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VoLl. No. 19.
ROCKINGHAM, N. C, APRIL 11, 1918.
$1.50 PER YEAR
MORE MENTO CAMP
87 Men to Go to Camps Be
ginning April 26th. 51
Colored Men of First Draft
to Illinois, 24 Colored and
12 White of Second Draft
to Camp Jackson.
The War Department has is
. sued a call for the entrainament
, of 5,055 men from North Carolina
during the five-day period begin-
ning April 26th. This total of
over five thousand men is divided
into three calls. The first is for
i 2,001 colored men to be sent to
Camp , Grant, Illinois, this ;. being
the number due by the State to
complete, the first draft The
second is for 1.S97 co'ored men to
be sent to Can p Jackson, apply
ing on the sacond draft The
, third is for 1,057 white men to.be
sent to Camp Jackson, on second
..arart . ;
) Under this "plan Richmond
county will fu:n!fh 51 colored
, men for Camp Grant, Illinois, to
complete the first quota, 24 col
ored men to Camp Jackson, Col
umbia, S. C, to apply on the
second draft,' and 12 white men
to Camp Jackson, on second draft
The only colered men the county
. had so far sent a ? 72, to Camp
Grant March 30th. The only
white men of second draft sent
to Camp Jackson was on March
31st 14. '
It will be of interest to the
Post-Dispatch readers to know
just how many the other counties
throughout the State are to send
on the new call, and we are here
giving them by counties. The
local board will have the names
of those to be sent, in time for
next week's.
First Call Colored Men.
On the call for 2,001 colored men to
be sent to Camp Grant the following
quotas have been ordered: Alamance
19, Anson 45, Beaufort 47, Bertie 47,
Bladen 8, Brunswick 13, Cabarrus 32,
Camden 8, Carteret 12, Caswell 19,
Chatham 34, Chowan 11, Columbus 38,
Craven 64, Cumberland 25, Currituck 22,
Duplin 41, Durham 20, Edgecombe 65,
Winsion-Salem 148, Forsyth 33, Franklin
31, Gates 13, Granville 30, Greene 25,
Guilford No.l 2, Cii'fird No.2 40, Guil
ford No J 13, Halifax 72, Harnett 35,
Hertford 37, Hyde 10, Johnston No. 116,
Jones 13, Lee 6, Lenoir 38, Martin 30,
. Mecklenburg 25, Montgomery 15, Moore
.18, Mash 37, Northampton 52, Onslow 12,
' Orange 13, Pamlico 19, Pasquotank 17,
-Pender 33, Perquimans 27, Pitt Rich
mond 51, Robeson No. 1 9, Robeson No.
2 51, Rockingham 14, Rowan 20, Samp
son 46, Scotland 20, Stokes 9, Vance 10,
Wake No. 1 29, Wake No. 2 10, Warre i
; 23, Washington 14. Wayne 131, Wilson 44
Second Call Colored Men.
- The call for the 1,997 colored men to
be Sent to Camp Jackson gives the fol
lowing allottment: Alamance 25, Alex
ander 8, Alleghany 1, Anson 21, Ashe 6,
Avery 5, Beaufort 25, Bertie 17, Bladen
15, Brunswick 11, Buncombe No. 1 41
Buncombe No. 2 46, Burke-17, Cabarrus
31. Caldwell 6, Camden 5, Carteret 11,
Caswell 10. Catawba 23. Chatham 18.
Cherokee 11, Chowan 9, Clay 3, Cleve
land 24, Columbus 24, Craven 25, Cum
berland 26, Currituck 7, Dare 1, David
son 26, Duplin 25, Davie 10, Durham 39,
Edgecombe 30, Winston-Salem 59, For
syth 22, Franklin 19, Gaston 39, Gates 8,
Granville 20. Greene 13, Guilford No. 1,
15, Guilford No. 2, 33, Guilford No. 3 18,
Halifax 36, Harnett 20, Haywood 21, Hen
. derson 12, Hertford 12, Hoke P, Hyde 7,
Iredell 27, Jackson 19, Johnston No. 1,-16,
John3on No. 2 22, Jones 7, Lee 9, Lenoir
" 24, Lincoln 12, McDowell 2, M n 10,
- Madison 16, Martin 15, Charlotte 45,
Mecklenburg 22, Mitchell 1, Montgom
ery 11, Moore 5, Nash 37, Wilmington 27,
New Hanover 4, Northampton 27, Onslow
19 rirannA IK Pamtir-A Q Pasnnntgnlr 1 A
Pender 11, Perquimans 9, Person 14, Pitt
, 36, Polk 6, Randolph 21, Richmond 24,
Robeson No. 1 20, Roberson No. 2 20,
Rockingham 30, Rowan 35, Rutherford
ii. oampson ci, ocoyana it, sianiy zo,
' Stokes 15, Surry 22, Swain 2, Transyl
vania 8, Tyrrell 5, Union 27, Vance 18,
. Wake No. 1, 35, Wake No. 2 26, : Warren
J6, Washington 10. Wautauga 10. Wayne
35, Wilkes 22, Wilson 33, Yadkin 10,
Yancey 2.
