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i , (j 0 p. I. - Ou Year J2.C3 Six months $1X3 Three mon As... .75 Single copies 10c each 1 t i ..:-,:t Avr.U Vol. 7. K;v37. ROCKINGHAM, N. C, THURSDAY Afternoon, AUG 14, 1924. $2.00 PER YEAR CROP ESTL'IATE NOW 12.351,000 RflAF! IfHSEfTATI mil STARTS NEW riACinilERY VlLfllii iiul A It Kill ROAD EXPERL'IEIIT v r : PUSSYFOOTING , - V -'A matt". v, - '--V ; jr : COLUMBUS LEVY $1.55. The tax rate for Colnmbiw county for 1924 will be $1.55 on the $100 valuation. The total property valu ation is $21,900,000. HAMLET SCHOOL. . The Hamlet ety', schools open Srpt. 9th. Rockingham schools open Sept 8thl- - . . . " Born, Aug. 7Jh, to Mr. and Mrs. Pres Wilson, of the Mountain Creek section, a son,-Pres, Jr. The little fellow has three older sisters. HAS MANY DESCENDANTS Had Ten Dughter-in-Law J. A. Godfrey, of the Ellerbe sec tion, was a visitor in Rockingham Sat., and he had-with him quite a col lection of old and interesting relics of the 'Sixties..; V.V:. ' An interesting fact in connection with this Godfrey family is that he had two children byJiis first marriage and 13 by his second. Of the 15 chil dreni eleven are living. One eon, his oldest living at Wingate, has been married three times, i All in all, Mr. Godfrey has had ten daughters-in-law. It would have re quired an adding machine to have computed his grandchildren, but off hand he estimated his great grand children at 48. ':".. ;,. Mr. Godfrey was 80 years old on last April- 5th. He moved to this county from Union about five 7ears ago; he was in the Confederacy in the 9th Battalion, Hoke's Division'. The POST-DISPATCH would like to get records of other large families in Richmond, county. ' . ORANGE SNAP. Mr. Porter, of the Whistle Fottling Co., is now putting out an orange drink called Orange Snap, which he is advertising, on page five of -.the POST-DISPATCH. -7- UIITIL ; YOU?. CAR IS .. v.... ... 'ST0IEII, EUr.I.'ZD, DAUAGED You can't stay the hand of fate if it is tnrned against you. You can't avpid accidents by the most extreme caution. ' ' '. . You can't match a gaiety lock sgainst the ingenuity of an auto thief. He acts when ' you least suspect him. ' - FIIIE IS AN EVER-rr.rCZNT MENACE to your machine. FROTECT your- . , , SSLF WITH AN INSURANCE POLICY. 'OUR RATES ARE' LOW AND Mi 0UH COMPANIES SOUND. NO CLINIC FRIDAY. COMMUNITY HAS PROTECTION The regular maternity clink sche duled to be held at the Rockingham graded school Friday, 16th, is post poned to Friday, Aug. 29th, at 3 o'clock, on account of the tonsil-ade noid clinic npw in progress there. The regular maternity clinic for El- lerbe will be held as usual net Tues- day at 3 and at Marston htftel Friday, 22nd, at 3. ' .. .. - a-;, '. '.I " ,". , ' iunn . , CATTLE TUBERCULAR. - Dr. Neely, veterinarian from the wis assigned to that jobeffective State Department, began on Monday' Aug. 1st The County pays him $50. the work of. testing the cattle of month, and each of the four mills Richmond oounty, in the tuberculosis Pay him $25, making $150 per mo. eradication campaign. He is at pres-1 Mr. Heeney on Monday moved to ent located at Hamlet, and is working " he' and boardm at Marks Creek township.. He will cover Will Ivey's. The community served the county townshtp by township. ; tio better or worse than other com- - ' - , , munities, but the mere fact that an ' ' ' ! alert officer, with motorcycle, is sta- "NEAR" INSTEAD OF "AT" ;tioned handy will act as a deterrent ; Last week this paper stated that . ...... v..