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The Washington times., 1918-01-04
A Beggar Died.

A BEGGAR DIED LAST NIGHT,
HIS SOUL WENT UP TO GOD AND SAID:
81 COME UNCALLED, FORGIVE NE, LORD,
DIED FOR WANT OF BREAD"
THEN ANSWERED HIM THE LORD OF HEAVEN:
"SON, HOW CAN SUCH THINGS BE,
ARE NOT MY SAINTS ON EARTH AND THEY
WOULD SURELY SUCCOR THEE?"
THY SAINTS 0 LORD" THE BEGGAR SAID
LIVE HOLY LIVES OF PRAYER;
AND WHILE THEY STRIVE TO SAVE OUR SOULS
WE PERISH UNAWARE."
Billy Sunday will do than TRY to save your soul
He will save it with bang He will try to keep you sober
stop those trips to Baltimore after whiskey will tell
plenty of plain truths to the men that
raise the price Of coal and food and the street gang
i'll treat the city
Incidentally after Billy Sunday has been speaking for
Continued n Last Column)
The Washington times., 1918-01-04
Think How Hot 1t Will Be Here
after-TOO Much Coal
And Don't Grudge Billy Sunday Coal to Heat His
Tabernacle.

Several citizens have written much amazement
suggesting that the Billy Sunday meeting be postponed
because it will take much coal to heat the big Sunday
building
Have readers suggesting that coal be saved and the Billy
Sunday meeting postponed asked themselves what the
temperature probably in the residence of Billy Sundays
principal enemy-Satan?
Would you fifty hundred tons of coal now and
be cursed with everlasting supply of red hot coal
through all Eternity? We guess not.
We print letter. and poem sent in by elderly
The Washington times., 1918-01-04

A dealer whose name / know en-
ploys a foreman who ought to be
foreman of slave galley. A shiv-
ering woman with an order asked to
have the order filled.
Haven't any," said the foreman.
The woman peeked around the coal
yard and saw a heap of it.
She mentioned the fact
az wouldn't let you.have a ton now
if / had a thousand" said Simon
Legree.
LIEUTENANT HEADLEY, the
boss of the traffic squad, says that
much trouble can be Obviated if the
new District auto licenses are fast
ened on cars in compliance with the
regulations. And these require that
the white light of the rear lamp
shall shine so that the numbers can
be read.
RAY PULLMAN used to be in the
coal business.
Lines Of people shivering in the
cold, waiting for orders from the
Emergency Coal Bureau, make peo-
pie howl with rage and pity, but just
The Washington times., 1918-01-04

New Year Day, 1918.
Mr.. Editor:
While our citizens are suffering,
and some dying, from the intense
cold, agents acting for Mr.. Sunday
have secured fifty tons of coal
Would it not nave pleased God more
If this coal had been given to those
who suffer? Why try TO save the
The Washington times., 1918-01-04

people from some imaginary suffer
ing and make them suffer in reality?
alas, the rarity of Christian
charity"
l enclose a short poem, said to
have been found written in a church
prayerbook. | read it fifty years
ago, and it still tells the truth.
c. S. W.
The Washington times., 1918-01-04

l notice a burning editorial in ths
Herald which states that on Sunday
next POSITIVELY it will announce
what has become of a long list Of
solons, among them KALANIAN-
AOLE of Hawaii, "gone in ten short
years from the Senate Of the
United States"
Why wait till Sunday. III give
you the inside information on Kalani-
anaole right here. He is in the
House of Representatives as a dele
gate from Hawaii, plays baseball
once a year, and his friends call him
Prince Cupid, and furthermore he
hasn't been gone ten years from the
Senate, because ne never was there
At this present moment he is in
Honolulu contesting the will Of the
late Queen Lii.
The Washington times., 1918-01-04
Handwriting on the Wall

Let thy gifts be to thyse and give thy another
will read the writing the king him
probation. Daniel v:I7.
The Washington times., 1918-01-04
Carl Nelson, of North Dakota

Carl Nelson, editor of the Cando Record of North
Dskoa says: eff 1900 lawyers have 81 assemblymen
New York State the farmers of that State ought
to be entitled to than % assemblymen."
The Washington times., 1918-01-04

