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Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28
Y. w. A." Entertained.
(Contributed)

Miss Meta Poplin was the hos
tess to the Y. w. A. on last Thurs
day evening. The guests, each
bringing knitting or sewing, were
met at the door by the hostess
and ushered into the reception
room. After the guests had
spent a pleasant hour chatting
and sewing, the hostess served a
delicious salad course.
Those enjoying Miss Poplin's
charming hospitality were Mes
danes Bruce Benton, James
Threadgill and Julian Burroughs,
Misses Ruby and Allie Mcintosh,
Sarah Lily Dockery, Mabel and
Frances Dunn. Fan Long, Nan
ME Young, Annie Marks, Lou
Sharpe, Willie Gibson and Effie
Baldwin.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28
Federal Court at Laurinburg.

Federal court convened at
Laurinburg Tuesday, and will
wind up the docket today. Three
jurors were from Richmond
county: c. w. Covington, ]. w.
Butler and ]. B. Hicks. Judge
Henry G. Conner presides.
The case against w. P. Ingram,
]. T. Brady and w. A. Lowe,
charged with furnishing material
for blockaders, was continued to
the Raleigh term; a, heavy fine
may be imposed and the case
dismissed. Attending the court
from Rockingham as witnesses
in this case were J. F. Capel, H.
D. Baldwin, c. c. Shores, G. A.
Seawell, H. L. Guthrie. Also,
attending the session were John
Morrison, ]. R. McLendon and
w. A. Mcdonald.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28
Charged With Arson.

Two negroes, w. R. Reddick
and Mike Reddick, were given
a hearing before Squire Guthrie
Monday, charged with arson.
The brothers live in Black Jack
township, and on the night of
March 9Th a house belonging to
w. R. Reddick was destroyed by
fire. There was $3.50 insurance
on the building, and when w. R.
Reddick endeavored to collect
it he was confronted with the
charge of having melted his
brother Mike to burn it. At the
preliminary hearing Monday
deputy insurance commissioner
w. A. Scott introduced a comics.
sion signed by both w. R. and
Mike Reddick. They were bound
over to court under a $3.50 bond
for w. R. and $1,000 bond for
Mike, which they gave.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28
Notice To Parents.

We presume that every home
in Rockingham is going to obey
to the letter, the spirit of the
Daylight Savings Law, and that
on Saturday night, March 3Oth,
every clock is going to be moved
forward one hour. The school
must be no less patriotic. At 7
o'clock Saturday night, the school
time will be moved up to 8 to
agree with the changes made in
the homes. When school opens
again on Tuesday after the Eas-
ter holiday, let every child be
here promptly as usual. There
will be no confusion if every
clock goes forward an hour Sat-
urday night. Let parents see to
it that there is no hardness next
Tuesday.
L. J. BELL,
Supt. City Schools.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28
PROGRAM
and County Commencement
for Colored Schools,
April 18th.

grades 4 to-. In this, there will
be two divisions: Rural Schools,
Graded & Secondary Schools.
Best literary exhibit Rural School,
grades to- $500
Best literary exhibit Graded & Sec
ondary, to- 200
Best literary exhibit Rural School,
a tot 200
Best literary exhibit Graded & Secon-
dairy. 4 tot 200
Best industrial exhibit" Rural / to 8
200
Best industrial exhibit Graded & Sec.
ondary, to 200
Best industrial exhibit Rural to 200
Best industrial exhibit Graded & Sec
ondary, 4 tot ZOO
PRIZES FOR BOYS OR GIRLS
These individual prizes will an be given
in Thrift Stamps"
Best drawing, Rural, Grades to 200
Best drawing, Graded & Secondary
to3 $3.50
Best composition, Rural, A tot so
Best composition, Graded & Secondary,
4 tot so
Best spelling any school, so
Best work in Arithmetic, Rural graded
.. so
Best work in Arithmetic, Grammar &
Secondary, to N so
Best plain sewing, Rural School so
Best plain sewing Graded & Secondary
tr so
Best basket Rural School so
Best basket, Graded & Secondary so
Best Gaming work in any scholl so
Best foot.mat from any school so
Best rug fromtany school. so
Best wood work from any Rural School,
.. so
Best wood work from any Graded or
Secondary, so
: Best work in music from any school so
Best declation Primary Grade, so
Best defamation Grammar Grade, so
1t is hoped that the colored
people of the County will turn
out in large numbers for this &C.
casion. They will make a patri-
otto responce.
L. J. Bell
Co. Supt. Schools.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28
County Commencement.

