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Rockingham,
Center of Mill Activity.
Richmond County,
Agriculture and Peach Culture.
VOL. 28 No. 31
STORES TO CLOSE
FOURTH OF JULY
ROCKINGHAM . CjSIB!
Assistant to Secretary.
The directors of the Merch
ants Association met June 18th
and employed Miss Doris btan
ley as an assistant to Mrs. A.
N. Gillis, the Secretary.
The Directors also recom
mended that July 4th be observ
ed here as a general holiday,
with stores taking their usual
wnftsdav half -holiday July
SOAP BOX DERBY
Harvey McDonald to Go.
Rockingham is to be repre
sented in the state-wide Soap
Box derby in Charlotte June 27
by wee-mite Harvey McDonald,
son off Woodrow McDonald.
Harvey gave his new home
made sneed-wagon a try-out
Tuesdav afternoon on the Law
rence I street hill. The midget
car shows plenty of speed
The
car will weigh between
120 and 135 pounds. Harvey
is just 12 years old Dorn June
3rd, and remaining closed July j n He weighs 67 pounds
The Hamlet stores will be
closed the afternoon of July 3rd,
and all day July 4th.
Road to Be Paved
from East Rockingham
Bids are to be received at
Raleigh June 25th for grading
and paving the road from the
Beaunit mills at East Rocking
ham, eastward to Hamlet thru
Hylan avenue. This distance is
2.33 miles.
At the same time, bids will
be received to grade and pave
4.39 miles from south of Rock
ingham by way of the new air
port to No. 77 (between Hamlet
and Cheraw).
Boxing at Bennettsville.
John Wilder is taking a group
of local boxers to Bennettsville
the night of June 28th to take
part in a boxing program spon
sored by the VFW.
Wliliam White in Pacific
William F. White, S 1-c, is
now getting the home paper way
out in the Pacific at the Naval
Air Base on ah island in the
Marshall group. '. His address is
"Navy 824;. Fleet po, San Fran
cigco'' .W"iUiam enlisted in Oc-
toher, 1945. ; ; ,
He Is being sponsored by the
Rockih&rham Ice & Coal com
pany-f-for Bert McLaurin and
J. G. Bryant are always inter
ested an the boys. Back in the
late 'thirties, Mr. McLaurin
sponsored a similar derby each
year. His son, Joe Mack, won
the State title, and took part in
the National event at Akron
Ohio. And young J. G. Bryant
Jr., twice won the State Class
& tines.
Here's hoping young Harvej
will bring home the bacon.
NEW PLANES HERE
25 Men Taking Lessons.
One Woman to Solo.
Airport a Busy Place.
AUTO???
cowr
duke
Roy Singleton at Home.
Cpt. Wm. Royal Singleton re
ceived his discharge June 12th
at Ft- Bragg, and is now at
home at Marston,but visiting
around for a spell-Blanche and
little I blonde v daughter Nancy.
Roy was inducted Feb. 29, '44
ought never to forget Leap
Year! 1944, ,
Olen Smith Moving
Old Lewis Dwelling.
A hotisfr-thoving outfit from
Statesville isHhis week moving
the house next to the ,, Olen
Smiths-Perry Covington Sinclair
station, across street, irom ine
The house
grammar school.
was 'built about .40 years ago
The Rockingham-Hamlet air
port, 3 miles from each town, is
a busy place these days. Recent
ly a strong wire fence, wrtn
wv rt wias erected around
v "j ,
the north portions of the fieio.
In this county flow are aoout
ion mlots. many of them train
ees from Foy Barwick, operator
of the airport. And BarwicK
has a class of 25 students now
takincr Lessons.
The first woman in the county
to solo or learn to fly is Mrs.
fT.onrin She did her
J J Cl if v
"solo" today, June 19th.
On June 13th three new
Ercoupe planes wiere bought
and brought here. They are
alike, silver aluminum two-passenger
planes costing $3200.
One belongs to Dentist Reid
Garrett, just learning to fly;
one to Mr. and Mrs. Bert Mc
Laurin, bought for young Joe
Mack who is a good pilot now;
and one for Harry Patterson
and Lester Adcock (they went
to New York last week and flew
it back to Rockingham) .
Also. Foy Barwick has bought
for the port an army Stinson
Reliance, seating five people;
he brought it by truck from
Norfolk and is getting it m
shape for commercial work for
cross-country charter trips.
Yes, the county airport is j a
husv nlace : and "on J une 25th
the State Highway Commission
is to award, the contract - for
Grading: and pavmg the V -road
that runs by the airport con
necting i Rockingham withlthe
Hamlet-Cheraw paved rea4;No
77) , . v - v.. -Wmmw :
The Fields Ur GreensDOXi?.