LEE MOSHER, superintendent Of
insurance, is working up SONG inter
esting figures on certain kinds Of in
surance. Among these is FIRE insur-
ance. l believe when he Is through
with his studies the question Of in
surance rates will be settled, in the
minds Of the public. His studies
will let US know whether the present
rates are too low, too high or just
right.
The Washington times., 1918-01-04

RAY PULLMAN used to be in the
coal business.
The Washington times., 1918-01-04
HEARD AND SEEN

a block or two east you could have
seen lines Of people just as shiver-
ing waiting for a chance to buy
tickets to see Douglas Fairbanks.
The Washington times., 1918-01-04

This suggestion will hurt the feelings of lawy
who believe that they ought to fill all the Offices and
more and then fill them. But it will suit the farmers
suit all kinds of common sense
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-01-24
Sale Of Land.

Under and by virtue OF the powers
contained in certain deed of Mortgage
executed to the undersigned by w. |. Nc
Caskili on the End Gay of May, 1916
which said deed of Mortgage is recorded
in the Office Of Register Of Deeds for
Richmond county Book No. 100 at page
1872, | will, at the courthouse door in
Richmond County in Rockingham, N. C..
on Saturday. the End day of February,
1918 at II o'clock Nj. offer for sale to
the highest bidder, FOR CASH, the fol-
lowing described tracts of land, to-wit.
FIRST TRACT: In Richmond County,
N. {. beginning at stake in the line Of
the right-of-way of the c. c. railroad
the second corner of Lot No. in the
division made by John Mclean, and runs
as the right-of-way North 67 IL degrees
east 40 chains to stake, the beginning
corner of Lot No. !; thence North % IL
degrees East 6 chains to the run of Fall
ing Creek; thence up the run of said
Creek to the Bird corner of Lot No. 5,
thence as the line of said lot % IL de-
grees West chains to the beginning,
containing acres, more or less.
SECOND TRACT: In Richmond coun-
ty, N. c. being lot No. 7 in the John Nc
Lean survey in the division of the estate
lands of Harriet Jones' deceased, and
beginning at stake in the line of the
right -of-way of the L. c. railroad, the
second corner of lot No. 6 and runs as
said right-of-way north 81 IL west 4.70
chains to stake the beginning corner of
lot No. 8; thence north % IL degrees
east 6 chains to the run of Falling creek;
then5e up the run of said creek to the
third corner of lot No. 6; thence as the
line of said lot South % IL degrees
west chains to the beginning, contain
ing acres, more or less.
THIRD TRACT: In Richmond comfy,
N. c. being lot No. S in the John Mclean
survey of the estate lands of Harriet
Jones, deceased, and beginning at a
stake in the right of-way of the c. c.
railroad, the second corner of lot No. a,
and runs as said right-of-way north 81
IL degrees west 40 chains to a stake
the beginning corner of lot No. 6; thence
north % IL degrees east 6 chains to the
run of Falling creek, thence up the run
of said creek to the third corner of lot
No. a; thence as the line of said lot east
% IL degrees west chains to the be.
ginning, containing acres, more or less
This the 29th day of December, 1917
w. H. KELLY,
Mortgage
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-01-24
Sale of Land by Com
W. R. JONES,
Commissioner.
nlissioners.

By virtue of a decree of the Superior
Court of Richmond County, made at
special proceeding before the clerk en-
titled IN. A. Moore VS.. A. X. Atkinson
and L. A. Benton" the same being
special proceeding for the sale of the
land for partition among tenants in
common; the undersigned Commissioners
will, on Monday the 4th day of February,
1918, at IL NJ, at the courthouse door in
the town of Rockingham, sell to the high
est bidder for cash, house and lot lying
and being in the town of Hamlet, North
Carolina, on Mcdonald Avenue, known
as the J. A. Atkinson home place, the
same being 120 x 100 feet. There is To-
Gated upon said property good dwelling
and stables. Said lands being the lands
conveyed to ]. A. Atkinson by E. A.
Lackey and wife by deed dated February
%, 1908 and recorded in the office of
Register of Deeds for Richmond County
in deed book SIS on pages 139, etc. refer
ence to which is hereby made for more
complete description of said lands.
SAID sale is made subject to the con-
firmation of the court.
This January l, 1918.
L. D. ROBINSON,
FRED w. BYNUM,
Commissioners
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-01-24
Administrators Sale of
Real Estate,