AS announced in previous is
sues of the paper, the County
School Commencement for white
schools of Richmond county will
be held on Saturday, April 9th,
beginning in the court house at
1890 o'clock. The various con-
tests have already been announc-
ed, together with the prizes
which will be given in Thrift
Stamps.
The defamation and oral spell
ling contest will be held in the
court house at 1890. /
The reading, writing, written
spelling and arithmetic contests
will be held in the Rockingham
school building beginning at II
o'clock.
The athletic contests will be
held on the grounds of the city
school building beginning at l
o'clock.
At 3 o'clock, pupils and teach
ers are expected to re-assemble
in the court house, where an ad.
dress on Patriotism and the War
will be made by Hon. F. w.
Bynum, chairman of the Thrift
Stamp campaign for Richmond
county. Following this, the
prizes will be awarded the win
ners of the various contests and
the diplomas delivered to those
who have successfully passed
the 9TH grade examinations.
The exhibits of school work
and industrious work will be
made in the Courthouse, within
the railing reserved for the bar.
1t is trusted that every school in
the county will be represented
with a SPLENDID school exhibit
and a large number of its pupils
and patrons.
L. J. Bell
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28
S 0 c | A |
Contributed

A enjoyable event wastheparty
given Thursday afternoon by
Mrs. E. A. Allen, honoring the
attractive house guest of Mrs R.
S. Leak, Miss Adele Pettejohn, of
Terre Haute, Ind.
The parlor and dining room
had been effectively decorated in
yellow jasmine and dogwood bios
SONS and profusions of jonquills
added a breath of spring fresh
ness. Here four tables we're
arranged for rock. Miss Halle
Covington held highest score and
was given box of correspond
ence cards, while the honoree
was presented a box of Violet
Powder. A Sweet course" was
served by the hostess. Those
present were: Misses Adele Petite
john, Halle Covington, Mary
Hobbs, Ernestine Nuttall, Lucy
Folkes, Beth Thomas, Lillian
Long, Wilma Stansill, Betsey
Long, Berta West, Octavia Scales,
TodA Arplistead, Ruth Harrison,
SaraLil Dockery, Mesdanes R.
S. Leak and w. F. Long.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28

One of the most interesting de.
velopments of the week occurr-
ed Wednesday afternoon, when
Misses Mae, Faith, and Eleanor
Covington entertained at a "42''
party, announcing the engage.
ment of Miss Martha White Gov.
ington to Mr.. Henry c. Getting.
ham of Bennettsville, S. c. De-
corations were Easter Lilies and
Lady Banksha Roses. Eight tab
les were placed in the parlor and
living room for the game. At
this time the hostesses appeared
placing at each place miniature
hat stands topped with tiny Eas-
ter bonnets; attached was a card
with "A little bird told me a very
nice thing That someone" had
given White a new diamond
ring" John c. Entwistle came
in to. the strains of Mendelsohns
wedding march bearing a bridal
bouquet of valley lilies suspend
ed from which was the diamond
ring. The honoree was given a
beautiful embroidered satin CANT
sole. Refreshments were served
consisting of a salad course and
accessories. .t<
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28

The colored schools of Rich.
mond county will hold their
commencement at Rockingham
on Saturday, April 18th. Every
school in the county will be rep
resented here by its pupils and
its teachers. .s
They will gather at the grounds
of the Rockingham colored grad
ed school at 10 A. M, form a par
ade, and march through the
town, thence to the fair grounds,
headed by the Pee Dee Institute
band and the Lethe band.
The literary and industrial
work of the pupils of the various
schools will be on exhibit in the
main building at the fair. The
day will be a display of the
patriotism of the colored people
of the county, and the American
flag will be largely in evidence
in the lines of the parade.
Several speakers will be called
upon to make short talks to the
assembled pupils and their
friends at the fair grounds,
among them w. N. Everett, ]. P.
Gibbons, Mrs. F. c. Williams, of
Raleigh, of the state department
of health for colored race, w. H.
Wray, colored pig and corn club
director for state, Mrs. A.: w.
Holland, state supervisor rural
negro schools. Patriotic songs
will be sung and the flag salute
given.
The following contests have
been arranged for by a commit
tee appointed by the colored
teachers association of the coun-
ty. A committee of white ladies',
appointed by the county superin-
tendent will Judge the contests.
The contestants for school
prizes will be divided into two
classes: Primary, including grad
es l to 3; Grammar, including
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28

