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t SUCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.C0 Six montta $1X3 Three months... .75 Single copies 10c each MM Kew Yolk Fatum Cke4 Today 833.32 Sj 33.50, M 32.35 UVX Vol. 7. Ncn 10. ROCKINGHAM, N. C, THURSDAY Afternoon, FEB. 7, 1924. $2.00 PER YEAR TILSON FUNERAL GREATEST AMERICAN GENTLY LAID TO REST IN MARBLE VAULT IN EPISCOPAL CHAP , EL WEDNESDAY JN WASHING INGTON. IMPRESSIVE MEMO RIAL SERVICE HELD IN ROCK INGHAM AT HOUR OF FUN. ERAL. . The funeral of Ex-President Woodrow Wilson held in Washington Wednesday was quite Bimple and -in keeping with his wish, he being bur ied as a plain American, who gave his all for peace. , A simple service was held at his residence,' and then the remains in a black casket were carried to the '(Continued on page 8) METHOD'T WOMEN, ATTENTION The Methodist women of Rich mond county are asked lo meet at the Rockingham M. E. Church on Thursday, Feb. 14th, to effect the organization of a County Federa tion'of Missionary Societies. , Interesting speakers will talk on Children's Work, Superannuate Cam paign, Mission Study, Social Serv ice Bell Bennett Memorial, and Auxiliary organization. There will be a morning and af ternoon session, opening at 10:30 a. m. and closing at 4. Lunch will be served at the church. Every Metho dist woman in the county is urgent ly urged to attend. COUNTY STATEMENT. Beginning on page nine can be found the annual County Statement This should be filed away for refer--ence, and every taxpayer should scan it closely and thus be conver awnt with his county's finances. ' Auditor Covington has arrayed his figures in a clear and understand- i. . .......... 4- tit. Willi, HI t4UlbO m vvhuom III bllV more or less heterogeneous way in which the average county audit is made up. BILLY SUNDAY NOT COMING. It was reported that Billy Sunday would come to - Hamlet this coming Saturday and speak. However, this plan has been abandoned, and v Mr. Sunday is not coming. SALVATION ARMY DRIVE. A Drive to raise funds for the Sal vation Army is to be put on in Rock ingham and the county Feb. 9th, and continue through the 12th. F. Don Phillips is chairman for the Drive, and the quota desired is, f 1,000. . . Maurie Cree was todav elected bv the Senior class of the Rockingham school as. Class President. List of deaths on page 8. ' Rham Higs defeated Hamlet Highs here last Friday night 85-15. , At the same time, Rham girls won from Monroe girls 42-37T Tuesday night Rham highs beat Wadesboro highs at Wadesboro 44-11, and Rham girls won 64-10. Ellerbe. plays here next Tuesday night. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Storey, of Burlington, at the home of Mr. W. E. Thomas here this (Thursday) moring at 4 :30, a daugh ter. Frances. . . The little lady is named for her maternal grandmoth er, .v ' CUT CHEESE SATURDAY. The huge 1007-pound cheese in the window of Watson-King grocery will be cut Saturday, 9th, at 11 o' clock. Every person .who engaged a pound of this cheese was given a number. The drawer of the lucky number gets $10 in gold, and second lucky holder gets. $5. , AREOUA GOQ&ftUSBAND? . If your mCKiT.OriD INSURANCE & REALTY COMPANY FORulER PRESIDE!' MLS' CLAIMED BY DE K TIRED MAN, CLOSED Htj AND PASSED INTO Tf GREAT BEYOND. THE END CAME Life Ebbed Away While Nation Bows Head In Former President Pas Washington; Feb. 3.F dent Woodrow Wilson dl o'clock Sunday morning. The end was peacetul. away while he slept A tired man, he closed i "sustained and soothed tering trust," passed on hereafter "like one who' drapery of his couch abou lies down ui pleasant dream Dr. Grayson, his friend an clan, announced the end of th war President Is this bulletin "Mr. Wilson died at 11:16 o'clock. His heart's action became feebler and feebler, and the heart muscle was so fatigued that it refused to act any longer. ' The end came peacefully. "The remote causes of death lie In his ill health which .began more than four years age, namely: general arterlo-schlerosls with haemophligia. The immediate cause of death was ex haustion following a digestive distur bance which began in the early part of last week but didn't reach an acute stage until the early morning hours of February 1." Grim Reaper Enters. Last Friday the grim reaper had forced hla way into the house after wialtng on the doorstep more than four years. Saturday he had advanc ed to the landing on the staircase, and Stood counting off the ticks ot the great clock. Saturday night he knock ed on the chamber door. '.