CaU For White Men.,
' 1 . , The call for 1,057 white men to be sent
to Camp Jackson is allotted as follows:
Alamance 13, Alexander 4, Alleghany 3,
Anson 11, Ashe 8, Avery 4, Beaufort 14,
Bertie 9, Bladen 8, Brunswick 6, Bun
combe No. 1 13, Buncombe No. 2, 14,
Burke 9, Cabarrus 16, Caldwell 8, Cam
den, 2, Carteret 6, Caswell 5, Catawba 13,
Chatham 10, Cherokee 6, Chowan 5,
Clay 2, Cleveland 13, Columbus 13, Craven
13, Cumberland 14, Currituck 4, Dare 2,
Davidson 14, Davie 5, Duplin 13, Durham
20, Edgecombe 16, Winston-Salem 27,
Forsyth 11, Franklin 10, Gaston 20, Gates
4, Graham 2, Granville 10, Greene 7,
Guilford No,l 8, Guilford No. 2 18, Guil
ford No. 3 6, Hertford 19, Harnett 11,
Haywood 11, Henderson 8, Hertford 6,
Hoke 5, Hyde 4, Iredell 14, Jackson 6,
Johnston No. 1 9, Johnston No. 2 11,
Janes 3, Lee 5, Lenoir 13, Lincoln 7, Mc
Dowell 7, Macon 5, Madison 9, Martin 8
Charlotte 24, Mecklenburg 11, Mitchell 4,
Montgomery 6, Moore 8, Nash 20, Wil
mington 14, New Hanover -2, Nprthamp
ton 10, Onslow 6, Orange 8, .Pamlico 5,
Pasquotank 2, Pender 6, Perquimans 5,
Person 7, Pitt 19, Polk 4, Randolph 11,
Richmond 12, Robeson .No. 1 11, Robeson
No. 2 10, Rockingham 16, Rowan 18,
Rutherford 11, Sampson 14. Scotland 8,
Stanly 15, Stokes 8, Surry 12, Swain 5,
Transylvania 6, Tyrell 2, Union 14, Vance
9, Wake No. 1 19, Wake No. 2 14, War
ren 9, Washington 5, Watauga 5, Wayne
19,- Wilkes 12, Wilson 17, Yadkin 5,
Yancey 6. v
BUY LIBERTY BONDS
Third Liberty Loan Bond
Campaign Now On. North
Carolina to Raise $19,
000,000. Richmond Coun
ty to Raise About $250,000.
The campaign for , the Third
Liberty Loan bonds is on in full
swing now, and all over this land
people are rallying to the call of
our Government by subscribing
to the bonds even to the point
where the subscribing means a
sacrifice but a temporary sacri
fice only, for subscribing to these
bonds is simply an investment.
The campaign opened last
Saturday, the anniversary of
America's intrance into to war.
The bonds will bear interest of
4J per cent. Committees have
been appointed to solicit subscrip
tions in each precinct in the
county, and a list of the citizens
composing this committee can be
saenon page, ine campaign
will continue for two more weeks,
and it is earnestly hoped that our
people will respond to the call by
promptly over-subscribing Rich
mond county's apportionment.
In the Second Liberty Loan is
sue the county was assessed
$212,000, but went over the top
with the grand total of $395,000.
Taking this amount were 314
subscribers.
