Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-02

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SHORT NOTES OF INTEREST TO
CAROLINIANS. II
Lightless nights have been abandon
ed in North Carolina.
Work has begun on the Wilmington
shipyard.
Joseph B. Underwood, postmaster
of Fayetteville, is dead.
Thousands are in attendance upon
Charlotte's great music festival
Durham has bought $1,250,000 worth
of the third Liberty loan.
Over $4,000 worth of Thrift Stamps
have been sold in Vance county.
r. j. Thornton. professor of journal
ism at the University, has enlisted in
the navy.
Miss. Julia Alexander of Charlotte
was the first woman lawyer to argue
a case before tee Supreme Court.
Three hundred and five additions
to the Baptist Church was the result
Of a revival recently held in Durham.
Congressman George e. Hood will
not be a candidate in the coming pri-
mary to succeed himself, owing to
bad health.
A sheep conference Is to be held in
Asheville May 2, when raising of sheep
will be intelligently discussed by ex-
perts.
Wheat estimates by the government
for North Carolina in 1918 are S202 900
against 100000 last year, and South
Carolina $4,000 against 100000 in
1917.
North Carolina ranks 2Sth in the
sales Of War Savings Stamps. Ne
braska ranks first with $1106 for every
man, woman, and child within her
borders.
State Food Administrator Henry A.
Page has called upon the city and
county food administrators in the
twenty largest cities and towns in
North Carolina to organize at once
and push vigorously an Irish potato
campaign.
There happened very peculiar
homicide in Ashe county. Elem Os-
born, of Little Horse Creek, shot Will
born through the heart and turned to
go away when Wilson Osborne rose to
his knees and shot Elem Osborne in
the back, then turned over and died
Immediately. 1t is thought that Elem
Osborne will also die.
The negroes, so far as we have been
able to learn, have fully measured up
to the demands Of the country In this
time Of stress. and certaingly this IL
true of the North Carolina negroes.
They have responded to the call of
the draft boards with fine spirit, and
their leaders have aided the govern
ment in every possible way.
The question of the standing Of a
minor son of an enemy alien in the
courts Of the state was brought into
the supreme court Is the case OF
Krachanake vs. Acme Manufacturing
Company from New Hanover decided
by the court when It found no error in
the trail OF the case in which the judg-
ment was for the plaintiff.
Ignorance is a menace greater than
the great German menace which
threatens this country, declared Lieu.
tenant Governor o. Max Gardner in
his address to the graduating class Of
the Gary High School at Gary. The
| address stressed the Importance Of ed
ucating the boys and girls of North
Carolina and the supreme duty Of ev'
cry American citizen to do his part to
win the war. He declared that 1t was
important that every child should be
given the fullest opportunity for an
education and he declared that every
citizen should sacrifice to the utmost
in order to win the war. Puny indeed
was the soul Of the man, he said, who
could not hear the cry Of the distress
ed world today.
Regardless Of the late heavy frosts
and freezes, come the encouraging
reports from various parts Of Wataugs
county that there are apples enough
left unkilled for q right good crop
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