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The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-09-19
JOHNSON TAKES
HIS F IN Al
Says Nation Has Spent Mil
lions to Laud Power. Re
turns to Capital to Take
Up Fight.
Especial United Press Wire. J


Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 19.-Declar-
ing the league covenant to be psy-
Geological distortion and natural
result Of national propaganda to
not tell the truth and not to expose
the wrongdoing in high places, Sen
ator Johnson took his final fling at
President Wilson's ideals at the com
mercial club luncheon here.
He said that during the last two
years the nation had spent millions
to laud power and had picked pock-
cts in order to poison minds. He
said the press had to print just what
it was told to print.
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Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16
Soda Distribution.

The committee in charge OF
the soda distribution for Rich
mond county consists of H. S.
Ledbetter, w. M. Covington and
J.F. Diggs. This committee has
centralized the work and duties
upon H. D. Baldwin. Mr.. Bald
win has placed application blanks
in the hands of the following,
from whom they can be secured;
but these blanks must be filed
out and returned to him not later
than January 25th: Hinson Nero.
Co., and c. T. Willirms & Co., at
Hamlet; w. M. Henderson and J.
R. Bennett, at Ellerbe; D. A. Par
son, at Covington; Clerk of Court
and G. A. Seawell, Rockingham.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

premium payment the Bureau of
War Risk Insurance will send to
the insured a blank to use in
making his next payment. If
the blank is not received and no
reply is received in response to
the first payment, the insured
should nevertheless make his
next payment not later than one
month later, again asking for the
needed information.
In all communications the in
sured should give his full name,
including both first and middle
names, his grade and organizat-
ion at the time of applying for
insurance, his army serial num-
Der, the insurance certificate
number, Gfhe knows it, the date
of discharge or separation from
the service, and his present ad-
dress.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16
Notice..

To the Local Registrars of
Vital Statistics for Richmond
County:
Your attention is called to the
PUBLIC LAWS NORTH CARO-
LIMA, Session 1913, Chapter 100,
Section IS, which is in substance
as follows:
"The Local Registrars are re-
quired to deposit their Record
Books with the Register of
Deeds not later than January
18th, of each year," it is a misde-
meanor to fail to comply with
the above act.
This, the 9th day of January.
1919.
R. L. Johnson,
Register of Deeds.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16
Red Cross Members.

The names of the more than
$50 members secured for the
Rockingham Red Cross Chapter
by the Christmas Roll Call Drive
are given in this issue, beginning
on page two.
If you joined during or since
the Drive, and your name is not
in the published list, please COM
municate the fact to Miss Georgia
Biggs, the Secretary, and same
will be corrected. Another list
will be published later, so if you
know of anyone who is not a
member, urge them to join NOW.
All that is needed is a heart and
a dollar.
A glance at the list shows no
report or names from the Hoff-
man Branch. This is due to the
flu prevalence there; the Chapter
feels certain this Branch will, as
soon as the health conditions
improve, secure the renewals o1
ALL the former members and
goodly number of entirely NEW
members.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

Sheriff Mcdonald and deputy
Reynolds brought in two more
blockade stills Sunday afternoon.
Both were complete affairs, with
two barrels of beer at each.
One was half a mile from Jim
Brower's place in Wolf Pit. be-
ing at the exact spot where they
broke up a still last fall. The
other one was 200 yards or so
from Wheeler Jacobs, in Wolf
Pit, and was not more than SO
yards from the spot where the
officers broke up a still last fall,
at which time the blockaders
were given warning by the ring
ing of a bell, attached to a wire
that was across a, path, over
which wire the officers fell.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16
Soldiers Insurance.

At the time of discharge of an
officer or enlisted man who has
taken out insurance, he receives
a memorandum of information
on which is stated the amount of
his monthly insurance premium
until July l, 1919, and the amount
of such premium for each year
thereafter for five years.
If the insured, at the time of
his discharge, has learned the
date to which his premiums have
been paid, he should, on the
same date of each succeeding
month, send his premium to the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance,
Treasury Department, Washing
ington, making the check or
money order payable to the Treas
urer of the United States.
If the insured has not been in
formed as to the date to which
his premiums have been paid by
checkage from his pay, then he
should without fail make his first
payment not later than thirty
one days after his discharge, to
comply with the regulation. In
his letter he should ask to what
date his premiums are paid by
the inclosed payment, and upon
receiving that information he
should make his future payment
each month thereafter on the
date when it is due.
On receipt Of the first premium
\ payment and Of each succeeding
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16
Legislative Committees.

Richmond county is properly
recognized in the committee as.
signments of the House, Our
Representative, w. N. Everett,
is a member of the very impor-
tant Appropriations committee,
the equally as important Finance
committee, the Education, the
Health, Penal Institutions, Lib
rary, Insurance, Salaries & Fees
committees He is also chairman
of the Internal improvements
committee.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16
Postal Receipts Show Gain.

