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ROCKINGHAM, N. C, THURSDAY -Afternoon, MAY 2 1918.
$1.50 PER YEAR
DAY OF PRAYER
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A FINE SEND-OFF
Photo by Morgan's Studio.
Fully 2000 People at Depot Last Satur
I day to See the 124 White Drafted
Men Off for Camp Jackson.
A Fine Body of Men.
Ik conservative estimate of the
number of people who went to
the depot a Rockingham last
Saturday afternoon, May 25th,
1918, to witness the departure of
the , 124 drafted men from Rich
mond county for Camp Jackson,
Columbia, S. C would be 2000.
Many thought the number would
exceed 3000. At arty rate, the
assembling of so many of our
countymen attested the interest
they have in these young men,
and their gathering evidenced to
them, their unity of home sup
port. . j
137 white men had been called
by the Richmond county exempt
ion board to report here at three
o'clock Saturday. Practically
everyone responded when the
rollwascalledinthe courthouse
at the appointed hour. The chair
man Mr. W. L Parsons, made
the men a short talk in inducting
them into the service of the Gov
ernment, and he was followed by
Rev. G. F. Smith, the Methodist
pastor, who, after a brief prayer,
presented each man, on behalt of
the committee, with a testament
After the adjournment, the
Post-Dispatch requested the men
tol eo to the Hieh School where
Mr. D. F. Morgan was in waiting
to take a group picture. 100 of
the 124 did so, and at the top of
this page pan be seen the picture
of these men. It is worth preser
ving. The Post-Dispatch is
pleased to have been a, means of
furnishing its readers with a
picture of their countymen, and
we expect to have a picture and
cut made of every group of draft
ed men who henceforth go to
camp. We might mention, by the
way. that the Morgan Studio has
these pictures on large cardboard
at fifty cents each; this informa
tion for relatives who might wish
a larger picture.
v At 6:45 the 124 men reassem
bled at the courthouse. The roll
was called and everyone answer
ed present. Whi te badges with
the words, "Richmond County,
N. C." were pinned on each. At
7:20 the 'men marched to the
depot for entrainment, followed
by hundreds of friends to see
them, ' off. ; Two cars were in
waiting for them, on the side
track east of the station. The
regular train from Charlotte, at
7:35, did not pick them up, but a
special was made up at Monroe,
with two cars of 97 Union county
merv two cars of 129 Stanly
county men, and two cars of 93
Anson men. The two cars of
124 Richmond county men made
a total of 443 men en route from
these four neighboring counties.
The men were given supper at
Hamlet and the special left Ham
let for Columbia at 10:35, arriving
at camp at 5 o'clock Sunday
morning. , ii-
The local board placed David
Easterling, cashier of the Bank
of Hamlet, in charge of the squad.
Mr.-'EasterHng' appointed as his
assistants the following 14 gentle
men: W. E. Dockery, John W.
McNeeley, James McKenzie, W.
Cole Nichols, W. L. Parsons, Jr.,
John T. Cheek, W. J. Butler, Carl
E Garrett, Jas. Leak Little, Tandy
K. Shackleford, James H. Coving
ton, Jr., William Harry Entwistle,
Mitchell T. Chisholm, Robert
StansilL
All of the 124 are in the same
company for the present 19th
Company, 156th Depot Brigade,
Camp Jackson, S. C.
The following is the list of the
124 men who went to Camp Jack
son May 24th, 1918:
845 ' Jule Hunter Caddell v
929 Neaby Talmage Simmons
1143 Benson H. Copeland, R'ham. ,-
1153 James Robt Currie, R'ham. '
1164 Willie J. Butler. Hoffman.
1176 Edward J. Brooks
1180 ' John Cornelius Gibson . . 4.
1187 Chas. Q. Brooks .
1W1 John Ferguson Freeman '