Body Sent to Durham Today.
She Died fe-turay Night
Outskirts f ? Hamlet.
SECOND FRITtlARY
S SATURDAY
a ftlorea woroans bodv was
found early Sunday morning
behind some iDuaaesyin the col
a ehnoi. CTOUnda on thp
Laurinburg;;,highwasoutheast
edge, of Ha1mlet;had evident
Iv neen atJU'.-.w,s pvx.ci nours;
Voting from 6:30 to 6:30.
6532 Votes Cast May 25th.
About 4850 in 2nd Primary.
MORTALS
In Memory, Loved Ones.
For Memorial Hospital.
3 BOOTLEGGERS
WHOLESALE RAID
The second primary is to be
held this Saturday, June 22nd.
In the first primary May 22nd a
total of 6532 votes were cast,
but it is hardly likely there
will be more than 4500 to 5000
cast this Saturday.
name EMf Coroner It might interest you readers
7Getct:hces
Miss Shirley Brown tonight,
June 19th, receives her diploma
at the University of South Caro
lina. She is graduating with an
A.B. deeree. majoring in Socio
logy. Attending the graduation
at Columbia were her parents
and sisters.
Mrs. Hooks Comes Home.
r Mrs. Charles H. Hooks and
three children came back from
Norfolk last week and for the
present are with her sister, Mrs.
D. S. (Virginia) Flowers, north
of town. Mr. Hooks died some
months ago. She was the for
mer Allene Covington.
Court
tel Hours.
cast May 25th by townships.
Here are the figures :
May 25, 1946, Townships.
Rockingham 2072
1848
1780
Superior Gbutt fras in session
but two hdurslthisr week con
vening Monday F.t:;lQ? and' quit
ting for therWeel: t.fcoon.
There were1- aivurce cases
set for trial,( but v only seven
were handledslV uncontested.
Here are the,; seven who got
freed from each; fjr;
Harreton from'Ldw. Cherry
Cecil from C9ra B Johnson
Hattie front JcsephWojick
R. D. from Christine Brown.
Pauline from Lloyi Jones.
Dorothy from NvL. Rice
R. B. f rom :Ethet;Napier.
NHlEGOjLvpRAGG
FOil EKLCr AHON
Wolf Pit
Marks Creek
Mineral Springs
Beaver Dam
Steele's 1
Black Jack
Among the Memorials given
to the Memorial Hospital since
last week's issue of this paper,
we note :
T. P. and M. L. Wood in
memory of Lila Phillips
Wood and T. P. Wood Sr.
Mrs. Robt. E. Little,
in memory of parents,
Mr.-Mrs. W. L. Parsons
Robt. L. Johnson in
memory of his mother,
Mrs. Rosa L. Johnson
Mrs. Mial W. Leak, in mem
ory of her husband, Mial W.
Leak, $500.
Memory of Lieut. Wm.
L. Covington Jr. 500
In memory of their parents,
14 half -gallon Jars of
Monkey Rum Greene Street.
Police Chief is Detective.
Retailed $4.00 a Pint.
1000
1000
500
375 1 Mr. and Mrs. Louis Weill,
192
139
26
t
" Listed fo Ju-ie.:27th.
Three Tyoung , wh.te men left
this'Wednc iaymqrriing f or Ft,
Bragg, f o- ductic.'.-r- Eli W.
rnglish?rJi' "leorce'Ai Roberts
-idt wJbhr . Thrower
Thcnipsojalso
on hat he is 'a
in
comes from "some of the
Weill boys"
Here is the ballot to be voted
on this Saturday. The Post
Dispatch will as usual prepare
a chart at the courthouse Sat
urday night, and tabulate the
returns from every precinct.
And then Sunday morning you
can read the tabular results on
the Harvey Hough hardware
window, in front of the Post-
Dispatch office.
Remember, the polls open at
6:30 and close at 6:30.
June 22, 1946.
SHERIFF:
Q RAYMOND W. GOODMAN
" CARL HOLLAND
LEGISLATURE:
TOMMY BALDWIN
GEORGE S. STEELE
nortiprd "so it will front hogh Parker work there, hence W5? ISSSi
nL .trt between the.Kn- the move. Mrs. Fields was the nation, tney w' .
twistfe apartment and the new former Minnie Howell, sister of
nf tvTt-q w t. Parsons, ijoe.
I v J. A'
m-L5- ill ,rn HIati QwiifVi
This will give Olen Smith aj
large lot adjoining the filling
station, and he plans to erect
a suitable-building for his Hud
son agency.
