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Vol. 1. No. 39
ROCKINGHAM, N. C, THURSDAY Afternoon, AUGUST 29, 1918.
$1.50 PER YEAR
IRoll of IHonor
Kenny C. Russell died at Camp
Sevier, Nov. 18, 1917.
Pressley R. Lisk, pneumonia. Nog
ales, hospital, Arizona, May 6th,
1918.
John F. Blalock, killed in action in
France, June, 1918.
Corporal Willie W. Shankle, killed
in action in France July 20, 1918.
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Soldiers
Beware of October 1st.
For fear you may have overlooked
this before subscribe for your soldier
son. 3 months only 50.
Dick Crazier, baseball coach at Wake
Forest College for many years, is a Y. M.
C. A. physical director at Camp Hancock,
Ga., "Y" 231.
Eddie Collins, next to Ty Cobb the
greatest player baseball has ever produc
ed, has quit the diamond and his $15,000
a year, and has signed up with the Mar
ines and $30 a month. Luck to you, Ed
die. RICHMOND COUNTY:
W. S. S. quota........ .$432,806.
Already pledged .$239,907.
Amt. to be raised $192,899.
Date for next drive Sept. 9th to 14th
A soldier-friend a few days ago sent
the following news item, clipped from a
daily: "Mrs. Ella Coates has been ap
pointed postmaster at Bearwallow, Hen
derson county." He wants to know if
this postoffice bears any relationship to
the Post-Dispatch's "Hogwallow."
James H. Covington, Jr., is another
Post-Dispatch subscriber. He is in 324th
regiment, Machine Gun Company, and
two weeks ago landed in England, en
route to France, in the 81st division.
"Jeemes," as the young hopeful of the
Post-Dispatch calls him, is a mighty fine
fellow (and we are not saying this be
cause he subscribed for the papereither.)
Charlie Hobbs and Fred Taylor spent
Saturday and Sunday at home. Navy
uniforms become these bronzed young
fellows. They applied for enlistment
May 20th, and received orders the first
week in July to report to the Charleston
Naval Training Station. Charlie is in
5th Regt. Co. 5, Sec. 3, and Fred is in
same regiment, Co. 7, Sec. 1. Both are
expecting to be given sea duty at any
time now.
The Government has ordered, effective
Oct. 1st, the discontinuance of papers to
subscribers who are in arrears. The
Post-Dispatdh has no choice in this; the
name of every one who is behind with
his subscription will be erased from our
books Oct. 1st unless their subscription is
paid in advance. 1 his is not the doings
of the Post-Dispatch, but the ORDERS of
the Government, in the effort to conserve
paper. Look at your label, and if behind,
renew and keep in the tamily.
W. N. Everett, Jr., received orders this
morning to report at once to the Central
Officers' Training School, field artillery, at
Louisville, Kentucky. He will leave Rock
ingham Friday night.
"Billy" was in Class four, but recently
applied tor admission into a training
camp. He has been voluntarily inducted
into the service by the local board.
And this makes the fifth instance in
the county where a man in a deferred
Class ha? voluntarily come forward and
had his Class changed, and himself in
ducted. Mitchell Stone is in Co. I, 119th infan
try, A. P. O. 749, American Exp. Forces,
France. He was in the draft sent to
. Camp Jackson Oct. 3, 1917, and was sent
across the last of May. In a letter to his
mother, Mrs. James M. Stone, written
July 29th he stated that he, had just come
from the trenches and was so far o. k.
Says George Moss is his mess sergeant,
and a good one. George is from Anson,
but at one time operated a grocery a
cross from the depot here. He also says
he ate $130 worth of eggs a few days
ago at 11 cents each."
Mra. Stone has another son in the ser
vice, Luther M. He volunteered in June.
1917, and last fall was in the Hawaian
Islands. Since December he haa been at
Fort Silt, Oklahama, in the field artillerjf.
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The War Department has classed the paper mills as a necessary in
dustry and has issued the following directions as a precaution against
shortage and to conserve the fuel supply issued to the mills :
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"That all nwpaper
day of October drop
delinquent subscriber
paid In advance."