1209 Feari James urnier -
1212 Clinton Hill Atkinson
1220 ' Luther Clayton McAskill -1238
John Hales
1245 Foster M. Arnold
1249 Mitchell Thos. Chisholm
1257 Robt C. Boyd ,
1296 Jas. Hampton Covington, Jr.
1299 Elijah Scott Currie
1328 Chasteen Guy Winn
1335 Frank P. O'Brien
1336 Lacy Steele Reynolds
1338 Wm. Harry Entwistle
1362 Jno. Hanson McCaw
1375 Wm. Herbert Bullard
1382 Mason Minor Ilinson
1401 Walter A. Phifer
1402 Lore Snell Brown
1415 Hector A. Little
1420 Charlie Hamilton
1424 Wm. David Hudson
1440 Wm. Walter Graham
1453 Frank Fuller
1459 Zebulon Gibson
1466 Tandy Key Shackelford
1471 Robt Nichols Stansill
1496 James Daniel Evans
1498 Daniel Mack Weatherly
1520 FredB. Lovm
1525 Irvin Quick
1532 Daniel Archie Snead
1548 Perry McLean
1552 Henry Clay Jenkins
1KM I.vnn Freeman
1563 Holland Gibson
1593 James McKenzie
1596 Wm. Clay Smith.
1601 Wm. B. Carpenter
1619 Whiteford H. Guinn
1638 Protus Leo Shankle
1640 Conard Cole -
1653 Julian Rouston Gilchrist
1656 Jas. Leak LitUe
1659 Fairly Hay
1696 Scott Briprman
1720 Sam McNeill
1723 Murph Armfield Gibson
1729 Joseph R. Coley ; t
1737 Reuben Kendall ' -.
1739 Oliver Jason Morgan
1746 Vander Floyd ' ,
1756 Carl E. Garrett , '
1700 Luke Nash
1765 Alex Walter Willlans
1766 Pinckney Elmore Gore
1772 Chester Steadman Bostick
1787 David Easterling
1797 Jno. Wm. Hammond
1798 Wm. T. Stanback
1801 AlvieChavis
1812 Norman D. Bridges
1818 Walter Cyrus Graves"
1834 ,Wm. Henry Watkins
1841 'James J. Cagle
Robert B. Dawkins
James Luke Smith
Oscar Jacobs
Luther Marvin McKenzie
Victor Hartley Coltrane
James W. Jvosa
Ira Davis
Grover Cleveland Baxley '
Wm. F. Hutchinson .
Marcus K. Little
Benjamin A. Capel
Walter L. Parsons, Jr.
Jno. Alford Bryant
Geo. Atlas O'Quinn ,
Jesse Gardner
John Stansill Morse'
Jesse Edward Glasgow ; . '
John Crawford Watkins -Dan
Allen
Wm. C. Steen
Jno. T. Cheek
Rowland Smith
Wm. D. Lovett
Wm. J. Covington
W. C. Nichols
Edward H. Hurley
Walter Hunter Davis
Robt. Weaver Gathings
Charles Kelly Rhyne
Wm. Hayes Powers
Zack Chavis
Dewitt T. Webb
Fulford Neilson Gibson
Andy G. Muse
J. W. McNeely
Lacy Eugene Ballard
Jas. Clyde Hicks
Frank Minor Phillips
Jas. Frank Hicks
Corbett S. Smith
Hilery H. McKay
Oscar J. McKay
Jno. Luther Yates . ..
Perisho Hilliard Hill
Lacy Edgar Trodgen
David U. Bruton
Carl Luther
Jno. M. Bethune
Wm. E. Dockery
Chas. Sloan Pearson
Ernest Dalton Long.
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geants without number, are a
mong the most popular in camp
and say our bunch is the best
and quickest they have had yet.
Our men are all determined to
work hard, catch on to things
and get straightened out as soon
as possible. '
"Our Company is a model of
the camp for cleanliness. Noth
ing can be thrown on the ground;
cans src provided, and anyone
seen throwing a cigarette or mat
ch anywhere except in one of
these big cans, wears a small can
around his neck, unless he catch
es someone else then he wills
the can to them.
"Our fare is good, wholesome
and plentiful, and when the mess
calls our Richmond hearties are
at the head of the line. Ten of
us are 'waiters.' We have fish,
Keef or ham, several vegetables,
white bread and coffee; ice cream
Sunday.
"The boys say tell the home
folks not to worry for them, that
they are well fixed and like it."
300 PER CENT
Rockingham Chapter Red
Cross Goes Over the Top
By Three Times the
. Quota.
The drive to raise $100,000,000
throughout America, that closed
May 27th, shows that the people
overscribed the amount by half.
The total raised amounts to $156,
000,000. .
- Richmond county has respond
ed nobly to the appeal. The Ham
let Chapter had been assigned
$1200 to raise, and came across
with between three and four
thousand. Rockingham Chapter
(embracing the remainder of the
county) was assigned $3200 as its
quota. To date the Treasurer
reports $9,111.10 in hand, with
Mineral Springs township yet to
hear from. A phone message
from Ellerbe stated that Mineral
Springs would have over $300.
n addition to this other small re
ports are to come in, and it is ex
pected the grand total will be
nearly $10,000.
Below we give the subscript
ions, we would like to pubiisn
the name of every contributor,
but as there are appoximately
2000 such of course is impossible:
Rockingham (City) ..$4,7220 '
Rockingham township 24.00
Wolf Pit township.. 789.46
Steele's, Mangum B ranee...... 194.44
Black Jack township .......... 240.55
Beaver Dam, Hoffman Com
munity Club 37.50
Pee Dee Mill No. I 309.75
Pee Dee Mill No. 2 256.10
Roberdel MiU No. 1 480.20
Roberdel Mill No. 2 366.41
Steele's Mills 365.00
Hannah Pickett Mill 293.07
Midway Mills 240.00
Entwistle Mills 380.00
Ledbetter Mills 212.12
Great Falls Mill 200.00
Thursday, May 30th, Was
Observed by Churches in
Rockingham as Day of
Prayer. Stores Were Clos
ed All Day.
