Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-13


Albemarle-At last active work has |
been commenced on the improvement |
of the Albemarle-Badin highway. The |
convicts for north and south Able. |
marie townships have been placed on
this highway which. on account Of
heavy traffic has deteriorated consid.
erably during the past IL months.
Greensobor.-Notice is hereby given
that the Board of County Commission.
ers Of Guilford county for the Whit
sett special tax school district will
receive sealed bids or proposals for
the sale of $4,000 public school bonds
at the rooms of said board on Mon
day, July 8, 1918, at II o'clock a. m
Raleigh.-Twenty-odd counties de-
laying their election returns leave the
state board of elections without the
means for proceeding and unless there
are immediate responses to the press
ing wires sent out, the results in va
rious district sand counties cannot be
announced.
Winston Salem.-Emery and Eleand
league two young men who reside in
the southwestern part of the county,
were before United States Commits
s;oner Beckerdit charged with inter-
| fering with the prosecution Of the war
through seditious statements. One Of
the defendants is about 20 years old
and the other is some older.
| Gastonis "A deal was consummat-
ed recently whereby A. e. Woltz, Lu-
clio Lloyd. and associates sold the
Lloyd Cotton Mills nera here to T. M.
McEntire of Gastonia, R. M. Brannon,
representing Turner Halsey g. Co. of
New York, and w. F. Stroud of Chapel
Hill. The consideration is given as
$4,000.
! Wilson-The Red Cross society has
taken proper steps to keep the PEG
pie Of Wilson county correctly inform
ed as to those killed or wounded while
in action in the conflict overseas. The
first bulletin was placed in a glass
front, waterproof case attached to the
fiagpole on the courthouse green sew
eral days ago. It announces the death
of Lieut.. R. B. Anderson, killed in bat
tie May 20.
Neutrality-suspicious. B. Dockweiler
Democratic national committeeman
from California, has son at CAM
Greene, Charlotte, N. G. The son /:
Thomas A. J. Dockweiler, first lieu
tenant.
THAT is a fine place down there,
said Mr.. Dockweiler recently. "If the!
will Just give Colonel Miller a free
hand there he will make model CAM
Of ID.
Gastonia.-xAt its monthly meeting
the board Of county commissioner
decided to build an addition to thu
county hohme near Dallas, for thu
purpose of taking care Of the feeble
minded of the county, who are not !,
such condition as to admit them Il
the state insane asylum, and who ar
still a menace to the county II allow
ed to be ct liberty. Also to take car,
Of tubercular and pellagrous patient
! who become charges on the county.
Charlotte.-North Carolina was ash
cd to increase its production Of posl
10 per cent Of what it was last yeal
which meant total increase In tn
number of hogs of about 10000, bu
so far the state has failed. ACCORDING
to letter written to County Agen
Miller by J. e. Moses, agent in charg
OF the state pig clubs and swine 81
tension.
Washington--It was announced b
the shipping board that the construt
ton Of the concrete shipyard at Wi
mington is already under way.
RaleighAThe latest countrywide
figures on fire losses, in compariso
with losses within states gives Mort
Carolina a loss of $56,444 due t
matches, one Of the greatest of all tn
causes of fires in this country, an
shows that North Carolina losses, ha
the state lost her general averag
compared with other states, woul
have been $92.770.
Lumberton.-I. T. Brown was non
mated fer road commissioner in di
trict No. over A. e. Wilkerson, an
l.. l.. McGirt was nominated in di
trict No. 8 over J. A. Mccormick
the Democratic primary There wei
no other contests In Robson.
Durham.-IThe city and the ohsel
shain Construction corporation, CO.
tractors for the building Of the Ion
sewer line from the disposal plaI
north az she city to Neuse river, al
at loggerheads over the terms Of Il
contract.