If it does not suit you to pay
the full amount for a Liberty
Loan bond you can pay five ber
cent on application, twenty per
cent May 28th, thirty-five per
cent July 18th, and forty per cent
Aug. 15th. Or if you want a bond
and haven't the ready money to
pay for same, why go to your
bank and get them to buy you a
bond and then you start a weekly
or monthly saving deposit with
them for it. The bonds are in
denominations of $50, $100, $500
and on up. You want to be num
bered among those who have lent
their money to the Government,
so see a member of the committee
or consult your bank without de
layand let's letRicmond county
cross the line a winner hv a good
margin!
New Department
The Post-Dispatch is with this
issue inaugurating a new depart
ment, to be known ,as the Red
Cross Department, the items
therein to be contributed and
supervised by ' Miss Georgia
Biggs and Mrs R. B. WaddelL If
you have any suggestions to
make, or items to contribute, for
department, kindly phone or write
such to either of these two ladies.
The Post-Disp'atch will gladly de
vote space to furthering the work
of this excellent brganizationj the
items under this head this week
can be found on page 3
SUPERIOR COURT
April Term for Trial of Crim
inal Cases Opened Monday.
The April term of Richmond
superior court f or. trial ot crimi
nal cases only, .opened last Mon
day, with Judge W. J. Adams" pre
siding and Solicitor Walter E.
Brock prosecuting. This was
Judge Harding's term, but he and
Judge Adams "swapped."
The following were drawn as
the grand jury, with H. C. Petty,
of Hamlet, as foreman: .
H. C. Petty, M. B. Nicholson, W.
N. Everett, Jr., G. W. Cpggins,A.
B. Nicholson, Geo. S. Steele, Mon
roe Warburton, S. W. Odom, G.
F. Myers, A. M. Palmer, A. B.
Welch, A. C. Phifer.Van Thomas,
W. D.Smith, M. W. Nicholson,
Charlie Covington, E. A. Lackey,
Archie L. McNeill.
The following are the cases
disposed of:
State vs Walter Little; carry
ing concealed weapon; fined $50
and costs.
State vsRich Williams, charg
ed with three countsjretailing, re
sisting officer and carrying con
cealed weapon. Pays costs and
prayer for judgment continued
for 3 years, in the retailing case;
fined $25 and costs in second case;
and pays costs in third case. His
getting off this light was due to
his being drafted.
State vs Joe and Raney Adams;
charged with larceny of cotton
from T. C. Covington, of Route 4.
Jury found them not guilty.
State vs Maude and Raymond
Davis; charged with larceny of a
washpot; jury found not guilty
as to Maude, and so judge directs
a not guilty verdict as to Ray
mond. .'.
State vs Willie Leak; jury finds
him guilty of assault with deadly
weapon; sentenced to 60 days on
roads. Pleads guilty to carrying
concealed weapon, and sentenced
to 30 days on roads.
State vs Oliver Ellerbe; pleads
guilty to charge of an assault on
a female. Prayer for judgment
continued to July term upon con
dition that he pay costs. Prose
cuting witness (his wife) is re
cognized together with her hus
band to appear and show they
have had no disturbances be
tween thenu
State vs Bunk Wall and Mar
tha Covington; waive bill and
plead guilty to F. &A. Judg
ment suspended on payment of
costs.
State vs Lewis McNeill, waives
bill and pleads guilty; fined $50
and costs. . .
State vs Vance Hale; by con
sent of State bill of indictment
changed to forcible trespass and
he pleads guilty. He is a young
white boy, probably 12 years old,
Efforts will be made by the Court
to have him admitted into the
Stonewall Jackson Training
School near Concord.
The foregoing cases were dis
posed of Monday, the Court mill
having ground rapidly, as the
large number of cases shows.
Tuesday Court reconvened at
9:30 o'clock.
State vs Tom Smith; after sub
mission of evidence defendant
decided not to resist a verdict,
and so Court directs verdict of
guilty.
State vs L. W. Page. This case
was hotly contested. The Caro
lina Brick Co., of Florence, claims
to have sold him 100,000 brick as
agent, while he claimed they
were sold him on open account
The charge was embezzlement
The jury found him not guilty,
State vs Grover McQuaig; pleads
guilty , to trespass. Prayer for
judgment continued for 2 years;
he pays cost and is put under $100
bond to appear at Jan. and July
terms tor d years to show good
behavior and that he has not in
dulged in intoxicating liquors.
