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Suv.CUU U..I iwlii . One Year $2.CD Six mon&j $1.C3 Three monlhi .73 Single copies 10c each 0 "fa 'fl D a.j, Lr 23.74 23.99. W 23.30 ROCKINGHAM, N. C, THURSDAY Afternoon, MARCH 6, 1924. $2.00 PER YEAR Vol. 7. No. 14. Farm Demonstration Department 11 Owiducted r W. H. tARTON FARM REPORT FEBRUARY Report of Demonstrator Barton for the Month of February. PROPOSED TOWN BUILDING Town CommUionert to Settle Mat ter Tonight of Erecting 920.000 Building for Library and Town Machinery. Rockingham, N. C, Mar. 1, 1924 Board County Commissioners, Richmond County. Gentlemen: I herein submit my report for the month of February. ' Days spent in field- 17 Days spent in office- ; 7 Consultations held 139 Letters written 150 Farms visited 24 Meetings held --- 10 Attendance at meetings 316 Miles traveled 754 News articles written 3 Orchards inspected , U Trees pruned . . 15 Copies circular letters mailed 600 - Cotton seed breeding demon strations arranged Bu. Lespedeza seed ordered Pastures established . Pounds Spring vetch seed ord'd (Continued on page four.) The Town Commissioners have been considering for some weeks, and have received estimates, upon erecting a brick buliding next 4o the present Municipal building, on N. Hancock street The estimates range around $20,000. The proposed new building would be 40x99, of two sto ries, and with a ten-foot alley be tween it and the present Municipal building. The first floor would house the town's street cleaning equip ment and other machinery; and the second floor be used for the town library and rest rooms. However, the Commissioners will take final action upon the proposed plan at a special meeting tonight (Thursday,) and the chances are that the plan will be postponed, for a while at any rate; or until a stronger sentiment or greater need for such a building develops. HEALTH III SCHOOLS STATE HEALTH NURSE VISITING THE 64 WMITZ1 AND COLORED SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND COUNTY. 4281 CHILDREN AL READY EXAMINED. HOGAN FINED $100. In High Point recently Thos. B. Hogan was fined $100 and costs for an assault on a female. The original charge was rape, but this was changed to the lesser charge. Chief S. E. Covington states that all Rockingham unpaid taxes by April 1st will be advertised through the paper the first issue in April and costs of $1.30 for each name will be added. MILLINERY DEMONSTRATIONS MARCH 8TH. The Women's Clubs of the county will hold an all-day meeting at the courthouse Saturday, March 8th This is the first general meeting to be held in the county this year and it is hoped that every club will have representatives here. The meeting will begin at eleven o'clock, with a business Bession. Several matters of importance will be discussed, which every club will be mterestea in. Following the business session, lunch will be served. Each asked to brine a small lunch and these will be served to gether. The afternoon will be given nvpr to a millinery demonsration. This will be an open meeting and every woman in the county who h interested in this work is invited to attend, no matter whether you be long to a club or not. . Anna Lea Harris, Home Demonstration Agent, $1.30 ON TOWN TAXES. CHAIN GANG TO MOVE Since January 8th, a registered nurse from the State Health Depart ment, Miss Birdie Dunn, has been in Richmond county, visiting the white and colored schools, and giv ing a physical examination to the children to discover the defects that may retard the normal physical or mental development. To date, Miss Dunn has visited 57 of the 64 white and colored schools (there are 33 colored and 31 white in the county.) She has examined 4281 children, and it will require un til the last of March to complete her rounds. . After Miss Dunn looks a child ov er, and finds the defects, she noti fies the parents of such child as to its needs. She has found many chil dren in the county from 5 to 31 pounds under average weight, and many from 15 to 83 pounds over av erage weight. The wealth of a na tion lies in the health of children; the goal of Dr. Cooper, head of the department that really initiated this state-wide health crusade, is to make every school child healthy, and this is attainable in a large measure through right habits in food, rest, exercise, fresh air. and. personal cleanliness. Rockingham School. In the examination of the Rock ingham schools (white), Miss Dunn examined 713 children. Of this num ber she found 53 with defective vis ion, 263 with defective tonsils, 38 (Continued on Page 10.) TEACHERAGE ASSURED Town Today Buy the Dr. McPh.il Hotue on E-.r.tt Street, and Will Ue Same for a Homo for Teacher Next Fall. The crying need of Rockingham has been for a teacherage a