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Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-09-05

James r. Jesse, cashier Of the Mex
leo Savings Bank, and wife will leave
Tuesday for n vacation in Colorado.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-09-05

The Rev. J. II. Hughes, pastor Of
the First Baptist Church, is home
from his summer vacation.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-09-05

Centralia Couple Gets License.
A marriage license was issued Mon
day to Obey Nelson Pollock and Miss
Leota Brockman, both of Centralia.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-09-05

Miss Lucy Denham came today from
Centralia to teach this winter in the
Mcmillan High School. She will live
at Miss Martha Spenee's on East Mon
roe street.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-06
Fatal Auto Accident.

w. A. Childers, superintendent
of Steele's Mills, was instantly
killed last Sunday morning about
$3.50 o'clock when his car ran off
a flll, overturned and penned him
between it and a tree.
In the Car, an Overland, were
J. Stogner, Pete Murphy and a
MIR. Smith. The party left the
city, on their return to Steele's
Mills, about three o'clock Sunday
morning. The place of the acct
dent was three miles from town
on the Cheraw road, on a nine
loot fill; the road at this point is
10 feet wide. The members of
the party state that the car was
not being driven at an excessive
rate, and cannot account for Chill
ders getting too near the edge of
the fill. At any rate, the car
overturned, land penned the driver
between the seat and a tree.
Death was instantaneous. None
of the other three occupants were
hurt. Over an hour elapsed be-
fore the heavy car could be re-
moved from the crushed body of
the deceased.
= The funeral services were held
from his home at, Steele's Mills
Monday afternoon by Rev. Mr..
Watson, and interment at Mizpah
cemetery. Surviving are his wife
and four children. He was SO
years of age, and had been
superintendent of this mill for IS
months, prior to that time being
connected with the Entwistle
mill. He was originally from
Castor county.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-06
Cole-Marks Wedding.

Cards have been issued tc
friends announcing the marriage
on Thursday OF last week of Miss
Sallie Tom Marks to Mr.. Thomas
Talmage Cole. The wedding was
very quitely solemnized by Rev.
Bruce Benton at the home of ].
A. Marks at 9 o'clock Thursday
night. and the couple left at once
for a bridal trip to San Francisco
and other western cities. They
will be at home at the Selwyn,
hotel, Charlotte, after July 18th.
The many friends of the young
couple join in wishing them every
happiness.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-06


The Y. w. A. of the Baptist
church had a delightful meeting
with Mrs. James Thredgill, last
Friday night. The members of
the socihty brought sewing, and
after busying themselves for a
while put their work aside, and
spent quite a while chatting. The
hostess served a delicious ice
course. Those present were:
Misses Long, Dockery, Mcintosh,
Turner, Dunn, Poplin, Sharpe,
Shaw, Ingram, McCollum and
Ratliff.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-06

Misses Ruby Ivey and Kath-
ryn Morehead left this morning
for Charlotte. i
Services at Episcopal church
by Rev. Mr.. Cheatham next Sun
day morning and night,
Mrs. G. G. Shannonhouse, Jr.,
arrived Tuesday from Richmond
to visit her mother, Mrs. Willie
Stansill.
Miss Irene Prince, of Laurin-
burg, came Tuesday night to
visit Miss Ruth Harrison. She
expects to return Saturday.
Miss Sallie E. Blake returned
to her home at Tallahassee, Fla,
Wednesday after having visited
Mrs. M. H. Fowlkes for a week.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. N. Everett
and Miss Mary Louise Everett
went to Chapel Hill Sunday to at
tend Commencement, returning
Wednesday night.
Houston Everett returned from
the University Wednesday night.
Jerome Pence came home last
Saturday. Harvey and John Ter
ry return today.
Rev. G. F. Smith attended
Trinity Commencement, going
Monday and returning Wednes-
day night Rev. ]. H. Hall went
Tuesday and will return tonight.
Frank Smith, first year medical
student at the University, came
home last Thursday. He left
Sunday for Richmond, near which
place he will work in a munition
plant during his summer vacation
returning to resume his medical
course in the fall.
Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Hanliter
and Miss Lula Little, of Little
Rock, Arkansas, arrived here
this morning, with Miss Rober-
telle Hamiter, from Randolph
Macon College, where they at
tended the Commencement; Miss
Hamiter has just completed her
second year at Randolph-Mscon.
Mrs. Hamiter and Miss Little
are sisters of Mrs. w. B. Cole
and the party will visit her for
week.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-06


