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J. .THURSDAY, JANUARY 11. 1940 . pnrKnjawAM PnRTniSPATCH. RICHMOND COUNTY; N. C PAGE NINC 5 Stills Destroyed Big Raid Was Made Jaii. 2nd. Deputy C. C. Dutton, to gether with South Carolina of ficers, made a big raid along the state line on Jan. 2nd -and destroyed live stills, all on this side of the line in Marks Creek township. Three of the stills were full of beer ready to run. Four of them were 800-gallon outfits while the other was 300. They were found within a radius of 3 miles. No arrests were made and no liquor was found, but around 2,400 gallons of beer were poured out. County Visited by Ice, Snow, Sleet (Continued from front page) 5 per cent below the mean average for the first ten days of 1928, which "had been the coldest in 21 years ; and 27 per cent below the mean ' average for 21 "years. ; Low readings since Jan. 1, 1940: Jan., 1st Jan. 2nd Jan. 3rd . Jan. 4th Jan. 5th . Jan. " 6th -Jan. 7th . Jan. 8th . Jan. 9th Jan. 10th Jan. 11th 32 12 12 20 30 23 20 29 23 21 23 On Sunday afternoon, Jan. 7th. sleet began falling, mixed with trace of snow and even rain. It was general over the state. But little stuck to the paved roads, and so in this county the traveling wasn't so bad. But in all other sec tions, the highways were dan gerous for traffic. The schools of the county and town were closed two days San. 8th and 9th. The trees were laden with sleet, beautiful but damaging to many yards. Power and phone lines were damaged, but repairs . 1 room made. Winter had Nature in it's grasp. 1.22 niches of sleet-rain fell for the 24-hours ending 8 a. m. Jan. 8th. Bill (viciously attacking a piece of chicken) : "This must be an incubator chicken." Joe: "Why?" "Bill: "No chicken with a mother could be so tough." 'Are ypfi a good carpenter?" 'Yes." J; 'Then how do you make a Venetian blind?' Stick your finger in his eye.'' "Young that you times this "Oh, these guys clock." man, do you know have been late four week?" nossir, l ain t one ot what watches the The Boy : "My eyes are so tired, thisf evening." rne liiri: "wen, tney snouid not be. They've been resting on my knees for the past hour." Wifey: can walk. Hubby: can walk Oh, Bill, the baby "That's fine. Now he up and down at night r! O. First RL O. T. C. (preparing essay) : 'fWhat do they call those tablets the Gauls used to write on?" Roommate: "Gaul stones." "Do yoh drink?" "NO !" "Then" I tie my aoldthis quart, while shoe." The di and a drinks the baby ffer biiby water ence between a cow is that the cow to make milk, and drinks Tnilk." Woman's progress. 1900 : "Will yoii hook me up?" 1915: "Will yOu crank me up?" 1939:" Girl knocks ou thug who tried to hold her up." HIGH SCHOOL BAND (Continued from front page) citizens. The mid-term exams begin here next week, and so it will be week after next before the band matter can be presented to the pupils of the high and gram mar schools. If enough child ren signify their desire to take band lessons, and can pay the fee and rental . costs,' a band will be organized. Then later will come the problem of rais ing around $1200 for uniforms. If 25 pupils can be secured, the instruction fee could be kept at $4 monthly. If 50 pu pils, then $3. At Wadesboro, 75 students belong to the band. In addition to a monthly fee for' instruction, the pupil can rent an instrument for $3 monthly; and if it develops that the child can't learn, or wishes to quit, there is no cash outlay for buying an instru ment. If. the child keeps up the lessons, "and wants to buy the instrument, the money paid in rental will count on such purchase. ' At any rate, definite steps are in progress to get a school band, and the children will be given , a chance Jto show their interest as soon as exams are over. "What makes you look old?" "Trying to keep young." "Trying to keep young?" "Yeah, nine of them." so 'OU CAN'T 10 WRONG giving the public the best possible) in any business. Especially is this true in the filling 6f prescriptions. Fresh Drugs Expertly Prepared Prescription Specialists FOX DRUG STORE 'WE send it quick Phone 20" "How did your tulips come i up this