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It seems that Mr. Steeele was on Walter Dockery, Negro, Finally Caugkt in Richmond. Charged With Shooting Negro Girl June 8, 1920. The reach of the Law is long, and tho' one may escape for a while, yet sooner or later is bound to be caught This is well illustrated in the case of Walter Dockery, negro. On June 8. 1920, while he and a negro girl, ' " - - vr.ii fr . j Li 1, TA brother, who lives near Marston. Ai,-V - permll. ne nus Deen imuer ...cu.a. Secretary of State Selected to Make Keynote Address at Democratic State Convention at Raleigh April 17th.- Chairman John G. Dawson has des ignated Secretary of State W. . N. Everett to make the keynote address for the Democratic State Convention that meets .in Raleigh Thursday, Apr. 17th. Mr. Everett will accept, if his physical condition at that time will 'navi Work 'was started today CTbnra day) by Contractor Sizemwe to wards moving the Episcopal chrch building about 50 feet forward, and at the same time lowering it atxrat four feet. This will give the "church a fair amount of space to the rear, wkereon later can be fcoftt some needed Sunday school facilities. u'i i i " j itown to' her home near the County had the northbound track blocked. omf' he a"ed to haX.e pu STREET BEING PAVED The long delayed process of pav jttg the street from the dockets to Hitchcock creek, throagih the Great Falls village, was begun Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock. 3!08 feet we wre paved Wednesday and 100 to day. The distance is 1700 feet, but the niutfit will speed tip as the work 'pregarcssea. It will require from two to three weeks for the concrete to properly "set," but itoehoped the en- tiaeffitreet to the creek will be open to traffic Easter. When the way was finally opened, he started across, perhaps losing sight of the fact that the railroad was lou- ble track. The Southbound Shoofly struck the car just as he gained the center of hte crossing, and the im pact tore the car to pieces and fatally injured Mr. Steele. N He was placed on the train and hurried to the Hamlet hospital, but died on the way. The remains were brought to Rock- wgham Monday night to the home of his nephew, W, Steele Lowdermilk, here members from Rockingham Masonic Lodge kept vigil through the night. hTe interment was on Tues day at the faiqily graveyard near Pekin,. in Montgomery county, with the services conducted bjr the - Mt, Gilead Masonic Lodge. Mr. Steele was 54 years old, and unmarried. His mother, Mk. Eliza beth Steele, who is 88 years - old, lived with him. , MAP OF WALL LOTS. Chi page 17 of this issue can be seen the full page map of the lots to be :old next Thursday, April 3rd, In Kichmond Park" 4he very desirable-suburb of Rockingham. A house and lot, will be given away free at this sale. The crowds present will al most resemble a Fan-'or circus crowd such, no doubt, will be the attend ante. . . . . A. free lot is t be given away at the Xeak sale here tommorrow (Fri- tfay.) See advfc this issue. " iTackey" party t Mfg. buliding tomorrow (Friday) night) - at 8 o' clock. Proceeds for D. D. C. monu ment fund. Admissien 25c. Prize fr k "tackiest" , ; ' MINSTREL -SHOW, The U. D. C. wl stage a local talent minstrel show ' the night of April 11th in the higa school audito ' num. The local actors will be coached and diifected by an. expert, who will arrive !here by next Monday to begin work. The proceeds are for the Con federate monument f mad. GINGER LABELLED CANDY. Officers at Fort Mm, S. C, Sat urday confiscated 2500 bottles of ginger that waB labelled "candy." It came hy express, and those 2500 bottles contained many kick.' , J . - f - 1 CIVITANS FRIDAY "NIGHT, The regular seirti-monthly supper of the local Civitans will be held at the Hotel FrMay night, 28th, at 7;30 YOUR TOWN TAXES. This is the last call for settling your Rockingham town taxes. Uuless paid by March 31st, all unpaid town taxes will be duly advertised through the POST-DISPATCH in its issue of April 3rd, 10th, 17th, and 24ik four consecutive issues and costs of $1.30 will be added for each name. You have no on to blame but your self if this is' done. This is fair no tice. Respectfully, . .t- 1 ' . ' S. E. Covington, ' ? ; Tax Collector. MEASLES IN ORPHANAGE. An epidemic of measles has swept through the Thomasville Orphanage recently. Two deaths have occurred, pneumonia having followed the meas les. One was a little four-year-old girl sent from Morshead City; and the other was a: 7-yr-old son of Mrs. Thomas J. Linisey, of Lileswlle.' , her from the buggy, near the negro cemetery, and shot