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Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-07-03
Commissioners Land Sale.

North Carolina
Richmond County.
Under and by virtue of the power con-
ferred upon me as Commissioner by an
Order of the Superior Court of Richmond
County in the Special Proceedings entitled
Mary Mcdonald, ct al VS. Henry Rush, ct
al, will, on Monday August 5th, 1918 at
IL o'clock M in front of the Court House
door in the town of Rockingham, offer
for sale to the highest bidder for cash,
subject to contamination by the court
the following described tracts or parsels
of land in the Aforesaid County and State
and in Mineral Springs township bonded
and described as follows.
LIST Tract: Beginning at stake, two
pine pointers in the Strothers Branch in
line of the James Thomas 225 acre tract
and runs as said line line reversed west
30 chs. to line of the Allison Survey
thence as that line S. 10. Is chs. to a
stake, one blackjack pointer; thence S. 76
E. 25. so chs. to poplar on the bank of
said Strothers Branch; thence up the
various courses of said branch to the
beginning, containing sixty (60) acres
more or less.
End Tract: Beginning at a Spanish
Oak, sourwood and blackjack pointers in
Robert Poston's second line of his 300
acre survey and corner of Mcfarland
so acre survey near branch on the west
side thereof and runs with McFarland's
line reversed 36poles TO William ]. Thorn.
as line line 1i9 poles to Willis Branch
thence down said branch to Poston's
second line thence with that line N &C
west 81 poles to the b eginning, containing
"a acres more or less.
3rd Tract: Consisting of thirty (3O)
acres more or less, and being the land
which Henry Rush now resides
4th Tract: Consisting of ten (10) acres
more or less; and being the land conveyed
to Joshua Bostick by .. D. McRae and
wife by Deed dated Dec. 20 1873 and re
cordkd in the office of the Register o.
Deeds for Richmond County in Book Pr
at Page 514 ct seq.
For more complete di scription of the
Aforesaid lands reference IS made to the
pleading in the above entitled case.
This July End 1918.
W.R. JONES, y
COMMISSIONER
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-07-03
60 PER CENT
Richmond County Has Sub
scribed About Sixty Per
Cent of Quota of $432,806.
A Second Drive Will Later
Be Made.

About ten counties in this
State have so far raised their
quota in the War Savings
Stamps, and Richmond county is
not one of them; but it is almost
safe to say that she will be "over
the top" before the matter is
allowed to rest. So far about
60 per cent of the quota of
$432,806 has been pledged by our
county.
The cards of those who failed
to subscribe and of those who
could have done better but didn't,
will be checked, and a new drive
instituted later. A determined
effort will be made July 4th to
gain new and larger subscrip-
tons.
Very few of the precincts have
so far reported to Chairman
Gore. The mill employees have
done splendidly. Hannah Pickett
employees pledged $4,000 in
Stamps, Steele's $1,000 and Great
Falls $4,000. The other mills
have not reported as yet. The
Great Falls subscription makes
the average per capita per mill
employee of $50. In Steele's
township, precinct No. l, the
colored people subscribed for
over $4,000; the white population
about $4,000.
Practically all of the stores in
Rockingham have the War
Stamps and Thrift Stamps on
sale. When you make a pur-
chase, buy at the same time a
25-cent Thrift Stamp with some
of your change. You will be
surprised how quickly the books
will be filled. A good idea is to
have your name written on a
Thrift Stamp card at your "fav-
orite" store, and leave it at the
store and then with each pur-
chase add a Thrift Stamp there
to. That book will soon fill, and
you'll not miss the 25-cent pieces
that were required to fill it. Try
it. .,
The sales of Stamps the past
week at the postohice amounted
to over $1,000. The total sales
to date are $38,660. -.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-07-03
Order Numbers of the 152 Richmond
County Men Who Registered June
5th, 1918. Not Official, But Prac-
tically Correct. The Official List
Later May Make Some Slight
Changes.