-' v ? , A faithful physician and a loyal 'wife stood with, their backs against.it. ; . At 9 o'clock he rattled theknob and called to the peacetul prostate figure on the bed a great bed long and wide, a replica of .the bed In j which Abraham Lincoln slept in the White House, with a golden American eagle and a tiny silk American flag Just over the head board. The watchers knew the battle was lost At the portal of the door now open, the faithful 'negro servant hov ered. On the bed, sitting beside her husband, sustained with all the forti tude and composure of a woman fac ing a crisis, was Mrs. Wilson, hold ing between her hands the wan, with ered right hand that had proved the pen mightier than the sword. Neat the foot of the bed was his youngest daughter, Margaret, resigned to the Inevitable. jClose by, tears welling from his eyes and coursing down his eheeks was Dr. 'Grayson, taking the measure of the fluttering pulse, weak er and fainter with each effot. Death advanced and beckoned for the last time. The. tired, wornout Jmnn drew a lnnr hrnAth thnrA wa a slight flutter ot the eyelids, and almost imperceptible twitch of the nostrils. Woodrow Wilson's soul had drifted out on the great dark tide that runs around all the world. . From 100 Pulpits. ' )ut through a city stilled in a Sab bath morning's reverential calm, hit cmew as being spoken from a hun dred pulpits. In the Central Presby terian church.' where , he falthfulls , (Continued on Page 6.) family was left fatherless, would your and destitute? Would they have to depend upon charity and assistance from relatives 1 and friends ? 1 ; .'..Would, they have to .undergo, suffering and. hardship because you. had not' taken the precaution to insure your life ; suffering is the' more pitiful because it Js; so easily avoidable. . ' , i ..'(.. ; ( ' I ' w " w Insurance provides the best and most practical protection for your family. v ..". Insure yourself today. You cannot' tell what tomorrow will bring. At 54 No More Than a University Professc . at 63 in a Place of Power and Fame and t. passed in History Defended His Unsuccessful , Peace Policies to the Last History, In determining the place of Woodrow Wilson, 28th' president of the United States of America, will pass Judgment upon the most prominent world-figure of the events growing out of the most momentous war of all time. From the viewpoint of hundreds of millions of lovers of liberty Woodrow Wilson stood at the zenith, as the ex kaiser stands at the nadir. , The great war brought to the front many men whose names will live in honor. In. the hist analysis three men stand out: ' Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau. Of these three It was Wilson who held the world's eye Wil son, the human phenomenon of .the times, until fifty-four no more than a college president and political writer and at sixty-three on a plnnncle of fame and honor and power unsur passed If aver attained by any , man In history. - - It Is Impossible now to differentiate between Woodrow Wilson the man and Woodrow Wilson the head of the most powerful nation of earth In wealth. Continued BRIDGE COST $286,660 Contract Price for the Pee Dee River Bridge Awarded Jn.