Under and by virtue of the power con,
tanned in the will of Jake G. Hinson, late
of Richmond county, will offer for re-
sale to the highest bidder for cash at the
court house door in the town of Rock
ingham, N. c., on Monday, February, 4tb,
1918, at IL o'clock M. the following lot
in the town of Ellerbe described as fol-
lows, viz:
Lot No. l, known as the barber shop
lot, and for more particular description
reference is had to plat of the same re.
corded in the office of the Register OF
Deeds for Richmond county in book 76
at page 346.
This January 10, 1918.
MINOR T. HINSON,
Administrator, with the will annexed Of
Jake G. Hinson, decd.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-01-24
COMMISSIONER Land Sale.

Under and by virtue OF the authority
conferred on me as commissioner by De
cree Of the Superior Court Of Richmond
County, North Carolina, in the special
proceedings entitled Mrs. Di-2ie E. Steele
ct. al. heirs at law of Mary {. Broadway,
Dec. EX. Parte, will, on Monday the
4sh day Of Feb. 1918, at y O'Clock M. in
front of the courthouse door in Booking
ham, N. c., offer for sale at public auc-
ton to the highest bidder for cash, sub
ject to confirmation of the court, the
following described lsnda:
Lying in Mineral Springs township,
said county and state and being lot No.
4 in the division of the estate lands of
John M. Covington, decd, containing AZ
acres more or less and being the same
allotted to Mary c. Covington, daughter
of the said John M. Covington, decd.
reference to which said division is made
for complete description by metes and
bounds.
This January 2, 1918.
W.R. JONES,
Commissioner.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-01-24
NOTICE OF SALE.

By virtue of the power of sale contain
ed in a certain Mortgage Deed executed
on the 3lst day of December 1914. by
John Dunn and Leuteshla Dunn, his wife,
to the Bank OF Ellerbe and recorded in
book No. So at page PEP of the office Of
the Register of deeds for Richmond coun-
ty. North Carolina we will offer for sale
on the 25th day of February. 1918, at Il
o'clock, NJ, at the court house door in
Rockingham N. c., to the highest bidder
for cash the following described real es-
tate to wit:
A certain tract or parcel of land lying
and being in Richmond county, state
aforesaid, in Mineral Springs township,
and described and defined as follows, to
wit: Beginning at stake in the center
of the Norfolk Southern Railroad and
runs N. 81 w. along E. R. Bert's line
$50 chains to stake; thence S. As W..
along E. R. Bert's line ESQ chains to a
stake; thence S. So w. GAS chains with
Cox Lumber Co. line to a stake in the
center of the said N. S. Ry. Co. line;
thence with the center of said railroad
2.20 chains to the beginning, containing
one and four-tenths acres more or less.
This lot is situated in the town of
Ellerbe. N. c. and was originally decided
by E. R. Bert and wife to Cox Lumber
Co. ..
This 18th day of January, 1918.
BANK OF ELLERBE,
Mortgage.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-01-24
NOTICE OF SALE.

BY virtue of the power of sale contain
ed in certain Mortgage Deed executed
on the 9Th day of December, 1916, by
Henry Nicholson and Mary Nicholson
his wife, to B. B. Farlow and recorded in
book No. 100 at Page 252 in the Register
of Deeds office for Richmond county,
North Carolina, will offer for sale on
the 25th day of February, 1918, at IL
o'clock NJ, at the court house door in
Rockingham, N. E. to the highest bidder
for cash, the following described real
estate and personal property to-wit:
A certain tract or parcel of land lying
and being in Richmond county, state
aforesaid. in Mineral Springs township
and described and defined as follows to-
wit:
Beginning at stake, corner of the
three hundred acre grant to Alex c. Wat
son, and runs as line of said three hun
bred acres 80 chains to stake, the be-
ginning corner of the said three hun
bred acre tract in the south edge of
Broad-head branch, and runs S. Al W..
IT'S chains to a stake in the swamp;
thence S. 43 E 22.75 chains to the begin
ming, containing IS acres, more or less.
Also one mare mule color black, about
years old, name Lue. One mare mule
color black, about years old. named Ide.
This the 18th day of January. 1918.
B. B. FARLOW,
Mortgage.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-01-24
Agents Wanted.

