Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1921-12-15

GIBSON Lander Quick was shot
anG instantly killed by Columbus Cross
on he street in front of the Bank of
Glib on. The direct cause of the
shoJ ting is not known.
C,apel Hill-It has been announced
that Grady Pritchard, of Chapel Hill,
was elected captain of the 1922 until
veds .ty football team while the squad
was on route home from Jacl1sonvillei
Dr-ham.-Dr. Plato Durham, of EN-
cry diversity, closed the greatest re-
vival ever held at Trinity college.
During the week that the services
were in. progress practically every
man and woman Of the college recon
secra ed their lives to Christian ideals.
WI nington.-Clyde P. Mon gomery,
white aged so, is being held in the
New hanover county Jail without bond
pend lg a preliminary hearing on
charg Of attacking 12-year-old white
girl Lear here.
Lerolr. - Organization Of another
big mirror factory for Lenoir was ef-
fected at a meeting here of furniture
manufacturing interests of Lenolr,
Hickory and Morganton. The new
plant will have an authorized capital
stock of 100000.
Raleigh.--Despite his threat not to
be taken alive, Tom Clayton, who es-
capped from the State prison while
serving a 20-year sentence for MUIR
der, surrendered without protest when
he was surrounded by rading party
| headed by Superintendent Pou of the
prison, nine miles west Of Raleigh.
Lumberton. - James Brayboy, In
dian, aged 100 years. died at his home
near Lumberton, death resulting from
/ the infirmities of old age. Deceased
was one OF few centenarians in this
county
| Washington, (Specit } The three
eligibles for the Bakersville postoffice
| Job are Ernest H. Poteat. Geo, M. Ba-
ker and Madison |. wilson
Mount Airy.-Lightning struck the
home of J. M. Chiffon, of Westtield.
The bolt almost demolished the home
1 ~ Arn x.r.L
cost the life of his year 1old SON.
| Laurinburg. y. c. birmingham.
aged IS, merchant here, died from
a stroke of paralysis at his home He
was digging ditch in his yard for
hedge when the attack came on.
Hickory.-Patrick and company,
with H. Patrick as secretary treas
nrer, opened wholesale grocery bust
ness in the Home Gamer building,
making the eighth Wholesale house for
Hickory.
Goldsboro. Edwin Burke, who ap-
pealed from 1S-months sentence on
the roads, drew two years when he
faced Judge E. H. Cranmer. He was
convicted of abandonment.
Asheyille.-Mrs. George w. Wander
bilt and her daughter, Miss Cornelia
Vanderbilt, leave for washington,
where they will spend the winter sea-
son.
Lenoir.-Charlie Helton, who was
sentenced in 1918 to from two to five
wears in the penitentiary for larceny.
: escaped from the state farm near
Raleigh.
Kinston. Mcdaniel, a negro
youth. is dead here as the result OF an
unseen accident on a railroad parallel
| ing the Elm Grove HIGHWAY, south OF
here, now under construction.
/ Kinston.-Mrs Annie Dali, widow,
: and Miss Bertha B. Dali, her daughter,
will face trial in superior court here
> on charges of shoplifting as the re-
+ suit of the finding OF probabie Gauss
, by Recorder Guy Elliott in municipal
court.
SaIisbury.-Sa Salisbury will have fve
women added to her city school board
according to plans of Walter Murphy,
representative in the legislature, VINO
took with him to the special session
: an amendment to the local schocs law
that increases the members.
Persons reaching Kick
from Mount Holly say that work has
begun ON extending the Carolina ana
: Northwestern railroad three miles to
a Mountain Island, where the Southern
q Power company is to build man
moth hydro.electric plant.
Charlotte.-A total of 81 couples
! we're granted marriage licenses by the
. register of deeds Of Mecklenburg