place where our splendid Rockingham school teachers could be domiciled. This is now met. The town commissioners today closed a deal with Dr. L. D. McPhail for the purchase of his 10-room house on Everett street, the price paid is $8,750. The property is rent ed until next August, and will be available for renovation, and paint ing, in time for occupancy by the teachers for the fall school term. The lot fronts Everett street about 103 feet, and runs back through the block to Greene street. COMMISSIONERS MET. THE DANIELS BOOM DEMAND FOR DANIELS FOR PRESIDENT SWEEPING STATE. NO CONTEST. ROCKINGHAM MEN HELPED TO START MOVEMENT. TWO KEY NOTE PLANKS. SUPERIOR COURT. Civil Term Court Begin March 17th. Court Calendar Thi Iue. LUt of Juror. W. A Clark W C Thomas J F Hayler D F Lamplay J D Covington Patrick Farmer H A Haywood Dan C Hunsuckes Henry A Jenkins M IGro-n . A number of ladies of the county appeared before the County Commis sioners last Monday, in the interest of having the old courthouse set a part for a curb market and library and rest rooms. The Commissioners drew the fol lowing jury for the criminal term of Court that begins April 7th: Jury Criminal Term: W. E. Thomas J. W. Butler G. A. McRae W. H. Pusser E. E. Vuncannon R. B. Gobble Grady Jenkins Wuitam Brown T. B. Baxley M. B. Leath R. R. Stubbs H.T.Rollins The county chain gang which now numbers 80 prisoners, will be mov ed next week to a point nearer Os borne, and will work towards Ham let for a month. The new camp will be about three miles from the pre sent camp. FARMERS' MEETINGS. If you fail to carefully scan those classified . advts on page eight, vou are missing something worth while. If you want to buy or sell something insert a short advt in that depart ment; tney pay. March 12th, at T. B. Baxley 's at 7:30 p. m. March 20th, at Zion school house, at 7:30 p. m. Field Agent Paul W. Mack and County Agent Barton will have re marks of interest to all. NEW PAPER AT TROY. DURHAM 28, ELLERBE 11. A number of Troy citizens are forming a company for establishing another paper there the Troy Vi dctte. This will make two papers for Troy, as the Montgomerian is the old established paper. Two papers in a town that size is not practical, and one must eventually succumb, Elsewhere in this issue can be seen the formal notice of Election to be held for district No. 7, in Wolf Pit, on the question ox lssuring 540,000 in bonds, and levying sumcient tax to carry same. There will be a new registration, with Remus Whitlock as registrar, and J. W. Wilson and U. Webb as judges.. The election will be May 3rd, and registration books will be open Irom March ftn to April 19th. STATE CONTRACT LETTING. For the third successive year the game basketball team from the El lerbe school has won over everything in its district, only to go down in defeat at the hands of the Durham team..' These two teams played at Durham last Friday, night, each hav ing bested 'all opponents in its res pective section. But the Durham lads proved a bit stronger, and won 28-11, thus eliminating our sister-town from the State race. Better luck next time, Ellerbe; you have a good team, anyway. . ,, t ; ' ' FONDNESS FOR CARS. Raymond Davis, colored youth, is again in the toils of the law. That is nothing unusual with him; rather is it a chronic state. Numbers of times has he been in th local Jail, and twic has he escaped from the Moore county chain gang. His latest trouble occurred last week when on the night of Feb. 28th he stole a Ford at Lilesville. He got out of gas on Watson Heights Friday, and it was while hunting a fresh supply that deputy Darby Covington- arrest ed him. He and ear were carried back to Lilesville Friday, and he will answer now on the Anson roads, where escaping is not so easy. ; ' GRASS WAS BURNING. The fire alarm was sounded last Saturday afternoon at 1:13 from Box 21, North Randolph street Some one was burning off a patch for a garden, on Roberson street, and the wind fanned it to the point that the adjacent houses were endan gered. Hence, the call for help. KIRSCH TO OPEN STORE. f The firm of Kirsch Bros., who now run a store in Hamlet, will also open a store in Rockingham when the new Watson building on South Lee street is completed; this will be per haps about June 1st. The three broth' era, Morris, Mendie and Michael, compose the firm, with Morris and Michael to remain in Hamlet, and Mendie to have charge of the Rock ingham store. $15,000 WORTH OF GOODS The various merchants of Rocking' nam are stocking up with an unusual ly large assortment of merchandise for the bpnng and Summer trade, One firm alone that of Stephenson Belk received in one week's time (last week) $15,000 worth of raer chariuise. '-. THOSE CLASSIFED ADVTS SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION Reimis Whitlock W. M. McLeod J. W. Pankey T. J. Walker Felix Cannon Eli Barrington I. T. Cox O. H. Hinson F. A. Hilburn D. N. Poindexter , J. B. McNeely W.L.Gibson A DIFFERENT McINTYRE. On Monday, Feb. 25th, a score of Rockingham men wired an endorse ment to the State Executive Com mittee, urging that Josephus Dan iels be endorsed for the Democratic nomination for President For some unexplained reason, no doubt good to the members but undoubtedly regret-1 C L Reynolds ted by them now that the Slate is JK Hawkins being swept for Mr. Daniels, the Committee turned the boom down cold, and took no action. And now that Daniels clubs are being formed all over the Slate, and national publicity is being given his candidacy, it must be gratifying to these Rockingham men who took the initiation an A .nma nut fnr v Dun. ! il nt. th voru first And the Charlotte Observer and others who poked fun at the Daniels candidacy will perhaps sing low. The unamimity with which the folks over the State are endorsing Mr, Daniels must be worm and gallwood to cer tain of his political enemies. Mr. Daneils has suggested two planks for the coming campaign that should sweep the country. , They are thou shalt not steal" 'ameaning' the Teapot Dome scandal; and "thou shalt not kill" referring to the fail ure of the Republican Party to en dorse the League of Nations. And this is what Mr. Daniels has to say "Second 'thou shalt not kill' which means that America must take the place offered it in 1919 to lead the world into permanent peace." ' (Continued on Page 10.) Superior Court for civil cases will convene at Rockingham March 17, with Judge Shaw presiding. The next criminal term begins April 7. The calendar of cases for the March 17th term is elsewhere in this issue. The jury for this term is as follows: A. C. Gardner W F Campbell A A Baucom WR Dobbin T J Cotton L A Rowell J D Myers A E Terry Henry Shaw Jas B Gibson W C Robinson J B Goodwin Mr. J. A. Mclntyre, assistant man ager of Roberdel mill store, requests the paper to state that he is not the J. A. Mclntyre, of Mineral Springs township, who was listed recently as a member of the Republican ex ecutive committee. They have the same initials, but are not in the same pew. ., BORN ON FEB. 29TH. The next letting of contracts by the State Highway Commission will be on March 20th, at Raleigh. Re bids for the Pee Dee bridge will be received then. At the Jan. 31st let ting only one bid was received and ting only one bid was received for this bridge, and. this was rejected. The only -birth the POST-DIS PATCH has so far heard of in Rich mond county on the day that occurs but once in four years February 29th was the arrival of a little girl at the home 'of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Warner, at Roberdel No. 2, at o'clock p. m. on Friday, the 29th. The little girl will go through life with mighty few birthday parties. GETS PLEASE-U THEATRE. Messrs. McCaskill and Atkinson, operators of the Rex theatre at Rob erdel No. 2, last Saturday took over the Please-U theatre, at Hannah Pickett village, and are now operat ing both theatres each night. DISEASES THIS WEEK. ; From Feb. 29th to March 5th, the following ' contagious diseases were reported to the County Physician: Whooping Cough 12 Measles : . 4 Smallpox 8 Chickenpox ; 8 NEWFILLING STATION DEATHS ETHEL ORMSBY. Ethel, nine-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Ormsby, of Mid way, died in the Hamlet hospital this (Thursday) afternoon at 2 o'clock. The little girl was carried to the hos pital Feb. 29th, for an operation for appendicitis. Pneumonia developed with peritonitis, and death resulted. The interment will be Saturday at Bear Branch. MRS. FANNIE SCARBORO. 14 PRISONERS IN JAIL The Richmond county jail now has 14 inmates. ' 7 of whom are white and 7 colored. The next- criminal term is April 7th. It seems a shame for such a number should have to re main in jail for so long a time pend ing a trial: bad enough to do time af ter being convicted. There ougnt to be a first-class Recorders Court at Rockingham, for Richmond county outside of Marks Creek township, with power to handle civil actions up to a certain point. THE EVERETTS ROBBED. Mrs. Fannie Scarboro died near Osborne, across the State Line March 1st, aged 23, of pneumonia. The fun eral was to have been 'held Sunday, but reports reached the : Marlboro county Sheriff that her husband had beaten her a few days previous, and so the funeral was held up until a Bennettsville doctor could examine the deceased. In view of the reports, the husband particularly desired the investigation. It developed that the reports were idle gossip, and . the funeral was held Monday from Pleas ant Hill church. She was