-31t $286,- ' 660.19. Graded Road $41,608. About Two" Yer to Complete Bridge. Road to be' Hard Surfaced. As announced in last week's POST-DISPATCH, the contract for building a concrete bridge across Pee Dee river was let by the State High way Commission at Raleigh Jan. 31st. The Hardaway Construction (Continued on Page 8) V BROTHERHOOD SUPPER. .The Brotherhood of St. Andrew is planning quite an elaborate supper for Friday night, Feb; 15th. A score of guests will be invited and Bishop Penick will be present. wife and children be helpless -ilCMTPOVl 1' Reeptured. Reward Offered. Sev- Mtll I ttN I lHKr 0 L" Squeeze Through . w I .xiter; happiness for the people of this re public." . Senator Albert B. Aimmlns (Rep.) of Iowa expressed the .half-way view when he said In the senate January 23:)"I think President Wilson is the most intensely-practical statesman of this or any other day. He began his administration in the belief that the executive officii Had not the power that It otight; to ba v. He has accomplished more In' the direction. In which he set his face and his mind than ,any other man, either in' this 'feneration or. in any. former generation; and the only .criucism, lr 11 oe a criticism, is that lie has not marched .In the right direc tion and has done things that hS ought not jto have done." , In the .process of wresting from con gress all the powers he believed the Constitution conferred upon the execu tive; President Wilson made many po litical enemies who questioned not KIs ability, but his motives and methods. To particularize would be. largely to review the political history of the last six years. The railroad situation, how ever, mny.be cited as an example. en page six MAN ACCIDENTLY KILLED Rockingham Jitney. Driver Unavoid ably Run . Over Deaf Man on ' Highway Near Darlington Sunday and Almoct Inatantly Kills Him. ' H. M. Stogner, young white man driving jitney for W. A Green, of Rockingham, unavoidably ran over a deaf man Inst Sunday afternoon, a ! (Continued on page 8) MARRIAGE LICENSES. Feb. 1 James Hampton Coving ton 'and Mamie Lee Henley, white. Feb. 2 James Harrington and Ina Hurley, colored. - ' ' Feb, 6 Anderson G. Blue and Exie Strickland, white, ' j . Feb. 7 Dock' "King and . Jennie UtleV, colored. 600000 9 - - O have plenty of New Year money to spend right now. ; .Those' who didn't save may find it difficult to, spend. -Begin now to save for ' Christmas," 1924., Put it in this Bank and forget to dravv it out. . If 1 you save f or phristmas you will also save for. other, purposes.1 Saving is a mighty good-habit.. ' . o O ' O o o f 3 Flic Riclimcrl County Cr.v::-' m NOT A SNAKE ORT THAT A SNAKE HAD EEN FOUND IN STOMACH OF HITE MAN IN HAMLET HOS TAL A MISTAKE. MAN SUF WING FROM ILLUSION, AND !fBER SNAKE PRODUCED ffOCTOR TO EFFECT CURE. vSSme days the report has been ion that Dr. James had ex ,Vr ( snake a foot and a half tVfPtfm a man's stomach at the nlet hospital. - - i'he POST-DISPATCH is glad to fe the true facts. Two weeks ago jyoung man came to the Hamlet Vpital, suffering from an illusion it he had swallowd a tiny snake fear ago, while drinking branch ler, and that it had grown to ge proportions. In order to cure n, it is said that Dr. James treated m with a purgative and then on ednesday of this week showed the an a small snake that he said he id gotten from the man'sstomach. lie snake was nothing more or less f an a rubber snake. But the sup- -.vw cAuatuvil Ui. Hie BUUitg Uld Xne ork, for the young man appeared entaiiy better at once, and was able return to his home today. ,No, there was no snake. SCAPE FROM CHAIN GANG jriva prisoners make escape f rom 1 Richmond Countv PKbim Cm- 1 Hole. Four prisoners from the Richmond county chain gang are at large, they having escaped from the gang about midnight of the night of Jan. 31st. The four are Walter Edgar Thomas, sentenced at last term for 3 years for shooting Shem Blackley, of Ham let ; Jess Brown, serving two years but with half already served; J. P. McNeill and Frank Jones, with short sentences. For Thomas and Brown rewards of $25 are offered: for the last two only $10 rewards. A fifth also escaped, Arthur Vance but was recaptured next day near Kollock. There were 12 negroes in the caire. A hole was broken in the top, but it was so 'small that only very small, prisoners' coald , squeeze through, These five : were the only ones who could get out. The ' other seven doubtless yearned for the outer free dom, but could not compress their larger bodies through the opening, and