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VOL. 23 No. 7
ROCKINGHAM, N. O, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 11. 1940
v ISAAC S. LONDON Editor and Proprietor
A Review
Plans
Underway
Of Happenings
Grand Jui5ays the Courts
Should Act More Severely
County Court, Collects $4,820 in Fines In 7
Months Compared with $2256- in Fines
from Old Recorder's Court for Entire '38.
to
rgamze
Band at R'ham High School For Last
6 Months of 1939
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Matter Will Be Presented Tb The Pupils
Week After Next When The Mid-Term
Examinations Are Completed.
MEETING WAS HELD JAN. 10TH TO
FEASIBILITY OF A HIGH
Plans are taking definite
shape for organizing a band
in the Rockingham schools. A
meeting' was held in the Mar
chants Association office the
night of Jan. 10th, called by
President Tom Wheeler, to dis
cuss with Supt. L. J. Bell the
feasibility of such organization.
Present were R. EL Cartier,
director of the school band at
Wadesboro; J. T. Matthews, Jr.,
band insrtuctor, and Philip
Seapark of the Bruck Instru
ment "company, both men of
Charlotte. " And several local
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Much Construction
Here During 1939
Estimate Around 50 Homes
Were Built In And Around
Rockingham In 1939:
Home-building activity in
Rockingham continued at a
high rate during 1939, with
construction prospects for the
coming year indicating another
busy twelve months.
Residential construction' was
a feature of the. year's develop
ments, and it is estimated that
at least 50 new homes were
built inside or within a stone's
throw of the city's boundaries.
This is just a conservative
estimate. It may have been
more or less, and does not in
clude the many new residents
built in the rural sections, Jjear
the city. The past year seemed
: to - mark a trend toward more
- town homes attributable in part
tb : ' Rockingham's beautiful
'4-RtyrrrrT- Patfrr- which
' ijay new homes ;go up there;
And will doubtless be still fur
ther increased by the availabil
ity of the new northern exten
sion of Richmond Park now be
ing developed by H. C. Wall.
Construction activity other
than residential continued at
a high rate in 1939. Looming
large in the public eye was the
new $25,000 Little theatre
which will be formally opened
next Monday.
A number of buildings were
remodeled or otherwise improv
ed during the year.
Fire Alarm Sunday Night
Sunday night during the sleet
would have been a bad time
for a fire. About 10:30, John
Gore phoned the department
that a Car. Power pole on N.
Randolph street was on fire.
The bell was not rung, though
Brock and the truck responded.
Blaze on pole, coming from a
live wire; Brock phoned Mana
ger Egerton, and the linemen
quickly clipped the wires there
and the blaze went out. The
town lights were off for just a
moment while the adjustment
was being made, but several
breaks occurred during the
nicrht from sleet-laden limbs
falling across wires and for a
few minutes putting light out
in that particular section.
STRAND THEATRE
FRIDAY, Jan. 12th
Jane Withers in
"The Arizona
Wildcat"
with Leo Carrillo
Fox latest World News
SATURDAY, Jan. 13th
DOUBLE FEATURE
George O'Brien in
"The Cowboy
Millionaire"
and Jane Withers in
"The Arizona
Wildcat"
Serial and Comedies.
Sat. Night Last Show
starts 10:15 p.
m.
Morning Shows,
Monday, Wednesday, Thurs.
at 10 a. m.
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DISCUSS THE
SCHOOL
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1939 Reviewed
In Jan,
a review
4th issue we gave
or Chronology of
the happenings locally of the
first; six months of 1939
the deaths and chief events.
And now in. this Jan. 11th
issue is gjven the review of
the last six months of 1939.
We suggest you file these for
some future reference.
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$125.50
CONTRIBUTED
From Richmond County Demo
crats to Jackson Day Dinne
Fund. 5
Went from County
County Chairman J. C. Sed-
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uerry raised $io.ou xor uu
Jackson Day dinner held at
Raleigh Jan. 8th but the bulk
of this will be used by Demo
cratic National headquarters
in liquidating the 1936 Part
deficit.
Attending the dinner irom
this county were Bob Steele,
Mrs. Archie McDougald, Miss
Virgie Perry, Ed: Cox and Robt
Sherrill. Others contributed,
but did not
attend.
