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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-17
You may join the Rowland SeWinq- Machine Club with fn a week, get a Free
 ma chine al itS Rowland cash price of $59, and have privilege of paying for it .in small amounts.

Last days of the Rowland Sewing-Machine Club have arrived. To. be a member of that club, you must act without loss of time
 If you act, a Free machine IS ready to enter your home and your service at once. It will be cheerful reliable
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-17

Something You Want? Use
 Tinans Wa12t 1A&
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-17
STATE OF CONNECTICUT, DISTRICT OF BRIDGEPORT, s PROBATE GOTRE

Estate of Louis Albert, late of the Town of Trumbun. in said District deceased.
 The Court of Probate for the Dis trict Of Bridgeport hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts properly attested. within said time, will be debarred a recov- cry. All persons indebted to said es- tate are requested to make immediate payment to
 O. B. BURTON,
 Administrator. Address Long Hill as
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-17

Address, Long Hill.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-17
STATE OF CONNECTICUT. DISTRICT OF BRIDGEPORT, Ss. PROR ATF COTTRV

April 16, 1920. Estate of Michael Carty, late of the Town of Bridgeport, in said District, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for the Dis trict of Bridgeport hath limited and hereof for creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their ac- counts properly attested. within said time, will be debarred a recovery. All persons indebted to said estate are re- quested to make immediate payment to MARGARET CARTY, Administratrix. Address, 453 Lafayette St U17s*
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-17
one dollar.

This is the Rowland Sewing Machine Club plan
 Spend than hour here at the giving the Free machine thorough One hour is enough that length of time you learn how well how easily how simple IS operation You how handles every of cloth with equal and equal good results Try heavy woolen suiting piece of Georgette crepe
 Test having proved vaue join the Club. That is simple All needed is sign application blank agree the of payment which liberal and make the first payment Any hornenaker who be depended upon keep promise eligible the club and immediately upon acceptance your machine Is delivered.
 The dollar you have paid with application Is credited at against the S59 which the cash price of your Free machine total of $59 all you have pay; interest charges other For the club the stores sell ing number of machines short time to do this the offers the attraction of cash price with easy
 Might tell you in detail about the different features which the Free machine easy and quiet and such fine sewing machine There Rotosclo shuttle and the these things and to actually you the Free yourself.
 Come and make that test--and do it without de- lay.
 The club roll is open till the close of business Saturday April 24El; your application must be in before o'clock of tEai day in order to enitle you 10 membership. There can be no better opportunity all tllis year to secure so good sewing machine.
 THE ROWLAND DRY GOODS co.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-17
EXCELLENT WORK DONE BY RELIEF
 FUND COMMITTEE

The folIowig report is given by the executive committee of the American Relief Fund:
 To Our Friends: The executive committee of the American Relief Fund begs to submit the following table of receipts and expenditures for ths period of six months ending March 27:
 RacPiDfS.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-17

Total, .. $15, 5,674.00
 We take this opportunity of ex- tending our sincere thanks for the as- sistance rendered by our friends and associates during the above mention ed period
 The above figures show that excel lent work has been done by our peo- pie in this city, but owing to the great hardships among the women and children in Germany and Austria we feel that this good work must be continued for some little time to come For that reason the commit tee have decided to make one big effort for the collection of funds and have designated the afternoon of April 25 as the time set aside for that purpose.
 One of our collectors will be pleas ed to call upon you at your home on said time and date. We also feel confident that your knowledge of the good cause for which this money is intended, and your previous generos- ity will prompt you to respond heartily to this drive.
 A mass meeting of the society will
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-17

be held at the Schwaben hall, 37 French street, Sunday, April IS, at 2:30 D. n., to which you are cordial Iy invited.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-09

5000 strike-breakers were a
few days ago brought in to New
York to give the public service
when the workmen of the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit system went
on strike for the closed shop.
These 5000 men were collected
from among the unemployed in
the great Industrial cities of the
middle west. There is some
thing for any man who holds a
job now to ponder-3,000 men
without jobs in cities like Cleye-
land, Cincinnati and Indianapo-
lis. The era of easy money is
approaching it's end. If you
have a job, you had better stick
to it.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-09

The so-called ambassador of
the Irish Republic" came to
Paris last week but he was Civ
en- just "a hours in which to get
out of France. The French gov
eminent knows how to deal with
such. This is in striking con-
trast to the reception given in
this country to De Valera, the
president" of the so-called ere
public" when he was here sew
eral months ago.
There are unmistakable indi-
cations of a coming change in
our economic condition, and this,
we hope, will bring many thous.
ands of our wandering boys
back to the farms.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-09

