Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-02-21

For the first time in the history Of
the county and city women are being
employed in the lumber and laning
mills located on the outskirts of the
city and statements of general man
ayers are that the women are giving
excellent service.
The steamer Wilmington, owned and
operated as a passenger and freight
vessel between Wilmington and Soutle
port for number Of years by Captain
John w. Harper, up until the time OF
his death few months ago, was sold
at public auction and bid in for $26,600
by L. d. Potter, of New York.
The public generally is taking great
interest in the opening of the new
Presbyterian hospital, Charlotte, which
Is to take place soon, the management
being unable as yet to give the exact
date, owing to the large amount Of
work that has to be done in cleaning
up and installing the furniture.
Rev. T. G. Vickers, we'll known min.
lister Of the North Carolina Methodist
Conference, who has been pastor of a
church at Ayden, arrived in Raleigh
en- route to Camp Jackson, Columbia,
where he has been ordered to report
for military service as chaplain.
With view of demonstrating to her
neighbors and other friends in Forsyth
county as to what can be done in poul.
try production, Mrs. R. J. Reynolds Ia
having one of the most modern poul-
try plants in the South built on her
farm Just west of Winston-S Salem. It
will cost $1,000 or more. The main
building will be 300 feet long and VIII
contain breeding, poultry tenders and
egglaying houses.
In signed statement, Mrs. Reye
Tennessee denies statements that
have gone the rounds Of the press re.
Gently to the effect that WIN DR.. E.
A. Tennessee was tried five years ago
for killing German Pitts his counsel
cleared him and he presented to his
leading counsel an automobile. "Of
! course he was tried" she says, land
the evidence cleared him, but he did
not give to any one an automobile"
The government has signed con.
tracts for the lease Of the Kenilworth
inn and the Cherokee inn, at Aseville,
and will purchase a site and build q
hospital at Azalia, near Asheville. The
two inns are to be used as recon,
struction or rebuilding hospitals for
II United States fighting men, and the
Il Azalia property will be developed into
a great tuberculosis hospital. More
n than $1,O00,O00 will be put in the
Azalia plant, which will be permanent
A meeting of the Lincoln national
farm loan association was held in the
bank Of Lincolnton. At this meeting
W. H. Childs was named as secretary
and treasurer, to succeed M. H. Cline.
resigned. Seventeen of the loans ap.
piled for by Lincoln farmers have been
approved by the district farm loan
bank. The total of these loans
amount to $4,000.
II That people in all the walks Of life
should have burned into their hearts
and minds a lasting lesson by the
news of a Chatham county tragedy
in which three little colored children,
locked in their home alone while thu
mother went to the cotton fields to
work, were burned to death along with
all the contents Of the dwelling, is the
statement Of Commissioner of Insur.
ance James R. Young. At the same
! time he calls special attention to the
fact that the Revisal of 1905, section
1895, makes it misdemeanor punish
able at the discretion of the court ia
so lock or otherwise confine children
Of seven years or younger in dwell
ing or other enclosure without some
person Of discretion to watch out fol-
their safety.
The Piedmont and Northern inter
urban lines between Charlotte ant
Gastonia have been under government
III control since the railroads of the coun
try were taken over some weeks ago
II said Vice-President w. s. Lee, of tn,
P. & N. lines. Press dispatches abou
the time the government took owe
the steam railroads stated that inter
urban lines probably would not b
taken over. Hence it was not consid
cred that the P. & N. lines were in tn
Ill hands Of the government, and it is ez
Ill pected that this announcement will oc
i'll casion considerable surprise.
Hi Supt e. L. Best of Louisburg Is wac
Hi ing an unrelenting campaign now i
Ill his county to raise the salary of hi
ii teachers before June, when most Q
the teachers in Franklin county ar
employed for the ensuing year.