- : Anna Benton, who killed ' George Brawley in, Hamlet, Aug. 1st, was rested "behind a hedge at 'Lying' Bill Leak's house" in a drunken condition. Bill requests the paper to state that she was hot found on his property. Substitute tlfe "near" for "at" FLASHED MANY CHECKS. Sheriff Baldwin has to date re ceived no less than 15 checks that! were given by J. B: Weatherford, I A Buick roadster, in which were and which were no good. Weather-, Will White, Vann Thomas and C. C. ford is a likely looking young white Pressley, all of Steele's Mills, mw man, hailing from around Gibson, but rowly escaped being submerged in who is making hi's temporary quarters Everett's pond Sunday afternoon. It injail here, pending Sept. 29th term ran off the road that runs across the of Court. Many of the n. g. checks dam, and but for a -stump', at -'the were passed on Rockingham mer- water's edge it would have plunged chants. . V " . j into 15 feet or more of water. Will MARRIAGE LICENSES. Aug. 7 Archibald .W. McKay and Olive McNair, white. ' 1 Aug. 9 Oscar Turnage and Jessie Tyson, whitej . ' Officer For Mill Villages. The villages of Roberdel, Hannah Pickett, Entwistle and Leak mills now have real police protection: and. pa trol, v ; -...:.':; A meeting of a number of Citizens waa nei,i at Roberdel No. 2i spme ,week8 ago, -and the County Commis sioners "were petitioned to put on a whole time rural officer for those four jbig communities. This the Commis sioners agreed to, and J., J. Heeney for any rough stuff that otherwise might be attempted. He has' already ... ... ... . made his presence felt, and the atmps- ar-sphere has distinctly improved. UNION SERVICE. VV' - f. " Union Service Sunday-night at Presbyterian church, with sermon by Rev. Howard Hartzell, subject "Dis couraged."' 1 . DROVE CAR IN POND. White appeared to -be the "worse for wear," and was brought to jail; on Monday Magistrate Smith fined him $5 and costs for being drunk. Thomas .was let off with the costs. Pressley and family are said to have departed Sunday night for South Carolina. . ' g1 GOVERNMENT SAYS COTTON CROP WILL EXCEED TWELVE MILLION BALES. NORTH CAR OLINA CROP ABOUT 763.000. HOWEVER. MONTH OF AUCUST YET TO BE HEARD FROM. i , ; The condition of the cotton crop for the entire South up to August 1st was given at 67.4, in a report issued by the Government last Fri day. This indicates a crop of 12,- 351(000 bales, provided there is av erage normal weather from now on. The condition of the crop in North ' (Continued on Pape 11) WATCH WHERE YOU SPIT Ordinance Regarding Spitting. With. the handsome new $200,000 courthouse especially in mind, . the Town Commissioners have just passed an ordinance placing a penalty for spitting on, or disfiguring, any public building in the Town; also, an ordi nance regulating the establishing of public wash racks. The two ordinances, in part, are as follows: . . 1 . r Spitting and DUG g urine: "Section. 1. That no person shall spit in or on any part of any public buildintr in the Town of Rockingham, Section 2. That no person shall do any act or thing hat will disfigure, mar or damage any public building in the Town of Rockingham. Section 3. That ayperson vio lating the provisions of this ordi nance, upon conviction, may oe lm Drisoned in the common jail of Rich mond oounty for not more than 30 days or fined not more than $50.00." . Public Wash Raekat . "Section 1. That no person, firm or corporation shall erect, keep or maintain, a wash rack where auto mobiles are washed, for hire, without providing an escape for the water used, into a storm sewer by tneans of a pipe, in accordance with the Code of Town Plumbing. . Section 2. That any person vw lating this ordinance upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $50.00 or imprisoned not more than 30 days." - ; : . CLOTHES IN WRONG CAR Pay to - AdrertUe. Both Sam Thomas and Hoyt Hinson are thoroughly convinced that it pays to advertise. . : ' r Saturday night Sam Thomas drove his car to the postoffice about 11 o'clock, and on his arrival at home found a basket of freshly laundered clothes on the back seat. Monday he the