Battery D, 18th, Field Ar
tillery, THE Wadesboro company
embarked from New York May
18th and should arrive cover
there" today.
Next Sunday is Decoration
Day for the W. O. w. and the
local Camp will properly observe
it. All members are asked to
meet at the hall Sunday afternoon
at 2 o'clock, with flowers, and
then march to the cemetery in a
body.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-06
johnson in Registers Office.

Emmit W. Smith, who has
been Mr.. Reynolds assistant in
the Register of Deeds office, last
week went to Wilmington and
enlisted in the Navy. He expects
to be called to report the first of
next week. Robert L. Johnson,
who has been the Clerk of Courts
assistant, and who received the
Democratic nomination for Reg
lister, Wednesday moved across
the hall'' and is now Mr.. Rey-
nold's assistant; Billy McAulay
will help his father in the Clerks
office.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-06
Commencement Over.

+. r a. *
The reciters' and declaimers
contests featured the Commence.
ment exercises of the Rocking.
ham High School last Thursday
night. Carl Coley was awarded
the declaimers' medal, and Mary
McBryde the reciters' medal.
Friday noon was held the
Class Day exercises. Friday
night was the wind-up, the pres
entation of diplomas by Chair.
man W. N. Everett, the announce
ment of awards, of attendance
records etc. Elsie Farley was
given the Math medal, and
Marie Covington the English
medal. Hon. Jas. H. Pou, of
Raleigh, delivered the address
Friday night, and for an hour
and a quarter held the strict
attention of every person with
his predictions as to the changed
conditions and problems that we
would face after the war.
The following pupils made
perfect attendance records,
neither absent or tardy during
the year. The figures occur OPP
posite the names means that the
pupil has made this record for
that specific number Of years:
lst grade...Lola May Cockman l, Mabel
Pickleseimer l, Horace Covington /.
.B-..Clay Bell l, Bruce Gore l, Mary
Sue Allen l..
End grade Johnnie McAulay 2, Beulah
Bolton l, Johnnie May Brady 2.
3rd grade.--Sarah Dickinson 2. Eliza
beth Allen l, Grace Barrett !.
Ord and 4th---T. B. Lilies /, Agnes Cock.
man l, Jeanette Pickleseimer l, Eliza
beth Rayle 2, Pauline McBryde 3. Mary
McCollum 2.
18th and 5th.--Virginia Benton l, Jimmie
May Currie /, Margaret Porter3, Alberta
Barrett 2 @@a VI
5th grade-.-Mabel Porter 8, Myrtle orl
ter 3. Lille Edwards l, Mary Smith /,
jim Bell 8. 20.
9th grade.--Jessie McAulay 4, Nettie
Covington !, Rebecca Covington 2.
9TH grade---Johnsie Henry 3, Gilbert
Hall 4.
9Th grade...John VIM. Gore 4, Frank
Copeland 8. Roy Coble S, Henry Steele 3,
Lemie May Pond 2. .-s
9th grade-.-Carl Coley 6, Joe.Edmards 6,
Pat Edwards 4. '1
10th grade--.Ernest coble 4, Mary Mo
Bride 8, Geraldine Smith q. 3 rs
The following pupils led their
respective grades in scholarship
with the following average: u
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-06