Our new liberalized policies
are ready. Rates and net cost
reduced, new features added.
Life, accident, sickness and old
age benefits. Comparisons in
vited. Openings for good agents
and some District Managers in
Western North Carolina. Not
industrial. G. w. Patterson,
General Agent, Pacific Mutual
Life, 1915 independence Bldg.
Charlotte, N. G.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-01-24
Administrative Notice.

Having qualified before the Clerk of
the Superior Court of Richmond county
as administrative of the estate of Elbridge
Millikin, deceased, this is to notify all
persons holding claims or accounts against
said estate to present the same to me for
payment, duly verified, on or before
the 18th day of January 1919, or
this notice will be plead in bar of their
recovery. All persons indebted to said
estate, whether by note or otherwise, are
requested to make prompt payment
This, Jan. 18th, 1918.
Cornelia Millikin, admx.
Lorenzo Medlin, atty for admx.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-01-24
Insurance.

H. G.. Rancke wants to write
your Fire, Tornado and Automo-
bile Insurance. Will bond you.
The best of insurance companies
represented by H. C.. Rancke.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-01-24
1t pays to trade with R. L. Nc
Donald.
Executors Notice.

Having qualified as executor of the
estate of M. c. Ellerbe, deceased, late of
Richmond county, N. c. this is to notify
all persons having claims against the
estate of said deceased to exhibit them
to me or my attorneys on or before the
23rd day of January, 1919, or this notice
will be plead in bar of their recovery
All persons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate settlement.
This January %, 1918.
William c. Ellerbe,
Executor of the last Will and Testament
5@ of M. C. Ellerbe, deceased
Bynum & Thomas, attorneys.
Arizona republican., 1918-02-06
When the Coal Shortage Occurred

Never before has there been such suffering from cold the whole country east of the Rocky Noun tains endured, and is still enduring. The winter, it is true has been an unusually bitter but others have been just bitter We cannot lay the situation wholly to the war though the war has made unusual demands upon this country for fuel. Those demands were foreseen last summer could easily have been met by increased production during period when the next seasons fuel be prepared. But instead of an increased production had a lowered produc ton Secretary Baker made inadequate calcula- on; he left out of important factor and in sequence the country is shvering. We have had less coal than usual for domestic needs and we have fallen far short of requirements.
 All this has been brought about. by Mir. Baker with the best intentions in the world In bringing it about he had the approval of the great majority of the countrys coal who like MT Baker, did not see the hidden factor. More far-seeing than MT Baker and the coal using public had probably it. Secretary Lane had entered into agreement with the great coal operators for the fixing of price, that would have produced coal The people knew that tho price greater than it ought to be- They felt that MT Lane had made mistake; they could believe that he had wfully sold them out to their old enemies, the coal robbers.
 Mir Baker set the agreement aside and in doing so gained the paudts of the public. Coal going
 
 robbers had been brought to terms The position of MT Baker immeasurably strengthened among the people who knew they had been plundered for years by the coal operators. Everybody knew that. No doubt Secretary Lane knew that, but he knew something He knew that while the large operators could produce coal much below the figures he had agreed to- there hundreds of small operators who could not do so and he knew that if lower price fixed these mines must cease opera ton
 That is precisely what happened when MT. Baker permitting the need of greater production to be obscured by his proper desire to bring coal to the people at nearly reasonable prices, set that coal and learn from private letters from the east that consumers paying two three times the prices for coal they paid year ago and glad to get the fuel at that price The old law of supply and demand reasserts itself in spite of the fixed prices
 The production of coal is said to be beyond are enough for it the not avail able that the coal might well be .unnineG far consumers concerned. This is not the time year to produce coal for the winter of 19171s The coal producing for this winter last when Secretary Lane proposed to have it taken out and placed where it needed, at time of the year when the railroads could handle it.
 Probably next winter there will be coal enough for all. We likely to repeat quickly such a painful mistake as that from which the country is now suffering.
Arizona republican., 1918-02-06
ASSESSMENT LIN . BEES BRINGING
 WARM PROTEST