Our stock OF Dress Goods is
dependable. Nothing shoddy or
shelf-worn. All goods new and
abreast of the styles: 1t costs
you nothing to look; it is a pleas
ure for our clerking force to show
you. Come in and see the real
bargains we have to offer you.-
R. L. Mcdonald, next door to post.
office.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28

Mrs. N. w. West, of Raleigh,
came last Sunday to spend this
week with Mrs. John c. Dockery.
The younger" set will have a
dance in the Manufacturers hall
tonight. The "older" set will
have a dance Monday night.
Mrs. G. B. Williams left Tues
day to join her husband at Salt
Lake City, Utah, from which
place they will go to Milwaukee.
Lieutenant Commander John ].
London has been ordered to re-
port next Monday on board the
battleship New Jersey as navi-
eating officer. For the past %
months he has been stationed at
Raleigh as a recruiting officer for
North Carolina and ordnance Of
ficer for southeastern district.
Mrs. ]. M. Ledbetter, Miss
Faith Covington and Messrs.
George Entwistle, Jr., R. L Steele
Bird, and Coney Steele motored to
Winston today to attend the
Easter services. Coney Steele
returns Friday, while the rest
will come back Sunday.
Mrs. Jack Patton and baby
came Wednesday night to spend
a few days with Mrs. John Armi-
stead. Her husband, who was
assistant Attorney General of
Bermuda Islands, died two weeks
ago. Mrs. Patton is en- route to
her husbands home in New Jer-
sey.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28
Marriage Licenses.

During the past week the fol-
lowing secured license to marry:
Lonnie Allison Reynolds and
Beulah Hasty, white, issued the
23rd.
Marcum Williams and Wilma
Rosa Ballard, white. issued the
23rd.
John Handy King and Mary
Ellen Freeman, white, issued the
25th. =
Wade Easterling and John Will
lie Gales, colored, the 18th.
Henry Bostick and Alice STAN
back, colored, issued 9th.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28

Mr.. Henry Wall gave another
delightful supper party" at his
country club house Saturday
evening. The guests were Will
liam Leak and Miss Pettyjohn;
Lucy Fowlkes and w. H. En-
twistle; Jennie Parsons and Alex
Monroe; T. c. Leak and Miss
Flora Cooper; Hal Ledbetter Jr.;
Miss Nicholson; June Diggs;
VIM, Dockery and Mr.. and Mrs.
|. S. London.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28
Cobbler Seed Potatoes.

Don't overlook this opportunity
to secure your seed potatoes.
Cobbler seed potatoes 60c per
peck, or $500 per bag of 10
pecks. Leak & Marshall & Par
sons.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28

Do your part. Plant Irish po-
tatoes. Cobbler seed potatoes
Goo peck. $500 per bag of 10
pecks.-Leak & Marshall &
Parsons.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28
White Shoes :: Waists

Fresh shipments of the neatest
and newest in white shoes and
Oxfords, at R. L. McDonald's-
the place where it pays you to
trade. Store just back Of court
house and next door to new post
office.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28
War Savings Sales.

The Rockingham postoffice has
sold in War Savings Stamps to-
date $9.813.98. of which amount
the school has, subscribed $3.50.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28