Mrs. B. F. Palmer is a sue.
cesstul gardener. She has this
week had from her garden snap
beans, butter beens, Irish pota-
toes, cabbage, beets, carrots,
onions, radishes, corn, squast, Gu
cumbers, rhubarb, lettuce, straw
berries and raspberries
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-06
PERSONAL

Il"
Miss Rena Croft, of Baltimore,
came Tuesday to visit her aunt.
Mrs. Jake Cohen.
]. A. Dunn, of Norfolk, spent
from Saturday to Tuesday here
with his family.
Mrs. H. L. Monroe andchildren,
OF Hamlet, spent Tuesday at the
home of ]. c. Polk.
Misses Malissa and Ava Ratliff
OF Morven, spent the weekend
with Mrs. James Thredgill.
Mrs. Ben Dunlap, of Ansonville,
spent from Saturday to Tuesday
here with Mrs. S. w. Steele.
Lynwood and Harry Fowlkes
returned last Friday from Bing-
hams Military School, near Ashe-
vile.
Mrs. J. B. Kelly, of Carthage,
came Sunday to spend a week
with her daughter, Mrs. ]. ".
Nice ollum.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Polk and
children spent Sunday in Wades-
boro with the formers sister,
Mrs. Purdie Bennett.
Miss Mary Cliff Bennett spent
the weekend here, leaving Mon
day for Raleigh to take the two
weeks special canning course at
the A. & E.
Mrs. M. M. Dunn, who has
been here for the past two
months, left Wednesday for
Grantwood, NJ J., called there by
the serious illness of her grand
mother.
Miss Minnie Garrett returned
Wednesday from Greensboro
where she was graduated from G.
c. w. Attending the graduating
exercises were DR.. and Mrs. F. J.|
Garrett, Miss Neelie Garrett and
Reid Garrett.
Clifford Steele came home Sum-
day fromtAtlanta where he has
just graduated in dentistry from
the Atlanta Southern College. He
expects to 60 before the State
Board at Wrightsville June 10th
for State license.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Leak and
little daughrer, Pattie, left today
for a ten days stay at Williamson
S. c. They will also visit at
Greenville, Anderson, and Column
bia before returning here the
9th.
Mr., and Mrs. ]. E. Hutto, after
making ashort trip to Washington
and spending ten days with their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Haw-
ley, have now returned to Tampa,
Fla, where Mr.. Hutto is assistant
auditor of the Tampa Northern
Ry.
Miss Jessie Steele, accompanied
by Miss Laura Page Steele, re-
turned here Saturday from
Rutherfordton. Miss Steele has|
spent several months in Ruther-
ford county as Demonstration
Agent. AS announced elsewhere
in this issue, she and Mr.. Robert |
Randolph Simmons, Of Ruther.
fordton, will be married June 10Th.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-06

LOCAL ITEMS

Short News Items of Interest
of Town and County, Con-
densed Into Paragraphs
for Hurried Reading.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-06
S. S.
Phone 1872.
Subscription $1.@