Protesting against the increase from 8 to s as the minimum valu- ation per stand of bees as recom- mended by the county assessors as sociation and adopted by the state tax commissioners, a delegation rep resenting the Arizona Honey Ex change appeared before the tax com missioners Saturday afternoon.
 The committee of bee men who ap- peared before the tax commissioners was composed of Peter Benson and Nels Benson of Palo Verde, B. A. Haskell of Buckeye and Martin Rohr- ig and MT. Linsenby of Tempe. The visit followed the annual meeting of the exchange which was held at Tempe.
 In substitution of the statement of the bee men that 5 per stand as a minimum valuation of bees was far too high, the committee exhibited to the commissioners, records of many sales of stands of bees at but little more than s4 per stand.
 Among the features that have con- tributed to the increased cost in the manufacture of honey, the committee declared was the fact that many farms in the county are being changed from alfalfa to cotton. thereby great ly reducing the feeding area for the bees Cotton plants, the bee men said, will keep bees alive, but will not produce honey. Because of the lack of food in winter, it has made it necessary for the bees to be permitted to live on their own honey. In many cases this has been insult ficient, the bee men declare, and it has been necessary to feed the bees sugar.
 Because of the stringent rules of the food administration limiting the amount of sugar that can be pur- chased at one time, the bee owners have placed their case before the food administration with the result l that they have been given permission | to purchase sugar in any amount necessary to sustain their bees.
 That the banks will not loan money on the security of bee colonies, wa: ] the statement of the bee men to thu | commissioners, the banks evidentl! not considering the bee business O a permanent nature, they say. Thl' was another statement made to beal out the claim of the bee men tha | the minimum valuation of $5 pc i stand was too high.
 The tax commissioners took tn matter under advisement until tn sitting of the board of equalizatio! which will occur in August.
 The bee men stated to the commis sioners that at the present time hone is largely used in the army hospital in France and for the use of re cuperating soldiers: that it was yer beneficial to the men just arlsin from the sick bed and that the hos pitals were using all the honey the could secure.
 B. A. Hadsell. one of the men ap bearing before the tax commissioner
 is considered to be the largest De owner in the state and has been l
 that business for 52 years. Pete Benson of Palo Verde stated that .
 present he has 600 stands of bees.
Arizona republican., 1918-02-06

actually accomplished. and thereby he has now and then pleasantly surprised
 When called upon to support the statement of Secretary Baker that would have a half million men in France early in the year and perhaps another million before the of the year. MT. Daniels baked at the last named figure. the first figure of a half million, though he agreed that could have that many but that admission throws light the tonnage that would be necessarily available for do not know how many already on the west ern front The number has been variously guessed at from 100000 to S0o,O00. We only know by inference from the of Mr. Baker that it is something below 5o0,0OO.
 Since Mir. Daniels declined to say anything about be assumed that that is preposterous to him as it seemed to Senator Hitchcock.
 According to estimates, the necessities of even 500000 American soldiers in France would keep from 2,O00,O00 to 3,500,000 of shipping constantly ployed We have about 100000 tons for all purposes, not nearly enough for handling supplies allies have not nearly enough tonnage for their own use.
 Regarding program of 5,000,000 in the of year. that is the program the de- partment and of Secretary Daniels, MT. Denman late of the shipping board contemptuously told senate committee the other day that that was dream
 In the meantime there seems to be nothing for us to do but wait until the end of the year to what has been done, though possibly MT. Baker in his examination today may shed light on the subject.
Arizona republican., 1918-02-06
The Coast Point of View

The San Francisco Chronicle bows to the Inter- state Commerce Commission decision abolishing the back haul but holds that it is justified It con- cedes that at present there is water competition to justify preferential rates to terminals and potential, but it claims that after the war it will be potential again and may be real. In the meantime therefore, suggests the Chronicle it would be well to keep up the fiction against the time when it may become a reality.
 An argument in favor of the continued discrim- of business conditions the coast and still stronger in the view of the Chronicle will be the disastrous disturbance of business conditions in the nter-mountain country, when water competition on the coast is restored and the back haul is estab lished. '''.t''
 We willing to take chances against that contingency will enjoy the advantages that will been secure, whatever else may happen But we do expect that that unrighteous discrimination will ever be re established so that there will be no occasion for re-adjustment It is quite unlikely that there will ever be any water competition with the transcontinenta lines except such they themselves will institute
 Out sders tried it and went bankrupt the coast is of point of If the shoe had been the other foot should feel about it, much as they do. But insist that point of view in the highlands of the hnerand is clearer than lat oi our friends on the sea level.