This rigid order of the Goveenment is LAW and of course the news
papers have no alternative than to obey. There are hundreds of Post
Dispatch readers who are in arrears, and whose papers will of necessity
have to be stopped October 1st unless they renew before that time.
The Post-Dispatch has no choice in this. The Government has
issued the order and it must be obeyed. It applies to EVERY paper.
After October 1st no paper can be sent to a subscriber who is behind.
Not only that, but the Government forbids the sending of compliment
ary or sample copies.
We therefore urge those subscribers who are in arrears to renew
without delay.
Look at the label opposite your name. If it reads 1 Feb 18, you of
course know that you owe from February 1st, 1918, which, to October
1st, would be $1. Add to this whatever amount you wish to pay in ad
vance and send us. $1.50 will pay for a year, $1. for 8 months, 75 cents
for 6 months and 50 cents for 3 months. Your early attention to this
small matter will be appreciated.
ISAAC S. LONDON, Editor Post-Dispatch.
Lt. Henry A. McKinnon, of Maxton,
left France last week tor the States to
act as an Instructor.
rir vnn hnrrnw vour neiehbor's DaDer.
or are you a bona fide reader? If the
former, then join the Post-Dispatch "fam
ily" and read with a clear conscience.
At the head of this column can be seen
the total casualties from Richmond coun-
tv: it of course embraces both those who
were killed in action and those who have
died while in training in camps.
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Phillips, of Scot
land county, have three sons in France:
Lt. Don Phillips, who recently received
the French War Cross for bravery; Capt.
J. D. Phillips and Angus Phillips, of the
Motor Truck service.
Gov. Bickett Monday announced that
Gen. B. S. Royster, of Oxford, would suc
ceed Adjutant General Young who leaves
the State shortly to accept appointment
as Major on the staff of General Mc
Cain, at Washington.
A letter written August 4th from Rob
ert Steele to his mother stated that he
was then in Paris, having just been re
leased from the hospital. Spent his 30th
birthday, July 25th, on a hospital bed.
Says he has been inoculated 14 times.
The Post-Dispatch was the first paper
in the State to publish a "Soldier's De
partment." We are pleased to see that
other papers are falling in line and giv
ing the whereabouts and doings of our
soldiers, sailors and marines proper re
cognition. Out of approximately 50,000 men that
North Carolina has so far sent to the
camps, only 1,542 have been rejected.
105 of these were turned down on ac
count of the eyes, 99 on account of teeth,
454 feet, 215 mental and nervous, 190
lungs, 92 heart and blood vessels.
Lonnie Chance is in Battery E, 316th
field artillery, American Exp. Forces,
France, 81st Division, and landed two
weeks ago. He was sent to Camp Jack
son Sept. 20, 1917. He has a younger
brother, George, who was 21 June 25 and
who registered last Saturday; and an old
er brother, D. M. Chance, who will be 34
Feb. 7th, and who will have to register
Sept. 5th.
Mr. Luke Gibson, of Route 5, last Sat
urday subscribed for his son, Luke, Jr.,
who at present is at the Post Hospital,
Fortress Monroe, Va. Luke was sent to
Camp Greenleaf, Ga., in the squad of 5
July 6th.
Mr. Gibson brought the editor a copy
of the Pee Dee Bee, of date of June 15th,
1878. It was published in Rockingham
and edited by Will F. Sandford. We shall
give clippings and items from this old
paper later.
L. W. McCaskill, of Mineral Springs
township, has two sons in the service:
Marvin, in Headquarters Co. 316th regt,
American Forces, France; he was one of
the drafted men sent to camp in Septem
ber, 1917; and was 23 July 28th. Frank,
who was 26 July 27th, was one of the 10
men sent to Camp Hancock Aug. 6th.
Mr. McCaskill has another son who will
soon be eligible for service: Neal, who
was 18 Aug. 22nd.