WPA SCHOOL PROJECT
WORK! BEGINS JAN. IS
Wire Today From Reynolds.
T-
Supt. tsen Jan. llth re
ceived a wire from Senator
Reynolds jthat the county
WPA project for building
$40,000-, Home Ec-Gvra-Voca
.buildings at Kockingham and
nanuet -naa ueeu approvea
and would) , be released " this
week, so that work can start
J an. 18th oh the Rockingham
unit. The
county pays 55,
the WPA
4-5.
BISHOP PENICK SUNDAY
At 10
o'clock A. M.
Bishop Ed
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win A. Penick will
maa.e nis
annual visit to the
Episcopal cpurch at Rocking
ham this Sunday morning, with
services at ten o'clock. Two
persons will be confirmed.
The public is cordially invit
ed to hear t:iis gifted preacher
one of ;he silver-tongued
speakers of the South. You
can attend ;his service at 10,
and then hi ve time to go to
your own service at 11.
No Marriage Licenses
Only 7 marriage licenses
were issued by the Register of
Deeds for the entire month of
December and not a single li-
cense has
Dec. 20th
11th. been issued since
and it is now Jan.
"Gone with the Wind"
It
is likely that the "Gone
with the Wind" picture will be
shown at the Richmond theatre
the latter Dart of March. Thp
picture will come intact just
as shown
Atlanta
at it's
premiere in
December.
Ma '-V.
S5 xnrivers licenses
Issued Here Jan. 2nd
Thirty-five
drivers licenses
at the local state
were - issued
j highway patrol office oh Jan
2nd by License Examiner N. R
St ell, Jr., of) Raleigh, who has
control of issuing licenses in
Richmond and Moore counties.
Newspaper Institute
The 16th Session of the an
nual Newspaper Institute will
be held at the University Jan.
18-20, with a banquet at Duke
the night of the 19th. News
paper men o f national repute
tion will spe;
Seaboard
Leonard
34, fireman
ireman Killed
'erbert Hoffman.
n the Seaboard,
was Killed al
4:45 p. m. Jan
4th when struck by the over
head bridge iiaer Vass. He
was standinglon the tender pre
paring, to taking on water at
the Vass tan
Chronology of Events in Richmond, County for the Last Six Months
of 1939 as Condensed from Post-Dispatch Files.
IN JAN. 4TH ISSUE WAS THE REVIEW FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS
OF 1939. . HERE ARE TE LAST SIX MONTHS.
July, 1939
June 30 Farmers Bank statement shows . Resources of
$1,315,624, loans of $233,440 and deposits of $1,068,711.
July 1 Officers capture 50-gallon still in Marks Creek.
July 1 Alton Hartman leaves as news editdr of Journal.
His place is taken by Billy Whitted .of Fayetteville.
July 2 Mrs. Sallie Shankle and party returned from
5,360-mile motor trip since June 16th, to Wyoming.
July 2 Leonard Holcombe Cox and Miss Mary Louise Liles
married in Presbyterian church at Chester. :i
July 3 Margaret Reese, of Asheville, succumbs to injuries
received in wreck July 3rd 5 miles west of town. Her com
panion, Myrtle Bartlett, is injured.
July 4 Carl Wall, negro, dies of broken eck when car
loaded with 7 negroes overturns near Hamlet; 5,Others injured.
July 5 "Bing Crosby," canary of J. A. Seawell, died.
July 5 Leake Terry becomes agent for Anson and Rich
mond for Provident Life & Accident Co. off Chattanooga.
Office over Penney store. U
July 6 Postal receipts for June total $1,685, a decrease
over the same month in 1938 when $2,012 was collected.
July 6 H. B. Meiselman leases Little theatre.building.
July 9 Guy Mullis, 28, of Rockingham, is cut in affray at
DEATHS for MONTH of JULY, 1939
July 1 W. M. Hatcher
July 1 Edward A. Watkins
July3rr Catherine Kelly, co
July 5 Mrs. O. L. O'Brien
July 8L. W. McCaskill
July 9 Mrs. Sarah Thomas
July 16 Mrs. H. L. Hale
July 17 Daniel E. Hooker
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Many Cases Of
Drug Stores Report
Big Demand for
Medicines.
