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ROCKINGHAM, N. C THURSDAY Afternoon, JULY 24 , 1924.
$2,00 PER YEAR
Vol. 7. No. 34.
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COTT0KR0P
KOW 11,934,000
GOVERNMENT NOW ESTIMATES
THAT COTTON CROP WILL
AMOUNT TO ONLY 11,934,000
BALES. NORTH CAROLINA
CONDITION 56 WITH INDI
CATED YIELD OF 720.000. THIS
COUNTY UNDER 50.
The Government issued its report
Monday on the condition of the cot
ton crop to July 16th: This report
6hows the condition to be 68.3 of
normal, as compared with 71.2 on
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HEAVY RAIN WILMINGTON.
MIX IIARRELL
IS CAPTURED
ACCOMPLICE OF KING IN SLAY-
ING OF ARMY OFFIC'R CAUGHT
WEDNESDAY IN NASHVILLE,
TENN. HARRELL TELLS DIF
FERENT STORY. HIS WIFE WAS
THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN IN
RICHMOND COUNTY. '
Wilmintrton had its heaviest rain
fall Sunday morning. The waters de
scended in sheets for six hours, the
total fall being five and one-half in
ches. The culverts and drains became
clogged, and many streets were two
and three feet deep in water.
NEGRO ROBBED OF $27.
Three White Hoboea HoM Up Nera
on Main Highway Near Roclcuig-
bam Sunday and Got 527 Ti
Pockets.
Tom Lilly, negro painter of fiock
ingham, no doubt was glad to part
with $27 to three white hoboes Sun.
day afternoon, so long as they Tvere
content to. leave- him -his 'Ford and
breath in his body. Tom has an aver
sion to being fed to the fowls f the
air; he prefers to rest under the sod
in due time in the negro cemetery
.here.
Sunday afternoon s Torn was com
ing along the main highway, just a
short distance, from Blewett Falls
ferry, a white man stepped mxst in the
road and flagged him down. "As he
stopped, two other men tepped from
the bushes and with pistols leveled
at Tom demanded his money. Tom
of course lied manfully -that V he
didn't have any. Eat with pistols
still "pintrng"they searched his pock
ets and found $27. They then gener
ously allowed Mm to go -on his way.
Yes, Tom should not Begrudge that
money. Perhaps if he hadn't had any
the highwaymen might have slipped
a bullet into his anatomy, dragged
him to the bashes to Jrwait tthe ever-
ready buzzards and then hied onward
with his car.
Frank TTArrell. whom Mortimer
Kine says helped him Kill Major Mc-
Leary July 2nd, was arrested in Nash
ville, Tennessee, Wednesday. His
story of the killing differs somewhat
from that -told by King, His account
is published further along m this article.
It had been reported that Har-
rell's wife had come to Rockingham
from Union, S. C, about May 1st,
after the Excelsior cotton mill shut
down; but no trace has been found
of her in Richmond county.
On Tuesday a man answering some
what the description of Harrell was
arrested in Mt. , Gilead. He was
brought at once to Rockingham, but
soon established his identity, proving
to be a man from Concord. :
Mortimer H. King,' the self-con
fessed slayer cf Major Samuel H.
MeLeary, of the United States Coast
Artillery, whose bones were found
200 feet from the Cheraw-Columbia
highway on July 17th, is now tn the
State penitentiary at Columbia await
ing trial at Chesterfield at the term
ef Court thaf convenes Sept 22nd.
By the way, it may he ot interest
to note that King is not a native of
this State. A was born and reared
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CO-OPS MAILED CHECKS
130,714; Bale rlraoW.
' Raleigh, July 22.--The first checks
in the final distribution and settle
ment made ay the 'North Carolina
Cototn Growers Cooperative Asso
nation for the cotton crop of 1923
24 "went fete Che mails Friday night
and the work will continue until all
oi tne more than twenty-two thou
Band checks and final statements are
mailed, y General Manager Blalock
saya the members f the association
will receive twenty nine cents a lb
v, for middling cotton instead of 2S.80
as announced some days ago. The as
sociation handled 130,71$ bales of
cotton the past season and the total
payments to members for this cotton
will amount to something over eight-
en n minion dollars.
LEGISLATURE AUG. 7TH.
Gov. Ttforrison ,has called for
special session of the Legislature to
meet in Raleigh Aug 7th. The Leg
islators can be paid for but 20 davs.
Richmond county is represented in
the Senate by W. E. Harrison and in
the House by James R. Bennett.
