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rlMGESl ROCKINGHAM, N. C., TlfoRSAYiA MARCH20, 1930 $2.00 PER YEAR VOL. 13 No. 17 sechoWne THIS WEEK 10YEARSAG0 BRIEF ITEMS GLEANED FROM FILES OF POST-DISPATCH ISSUE OF MARCH 18, 1920. The first sale of the Duroc Farms was hied on March 15th at the Fair Grounds at Rpckingham. 200 peo ple were present. Coffee and chick en and ham sandwiches were served. 43 bred sows and 5 under-year boars were sola, ior a total 01 $t,auo an (Continued on page four) C. of C. Scores Again And a Cannery i Prospect. The Chamber of Commerce gave valuable assistance in the effort to secure 250 acres in tomatoes in Rich mond county, thereby insuring the establishment of a packing point Sjt Rockingham, and very probably the securing later of a Cannery here. ) The necessary 250 acres have beeA signed up; the list of signers and their number of acres, is on page 12, though several additional signers have been secured since that list was put in type and printed. NO NEW MENINGITIS The Health Department has ref ported no new cases of Meningitis in Hamlet, and it is not expected fur ther cases will develop. Confederate Names On Page 9 of This Issue. The alphabetical list of Richmond county men who served in the Con federacy can be found on page 9 section two. Be sure to save this copy. 99.61 Collected Not 1-2 of 1 Per Cent of 1927 T The-tax levy for 1927 amounted to 507,000 and of that amount the Sheriff's office reports a collection of 99.61 per cent! This means that; one-half of 1 per cent remains uncol-; lected. JURYDRAWN Jury Criminal Term, April 7, 1930 J Henry Williams T. T. Smith J. R. Wilson W. J. Cranford Joe Swink J. D. Covington Lonnie Chance Jno. W. Porter L. E. Bachman R. H. Gibson J. D. Carter Jasper Forbis G. W. Andrews G. H. Kelly J. W. Smith E. P. Covington C .B. Wallace J. W. Allred H. F. Hay C. J. Jones T. G. Monroe F. B. McLeod W. G. McPherson J. H. Bean David Peele Leo Warburton TYPEWRITER RIBBONS For sale, at Post-Dispatch officeJ typewriter ribbons for Royal, Rem ington, Underwood and L. C. Smith machines. Also, carbon paper proH ducts of Marlowe & Iwaya Co. FRIDAY, MARCH 21 Billie Dove "PAINTED LADY" Her first singing and dancing ap-4 pearance on the screen. Vitaphone Acts, and Graham MacNamee an nouncing in Sound News. Matinee. 3, with special prices ofi 10 and 30 cents. Night 7 and 9 10 and 40c. RICHMOND THEATRE il. CLUBS YOU DO NOT WANT TO JOIN Perhaps you do not play the ponies, shoot dice, buy 15 per cent stocks, or indulge in any such represensible tactics. If you do not carry enough insurance, you are simply batting the whole world against the small pre mium prjce that you will never have bad luck, never have a fire, never be sick, never die! Is that a wise gambler RICHMOND INSURANCE & REALTY COMPANY J. D. CHALK, President "ON THE AIR" Program wm - Broadcast Wednesday Night over WBT by Chamber of Commerce. Rockingham literally was "on the air" Wednesday night of thi3 week for 30 minutes from 8:30 to 9 o'clock. The "reception" here at Rocking ham was not so good, there being at that time of night several stations on apparently the same wave length This crossed up the broadcast locally, but a few radios brought the program in clearly. It seems to have been clearer west of Charlotte than down this way, for Stansill Covington this morning re ceived a wire from his wife's sister in Memphis stating that they received the program clearly, and enjoyed it so much. The program was prepared by the Rockingham Chamber of Commerce, through the courtesy of the Char lotte Chamber, and Station WBT. Among those going to Charlotte, in addition to those taking part in the broadcast, were Mr. and Mrs. Jno. D. Chalk. The two excellent addresses de livered by Mayor Pittman and Hon. Fred. W. Bynum, will be printed in full in next week's paper. The following is the program as rendered the night of March 19th, 1930, over WBT by our Rockingham speakers and artists: 1. Address by Hon. Wm. G. Pitt man, Mayor of Rockingham. 