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r Rockingham Market MAT 12 IMKUhi... 11 Mc Strict WUMM4... 183-4t Middling 10 1-4c Kw Tfc Fitsrti CUk4 Tjr 12.60, M 13.03. W 13.60 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.00 Six months $1.25 Three months . .75 Single copies 10c each Vol. 4. No. 24 ROCKINGHAM, N. C, THURSDAY Afternoon, MAY 12, 1921. $2.00 PER YEAR BIG GIN BURNS Former Dockery-AUen 9-Gin System Boned Night of May 5th. About 276 Bales of Cotton Lost. Total In surance About $19,000. Loss About $35,000. The big Dockery-Allen cotton gin and storage warehouse in West Rockingham was totally lost on Thursday night of last week about 12:30 o'clock; and besides the valuable gin machin ery, about 276 bales of cotton were lost and something like ten tons of seed. The gin was trie largest in the county, consisting of three elec tric driven and six steam driven gins. The fire originated in this building, and had enveloped it before discovered. The cotton warehouse nearby quickly caught and it too was doomed. The -loss to the owners will be approximately $35,000 with about $19,000 insurance. 276 bales of cotton were lost, with insurance on about 206 of these bales. It was a most spectacular fire, the buildings and contents being easy meat for the hungry names. And the reflection sent skyward could be seen for many miles. It is not known how the fire started; the gins had not been operated the day before, and so it is pre sumed to have been caused either by spontaneous combustion, or a carelessly thrown match. Small Blaze Sunday. The Are alarm Sunday morning at 10:10 brought the truck to the resi dence of Hill Parsons, on Franklin street, but it was not necessary to connect up the hose. A few shin gles around the kitchen flue had caught fire, but these were put put with little trouble. Coming just at the Sunday school hour caused quite a crowd to gather. Marriage Licenses. May 0 Worth B. Crouch -and Nclllie O'Brien, white. May 7 Frank Rush and Carrie Sneed, colored. - May 11 Tom Simmons and Lola Buie, colored. Payne says "help business with your busy ness." He, by the way, will have some snappy epigrams etc., in his "atlvt. at top of page seven each week. Look for it. Town Taxes, D. M. McCall has been appoint ed as list taker for the town of Rockingham. The month of May is the listing period. Bet tcr attend to it now instead cjf w: iting for the rush of the last of the month. Cotton Seed for Sale. for Sale, 180 bu. of improved Cleve land Big Boll cotton seed the bale to the acre kind. See J. A. McAulay at court house. When LOSS AND POVERTY? After die fire is a poor time to bemoan your fate. It will not restore your loss. Before the fire is the yourears or useless I Insurance is so in The disastrous re : suits Richmond In A. G. Corpening, $238 Realized from Play. The "Deestrick Skule" was presented in the opera house on Friday night of last week, as scheduled, and it was al most necessary for Manager Atkinson to hang out the & R. O. sign. The gallery and lower floor were filled, with chairs lining the side-aisles. The proceeds after deducting all expenses, amounted to $238, and this will make a tidy nest-egg for the Episcopal Church organ fund. Directing the play Were Mesdames A. G. Corpcuing, W. L. Parsons and W. R. Jones. Judging by the laughter and ex pressions from the audience, the affair went oyer with a bang. It would be an invidious comparison to pick out any par ticular shining light in the galaxy of ac tors, but the talent displayed by W. S. Thomas as a clog dancer, Mrs. George Steele as a teacher, Bud McAulay as a theme writer, and Mrs. Jones and Mrs, Armistcad as mischievous school children, were of an order to arouse the risibles of the most case-hardened grouch. Between the acts, a quartttte consisting of John-Cole, Coney Steele, John Scales and Tip Steele entertained the audience. And before the curtain rose for the play, an orchestra composed of Miss Ruth Har rison, Lonnie Sides, Bill Ormond and Tom Linton, thoroughly d;lighted all. Mrs. George , Steele made a capital "teacher" and she needed to be a good one to cope with such pupils. The "board of visitors" Werft Mrs. W. S. Thomas and Mrs. W. L. Parsons. The pupils were: Mesdames Buren O'Brien, Walter Jones, W.