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Subscription Rates One Year Six Months $3.00 $1.75 Outside county area $4.00 Single Copies 7c Each. Vol. 40 No. 7 8 Pages This Issue ROCKINGHAM, N. C, THURSDAY .AFTERN, This Child Got Matters Mixed WW NEWS BRIEFS- FljoM HERE AND THERE ID) ft Impressions of a Second Grade Charlotte Child. Dave orrah wrote a clever story for the Charlotte Observer of April 22, 1956. It tells how a school Play left its imprint on the mind of his little daughter Elizabeth, in the second grade in the Charlotte city schools. It is so cute, and could well apply to almost any child, that we believe Post-Dispatch readers will en joy it too. So here it is, front page: "Nothing Ventured" "My daughter Elizabeth, mem ber in good standing of the sec ond grade, is enjoying the special programs her school offers in great profusion during the springtime. One day last week she came in all bubbly with news of the sixth grade's historical presentation. "Daddy! Daddy!" she scream ed, storming into my study (whieli isn't hard to storm into, because it's a table right in the middle of the floor). "We saw a play! A play! All about great men!" "All about what great men, cherub?" - A. m v s lAjhs oi mem. juigine neroes and muddy evil painters and " "Could that be ancient heroes and medieval painters, maybe?" "Yes. And one of the teachers wore a long white dress and re cited a poem about Andy Bar ton's footprints. Who was Andy Barton, daddy?" "I was going to ask you the same thing. What did the poem say?" v "It said, Andy Barton leave oemna us lootpnnts on tne sins of Tom." . "Oh! That's 'And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.' Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote it, 'Lives of great men all reminds . us, we can " vain a oeara. tie saia a poem. ioo, aDoui uie roa or paltry tear. ' "Well now, that's a new one on me. How did it go?" ' " 'Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight rod of paltry fear.' " ui course, aumpiing! I know it well." "And one girl wore a wig. She was hungry." "How do you know?" "She yelled, 'Give me liver tea or give me death.' " "It must have been auite a. play. Did they have the man who invented clocks with pendu lums?" "I don't know about him. dad dy. What was his name?" "Franklin, my sweet. Pendu lum Franklin. Now, run along and let me finish my work." LEGISLATURE Feb. 6 Heretofore the biennial Legis lature always Started in Janu ary, but this is now changed. The approaching 1957 session does not start tantil February 6 and will probably not ad journ until June 13. SMALL COTTON CROP Only 2,073 bales of cotton from the 1956 crop had been ginned in Richmond county to December 1st. j To the same date .for the 1955 crop the total was 2,669 bales. CONE LAyS 500 OFF The Proximity mill at Greens boro effective Januard 2nd dis continues the denim cloth, 500 workers, or production of and this lays off tone-twentieth of the total o.f 6,000 employed in the Cone mills. to be a shift in habits, causing the necessity mill. There appears consumer buying a stagnation in tifti'T'Tf H Mi the denim markets, and thus of closing this RHYNE HAD A BIG ONE Several weeks ago we printed about a 15-pound Indian-bread potato that drover Baxley brought to the office. And now R.,L. Rhyne, from above Ellerbe, brings one that weighs 24 lbs. The sweet potato is the edible tuber of a South American plant. But tlijs Indian-bread thincr is sunnosed to be noison- ous. Got any friends you'd like to send it to? Grows wild 1 - - mm ' ' ' How Garbage was Collected I Town Of Hamlet 46 Yean Ac Quite Different from the Modern Facilities Progressive Hamlet Now in the Year 195 STUBBS FLORIDA TRIP Mrs. Jennie and Mrs. J. M. of their thre Rockingham at mas night. On Stubbs and Dr. Stubbs and two children left o'clock Christ week's trip to Florida Jim arid Betty to tour around, while "Miss J ennie" will visit in West Palm Beach her daughter Rosemary Stubbs King and Jimmy, 5 Yz years old. They will get home January 2. DON HAMILTON IS HOME k Airman 2c Hamilton got' home Christmas morning afteri duty in NortbJ Tripoli. He will days, then be with his wife him then. Don Donald Gene 18 months on Africa, mostly be home for 30 stationed at the Above is a Dostcard nicture showing: how garbage ' was colic in Hamlet in 1910 that is 46 years ago. In contrast now would t- picture of the modern facilities. f . Hamlet now in 1956 has between 5300 and 6000 population. ' The railroad center was "born" on Sept. 17, 1876 iwhen John "D. Shortridge deeded to the Raleigh & Augusta Railroad Company a par cel of land, to cross the Central of Carolina track; ' The place was known for some years as "Sand Hill." But the