Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-09

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Wadesboro.-A number of new resi-
dences have recently been completed
in the Mont Calm section Of the city
and others will shortly be erected
there. That section of the city is be-
ing rapidly built up
Charlote.-A pageant to commemo-
rate the Booth anniversary Of the land
| ing of the Mayfower is one OF the fea-
lures planned to take place close to
the Thanksgiving season by the First
Baptist church, DR.. Luther Little, tho
pastor, has announced.
Rocky Mount After having been
caught in a belt at the plant OF the
Carolina Stave Company at Log, be-
tween Enfield and Halifax, j. H.
Owens, white, 26 years of age, died
on the train while being rushed to
this city for medical attention.
I Salisbury-The September term
| Of Rowan superior court which con-
venes on the 18th has larger num-
| Der of divorce cases on its docket
| than any court in this county has ever,
carried. There are twenty-five in all
| Ashevilley-W. L. Brooker, for more
than ten years superintendent of the
| Florence, S. c., public schools, was
elected superintendent of the Ashe-
vile city schools during special SEES
sion of the city commission.
Winston Salem.-Jonn Neal, divi-
sion sales manager for the r. ]. Rey-
holds Tobacco Company, with head
quarters at Omaha, Neb., died in a
hospital there after two weeks illness
with pneumonia. The deceased was
native of this county and was popular.
Dunn.-It now seems almost GER
tain that Governor James M. Cox,
Democratic nominee for President,
will speak here at the opening Of the
Dunn fair on Tuesday October -.
Elizabeth City.-A strike of the
! carpenters employed at the plant Of
i the Elizabeth City shipyard is on this
week with no end in sight.
Durham. Attorney Victor S. Bray
ant, one of Durham county's represen-
tatives in the state legislature, was
. operated on here for appendicitis.
He is reported as having successfully
: stood the operation.
Monroe.-Jim Gibbs, alias Charlie
Harris, was arrested here by Deputy
Sheriff Fowler and Chief-of Police
Spoon and delivered into the custody
. Of Sheriff Gary Whittle of Augusta,
for a murder committed in Augusta,
in the summer of 1904.
!, Asheville.-After rising to flood
stage the French Broad river here
is falling and unless other heavy
rains fall it is believed that the dar,
ger is over. The same condition pre-
walls on the Swannanoa river, which
however, has not risen as high as, the
French Broad river.
: Asheville.--"Clean-up or close up
:, Is the order Of Miss Pearl Weaver
! nurse-inspector, recently sworn in by
. the city commissioners to enforce the
sanitary laws of the city and she
!. SAYS she is following out her. own
: orders by closing the Y. NJ /. colored
cafe, until that place. can clean up.
Zebulon. -Wakelow High school
will open und ar most favorable cir
cumstances with complete staff OF Il
! teachers. Prof Owen Odum, of Coats
N. c., is the new superintendent, an!
!. he is already here.
Rich Square Northampton coun
ty farmers are preparing to harves
the largest corn crop, perhaps, in thu
!. history of the county, certainly thu
! largest grown since the Civil War
! Both corn and wheat before the Civi
I war were shipped from this county t
northern markets.
Rutherfordton.- The seaboard All
\ Line railroad VIII put on through
) Pullman car from here to Raleigh a
3 an early date, as soon as the car cal
, be secured. This will be great con
Z venience to the travelling public .
every class.
Kinston Luther A. Robertson ha
Al retired as rural mail carrier afte
/, travelling 1860 miles az an employ
4 Dc the government He made 5,58
4 trips fr5fn the LAGRANGE postoffcs
I. which were nearly equivalent to 81
times the circumference of the earth