The postal receipts of a town
are good index to the business
life of the town. Judging by
this, the past year has been es-
pecially good to Rockingham.
The postal receipts of the
Rockingham postoffice from Jan.
LIST, 1918, to Jan. 1st, 1919, were
$14,879.05, this being GAIN
over the previous year Of $500!
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16
Meeting Called Off.

The Colored Teachers Meeting
scheduled for Sat. Jan. 18th has
been called off on account of in
fluenza epidemic. Colored teach
ers of the County can secure the
Reading Circle book, "Rapeer's
Teaching the Elementry School
Subjects" from me or from Al
fred Williams, Raleigh; price
$1.00.
L. ]. BELL.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16
Insurance for Soldiers.

To the Soldiers and Sailors of
America:
Approximately four million off
GERS and men of the Army and
Navy are now insured with the
United States Government for a
grand total of almost thirty-seven
billion dollars.
You owe it to yourself and to
your family to hold ON to Uncle
Sans insurance. 1t is the strong
Iest, safest, and cheapest life in
surance ever written.
For your protection Uncle Sam
has established the greatest life
insurance company in the world
"a company as mighty, as gen
Gus and as democratic as the
United States Government itself.
Just as Uncle Sam protected you
and your loved ones during the
war, so he stands ready to con-
tinue this protection through the
days of readjustment and peace.
The privilege of continuing
your Government insurance is a
valuable right given to you as
part of the compensation for
your heroic and triumphant ser
vices. If you permit the insur-
Tance to lapse, you lose that right,
and you will never be able to re-
gain it. But if you keep up
your present insurance-by the
regular payment of premiums
you will be able to change it into
a standard Government policy
without medical examination,
Meantime you can keep up your
present insurance at substantial.
lily the same low rate. The Gov.
ernment will write ordinary life
insurance, twenty-payment life
endowment maturing at age g.
and other usual forms of, insur
lance. This will be Government
I ffnsurance-at Government rates
The United States Government
through the Bureau of War
Risk Insurance of the Treasury
Department-will safeguard you
and your loved ones with the
spirit and purpose of Republic
grateful to its gallent defenders
To avail yourself of this protect
ion, you must keep up your pre-
sent insurance. Carry back with
you to civil life, as an aid and ar
asset, the continued insurance
protection of the United States
Government.
Hold on to Uncle Sans Insur
ance.
w. G. McADOO,
Secretary.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16
Modern Bank Equipment.

The Bank of Rockingham
Wednesday installed a Burroughs
Statement Ledger Posting and
Bookkeeping machine. It is a
marvel and seems uncanny, such
is it's almost human intelligence.
1t does the work of several men,
and is quite an addition to this
Bank on the Square"
The Bank of Pee Dee also has
one of these machines, having
installed it some time ago.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

1t John @. Baldwin, had he stayed in
the army until next June, would have
completed seven years of military serv-
icess He attended the Camp Taylor
field artillery school last year, and came
out with rank of second lieutenant. AT
the time of the Armistice he was at
Camp Meade, Maryland. He received
his honorable discharge in early Decem-
Der, and is now at work for Q. V. Pate,
at Gibson. ~
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16
Bales Cotton Ginned.

The number of bales of cotton
ginned in Richmond county for
the 1918 crop to January 1st was
IA, ,153, as compared with 1928
bales ginned to January lst Of
the previous year.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

Our boys over yonder are known as
"Yanks," though the word "Sammees"
was saddled upon them at first. The
English like the word because it was the
term applied to them ip pre.Revolution-.
airy days by the Northern indian tribes
"Yengeese"----an attempt on their part to
pronounce English"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

Pharmacist-m Willie M. Fowlkes
and Miss Lula Rowe, of New Bern, were
married at Norfolk Tuesday morning.
Mr.. ,Fowlkes is son of Mrs. ]. D. Cam
eron, and volunteered in the navy last
summer; at the time he was druggist
in Charlotte. His friends back home
win be glad to congratulate him upon
joining the brotherhood of Benedicts.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16
$112,589.97 in Stamps.