State vs Zack Hines; grand jury
returns in open Court with true
bill for rape. Defendant pleads
guilty to charge of assault on a
female, and is sentenced to four
months on roads. The sentence
will begin July 15th and he is re
quired to give $200 bond for his
appearance to begin sentence.
State vs James Waddell; lar
ceny, guilty, sentenced to six
months on roads.
State vs Chas. R. Stephenson;
charged check flashing. He is
rom North Wilkesboro, and gave
a bad check to the First National
Bank of Hamlet. Through coun
sel he pleads that he has not
mental discretion to enter a for
mal plea. The issue then sub
mitted to the jury was: "is defen
dant insane and unable to plead
to bill of indictment?" Answer:
"Yes." The Judge then direct
ed that Stephenson be committed
to the Hospital for the dangerous
insane and confined therein und
er the hospital rules and regula
tions and there to remain until
such time as his mind may be re
stored and to await the further
action of the Court in this cause.
State vs Mark Sweat, larceny
of corn; pleads guilty; prayer for
judgment continued for 12
months; pays costs and is required
to appear and show good behavior
from time to time.
State vs Annie Wall. The de
fendant having been found guilty
at Sept 1917, term of receiving
stolen goods and sentenced to
jail for 12 months, with leave of
Commissioners to hire out, and
having been so hired and having
left the parties to whom hired
and having failed to comply with
judgment of the Court, she is
now remanded to custody (jail)
and the Commissioners to be nc-
tified of this matter.
State vs Herbei t Johnson, Frank
Spivey and John Spivey, charged
with larceny of cloth from Rob
erdel mill; pleads guil:y, and
prayer for judgment is continued
for 3 years upon payment of the
costs and upon condition that
each, defendant execute bond for
$100 to appear at Jan. and July
terms for three years to show
good behavior. -,,
State vs Sam Dockery and
Henr y DeBerry. jury finds Dock
ery guilty of simple assault and
DeBerry guilty of assault with
deadly weapon. DeBerry fined
$25 and costs, and Dockery fined
$5 and costs. .
State vs Herbert Pinion; charg
ed with distilling; jury reports
verdict of not guilty.
State vs Daisy Lindsey; pleads
guilty to charge of ' concealing
the birth of her child; sentenced
to jail for 8 months with leave for
Commissioners to hire out
State vs George Chambers;
grand jury found a true bill
against him for murder; he pleads
guilty to manslaughter and sen
tenced to Penitentiary for four
years.
State vs Jim McNair, Ben Har
ris, John Ward, Alphonso Sloan,
Jesse McKethan. 1 hese men
were charged with gambling and
carrying concealed weapons. The
jury found them not guilty,
These men, with George Cham
bers (sentenced to pen for
years) and Sam McNair (killed
by Chambers) were charged with
gambling at Hoffman about
.month ago. Lonnie Parker and
Buddie Cole were also in the
"frolic" but have not as yet been
apprehended.
State vs Dennis Williams;
waives bill and pleads guilty of
forcible trespass. Fined $10 and
costs. : :;..
State vs Marsh Spencer; prayer
for judgment continued to July
term; renews bond and pays
COStS.. . v .;---i
t, State vs J. G. Hair; prayer for
judgment suspended - for two
years upon payment of costs.
State vs Mike and W. R. Red-
dick; submit to charge of burn
ing house. On account of their
crops they are allowed to-pay
costs now and give $1000 bond
each for their appearance at the
July term when sentence will be
pronounced.
State vs Walter Little; c. c. w.
Sent to roads for 60 days.
The criminal docket being fin
ished, Court adjourned at noon
for the term.
" Rat Tail Contest.
Mrs. John Sandy Covington re
quests the Post-Dispatch to an
nounce the inauguration of a
"rat tail contest." This contest
will begin next Monday, the 15th,
and will close Monday, the 29th.
The principal of each school in
the county is requested to select
one boy from their school as Cap
tain. Every pupil is eligible to
compete for the prizes, Thrift
Stamps, and the pupil in each
school getting the most rat tails
will receive a prize of Stamps.
The pupils in each school must
report to their Captain at the end
of the contest (Monday, 29th) and
let him count the tails. Then the
Captain is requested to officially
write or notify Mrs. Covington
who the winner in his school is.
Mrs. Covington will then have
the names of the winners publish
ed and will forward the prize
Stamps. Also, the school report
ing the most rat tails will be a
warded a Grand Prize.