Based on the order of drawing
of registration numbers at Wash
ington June 9th, the 153 Rich
mond county young men who re-
gistered June 9Th, 1918, will have
the order numbers indicated be-
low. The permanent order num-
bers, by which they will be des-
ignated by the board, will be the
order number indicated below
ADDED to the number 2343-the
highest order number of the men
registering in Richmond county
June 9Th, 1917. Unless this is
done, confusion would result.
Thus, if a man registering last
month has 125 as his order num-
Der, his PERMANENT order
number probably would be 2468.
But really, the order numbers
now lose much of their signifl-
canoe, for the filling out of the
QUESTIONABLE will soon cause the
men to be assigned to the vari-
GUS draft classes. 1t seems to be
generally understood that all of
the new men who are placed in
Class one will be called to the
colors by October LIST at the lat
est.
The Local exemption board
has not yet received from head
quarters the official list as drawn
at Washington last Thursday.
The order numbers given below
are prepared by the editor of the
Post-Dispatch and are not OFF
CIAL and are not prepared by
the board. The Post-Dispatch
secured the key from the daily
papers, but some errors may &C.
cur herein.
Homer F. Wilson, white, of
Route 4, is the first on the list.
Arthur Dove, colored, the last
man to register, is 34th on the
list. Everett Mcneil, whose re
gistration number was Is, is 10th
on the list. Joseph Howell Hay
wood, who was the first man to
register, is 85th on the list.
Wv" opposite the name shows
the registrant to be white; &C"
colored.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-07-03

Mrs. T. ]. Wilson, of Norfolk,
came last week to spend two
weeks with Mrs. ]. A. Porter.
Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Porter
went to Charlotte tonight for
two days.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-07-03
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Convicts From Randolph.

The Randolph convict force is
being disbanded, and half a
dozen of their convicts are being
hired to Richmond county. Road
Supt. w. B. Covington went to
Asheboro today to bring back
the men.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-07-03

IT PAYS TO TRADE WITH
r. 1. MCDONALD
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
COOPERATION IS ASKED
BY HOME GUARD FOR
FOOD FOR ENCAMPMENT

The Bemidji Home Guard, men,
bers of the Twenty-hrst battalion,
that is to go into battalion camp
during the Red Lake fair, at Red
Lake, is asking the cooperation OF
everybody who is disposed to help
in providing foodstuffs for the meals
Of the boys while they are in camp.
Citizens of Bemidji and farmers of
Beltrami county are all included IN
the invitation to help provide good
food stuffs, such as potatoes and
other garden truck, or anything
that will go to make up camp meals
The guard is in camp at it's own In
dividual expence, the organization
being being purely voluntary service
on the part Of the members and
formed for protection OF all Bel
trami county during the period of
the war, and the encampment Is for
the purpose or learning the details
Of military camp, with daily drill
and other military tactics. The
band Of the battalion and the hospital
corps, both from Bemidji will take
part in the encampment, and the
companies from Bagley and Mcintosh
will also be there.
If those disposed to help in any
way will bring their donations to
Carlson's Variety store or to Tropp-
mans department store by Friday
and Saturday of this week, the
guard members will be truly grateful
for the help Of the citizenry of city
and country.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
*PR0PUSK,' WORD THAT STRIKES
. TERROR MT0RuSSIAN HEARTS

of Foreign Affairs, I always found
that propusk issued to me a month
before admission to places far from
the aforementioned ones proved real
talisman.
Particularly useful was my collec-
ton of bolsheviki on my hotel, L. e.,
about every night. Despite the fact
that all entrances and exists of the
hotel were barred by armed soldiers
or red guardsmen, I needed only to
pull my propusk collection on the
"tovarisch commissar" to obtain COM
plete liberty of action. Only once
did my propusks, seem about to fail
me land that was on the occasion of
an important meeting of the soviet in
Petrograd, when the bolsheviki COM
missary wanted to know to what par
sty l belonged before permitting me
to proceed to the meeting. My impos-
ing proposk array, however, conquest
ed even him.
I knew a man in Petrograd who
obtained a propusk to see one of the
prisoners in the Peter and Paul for
tress. -. He got in all right, but found
he had to have another propusk I'd
get out. He stayed in.
The propusk is the bane of the
Russians life. The redeeming fea-
ture about lis that the soldiers CAN
not read them, so that very often one
could, if sorely pressed get by on a
Chinese laundry check
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09

recognized him at once. 1t was my
old friend Goldstein, who used to
draw soda at soda fountain in New
YorR's East Side. 7~."~&
stop in," he said, pointing to the
machine. l am going to the foreign
office and can drop you, at your
49,. ~
On the road he told me all about
himself.
"Kerensky and Chernoff are after
me-" he said. proudly. "They vowed
to get me first if they ever have tho
chance. l noticed that his East
Side English was still good
by the way" he added "This
machine used to be the Cars own"
There was Il smile Of satisfaction OH
his face. Shades of Ivan, the
Terrible! Goldstein riding in the
Czar's machine. l could hardly keep
from laughing, and had quite a job
to control the muscles of my face
until we reached my hotel. Gold
stein was still talking. He was
finishing his fifth speech ON the social
revolution.
"And say" lie asked, as was
bidding him good bye, chow can a
feller get back to America 2"
"Hock the Cars machine" 1
answered.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
IF YOU'RE NOT 46 YEARS
! YOU MUST REGISTER
IN VOTING PRECINCT