wood, N. J. is visiting Mrs. J. A.
Dunn.
Miss Minnie Carrot will arrive
tonight from G. c. w. at Greens
boro.
Mrs. w. A. Poplin spent the
weekend in Wadesboro with
Mrs. Bostic.
Buyers of Buick SKIS the past
week from ]. T. West: A. G. Cor
pening and J. T. Collins.
Misses Emma Gray Ledbetter
and Elizabeth Cole will arrive
Friday night from Converse.
Mrs. Eugene Payne and little
girl, Mary Wriston, will return
Friday from a week spent in Rich
mord.
Died, Sunday in Scotland
county, Miss Margaret Currie at
the home of her brother, ]. C..
Currie.
Miss Hamlin Lands will come
tonight from Raleigh to spend
the Easter holidays with Miss
Concord Leak.
Democratic precinct meet
ings to be held Saturday at 20.
clock and county convention at
Rockingham Saturday, April 9th,
at 2 o'clock.
DR. ]. w. Stephenson was last
Friday carried to the Presbyter-
ian hospital at Charlotte. His
condition appears to be gradually
growing worse.
A number of friends went to
Charlotte Tuesday to see Major
George Everett, who with his
command, expects to go across"
in a few days.
Lieut.. Claude T. Poole spent
last week with his sister, Mrs. F.
u. Garrett. He left Saturday for
Fl. Oglethorpe where he is in
the medical corps.
Mr.. T. J. Rayle, of Knoxville,
who was recently operated upon
for appendicitis at Hamlet, is sick
at the home of his brother, T. c.
Rayle, with pneumonia.
Several children in a family in
the northern part of the county
last week sent a bushel of hick-
DRY nuts to town to sell, and with
the money bought Thrift Stamps.
Good.
Lieut.. w. F. Cole returned to
Greensboro from Scotland Sun
day, and will probably visit in
Rockingham in a few days. He
is in the medical service doing
hospital work a Aberdeen, Scot,
land.
The Rockingham school will
have holiday Friday andMonday.
When school reconvenes next
Tuesday it will take in in accord.
ance with the new daylight law
at nine o'clock, when really it will
be eight.
Deputy Carl Shores Wednes-
day arrested Geo. Spencer, James
Ratliff and James Pratt, while in
the midst of a Skin" game in a
railroad cut a mile from Hamlet.
The men were tried before J. R.
Gordan and fined S. each and
costs.
Mr.. B. F. Reynolds will speak
on Patriotism and the war, at 3
p. m, at the Group Center Com
mencement at Titles Mills today
and also tomorrow at the
same hour in the town hall of
Ellerbe for the Group Center
Commencement there.
The Star last Thursday put
on a Fox or Sunshine two-reel
comedy, and have booked a Sun
shine comedy for every other
Thursday. If the succeeding
|
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28
Waists
Skirts

~
The newest patterns in skirts,
and the daintiest designs in
waists, can now be found at R.
L. McDonald's, next door to post
office. Waists in silk, georgette,
crepe-de-chine, etc. All we ask is
that you give our new line of
goods the "once ovel."
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28

Mems blue overalls and Jump
ers CSC at Arenson's.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28

Paige

Hudson :: Paige
Coney Steele, agent, desires to
interest you in a Hudson or
Paige car. See him.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28
Coat Found.

Ladies heavy coat left at my
store is held for owner.-W. E.
McNair.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-03-28

1t pays to trade with R. L. Nc
Donald.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-06-13
BUSINESS AFTER THE WAR

John Wanamaker's prediction that
the four years after the close of the
war will be Americas most prosper
Gus years comedies with the opinion
expressed by many other leaders in
the business world. There are sound
reasons for it. All the nations of
Europe will have to look to the United
States for huge supplies of raw ma
terials and manufactured articles, and
American industry will be keyed UP to
a high pitch. The only danger is that,
lulled into indifference to the future
by this teeming industrial prosperity,
congress may neglect to provide for
the time when European competition
will be restored and may fail to pro-
vide the tariff protection without
which, in normal times, American in
dustries cannot compete with the low
wage standards of Europe.-Spring-
field Union.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-06-13
(From Fridays daily.)

Mrs. L. D. Stillson Las received
word that her grandson, a son of Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard Stillson, had died in
Detroit. The child was aged about
one year, and was i'll but short time
with diphtheria, being taken to a hos
pital just before his death The moth
er was i'll with the same disease. Mrs.
Stillson's mother, Mrs. J. J. Tilla-
paugh, resides at Wolcott, N. Y,
about as far as from Baraboo to De-
troit, and the child was taken there
for burial. Mrs. Tillapaugh came
from Wolcott to Detroit and returned
with Mr.. and Mrs. Stillson and little
daughter Jane. The child was buried
at the home of the grandmother. Mr..
Stillson expects to come to Baraboo
soon with his daughter that she may
remain here for some time with Mrs.
L. d. Stillson. Mr.. Stillson will re-
turn after few days.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-06-13
Thursday, June Is, 1918
MISLED ABOUT RAILWAY
EQUIPMENT