her. She became paralyzed, lingered for 9 months and 18 days, dying March 20, 1921. Af ter shooting the girl, Dockery ran. Nothing more was heard from him; he never returned home. But last week an item appeared in the daily papers to the effect that a negro, Walter Thomas, had been ar rested in Richmond on suspicion of being the man wanted in Rockingham- county for shootinsr some one. The name souitaed familiar to Sheriff Baldwin, who at once thought the man might be the Walter Edgar Thomas who escaped from the Rich mond county chain gang some weeks ago. Accordingly, he 'wrote to the Richmond authorities, and asked that a picture of the man be sent him. This picture was received this (Thursday) morning, and instantly the Sheriff recognized the man as n&ne other than Walter Dockery who shot Ellen Terry! . He had gone under a different name. . Sheriff Baldwin today prepared pa pers, and these will be carried to Raleigh for Governor .'Morrison to sign, and then carried to Richmond, where Dockery will be secured. He will then be brought back to Rock ingham for trial, probably at the criniinal term that begins April 7th. It was a long run for Walter Dock ery, but the Law finally got him. treatment for some months, and may possibly go to Baltimore early in April for an operation. The prepara tion and deliverance of the kind of speech he would make is a demanding job, and this would require much time. ' Brock Barkley says if Mr: Everett Full Figures for 1923 Cotton Crop. ' North Carolina Produced 1,054,474 Bales, And Richmond County 20,384. The Government on March 20th' issued its complete ginning figures for the cotton grown in 1923. These figures show that North Carolina pro duced a total of 1,050,474 baleB and total bales for the entire South were Richmond county 20,384 bales. The 10,159,498 running bales, or 10,128,- 474 equivalent 500-pound bales. The average gross weight per bale for the crop was 498.5, compared with 501.7 for the 1922 crop. The total cotton crop was 10,128, 474 equivalent 500 pound bales, ex clusive of linters. That includes 15,204 bales ginners Contract Awarded Tuesday by State Highway Commission tor ree iee River Concrete Bridge 1685 Feet Long. accepts the call, the convention will estimated would be turned out after t .u ; t hp MiirpVt ennvn'i A crop of 10,081,000 bales was es timated last December by the depart' ment of Agriculture. The number of running bales was 10,159,498, including 242,177 round B. & L, FINE SHOWING. , 6 On page 13 of the POST-DIS PATCH, can be -seen a half page statement of the Richmond Cvunty' B.. & L. Association. The assets a raount now to $175,049.81. The As sociation is emphasizing the fact that paid-up shares are. offered in the form of 6 non-taxable certificates. -CANDIDATE LATHAM HERE. TWENTY PACES THIS ISSUE. The very crowded condition 6f the POST-DISPATCH last week . thas forced the paper to change from' its usual IX pages, to 20 pages for this issue; and appear in two sections. not hear any apology for the pro gram of progress. Mr. Everett is standing back of all the progressive undertakings of the administration and he wants the state to go further yet. The great expenditures for the big programs of road construction, educational expansion, and enlarge ment of the charitable institutions have brought the "cry of "extrava gance" from some quarters. A good many democratic leaders have be come sensitive to the term arfd are about ready to slow down'and rest for a while. Mr. Everett is with the crowd that can't see the "extrava gance" and thinks the state has gone no further than good government demands. If he makes the key-note speech, he will boast of the great ex penditures instead of apologizing for them and he will call on the democra cy to keep up the good work. Congressman Ed Pou made lust that kind of a speech at the 1922 convention. He glorified the program of progress and the democratic platform followed along by pledging tne party to keep up the forward movement... The progressive ' nartv leaders want the work to eo on. A fkey-note speech by Mr. Everett would contain the encouracimit that would put the convention baek of the right kind of a platform. On Jan. 31st the State Highway Commission received bids for build ing a concrete bridge across the Pee Dee river, 6 miles west of Rocking ham, but only one contractor sub mitted a bid, and this was rejected. Howover, at the new letting of contracts on Tuesday, March 25th, the Hardaway Construction Company were finally awarded the contract, the price being $292,609.10. This company is building the concrete bridge across the Yadkin river