Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-16
OVER THE LAND or
| THE LONG LEAF PINE
SHORT NOTES OF INTEREST TO
CAROLINIANS.

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Governor Beckett has pardoned Mar
vim King Of Lincoln county, serving
q term for second degree murder.
Governor Beckett still maintains his
original position" that the people of
North Carolina, from the mountains To
the seacoast, are patriotic and loyal to
the core.
The most satisfactory and the most
refreshing in its results of any trip
! have TAKEN" is the way Governor
Beckett characterizes his recent speak.
ing tour in Western North Carolina.
The Tidewater Power Co., of Will
mington, has fled application for an
increase in the gas and electric rates,
as has the Southern Bell Telephone
q Telegraph Co. An increase was
granted few days ago to the South.
ern Public Utilities Co Charlotte.
The house adopted the conference
report on the bill to base draft quotas
on the number Of men in Glass /, &C.
cepting the elimination of its amend
ment authorizing credits on quotas for
volunteers. The report awaits action
In the senate.
Uncle Sam is after deserters in
North Carolina. A number of noun
tain boys who did not understand the
conditions causing the government to
draft them for service in the national
army deserted. Many of them are in
danger Of severe punishment. A re-
cent order issued by General e. H.
Crowder, provost marshal, will cause
renewed efforts to round up all de-
serters.
Showing the unanimity of the de-
mand for change in the creed and
other portions of the ritual where the
words Holy Catholic Church" appear,
the Methodist conference meeting It
Atlanta, without debate and by q vote
Of 172 to u adopted the committee
report recommending the substitution
Of the words Church Of Christ" The
movement for this change has been
before the church for eight years.
The war department has authorised
the construction of an tce-making and
refrigerating plant at the auartsrmas.
ter depot, Camp Greene, Charlotte, 40.
cording to information obtained from
Maj. Clarence H. Green. Through
the war departments orders given
about two months ago 10 make sur.
veys for six additional quartermaster
store-houses were carried out, author.
ity to begin construction Of these big
buildings hos not yet been received.
DR.. Benjamin X. Hays, Of Oxford,
who has been on the state board ot
medical examiners. and who has been
secretary Of the state medical society
for three years and reelected at their
recent meeting, has resigned and turn
cd over the office to DR.. L. 3. Mo
Brayer and has entered the service.
He felt the call OF country 30 strong
that after consideration be felt q HE
duty TO give up his practice and Join
his comrades in the profession On the
other side. .
Commissioners W. q. Brown Of NiaA
Point turned loose John SAeshaa. Q
white man who witnesses swose he'd
said "there was yet enough CeeraAus
LEFT 70 whip Wilson and las czvwd":
that the Liberty bond campaign was
Q money making saAems- and that
those who had entered the army hom
the draft were foola, eta. sheshan
said he was joking. bat TIE witnesses
apparently did not think "a. TAus
another raving pro-German b fzss %
torment q tustice-loving town with
his gan.
Raleigh is soon to have e visit from
two of Pershings men, Just returned
from the front in France Thay are
Sergeant John J. Heffernan and PTb
vAte Schuyler Mawrer. These men
are among the fifty American soldiess
recently selected By General psrsAfnS
to come back 10 America 70 tell the
folks back home Of the part being
played by our soldiers n the great
war and to arouse the country to q
realization Of the task to which we
have set our hands.
The Wilmington city council will
grant the Tidewater Power Company
additional franchises for the extern
sion Of its lines in the southern part
Of the city to aid in the transporta.
ton Of materials and Of workmen for
the government shipyards. The dc.
Tails have been left to committee to
work out. Additional streets will have
to be built and orders have already
been given for the material.