Subscription $1.5O
It. B. Lilies, Carrier on Route
2, last Friday sold 500 of War
Savings Stamps on his route.
There will be Children's Day
exercises at st. Paul's church, in
Wolf Pit, Sunday morning begin
ming at 10 o'clock.
One of the prettiest stands
of rye hereabouts is that of B. F.
Palmer, near the city. He has
As acres about ready to cut.
The University Summer
School opens June 18th; the Law
School opens June 18th; the Sum-
mer Military Training Camp at
Asheville opens June l4th.
The thermometer joined the
100 per cent crowd last Saturday
and Sunday. however a good
season" fell Monday night and
temporarily at least broke the
heat wave.
Charter Oak Camp, No. 5,
w. o. w., recently took out $500
in Third Liberty bonds, and
more recently a number of the
members have organized a War
Savings Society, with T. B. Lilies,
pres, and w. M. Hales, treas.
There are many men in
Richmond county liable for in
dictnent because of the fact that
they let the month Of May pass
and did not list their taxes for
the year 1918. Better see your
list taker Immediately and so avoid
prosecution.
1t is said there will be no
special summer rates offered by
the railroads this season. The
government world much prefer
that no one travel except when
really necessary. Next Monday,
10th, the passenger rate is in
creased to three cents per mile;
on June 25th freight rates will be
advanced Is per cent.
Robert Medlin, the 10-year-
old son of Lorenzo Medlin, came
near sustaining a serious acct
dent last Friday. He was riding
his bicycle in front Of the court
house and collided with an auto
truck. The little fellow was
knocked down, but aside from a
cash on top of his head he for a
wonder was otherwise unhurt.
"A mule and buggy, belong
ing to Silas Covington, colored,
was stolen from him Saturday
afternoon by a small colored boy,
Willie Morrison. The outfit was
found early Sunday morning on
the streets of Hamlet. The boy
was arrested in Hamlet Tuesday
and bound over to court by Squire
Guthrie.
Jim Little came near losing
his Ford entirely Sunday night.
He was carrying a passenger to
Hamlet shortly after dark, when
about half way he gave out of
gasoline. Procuring some hewa
in the act Of pouring it in his car
when his passenger struck a
match for him to see; the gas.
ignited and as a result the top,
upholstering and a tire were con
sumed by the flames.
e. D. Norton, a Holiness
preacher, last Sunday closed a Az
nights tent meeting at Hannah
Pickett He began a 17-day meet
ing in his tent at Great Falls Fri
day night. Rev. S. B. Norton, of
St. Paul, will assist him.
Good Show
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-06
Glasses Found.

A pair of gold-rimmed glasses
left by some one, in Post-Dis-
patch office. Owner please come
get same.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-02
LIBERTY LOAN
LEGISLATION
MEETS DELAY
Error in Wording Necessi.
tates Reconsideration
Of Bill in House.

Liberty loan legislation was
checked yesterday when Majority
Leader Kitchin discovered a techni-
cal defect in the draft of the bill
passed unanimously by the House
late Saturday. Action will be taken
today to correct II. Under the orig
inal wording, banking institutions
of all sorts would have been given
wide exemption from taxation.
The bill will be called back, and
Kitchin will ofter the following
amendment:
TN determining the value of the
shares OF any national bank, state
bank, trust company or other insti-
tuition. for the purpose of taxation
by any state or any of the possess
sions OF the United States or any
local taxing authority. there shall
be deducted an amount equal to the
same proportion of the value of the
shares as the par amount of any
bonds or other interest-bearin OBJ
legation of the United States issued
during the present war, owned by
such banks or trust company or
banking institution bears to its
gross assets"
Action on the bill must be COM
plete by April 5, as the selling cam
paign begins April 6. Kitchin said
last night there should be no diff
Guilty in accomplishing this.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-02
Burlap Corner Delights Children

A mother tells in the wornRn-s
Home Companion how she made 4
corner of the living-room take the
place Of a nursery:
Around one corner We fastened
with glass-hesded thumb taCks n
strip of burlap, the lovely color ot
apple-green leaves. which tones in
with the rest OF the room.
Straightaway the three children
began pinning their treasures To the
burlap: the round sun cut from the
yellow paper (he is really a VeI,-
cheerful companion on dark DAYS.
wonderful pictures OF houses sur
rounded with brilliant tulips that
grow higher than the chimneys; the
'Mayf1ower,' cut from white papcr.
sailing side by side with a grim grav
battleship. and. hanging on a hook
made from a hairpin. the Oldest it,
tie girls school lessons. as she brings
them home each day. many Haunting
a proud 100 mark in blue pencil.
Perhaps the .burlar corner lid
not he so gay il il did not include a
set Of little brown shelves which HaI.
all sorts of busy msterials-hiddrn
from view by green IUrlap curtains"
The Washington herald., 1918-04-02
Had Full Day.
When Life Grows Limited.