: This is the week when all the
males in the United States between
the ages of Is and As years old, in
elusive, must register at their re-
;spective polling places in both city
and country. This order under the
authority Of the manpower bill
passed by the national congress
means that of course that all who
have registered need not register on
the date set, Thursday, September 12
/ The age of As means that un-
til a man is 46 years old he is As
years, and all between the age of
As and 46 must register
I. Bemidji registrants must register
at their voting precinct polling
booths and all country registrants
must register at their regular voting
places.
The questions asked are few, but
it is understood regular question
naire must later be filled, so the
government will have complete
list of its fighting strength in tht
United States.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
SPIDER GACNON IS
AGAIN ARRESTED ON
BOOZEPEDDLlNG CHARGE

Frank Gagnon, more familiarly
known as "Spider," was arrested Sat-
urday night by Chief Brandt of the
federal Indian service and "Tom"
Void, federal Indian officer, the ar
rest being made at the soft drink par
lor conducted by Gagnon at the cor
ner of Second street and Minnesota
avenue. The visit of the officers was
made about o'clock and when Gag
non was searched a pint of whiskey
and small glass used in peddling
were found on his person. Gagnon
went to the county Jail.
Gagnon is no stranger to the boot
logging game in Bemidji. He has
served a "stretch" in the Beltrami
county Jail of three months and six
months in Grand Rapids, both on
liquor law violations.
Gagnon was arraigned before U. s.
Commissioner Simons, waived exam
ination, and was held in bonds of
$1,000 to the grand jury.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
GHETTO SODA BOY
RIDES CZAR'S AUTO
By JOSEPH SHAPLEN

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
New York, Sept HE was a boil
shevik cOmmissary and his name was
GOldstein.
Fate played grim JOKE on Nicho-
las Romanoff when it deprived him of
of his job and substituted in his place
innumerable little Cars named Gold
stein or something like it. Apparent
ly fate had in mind some OF those
Jewish pogroms Of which Nick was
such a devoted patron. BE it as it
may, the aforementioned Goldstein
was one of Lenine's chief lieutenants
and a real power in Petrograd. His
main job was to rule it high handed
ly over the entire PetrOgrad press,
and many a poor editor went to Jail
or suffered eavy fine at the word of
this guardian of the BOlshevik cen
sorship.
learned about Goldstein when
first arrived in Petrograd. was told
he was a terrible individual and in
addition to his job of wat ching all
local editors also kept an eye on the
dispatches of foreign correspondents
At last my chance came. had the
good fortune of gazing upon his face
1t was sterness itself. He wore a
warm Russian 'tojouka," high boots
and tall, fur soldiers hat. Danton,
Robespierre, Marat-how insignifi-
cant they were in comparison with
Goldstein. He came rushing down
the steps of Smolony, portfolio in
hand, at breakneck speed toward an
elaborately furnished automobile,
fanked on both sides by heavy guns
and red guards standing almost at
attention. l came closer. He looked
at me. He offered me his hand.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
NEAR BEER MAKING
IS ALSO PROHIBITED

Washington, Sept. 9.-Manufac.
turers of near-beers and substitutes
for beer, which have developed a
flourishing business in prob ibition
territory, it is officially explained,
are just as much affected BY the de-
cision to cut off brewing of beer as
those who make the actual beverage
Millions of dollars have been invested
in the business.
One of the largest breweries in the
country recently erected an addition
al million dollar plant solely for the
brewing of this beverage.
Essential Uses Indicated.
The principal uses breweries can
be converted to are the manufacture
of ice, cold storage, making Of yeast
for baking, rolling barley and grind.
ing grain for mill feed.
ALI these purposes would likely be
considered essential to the war or to
the civil population.
Further Steps Likely.
Manufacture of all other beverages
of the so-called "soft" variety, some
months ago, was curtailed so per cent
by the Food administration as SUI
gar conservation measure.
Further curtailment Of the manu-
feature of such beverages and min
era1 waters is under consideration
and may take the form Of 'urther
reducing supplies of sugar, fuel ma
terials for containers and food prod
ucts and limiting transportation
facilities
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
GENT WILL BE ADDED
{. TO COST OF SUGAR

