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GOOD NEW COTTON 28 l-4c! SEPT' 24 New York Fo t are Closed Tods j M 25.95, Ik 23,97, 23.35 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Yew .$2.00 Six months $1.25 Three months .75 Single copies 10c each VoL 3. No. 4a ROCKINGHAM, N. C, FRIDAY Afternoon, SEPT. 24, 1920. $2.00 PER YEAR Prize for Compositions Post-Dispatch Offers Several Cash Prizes to Women or Girls Writing Best Articles on "Why the Women of Richmond County Should Vote the Democratic Ticket' , The fact that the women are coming election of far reaching interest and importance. The Post-Dispatch will conduct each week a special de partment for the women voters, and the paper is right now offer ing the following cash prizes to the women and girls writing the best article on "Why the Women of Richmond County Should Vote the Democratic Ticket.' The article must not be longer than about 200 words, and must be sent to the paper not later than Oct. 1 0th. Competent judges will be secured to judge the articles, and the prize winning ones will be published. The first prize is $5; second $3; third is $2, fourth $1 and fifth is $1. So get busy, you girls and ladies of the county, and let's have your reasons for voting the Democratic ticket this fall. School Figures. The following figures show the first days enrollment of the lar ger schools of the county as com pared with last year's first day enrollments: 1919 1920 490 572 640 692 236 239 166 216 200 178 160 159 110 83 128 -122 16 14 Rockingham Hamlet Rohanen Ellerbe Pee Dee Roberdel Hoffman Cameron Cameron (one teacher) All children between the ages of 8 and 14 residing in any of the above named school districts are required by the compulsory school law to attend their sespective schools. Every parent or other person having charge or control of a child between the ages of 8 and 14 shall be held responsible for the attendance of such child. Any willful violation of the at tendance law is a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be liable to a fine. If any farmer is compelled to have his children help gather the crop, he should get a work permit from the at tendance officer. O. G. Reynolds, Attendance Officer. Dog and Pony Show. Rockingham is to visited by a dog and pony Show Saturday though the outfit has one ele phant. The name is the Sanger Shows, which is one of the sev eral smaller shows that Gentry Bros, have on the road. The outfit travels in three railroad cars. Performances at 2 and 8 o'clock. Richmond Insurance & Realty Company A. G. orpening, Sec.-Treas. Office in Hotel Building. rSUi , .its,,- iirr " illr- ilfr -- ilfir to vote Nov. 2nd makes this School Football. The young fellows of the Rock ingham high school are practic ing daily, under direction of Coach Lonnie Sides, and are rap idly rounding into a cohesive football machine. The first game will be played the latter part of next week with the Hamlet Highs at Hamlet The captain of the team will be selected the day before the Hamlet game. Game Laws. Game laws for Richmond county give the following as the "open seasons": Squirrel Sept. 1 to April 1. Deer and turkeys Nov. 1 to Nov. 15. Woodcock Nov. 25 to Jan. 1. Partridges, ducks and geese Nov. 25 to Jan 26. Fords Reduced. Elsewhere in this issue can be seen the new prices on Ford cars that went into effect bept. 21st. The price reductions range from 14 per cent on trucks to 31 per cent on smaller cars. In other words, Henry Ford has put his cars back before-the-war prices. And this reduction of about $200 a car was made despite the fact that he has 146,065 unfilled or ders. The roadsters now are $395, f. o. b. Detroit, and touring cars are $440 f. o. b. Detroit. The full scale ot new prices can be seen in the half-page advertisement in this issue. Kitchen Fire. The fire alarm was sounded at 7 :30 last Saturday morning. The woodwork around the kitchen stove flue at the Sidney Hopkins residence was af re : it was extin- (guished with but ctle damage HOW MUCH? "How much did he leave," is a sure question asked when a fellow dies. "Nothing much; he had no insurance!'' Poor wife: poor little kiddies. How neglectful of a sensible man not to provide for his loved ones in case of his death. Don't delay this matter. Insure your life and thus be sure of a steady income for your family if you should die. We represent the leading companies. Let us show you -some attractive policies. Phone, come to see us, or write us and our representative will come to you. DELAY EXPLAINED. This issue of the Post-Dispatch is delayed from its accustomed tine of going to press on Thurs day afternoon, to Friday