POST-DISPATCHoffice tirA laft in' nrAar fnv a "fnnnrt" nHvr and left an1 order for a "found" advt to be inserted. ' ' Shortly after Thomas informed the paper of his "find," Hoyt Hinson came in and said he wanted to advertise for a basket of clothes that he had lost Of course- the paper promptly put him in touch with Thomas and the clothes,' were gladly recovered. It seems that Hoyt had sent a col ored youth to. hia. washerwoman on Greene street Saturday night to get his wash ; and the boy had placed the basket in a car in front of the post office that he thought was Hoyt's. But it proved to he the wrong oar, and Mr. Hinson roo doubt spent some worried moments until he could ge.t to the "fount of information" on Monday. BANKRUPTCY SALE. ' At a meeting of the creditors last Friday, Chas. B. Deane was appointed Referee in the matter of the Garden and Star theatres bankruptcy (M. H. French.) The equipment etc will be sold Friday, Aug. 22nd, at 2:30 to highest bidder. UK. '"- 0S ; V w w vj V W W o . ) o. ' 1 While it is your business whether you save any part of your eamir.i-s,' it is our business to help you in the matter if you decide to make saving a regular weekly habit. .... . Thrift has its champions among leaders in every walk cf life. President Cool ii'gre says: "The one who saves is the one who will win." Saving is the daily r-rnelne of i!l who win.' '.-.,. x START A 5AVLvG3 ACCOUr t C.,VY Our b;rnk makes a special effort to develop this ;:h, cf x t ' , , Leeause v.e k-Heve we are performing a r-j.l se rvice fvr c r j. induced tj tue regularly.' ROAD FROM ROCKINGHAM TO MARSTON TO BE SUBJECT OF EXPERIMENT IN NEW ROAD CONSTRUCTION. TRAFFIC CEN SUS SHOWS ROAD MORE TRAV ELED THAN THE H.-M. ROAD. A census taken of the traffic on Highway 50, from Marston to Rock ingham, and from Marston to Hamlet, taken by the Highway engineering forces last Saturday, shows that the road from Marston to Rockingham is traveled by a greater number of vehicles than the road from Marston to Hamlet The observation, time was from 6 a. m. to 7 p. m. August 9th. It is as follows: Manton to Rockingham: No. vehicles 1237 No. tons .: : 2064 . Manton to Hamlet: No. vehies . 468 .. No; tons : : 835 ! Experiment on Road. This 9-mile stretch of sand-clay road from Marston to Rockingham is soon to be the subject of an experi ment on the part of the State High way Commission. The road is to be "treated" to a course of medicine, this to cover a period of three years, at the end of which time it will appar- (Continued on Pag 8) THIS THING IS BILLIOUS Another Taxi Driver Killed, and Car Stolen. Thit Time Near Lexing ton. One of the Murderer Cap tured. : :..'"''. First, Major McLeary was, killed by two white ruffians and his body given to the buzzards. Next, -within the same month, , a white jitney driver down in Halifax county was killed, his car stolen and his body hid in a creek. And now a third murder, "almost identical with the other two, Las ta ken place, this time in Davidson coun ty. On Thursday night of last week two negroes hired a white; jitney driver of Lexington, named Charles Garwood," to drive them into the country. On a. secluded spot they knocked him in the head, beat his brains out and then robbed him of $150 and stole his car. . However, the car, a new Buick, was the next day located in Greensboro, abandon ed, and on Saturday one of the mur derers, Kenneth Hale, was captured near Charlotte. The other murderer, John . Leak, is still at large, though rewards amounting to $800 have been offered for his, capture. ; Now that three crimes of like na ture have been committed( perhaps htere, will be a let up. Whenever one fire occurs, there is apt td be three; and whert one unusually atro cious murder takes place two others generally follow. ' . PAYS A SMALL FINE. . . ' ..