Letter from Camp.
The following letter from one
of the drafted men who went to
Camp Jackson last Saturday was
written to the editor Tuesday:
: . "19th Co. 156 Depot Brigade,
Camp Jackson.
"First of all I give our address.
The above is the address of all
Richmond county men sent out
on the 25th. We are all in one
company of the Depot Brigade
with about the same number
from Henderson. All the boys
with the exception of a very few
are enjoying the new expenen
ces.
"We reached here Sunday
momine: about five, marched a-
bout two miles to our headquart
ers, were lined up, assigned to
barracks, given bedding, allowed
to wash-up from our trip and
then given our mess kits and a
substantial breakfast, which was
welcome for by this time we were
all ravenous. lAfter eating we
washed our dishes, and then lin
ed up for roll call and slight set
ting up exercises.
"Monday covered about the
same thing with several games
for hardening unused muscles,
borrowed from the British Army,
and then Company singing. Lat
er were measured for uniforms,
and will be outfitted in a few days.
"Our officers, a Captain, First
and Second Lieutenants, and Ser
Home Paper for Soldiers.
In a county in the eastern part
of the State a citizen has con
tracted with the county paper
for it to be sent to every soldier,
white and black, from that coun
tyand he pays the bill. He
feels that a weekly visit of the
home paper would be a wonder
ful help to the boys in the camps.
That's a good idea. Wonder it
there is a Richmond County citi
zen who wonld be willing to pay
the expenses of having the Post
Dispatch sent to each drafted
Richmond County man m the
camps! Speak out.
To The Merchants of
Richmond County:
I have been instructed to give
the following notice:
"Retailers are not allowed to
sell to another retailer as it is
sale within the trade except upon
authority received from the State
or County Food Administrator.
You are therefore instructed to
forbid sales by one retailer to an
other unless specific permits are
secured by you and before issu
ine such permission you should
consider whether or not such
sale promotes a sufficient accom
modation TO THE PUBLIC to
justify it."
This is to say that each case
as it comes up must be decided
solely on whether or not the pub
lic is accommodated by such
sale.
W.N.Everett,
County Food Administrator.
' -TheHuns naturally cannot
understand why our people have
contributed so liberally to the
Red Cross. Any effort in the
interest of humanity is foreign
to such a savage foe.
$9,111.10
"Dave" Parsons Recovering.
Mr. D. A. Parsons, member of
The President of the United
States has through a proclama
tion set apart Thursday, May
30th, as a day of fasting and
prayer, that a righteous and last
ing peace may come to . the
nations of earth. He calls upon
our people to suspend business
for the day and assemble at their
churches.
And so today (Thursday) was
strictly observed in Rockingham.
Not a store was opened during
the day, not a barber shop, garage
or soda fountain. (The Post-Dispatch
office was closed; the paper
is published Friday morning at
7:30 instead of the usual time a
4:30 Thursday; the "force" is
slinging this type in the wee sma'
hours of Friday morning.)
The outpouring of the people
at the churches throughout the
day was remarkable.
A sun-rfee service was held by
the young women at the Baptist
church. Then at 7 o'clock the
same church was filled to capac
ity, prayers were offered by Revs.
Bruce Benton, G. F. Smith and
Z. F. Roberson, and Mr. BentOn
made a splendid ten-minute upon
the meaning of the day. Several
ladies gave testimonials.
At 11 the Methodist church
was filled to over-flowing. Pre
siding Elder J. H. Hall was in
charge. Prayers were offered by .
Revs. Hall, Smith, Benton and
Roberson; and talks by Rev. Thad
A. Cheatham, W. L. Parsons, Mr.
Howard and Prof. Bell. At all
the services music featured.
At 6:15 in the afternoon the
Presbyterian church was filled
for a 45-minute song and prayer
service. Prayers were offered
by Revs. Roberson, Smith, Hall,
county board of education, farm- Benton and Coppedge.
er, merchant, and postmaster at The colored people held ser
Covington, was in the city Tues-' vices in their churches at 11 a.
day for the first time since his m. and again at night
accident of April 17th. He had'
fVi a mifT,Arfiino rr f hof lota t '
fall from his store porch, dislo
cating his left shoulder-blade
and breaking a small bone in his
arm. He still has his arm in a
sling, but otherwise appears to
be none the worse lor the talL
The closing exercises of the
city colored school will begin
Sunday and continue through
the 6th. The program was pub
lished in the Post-Dispatch last
week.
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