2. Address by Ex-Representative Fred. W. Bynum, Director of Rcck iagkam Chamber of Commerce. 3. (a) "Nightingale Sweetly Sing ing Piersot. (b) "When -I was Seventeen" Lilljebjorn. Jennie Watson Stewart. Accompanist Miss Virginia Blake ney. 4. "Romance" violin Svendsen Miss Elisabeth Brewer. 5. "Lay My Head Beneath a Rose" Falkenstein. -Hallye B. Proctor. v- v' -j 6. "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes.", Words.' by Ben Jonson bid J. Stansill Covington ; Accompanist Miss Hattie Bernice Marks. 14,544,584 Bales North Carolina 766,787 South Carolina 832,454 The 1929 cotton crop of the United States amounted to 14,544,584 run ning bales, compared with 14,296, 549 running bales in 1928, and 12. 783,112 running bales in 1927. In equivalent 500-pound bales, the 1929 crop was 14,821,499 bales, com pared with 14,477,874 in 1928 and 12,956,043 in 1927. In running bales North Carolina ginned 766,787 as compared with 832,454 in South Carolina. Georgia 1.339,446, Texas 3,802,574. U. D. C. ON MARCH 26TH The U. D. C. Chapter will meet with Mrs. W. H. McCall on Wednes day, March 26th, at 4 p. m. It is requested that each member bring one or more packages of flower seed to be used by the chapter in its pro ject of beautifying Highway No. 50 POULTRY CAR The division of Markets had a poultry car at Ellerbe March 17 th, with 2000 pounds of poultry loaded, amounting to $475. The division of markets will have its next car about the 17th of April. S1ST B. ft L. SERIES The 51st series of the Richmond County B. & L. Association begins April 1st. How about taking out a !evr shares then? THE SAD EX-GAMBLERS' CLUB ROBT. N. STANSILL Secretary CAROLINA FORESTWEEK Week of March 16th to 23rd. Aside by Gov. . Gardner as varw Una Forest Week." Present Forest Fires It PyI The week of March 16th". to"; tk? Proclama- 4-i r 4.1,- flMTarnexv na - CarOma UUU Ul Wire T ww - J - Forest Week. Very fittingly : Arbor t tj:j -C 4-V.a TiTooIr "'rhe Day iaiis on rriatiy tt - object of this observation is to call to the attention ot eaucawrs,-.-owners, children in the "schools-and the public in general, the work being Hnno th Dinartment of Conser- .v.. " J x - Xtii rr vatifin and Development to Ofing (Continued on page twelve). : LETTER FROM 3)EEP Nick Dockery Tossed Bottle in Ocean Last Summer, and French' Girl in Belgiunt Answers It. (From Chapel Hill Weekly) An experience that come3 to one out of millions has been, the good for tune of Nicholas W. Dockery, of Rockingham, a student-in the Engir neering school here at the Univer sity. The long arm of fate picked up a tiny black object, tossed here and there by the mountainous waves of the Atlantic, carried it: to a pretty little beach on the coast of Belgium, placed it in the hands of a young French girl, and carried an answer back across land and sea., to "Nick" Dockery in Chapel Hill, y ; v Last August "Nick" was crossing the Atlantic enroute to Paris1 and a tour of Europe. As the WfesEHare sighted the English coaist 600. miles distant, "Nick" played" his ."trump." He enclosed a dollar bill and ia; note in a long-neck Scotch bottle; iii -the note he "wpte-Jbis name, addresa,the date, the latitude and longitude, .and a request' that of this, .message should, (Continued on page -sixteen) Campaign Managers Sedberry to Manage Bailey's Cam paign, McLeod to Manage Cam paign for Simmons. The Bailey-Simmons forces are be ginning a line-up In Richmond coun ty, with Managers for each candidate announced. Both managers are law yers, and both live in Rockingham the county-seat. Atty. M. C. Mc Leod is the county manager for Sena tor Simmons, while Atty. J. Chesley Sedberry will manage the