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AGS SIX K.OCKLNQHAM )?ObT-DISPATCH. RICHMOND COMITY, N. 0. ROCKINGHAM POST -DISPATCH Published every Thursday after neon at Rockingham, Richmond County, N. C. ISAAC S. LONDON EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Office on Courthouse Square Entered as second-class mail matter at the postoffice at Rock ingham, N. C. DEMOCRATIC IN POUTICS Correspondence from every sec tion of the county invited. Phone 182 your items. SUBSCRIPTION RATES : Om jtu U 00 Six m.uihi $1 25 TkiM month 75 JOB WORK A SPECIALTY There is too great a tendency among our people to leave law enforcement strictly to the offi cers. Manv of us no doubt have the attitude that the officers are rxud to enforce the law, and we therefore sit complacently by and aid them not at all. But this condition is to cease, if the remarkable meeting of last Friday night means anything. At that time the "McLendon Club of Richmond County" was formed, and exactly 1003 men and women signed their names as members at the "Cyclone Mack" tent meet mgrnday night, ine purpose of the club is to assist the officers of the law primarily in enforce ment of the nrohibition laws. A meeting of the club will be held very other month to keep in tact the organization and to keep life in it. This is a great forward step on the Dart of our people. It has been notorious how easily whiskey could be obtained in the larger towns of Richmond county; and the officers are almost powerless to stop the traffiic UNLESS THE PEOPLE WANT IT STOPPED. Officers must be supported in their work, and the enforcement of the prohibition laws depends upon how strong is the public sentiment. Beyond doubt the great McLendon meeting being held here for the past month has powerfully aroused the people of the county, and they are going to make it so hot forblockaders and blindtigers that the said blockad ors and b. c"s will have to move on or shut up shop. Postal Business. The postoffice receipts are a pretty good index to the business life of a town. They show con clusively whether a town is going backward or forward. And so the fact that the postal receipts for Rockingham postoffice show a steady gain year by year is a clear indication that this "best town of all" is steadily forging ahead. According to figures compiled at the postoffice by Acting Post master W. F. Long, Jr., tor the quarter ending June dtst, me postal clearance amounted to $3618.34, as compared with $3375.89 to same period last year, $3562.33 to same period 1920, and $3376.15 to same period 1919 (the three cent stamp was in force in this 1919 period, too.) The above increase in postal business is quite gratifying, and the Post-Dispatch is only too happy to chronicle this bit of business information as to what this growing town is doing. Gang to Move. , The chain gang will be moved r 11 ... ill to a point near LedDeiter s mm next week. The gang will likely be augmented by several recruits from next week's term of crimi nal court. Colored Summer School. The six weeks' Summer School for colored teachers was begun last Monday in the colored graded school building at Rock ingham. H. H. Faulkner, prin cipal of the school here, is in charge, assisted by Annie M. Lee, who taught last year in the Win ston colored school. The enroll ment is 70 which is about 30 more than were enrolled in the Summer School last year. The names of the 70 will be published by the Post-Dispatch next week. Small Excvirsion. It is pretty well settled that the auto has supplanted the good old excursion method of travel, un less for a long distance. The Rockingham Railroad advertised an excursion to be run last Sun day frcm Bennettsville to Rock ingham; only 11 were aboard when the train left Lennettsville, and 20 got on at Gibson. How ever, the usual large crowds got on when Roberdel and the mill stations were reached. Thee were thousands here for the "Cy clone Mack Peach Show at Hamlet. As heretofore mnounced through the Post-Dispatch, the second annual Peach Show will be held at Hamlet next Tues day, July 25th, "begininng in mid morning. The exhibit tent will be opposite the Chamber of Com merce rooms. At night an "open air peach harvest festival" will be staged, with band concert, I square dance, peach pie eating contest etc. Negro Kill Negro. Ranee Gwynn killed another negro, Jesse Singleton, Sunday afternoon about two miles west of Old Hundred in Scotland county. He has not yet been captured. It seems that Single ton and two other negroes were playing cards when Gwynn pass ed on a wagon driven by Jesse Robinson. Gwynn got off the wagon and began kicking Sin gleton who thereupon ran off about ten feet. Gwynn pulled out a pistol and fired two or three times, one shot entering Singleton's back and killing him. SUPERIOR COURT (Continued from Front Page) Mudfish Caught. John. L. Everett caught a mudfish, or "Bowfin", at Everett lake, weighing 6 1-2 pounds. A Bowfin is a voracious ganoid fish; it is of no value as a food. The ganoidei have hard enameled scales, often rhomboid al in outline. Theodore Price pertinantly in quires why the masculine pro noun "he" is always applied to the boll weevil. Kipling said that "the female of the species is more deadly than the male.'' and as the veevil is 'some' damager it would sem more in order to refer to" biBj.flS "her." When the Sanford rndertaker went to embalm the body of Harold Jones, aged 2J, Sunday be found the young man's heart on the right side instead of the lbft. A bale of cotton had fallen on him