An English joke: A soldier in the Eng
lish army wrote home a letter as follows:
"They put me in barracks; they took
away my clothes and put me in kahki;
they took away my .name and made me
No. 575; they took me to church where
I'd never been before and they made me
listen to a sermon for 40 minutes. Then
the parson said 'No. 575; Art. thou weary,
art thou languid?' And I got seven days
In the guardhouse because I answered
that I certainly was."
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shall on the first
from their list a
who have not
When a conscientious objector receives
a sentence of from fifteen to twenty years
hard labor he must wish that he had
either objected less or been less conscient
ious. Others of our boys who have landed
in the 81st division on the other side,
that the Post -Dispatch has heard of, are:
Fulford N. Gibson, Co. H, 322nd.
Carl E. Garrett, Sanitary Dept. 316th F. A.
Out of 5.739 men and 852 women in Y.
M. C. A. overseas service up to August
lb, there have been only 54 resignations,
a fact which speaks well for the courage
of the class of people who are entering
this splendid service.
Mr. M. C. Dees, of Buford township,
Union county, received a wire Aug. 27th
stating that his son, Melvin M. Dees,
died Aug. 14th from wounds received in
battle in r ranee. This is the first native
Union county man to be killed in action.
Reuben A. Kendall returns to Camp
Sevier Saturday, after a ten days' fur
lough home. He was one of the 124 sent
to camp May 25th, His 10-year-old
brother Marvin was operated upon for
appendicitis at Hamlet hospital the 15th.
Since the above was put in type, we
learn that Mr. Kendall and Miss Eliza
beth Cornelia Smith were married in
Rockingham Wednesday afternoon at 5
o clock, Rev. Z. V. Koberson officiating.
(Since the above was put in type, a re
lative has subscribed for Sergeant G. W.
Moss, above referred to, and of Co. 1,
119th. The addition of his name to our
list makes 45 copies going to Richmond
county boys in France. Who will make
the 46th?)
Save the page 9, containing five group
pictures of white and colored soldiers
sent to camps during past month. Don't
lay the paper aside until you glance at
these boys. Also, we would remind you
to look on page 7 and see the premium
lists for the Roberdel, Hoffman and Bos
tick Community Fairs.
In the Casualty List on page 4 appears
the name of Linzie Robert Pate, as be
ing among the severely wounded. Pate
worked at Hannah Pickett mill at one
time, and volunteered last summer. He
was wounded May 28th, according to a
telegram received by his brother June
12th, but it is probable that this now is a
second wound received by him.
Among the men who registered August
24th, who had become 21 since June 5,
1918, were two who were 21 on the very
day they had to register, August 24th;
they are Albert W. Periy, of Hamlet,
white; and Will McSween, Jr., colored,
of Marston, Rt 2. Another man, Robert
LeGrand, colored, of Mangum, was 21
Aug. 22nd.
Another new subscriber to "sign up'
with the Post-Dispatch is Obadiah Lewis
Cloud, 3rd, of Hamlet, Vhose address is
"342 Bancroft Hall, Annapolis, Md." Mr.
Cloud entered the Naval Academy last
Mav and is beine prepared by the gov
ernment as an officer. On account of the
war conditions, the four-year naval course
is condensed into three years.
Jim Bland, colored, who was sent to
Camp Taylor, Kentucky, June 21st,in the
squad of 7, was honorably discharged
August 22nd, and returned here the 26th.
Bland, it will be remembered, was the
colored man who filed on his question
naire that he had several children, when
as a matter of fact this was wrone. He
was placed in Class four, but later it was
found that the children named Dy mm
were "borrowed" and not his; faced with
federal prosecution, he chose going to
the army instead. Accordingly he was
sent June Zist, Dut is now. at nome, ais
charged on physical grounds,
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DRAFT NEWS
47 Men of 21 Registered La
Saturday. 20 Whites Sent
To Camp Jackson Aug.
27th. 2 Whites to go to
Camp Greene Aug. 30th.
13 Negroes to Camp Lee
Sept. 1. 9 Whites to Camp
Jackson Sept. 6th.
Registered August 24th.
A registration was held last
Saturday, Aug. 24th, of all men
who had become 21 since June 5,
1918. 47 registered, of which
number 29 are white and 18
colored. Two of the young men
were 21 on the very day they
registered: Albert W. Perry, of
Hamlet, white, and Will Mc
Sween, Jr., colored, of Mangum.