interests of Mr. Bailey. DEATHS MR. HENRY THOMPSON MRS. ROBERT A. SMITH MRS. HATTIE ELLIOTT MRS. MOLLIE OVERSTREET MORSE Baby (Continued on page thirteen) TAX LISTING Tax Listing Time in April. The last Legislature changed the time of listing, taxes from May to Aprli and s you tax-payers would do well to keep this in mind. Tax listing begins April 1st. Elsewhere in this issue appears the names of the list-takers for each township and dates of their appoint ments. Look it up. A. G. CORPENING, Treasurer. i i I-- 1 I II II I Wl I I I II i - i - i . - : '1 15. - ----- -- -.t ..':v-'s?Vk;V 1: Photo by Morgan's Sludlo : GRAVES OF FLORA MacDONALD'S CHILDREN raves of the Two Children of Flora Fcma. They Lived and Were Buried in the Northern Part of Rici vr.orA County. An Effort is Said to Be Underway to Move their Doc?.-?6 to Another County. The County Historian is in Arms Aga:ist Any Such Desecration. Read Mr. Egerton's Article of - . Protect. Bounty history RICHMOND COUNTY, N. C Direction of C. E. D. Egerton County Historian RockJngnam, N. C. to Uesecrate Graves dfiGhildren of FlofaMacDonald Rwpf 0"J for Information . - it ... . f ' : tor Bodies. : County -. His isues Clarion Call Against RemovaivoYsJThese Bodies. In the northwestern section of : Richmond county is as beautiful and I wild scenery as is to be found any- wh-are. This section, now-somewhat thinly settled, is replete with the njiost interesting history of our coun ty. There were once important and famous estates located along the aters of old Buffalo creeHT. It was there that Flora MacDonald lived, tfiat peerless Scotch woman, of whom sjo much has been said and written. here were two children b.orn to her, who later died with diphtheria. These two children are buried in a now lone some spot, and their graves have been the Mecca of pilgrimages for the last century or more. There is no spot in America more sacred to the Scotch people. There is a marker for the two graves, and Scottish Lairds have stood bareheaded before this simple stone while the bag-pipes played the music of their clans. , And now I am informed and be lieve that it is intended to deliberate ly desecrate these graves and despoil us of the most sacred shrine the Scotts possess in this country, and move the bodies to a distant county. And why? And what about it, Clan MacDon ald; are there men among you still? Will you permit this? There was a time when no man would have sug gested it, much less planned it. And yet, if something is not done immediately the plan will be carried out. I am imformed and be lieve that special services are to be held this coming Sunday at Mt. Carmel church in regard to the re moval of these graves. And that during the week following, the bodies are to be exhumed and carried from our midst. I understand that money owsl invesi o mo I I tbrian Richmond County Building & Loan Association OFFICERSi C. E. D. Egerton, Preside W. L. Parsons, Vice-PresicsoA A. G. Corpening, Sec-Treat ..... . , -' MacDonald, of Revolutionary War has been paid or promised to certain parties and organizations, to permit and to further this plan. How much, Oh ye Scotchmen, will you take for your dead babies? If Clan MacDonald has not the man power, the money-power, or the will power to prevent this desecration, then I call on7 every man and woman in the county that has a drop of Scotch blood, to help. -1 am not of Scotch blood. I am not even a native of your county. But I have been chosen as your Coun ty Historian. And if this' is " not my plain duty, then, I; don't know what such an officer - is for. I have con sulted counsel,, and have been advised that the desecration of a grave is not lars for information, .whicb will lead to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who dig up, deface, Or f emove the marker or bodies from their resting places