after noon. The reason can be laid to the loss of a letter between Rock ingham and Charlotte. The paper was short of mech anical help this week, and to tent on Tuesday night's mail to Char lotte a hie batch of "copy" to be set by a commercial linotype op erator. This copy was all home or "local" stuff and amounted to about twelve columns. Ordinar ily this special delivery letter should have reached Charlotte Wednesdays, m., but had not reached there up to going to press today (Friday) afternoon. We held the paper up a day hoping that the letter would reach Char lotte and that we could get the type even though late; but as the letter seems hopelessly lost, we perforce are printing with the twelve columns left out. Our readers will pardon the short coming. It might be of interest to note that in the three years that the Post-Dispatch hat been printed at Rockingham, this week's issue it the first that hat not gone to press on schedule time ! A record of which we are proud, and one that few papers can equal. FEDERAL COURT L'BURG Several Richmond County Men Con- victed in Federal Court at Laurin burg This Week. In Federal Court at Laurinburg Tuesday and Wednesday, the fol lowing cases of Richmond county were disposed of: W. C. Whitley, white; distill ing; sentenced to 60 days in jail and to pay a fine of $100and costs. Ellis Quinn, white, found guilty by jury of having blockade whis key in his possession. Sentenced to one year and a day tn Altanta pen, and to pay a fine of $100 and costs. He was represented by Cox & Dunn, of Laurinburg, and Nash LeGrand, of Hamlet. J. Frank Thompson, white, of Exway; having whiskey in his possession; fined $50 and costs. "Rev." T. T. Tucker, charged with distilling, forfeited his bond. The Reverend went to Laurin burg for his trial, but developed cold feet and betook himself to parts unknown, thereby forfeit ing his bond. He is a white man and was arrested at Ellerbe some months ago. V. M. Pate, of Scotland county, white, who was arrested several weeks ago for having whiskey in his possession, was sent to Atlan ta pen for a year and a day, and made to pay a fine of $100 and costs. Ed Harris, colored, of Moore county, distilling: 30 days impri sonment and costs. mm IIS COUNTY TAX RATE 1920 Tax Rate for Richmond County is 58 cents and $1.74 on the Poll as Com pared with $1.58 and $3.15 Poll Last Year. The County Commissioners have placed the tax rate for Richmond county for 1920 at 58 cents on the $100 valuation of property and $1.74 on each poll. This compares with $1.58 tax rate and 3.15 poll tax for last year. A tax of one dollar on male dogs and two dollars on female dogs was ordered. On all special school taxes in local taxation districts a rate that will produce the same amount as last year plus ten per cent additional, will be levied. The valuation of all property, etc., in Richmond county under the Revaluation amounts to ap proximately $31,325,804, as compared with $10,671,105 last year. The new tax rate of 58 cents on the $100 valuation, and $1.74 on the poll, is divided as follows : $100 Val. Poll. Schools, State $ .13 $ .39 Schools, County .18 .54 County .08 County Home .01 .24 .03 .03 .09 .42 Confed. Pensions . .01 County Bonds .03 County Roads .14 Total $ .58 $1.74 White Women Register. Inasmuch as the ballot has been granted to the white women of Richmond county, it behooves them to register. The books in your respective precincts will be open from Thursday, Sept. 30th, to Saturday, Oct. 23rd, inclusive. The same regulations that dis quaify the colored man from voting of course holds true in the case of the colored woman. Superior Court. The second September term of Superior Court for trial of civil cases will convene next Monday, 27th, with Judge P. A. McElroy presiding. The cal endar of cases is elsewhere in this issue. The jury as drawn Sept. 6th for this term is as follows: P W Watkins C G Pepper J W Mclntyre J D Pence W J Bowen R H Allen S A Lamply I T McCollum W E Crosland Neill Campbell W C Steele C A Greene J C Matheson D M Stogner A Arenson Jno W Covington B H Key H B Humphrey J G Liles M L Altman J J Henderson Ford Roadster Body. For sale, anew Ford roadster body. See E. B. Morse. New Interest Quarter October 1st is a new interest quarter ot the ONLY SAVINGS BANK in the county. This be ing the 77th quarter. On this date OUR BANK will have paid to its Depositors INTEREST amounting to ONE HUN DRED, EIGHT THOUSAND and THIRTY -ONE DOLLARS. WHAT IS AN INTEREST QUARTER? It is the beginning of a THREE month's period when interest starts to accumulate on all Sav ings Deposits, usually beginning January first, April first, July first