near Spencer, and part of their material has already been shipped for this new job. The bridge will be 1685 feet long, and it will be the finest spandrel arch type bridge in the state. It is estimated that it will be finished in 18 months. The con tract for grading the road from Rockingham to the bridge, 6.20 miles long, was let Jan. 31st, and the bales, counted as half bales; 22,426 J Chandler firm already have teams bales of American-Egyptian and 785 bales of Sea Island, compared with 9,729,306 running bales, including 172,182 round bales, 32,824 of A-meriean-Egyptian and 5,125 of Sea Island in the 1922 crop. The average gross weight of bales between Rockingham and the river, grading. In the course of a few months (after the graded road has settled) the contract for laying hard surface on thiss road will be let. It is to be hard surfaced, in pur suance of the plan to have a hard HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE. The 1?th. annual debating contest held under the auspices of the high school debating union -will take Dlace t. f. L,atnam, o: ueauiort county, .. Friday evening, March 28th, at ;8 rt .1 i 1 T i , - . . . . . . . . . . for the crop was 498.5 pounds, com- surface road from Charlotte to Wil- pared with 501.7 for the 1922 crop. mington. The 1923 crop, in equivalent 500 1 The Commission also- on Tuesday pound bales by states follows: Ala-'let the contract for hard surface deaths"! W. D. INGRAM. was in Rockingham Monday, making' himself known.. He is candidate for Commissioner of Agriculture, and has been a member of the Agri cultural Board for 11 years. Latham o'clock. The query to be debated this year is, "Resolved, That the Inter Allied War Debts Should be Can- celled." Rockingham high school debaters is a practical farmer, as well as a wffl be pitted airainst Laurinbure as theoretical one, and this past year (his been the case for several years, raised and' shipped to Norfolk 65,000 The Rockingham affirmative team pounds of hogs. composed ; of Sarah Everett and jMaurie Cree wiUV debate against ARCHITECT LOCATING HERE. Laurinbure's negative team in the L. A. Holborn, an engineer and architect, .will open an office in Rock ingham in front of the new W. P. McRae building, now in course of erection on Hancock - street. : The building should be finished in a cou ple of months. Mr. Holborn has offices in Hamlet and Southern Pines, and has supervised many dwellings in those towns. ; " , IN HANDS OF THE LAW. . J. M. Hornsby was taken into cus tody Wednesday morning on a cap- high school auditorium here, when HOUSE" AT NORMAN. ' For sale at Norman, one 7-room house on four-acre lot. Communicate with T. R. 'Upchurch, atiMt. Gilead. - advt 2t Rockingham's' negative team, com posed of Anfmie Webb and Jim Bell, will oppose Launnburg's affirmative team at Laurinburg. . V Th subject for debate it a live is sue and one in which the public is in terested. A splendid exhibition of forensic skill may be looked for and should draw a large crowd of our townspeople. , . , , .- '. . The hour is 8 p. m. at the high school building, and the public is cordially invited to attend. The de- ias from Laurinburg; Mr. Tucker.jbate will. begin sharply at the hour stood his bond for $50 for his appear-(designated. " , . - , . r ance at Laurinburg next Tuesday for I . (Ammie Webb, who was one of the trial. He hod previously been under ; selected -debaters for this contest", has bond, furnished by Little Bill, but been m tom mump9 thia week,.and naa lanea to snow up tnere ai me j, therefore unable to take Dart in Mr. V. D- Ingram, a veteran who served with bravery and faithfulness in the Confederate army, died here March 18th. The remains were car ried ' to Randolph county, near Far mer, for interment, beside the grave of his wife, ; who was Miss Abigail Lewis. ".. -. v Mr. Ingram moved to Rockingham over a score of years ago. He was un usually tall-raround six. feet, seven inches, and was 80 years old. He had two daughters both of whom married Lowdermilks, and one of whom is now the wife of Mr. E. S. Davis, of Rockingham. ! . ' bama 586,512; Arizona 77,504; Ar kansas 626,306; California 54,346; Honda 12,345; Georgia 587,969; Louisiana 367,658 ; Mississippi 602,- 808; Missouri 120,449; North Caro lina 1,017,325; 'Oklahoma 655,356; South Carolina 769,416; Tennessee 226,622; Texas 4,339,940; Virginia 50,250. All other states 33,672. Richmond County! Thin 20,384 yield for 1923 was the second largest Richmond County has ever made. The largest was in 1920 when 23,744 bales were made. The yield for the past several years for this county is as follows, the