Washington, Sept. 9.-Consumers
twill pay at least 1 cent a pound
more for; sugar. after the present
:stocks in the country are exhausted,
under the new price of cane sugar at
the seaboard, announced by the sugar
equalization board with the approval
$of President Wilson. -
The new price is 9 cents f. o. b.
aseaboard refining points for granu-
lated, less per cent to refiners, COM
pared with the existing price of 7%
cents with the same allowance for
:refiners.
Officials said the increase to the
consumer should be about i cent a
pound, though freight differentials
would make slight difference in the
advance in different sections of the
country, -
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
DEBS ON TRIAL AGAIN.
(By United rPess. }

Cleveland, O., Sept. 9.-Eugene
V. Debs, Socialist leader, under in
dictment on a charge of violating the
espionage law, was placed on trial in
federal court here today.
The indictment upon which he was
arrested here June 81 was returned
by the federal grand jury as a result
of speech Debs made at the Socialist
state convention in Canton, u, June
II.
There are 10 separate counts in
the Indictment. If found guilty the
miximum penalty would be fine OF
$4,000 and imprisonment for 20
years.
Debs has been the Socialist candi-
dat efor president at four elections.
On June 80 Socialists of the Fifth
Indiana (Terre Haute) district NOM
mated him as candidate for congress.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
THOSE unable !.
T0REGlSTERON
!. THURSDAYCAN| /
Do !; So ! J BEFORE B !
l5~.a =s&~'$'t = T. p +$@.a.,'-- e ~ I
If: Registrants Will Be. Out of
City They Are Permitted
:, -, r,-,.,:~.1 to Sign Up Now -'.,->s~.
CAN ALSO FILL CARDS
IF RESIDING ELSEWHERE
All Males Not Forty-six Are
Classed as Forty-6ve F and
! Must Register

The draft board is as busy as a
horse with two tails in fly time, these
days, and as the week passes the
activities will increase, anticipating
the registry next Thursday of all
males from. 18 to As years, inclusive,
excepting those already registered in
previous orders to do SO. ,.A
The board is busy right now regis
; tering all those who will not be here
: on Thursday for various causes. All
those who will not be here on regis
ytry day, may fill out their cards now.
s:All'wllo reside at other points may
fill out their cafds here and forward
them to their respective boards. ;
"A M an is As years old until he is
f46s5and must register if he has not
reached his 18th birthday anniver-
sary.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
BY JOSEPH SHAPLEN.
United Press Correspondent.


New York, Sept. 9.-"ProDusk!"
That is the word that strikes terror
into the Russian heart. There was a
time-when the Romanoffs still ruled
Russia-when another word perform
ed the same function. That word
was passport - The revolution abol-
ished that. One needs no passport to
live in Russia now, but if he wants
to go about he will have to have
something else. He must show the
holy propusk-the pass. One can ac-
'quire quite a beautiful collection Of
propuska, of all colors and for all
purposes, by living just one week
either in Petrograd or Moscow. And
it is best to be fortified with as large
collection of propusks as possible.
A. propusk that may be even 6 months
old is useful thing, as long as it
bears some imposing looking stamp
Of some soviet or government organ
fzation.
I. The propusks I had for admission
to various government buildings serv-
ed me in good stead in places admis-
sion to which they were never in
tended to give. But as SO per cent
of the soldiers who examined them
at various entrances could not read
anyhow, they proved mighty useful.
Whether 1 wanted to enter Smolny,
the Tauride Palace or the Ministry
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
l,l5O BUSHELS OATS
FROM FOURTEEN ACRES

What is claimed to be the best crop
"of oats every grown in Beltrami coun-
ty has just been threshed by George
Miller, known as the Potato King"
@and owners of farm lands are free to
: say it was the finest crop they, ever
saw. Fourteen acres were planted to
coats which came up so thick as to ap7
peat like one solid block. They pro-
sduced 1,15O bushels Of oats, frac-
.tion over 80 bushels to the acre.
Mr. Miller has in over 60 acres OF
potatoes this year and buyers are now
offering $1.2O per bushel to growers.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
TWO BEMIDJ SOLDIERS
REPORTED AS WOUNDED:
NAMES ARE UNKNOWN

In the latest list of casualties sent
to the war department by General
Pershing, appears the names of John
Hanson" and John Fisher, Bemidji,"
wounded, degree undetermined"
Inquiry at the draft board failed to
disclose those names called lin the
draft and inquiry at the recruiting
station failed to reveal any enlist
ment under these names.
Just who the wounded soldiers are
and where from is a mystery to mil
itary authorities in Bemidji
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
M0ORHEAD SCHOOLS OPEN.
(By United Press. }