DEATHS
CHRYSLER FOR SALE
For sale or trade, a 1937 4-
door Chrysler sedan, with radio,
heater, over-drive. Reasonable.
pp rvallev Allen at Allen's
store or phone 136 or 584-M.
JIM WOOD
G. ED. HINSON
MRS. A. M. GIBSON
MISS LULA LITTLE
TROY LEE WILSON
MRS. SALLIE SHANKLE
Rockingham s Finest
Entertainment
iTTIJJJ
Centers!
mm
Wednesday, June 19
"SO GOES MY LOVE"
Myma Loy, Don Ameche
Musical and Cartoon
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Wednesday Thursday
"Undercover Woman"
Stephanie Bachelor
Robert Livingston
Daffy Doodles, Cartoon
ea Melody, Headliner
Thursday, June 20
"Sing Your Way Home"
Jack Haley
Anne Jeffreys
Science, Sport and
Paramount News
Friday Saturday
"Sante Fe Saddlemates"
Sunset Carson
Phantom Rider 4, Serial
Beware of Redheads, Com.
Friday Saturday
Bob Steele, Joan Woodbury
"NORTHWEST TRADLi"
Disney Cartoon
Serial and
Pete Smith, Short
Sunday Monday
THE FRENCH KEY"
Albert Dekker
Evelyn Ankers
"Good Egg", Cartoon
Fbrest Commandos, Short
Sunday Monday
Barbara Stanwyck
Robert Cummings
"The Bride Wore Boots"
, , . Paramount News
D
Tuesday Only
"THE VIRGINIAN"
Joel McCrea
Brian Donlevy
'Woody Dines Out", Car.
HANNAH PICKETT
THEATRE
PHONE 297-R
Thurs.-Fri., June 20-21
"That's The
Spirit"
Jack Oakie
Peggy Ryan
Buster Keaton
News Comedy
Saturday, June 22
DOUBLE FEATURE
"The Cherokee
Flash"
Sunset Carson
also
"Pillow of Death"
Lon Chaney
Brenda Joyce
Chapter No. 10
"Federal Operator"
Some- of
these have been written to in
order to learn their occupation
al status, but they made no re
tilv : and so the supposition is
they are ready and eligible to
go
The nine men are:
Raymond Lester Cox 8-4-19
Oscar W. Dawkins 2-15-2b
John Henry Hatcher 5-22-26
Arthur T. Hutchinson 6-15-19
Albert Eli Shankle 4-27-23
Paul V. O'Shields 11-15-24
Marvin C. Solomon m 8-18-18
Charles J. Stogner 2-7-25
Grayson B. Watson 7-9-19
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0MMISSONERS: g
J(RockttffhamYI;A:;
- urn t - - - 'fi
juljigAdd
earl greene '
Other Contributors:
James B. Parsons
E. B. Liles store (5).
four days' pay.
W. S. Thomas
Mrs. W. S. Thomas
175
$25
Dr.-Mrs., W. P. Webb
Geo. H. McFadden Bros.
Memphis, Tenn
50
25
50
500
Crepsi & Co., Memphis 100
Mrs. G. a Baldwin 5
Fred W. Lucas & Co.
Memphis, Tenn 100
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Hutchinson
W. L May
(Marks Creek)
ARTHUR CAPEL
TOM ORMSBY
Police Chief Louis Allen play
ed the role of detective Mon
day night, and as a result three
negro bootleggers of Greene
street were arrested and are to
be tried in County Count June
25th. ;
The three are Tom Terry and
T. Gene Leak, old offenders, and
Staley McDonald. Each posted
$100 cash bond for appearance
for trial. Evidently business
has been good with them.
Especially since the whiskey
retails at $4 a pint and it costs
the bootlegger $15 a gallon. The
stuff is called Monkey Runs,
because it is made chiefly f ronj
molasses. ;
Chief Allen put on some old
clothes, a sloueh hat and pair
of spectacles Mondoy night
about 11 o'clock and with an
other man, a stranger around
here, went to Greene street (two
blocks from the police, station)
in search of a liquor sale. He
had no trouble buying it. Paid
$4 a pint for liquor from all
three men and used marked
money. Then he came back up
town, got several policemen
and made the raids, with search
warrants, on the houses of the
three men. In all, the officers
found fourteen half-gallon jars
of the white lightning, most of
it in a trap-door in the house ot
T. Gene Leak.
The three arrested men didn't
seem to mind it much.
They'll tell it to Judge W. S.
