Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-25
over THE LAND OF
/ THELONG LEAF PINE
SHORT NOTES OF INTEREST 10
CAROLNIANs.

The sick rate at Camp Greene.
Charlotte, is only 27,6 per thousand.
A postoffice is to be established at
! Bunn. N. G.
Capt. A. G. BreniEer, Confederate
veteran and capitalists OF Charlotte,
10 dead.
State Senator A. B. Cooper has as
sumed charge of the Wilmington Daily
Dispatch.
The adjutant general nas received i
call for 461 negroes to be entrained
at Fort Wayne, MINI. May /.
Permit has been issued to ths Char
lotte National Bank for their new SIS.
900 home to be built soon.
Morson McManaway, son OF the late
DR.. McManaway Of Charlotte died ct !
an aviation camp in Texas.
UuAy U6hOIy iu tuO SOWh Va NAS
bemarle has closed down on account
Of the shortage Of flour,
Junius L, Delinger of Newton was
q member Of thhe crew Of the missing
naval collier Cyclops, Of which no
thing has as yet been ascertained,.
Glenn Boyd, deaf and dumb man
abbout 60 years old was crushed to
death under the wheels Of q locomo-
tive at Charlotte,
A reward Of $50 has been offered
for the arrest Of Monroe Edwards, de-
serted from Camp Sewer. Edwards
enlisted at Raleigh.
Wake county has formed q Farm
Loan Club with 20 charter members
and loans have been applied for to
the amount OF $4,000.
'victory for the United States In
May 10 the story that is told on Sc
ries OF eggs laid by the hens Of Mrs.
J. p. Bragg. Of Bath.
Asheville will be the meeting place
OF the North Carolina Press Associa-
tion and the time will be date in
August to be determined by the presi-
dent and secretary.
rhnvoa. pnyla-A pacloY mall. 1.knnuyn
cartoonist Of the Baltomore Sun. and
who was known throughout the coun
try by the name of "Tom Bee." died
at the home Of his brother, Rev. Jonas
Barclay.
A firm Of cotton brokers at Char.
lotte, bought from J. A. Burton OF
Newberry, 8. c., 1880 bales Of cotton
at 80 3.s cents per pound. Deliveries
will be made to mills in the Carolinaa
is was explained.
The city Winston-Salem has in
Mrs. A. F. Young, a Food Administers
tor who is going the whole distance in
practicing what she breaches. Mrs.
Young, who with her husband runs
the Frances Hotel, announced that
from now until the next harvest no
wheat products would be served IN
her hotel.
Albemarle Milling Company, a -four
mill located in Albemarle, Staniy
county, has been closed by the Food
Administration because Of violations
of the Food ADMINISTRATOR rules
and regulations governing mills. The
Albemarle mill was using more than
2e4 pounds Of wheat in the manufac
! ture Of 1s6 pounds Of -four and was
also disregarding the Food Administers
tion's schedule OF mill feed prices
every negro in the Seaboard shops
At Richmond. Raleigh. and Monroe
have purchased Liberty bonds" was 3
sentence uttered at Monroe by B. L,
Hammer. general development agent
OF the seaboard, speaking in the
courthouse to good sized audience
He came to Monroe for the purpose
1 OF SSAl1uk LlUOlty uOAuS ~
employees and was prevailed upon 20
make an address. He sold $5,Soe
worth Of bonds to the Seaboard men
in Monroe.
General Julian 8. Carr, OF North
Carolina, resigned 40 an assistant 70
| Food Commission Hoover for 1000
conservation in the South and VIII
take up Immediately the duties OF
chairman Of committee appointed
by the Southern Commercial Con
gress 10 stimulate work in Scuthern
ship yards.
Thirty-two women. nineteen o.
whom sre white and many OF them
extremely good to look upon, have
been arrested In Wilmington for va
grancy
President Wilson Is to wear collar
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