spring?" neighbor's Airdale." Modern version: Whom the gods would destroy they first make eager to .get something for nothing. Relief At Last For Vour Cough Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause It goes right to the seat of the trouble to loosen germ laden phlegm, increase secretion and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflam ed bronchial mucous membranes. No matter how many medicines you have tried, tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding that you are to like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis .J - - . - - . . j . ; : ; BIG JA1IMY CLEARANCE AND LADIES' NOVELTY o 0 and runs through REDUCTIONS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS FROM 0 dJ00 SATURDAY, JAN. 20th 10 to 50 Several odd lots of merchandise at give away prices. It will pay you to visit this sale and buy your needs for months ahead as prices are on Specials advancing daily. Bedding s, lankets and Go torts $3.95 to $4.85 $2.95 U AJLE Ity Shoes, Reduced to $4:45 Reduced to $2.95 Reduced to $lv95 FOR CASH Store wide Clearance. Must clear the decks to make room for Spring merchandise. smeigC. HAMLET, N. C. 2o YEAR 1939 -REVIEW FB0I3 PAPER FIIES (Continued from Page Eight) get in full, besides raising $1300 for remodeling interior. Ori ginal debt $25,000, but by Jan. 1, 1940, it will be just $3,000. Nov. 15 Raymond -. White, assistant super of ; Hannah Pickett No. 1, is badly slashed with a knife, allegedly by Y. M. Newton and his son. V - Harold Hansen, amnesia victim, is released from the hos pital and starts for his home in Baltimore. Nov. 15 Cabin Kids, negro singers, appear in person at Richmond Theatre. Nov. 16 M. T. Poovey resigns as superintendent Hannah Pickett Mill No. 2; his place is taken by Kenny McLean. Nov. 16 Sketch this issue of John H. Anderson by RCL. H. C. Wall putting sewerage and water and streets in ex tension of Richmond Park, to north. Desirable new residential section to be developed. - Movement started Nov. 22nd for goal of $500 for commu-nity-wide Empty Stocking fund. Nov. 16 -Sketch in paper of old mills in this issue 1st cot ton mill in Edgecombe county 1818, 288 spindles, 20 handstand 64 bales year. 2nd mill 1822 near Lincolnton. 3rd 1829 at Greensboro, steam. 4th near Fayetteville .1836. 5th in Rich mond county at Great Falls site in Rockingham 1837; burned by Sherman's bummers March, 1865. Rebuilt 1870. Nov. 17 Nine holes at county. , club are completed and opened for play. Remodeling of the course included rebuilding of the greens and installation of water system to the greens. Nov. 18 Post-Dispatch moved to batienent. Nov. 18 McLeod loses $112 at ; Duke-Ckf bliriaame. Pick pocket takes it from him. Nov. 19 Mrs. H. C. Watgcfn died in. Charlotte. Daughter of John C. and Betty Cole Ellerbe. Born Nov. 0, V1860. H. C. Watson born Dec. 4, 1854, diedMay 7, 11926. Nov. 28-Duke alumni of Scotland and 'Richmond counties banquet. Nov. 20 Piatt Hatcher died instantly in auto accident. Nov. 22 Wake Forest Trustees vote to bestow honorary degree of Dr. upon Rev. Bruce Benton. So it's Dr. Bruce Ben ton now. Nov. 23 27 of the 31 members of local Rotary club attend- ; ed banquet of 5 clubs at Wadesboro, Gov. Hoey speaker. iGrover Wheliss local pres. $443.30 raised m month for 1940 Red Cross membership, un der Mrs. A. A. Walker, chairman, Tom Leath treas. $438.27 raised for 1939 by Rev. Robt. Man. Nov. 25 Wm. Munro Shand, Jr. and Evelyn McMillan wed. Nov. 25 Nicholas Dockery and Mary Wellons wed Smith field. . Nov. 24 Nancy Wannamaker, local teacher operated upon for appendicitis Florence. Name called for $430 "bank" at Cheraw in December; not present. Nov. 27 Charlie Oliver, white man, and Andrew Williams and William King, negroes, all of Durham, were given hearings and bound over to Federal court on charges of passing counter feit $10 bills in Aberdeen on Nov. 25th. i Nov. 30 New theatre Dec. 15th opened in Hamlet in Land old store. Nov. 30 Edwin W. Hurst, Jr., and Payne London wed here. Nov. 30 Post-Dispatch begins it's 23rd year here. For mat changed this issue from 31x44 size paper to 32x44 size. Postal receipts in Nov. totaled $2,137, increase of $347 over Nov. in 1938 when $1,790 was collected. December, 1939 Dec. 1 Over 8,000 people jammed the sidewalks here to see big street parade put on by merchants in opening of the Christmas shopping season. Parade included five floats, two bands, fire truck, boy scouts and campfire girls. 