CIVITAS FISH FRY.
The Rockingham Civitans will -vary
ineir semi-monthly meetngs with i
fish fry, or catfish stew, on Friday at
terticon at 6:30 on the Anson side
of the river at the Ferry.
AliSOIIMAH
IS MURDERED
GREEN LAKE CHURCH.
CHALMERS SEDBERRY IS SHOT
TO DEATH NEAR WADESBORO.
MUCH EXCITEMENT ATTENDS
ARREST OF NEGRO AT ROCK
INGHAM. WAS WRONG MAN.
All who are interested in Green
Lake cemetery are asked to be pres
ent, or send a hand, on Tuesday,
July 29th, for the purpose of cleaning
same off. If you eatft do either, then
send a contribution to Mrs. Geo. G.
Terry or Mrs. T. J. Fletcher, Kober-
del, N. C. r
The Home Coming will be at this
church the first Sunday in August..
One of the coldest blooded mur
ders perpetrated in this section in a
long time was that of Chalmers Sed-
berry, in White Store township, An
son county, last Saturday morning.
Jim Collins, the negro who shot the
white man, fled. Mr. Sedberry died
at Wadesboro hospital Sunday morn
ing. His funeral was at Camden Pres
byterian church, 5 miles south of
Wadesboro, Monday afternoon, at
tended by his brother, Atty. J. Ches
ley Sedberry, from Rockingham, and
other relatives.
There came near being a lynching
of the wrong man at Rockingham
Sunday as the result of the murder
of Mr. Sedberry. A neero was ob
served stealing a ride on a Seaboard
freight, as it passed Wadesboro, and
so the officers at Rockingham were
notified .to be on the lookout for hinj,
as he was thought to be Jim Collins,
the murderer. Officers therefore sta
tioned themselves at the depot. About
4:30 the freight pulled in, and the
strange negro was seen to jump from
the train and make off through the
Shaw woods, to the south. An officer
fired several times to stop him, but
this made his going' "the faster. A
crowd of men gathered as if by mag
ic, armed with almost every conceiva
ble weapon, and in short order per
haps 150 men were scouring the Shaw
woods. He was finally .found hiding
in a ditch, scared literally to death.
He repeated over and Ver that he
(Continned ob Pago 6)
Sentences 178 Months
Many Cases Handled at This Week's Criminal
- Term. Hawley Found Not Guilty in Klucker
Perjury Case, garner Being Tried Today on
Involuntary Manslaughter Charge. Total
Road Sentences to Date Amount to 178
Months. Jude Lane Makes Pleasing Im
pression. Special Criminal Term Probable
in August. Boggan Ellerbe Foreman New
Six Months Grand Jury.
TONSIL AND
ADENOID CLINIC
CLINIC WILL BE HELD AUG. 12,
13, 14, 15, IN THE ROCKINGHAM
SCHOOL BUILDING.
Road Sentences July 21st, 1924, Term:
Dave Owens, white, -'drunk and assault....... -.5 years on roads
Waiter Bostick, colored larceny ..3 years on roads
Fred Rye, larceny of pitol, colored 1 year on roads
James McRae, coloredjarceny ....... .1 year on roads
R. H. Ballard, white, blockading.. ............ 30 months on roads
K. D. Grant, Jr., white.op. car drunk.... 60 days' on roads
Cecil Shepherd, white, prostitution.. ........... 12 months on roads
Robt. Harding, white, blockading.......... ....12 months on roads
The Tonsil and Adenoid Clinic
Emergency hospital to be established
in the Rockingham school building
on Aug. 12, 13, 14, 15, will be con
ducted by the state board of health.
This tonsil and adenoid clinic will be
for school children between the ages
(Continued on Page 2)
THEATRES BANKRUPTCY
Mr. French, Rentor of Garden and
Star Theatre, Went Into Volun
tary Bankruptcy July 16th. Meet
ing of Creditor Committee at
Hamlet Aug. 8th.
McPHAIL NOT DEAD.
Dr. L McPhaiL dentist of Hamlet.
who has been in a Charlotte hospital
for two weeks suffering from blood
poison caused from a boil, is now
convalescent and returns to his Ham
let home this week, It was reported
last Friday that he' was dead, but this
proved to be slightly exaggerated.
SEABOARD SCHEDULE.
Effective July 15th, a small chanee
was made in the trains passing Ham
let, Ino. Z, from Jacksonville to New
York, arrives Hamlet at 7:45 at night
now, and leaves at 8: No. 3, south
bound, arrives Hamlet at 8:45 and
leaves at 9.