-..... .. - - - Frank Northcutt was picked up by Officer Heeney Monday night reclin ing in a car on the public hghway, in toxicated. Magistrate Smith Tuesday taxed him with $5 fine' and the costs. LAWYER JAILED. Zeb Sanders, lawyer at Carthage, was this week sentenced to jail for 5 days by Judge Lane for contempt of. Court in appearing in open- Court at-Carthage Tuesday in an intoxicated condition.' ' ; ' Also during the noon recess Tues day at Carthage, a Mrs. George Gar ner attacked with her fists a deputy sheriff. He bad testified in a case wherein her husband was charged with having intoxicants. Does a big blue X mark appear on the front page of your, paper? You know what it means. J v . ' . fl S, . ,, w w w w w w w W w W V -w ; H. P. MILL STARTING MACHIN ERY IN NEWLY BUILT MILL. MILLS WILL HAVE 82,000 SPIN DLES AND 1808 LOOMS WHEN FINALLY IN OPERATION. HAS 7 ACRES OF FLOOR SPACE. Hannah Pickett cotton mill here at Rockingham now has one of the most modern " and completely equipped mills in the country. And by the re cent enlargement of the plant it to-1 tals now 82,000 spindles and 1808 looms. . The new addition, or rather new mill known as Hannah Pickett No. 2, is 250x390 feet, one story and a half, and of the most approved concrete and steel construction. The old and new mills have a total space of 7 acres. Mill No. 1 was shut down two weeks ago, so that the machinery could be placed. The looms in Mill No? 1 have been moved now into the new mill, together with new looms, And all the spinning and carding will be done in Mill No. 1, and all the looms in the new Mill No. 2. Mill No. 1 was started , up again Wednesday, and the machin ery in No. 2 will be gradually set in motion until in the course of per haps three months the entire 1808 looms will be in operation. That Blue X Mark. Is there a blue X mark on the front page of this paper? If so, it is a reminder that your subscrip tion has expired, and a request that you attend to the payment of , same. . . ' ' ADENOID-TONSJL CLINIC. A clinic for the removal of ade--noids and tonsils, for the school chil dren of Richmond county, is being held at the Rockingham graded schcot building this week. It began Tuesday,. . and 75 children were operated these three days. The last day (Friday) will be devoted to operations upon colored children, . - ' Dr. : Murphy, of Wilmington, is surgeon in charge, with a staff of registered nurses and other assistants... The first floor of the graded school is used as an emergency hospital, with, operations performed in what was formerly the domestic science room.. A similar clinic was held here by the State Board of Health about three or four years ago, with nearly a hun dred children receiving the benefit of it. ,i . COUNTY SCHOOLS AUDIT. The annual audit of the receipts and sources, and disbursements, of the Richmond county schools can be seen epitomized jon page twelve. A. Z. Williams, of Ellerbe, and E. J. WOodley,- of Jackson Springs, re turned Tuesday from a motor trip that extended into lower Georgia. The ' two left Ellerbe Aug. 6th and were gone six days. In all a thousand miles was covered, and they had a i.very thorough inspection of the cotton crop prospects of South Carolina and Georgia, it looks now as though each of those states will make better yields this year than North Carolina, whereas last year this state Tailed over a millian bales and was second largest producing state. : Clerk of Court ,W. S. Thomas went to Wrightsville Beach. Tuesday, stop ping at the Harris cottage. He re- turns here next Monday. . , ' Atty. W. R. Jones and, Walter re turned Tuesday from, a week's motor trip through the mountans of western Carolina:' Mrs. Jones will come home Saturday from ten days spent at Gas tonia. -. . H - " w w w w W w w v. - ... .. 'r r
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