Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-02-28
OVER THE LAND OF
THE LONG LEAF PINE
SHORT NOTES OF INTEREST TO
CAROLINIANS.

Three hundred and twenty-five mem
in Pitts county have been classed az
delinquents by the local board.
"A $500 damage was caused at Gas
tonia when five loaded cars were de-
rallied there, caused by mistaken sig
mails of the tower man.
Charlotte's new $250,OO0 postoffice
will be ready for occupancy by April
first. This is one of the finest federal
buildings in the state.
Lumberton now has curfew law
and youths under seventeen years
must not be found on the streets after
nine o'clock at night.
Major William Bernard, founder Of
the Wilmington Star, and one Of the
ablest editors in the state, died at the
home Of his son in Wilmington at the
age of 81 years.
Application has been made to the
comptroller Of the currency, John
Shelton Williams, for a charter to-
organize 1.-THE First National Bank OF
Roxbore, N. c." The capital is $4,000.
Although married and placed in
Class Nv by the Wake exemption
board, R. P. Michael, who registered
in Wake county but is now living in
Charlotte has offered his services 10
the United States and asked the coun-
ty board to reclassify him.
The quarantine on Camp Greene has
been lifted and the soldiers are allow
ed to visit Charlotte and the theatres.
Earle Neville must die IN the cleo
trio chair, "No Error" being the YER
dict rendered in the appeal to the SUI
preme court.
| Private Jaster D. Branton, Company
F, 18th infantry, found guilty Of forg-
ing several checks and endorsements
on the First National Bank, of Shelby.
N. c., has been sentenced by general
court martial to dishonorable dis
charge, forfeiture of all pay, and seven
years at hard labor in United States
federal prison at Atlanta.
Captain J. R. Day, one of the three
founders of the Blackwell Bull Dur
ham" branch of the American Tobacco
Company in Durham, and a pioneer
citizen, died at his home in the coun-
try north of Durham. His death fol-
lowed an illness of several months,
caused by old age and a complication
Of diseases. He was Y years of age.
While no definite conclusion was
reached at the meeting of the faculty
and students of Whitsett Institute, the
impression prevails that the work of
the spring term will be finished and
that members Of the senior class will
get their diplomas Whether or not
the building destroyed by fire will be
replaced by another has not been def
nitely determined.
Edgar M. Halyburton, who was TAX
en- a prisoner in the Germans first
raid upon American trenches, has writ.
ten his father as follows:
"Darmstadt, Germany,
Dec. 81, 1917.
"Dear Father:
"Will write you few lines. l am
we'll and all right.
write the First National Bank, of
Ell Paso, Texas, and tell them to put
my money on interest in savings de-
posits until they hear from me.
II will see you after the war is
over Tell Jim and Mae to write me.
Also Bub.
"Also tell the bank am here and
don't know when will get back, but
to put all deposits to my credit on
savings and give them my address and
tell them to send me statement OF
balance.
| "Well, will close for this time, and
will write you again soon.
with love to all,
"Your son,