where they were placed by tender, loving hands a cen tury and a half ago. I am imformed and believe that consent to this re moval can be gained only through a special act of the Legislature. And if such an act is ever put through the Legislature there will be at least one member of that august body that will receive a doubtful welcome when he returns from Raleigh. C. E. D. Egerton, County Historian. Fire Truck Wadesboro Bowman Lumber Plant at Wadesboro Burns, and Rockingham Fire Truck Called Upon to Help. About 10:20 on March 15th, the Rockingham fire department was call ed upon for help by our neighboring town of Wadesboro. The Bowman lumber plant, just outside the Wadesboro town limits, was on fire, and the Wadesboro de partment did not have sufficient hose to reach it. Chief J. W.- Covington was called, and in a very few minu tes he and fellow-firemen and the big truck were hurrying to Wades boro. However, the Wadesboro fire men had in meantime secured addi tional hose from the Wade mill, and did not use the Rockingham equip ment. HAS DELIVERY TRUCK Mr. J. A. Seawell, groceryman of many years' standing in Rockingham, this past week emerged fr. m the bicycle delivery system to the use cf a new Ford delivery truck. MAKING MONEY SAFELY is not so easy unless you invest the right way, and the right way is not to follow the illuring get-rich-quick methods, which often promise much and perform nothing, but rather to buy one or more certificates in our building and loan association, which assures smaller profits but sure returns. Wm. W. L. M. B. mm 30 YEARS AGO ITEMS CONDENSED FROM THE FILES OF THE ANGLO SAXON MARCH 22, 1900. Messrs. Paul Whitlock, Jerome Williams, and Cameron Morrison and Miss Ida Morrison left yesterday morning lor Pekin to be present at the" marriage of 'the former's father, Mr. Neil Whitlock, of Wolf Pit, to Miss Ida Ewing, of Pekin, which oc cured at noon yesterday. We regret to learn that Miss L. E. Blakeley is quite sick. Mr. James Marshall of Wadesboro was in Rockingham Saturday. Mrs. Mansfield, of Massachusetts, is visiting Mrs. Alex Long. Mr. M. W. Leak is on a visit to Mr. T. B. Pegues, in Marlboro, S. C. A. W. E. Capel, of Troy, and D. A (Continued on page ten) Political Cards Two Announcements to Date. With the primary just twelve weeks off, the candidates are now beginning to filter in. In this issue appears two an nouncements M. W. Nash and D. Emerson Scarborough for the House of Representatives. FRIDIGAIRE DEMONSTRATION The HaUum Furniture Co. is this week having a special demonstration on the Hydrator feature of the Fridi gaire. The ladies ' are cordially in vited to drop in 5 and have this ex plained. - 1 Enrollment and Attendance in White Schools of Richmond . County for 5th Month, 1930. The enrollment, attendance, and percentage of attendance of the white children in the schools of Richmond County for the 5th month of the school year 1929-1930 is as follows: Enroll- Attend- School ment ance Ledbetter 90 82 91.1 Hoffman 253 212 83.8 Peachland 119 80 67.2 Ellrebe 675 618 91.5 Norman 83 61 73.6 Pee Dee 271 204 75.3 Zion 70 59 84.3 Roberdel 148 117 79. Covington 151 117 77.4 Crosland 58 44 75.8 Cordova 274 220 80.3 Osborne 65 51 78.5 Lewarae 94 84 89.4 Rohanen 816 656 80.4 3167 2605 80.5 1828 1139 85.7 987 823 83.4 2315 1962 84.55 Hamlet Rockingham Total City Total for County and City 6482 4567 81.67 Rohanen Friday Night "An Old Maid's Club" to be Present ed at Rohanen. "An Old Maid's Club" will be given at the Rohanen school auditor ium Friday night, March 21st, at 8 o'clock. All teachers are taking part. Admission 20c for everybody. Our New 51st Series Starts April 1st Save by the B. & L. f way! DIRECTORS: H. Entwistle B. F. Palmer Parsons C. E. D. Egerton Leath A. W. Porter A. G. Corpening
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