Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-09

BARRIERS union Is the first body OF or
ganized labor in this ssction-per.
haps in the whole south-to go on rec.
ord by formal resolution as boycotting
all goods Of German manufacture.
Mr.. w. N. Gregory, president Of the
East Cotton Oil Company at Hartford
was elected president of the North
Carolina Cotton Seed Crushers' Asso-
citation at the eighth annual convsn.
ton of the association held in Raleigh.
Statesville can now boast Of a pop
ulation of between $500 and 5000, a
considerable bit Of territory being
taken in as result OF an election
last fall. II that part added is as good
as that to which it was added, every.
body ought to be proud.
Pennsylvania county Is putting par.
tisanship out of business for the time
being by the appointment Of com.
mittee to draft proposition to be sub
mtted to both arties. Perhaps Gov.
ernor Bickett's proposal is practical
wherever it is approached in the spirit
in which 1t was made.
An interesting fact about the work
on the grading Of the railroad which
is now being done in Boone Is that
Captain w. M. Hodges, an ex-Confei.
crate soldier, now So years old, is put.
ting in ten hours every day with his
mattock on the work.
The pool rooms of Raleigh were or.
dered closed at midnight on May 81,
when the city commissioners unani-
mously adopted resolutions declining
to renew city license and describing
pool rooms as harmful and unneces.
sary institutions, encouraging idleness,
fostering gambling and tending to in.
crease crime.
The r. J. Reynolds Tobacco COM
pany of Winston-Salem is filling gov.
eminent order for q carloads Of
Prince Albert smoking tobacco for
American soldiers in France, and 1926
cars more are to be shipped by May
Is. In addition the company Is ship
ping large quantities Of cigarettes to
soldiers in France.
Monroe people are very much inter
ested in the proposed cement high
way to Wilmington and are willing
to lend this movement their support
T. L. Riddle, secretary Of the Monroe
chamber OF commerce has written q
letter to the Charlotte chamber Of
commerce. pledging the aid of the
Monroe organization in the movement
Mr. Robert Webb and his son, Rob
ert Webb, were killed at grade
crossing near Selma by q northboun;l
Atlantic Coast Line train. Mr.. Webb
and his son were in wagon, which
was being drawn by a mule. The ami
NAL was also killed and the wagon
demolished. Young Webb was killed
instantly.
So far as the records now in posses
sion of the college indicate that 351
Elon students and alumni are with the
colors. Two of these are young ladies'
one of whom is in the navy and the
other with the Red Cross. A service
flag is to be presented the college on
commencement day in honor of those
who have gone to serve the cause Of
freedom and democracy.
The o. Henry hotel, Greensboro, is
getting along in fine shape. The
height Is now seen since the frame
work for the roof Is on, and this
building will be beauty. There are
rlmors again afioat of q flrst-class
sevenstory concrete building down
the street, a modern commercial no
tel, and the rumor this time is per
haps based on actual fact.
Provost Marshal General E. H
Crowder has announced that 100 mon
will be detailed to the Agricultural
and Engineering College of West Ra'
leigh on May is for two months sci
entific course for preparation in the
pursuits of such trades as automobile
mechanics, radio or wireless telegraph
ers, machinists, electricians and teleg
raphers.
Durham County: Economic and So
cial Is the title Of new one hundred
page illustrated bulletin that has just
come fro mthe Chapel Hill press. II
Is the second study of county economic
and social problems 10 appear in North
Carolina, the first being Sampson
County: Economic and Social issued
| In late 1917.
| It is learned that a large per cent
Of blackberry vines were destroyed by
the extreme cold weather the pas
winter. In some localities the entire
growth is said to be killed.
| No little excitement was occasioned
on the streets of Greenville when news