 9,259 for Morrison. Stacy Beats Long by 22,247 Majority and Durham Wins Over Cook by 12,015. The State Board of Elections met in Raleigh yesterday (Wed nesday) and officially canvassed the returns from each of the 100 counties for the July 3rd primary. The result shows that Morrisdn received 70,332 votes, to 61,073 for Max Gardner, thus giving Morrison the nomination by a majority of 9,259. This was a much larger majority than many of his most sanguine friends had anticipated. In the June 5th primary, he led Gardner by 87 votes, their vote June 5th being Morrison 49,070, Gardner 48,983, Page 30,180. Morrison carried seven Con gressional districts, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 8th and 10th. Gard ner carried the 5th, 6th and 9th districts. In the race for Associate Just ice of the Supreme Court, W. P. Stacy defeated Judge B. F. Long by the big majority of 22,247, the vote being: Stacy 71,437, Long 49,190. For State Auditor, Durham won by 12,015 majority over James P. Cook, of Concord. The vote was: Durham 64,697, Cook 52,682. The official vote by counties for Morrison and Gardner is as follows, and Post-Dispatch read ers would do well to clip this out and file it away: Official Returns from Second Primary for State Officials July 3, 1920. COUNTIES. C V Alamance 358 488 Alexander 375 203 Alleghany 329 200 Anson 986 1,082 Ashe 429 173 Avery 41 308 Beaufort 579 1,220 Bertie - 627 517 Bladen 1,037 334 Brunswick 209 445 Buncombe 2,052 1,967 Burke 737 359 Cabarrus 532 321 Caldwell 361 443 Camden 142 158 Carteret- -' 382 273 Caswell 292 433 Catawba 1,033 401 Chatham 689 390 Cherokee ... 315 106 Chowan 232 186 Clay 103 26 Cleveland 390 3,248 Columbus.. 1,011 1,322 Craven 1,451 951 Cumberland 840 1,323 Currituck 450 185 Dare 189 13 Davidson 886 752 Davie Duplin Durham Edgecombe Forsyth Franklin. Gaston Gates. Graham Granville Greene 1 ... Guilford Halifax Harnett Haywood Henderson Hertford Hoke....; Hyde... Iredell Jackson... Johnston Jones Lee Lenoir Lincoln Macon Madison Martin McDowell Mecklenburg Mitchell Montgomery Moore Nash New Hanover... Northampton Onslow Orange Pamlico Pasquotank Pender Perquimans Person Pitt Polk Randolph Richmond Robeson Rockingham Rowan. Rutherford Sampson Scotland. i Stanly Stokes Surry Swain Transylvania Tyrrell Union Vance Wake Warren Washington Watauga Wayne Wilkes Wilson Yadkin Yancy,' 277 741 1,106 1,604 936 1,349 1,375 189 100 847 284 1,031 915 783 1,162 478 406 469 492 1,959 266 1,924 453 788 530 364 350 269 632 422 3,443 62 474 695 1,395 1,167 957 431 181 246 420 691 112 180 1,457 256 1,373 1,077 1,861 447 856 613 331 557 721 384 580 286 345 51 791 376 2,131 678 151 271 1,106 1,435 1.640 261 285 211 757 584 767 1,410 632 1,494 145' 0 713 576 1,307 999 682 553 257 592 189 444 1,011 339 1,240 378 368 1,050 595 224 147 361 507 1,506 182 304 202 873 735 835 298 440 220 279 235 219 277 1,480 177 512 765 2,472 718 878 1,029 206 424 464 197 715 78 286 107 1,463 412 2,585 542 124 24 955 186 823 195 392 Totals 70,332 61,073 Cotton Market. New York futures were featur ed the past week by the strength of July. The 200-point trading limit in that option was lifted on that option Wednesday until trading in it ends on June 23rd at noon. The close today, July 15th, was July 41.75, Oct. 34.20, Dec. 32.28, Jan. 31.38. Still Taken. Sheriff McDnnalri anrl rlpnnrv J. B. Reynolds on Thursday after noon ot last week broke up a big 100-ga!lon copper still near the State line, about 3 miles west of Osborne. The cap and worm were not found. Material was on hand evidently for a run short ly to be made. Doc Davis to Court. "Doc" Davis, colored, was last Saturday given a hearing before Squire Steele on the charge of having liquor for sale in his pos session. He was bound to Sup erior Court, July 26th term, un der $100 bond; Mr. J. N. Hasty furnished the bond. It was stated in last week's Post-Dispatch that Davis worked on the Leak farm, above Ellerbe. This is a mistake. He is a tenant on Mrs. T. B. Hick's farm, three miles from Rockingham, which is rented by J. N. Hasty. Desirable Rockingham Property for Sale I have for sale, and can give immediate possession, the follow ing very desirable property in the town of Rockingham : - 8-R00M HOUSE. An 8-room house on Fifth ave nue, known as the Guthrie house; lot 75x100. 6-R00M HOUSE. 6-room house on Kinney street, known as the Will Young house. Remodeled inside and out, with new roof and porches. A beauty and a bargain, too. ANOTHER 6-R00MER. 6-room house, newly painted, with extra large lot, on Kinney street. Will sell for less than your contractor will agree to build the house. AND STILL ANOTHER. 6-room house, modern conven iences, hardwood floors; newly painted; best location in town. If you see it, you will buy it. 5-R00M HOUSE. 5-room house on Old Washing ton street; modern, with shade trees and large lot. A bargain and will sell on easy terms. VACANT LOTS. Also have several desirable vacant lots that I will be glad to show on request. As stated at the outset, can give possession on any of this property NOW. T. T. COLE Phone 383 or 349, Rockiagnanf, Mae Murray in "The Twin fawns ... AT - THE STAR THEATRE Friday, July 16 Admission 20 and 30c. The Most Practical Remedy For High Prices. The only remedy for high prices and abnormal profits is increased produc tion. The markets must have a greater supply. Economists agree that increased production to a large extent depends upon new capital, and that new capital can be produced in sufficient quantities only through economy and saving. Every community in America should make a special effort in 1920 to produce savings. Savings make capital capital makes production, therefore saving will re duce the high cost of living. Open an account today, at the only savings bank in the county. The Richmond County Savings Bank 4 interest paid on deposits. Rockingham, N. C. X
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