anne Bryan Mccall says in the Wo-
mans Home Companion:
So many of US are hedged away
by old beliefs. old conventions, or, it
may be. old prejudices and. fears
which grow up like the hedges around
our homes and which. like them,
thicken and grow taller with the
years. And outside these hedges there
stand, like pointed iron fences. the
sharp opinions of others; and these
things shut us in and bar us from
the world of larger living, unless we
are careful to keep the gateways of
our lives open. unless we are care
full to venture forth, now and then.
past all these limitations.
In childhood there is practically
always the healthy desire to explore
the love Of freedom and independence:
but as we grow older we often lose
these because it has become more
and more difficult to free ourselves
AS the years go on So many of u.
seem to lose our keen desire for
knowledge and experience and truth,
from too much staying at home we
lose the longing to know the world
better and more widely. And bv and
ny some of US get so used to the lit
tie narrow enclosures of our own
ilVes that We not only do not care
10 go far outside of them but are ac-
tuaily afraid to, or, what scenes IN
me worse, we have become quite in
dlHerent to the whole matter"
The Washington herald., 1918-04-02
Red Cross Jitneys.

In the Woman's Home Companion
a number of women tell how they
have used their automobiles for war
work. One woman says:
Our annual picnic this year was
held at a park some distance from
town. so a few of our girls planned
to drive Red Cross jitneys to the
grounds. We got permission from the
mayor to run five cars without
license, as it was for charity. Then
we decorated the cars with Red
Cross banners, and had Service 1Oc'
written on the windshields. The Red
Cross flags flying from the radiator
caps. and the huge banners across
the backs, made our cars easy to
distinguish from other flag and bunt-
ing-decorated cars. Also, every driver
wore white with a Red Cross arm
band. Our cars were given prefer
ence every time, and the five of them
netted our local chapter SIS that day.
We had station uptown where the
cars started and where orders were
taken for passengers who wished to
be called for, though we charged
extra. A girl filed the cars at the
station and started them, while an
other unloaded them at the park.
The elderly people appreciate personal
service especially
The Washington herald., 1918-04-02
POli's-"WIEard Of o.

The Poll Musical Players did them.
selves proud last night when they pre-
sented Montgomery and Stones IA.
nous success, The Wizard of o." tc
a full house.
Matt Henley. probably the most ac,
complished actor OF the company
played or. the wonderful wizard, past
master of magic and ruler of the EN-
aid City, and played it well.
Roger Gray, of course, took the part
of the Scarecrow. who was looking for
brains. while Billy Lynn played that
of Nick Chopper. the Tin Woodman
in search of a heart.
Sir Dashemofr Daily. the poet laure-
ate. was played 10 perfection by Henry
Coote, while Miss Eulalie Young
played Dorothy Gale. a Kansas Girl,
the victim of a cyclone. TO a cyclone
of laughter and applause.
Cynthia Cinch. the lady lunatic,
could not have been given to a better
actress in the company than Miss
Sarah Edwards. who takes the part.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-02
WILSON PUTS
RAIL POWERS
UPON M'ADOO
Proclamation Delegates
Congressional Authority
to the Director.