An incident happened at the
civil term of Superior court for
Richmond county, at Rocking
ham. this week that we venture
sets a precedent, and a good one
for the State. A young man
summoned as q juror had so
much to do or his farm that he
brought his aged father along as
a substitute. The father had
recently broken an arm and
could not do physical labor, but
could easily serve as a juror.
When the young man asked
Judge McElroy could the sub
stitution be made, the Judge OF
course readily consented, The
father took the sons place in
the Jury box and the younger
man went back to work.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-09

Within the next few days
State printers will begin work
on the 100000 National, State
and Congressional ballots that
will decide the November cleo
ton in North Carolina. The
number is the largest that has
eyer been ordered in the State,
and will require the steady work
of the printers for several
weeks. They will be mailed out
before the 18th of Octoer.
There will be a million tickets
bearing the names of Cox and
Roosevelt, Democratic national
nominees, and 100000 dedicat-
ed to Harding and Coolidge. An
other million State Democratic
tickets will be printed and 700,-
900 for the Republicans, bear.
ing the party nominees for all
State offices. Approximately e..
100000 congressional tickets
will be printed.
The number of tickets requir
ed in the election is determined
by the party vote in the last pre-,
ceding national election with ar
added Is per cent for the nor
NAL growth. The figures this
year have been doubled on &C
count of the enfranchisement o.
the women.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-09
CLEVER HOFFMAN GIRL

The "Tar Heel Club News"
published monthly by the Elk
tension Service of the State Col
lege at Raleigh, some time ago
offered a series of prizes for the
best articles on my Home
Newspaper" The judges were
DR.. Clarence Poe, r. w. Hay
wood, editor Of the News & OBJ
server, and Mrs. w. T. Bost. The
first prize of $50 went to Dolleta
Bost, of Albemarle, Route 6, and
the second prize of $40 cash
went to a Richmond county girl
Miss Alice Baldwin, of Hoff-
man. The following is Miss
Baldwin's article:
my home newspaper in the Rock
ingham Post-Dispatch. 1t is so init
metely connected with every phase Of
our life and work--moral, industrial
and social--that we cannot afford to
miss its regular visits. It not only
gives us all of the news in good read
able form, but contains many articles
and suggestions that are very helpful
and worth many times the subscrip-
tion price of the paper.
Editorially, it strives to create and
crystalize sentiment for better
schools, better roads, and better
farming. AS club member it is in
despensible to me. It not only en-.
courages me with timely advice and
information, but keeps me informed
as to what the other clubs are doing.
OF course. it is impossible to com
|pute in dollars and cents the value Of
my home newspaper to the commun.
|ity, recognizing the fact that the
greatest source OF our wealth and
health is agriculture. It persastently
advocates better farming and the can
ming and preserving Of all fruits and
vegetables. That means thousands Of
cans 81 palata1le and nutritious food
ana the experience Of these club mem.
bers VIII be worth i great deal 10 the
community III which they live.
s doNn0t know Just what my com
nanity would 81 without M home
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-09

Banks throughout the coun-
try are tightening up on loans,
and Fare calling in those made
for speculative purposes.
The public is ceasing to buy
as extravagantly as of yore,
with the result that manufac-
turers are of necessity curtail-
ing their output.
This is throwing thousands Of
men out of employment, and
many of them are experiencing
difficulty in finding other
sources of earning livelihood.
AS a rule the farm hand who
rushed off to the city is the least
experienced in these trades, anC
it is but natural that he SHOULD
be among the first to be laid off
What more sane course coul;
he pursue than to return to the
farm, where he is an expert anc
employment is always awaiting
him?
Speed the return of the wan
dering boy. He is welcome be-
fore he arrives.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-09

There seems to be no doubt
but that a nationwide move
ment is on foot to organize vo-
ters who are German extraction
for sympathy for Warren G.
Haring for President. The, Ger
man organizations will be voted
solidly for the Republican tic
ket. It is estimated that be-
tween five and six million voters
men and women, will be infiu-
enced by the German movement
to vote for Harding. This fact
should be pondered deeply BY
our Richmond county people.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-09
MIR. MCCLURE LEAVES

Rev. R. E. Mcclure left the
city Monday for Wilmington
where he will remain with his
mother until Union Seminary at
Richmond opens October 9th.
The approaching term will make
his second ministerial year
there.
Mr.. Mcclure has served
the Rockingham Presbyterian
church for the past three
months, and during that time
made many friends here.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-09

In one of our big cities citizen
wanted an oak center table stained
mahogany finish to harmonic with
the rest of the furniture in the room
A workman demanded $22.5O for the
job. Instead of paying it, the citizen
bought can Of mahogany stain for
$1.S5, brush for dollar, and. did the
job himself in an hour and half. II
other people would use some of the
same brand of horse sense the ridi
culous cost of existence would soon
come down to sane level.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-09
Il Fnr,anf lie,

Next week fully $50 Post Dis
patch readers willfail to receive
their paper. They probably
think the cash-in-advance plan is
a joke merely bluff. But it
is not. When a persons sub
scription expires, his. paper au-
Dramatically stops. It is simply
"a business proposition. No pay,
no paper.
Look at your label. If your
time is out, this is your last
copy. Renew and keep the
Post Dispatch coming to you.
We want you.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-09
TRANS-CONTINENTAL
MAIL.