But Schools Not Hurt Much. '
In manycities of the state,
flu seems to be in much ; worse
form this winter than for many
years in some places almost
like the bad -days of the World
War.
Here at Rockingham there
are about the normal numbei'
of cases of colds and flu, but
so far they are not severe.
However, a full check, of flu
cases is net available at the
County Health office for the
reason that all the doctors are
not reporting their cases
promptly.
Inroads are being made in
school attendance, but so far
not sufficiently as to cause any
school to close. If you get a
cold, stay at home and begin
doctoring it; don't move about
with any fever.
Succeeds London as Sec.
On Jan. 8th Alston Stubbs,
lawyer of Durham, was named
as sec.-treas. of the N. C. Bar
Asso. to succeed Henry M. Lon
don who died Dec. 30th after
being sec.-treas. for 21 years.
On Jan. 2nd Atty. Wofford
Humphries, of Asheville, was
named Legislative Referenc
Librarian.
Edmund Caulk. Injured
Edmund Caulk, of Bennetts
ville, who is well known thru
out this section, received a fa
cerated chin and two broken
teeth Jan. 1st when his car was
run into by a truck on the
bridge over the Pee Dee river
at Socie
Hill, S. C. His car ,
was practically demolished
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DAVENPORT TO MOVE
Harold Davenport has rented
the building just vacated by
the former Culberson Motor
company, and will move there
Feb. 1st. He handles Chevro
lets, and opened here June 15,
1937, in the former Page build
ing, owned by Gore in Great
Falls section of town.
Born in January:
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Alexander Hamilton, Jan. 11.
Banjamin Franklin, Jan. 17.
Robert E. Lee, Jan. 19.
Stonewall Jackson, Jan. 21.
Pres. Wm. McKinley. Jan. 29.
Pres. F. D. Roosevelt, Jan. 30
Judy Garland, Jan. 10, '23.
Kay Francis, Jan. 13, '05.
Cary Grant, Jan. 18, '09.
... Oliver Hardy, Jan. 18, '92.
Eddie, Cantor, Janl 31, '93.
July 18 Mrs. B. T. McBrydt
July 23 William E. Hamer
July 24 Mrs. E. E. Spittle
July 24 John R. Hooks
July 27 MrsiB. H. Trues-
July 29 Coy C. Bethune
July 29 OdelH Bryant
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Flu In County
COUNTY NUMERATORS
The busiril&sf enumerators
for -this and neighboring coun
ties for the 1940 ; census, who
began work, J'H.nd,; are ? Y
:' RichnionSEw; StiEliei&e; -'
- Montgomery iJ. w-tsruton.
Chas; B. Cameron, Hoke
Luke Marion, Jr., Moore
Walter V. McCall, Scotland
John W. Liles, Lee
Quentin Veach, Davidson
Stokes A. Smith, Davidson
Rike L. Willson, Davie
A. S. Cassel, Wilkes
R. L. Huffman, Jr., Wilkes
Frank Woodhouse, Yadkin
Wm. H. Rooker, Union.
Names of population census
enumerators will not be an
nounced until the last of
March; that census begin early
in April.
County Visited by
Ice, Snow, Sleet
Mean Temp, for First Ten Days
27 Lower Than the Aver
age for 21 Years.
Sleet and Cold.
Schools Out 2 Days.
The first ten days of Janu
ary, 1940 have been much be
low normal winter weather
Continued on Page Nine)
POSTAL RECEIPTS
Postal receipts for year 1939,
were :
Rockingham $26,380
Hamlet ; 21,103
GEORGE McNEDLL DEAD
Member State Elections Board.
Col. George McNeill, 58, died
Jan. 9th at his home in Fay-
Jn .f,ra a nisjiome
eneviiie. tie naa oeen a mem
ber of the State Board of Elec
tions for about 10 years. '
TAX LISTING
NOW
Listing Changed
April to January
SEE YOUR TOWNSHIP
LIST-TAKER NOW!
New Theatre Opening
Next Monday, Jan. 15, 1940.