7 p. m. Friday. DEATHS for MONTH Dec. 1 Samuel S. Dawkins Dec. 1 Mrs! J. G. McCroskey Dec. 8 -Mrv-Zoll Quick -Dec! 9 W. B. Dawkins Dec. 10 H. H. Dawkins Dec. 6 Mrs.,Molissa J. Gray Dec. 11 Mary E. Honeycutt Dec 17 HG. Gaddy Dec. 18 H. P. Austin of DECEMBER, 1939 Dec. 14 Lee Sinclair Dec. 15 -Fanny Lewis, col. Dec. 21 Marshall F. Phif er Dec. 24 Ernest S. Reaves Dec. 29 Miss Ella Reynolds Dec. 30 -Henry M. London Dec. 30 Miss Sallie Little Dec. 30 Zack Grice Dec. 31 Mrs. Clara Pratt Dec. 1 -153 auto tags sold first day H. B. Knowlen 1st buyer. During. 1939, Rockingham office sold 5407 plates 4402 cars, 699 .trucks, 306 trailers. Dec. 1 Union Petroleum Products, inc. organzed by Phil Gibbons as pres. handling American Oil products. -Dec. 3 W. P. Horton announces for Governor. Dec. 12th J. M: Broughton announces. (On Jan. 1, 1940, A. J. Maxwell announced.) Dec. 4 County Commissioners decide to wait to elect farm agent to succeed O. O. Dukes. Delegation appears before the Board and asks that Dukes be kept. Dec. 4 Mr. and Mrs. Roy Walker in wreck near Monroe. Roy has broken ribs and collar-bone. He came home Dec. 24th. Mrs. Walker come home Dec. 10th. Dec. 4 County Commissioners named list-takers for tax listing that starts -Jan. 1st time moved up from April. Esso offers big prizes for babies born on' J an. 1st $5 for singles, $100 each for twins, $250 each for triplets, $1000 each for quadruplets, $5,000 each for quintuplets. (Later: 3 singles born in this county Jan. 1, 1940, first one being Mary Catherine Dawkins) . Dec. 5 Fritz Kuhn sent to N. Y. pen for 2 1-2 to 5 years. Dec. 7 Detail with 75mm gun from Ft. Bragg recruiting here. Dec. 8 3-act play by Seniors, "Lena Rivers." Cleared $87 for class gift for May, 1940, Commencement. Dec. 9 Cotton farmers trek to polls and vote overwhelm ingly for control 459 For, to 21 Against. Dec. 11 Hamlet Water Co. began building 150 ft. tall 100,000 gallon water tank at O'Brien dairy. Dec. 12 Doug. Fairbanks, 55, died of heart attack Holly wood, Cal. r Dec. 13 Nazi's scuttle their pocket battleship Graf Spee in outer harbor of Montevideo to escape capture or sinking by the British. Dec. 14 Auction sale is held in courthouse of stocks of the late' Fannie L. Steele. It brings approximately $90,000. Empty Stocking -Fund goal is set for $500 here. So far $304,. has been raised. Dec 14Addresses; in J this issue of Hearne J.5th Janniv. Dec." 14-RockinghamrHailroad lends one of it's two engines to Pee Dee No. r null -to generate 'steam lor pipes while new boiler is being- installed f or perfcaps'SO days. Dec. 15 Free shows "are -given at f Richmond theatre for under-privileged ? children of T the county. 529 rpirits and half-pints of confiscated bottled in bond liquor will be sold by county to some ABC liquor store in state. Cutler 'Moore is asked to place it in some county where liquor is legal. Dec. 15 Box with $65 stolen from Prof. Little's office in the school building at Ellerbe. Dec. 16 Dr. F. Koch gave reading of "Christmas Carol." Empty Stocking Fund committee raised $375 for needy gifts. Dec. 17 Jimmie Johnson revival closes here before capa city crowd. Approximately $500 was raised and given to him as a gift. The nightly collections took care of the "expenses which amounted to about $1,500. Dec. 16 Vice Pres. John Garner announces for President. Dec. 17 C. D. Moss, Jr., of Memphis, is instantly killed when his car runs into Queen City bus on hill going towards the river. Both the car and bus are destroyed by fire. 12 Pas- j sengers on the bus were removed without any getting hurt. J R. & W. Oil transit; Co. announces it will build $5,000 bus ; terminal at iye. Joints, and will . move , entire company nere from Gastonia. . .. . Dec. 18 Eight houses at Midway, destroyed by fire. Dec. 19 Frank L. Pickett