HAMLET derived its name from John Shortridge who referred to the site of his little woolen mill as a "hamlet," hence Hamlet. The Town was actually chartered February 9, 1897 Hamlet is the main town in Marks Creek township; of 84 square miles, 54,760 acres and 1 0,483 population township Did You Register? Books Close Sat 'Nother Place to Register As an added convenience, people who will vote n city limits expansion, may register . ft4the Board of Elections of- - f tee in the courthouse today, y, Friday, and Saturday. This step was taken, according to county elections j chairman John Page Jr. to make regis tration easier. Wood's To Open Wadesboro Branch The Wood's 5, 10 & 25c chain is to expand still further, bring ing the total number of stores in the organization to 16. The new store will open in Wadesboro probably in Febru ary. The location will be in the present Eagles 5 & 10c building. The Eagles store has operated in Wadesboro for the past ten years but is now closing out as of January 1. The Eagles store, and the home in February of the new Wood's, is the second es tablishment from the corner of West Wade and North Greene streets in Wadesboro. The Wood's chain was started in Rockingham in the spring of 1934 with Roy L. Phillips as president. Mr. Phillips is still head of the firm, as well as president of the Richmond County Bank. air base at Myrtle Beach, and &nd baby to join and Betsy Cov- 1 mm, mr 1 An ington were married jury 1954. Their daugnter wancy Lynne will be two years old next summer. A nice s u r p r 1 s e Christmas gift to his family getting home Christmas , morn ing. Professor: "When Archimedes leaped from hi$ bath and shout ed, "Eureka! have found it," what did he mean?" Student : "The soap." Pay Cuts Jan. 1st Workers in Rockingham am States will find themselves with slight pay cuts starting Janu- arv 1st.--The new Social Security tax goes into effect on that date! The workers' tax will go up lr4tfcj of one per cent from the pres-j erit 2 to 2 1-4. And at the same time the tax the employer paytj winJikewis, tgo upj onftfyyrf ot. 1. Thus the tax altef t ary 1st .-."WiU total 44. r Even employer must deduct the tax! at the higher rate on wages and, salaries PAID AFTER January! 1st, even in cases in which the! wages were earned before January 1st. Christmas Was Clear And CccI H"9 WORK ON NEAL'S HOUSE Work has begun on erection of a dwelling fori Neal and Betsy Reynolds Cadiehi (and their pre sent two daughters) oh the 260x 188 lot in the tHangle formed by Richmond Avenue and Moore street in North Richmond Park. They now live on Fenton street. E. B. MORSE STILL ILL The condition of ex-Sheriff E. B. Morse remains unchanged. He was carried last Sunday to the Baptist hospital in Winston for medication and a general check-up but he is considered a very sick man. His wife and E. B. Morse Jr. went to Winston on Wednesday morning to visit him. The many friends of this former county official and long time merchant will hope for his ultimate recovery and return to his store here. MRS. VICKERY PARALYZED Mrs? G. C. Vickery underwent another major operation De cember 20 in Memorial hospital at Charlotte one of many op erations she has undergone in recent years. She is doing as well as can be expected at the present time but is paralyzed from the waist down, and will never walk again. MISS TAYLOR, WADESBORO Miss CarolinL Taylor, pianist of New York arjd Wadesboro, will be presented in concert at the Wadesboro High School audi torium on Thursday, January 3 at 8 p. m. undir the auspices of the Thomas Wade PAR Chapter. LIKKER PRICES HIGHER Wholesale whiskey distilleries have raised the price of their product, the fiifst hike since 1947. There have been price raises since 1947 but (these were due to tax boosts. Effective January 1, 1957, retail ABC stores will ad vance the price five cents a pint or ten cents on a fifth. But what does the average - likker drinker But let bread rise and the howl he'll care for that? a penny a loaf, raise. GOING TO Registration for the Jan. 7 city limits vote has been light, par ticularly in the Richmond Park Roberdel road section. The reg istrar for that section, Paul Scholl, reports that only 176 of the 655 qualified voters have reg istered to vote. In the : Maplewood-Watson j Heights area, about 180 have registered to vote, almost iuu percent of the qualified voters. The books will be open for reg istration for the last time this Saturday. For the Richmond Park-Roberdel road section, which includes Ann street, both Roberdel roads, Eastside Park, Knob HilU, Sherwood Park, De weese and Surginor streets, and Sunset Drive in Skyline Terrace, registration is at Taylors Grocery on the "old" Roberdel road. Peo