In the registration June 5th,
1918, 153 registered. So from
this it is seen that a larger per
cent registered last Saturday in
the 80 days period than did in
the 365 previous-day period.
Questionnaires were mailed
out to these 47 young men last
Monday, and doubtless most of
them will be in a uniform within
six weeks at the most.
The 47 to register are:
Elijah Martin
Dewey Stansill Thompson
Loyce Francis McDonald
Troy Rivers
Fleman Harrington
Samuel Short .
Manuel Wallace
Benjamin B. Gore
MiUton A. Williams
Albert W. Perry
Ishara Kicholson
William McRae
Lewallen Millis
Kt Little
Robert LeGrand
Ollie Ingram
James Ratliff
Jesse Ellerbe
Malcom Wallace
Callie Raymond White
Rommie Ramon Forkner
George Chance
Demcey Edward Walton
John S. Bruton
William Ellerbe
Louis Clyde Dalton
Charlie Coble
Lee Lunceford ,
George Henry Mullen
Luther Furman Dawkins
James Franklin Griffin
Luke Sanderson
John Calvin McKay
Jyseph Calvin Hutchinson
Malone Grant
William Robert Gibson
Will McSween, Jr.
Thomas G. Dawkins
Walter Graham Dunn
Julius L. Grant
William Claud McCaskill
Thomas Stanley
Abraham McDonald
Arthur Allen
Essie Terry
Amos Leak
S. C. University. ,
A rail was recently issued for
two volunteers to so to the Uni
versity of South Carolina for
anuria 1 mprhaniral traininc.
James Hall offered for this, and
will be sent to Columbia Sept.
1st. 1 he other man nas not yet
been secured.
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Will pay you 4 per cen interest compounded quarterly. Capital $15,000.
W. L PARSONS, President.
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THIS BANK IS OPEN EVERY SATURDAY
20 Whites Left Tuesday.
20 white men were sent to
Camp Jackson Tuesday night,
August 27th, on the 7:35 train.
Orville Wilson was placed in
charge, with Jim Stephenson and
James Webb as assistants. Just
before their departure the Post
Dispatch had a group picture of
them taken by Morgan's Studio,
and this picture will be published
next issue. The 20 are:
1808
1170
1690
1919
1988
12
13
23
45
50
62
94
101
103
109
127
128
141
148
150
Hal W. Snead
Tom Allen
James W. Stephenson
Aubrey C. McLean
Orville D. Wilson
Jessie Robert Hamer
Piatt Roller
Holland Jacobs
Douglass Eaves
Claud W. Ingold
Will Lunce
Thomas J. Capel
William E. Wallace
Ernest N. Seawell
Soloman D. Ballard
William J. Langley
Willie Burrows
Julian Maner
James V. Webb
Charles C. Carpenter
2 Whites Aug 30th.
The board is called upon to
send 2 white men to Camp Greene
on the 10:07 morning train of
Aug. 30th. The following 5
white men are called to report
here at 9 o'clock of the 30th,
from which number 2 will be
chosen; these are known as
"limited service" men:
229 Frank T. Dawkins
1728 Nathan E. Levy
427 Jas. Leak Little
2010 Joe Grady Forbis
417 Willie A. Bost
13 Negroes Sept 1st
13 negroes will be sent to Camp
Lee, near Petersburg, Va., Sept.
1st, leaving here on the 7:35 night
train and arriving at Camp at 6
next morning. They must re
port here at 4 o'clock Sept 1st.
The following 20 are called, from
which number 13 will be selected:
Jess Williams
Albert Terrell
5 Willie Parks 136
27 James Diggs 51
53 Joe Worth, Jr. 54
54 Haywood White 81
58 Donnie Leak 30
65 Henry LeGrand 34
66 Will Freeman Watkins 149
75 George Little 99
76 Alvis Barner 131
80 Lucious Stephens 94
81 Gee Pankey 148
83 Will Hurley 40
88 Frank Rush 52
91 Frank Covington 14
92 Sylvester Leak 71
98 James Starns 85
102 Preston Waddell 138
105 Arthur Hailey
None to Camp Humphreys.