The total amount of War
Savings Stamps sold by the
Rockingham postoffice up to Dec.
31st amounted to $112,58997.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

Hunter Moo. Fowlkes has received his
release from Camp Taylor, and came
home Monday for visit. Effective Feb.
18th he will act as an instructor at Bing-
hams School, Asheville; and as athletic
coach. He will go to Raleigh Monday
and assist the State Chemist until the
middle of February.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

The casualty list Wednesday contained
the name of Henry McRea, of Ellerbe, as
having died of disease in the forces over.
seas.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

The announcement was made from
the war department Monday that Sam
Gibson was among those released by the
Germans, he having been prisoner.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

1t. (Dr.) William Moncure is in charge
of surgical work in the government gen
eral hospital at West Badin, Indiana. The
government has taken over the famous
West Baden Springs hotel for the treat
ment of wounded soldiers; this is one of
the largest hotels in the world.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

1t was reported in the daily papers
that the 3Oth division would be sent home
ABOUT Jan. 10th. This is mistake; a
statement from Washington Tuesday
said that neither of the Carolina divisions
(30th and 8lst) were scheduled to re-
turn in the near future. The 30th is at
present at Ballou, France, and The 8lst
is at Mussy Sur Seine.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

1t. G. G. Simpson arrived here Mon
day from Camp Wadsworth, from which
camp he has been honorably discharged.
His friends trust he will make his home
here.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

Hal Ledbetter came home Tuesday
from the Naval Training. Station at
Charleston. and is now enjoying the
creasiness of civilian clothes again, hav-
ing received his honorable discharge
from the service.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

Sgt. Fl. T. Prosser has received his
honorable discharge from Camp Han
cock. He was sent to camp July 22nd
For the six weeks previous to his dis.
charge he was at an officers training
school.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16
Marriage Licenses

Percy Staten and Nettie Black
well, colored; issued l4th.
John Jones and Amanda Nc
Rae, colored, issued l4th.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

Sam Mcintosh was released from
Camp Jackson Dec. lst, and is again at
his old job with the Express company at
Greenwood, S. C.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

James Covington, writing from over
yonder says that those who speak of
their sons and brothers coming through
the war without scratch" forget about
the cootieS.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

Medical Officer examining jim Nc.
Kenzie at camp)----Have you any organic
trouble?" Jim----"No, sir. l amt bit
musical"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

Mack NJ. Dunn and wife came home
last Thursday to visit his relatives They
will return the oath. Mr. Dunn has been
in the navy six years, serving more re-
Gently OH the battleshlp Wyoming, a
2o,OO0-ton dreadnought. The Wyoming
was a part of our North Sea feet that
kept the German navy bottled in; and
returned to New York Christmas Day.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16
FLU SITUATION
Schools, Churches and Pict-
ure Snow Closed in Four
Townships. Hundreds Of
Cases Throughout County.


The Richmond County Board
of Health met Saturday night
and passed an order closing the.
schools, churches, picture shows
and forbidding indoor public
gatherings in four townships Of
the county, viz: Rockingham,
Black Jack, Mineral Springs and
Steele's. The schools in Wolf
Pit, Marks Creek and other town
ships are allowed for the present
to continue. This order went
into effect Monday, January-13th,
and will remain in force until
rescinded The Rockingham
school was closed last Monday
but Mr.. Bell and Miss Finlay are
teaching the 18th, or graduating,
grade right on; ten, 2 boys and 8
girls, are in this grade.
The Board met Monday to
elect its two medical members.
Under the law, the board consists
of the chairman of the Board of
County Commissioners (B. F.
Reynolds), Mayor of the County
seat town wv. E. McNair), and
Supt. of Education e.. J. BelD.
These three members therefore
met Monday and reelected DR..
L. D. McPhail as one of its medi-
Cal members, and DR.. w. c.
Terry, of Hamlet, in place Of
DR.. w. L. Howell.
The Board urged each physi-
clan to have every case properly
isolated in the home, and the
case quarantined. Every inmate
of a home is not quarantined, but
just those who come in contact
with the case. AS a matter OF
fact, many people think this is
not going far enough; that the
Board should require every home
in which a case appears to be
rigidly quarantined, for four days
after the last case appears in such
home; and not merely quarantine
the isolated person who may
have the flu.
There is no way of estimating
even the number of cases in the
county. 1t is epidemic in practi.
cally every portion. Whereas
last fall the lower part of the
county had the worst visitation
now the upper part seems the
hardest hit.
Hamlet is again in the throes
scores of cases being there, and
over Is deaths, white and colored
since January 1st.
Rockingham has many cases.
but none appear to be of the
pneumonia type just now. The
majority of the school teachers
here have had it.
Pee Dee mill village number
appears to have the most cases OF
any of the mills. The company
is having, assisted by the Ret
Cross, soups etc made daily fo
the sick, this nourishment belns
prepared in the domestic science
room of the Rockingham school
MissMary Cliff Bennett, a dieteti
expert, is assisting the Pee De-
/ teachers, and other helpers, ir
this. The company and Re-
Cross have several nurses in tn
village.
Mrs. R. S. Leak, in the absenc
in Raleigh of Mrs. w. N. Everett
has charge of the Nursing dc
partment of the Red Cross.
/ On the whole, the situation il
the county is no worse than fol
the past two weeks, and in som
sections even an Improvement
shown. Either this latest ep
demic is not as virulent, or tn
people take to their beds at tn
outset and yield to treatment; .
any rate, the pneumonia case
following so many attacks OF I'll
q = fl a
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