The wild-eyed shouters for govern
ment ownership Of railways are now
executing a war dance in the Hearst
and other papers over the fact that
the railroad administration is buying
"pIenty" of cars and locomotives,
which the railways themselves could
not or did not do. "Observe, fellow
citizens!" says one, that the railways
under private ownership could not
supply the country with cars, ETC."
which under government ownership
as coming right along hundred
thousand at clip" etc. And there
really are people who believe this!
AS a mere matter of fact, we are
reliably informed, the government is
ordering about two-thirds as much
equipment as the railways did in the
year of their greatest distress under
oppression, and less than half as
much as they have averaged through
years Of feast and famine.
If the railways had remained in the
control of their owners, and been
given the rates which the new econ
troll" has now fixed, they would have
supplied an adequate amount of new
equipment-no doubt much of it be-
fore this time, and we would not be
having the fuel famine alarm and been
obliged to contemplate failure of the
war for lack of adequate transporta-
ton facilities at home.
But the railway administration Is
endeavoring heroically to meet des-
perate situation now. 1t may well
pray to be delivered from it's fool
friends, and to be permitted to work
out its own salvation, under construct
i've criticism, rather than with fiatu-
lent f1attery.
The real cause of rail failure is reck-
less interference by demagogic poll
ticians with railway management and
operation. The trouble all oates back
to the reform" crusade of a few years
ago on the tide of which many scamps
rode into power-Madison Democrat.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-06-13
CHILD WELFARE
CONFERENCE

This is the week of the childwelfare
conference, which is being held at the
public library. The programs for
Tuesday and Wednesday were excel
lent and parts were we'll given. Mrs
w. w. Beige, who was to speak Tues
day afternoon on Description of In
fants Layette," was i'll and could not
appear, but Mrs H. NJ Acott filled the
place, so the subject was not lost. The
other numbers on the Tuesday pro-
gram and all of those on the We'd
nesday program were given. Today
concludes the conference. Mrs. Edith
Hoyt of the university extension de-
partment was expected today to give
an address, "Children's Year" All
sessions have been we'll attended.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-06-13
LOYALTY IN WISCONSIN

Wisconsin was unfortunate in the
fact that forces of disloyalty there
were stronger and more noisy than in
most other states.
Pro-German sentiment was so firmly
entrenched at the beginning Of the
war that German war bonds were
sold in Milwaukee while Milwaukee
bankers were intimidated into refus-
al to handle the war bonds of France
and England. Seventeen per cent of
Milwaukee's population is German
born.
Pro-German sentiment continued
strong even after Germany made war
on the United States.
This gave the state and city a repu-
tation unfair to the many loyal citi-
zens, including thousands of loyalists
whose names and descent are German.
Loyal citizens became more mill
family loyal than citizens of other
states had need to be, with this result:
Wisconsin's volunteer enlistments
were exceptionally numerous. Liberty
loans were oyersubscribed. Subscrip.
tions exceeded the quota asked, for
the Red Cross.
If Wisconsin, at the start, was af-
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-06-13
SEEING THE LIGHT AT LAST
For God is marching on,

The German shells have blown up
the illusions of the American Social
lists about the war. 1t is
evident today to the American So.
cialists that the entente allies and the
United States are fighting the cause
of social .democracy-that is, they
are arrayed against class power and
privilege, against autocraey and the
rule Of The iron heel, politically and
industrially. This has been evident
to the rest of us from the moment
America entered the war. We are
fighting for the broadcast possible free
dom for men and nations to live their
own lives in their own way, protected
by the common conscience of man
kind. No Socialist can ask for any
thing wider than this. It must be
said to his credit that Eugene V. Debs
has at last perceived the truth. He
is demanding the denunciation of the
declarations of his party last year,
when it called this a capitalists war
and said that the rich might pay for
it if they wanted to. He has even
gone so far as to say that some of the
statements of the ST. Louis platform
were reasonable and offenses against
the laws. All this is well so far as
it goes, but the educational effects Of
the war will not be complete until the
Socialists have learned that they have
erred in stressing the division Of So
ciety into two classes, the rich and
the poor. There are two classes. it is
true, those who love liberty and those
seeking freedom are fighting Ger
many Those who are content to live
in shackles which they themselves
forge are wearing the uniform of the
kaiser and his allies. This is the
only issue at stake, the issue of free