-N. Everett, I. S. London, Maude Hull, John Armistead, Walter Parsons, A. G. Corpeningj Walter Thomas, Jake Hinson; Misses Eloise Smith, Nancy Fairley, Eas dale' Shaw, Mossie Long, Berneice Turner, Messrs. J. A. McAulay, W. S. Thomas, Ozmer Henry, I. S. London, B. T. Payne, W. ft. Everett, Jr., Fred. W. Bynum, Wal ter King, Buck Entwistle, Bill Ormond. Lyceum Next Winter. The series of three Lyceum attractions a few weeks ago signed up Wy a score of local guarantors to amount of $450, will be presented in December, January and February. The at tractions are Princess, Nadonia Indian Quartette, Elizabethan Playersin "Taming of the Shrew.' and Loren Bates Trio. Local Men Win Honors. On the night of April 29th an old-time fiddlers' convention was held in the Moose hall at Laurin- bqrg; it was attended by fiddlers etc from hear and far. Attending from Rockingham were Messrs D. F. Morgan, George Warburton and G. H. Cox, and these three men carried off first prizes in their class Mr. Cox as the best banjo picker; Mr. Morgan as the best fiddler; and $10 each, the trio bringing back $30 from their trip, in addition to enjoying the occasion. Holidays The banks of Rockingham were closed Tuesday, May, 10th, this being a legal holiday Con federate Memorial Day. Decoration Day, a National holiday, is May 30th. In ob servance of this the New York Cotton Exchange will be closed May 28th and 30th. The Liver pool' Exchange will be closed on May 16th and 20th in observance of some English holiday. n. . . Ellerbe Banks. 1 In this issue can be seen the quarterly reports of the two banks at Ellerbe. Three of the Rockingham banks were published. Your House Burns Will You Have . INSURANCE AND COMFORT or timetp insure It will keep you from one can afford it great no one can afford to take them. Office $60,000 IN SCHOOLS Contracts Let Wednesday for $30,000 School Building for Rohanen. A Similar Contract Will Be Given for Steele's Mills. Schools to Be Fin ished by October 1st In December of 1919 the cot ton mills of Hannah Pickett, En twistle and Roberdel No. 2. set aside the sum of $30,000 as a fund for erecting a modern school building for their three adjoining villages; and at the same time Steele's Mills set aside $25,000 for a building for its com munity. The money was placed to itself for this purpose, but work was deferred until building conditions should be more favor able. And this was wise, as doubtless a forty per cent better building can be built now for $30,000 than would have been the case a year ago. - The mills decided that now is the proper time to build, so they received bids on Wednesday. The contract for. the Rohanen school was let toT. C. Thomp- SOll & brOS Ot Charlotte, ana very likely that for Steele S Mills j Will De awaraeo 10 uie &unc 1 1 1 J J A 111 ill Wlllllll cl uay ui ou. Aiie ; contract calls for completion of J the building by October 1st, which will enable the next term to be taught in a model building. There will be 8 class rooms, and an auditorium seating nearly a thousand. It will be of brick and two stories. It will cost around $30,000 and the furnish ing will require several thousand more, and this the mills will give. The site selected is near the Hannah Pickett tank about cen ter of the three villages. The building for Steele's Mill will be like the Rohanen building, but will be just a trifle smaller. The Star program is on page tw . and Hamlet opera house pro gram on page 8. Two More Wells. The Dockery Merc. & Mfg. Co. have just completed two addit ional wells at their ice plant in West Rockingham, the last two bein 78 and 57 feet deep, respect ively. They are bored wells, and will enable the factory to use pure well water entirely in its ice manufacture. Penalty for Failure. Section 82 of the Machinery Act of 1921 provides that all who fail to list for taxes during the month of May must pay a penal ty of 25 per cent of the returns, to be added and taxed with the cost. This, is a State law and it provides that failure to list shall be prima facie evidence that such failure was willful. See your list taker during the month of May and avoid the penalty. ", possible poverty and save & Realty Company in Hotel Building. BABY DESERTED Colored Baby Left on Seaboard Shoofly Saturday at Rockingham. A colored baby, apparently a j on in its 5 Days Stand in few weeks old, was deserted on Rockingham This Week. the Seaboard Shoofly at Rocking- j A Return Next Year Ear ham Saturday at noon. Just be- j nestly Desired. fore the train reached Rocking-1 ham from Hamlet, a colored; The Redpath Chautauqua has come Woman handed the baby to and completely captivated our commun- another colored woman and ask- j 'ty- 11 more tftan sustains its reputation erl hr tr hnlrl it whilp : stepped off the train at Rocking ham on some errand. The woman obliged her, but when the train started again and the other woman failed to appear, she in stantly became alarmed, notified i the conductor and the train was j bioppep a nunarea yaras or so West 01 the Station. 