Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-11-14
WILD WITH JOY
Greatest Story Since Bethle-
hem Drives Our People
Wild With Joy. Never in
Rockingham's History Was
There Such A Day AS
Last Monday When The
Armistice News Came.

Never since the wise men fol-
lowed the Star of the East to
Bethlehem and the angels spread
the tidings of His birth, has
more joyful news been carried
to mortal man than was Monday
morning conveyed to our people.
Truly it was d message of peace
on earth, good will to men"
The Armistice has been sign
ed. The war ended Monday,
Nov. II, 1918, at II o'clock a. m.
French time 6 a. m. our tlme.l
The news of the signing of the
Armistice by the Germans was
flashed over the wires by the
Associated Press at 2:55 o'clock
Monday morning. Between 3
and 4 o'clock the Rockingham
Central heard the news, and
she at once proceeded to spread
it with a lavish hand. And right
glad we're folks to be rudely
awakened from sleep by the
: clamor of the phone bell when
the words the war has ended"
burst upon them. The editor OF
the Post-Dispatch was phoned
and by four o'clock he was at
his office; Billy Covington and
the typo-boys were shortly Sc
cured and by six o'clock the
Post-Dispatch was being printed
. as an Extra; by 6:3O news-boys
we're on the streets calling
Extra" By seven the Post
Dispatch was in Ellerbe and
Hamlet, being Of course the first
papers to reach those towns Civ,
% Ing the glad tidings. This paper
. is glad to have been the means OF
- first conveying such wonderful
- news.
;. By seven o'clock the folks be
, gan thronging the streets of Rock
y ingham. Bells began ringing
" whistles blowing, auto horns toot
ing and cut-outs popping. Boy:
appeared on the streets as If BY
= magic with horns; guns and pls
y tolls blazed; fire-crackers doomed
g e. AS the morning advanced tn
=. streets became more crowded
u The hour long sought had come
., Girls, many of them with fron
% one to a dozen sweethearts i
France, relaxed from the strai
-. ~ of waiting. All worry ceased i
70 the wild joy that the momentou
a struggle had ended. Everyon
~, was juDilant and happy. Wor
N, ~ was forgotten. The mills starte
- ~ work in the morning, but quicl
VI -, ly suspended. 1t was a day fo
VI, vi rejoicing, and not for labor.
0u Trucks and autos were bedecl
ed and paraded the streets. E
pecially attractive were the lars
trucks from Steele's and Entwist
I+h mills loaded with boys and girl
ha also the Everett Hdw. truck pac
- ed with young folks.
- A fetching sight was that of
ito long coffin, with the words "ka
lie er Bill" written on it, and tied
~ the rear of an auto; the Car dra
- ~ ed old Bill until the 'casket' /
al. came splinters.
In the afternoon the Post-D
arc patch again endeavored to ser
to the people efficiently; the Pre-
an. dent had addressed Congress
ole one o'clock, giving the terms
arv the Armistice. And so the pap
~, secured the substance of this
dress, with other news, over 10
distance, and at $50 appeared
ols the streets in the form Of a $
ond Extra. 1t was gladly gobblt
Several hundred papers we
sent by jitney to Hamlet, I
Dee terms Of the Armistice appeari
tier. on the streets full hour abe
J Of of the regular daily atterno
papers from Charlotte and +