A call has been issued for
entrainment of a bunch of white
men to Camp Humphreys, Va.,
Sept. 5th, but Richmond county
is not included in this. Anson
must furnish 4, Montgomery 5,
Chatham 10, Scotland 3. Moore
is not called for any, either.
"Yesterday is utterly over wtth Time is Ihe only, thing. In this
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OCTAVIA S. SCALES, Asst Cashier.
9 Whites Sept. 6th.
The board will Saturday call 9
white men to go to Camp Jack
son Sept. 6th on the 7:35 train.
They will report here at 4
o'clock the 6th.
Moore county will furnish 8
men in this call. Montgomery,
Stanly and Anson are not to
furnish any.
Ralph F. Covington, who was sent in
the squad of 5 to Camp Greenleaf, Ga.,
July 5th, came home last Sunday on an
8 days' furlough.
Major A. L. James, Jr., of Laurinburg,
is now on Gen. Pershing's staff. This is
quite an honor to our neighboring coun-
man. He was sent across several months
ago with his division of cavalry.
Lewis T. Nance and Lester C. Loving,
who were sent to Camp Wadsworth Aug
ust 8th in the squad of 31, returned home
last Friday, having been given an honor
able discharge on physical grounds.
Nance is now again clerking at Dock-
ery-McNair Clothing store.
W. E. Harrison writes the editor from
New York, date of 27th, that he had call
ed upon Ozmer L. Henry at "Y" head
quarters and he simply wanted the folks
back home to know of the high esteem
in which Henry is held and of the splen
did executive ability he has put into his
work. It is most likely that Henry will
go to Messopotamia shortly.
A subscriber informs the editor that
she is saving every copy of the Post-Dispatch.
This paper is trying to be of
real service to the present generation
and to future generations in the matter
of this "Soldier Department." These cop
ies will increase in value as time rolls on,
and years hence the grandchildren of the
boys whose names are mentioned herein
will prize them as a thing without price.
Yes, preserve these copies. You can
have no idea how interesting and valu
able they'll be years hence.
There have been four instances in
Richmond county where men of a defer
red classification have voluntarily come
forward and waived such classification
and asked to be put in Class one.
The latest to do this is Mr. James W.
Stephenson, who with his brother mana
ged the store of Stephenson-Belk. Mr.
Stephenson was in Class three, but came
to the exemption board and asked to be
placed in Class one and sent to camp.
This was done, and "Jim" went to
Camp Jackson Tuesday night in the in
crement of 20. Besides being an expert
telegrapher and merchant, he is an all
round good fellow.
W. J. O'Quinn, who lives near Blewett
Falls, was a renewal yesterday. He has
two sons in the service. B. F. O'Quinn,
who enlisted four years ago and who is
in Troop D, 15th Cavalry, Douglass, Ari
zona; and George Atlas, who landed
across three weeks ago in the 81st divis
ion. Douglass, where B. P. is stationed, is
not far from Nogales, Arizona, where on
Tuesday a skirmish occurred between
an American cavalry and infantry patrol
and a gang of Mexican hoodlums. A
Mexican tried to cross the border illegal
ly and when he refused to halt when
commanded by an American sentry he
was shot. The sentry was then shot by
the Mex's mates, and a regular fusil
lade of shots followed. Three of our
soldiers were killed and 12 wounded,
while the Mexcans lost over a hundred.
Premium List.
On page 7 can be seen the
premium list for the Community
Fairs to be held at Hoffman Oct.
11th, Roberdel Oct. 12th, and
Bostick Nov. 2nd.
Look up this list on page 7 and
save it for reference.
Rockingham school opens
Sept. 9th; Pee Dee school 16th;
Roberdel Sept. 2nd; Ellerbe Sept.
9th; Cordova Sept. 23rd; Rohanon
Sept. 23rd; Hamlet Sept. 9lh.
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Surplus $15,000.
W. L. SCALES, Cashier
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