appendicitis Hamlet hospital. Dec. 21 Post-Dispatch carries big story of A. J. Maxwel 1 for the past 40 years. - He was formerly, editor of Anglo-Saxon here. . "..; , ' ...... Dec. 21 Hough new hardware' store opens. Dec. 21 County Commissioners meet and retain O. O. Dukes as farm agent. Delegation appeared before them, ask ing that he be kept on. The Board unanimously voted to de cline the resignation and keep him as farm agent to J uly 1, 1940. Dec. 121 Post-Dispatch carries front page editorial urg ing, our people to do their trading at home. Dec. 21 Civitans elected Atty. Thomas H. Leath president for 1940. Rev. Robt. Man vice pres. ; Jay Helms, sec-treas. Citizenship cup awarded to Rev. J. F. Herbert, pres. for 1939. Dec 23 Lamar Caudle, Wadesboro, named Dis. Atty. Wes. - Dec. 25 -Son born in Wadesboro to Mr. and Mrs. Watt Parsons, formerly Rosalie Gore. Dec. 25 -Weather temperature down to 20, but fair and warm in day and up to 54. Fair on Dec. 22nd, rain Sat. 23rd. Dec. 24th fair, low temp, of 34. Dec. 27 Sub-Debs have dance, victrola, Country Club. CotiHion club Dec 28th. Basil Freeman music ; Sans Souci tea and night dance 29th. Moore's State college orchestra. Dec. 28 Local post office handled heaviest volume of Christmas mail in the history of the office. Over 65,000 pieces of first class mail were dispatched from here. Dec. 28- J ames Allen, young negro, is given hearing and bound over to Federal court on charge of entering a locked mail box in the post office. j Dec 28 Four cases tuberculosis were found in clinic' held in county week of Dec. 18th. . ' Dec. 28 Sketch of Judge Don'Phillips,' by RCL. Highest temp, in December was 72 on Dec. 11th, lowest Was 20 on Dec 8th and 25th. Rainfall for December was 2.28 in. 58 marriage licenses sold by Register of ; Deeds 'for t1939, compared with 117 in 1938. Medical exam required since April 4th,rl939. '$26,380 postal receipts, at Rockingham 1939, compared with $24,958 in 1938-and -about $16,000 in 1929. Lowest temp.-for last. day of 1939 Dec. 31st, was 23 deg. Express revenue for 1939 was 26.5 pe? cent greater" than for 1938, and shipments-were 19.4 per cent greater. . 753 births reported in county for 1939, against 330 deaths. 12 killed from auto accidents in county in 1939." 31 blockade stills were destroyed in county in 1939. Don't waste a moment if you your child scratching Prompt action brings prompt relief. TTreatmenfr V Sootheinsfsnt!y.Kglsthi uny mites mat Durrov ; under the sldn and caaal I thcitchin2.aei,onkK cheap and stati, A3 vi v Dr. F. B. Garrett EYE, EAR, NOSE & THROAT Office Over Wood's 5 & 10c Store S to 11 a. m. 2 to 4 p. m. Dr. Z. F. Long PHYSICIAN Phones: office 24, house 43. Office hours: 9 to 11, 2 to 4. Second floor Wood's Building, j T. Boyce Henry, M. D; PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Office 2nd "floor 'Watson Blag. Office phone 94, house 176. . PHONE 250 PRIDE One of mankind's greatest blessings is pride. J ust think how dismal the world would seem if people didn't hide their troubles. GROCERIES When you plan your gro cery needs, consider quality and the fact that you want STANDARD goods. We have them a clean stock, fresh. May we serve you? - Grocer Phone 274 WOOD ALL KINDS OF HARD WOOD AND PINE CUT ANY LENGTH For Stoves, Heaters and Open Fireplaces. Phone 55 MOSS BROS. C. O. Bristow, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office over Bristow Drug Store Second floor Cole building Nichols & Ellerbe DENTISTS Rooms 1 and 2, second floor Gulf Stream Service Station. R. T. Nichols and J. H. Ellerbe GRADE "A" MILK Cows Tested Regularly FOR BANGS DISEASE AND T. B. We Deliver Promptly. May We Serve Your Milk Needs? W. B COVINGTON DAIRY Phone 3613 Expert REPAI R SERVICE ANY MAKI OR MOD II W. R. Henry CITY SERVICE CO. We "Manufacture iUAETOlM A SPECIAL FERTILIZER TbbaCco Beds We use only materials in making our Fertilizers that are beneficial both to your crops and land Dixie Brands give best results with all Crops. FOR FLOWERS, LAWNS AND SHRUBBERY We Recommend DIGUCO DIXIE GUANO COMPANY Manufacturers LAURINBURG, N. C.
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