President Wilson yesterday issued
a proclamation delegating to Director
General McAdoo all the powers over
the government operated railroads as
were vested in the President by Con-
gress. It Is the mere legalizing Of
Director General McAdoo's acts, but
the Indications are that practically
the whole of the enormous financial
scheme, particularly as refers to the
compensation for the railroads, Is
about to be put through.
President Wilson's proclamation of
December 26, taking over the rail-
roads, provided that the control and
operation should be exercised by Mr..
McAdoo as Director General Fol-
lowing that, Congress passed an act
providing for the operation of the
roads, just compensation to the own
ers and other purposes. Provision
was made that the President might
execute any of the powers granted
to him with relation to the Federal
control and the President now dele
gates those powers to Mr.. McAdoo.
His proclamation reads:
'T Woodrow Wilson, President Of
the United States, under and by vir-
vested in me by said act and of all
other powers me hereto enabling. do
hereby authorize the said William
G. McAdoo, Director General of Rail-
roads, either personally or through
such divisions, agencies or persons
as he may apopint, and in his own
name or in the name Of such d.
visions, agencies or persons. or in
-
with the carriers or any of them
or with any other person in interest.
upon the amount of compensation to
be paid pursuant to law, and to sign,
seal and deliver in his own name
or in the name of the President or
in the name of the United States
such agreements as may be necessary
and expedient with the several car
riers or other persons in interest
respecting compensation, or any other
matter concerning which it may be
necessary or expedient to deal and
to make any and all contracts, agree
ments or obligations necessary or ex-
pedient and to issue any and all
orders which may in any way be
found necessary and expedient in con-
nection with the Federal control of
systems of transportation. railroads
and inland waterways as fully in all
respects as the President is author
lied to do, and generally to do and
perform all and singular acts and
things and to exercise all and sim
gular powers and duties which in
apd by the said act, or any other
act in relation to the subject here
of, the President is authorized to do
and perform
The Washington herald., 1918-04-02

playing, and beautiful Maxine ELL
oft was q histrionic Joy forever az
Lady Algy. Irene Fenwick's blonde
beauty added interest to the role OF
the romantic-minded Mrs. Tudway,
and Maclyn Arbuckle's performance
Of Mr.. Tudway provoked gales OF
laughter.
This quartette of stars Is sur
rounded by number of little less
sparkling luminaries. F1orine was
most amusing as a shepherdess. and
Lumsden Hare was successful as
Quarmsby. George Fitzgerald was
delicious as the Duke of Drone-
borough and John Rogers was
Mawley to the life. George W.
Howard. Herbert Belmore, Daisy
Belmore. and Ronald Byram were
interesting in other prominent roles.
The stage was dressed in q man
ner that carries out the atmosphere
OF British aristocracy in an i'm
pressive way. and the ladies' gowns
will arouse the admiration Of the
dress-obsessed sex. At the fancy
dress ball in the second act, the
large company appeared in beauti-
full eighteenth century creations
which are much admired Alto
gether the. production surpasses in
interest and value that of twenty
years ago and affords delightful
evenings entertainment
The Washington herald., 1918-04-02
"When Everybody Agrees with You,
It's a Pretty Good Sign That
Nobody Takes You Seriously"

Strikers and workers-thats the
classification which takes US all
in-and every man knows to which
class he belongs.
The man who fails to lift on the
job, soon becomes incapable of lift
ing. and this realization becomes
his real burden, says the Rev.
Charles Stelzle.
When blows come from either
friend or foe, duck your head. IL
you can. but raise it up again like
a man. even though you're hit.
Don't quit the job.
1t takes pretty good nerve TO
fight for your own convictions, but
1t takes a whole lot more to fight
for the other fellows.
When everybody agrees with you.
it's a pretty good sign that nobody
takes you seriously. Then is the
time to take stock of yourself.
The Washington herald., 1918-04-02
CAPT. A. ROOSEVELT,
WOUNDED, FOUGHT ON
Stood and Gave Commands Till He
Dropped, Letter Says.

Oyster Bay. April Mrs. Rich
ard Derby, daughter of Col. Roose-
welt, received today the first letter
to reach any member of the family
regarding the wounding Of Capt.
Archie Roosevelt. The letter, writ
ten by Maj. Richard Derby. Medical
Corps. stated that the captain re-
mained on his feet several minutes
after the pieces OF shrapnel struck
him. He continued to issue orders
until loss of blood caused him to
drop in the trench
The letter also told how Maj
Theodore Roosevelt. jr.. who stood
near his brother at the time, was
knocked down but was not injured.
Capt. Roosevelt was said to be
doing well.