Futures up SIS, spots down
Is today, spots closing at
28.S5. Drop Of 300 points
since Thursday Of last week.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

American forces operating in Siberia
number 1872. while in Northern Russia
we have 5,419.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

There were 63 "aces" in the American
air fighting forces----to become an "ace"
an aviator must have downed five or
more enemy machines. The leader was
Capt Edward Rickenbacker, of Columbus,
Ohio, who had 26 enemy machines to his
credit. North Carolina had one "ace, !"
1t. Robert 0. Lindsay, of Madison, who
lad six machines to his credit.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

In the fourth column on this page is
an immensely important article in regard
TO the Government insurance for soldiers.
Doubtless many soldiers will feel like
dropping this cheap Government insur
ance, now that they are. out of the army;
but they shouldn't do this; they should
by all means continue it. There has
never been, nor will there ever again be,
such cheap insurance, and every soldier
ought to keep it up. Read the article.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-01-16

It. Victor Pegues received his honora-
Bile discharge from Camp Greene the 9th.
He was stationed at Camp Pike for quite
while, and last fall was transferred to
the tank camp at Raleigh, where he was
promoted to first lieutenant To all in
tents and purposes he is Richmond
county man, though his home is Just
across the State line.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-09
All Branches of
Service NOW Open
For EnliStmentS

Sergeant B. D. Coleman, who has
just opened an army recruiting office
in this city, believes that chances are
good for an active recruiting business
in his district. He declares that
opportunity for advancement in the
army was never better as so many
emergency troops are being dis
charged and the regular army men
are to be sent overseas to relieve the
men who enlisted for duration"
Sergeant Coleman that
all branches of army service are open
to volunteers for one and three year
enlistments. The one year term is
open to men who have had previous
service and the three year enlistment
to. others There is no reserve service
attached to the enlistments.
The recruiting officer points out
that the regular army now is not X
the old army of peace times as men
ma enlist for overseas service to re-
lieve those who are enlisted only for
the emergency and desire to return
home. He states that it is a patriotic
duty for men to enlist and relieve
those who have been serving over
seas during the war. Men are ac-
copied from the age of IS to 40.
The branches open to enlistment
are: Infantry, cavalry, field artillery,
coast artillery, engineer corps, quar-
termaster corps, medical department,
motor transport service, tank corps
and the signal corps.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-09
'"'Singing Band" to Make
Second Appearance Tonight
At Grand Forks Auditorium

Members Of the famous Singing
Band" of North Dakota are back in
Grand Forks ready to give their Gus
tomary entertainment, with the pep
and vim which won them popularity
during eighteen months service in
France. Immediately following the
concert, which will be held again in
the city auditorium, a dance will be
given, and the band will furnish the
music.
The band members arrived in the
city this noon from Grafton, where
they again received the reception
which has characterized their ap-
pearance throughout the state. Ac-
cording to the manager today, the
auditorium at Grafton was filled to
its capacity, and the enthusiastic re-
ception spoke well for the high class
concert which the band gives.
Those who heard the First Regi-
mental band when it played here on
Monday can vouch for the splendid
concert which a be expected to-
night. Due to the storm on Monday,
which kept many people away, an
unusually large attendance is expect-
ed tonight for both the concert and
the dance. The band is prepared to
give four hours of dance music after
completing the regular concert.
It. is expected hat an initial. APP
pearance will be made on the street
this evening, Immediately preceding
the concert in the auditorium, which
will take place in front of the Hotel
Frederick at 1880 o'clock this eve
ming. An afternoon concert, which
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-09

iefnEtlaird of=the state where the feed
supply,,9especially barley feed was
more plentiful. The eastern third of
the state produces approximately as
many hogs as the western two-thirds
Of the state The number Of pure
bred sows q very substantial gain owe
a year ago.
3. Farm Labor.
According to reports received from
all counties in the state the supply of
farm labor shows considerable i'm
Nprovement over last year but remains
over is per cent below normal. Ow-
ting to the return of soldiers to their
farm homes, the unusually large rye
acreage and the increased use of la
Dor saving machinery, the farm labor
requirements this spring are estimat-
ed to be about 5 per cent below nor
NAL. A survey of farm wages for last
season shows hat owing to the scar
city of labor in 1918 and necessary
competition with the unusual wages
paid in all lines of var work, farm
wages were the highest on record.
The annual wage by the month with
board in North Dakota for 1913 was
$50 compared to Sal in 1917, or an
increase of % per cent. Harvest
vas were $3.50 per day with board
compared to $3.40 in 1917. or an in
crease of 80 per cent. Farm wages
throughout the state this spring are
lacking in uniformity but will aver
age nearly the same as e. year ago.
The outlook, however. is that harvest
wages will show a reduction from
Ia eft season