The . new Little theatre, with
465 seats, will open next Mon
day, Jan. 15th matinee 10 and
20c, .night 10 and 25c.
The Post-Dispatch on pages
4 and 5 has a very complete
history of the -movies and the
atres of Rockingham, dating
back to the time the opera
house was built in 1908. Read
and save it.
McLEAN LOSES EYE
Owen McLean had the mis
fortune of having a forty
penny hail hit him in his left
eye while driving it into the
new overhead bridge on Rice
Street, where he was employed
as a carpenter. His left eye
was lacerated which caused
complete loss of sight in that
eye. Dr. W. D. James removed
his eye at the Hamlet Hospital
Jan. 6th.
Mr. McLean's father is Law
rence McLean at one time a
Deputy Sheriff.
Moran in Roofing Business .
Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Moran
spent Dec. 29th here wit
friends. They last summer
moved to Raleigh where Mr.
Moran established a roofing
business at 303 N. West street
under the name of the Moran
Roofing & Supply Co.
"Oc BANK STATEMENT .
. The statement of the Farm
ers Bank, in this issue, " shows
the largest amount of resources
in the history of the bank.
The total is $1,577,305, of
which $1,338,564 represents de
posits. The loans amount to
$225,588.
WPA PROMOTIONS
Ed. Hurst who has been WPA
roads -project time-keeper for
the county for some months.
was promoted to WPA keeper
of records for Richmond and
Montgomery counties Jan. 8th
Bill Everett who had been at
Charleston since 1936, came
home Sunday and began work
Jan. 8th as WPA time-keeper
for roads projects.
Roy Kelly Scheduled
To Die January 19th
Unless given a reprieve, Roy
Kelly, former Albemarle man,
will die in the gas chamber at
Central prison in Raleigh on
the morning of Jan. 19th, for
the murder of M. P. Robertson.
former sheriff of Alamance
county, which occurred during
the robbery of a filling station
at Burlington early last year
only a few days after Robinso
had assumed the duties of hi
office. MERCURY 8 COMING
A Mercury 8 sedan started
from Charlotte some days ago
in a tour of Ford agencies over
the state. Prizes are given, to
the one guessing .how many gal
lons of gas it will take for the
car to go 2400 miles.
The car will reach Rocking
ham at 1:45 this Friday, at the
Mclnnis-Rummage agency and
be on display for a couple of
hours. - You are invited to call
and guess; you may win.
New Rector Wadesboro
Rev. W. M. Latta arsumed
the rectorship of the Episco
pal church at Wadesboro Jan
7th. He was formerly at Lum
berton and, Windsor. He gra
duated at Duke in 1926, and
from the Seminary in 1933; i?
a Pi Kappa Alpha; his wiff
was Elizabeth Harding of
Washington, N. C,. and she
! graduated from St. Mary's and
the University; they have a
son, aged 3.
He ;s succeeds Rev. Frank
Pulley who resigned to accept
a church in Florida ' last fall.
SUPERIOR COURT IN SESSION HERE THIS WEEK.
LIST OF CASES TRIED BEFORE JUDGE CLEMENT.
CASES TRIED
Judge John H. Clement con
vened . Superior Court Jan. 8th.
on the stroke of .10 -and he lets
no grass grow under the court.
He pushes matters. In fact;
the first day kept Court in ses
sion until 5 :45, ' and convenes
daily at 9:30.
The next terms are : civil
Feb. 5th with Judge G. V. Cow
per; cvil March 18th, Judge
Clement; criminal April 8th,
Judge Clement.
A Six Months' Grand Jury
was drawn, with H. E. Gibbons,
of Hamlet, as Foreman. This
Grand Jury made it's report
Jan. 9th and was discharged
for this term. However, they
will be on hand for April 8th
term.
The Report is elsewhere in
this issue. In it, the Jury urges
certain repairs in jail and
courthouse, and that a phone
be installed in a room next to
the main Courtroom. It com
mended the officers for their
efforts to keep the county clean,
but felt that violators were not
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WCHMOND COUNTY PAID $89,470
SALES TAX TO STATE AT 3 PER CSJl
For Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1939.
