Rockingham post-dispatch., 1918-04-04

result of blowing out the gas before
retiring. That was the conclusion
reached by Coroner Whitfield after
making an investigation.
or interest to organized merchants
and business men throughout North
Carolina is the announcement by Sec
Tetary . Paul Leonard, of Statesville,
that the State Merchants Association
will hold its 1918 convention at
Wrightsville Beach June 18, 10 and 20.
Fred P. Latham, of Belhaven, presi-
dent of the Farmers and Farm Wom-
ems State Association, is making elab-
0rate plans for the big convention that
Is to be held by the farmers and their
wives at State College, Raleigh, during
the latter part Of August.
Family Bible refuse to lie. At
least this is the declaration of United
States Commissioner Hugh Scarlet,
who detected an effort to change
birth dates in the family Bible of viii.
liam Williams, colored, of Person
county. Williams was before the COM
missioner on charge of violating the
seiective draft by failing to register.
]. F. Armisted, fiscal agent fro the
Empire Steel Company, North Caro-
lima corporation, is being sought by Of
ficers of Wake county who have war.
rents for his arrest in arrest and bail
proceedings, the warrant being SWIM
out by persons who have purchased
stock in the corporation on alleged rep
resentations.
Traffic officer ]. T. Dwyer, Of the
Charlotte police department has in his
possession an adz which was used by
his grandfather, Thomas X. Dwyer, in
helping to build the Merrimac near
Norfolk, Va, during the war between
the states. Mr.. Dwyer prizes the old
relic very highly, and members of the
police department were recently gwen
an opportunity to inspect t.
The man who invented the sewing
snschine achieved what he was after
When he stopped trying to initiate tho
amman hand. II you 60 into factory
Hca will see machines doing things
watch only human skill could do but .
short time ago. but the processes are
quite different from the manual meth
ID. The inventors have risen superior
% the formulae that nature would
mssm to have laid down for them.
After celebrating on the matter the
city commissioners Of Asheville an
nounced their decision to close all the
pool rooms and bowling alleys of the
city on June by refusing to issue
new license for the next fiscal year.
This action is taken as war measure,
a large number of citizen of the city
having appeared before the board to
ask them to close these places for the
reason that they promoted idleness
and crime.
The advocates of cattle tick in Cra-
ven county, that Is those who are op-
posed to the dipping vat route to de-
struction of this pest, have launched
their offensive against the govern
ment's campaign to eradicate the tick
BY dynamiting four vats. One was
destroyed ON the farm Of Mr.. W. R.
Pate about nine miles east Of New
Bern and the other three were few
MALES further west. The IDENTIFY Of
the dynamiters is unknown.
s'Out Of the tragedy of war there
can come no compensation. but ther
may come out of it some things thai
will lift us up and show us that NO
man loves anything he win not die
for" said Secretary Of the Navy 10.
sephus Daniels in an address before
the students of the State College of
Agriculture and Engineering. He
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youth, vouching for the high purpose,
the patriotic spirit, and the zeal of
the young men of today, who, he de-
| clared, are worthy Of the men who
won the liberties which now hang in
the balance"
TIL body of Charles Thompson, 8.
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
3Thompson, of Burlington, after being
i'm the water 73 days, was found just
below the dam at Swepsonville. Jan
luary IL, the boy, with some compan.
Hons, was walking some planks used
flor inspecting under the railroad tres
tile at Haw River and he lost his bal
lance and fell forty feet to the water
1below.
Efforts are being made to put to
work the 1000 interned Germans at
dHot Springs.
The war department authorized an
nouncement that ten officers of the
medical reserve corps have been or
dered to proceed to Asheville, N. c.,