pie may also register anytime before. Saturday at Scholl s home For the Maplewood-Watson Heights area, registration is at Terry's Grocery on US 74 by pass in Maplewood. Thomas Carter is registrar. Since this is a special election, only those who register will be eligible to vote. Anyone living in the areas since Dec. 7, is 21 years of age and meets state vot ing requirements can register and vote. The small number registered to vote in the Richmond Park Roberdel Road area indicates to some that most of the people are "for" expansion and have not taken the trouble to register, while those "against" expansion have done so. At any rate, a last minute rush to register is expected. Postal Receipts About $97,000 Over 5 Greater Than 1955. 211,000 Pieces of Mail Through Office in 7 Days. BOWL GAMES Leaving here Friday morning in their car fjor Jacksonville to see the Georgia Tech-Pittsburgh 'Gator Bowl game Saturday are Mr. and Mrs! Valley Allen and their Metropolitan friends from Wadesboro Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Scott. Leaving by train Friday night for thisTgame are Atty. F. W. Bynum and Dr. T. Boyce Henry. But Mr. Bynum will con tinue on to fliami for the Jan uary 1st Clemson-Colorado game. "Darling, I could sit here and do nothing but look at you for ever." "That's what I'm beginning to think." The total receipts for the Rockingham post-office for the year 1955 amounted to $91,508, but the total for 1956 will exceed. that figure by some $5,000, for a total around $97,000. Act ing Postmaster John McCracken will release the exact figures after the close of business De cember 31st. Mr. McCracken, on the job since April 6, 1956, reports that his staff handled 211,000 pieces of mail during eight days before Christmas, as compared with 174,000 for the same eight days in December 1955. The office was literally flooded with mail this past week. The most, mail ever handled in the Rockingham office was on Dec. 19, 1955, with 37,550 nieces. The second biggest day j was on Dec. 18, 1956, when the total was 34,253 pieces. For the record, here are the pieces of mail daily: Dec. 17, 1956 - 34,095 Dec. 18, 1956 34,253 Dec. 19, 1956 26,292 Dec. 20, 1956 27,668 Dec. 21, 1956 23,363 Mother Likes to Know "Darling," a mother reproved her daughter, "you were very late getting home last night. It's old-fashioned of me, but I should like to know where you were." "Certainly, Mom. I dined with what's-his-name, and then we went to several places you wouldn't know, and finished up at a little night club ... I forget it's name, but it's a cellar some where in town, so everything's all right, isn't it, Mom?" "Of course, darling. It's only tnat I just like to know." "About all a girdle can do is to keen, an unfortunate situation from spreading." Coarse Yarns A young man got a door-to-door job selling- yarn. At one house, a beautiful blonde answ ered the doorbell. "I work for the Amalgamated Woolen Company," the young man informed her. "Could I in- Miss Elizabeth Hall Died December 27th Miss Elizabeth Hall died this Thursday morning. Dec. 27, 1956, at 1:30 in the hospital at Banner Elk. The funeral will in Belmont Friday morning. Miss Hall had many friends in Rockingham where she often visited her close friend Miss Bessie Terry. Not only had Miss Hall been a frequent visitor here but she was for three years Sup ervisor of schools for Richmond county back in the 'twenties when L. J. Bell, was Superinten dent. She was a very fine lady, quiet, dignified and with close ties to friends and kindred. She was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Quincey Hall of Belmont. Surviving her now is a broth er W. M. Hall of Belmont and four sisters. These are Mrs. Boy den (Helen) Nims of 115 N. Cen tral avenue, Belmont; Miss Laura Hall teacher at Banner Elk; Miss Martha Hall head of the cata loging department in Prince ton University library; and Miss Ann Hall teachers at Salisbury. THREE BABIES DEC. 26 Three babies were born in Me- mnrisiT Virvsnit.nl at. Rnrlrinchnm terest you in some coarse yarns?" i tne day afler Christmas. These Her face lighted up Tell me some." 'Gosh, yes. . are o twelve noon uec. Zbtn a .T ,. , ,..c- i daughter to James E. and Jose MONROE HOUSE LIGHTS phine Coble Hurst Qf 16 Dale The Christmas lights at the street East Rockingham, home of Misses Mamie and Patj At 10:30 p. m. Dec. 26th a Monroe (and Alex) on Fayette- j daughter to Ernest and Augus ville Road show up especially i tine Orr Cole, well, as are the lights in front of At 10:43 m Dec 2(Jth a Jim and Ellen Nicolson's home j daughter to Ernest R. and Shir on Scotland Avenue. ley coble Covington" of EUcrbe.
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