The postoffice department
Wednesday started a through
mail service by aeroplane from
New York to San Francisco. The
new air service will reduce the
transit time Of mail between
the Pacific and Atlantic from 81
to 50 hours, a saving of 81
hours.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-09
Hung ON a Line and Beaten.


How dear to our hearts are
the sad days of springtime,
when the annual housekeeping
recurs to our view, when we
sleep on the sofa and eat off the
mantle, in an atmosphere
strongly suggestive Of glue; we
think Of the stove-pipe, the SCOT
that came from it and sweet ex-
pressions so fluent and fine, but
the saddest and most bitter of
all recollections is that dusty old
carpet that hung on the line. Oh,
that dutsy old carpet, that rusty
old carpet, that musty old carpet
that hung on the line. We re-
member how, armed with a 1.-THE
flagelator, in the morning we
blithely advanced to the fray, in
the muscular pride of our heart,
little dreaming that cleaning
that carpet would take the whole
day; we sweated and we kicked
and our hand badly blistered,
while the sun lent his counte-
nance, warmly benign, but the
harder we pounded the more il
was needed by that dusty ole
carpet that hung on the line. Oh
that dusty old carpet, thai
musty old carpet, that rusty ole
carpet, that hung on the line
Exchange.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-09
District Odd Fellows.

A joint convention of 10th and
18th Districts, |. @. 0. r., will be
held at Salisbury Monday after
noon and night, Sept. 18th. ]. B,
Carr of Rockingham will preside.
]. B. Carr, F. B. McLester, B. S
Thomas, w. R. and D. L. Cop
pedge expect to attend.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-09
Notice School Election.

A petition containing one.fourth of the
fr9eholders of Harrington School District
No. 8, Rockingham Township, Richmond
county, North Carolina, asking for an
election to be held in said district, said
petition being duly endorsed by the
Board of Education of said County, being
filed with this Board, the following order
was unanimously passed, to wit:
Pursuant to said petition and OF the
Public School Law of North Carolina,
being Chapter 49, Section Ais of the Re-
visal of North Carolina, we, the Board of
Commissioners for Richmond county,
North Carolina, being in regular monthly
session on Monday, Sept. 9th, 1920, a
quorum being present, do hereby call
and order an election to be held on Sat
urday, Oct. 16, 1920, at the school house
in said Harrington School District No. 8,
Rockingham Township, Richmond county
North Carolina, for the purpose of de.
Gliding whether there shall be levied and
collected special annual tax of not
more than 30cents on the $4,000 valu-
ation of property, and 80 cents on the
poll. to supplement the Public School
Fund
A new registration is hereby ordered
and called for said school election for
said school district.
The registration books will open Satur-
day. September II. 1920 and close on
Saturday, October Q, 1920, for the regis
tration of all voters in said district. The
registration and election shall be had
according to the law now in force govern
ing same.
Ellis Harrington is hereby appointed
registrar. and Archid Haywood and Mrs.
w. B. Covington are hereby appointed
lpoll holders to conduct said election.
Done by order of the Board Of Com.
Imissioners, in regular monthly session,
Monday, Sept. 9Th, 1920. :
B. r. Reynolds
Chairman Board CO. Commr's.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-09

newspaper. However, If we could
turn backward one time in our flight
just fifty years. we would be astonish-
ed at the progress we have made, and
am sure the home newspaper has
been a great factor in the advance.
ment Of civilization. Az
Alice Baldwin,
Age IA. Hoffman, N. G.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-09-09

Hotels and cafes at Atlantic
City were raided by Federal pro-
hibition Agents Saturday and
whiskey and wines to value OF
100000 were seized.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-14
Do Y0u Go 10 7he M0Uies?
 Then Read Ihis Article

The page Screen and Stage, is offered partly experiment and partly contrlbu- friends who patrons of the moving ture world
 For newspapers featured sports such baseball football boxing othershe practice has been
 way the younger people have become habual read acquiring education which oterlse they the community been of keen interest manly arts and games. .s
 Nevertheless sports interest directly but relatively sa Il and those nearly all of the masculine sex
 Moving pictures the other hand interest nearly of
 The moving picture recent addition to the educational society," The appeal of this art so re
 endou handsomest heaters have been and it has virtually supplanted Tn many ce ohe dramatic effort In Bridgeport is not an exaggera- persons daily observe the silent drama Never any place. there such outpourng of numbers seeking entertainment.
 has recently to American life Is more and the morals of people What the utmost interest to all of the ideals there will modify conduct sometimes little great dea It behOoves everybody to know aDout they good bad whether they will pro happiness morality immortality The stage relationship between the The stage capacity to education is great the muudes that appeal ed to- The page and Stage will tell about the pictures the It will aid to you to know what is good is better and what is best
 All of this wonderful mimic world will appear will be early of advanced bookings Plays coming will be explained and sometimes crlt cized picture fan who follows this news vii know beforehand what way whether he wants to it epogue The Times of Stage and Screen confded to he of its friends.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-14
Unusual Array
 Of Celebrities
 In New Play