There has been no change in the
trains passing Rockingham.
RURAL POSTOFFICE AUG. 1ST
The new annex, or sub-station to
the Rockingham postoffioe. at En
twistle mill will be opened August
1st, with Druggist S. Biggs in charge.
Ihe address for mail for that com
munity will be: -y "- .
- "Mills Rural Station, Route
Rockingham, N. C."
2,
SANDFORD TO HOSPITAL.
, Mr. Marvin Sandford. of Rober.
del No. 2, and wife will leave tonight
lor Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, to be
treated. Friends in the community
and in Rockingham have raised a
purse of $300 to defray the necessary
hospital expenses and enable him to
seek the relief so earnestly desired,
Wednesday was the hottest day
since the intense heat wave in June.
The .thermometer touched as high as
,98 here. . .. , , . ; : ; . , - ,
GRIST MAJORITY 32,535.
Complete returns from the July
5th primary for Commissioner of La
bor and Printing show that Frank D.
Grist won by a majority of 32,535.
Ihe total -vote was: -
, Grist 69,382
Shipman 36,847,
worsetiiaiibIars
MAN WHO STANDS' OFF AND
REAPS BENEFIT OF CO-OPER-ATIVE
MARKETING, AND YET
TALKS AGAINST . ASSOCIA
TION, IS A MEAN ENEMY.
When we meet a farmer who is
not o member of the Cotton Associa
tion, but who admits that co-operative
marketing has been a help to him in
getting snore for his cotton, but who
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Hamer Manslaughter e.
As the POST-DISPATCH went to
press late Thursday afternoon, hte
case aganst James Hamer, of Dillon,
was beihg tried. It began with con
vening of Court this morning.
Court will continue its session to
at least noon Saturday. It is probable
that a special session for criminal
cases will be held in August, to"dis
pose of many cases that cannot be
reached this week. The next regular
civil term is Sept. 1st, and criminal
Sept, 29th.-' y - - -
This Hamer case is the result of
an auto wreck June 8th at the over
head bridge ROuth of Hamlet wherein
Charles Brigman was killed. It is
charged that Hamer, the driver of the
car, was drunk. The case is being
especially hard fought in order, it
s believed, to lay the foundation for
a civil action by the Bridgman family
against Hamer. Involuntary man
slaughter is the verdict the State is
asking.
NEGRO TEACHERS
Negro Teacher Attending the Sum
mer School That Started at Rock
ingham July 14th, 1924. It hut
Six Week. J.' B. Prother and A.
B. Aacrum in Charge. '
1st, and criminal term Sept. 29th,
with Judge Lane here.
The Grand Jury for the ensuing
six months was drawn, with Boggan
Ellerbe as foreman. E. J. Hale was
made officer to the Grand Jury.
The Judge's charge to the Grand
Jury consumed perhaps two hours,
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The Garden and Star picture shows
at Rockingham have been closed since
the first of last week, and there ap
pears to be no immediate prospect
of their re-opening soon. ,
On July 16th Mr. M. H. French
filed a voluntary petition in bankrupt
cy before Referee J. B. Cheshire at
Raleigh.
A Trustee to handle the affairs will
be elected at a Creditors Committee
meeting at Hamlet August 8th.
The liabilites and assets as listed
by Mr. French as as follows :
Liabilities:
Priority claims $ 1,438.00
Secured claims 14,116.00
Unsecured claims 7,532.14
CIVIL TOM COURT
CASES TRIED AT LAST WEEK'S
TERM OF CIVIL COURT. TWO
DIVORCES.
Daisy Bowden, Ida Mai Beckham",
Venetta Bostick, Hattie Crump, Ha
Mai Carroway, C. W. Dockery, Mollie
Dobbins, Mary Douglas, AnnieMay
Fletcher, Hattie Frieson, Argatha
Hasty, Mary Hines, Rosa G. Harris,
Hattie Joaes, Rosa Iak, S. J. Leak,
T: J. Leak, Elizabeth Leak, S, C. Mc
Millan, Kuth W. Mumford, Susie
Mitchell, Corinna Nichols, Daisy Pat
terson, , Amanda Pemberton, Georgia
Swinnie,. Sara Spencer, Servillis
Watts, Musa E. Wall, Florence Wood-
ard, Hattie1 E. Womble, Caroline Wall,
Flora L. Williams, Alberta Williams,
Annie L. Covington, Mamie Davis,
Rosa Love, Lily McEacherri, Cora
McBride, Rebecca Settles.