Thomas next Tuesday, or pro
bably plead guilty and try tdi
1 get off with : a stiff fine ; tho
their 'Jj past liquor reputations
may: probably , get thefrT roa4
'0 Just ef pre Chief :!nis AIT z?l
for eviction-permits :in order to t and fnosaleveould be' made a
substantially alter ; or remoaei .
housing accommodations should
apply to their CPA Area Rent
office, J. Frank Mclnnis, State
J. G. Jackson & Co.
Greenville, S. C. -
10
25
100
Jimmie Johnson at Ellerbe.
Rev. Jimmie Johnson begins
a two weeks' revival in the Me
thodist church at Ellerbe this
Sunday night, June 23rd, at
7:30. The public ' is cordially
invited to every service.
WED. THURS.
DOUBLE FEATURE
Buster Crabbe
Al (Fuzzy) St. John
ui .1. , n?j 71
AND
JINX FALKENBURG
"Talk About
A Lady"
Late Show Sat. Nite 9:45.
"Bell Of
The Yukon"
Technicolor
Randolph Scott
Dinah Shore
Gypsy Rose Lee
Comedy
.99
Sun.-Mon., June 23-24
"Duffy's Tavern'
Bmg Crosby
Betty Hutton
AlanLadd
News Comedy
FRI. SAT.
DOUBLE FEATURE
BILL ELLIOTT
"The Return
Of Wild Bmw
AND
"Nabonga"
BUSTER CRABBE
PLUS
WHO'S GUILTY No. 9
SUN. MOND. TUES.
CHARLES BOYER
JENNIFER JONES
r
"Cluny Brown"
News and Cartoon
CONSTABLES:
(Rockingham)
BEN BLACKMON
LEON PATTERSON
(Wolf Pit)
LUKE CHILDERS
EVERETT TERRY
Licenses Issued
for Marriages
Register of Deeds
for Richmond County.
June 12 George D. Snell 24,
Hamlet, Miss Lois C. Peele, 20.
June 13 Clifton R. McJLeoa
and Miss Anne Nicholson, Ellerbe.
June 15 Berchel Lee McNee-
lv Jr., 21, of Bethune, Jaiss
Frances Earlme McKenzie 10,
Rockingham.
June 15 John Raymono
Smith 33, Mrs. Colleen McLen
don Cobb 22.
June 15 Amiel Demi Pe-
gram 23, Miss Ida Marie Mar
tin 19, Ellerbe.
June 15 Jesse Davis and Lu
genia Bostick, colored, Ellerbe
section.
OPA Rent Executive, said to
day.
Mclnnis said that the first re
quirement of landlords facing
essential alterations or re-
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Lieut. Luther Ervin Pender-
grass sailed on the Cape Clear
from Janan on June 8th for
California and home.
Hietts Own Own Home.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Hiett
(the former Johnsie Boggan),
have recently moved into their
own home at 132 Prospect ave
nue, Findlay, Ohio.
Taylor Family Come.
The W. S. Taylor family mov
ed here June 12th from Fay
etteville Tommie and Timmie.
They are in an apartment over
Bob's Cleaners until they can
locate a house. Mr. Taylor came
here last fall and opened on
not. 3rd a radio shop on Pearl
street. Recently he rented the
former Slack shop and will move
with a first-class
111 otivi. w,;
sales service.
An interesting fact is that
his father is a Methodist
r.reacher and his wife's father
7 is an Episcopal reciur.
and saies-e'uldber made a
so . he came on back to Greena
street where it was plentiful.
They say - there's a headache
in every whiff of the'stuff; and
an asbestos-lined stomach is
needed to hold it.
Sblicitorial Committee - ; !
To Meet Here Friday.
The committe for this 13thi
district of six counties will
meet in Rockingham at thd
courthouse June 21 at 3 o'clock
to select a nomine to fill the
vacancy as Solicitor by thT
death June 12 of Solicitor Ed
win H. Gibson of Laurinburg.'
The foremost candidate seemsi
to be Coble Funderburk of Hbn
roe, who was runner-up to Mr.
Gibson in the May 25th primary.
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THE BEST IN ENTERTAINMENT. PHONE 77
HAMLET, N. C.
THURSDAY and FRIDAY: . .
"KITTY"
PAULETTE GODDARD RAY MILLAND
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CATITTmAY-
"RENDEZVOUS 24
WILLIAM GARGAN
WILLIAM GORGAN
MOON OVER MONTANA
JIMMY WAKELY
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SUNDAY and MONDAY:
"RENEGADES"
WILLI ARD PARKER EVELYN KEYES
(In Color)
rrTTT7cjT- a v WB,.ri'MP!STIA'Y': 1
"SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT
JOHN HODIAK NANUi uuil
COMING
"THE BRIDE WORE BOOTS"
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