several years ago, and the heart displacement followed. John W. Gilliam was July 16th ;o-n0ri npw nostmaster at Sanford, succeeding Vance bcott Democrat, who had served b ears. present stringency caused by the shopmen's strike extra firemen are needed on the engines. One man plead partial deafness; Judge Long told him to sit near the witness stand and hold on. Another that he ran a store and was short of help; the Judge told him to check up on his clerks at night and if the amount of business had fallen off, to re port to him and he would do a bit of buying himself. The Judge inquired particularly of Mr. Bruton about his grist mill, and remarked that the electric ally driven mills of the present day could never touch the meal ground by the old water method. He went on to say that it used to be water power, then steam and now electrical; and it will not be long until it is wireless. It seemed Monday morning that the traffic around the court house was especially noisy; and about noon when a heavy truck came honking, and grinding up the steep Rham depot hill, he told the sheriff to bring the driver before him. The driver proved Wednesday 'to be a polite young colored UMM. UdUUU Ulll.1V C.1HU 111,111 I 1U in a heavy truck from the Rham depot to the construction work at the new courthouse. The Judge admonished him to keep out of sight of the courthouse while Court is in session, and to make his trips by some other streets. Judge Long is stopping while here at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Simmons. He is regarded highly among our Richmond county people. It will be re membered that he ran for Assoc iate Justice of the Supreme Court in the Democratic primary June 5, 1920; there were five candi dates, from which number two Justices had to selected. The vote stood Adams 1359, Hoke 899, Stacy 512, Long 217 and Gulley 99. Hoke won out in the first primary, leaving Stacy and Long as the next two highest; and so these two entered a sec ond primary July 3rd; in this second primary the vote in Rich mond county was Long 933, Stacy 807, Long carrying thei county by 126 majority. How ever, Stacy carried the State by and became the juror, J. A. Baker was not on hand. Judge Long thereupon declared a mistrial and the case continued to a latter term. The juror came m M minutes late and explained that his clock was slow. Judge Long fined- him $50, but remitted the fine later in the afternoon. Leak-Parsons Co. vs J. B. Mc- Collum for $1070 note and against L. W. McKinnon for $855 note and interest. Bynum and Henry for Leak-Parsons, and Cox & Dunn and Sedberry and Phillips for defendants. Jury found in favor of Leak-Parsons Co. for full amounts. Court adjourned at 5:15 for the term, the Judge leaving tonight for his home. He returns in time to begin the criminal term Mon day morning. LOCAL ADVERTISEMENTS For Sale. Dodge Brothers touring car 1921 morel. Rebuilt from the ground up block reground, all worn part replaced, new top Repainted $500. Ford Touring car practically new $350. Laml eth-Armfield, Inc. Rockingham, N. C. Dodge Brothers direct dealers. Large Mslon. That king of watermelon rais ers, Zack O. Ellerbe, of the Zion section, brought to Rockingham today a melon that weighed an even 66 pounds. Who can beat this? Still in Steele's Officers Reynolds and Key Tuesday at noon broke up a 150 gallon still on the Big Line ditch, near the river in Steele's town ship. The still was an 8-foot long box; 400 gallons of beer were poured out. Who Had The Baby ? You have often heard of "but ton, button, who'se got the but ton." Last Sunday morning it was a question on Seaboard train No. 5 of "baby, baby, who has the baby." And thereby hangs a tale. A woman got off of No. 5 at Hamlet Sunday morning for breakfast. When she started back to the train, she saw it pull ing out. She shrieked that baby and suit-case were on that train, and fainted, or pretended to famt. At any rate, the dispatcher got in touch with the Rockingham agent and instructed him to hold No. 5 at Rockingham until the baby could be located and gotten off. A search of the train re vealed no baby, though the suit case was found. The dispatcher was so informed. "Search again," j around 10,01)0 ordered the head knocker. Aeain I nominee. the train was gone through from Tire in Window. For Sale. Ford Coupe, practically new One Ford touring car in good running condition. R. B. Napier. Su Case Lost. Lost, last Saturday between Zion churc h and Rockingham a ladies' suit case containing lav ender spor: suit, pink bedroom slippers etc. The finder will be rewarded by returning to the Post-Dispatch office. - Milk Cow. For sale, a fresh milk cow. See Ed. C. Thomas, Route 4 (West Rockingham.) Robt. Steele, 3rd, has in his ser-; For Sale, vice station window a Kelly tire, j 35x5, that was run 17,500 miles j One genuine Block baby car by Jno. L. Everett on his Packard. 'riage; reversible body and top. It is the same tire and tube that ! Almost new. Bargain. Apply came with the car, and had never j Rose's 5 & 10c Store or phone been taken off until a puncture s 366. advt three weeks ago. . - Chiffonier Wanted. Roberdel Election. Wanted to buy a chiffonier. An election has been called See Mrs Russell Ford, at Rock for Roberdel school district to be inham Hote!