Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-10-19

LOCAL ITEMS
and PERSONALS
Matters Briefly Mentioned
Little Happenings
Personal Note:
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Rockingham VS.. Asheboro in foot
ball here tomorrow friday after
noon at 3 o'clock.
Harry Levine left Tuesday night
for the Northern markets to buy
goods for his store, The Hub.
A chapter of the Order of Eastern
Star was formed at Wadesboro last
week with 50 charter members.
: Send the Post-Dispatch to your
son or daughter who is away at
school. 1t will be like letter from
home to them.
Tom Linton, of Waycross, Ca,
came here Sunday for a week. He
has just recovered from a. two
weeks illness from fever
Addie May, 9-year-old daughter
OF Mr.. Wayne Diggs, was operated
upon at Stokes Hospital, Salisbury,
October 18th, for appendicitis.
Mrs. G. G. Ferry went to Raleigh
Tuesday to attend the State Fair.
She visited her daughter, Mrs. C. L.
Andrews, at $50 North Blount st.
Pickpockets are no respector of
persons. A lightfingered artist
touched Rev. w. M. Gilmore, of San
ford, for his purse in the Raleigh
Union Depot crowd Saturday after
noon.
The Woman's Missionary Union
of the Pee Dee association met in
its 28th annual session on October
Sc with the Laurinburg Baptist
church. Mrs. Lila L. Henry, of
Wadesboro, presided.
Messrs. Claude Gore, Ozmer L.
Henry, Bruce Benton, William Pitt
man and Baxter Rogers went from
here to Charlotte last Saturday to
attend the Davidson-Wake Fores
football game. II was tie, &c.
Fourteen members OF the Laurin-
bur-, Presbyterian church last week
subscribed $4,000 towards building
new Sunday school rooms for Their
church. Still further subscriptions
are being received from others.
Veteran Sip Hart, who will be 90
years old next April 9th, is feeling
good over the fact that a cancerous
growth on his hand has been re.
| moved. 1t was under radium treat
ment of DIR. James at Hamlet Hos
pital.
The County Home of Arson coun
Ity will now be run under a different
system. The County Commissioners
will employ manager and pay
him a salary to run the farm an6
look after the inmates; by the ole
system the home was hired out
Mr.. J. A.. Stewart, OF Atlanta
spent the weekend here with his
daughter, Mrs. j. Addison Lambeth
Mr.. Stewart formerly lived in De
1 troit, but for the past seven years
has lived in Atlanta where he il
president OF the Ludden and Bates
Piano Co.
Mrs. ]. KeGrand Everett and Mis-:
/ Easdale Shaw attended on the It'll
and 18th the meeting of the com
i mittee at Raleigh ON Interracia
Il Relations. Mrs. Everett is on TIL
state and her UNCONVENTIONAL com
mittec, and Miss Shaw is On her de
nominational committee.
Nine large Corbitt trucks, eacl
carrying two dumps that hay
capacity Of a cubic yard each, pass
ed through the city Monday Ell
route from Durham county to Flor
ida, They belong to The Hutton Con
struction Company, and had jus
completed a six-mile concrete roa
job in Durham county and wer
headed to a warmer climate to d
similar work this winter,
Ralph Hunsworth return ed t
Rockingham Sunday. He lei
here August list and in hi
travels went as far as Chicago. Hi
friends are glad to see him bac
here; his singing will be distint
addition to the music circles of tn
: community He has gone to -worl
: driving d truck for the Hedrlc
: Construction Company, and will a
4 so sing at the two Gardens Bel
lnettsville and Rockingham.
Sarah Wayne, 6-year-old daugl
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Digg
fall f,,esy,, I,n.a u last Thurs a