; Hawley Not Guilty.
The case against J. L. Hawley,
charging him with perjury in swear
ing he was not a knight of the Ku
Klux, when he later admitted being
a member, was tried Wednesday.
The jury found him not guilty. The
full account of the trial is further
along in these Court proceedings.
In dismissing the jury after they
reported Wednesday night at 8:45,
Judge Lane took occasion to tell the
jury that this was a' case of utmost
importance and gravity, and that he
hoped they had very conscientously
weighed the matter in their minds,
and that he hoped their verdict of
"not guilty" was in accord with their
conscientious judgment. Was there
any inference to be deduced from
what the Judge left UNSAID?
To show that Judge Lane could
find no distinction or difference be
tween being a "knight" and a "mem
ber," can be gathered from the fact
that the Judge ordered Atty. Plum
mer Stewart in his speech to the iury
to cease arguing1 on that line, for,
in the record of any difference."
said the Judge, "there ia no evidence
Only a few cases were tried last
week at the civil term of Superior
Court. Judge Lane presided. Court
convened on Tuesday, July 15th, and
adjourned Friday, the 18th.
The suit of Miss Betsy Long vs
the Town of Rockingham was con
tinued for the Plaintiff, but the Court
directed that it be set for trial at
Sept. 1st term, directly after the di
vorce cases are disposed of.
A divorce was granted Sadie Allen
from D. M. Allen, Pete Murphy from
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$23,066.14
Aiaet:"
Realty 500.00
Bills and notes 535.00
Household goods . $ 100.00
Machinery etc j 125.00
Lease value probably
nothing) $ 6,000.00
Stocks and bonds $ 191.00
$ 7,451.00
PRIZE FOR SLOGAN.
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$5 and 50 Gallon Cat. .... i
:
The Pee Dee Motor"Salee Co. has
closed a contract with a concern to
furnish a large number of aluminum
signs, with "Rockingham" in raised
letters, and underneath will be a
slogan appropriate to the town. These
he will then place on the market.
But first, Mr. Tucker, the manager.
is anxious to secure an appropriate-
jan one that will distinguish the
(Continued on Pago 5) ,
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Mr. Coppedge's sketch of his recent
trip to Mexico begins in' this issue,
on -page seven.
Superior Court for the trial of
criminal cases convened Monday,
July 21st, with Judge Henry P. Lane,
of Reidsville, presiding. :
The next civil term begins Sept. ! cers,
Claud D. Smith and Blanche Rey
nolds, white. '
July 15 Wm. F. Lane and Jewel
Fletcher, white.
July 16 Stephen Wall and Ila Ty
son, colored.
July 18 Edward R. McLean and
Essie Kennedy, white.
July 19 Isom Ingram and Alene
Wall, colored. .
TRAIN KILLS TWO MEN.
Seaboard .Shoofly from Hamlet to
Raleigh shortly after dinner struck
a Ford tourng car at a crossing three
miles east of Hamlet, tearing the car
to pieces and instantly killed Harlse
Terry (McLean) and injuring James
Covington so badly that he died a
few hours later in the Hamlet hospi
tel. Both negroes lived between El
lerbe and'Gibson mills, V
WATCH YOUR DOGS.
The Mayor requests the POST
DISPATCH to advise owners of dogs
that are inclined to bite at folks to
keep them up or muzzled; he states
that the next instance of a dog biting
at a person in town, the said dog will
be summarily dealt with by the offi-
HAMLET PEACH SHOW
Annual Event July 30-31, i'
The annual Peach Show at HamW.
to be held next Wednesday and
Thursday, July 30-31 promises to be
even larger than the very successful
one held last year. , (A , .
. The exercises open at 10 o'clock
July 30th, and the peaches will be
arranged in a horse-shoe effect in the
big tobacco warehouse. Gov. Morri
son and other notables expect to be
present, and music will be furnished
by the Camp Bragg military band.
$2,000 STOGNER-BALLARD
Two White Men Held at Charleston
in Default of $2,000 Bond Each,
on Mann Act Violation.
Herschel Stogner and Clyde Bal
lard, who left Rockingham two weeks
ago with George Lineberry (alias
George Henderson) and two girls of
ill repute, for Charleston in a Ford,
and who were arrested in that city,
were on July 17th given a hearing
there, on the charge of violating the
Mann Act. Both men were bound to
Federal Court under bonds of $2000
each, which they so far have been
unable to give, and both are still
locked up in Charleston.
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