Now let all the schools of Rich
mond county get into this con
test in earnest Thousands of
rats should be killed by this
means, and more food saved, as
rats do enormous damage to food
supplies. By killing these rats,
you will not only have a chance !t0 North Carolina this past win
at i hp PriA stamnc w vnn wjn ' ter but I guess I'll have to put
be aiding your government in the
effort to conserve food.
New Bank Advertismen-.
The Post-Dispatch welcomes to
its advertising columns The Far
mers' Bank, the space the bark
is to use being on the editorial
page.
This Bank was organized in
October, 1901. The capital stock
is $15,000, and surplus and un
divided profits earned are$37,000.
Its total resources as reported to
the Corporation Commission at
the close of business March 4th
were $446,275.96.
Earl & Wilson Shirts.
An especially attractive line of
the celebrated Earl & Wilson 1
shirts just received by Dockery- j
McNair Clothing Co. An inspect
ion will make you buy. We in
vite you to look this new nifty
line over.
Pearl White will be with us
again next Thursday, Star.
See Antonia Moreno at Star
next Thursday.
See Pearl White at Star next
Thursday.
Systematic Saving is a
II I zz
TO SUCCESS
This Bank invites your
subscription
The Third Liberty Loan.
j.oo
OPENS
AN
ACCOUNT
OUR COUNTRY I In her intercourse with foreign
nations may she always be in the RIGHT; but Our
Country, right or wrong !
"THEY WHO WISH TO PROSPER, MUST WORK
AND SAVE." SDendthrifts and idlers are similar!,
A generation of them
prosperous are tne nation s sirengui.
A Bank account here leads to a seat u prosperity 8
corner. Interest, 4 per cent paid, compounded quarv
AvaniahQ
' fan.. IM
terly. Resourcesover
The Richmond County Savings Bank,
ROCKINGHAM, N. C.
Democratic County
Convention.
The Democratic county conven
tion was held in the courthouse
last Saturday afternoon. W. L.
Parsons, a member of the execu
tive committee, called the con
vention to order. J. T. Bennett
was then made chairman, with
H. L. Guthrie secretary. Roll
call of precincts showed everyone
represented.
Moved and carried that 22 dele
gates be elected to the State
Convention (to be held April 10th)
each delegate to have i vote each.
The following Committee was
appointed to select the delegates:
W. L. Parsons, T. B. Baxley, A.
Little, H. D. Hatch, B. F. Rey
nolds. These retired and shortly
reported the below named gentle
men as delegates to Raleigh: A.
J. Little, J. R. Bennett, W.E. Rob
ertson, H. D. Hatch, W. R. Land,
M.- B. Nicholson, H. H. Brown,
John E. Sanford, W. L. Parsons,
H. S. Ledbetter, W. N. Everett,
Alfred Baldwin, J. A. Covington,
D. L. Culberson, M. W. Nash, L.
H. Gibbons, J. F. Diggs, J. W.
Diggs, B. F.Reynolds, T. B. Bax
ley, George S. Steele, J. W. Capel.
No other business coming be
fore the body, the convention
adjourned.
Dan Crawford in France.
The following is taken from a
letter received last week by Mrs.
W. C. Leak, from Dan G. Craw
ford, who is with Co, F, 117th
Reg. Eng, American Expenditary
Force, France. It was written
March 14th:
"I had planned on a trip back
put
it off untill we finish this job now
as you know this is one that needs
all of our time.
"We fellows have seen many
strange and unusual sights and I
am sure we will never forget
some of our experiences. The
past winter was to me the cold
est I ever experienced and some
times I felt sure I was going to
freeze and could picture all kinds
of dire calamity befalling me but
it was all a bugaboo.
"I am well and in good spirit?.
I never felt better in my life. 1
am veiy proud of the U. S. Army
in France; it is a credit to the en
tire world. I hope you have not
read the false reports about the
drunkenness of our men; it is a
?
fluences are the best ever enjoy
ed by any army."
It pavs to trade with R. L Mc
Donald. Cars foe Sale.
For sale,, a second-hadd Ford
car, and a second-hand Hudson
Super-Six: this Hudson has been
used but slightly. Bargains in
them to quick buyers. Coney
Steele.
MUSiSbIsi
would bankrupt a nation.
quarter million aouars.
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