and October. WHAT DOES COMPOUND INTEREST MEAN ? It means that if your money has been on Deposit THREE full months from the FIRST to the FIFTH day of any of the quarterly periods above mentioned, the THREE month's interest is added to your account thus becoming a part of the PRINCIPAL and IT also begins to earn interest - Wy Do We Give the First Five Days of Each Quarter? j Because it would be impossible for us to serve all of our Savings Depositors on the FIRST day. It gives us more time to open up new accounts, credit depositors with interest due them, and gives our customers better service. Open a Savings Account today, while you are thinking about it. WE INVITE YOUR BUSINESS. The Richmond County Savings Bank ROBERT GREER FOR Robert Greer, of Highway Robbery Re nown, Arrested By Chief Braswell at CherawSept. 1 7th, on Charge of Steal ing Studebaker Car from Raleigh. Kent Greer in jail at Danville. One switching seems not to correct the badness of a child. And a conviction and heavy fine for highway robbery evidently does not tend to mend the ways of Robert Greer, a young white man of High Point who several months ago was made to pay a heavy fine for highway robbery in Richmond county. And now Robert Greer is once again in the toils of the Law and is in jail at Raleigh charged with the theft of a car. On Thursday of last week, Sept. 16th, a 7-passenger Stude baker car was stolen from B. C. Bullock at Raleigh. It was thought the thief had gone to wards Hamlet, and sure enough he had. Chief J. S. Braswell was wired at Hamlet to be on the lookout for a stolen car. Next morning Mr. Braswell heard that a large car had been overturned on a fill near Mars- ton. Going up there he found the stolen Studebaker, upside down. Inquiry developed the fact that the driver, who turned out to be Robert Greer, had offered to sell the overturned car to "Slim" Dunn for $600 and had gotten a jitney to take him to Cheraw. Mr. Braswell and Offi cer T. W. Miller at once went to Cheraw and about 4 o'clock the same afternoon, Friday, they found Robert Greer in a garage and arrested him. They brought him back to Hamlet, kept him in Hamlet calaboose all night, and Saturday an officer came from Raleigh and carried him to that city on the Saturday noon train. Greer told Mr. Braswell that a man named Hendricks had wired him to come to Sanford and get this car, and that he knew noth ing about it being stolen; that he was carrying it to Cheraw for this man Millard Hendricks. Mr. Braswell got a description of Hendricks, and later on in the afternoon of Saturday he and Miller arrested Hendricks in front of the Terminal hotel at Hamlet. Hendricks denied all knowledge of the car, stating that he had just come from Charlotte. However, Hendricks too was carried to Raleigh jail Sunday n.orning, and he and Greer are incarcerated there to await a hearing. Both men live at High ARRESTED STEALING CAR Point. Hendricks has a wife and child there. Robert Greer is a familiar name to our Richmond county readers. He is the High Point man who submitted at April term of Superior Court to high way robbery (robbing Robert Steele and Henry Harrington last Spring.) He was sentenced by Judge Finley to 12 months on the roads, but committment not to issue pending good behavior, and he was made to furnish a $500 bond for his appearance at each November and April term to show that ne had been of. good behavior. In addition, to this he was required to pay a fine of $2,000. His brother. J. Kent Greer, submitted at the same term to conspiracy to com mit highway robbery and he was fined $200 and required to give $500 bond tor appearance at November and April terms to show good behavior. In connection with the Greer brothers, it might interest the Post-Dispatch readers to know something as to Kent Greer. The editor wrote to the Chief of Police at Danville, Va., last week asking as to what disposition had been made of Kent's car robbery case there, and in reply we were informed that Kent had been convicted in the Corporation Court at Danville and sentenced to the State penitentiary at Rich mond tor a term ot six years. His attorney appealed, getting a stay of execution until same can be heard in the Appellet Court. And so at present Kent Greer is in the city jail at Danville await ing disposition of his appeal. Douglas Mac Lean and Doris Nay ... AT THE STAR THEATRE Monday, Sept. 27 "MARYS ANKLE" Admission 20 and 30c Mule Lost Lost, a dark mare mule weigh ing about 850 pounds. Scar over each eye. Reward for return, or information leading to her re- covery J. A. McNeill, Roberdel, N.C. i SBBM
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