so they perforce had to remain in the cage. AGED NEGRO TO HOME. An aged neero. Julius Stanback. entered the County Home Tuesday from Steele's township. He is 72. There are now 14 colored and 10 white persons at the Home. TRANSLATE THIS. Dave .Henry was down below Che- raw a few days ago, and came across the grave of Capt. William Boggan Cash, in the old Cash graveyard. On the tombstone is inscribed: "Born Nov. 19, 1855, murdered May 15, 1884." And these words: "Durum Sed Levens Fet Petuntea Quid Quid Conegell Est Nefas." (Dave may have gotten some of the above letters wrong; at any rate, he wants them translated.) REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. Chairman J. F. Stafford has issued a call for the Republican precinct meetings to be held Thursday night, Feb. 14th, at 7:30, and for the county convention to meet at ' the courthouse in Rockingham Monday night, Feb, 18th, at 7:30. Due notice is on page seven of the POST-DIS PATCH. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo PeoplelATho and B DEMONSTRATION WORK NEGROES COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MAKE APPROPRIATION SO THAT NE GROES OF COUNTY CAN HAVE THEIR OWN DEMONSTRATION AGENT. COUNTY PAYS TRAV ELING EXPENSES, STATE TO PAY SALARY. GOOD MOVE. JURY DRAWN CIVIL TERM. Tha County Cc.missioners were in monthly session last Monday, all five members present as follows: H.. C. Wall, chairman; L. D. Frutchcy, A. T. White, Dr. Caddell, T. E. Bat- tley. f . Perhaps the most important mat ter handled was the acceptance of the State's offer in regar to a .whole time Demonstration Agent for the colored: peiyle. The State pays the salary Of such a one, only asking the county jto defray the traveling ex penses. Very v.-iso'y the Commission ers accepted the proposition, and au thorised en pr)rndit;:ire of S33.SS per month for this purpose, from March 1st, and ending Dec. 1st. Lucy Wade, .daughter of William Wade, a respected negro of Ellerbe, Route, will be the agent to do this work. Her activities will embrace instruc tion in jsewing, canning and general horn improvement among the color ed portion of our citizens. As d mater of information, the POST-DISPATCH might state that the census of 1920 gave Richmond county ' 25,567 people- of which number 10,545, were negroes. Of these 10,545 negroes, 5,118 were males and 5,427 females. Other matters handled by the Commisseioners Monday were : J. D. Mason was instructed to file monthly report with the Board as to his work as tobacco development a- gent for the eounty. The salary of Auditor J.'D. Cov ington was raised from "$175 - per month to $191.66 per month, effec- (Contlnued on Page 7.) SHEPHERD FAILS TO APPEAR. Ellis Shepherd, - white, charged with abandoning his wife and child, failed to appear for preliminary trial last Monday, and so fdrfeits his $300 bond that W. A. McDonald furnished for him. ; . .', PEARSON ON RECKLESS CH'RGE Dewey Pearson was sriven a' hear ing before Squire Smith here Tues day on charge of driving car while drunk and reckless driving. Boggan appeared for him, and Sedberry for W. J. Butler, the prosecuting wit ness. It was Butler's car that Pear son ran into. The drung charge was dismissed, but he was bound to April 7th term of Court on thte reck less driving charge, under $300 bond. EIGHT CHARGED GAMBLING. Eight white men. from the Steele's Mills section were jacked up last Saturday on the charge of gambling. All waived examination and were bound to April 7th Court under $50 bond each, except B. F. Peele who contested his case, but he too was bound over. The men were C. M. and W. D. Perryman, B. F. Peele, Bud Henry, T. M. Tendell, Lee Caulder, Z. O. Quick and H. F. Myner. TURKEYS 32 He PER LB. The Curb Market will have tur keys on sale Saturday, Feb. 9th, for one day only; at 32 He per lb. Orders can be give$ me.i v, Mrs. Anna! Lea Harris, ; Home Dem. Agent. VALENTINE SUPPLIES. . The POST-PISPATCH has for sale rep paper and red cardboard, suitable-' for Valentine purposes. ') o o o o () () () ( ( ) h. c. cr
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