What is believed to be the first motion picture ever written, acted directed and produced by recruits from the spoken drama exclusively is being completed at the Peerless Studios Fort Lee, under the sponsor ship of W. K. ziegfeld, the promin- ent theatrical producer.
 In keeping with a declaration made some months ago when he in vaded the motion picture field, w. K Ziegfe1d who, by the way, is broth CT of 'tFHo Jr.." of ''Follies" fame, ig- hored the established precedents Of the motion picture industry, and went into the legitimate theatre, with which he has been identified for 20 years.
 As a result, his first pcture con- tains an imposing array of recogniz- ed stage talent His star is Florence Reed, stellar light in score of Broadway hits; his director, Emile Chautard, former Director-General of the Theatre Rejane of Paris; his scenarioist Philip Bartho1omae, noted dramatist and author of such stage hits as stVery Good Eddie,'' "When Dreams Come True,'' and several oth- CT plays, and his cast includes Ty- rome Power, Norman Trevor, Earle Foxe, Henry Stephenson, William Rosel1e, Paula Shay, Mile. Dazie and othera who have achieved distinction h. SnnlSen Sf1g6
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-14
INTERESTING PROPHECY ON
 ADVANCE OF MOVIE ART

What the next step in the art of motion picture drama will be is often the subject of speculation. Usually the reproduction Of the actors voices with the action or the perfection of a natural color proces takes hold of the imagination of the guesser.
 But Ida May Park, who is general ly recognized as one of the few able directors of her sex making pie lures, differs in an original way. She said the other day:
 Many experts to my knowledge are working on those lines, but in my opinion the next really epocha1 and worthwhile step in the evolu- ton will be of a chemical nature. By that I mean it will come through sensitized photographic plates.
 Somebody will hit upon a way to render the plates so deicately re- sponsive to the fainteSt lights and shadows that realism will reach the ninth degree. For example, if it were possible to photograph just as 1t is the figure of a, man sitting by a
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-14
Grace Valentine
 Signs Contract

Grace Valentine. widely known stage and screen star, who played the lead in Morosco's 'Lombard1, Ltd.,' which ran for two years at the Morosco theatre in New York and over year on the road, has been engaged by Myron Seiznlek' lures Corporation, for one of the leading roles in the forthcoming all star Ralph Ince Special Production. "A Mans Home.'
 The engagement of Mis- Valentine completes the cast of an-star princi- pals which include if addition to herself, Harry Mercy, Kathlyn Will Hams, Matt Moore, Faire Binney and Roland Bottomley.
 For a year Miss Valentine played in stock at the Morosco theatre in Los Angeles; and then en-. came al east to ion Following that she was in .HThe Greyhound" at the Astor-
 Miss Valentine plays the part of Cordelia Wilson, the heavy. in "A Mans Horne.''
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-14
LACK INSPIRATION

Stage folk acting for the camera complain often of the lack of inspir- ation a live audience provides, and apropos of their stimulus, Alphonz Ethier. portraying now the part of the messenger in Bert Lytelrs forth coming Metro special "A Message From Mars" recalled an incident of his early transforming days when he acted before house a shade less re- sponsive than the lens of Bell Howell
 Ethier's company was giving per- formance of "In Darkest Russia" in the small town opera house, which was the second floor of a grocery store. Even the most exciting mo- ments of the me1odrama evoked no more enthusiasm than a gentle mur- mur. The actors became restive;> their manager more so, and he consulted with the house manager.
 Don't they like the show" asked the road company manager. '"They haven't app1auded once."
 "They think it's great said the other. They're eating it up. But they can't clap until the grocery store downstairs closes up at half-past 9.''
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-14

Motion picture fans refuse to be duped any longer, declares Erich Won Strehein, director authof pr actor He says that for years the producers have been perpetratlng rank fakes in the way of settings and costumes upon the fans.
 And. now, asserts Mr. Von stro- helm. the fans are rebelling-
 e1Tbera was a time. not so distant, when the average movie goer did not know the difference between the uniform of a French grenadler and a Swiss guard,'' he points out. The producers could film a scene on an American boulevard and label it the Champs Elysees in Paris and not one person in 2. thousand who saw 1 the picture could tell the difference. The audience went home feeling it had f,een nr,ivi1eeed to view one of the most famous bouSevards in the world.