a daughter of James Chavis. . MRS. BRANT SHANKLE. It is understood the Town Commis sioners reconsidered the order for bidding the erection of a filling sta tion within a certain-distance from t church; and that a filling station will likely be built in the triangle between fcast Washington street and Fayette ville Road, in front of the Methodist church. THAT TACKEY PARTY The "tacky" party to be held to morrow (Friday) night at the Man ufacturers hall, at 8 o'clock, promises to be a lively number. A square dance wilLbe the ' feature ' of the evening.. tThe U. D. C are giving this party, and charging 25c admis sion, this going toward the monument fund. Everybody cordially invited to come and either look on or take part. . A suit-case containing jewelry and clothing to the value of over $1000 was stolen out of the car of Secre tary of State W. N. Everett Tuesday night in Charlotte. Mr. and Mrs. Everett left Rock ingham about mid-afternoon Tuesday in their car for Charlotte, and parked it in front of the Manufacturers Club, while they went into the Hotel Charlotte. They were within the ho tel scarcely half and hour, and in their absence a thief eased the suit case from the car and made away. Among the missing articles ; is a cameo diamond sunburst a pearl necklace, and watch. So far, no clue to the thieves has been discovered, though Mr. Everett has offered a 'lib eral reward for the recovery of the suit-case and contents. Mrs. Aurelia Isabel Morton Shan kle, widow of the late Brant Shan kle, died Sunday at the home of hed daughter, Mrs. Edgar Lee, near Nor wood, of heart dropsy. She was 54 years old. The interment was near Albemarle Monday. - ' Surviving are three children Pro tus L. Shankle, of Wolf Pit; Mrs. V. L. Ivory, of St Paul; and Mrs Edgar Lee, near Norwood. AMMONS INFANT. UNIVERSITY WINS The University of North Carolina in 1922 won the championship of the South in basketball, and now the var sity has again won the 1 Southern championship, in the tournament just closed at Atlanta. In the finals Tuesday night between Carolina and Alabama, Carolina won 25-18. AGAIN CARRIES MAIL J. A Dawkins again took over the carrying of Route 6 mail last Satur day. The route was started Feb. 1st with Dawkins as temporary carrier. However, on Feb. 2nd, his new Ford collided with another car on the hard surface road and his collar-bone was badly broken. He remained in Ham let hospital for 16 days, but is now recovered sufficiently to resume the Route. ' John Coley substituted for him during his lay-out , : James Robert, month-old infant cf Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ammons, died Feb. 29th and was buried March 1st at Miipah. . : . . '. McAULAY OPENING UP EASTER MONDAY NIGHT With the advent of Spring, "Bud" . McAulay and his real estate buddies are opening up. His first sale will '' be at Lilesville next Tuesday, 11th, at 10:30 when he offers 84 residen- " tial lots of tha "Henrv" nrnnnrt.tr fnr ... The ladies of the Episcopal Guild! sale. Mr. McAulav'n nnr-Hnn firm in. 1 will hava an nlrl.fushinnod onollinor I (undo 'ilnjn- VA ! " ' T . .fwitti vw.ua u""6 uv.k yiu y tat j v la u bc uie oiu courmouse roaster i a go-getter. aionaay nignt. in addition to that a program of other forms of enter tainment will be provided. ELLERBE GIRLS WIN SNAPPY COMEDY Ellerbe girls basketball team de- feated the Rockingham girls at Rock- ingham Feb. 29th 38-27; and on S Tuesday night on neutral court at Wadesboro. in the state wide elimina tions, Ellerbe again won from Rock ingham, this time 42 to 81, thereby the . The musical comedy, "Venus." played to a practically full house here Tuesday night at The Garden, and was thnrouchlv enloved. The chorus was fair to look upon, Bpright- j eliminating Rockingham from ly and the comedian carried things I race, along smoothly. Manager C, L. Henry furnished theater goers lo cally with a clever entertainment in securing "Venus" for his house. The next thatrical attraction will be on March 25th, "Bringing Up Father on Broadway;" admission 1.00. MARRIAGE LICENSE March -1. John LeGrand and Eola James, colored. March 4- Fred Buchanan and Flos sie McQueen, colored.. n LIFE If it is insurance---any kind just call up or call in and your needs will have prompt at tention. Better have that auto insured be fore you run into some one and have a dam age suit. FIRE ACCIDENT ! HEALTH richlioiid insuRAncsVY realty co::?Arr COCOCOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOCOCOQOCOQOGGCGCCCwCC To Save-is-T Iiniit -a. When you have saved you have something. You have an opportunity to do things. The more you save the better vchance you have to accumulate greater wealth. To Save is Thrift : Start tomorrow. 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