ten-year average (1912-1922) being 15,303: 1900 .7,854 1901 4,888 1902 i,-, 8,176 1903 8,297 1904 8,224 1905 7,742 1906 8,208 1907 9,702 1908 : , 11,494 1909 .11,830 1910 14,539 1911 18,272 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921" 1922 1923 road 11.22 miles between Whiteville and Lake Waccamaw; for 1.34 miles between Sanford and'Jonesboro; for 10.99 miles from Greensboro to Randolph county line, on Asheboro road; for ?6.50 miles between Albe marle and Cabarrus county line, on Concord road; and for grading 11.96 miles between Carthage and Pine hurst. ; v Robert Stansill, the two-days-old infant of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. R. Currie, died March 2nd, 'and was buried at Green Lake. The infant of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Ingram died at Hamlet hospital March 25th. The babe's mother was formerly Miss Jeanette Covington, of Rockingham. appointed time. ' ' ' ; Wayne Dawkins submitted before Magistrate ;Smith Monday night to drinking; he was charged with, drunk and disorderly conduct. He was made to pay the costs.' . Watt Covington, colored, was on Tuesday given a hearing before Mag istrate Smith on charge of removing a land corner (Lewis Little prosecut ing) and was required to 'give bond for April 7th tertn of Court. ' the debate tomorrow night. His place will be filljjd by Miss Virginia Ben ton.) ', , ; , -- ' ' . DISEASES THIS WEEK. The caseB of contagious . diseases reported to the County Health Offi cer this week are as follows: Small- dox 17. Chickenpox 2. " Measles 1, Diphtheria 1, Scarlet Fever 1. "Uncle" Cicero Thomas, aged 82, colored, ) died near Philadelphia col ored church March 26th. BREAKS INTO CAMP. It is nothing unusual for a convict to break OUT of a prison camp, but it is unusual for a man to break IN a camp and steal. That happened in Mecklenburg county last week, when a former, negro prisoner returned to the camp and broke into the commis sary. He was caught shortly after wards, and is now again, doing time. . 15,868 .-13,981 .. 17,867 . 13,976 . 9,259 --11,015 15,100 -. 18,769 23,744 -- 13,501 15,623 20,384 BETTER BUTTER MAKING Points as Brought Out by Mr. Kim ery at the Meeting in Rockingham March 21st. Mr. A. C. Kimery, of the Dairy, Division of the State Extension De partment, gave a most interesting demonstration in better-making at the new courthouses last Saturday. Representatives werepresent froni Scotland,-gtanry and Richmond coun ties. These representatives will go back to their clubs carrying instruc tions for making better butter. This will do much to raise the standard" of butter in their communities. A few of the points brought oOt by Mr. Kiinery are listed below: 1. Use a cream separator w'.ien possible and do not churn the whole milk. If a separator is not available skim the milk by hand. - 2. Chill milk as quickly as possi- ble after milking, as this aids the (Continued on Page 2.) BLOCKADE STILLS BROKEN UP; NORTH CAROLINA CROP Ginning by Counties. County 1923 1922 The State 1,050,474 879,294 Alamance 1,698 937 Anson 23,847 -21,692 Beaufort ' 11,233 13,455 Bertie ' 20,765 16,309 Bladen , 6,535 5,692 Cabarrus 12,114 11,522 Camden 6,707 2,998 Carteret 485 : 640 Catawba 1-.369 9,334 Chatham 9,857 9,270 Chowan , " 9,376 6,148 Cleveland 39,686 36,540 Columbus 396 536 Craven 2,424 4,079 Cumberland 22,165 ' 20,055 Currituck 1,699 (1) Davidson , . ' 2,218 1,642 Davie ' ' 3,398 2,813 Duplin i 7,734 . 7,364 i Officers Reynolds, . Heeney and W. ! D. Smith on Monday broke up a j blockade outfit about half a mile from Ghio. The still of 60 gallons had been run Sunady night, and was still hot. Nearby was a new outfit in process of construction, consisting of two large zinc tubes bradded to gether. On Tuesday officers Reynolds and Darby Covington destroyed an out fit about three miles east of Ellerbe. The officers were just a bit previous, as the outfit had been moved in with MARRIAGE LICENSES. (Continued on Page 2.) March 22 Julius Paul Davis and Elma Davis, white. . .' March 26 Boyd Russell and Ros anna DeLane, colored. March 27 Mack . Robinson and Fronie Clark, white. Rham Highs will play . Hamlet Highs here in baseball April 4th. OF COURSE YOU AREN'T. , You don't need'to be insured before you buy an acci ! , ; dent insurance policy. Tne most sensible people invest, in this kind of insurance because they realize that haz-: ards are increasing all the time and that it's safer to be ' insured.. , v .;' ,r, -"'iv , Protect yourself against the loss of time and money, if s , you meet with a mishap. 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