- advt held Sept. 12th on the question of 1 " rnil fr purl and tit ill nn hnhv services Sunday, SH11 (.uj-j n'me wn? this Hone. and hundreds came from Mart , wkh no better succcss A this boro county, but most ot them had taken 4Q minutes 40 min. oyautb. kites a fast Pullman train made . " to await the search of a baby. Tearing Down Stable. Finally the tram was allowed to The brick stable of J. B. Little l"r7 is being torn down, and Mr. Lit tle expects later to use the brick for a new building fronting New' street, extended. The town some weeks ago bought from him for $12,000 the land on which the building stood, in order that New street might be extended and paved. McKeithan in Toils. I ct oMa C. W. Wrenn, of Beaver Dam township, returned to Rockingham from Portsmouth Wednesday morning with a ne gro Jess McKeithan, who is wanted tor trial, charged with - a W last December upon Mayor's Court. Mayor Lowdermilk disposed of a number of cases Monday: Rhyne Hallman, white, drunk and disorderly, fined $10 and costs. Lonnie Jenkins, drunk and dis orderly, costs. Charlie Stanback, colored, drunk, taxed with costs. "Hub" Pinion, whit?, drunk Saturday night. Put up cash bond of $15 for appearance be fore the Mayor Friday morning, July 21st, at 9 o'clock for trial. R. H. Ballard, running car without lights and for addressing insulting remarks to officer, fined $15 and costs. the meantime the had '"recovered." She sc , I forget the fact that she had lost a baby, when she learned that her suit case-was safe; and she boarded Capt. Williams train a few minutes later and stepped off at Monroe as jauntily as though no fast train had been delayed for forty minutes and much mental anguish suffered by almost frantic railroad employees. Business-Like Work Britian Locklear, Indian, plead guilty to second degree murder in Court at Lumberton last Sat urday, and Judge Bond sentenced The rattle of the steam shovel and the excavation being accom plished on the western end of Franklin street gives one an idea of the amount of work being turned out daily by the construc tion force on that' street. The street is being widened consider ably, and the dirt is hauled to Hancock street, extended, build ing up the street in front of the jail. Concrete is now being laid for the curb and gutter on street. In fact, construction work is going on in almost every part of town, carrying out the street improve ment program. Only one divorce case was tri ed, that of Henry Shields against Viola Shields. .The matter was uncontested, and the jury answer ed the pleadings in favor of the plaintiff. However, the decree granting a divorce had not been signed up to press time. King J. McLendon vs Minnie woman L. Mcuurne et m. King is a negro yned to ! and was suing over possession of about 5 acres of land in Hamlet. Gibbons and Lowdermilk appear ed for the McDuffies and Jones for the negro. The jury found that the land was Samson Ben nett's for his life, and at his death it should have reverted to Spears and his heirs. In other words, the McDuffies won the suit. Next case was A. B. Chandler vs George Entwistle, Jr. Suing for $500 damages foi injuries etc sustained when the Entwistle car collided with his mule and wagon at corner of Depot and Main streets on Jan. 30, 1920. The jury awarded Chandler $35. Bog gan and McPhail appeared for Chandler, and Ozmer L. Henry for Entwistle. Case of Martin Freeman vs Rockingham Railroad was begun Wednesday. He was suing the railroad for $750 damages to about 75 acres of land by fire which occurred in September, 1921. Nash & Morgan appeared for Freeman, and Bynum & Hen- r ii ' 1 i tl - ry ior me ranroau. ine jury re-r issuing $25,000 in bonds for re building the Roberdel school etc. Alex Mcintosh is registrar, and poll-holders are W. P. Ellerbe and L. R. . Reynolds. The regi tration books will open Aug. 14th and close September 2. The legal notice is elsewhere h this issue. Killed In South Carolina, Lee Sandford was killed in front of a drug store at Darling ton, SVC., last Sunday morning by Paul Council, who shot him with a pistol. The particulars ! are not known here as yet. Coun cil was arrested. Sandford was a son of Mr. Isaac Sandford. who works at Hannah Pickett mill. Horse and Wagon. For sale, a horse and wagon and harness. No cast-off, but selling because getting truck. Rockingbrm Roller Shops, W. R. Stillwefl, manager. Position Wanted. Wanted, position as clerk in store of general merchandise. Am married and strictly sober. Can give first class reference. Address "Gold Dust" care Post-Dispatch. Auto Number and Headlight. Lost, one Ford headlight and auto number 66512. Finder re turn to Post-Dispatch. PUSH ROCKINGiiAM FORWARD. ZJ him to the pen for 25 years. The another negro, William McNeill. man st,ot Carson Lowry on June McKeithen is in jail here to await $th from ambush, trial next week. Everything in SHIRTS work shirts in the BEST quality and the BEST made, just better, thats all W. E. Harrison & Land Co courtreeonvened after dinner a turned a verdict at noon today for $100 for Freeman. G. E. Hinson vs Mrs. R. L. Hinson, over foreclosure. Case started at noon today, jury em pannelled and Hinson on stand at adwurnment for dinner. When Who gets ihellloneij JfmSan What is your answer to our question? Do you SPEND all you make, or are you PUTTING AWAY some money each pay day for future comforts? Of course you must spend money for necessities and some for luxuries but if you stop up the other leaks and put that money in our bank, you will soon accumulate a nice bank balance that will come in handy in the future. Come in and open an account TODAY. We will welcome you. Modern Equipment Progressive Method Efficient Service The Bank of Pee Dee Rockingham Richmond County
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