Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-12-14

LOCAL ITEMS
and PERSONALS
Matters Briefly Mentioned
Little Happenings
Personal Notes
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Miss Rose Biggs returned on last
Thursday from a weeks visit to
Miss Agnes Head in Wilmington.
Mrs. H. c. Wall returned Tues
day from a weeks visit to her
parents in Salisbury.
Mrs. L. Swingle returned to Cleve-
land, Ohio, Wednesday, after hay
ing spent the past four months here
with her mother, Mrs. w. A. Melon.
aid.
The County Commissioners of
Scotland county receive 81 for each
day they are in session. The Rich.
mond County Commissioners get So
each.
Mrs. Annie Patterson, of Scotland
county, died Thanksgiving Day.
She was Sc years old, and was a
daughter of John Mcneil, a native
of Argleshire, Scotland.
Service at the Episcopal church
Sunday morning at eleven o'clock.
Subject of sermon; why do the in
nocent suffer- Sunday School 945
A. M. Prayer service Wednesday
night 730,
MIR. William Ellerbe, of the Vir-
ginia Shipp hotel, at Newton, spent
from Tuesday to today here with
relatives. His mother, Mrs. z. O..
Ellerbe, is now recovering from a
tussle with the flu
William Fleming, of Augusta, Ga,
Is the champion fat boy of the
South. He is 10 years old and
weighs 240. He wears No. II
shoe. AT birth he is said to have
weighed 10 pounds.
The Mecklenburg county chain
gang December LIST had 1876 pris.
oners. The Richmond county gang
had 26 last week, but this weeks
term of criminal court will increase
this number.
There are % boys from Richmond
county at present at the State Uni
versity. The list can be seen else
where in the Post-Dispatch, Scott
Thomas is president of the county
club at the Hill.
Dock Haithook son of T. ], Halt
hook, of Montgomery county, died
Dec. 1st as result of injured receiv-
ed Thanksgiving Day when his
brakes gave way and let his car
plunge over a 12-foot bank.
Ben R. Wall was chosen as chair
man of the Arson County Board OF
Commissioners; he has been chair
man for two years. Robinson,
Caudle & Pruette were re-appointed
as the Arson County Attorneys.
A score of citizens Tuesday night
enjoyed radio concert at the Dodge
agency offices, Lambcths, here; and
particularly the farewell address by
that great French statesman, Glenn
enceau, which was delivered at the
Pennsylvania hotel, New York City.
Davidson and Trinity will hitch
up hereafter in an annual Thans-
giving Day game of football. Next
year it will be at Charlotte, and
then alternate between Durham and
Charlotte, 1t will put two strong
rivals for seasons climax.
A. M. Stack will make his debut
as Superior Court Judge at spec
ial term at Greensboro Jan. LIST. His
regular time for being sworn in is
January 18th, but Gov. Morrison has
him to hold this Gull
ford county special term earlier.
j. II. Hendly, salesman of Auer-
bach and Sons, returned from Ala
bama Saturday. He and E. A. Hend-
ley left Sunday for conference with
d. Auerbach and Sons in New York;
they top the list of Auerbach's many
statesmen and were the first called
to New York for Conference.
Atty. NJ. c. Mcleod has hung out
his single in Rockingham for the
practice of law in Richmond county.
His offices are over the Dockery Nc
Nair store, in the rooms recently
vacated. by w. s.. Thomas. MIR. Me.
Laod is a native of Red Springs. He
was. graduated from Davidson col.
-leges and took his law course at the
University. The community will
be glad to know that he has been
located here.
The Hillside Florist (Mrs. A. c.
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