The 3 on sales paid by - 'consumers to the State of
North Carolina for. the fiscal year .ending June 30, 1939,
amounted to $10,948,761. ?; . -
Five counties paid almost a third . of this Meckleur f
burg,-Guilford; Forsyth," Wake and, Buncombe. : ,y- v .
rir peoioJIi rCar
county paid the smallest $2,540. It is interesting to see
how neighboring counties" came out
Richmond
Anson
Moore
.$99,470
70,382,
86,904 i
29,363
45,179
Montgomery
Scotland
Chatham
Union .'
Stanly m
Lee
34,3941
65,626
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Golf Course
Committee Is Trying To Make
Town Golf-Minded.
The Committee of the local
Country Club golf course is
trying to make Rockingham
golf -minded and to get every
person to go out and play on
the Country Club course.
If you're a "greenhorn" at
the game, but interested in
learning to play, then buy your
self some clubs and go out and
join the fun. If you haven't
played on the course since the
sand greens were transferred
to grass, then you re in for
treat.
Just Jump in your auto any
a round. There is only a
small fee.
VhjiJi'Llhj AStt-Uili 1U
LIST TAXES EARLY
Around 300 Listed in R'ham
Township Last Week.
The annual work of listing
taxes in the county for tax
ation went off fairly well the
first week. Around 300 per--
. 4 M - "Wfc t 1 .
sons 1 ustea . in itocKingnam:
township, leaving 2,700 yet to
list. - I
County tax supervisor Tom
my Covington issued an appeal
for taxpayers to list their taxes
early and avoid the last-minute
rush'. Persons who fail to
list this month are subject to
penalties.
PACKARD AGENCY HERE
On Jan. 1st Garland Norwood
and Glenn Baxley acquired the
agency for the Packard line of
cars, from the C. W. Upchurch
& Co., of -Charlotte, state
agency. Friends here will re
member Mr. Upchurch as hav
ing been at the Seaboard depot
about 22 years ago.
. ; The new agency will be
knoTn " as the Norwood Auto
Service; two new Packard s are
now !on display.
$4,820 COLLECTED
BY COUNTY CCURT
In Just 7 Months
This Money Goes to the
County School Fund. .,
A total of $4,820 in fines
was collected ' by the County
Court from May 2nd of 1939
up to Dec. 1st, 1939!
The court was formed on
April 14th by the County Com
missioners after the old Re
corder's court ; was abolished
j by the Legislature on April; 4.
The first session of the court
was held on: May 2nd, 1939,
with J. Chesley Sedberry as
Judge and Tom Parsons as
Solicitor, the former having
been appointed Judge : by Gov.
Hoey. H. F. Brown, judge
elect of the Recorder's court,
was ousted - from the bench
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Joined the Marines
A Number of ' Local Boys.
A recruiting party was
at
the Federal building here from
young single white men for the
l Marines.
I The following have so far
: joined, and will be furnished
i transportation to Raleigh for
further examination and then
enlistment. They will be' sent
to Parris Island, S. C. for six
weeks of training, after which
they will be assigned to for
eign stations, Marine barracks
or ship duty :
Daniel Earl Lathan
Everett Morris Lathari
Grady Henry Turnage
Rufus "Pete" Johnson .
Horace Geary Shoe, Jr.
Leroy Smith
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lhe two Lathan boys are
from Hoffman high schooi.
Turnae is from East Rockinsr-
; ha S attended ' RockingJiam
high, and has been working at
the local A. & P. "Pete" John
son goes to Rockingham high,
1 '. 4-1
1 n.oinof.v n; 1QAf rrtoll
; luuwo"
tcoiu, no utwc
Horace is 19: Leroy is also
19, and was in llth grade El
lerbe school this past fall.
RICHMOND
THEATRE .
Friday :r':.;
Robert Montgomery, v
Edw. Arnold in
"The Earl of
Ghicago,, ;
Metros Latest Release.
S aturday
Big Double Feature Program
F g All Star Super Western
"The Bad Lands"
with Twenty Stars.
Also Robert Montgomery
and Edw. Arnold in
"The Earl of :
Chicago' 9 .
Cartoon and Serial..
GET THE HABIT!
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