Moorhead, Sept. 9.-The first ses-
sion Of the 1918-19 term of tht city
schools was held today.
In advising children of their cours-
es, Supt. M. l.. Jacobson called atten-
ton to the fact that the federal and
state educational authorities are urg-
ing the Importance of home training,
manual training, commercial train
ing, the sciences, history, including
the social sciences and government,
and English.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
NOW THAT AUTO MAKING
IS TO BE RESTRICTED WHY
(By United Press.)

Winnipeg, Man, Sept. 9.-Santa
Claus will not have to make his his
toric Christmas flight in motor We
hicle, if the Canadian government
grants free grazing privileges on 49,
600 square miles in extreme northern
Manitoba. A petition for the privi-
leges has been made by the North
American Reindeer Co., South Bend,
Ind. That the introduction Of rein
deer would help the food supply and
improve transportation conditions in
the far north, is the argument put
forward by the company
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
S5O.O0O ARE ESTIMATED
STATE FAIR PROFITS

St. Paul, Sept. 9.-The 1913 Min
nesota State Fair, which has broken
all records for attendance, will clear
at least $4,000 above all expenses
according to announcement made by
fair officials. They said that without
doubt the receipts this year far ex-
ceed those of any previous year in the
history of the fair. Although COM
plete check has not been made, it ap-
peared likely that the receipts would
reach $325,000 as compared with
$2SO,000 in 1917.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
AMERICAN LOSSES IN
THE WAR ARE 27.l63

Washington, Sept. 9.-American
losses in the war with the Central
Powers total 27,173, the war depart
ment announces.
The casualties are divided as fol-
lows: Killed in action, 5,240; died
of wounds, 1852; died of disease,
1856; died of accident and other
causes, 794; wounded in action, A.
677. and missing in action and pris-
oners, 1924.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
CAPTAIN MARCUM ARRIVES
OVERSEAS. SAYS MESSAGE

w. l.. Brooks today received wire
that Captain Marcum had arrived
safely overseas. Captain Marcum is
better known in civil life as DR.. Mar
cum, who closed his office and left
his practice to enter the service in an
officers training camp,
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
VISITED NAMESAKE.
SDOOner NOrthern-New

TSpOOneT NOfLHeTH- INeWS.J
SpoOner village was hOnOred yes
terday on the occasion Of the visit
here of Hon. Marshall A. Spooner of
Bemidii, in whose honor this village
was given its name.
This is the judges first visit here
since 1907 some years before the
great fire Of 1910
The Judge expressed himself as be-
ing especially pleased over improve
ments being made and was surprised
at the beauty of our village auditori-
um and other evidences of commun-
ity spirit, and: ct together feeling.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09

After a medical examination, new
clothing was issued to the men and
they were assigned to their quarters.
The warden announced that no dis
elimination would be shown against
the men, that they would be treated
in the same manner as all other Fed
eral OFFENDERS
The new I. w. w. inmates increas-
es the penitentiary's population from
a little over 1900 to about 1900.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
CONVICTED |. W. W. BEGIN
FEDERAL SENTENCES

Leaverworth, Kan, Sept. g.
Ninety-three Industrial Workers OF
the World, recently convicted at Chi
cago of violation of the espionage act.
have been delivered to the Federal
penitentiary here.
They were brought from Chicago
on a special train which was switch
ed directly inside the prison walls,
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
FEDERAL OFFICER W0LD
TRANSFERRED TO BEMIDJl

"Tom" Wold, formerly serving as
federal officer with headquarters in
Bemidji, and who for several months
has had headquarters in Brainerd, is
again in his old district, having been
transferred back again, caused by tn e
enlistment of Federal Officer Johnson
for special military work under the
government.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
THIS DAY in THE WAR

Sept. 9, 1917-M. Nikitine is
charged with partial evacuation of
Petrograd, in face of enemy advance
ment
Sept. g. 1916-Austrian reported
exacuating Halicz.
Sept. 9, 1915-Russians claim big
victory in Eastern Galicia.
Sept. 9, 1914-Germans are falling
back on the aMrne and Ourzq.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1918-09-09
KEYS AWAITING OWNER.

A bunch of keys are at the police
station awaiting an owner. They are
on a chain and cont tain one large key
and two or three small ones Owner
can have same by proving property,