1 he mother could not be found, and so the baby was placed in John Thomp. son's arms, the colored helper at the station, and the train pro ceeded. Supt. of Public Welfare O. q j r.,.,i i . iis i 1 ,1 Keynolas was notified, and the nudiK uiuugui 10 nis omce ai cne rf 1 r f l"l f M CO A nrAnraA ti-Amqn from Harniet) IcJa Neal, volunteer-1 ed t t A - , . . , j ' - - , h u ,.ct f m Who Advertised For It? There is no question but that ad vertisements inserted in the "want" column of the Post-Dispatch gets re sults. They bring home (he bacon. But recently it was so effective that now we are forced to advertise for the advertiser. In the hurry of press day, two weeks ago; some one entered this office and scrihbled an advt. for an umbrella that he had lost. We inserted the advt, the um brella was -of course duly found- but the name of the advertiser was entirely lost to mind. So if fhe said umbrella loser will make him self known, he can get his property at this office. It nays to advertise. W. F. C. Commencement. Wake Forest College commence ment will be held from May 25th to 27th. The alumni oration on the HB5th will he bv President R. W Sikes, of Coker College. The bac calaureate sermon the night of May 26th by Dr. Curtis Lee Laws. The class orations and conferring of de grees, and . baccalaureate address will all take place on Friday, the 27th. Alumni Day on the 25th will be attended with reunions by the classes of. 1861, 71, 81, .91, 01, 11. Nina Has Twins. Ther Jersey cow, Eminent's Nina, owned hy the department of animal husbandry at State College, has smashed another precedent. Not being content with establishing a new record, for Jerseys, in milk pro duction by producing, in .'Ki5 days, 15,035 pounds of milk, containing 824 pounds of butter, she recently presented the department with twin heifer calves! Fan's Peur of Shago met is the proud father. The young bovine aristocrats are perfect in eyery way and are grow ing rapidly. They are of solid color and identical in conformation. New Trial Granted. The Supreme Court a few days ago ordered that a new trial be given the Pee Dee (Anson county) negroes who were convicted at Wadesboro some months ago of con spiracy. The negroes are Frontis Diggs, Alex Douglass, Watt, Ren and Frank Robinson. Diggs was sentenced to the roads for 12 months, and the other negroes to six months each. It will be remembered that these men and others were accused of conspiring to lynch a white man, W. H. Watkins, of Richmond coun ty, at the Pee Dee station last sum mer. They were tried in Superior Court at Wadesboro and duly con victed. They appealed to the Su preme Court, and now a new triar uas been ordered for thorn, CHAUTAUQUA IS FINE Redpath Chautauqua Scores Unqualified ' Commenda- 39 being educational and entertaining; tuuvoiiuifai uitu laiiuiiic, and our people have fully caught the I Chautauqua spirit. ! This is the first time a real Chautauqua J has ever been to Rockingham. Conse- j quently our people were dubious OUt buying season tickets. But not so if it i comes here again next year. This Chau- i .,,., ,to k 9R cL;.n. lauvjuu n ao guaiaiimu sjr u 1x.111115- ham citizens; these guarantors took no i interest m the sale of tickets, and just a WW days before the opening, the King s Daughters took the sale in hand and ac tively pushed the tickets. They sold Something like $700 worth, leaving a de- j ftcit of about $550 which the guarantors j had to make up, costing each about $25 but this was latter reduced to approxi- mately $15 for each by special sale of the season ticKeis anouea to eacn in ine ae- ficit j The tent was Ditched on the school 1 ' . 'T-U 1 "umber Monday afternoon was y the Hippie Concert Company. Monday , . mgnt a concert Dy tnis company and a 1 lecture ,by George L. McNutt. Each at 11 o'clock Miss i morning this week Pierson has what is known as "Children's Baltimore today (Thursday) Of Hour," and the tent is packed; this is Mr. W. P. McRae, of Rocking entirely free. The lecture by Harry L. h nJ VIi-. Virginia T.w rf Fogleman on "Success or Failure" Tues day night was worth the entire cost of a season ticket. The Irene Stolofsky company Tuesday was good, but the best was on Wednesday night by Dunbar's White Hussars a singing and playing band of marvelor musicians. In this company is Lester t ;et who played the part of Will Scarlet in the Robin Hood company that was in Hamlet some months ago. This afternoon Dr.. Hager man lectured on "The world we live in," and tonight- the play, "Nothing but the Truth," will be presented; two of this company were in the original New York caste. Friday afternoon the Grobecker's Swiss Yodlers will be on the program, and again Friday night together with . .. . ... ,. cartoons ana readings Dy miss cargeir. , f I And the Chautauqua will come to a close 1 r 1 may 1114111. The season tickets sold for $2.75, and we venture the assertion that there is not a single pert-on who attended who is not more than pleased with the cheap cost of seeing such wonderful perform ances. Tonight the director, Mr. Price, will take up the matter of securing guaran tors for next year. It can almost be cer tainly, predicted in advance that he will be successful, now that pur people realize what a real Chautauqua is- He will try to secure as many as 40 guarantors, or more; and for the sake of Rockingham and community it is hoped he will suc ceed. Ford and Shingles. A small shack about a hundred feet or so to the rear of the Far mers Bank was burned Tuesday night about 8 o'clock. The build ing itself was of little value, and doubtless a good riddance, but it sheltered about 3000 good shingles belonging to Dr. E. H. Chamberlain (the building also belonged to him,) and a Ford touring car, the property of Har ry Levine. Mr. Levine had about $400 insurance on his car. It was burned almost beyond recogni tioneven for a Ford. The fire truck reached the scene promptly .but the small shack was a mass of flames.' There is no idea as to how the fire started; perhaps by some, one passing and throwing a match carelessly down. Superior Court. Next term of Superior Court for Richmond county beginsMay 30th, with Judge Ray presiding. The calendar of cases will be pub lished next issue. Another civil term begins June 20, under Judge Ray, and still another begins July 18th but with Judge Fin'ay pre siding. On July 25th will beg'n a week's term for criminal cases, under Judge Finlay. . Dandy Courts in Process. Work on the thres courts of the Rockingham Tennis Club is progressing nicely. The' turf has been 'removed, surface leveled, and workmen are now hauling clay on them. Wire net ting to heighth of twelve feet completely encloses the courts. It is Jikely that these courts will be ready for play by the last of next week, and a formal "open ing" will be held with an after- . . 'SJJl' t"" lJ w w wwuwci uw total number to be taken into the Club will be about forty, and li- ter these have joined, admittance to the Oub wffl be ckfi Short. , . . , lv after the crts Opened, a tournament will be arrnnpen this ----- - -C3 7 ----- to include singles forgenllemen an(j afjies( and doubles. And then matches with teams from other towns. All in all, the courts of the Rockingham Tennis Club promise to be exceedingly popular with the membership, and any out-of-town friends they may care to invite to play. The courts will of course be closed to resident non-members. McRae-Lee Marriage. Friends will be much interest ed to learn of the marriage in i Monroe. Messrs. Will McRae andMialW. McRae left Rock ingham Tuesday night for Balti more, joining there Miss Lee and her father and mother. The mar. riage was solemnized, as stated, today. $300 Bond for Yandle. Squire Barrett held quite, a session in the courtroom Monday night, the case beine the State vs Neal Yandle, with Lola Page as prosecuting witness. Both par- work at Hannah Pickett Miss Page testified that Mr. Yandle assaulted her by slap ping her. Squire Barrett bound Yandle to July 25th term of Superior Court under $300 bond. His attorney was W. R. Jones appearing for the State was Sed berry& Phillips. Mr. J. R. Felts and wile andson expects to leave here Sunday for LaGrange where he will again edit and operate The Lenorian. More recently he and ex-sheriff J. M. Smith have conducted a job plant here under the name of Smith & Felts. Look on page five and you'll seethe picture of a prominent Rockingham banker who two weeks ago covered himself with imperishable glory in a race at Pinehurst. CHARLES RAY IN "OLD FASHIONED BOY" Abo Good Comedy. ' AT THE STAR THEATRE Friday, May 13 Admission 20-30c Matinee 2:30: night 7 PUT IT UP TO PAYNE -Honestly it's the best PoUcy.' i. Ckukr Mktry F. DmUPyflif SEDBERRV & PHILLIPS ATT0METS-AT4AW ROCKINGHAM, M. C J. Cheney Sedberry and F. Donald Phillips announce the formation of a partnership for the general practice of taw under the firm name of .Sedberry & Phillips, with offices over W. E. McNair's furniture store. Phone No. 365.
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