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ROCKINGHAM POST-DIBPATOfl, RICHMOND COUNTY, N. 0.
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ROCKINGHAM
FUSi-uibrAitn
Published every Thursday after
noon at Rockingham, Richmond
County, N. C.
ISAAC S. LONDON
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
Office on Courthouse Square
Entered as second-class mail
matter at the postoffice at Rock
ingham, N. C.
DEMOCRATISM POLITICS
Correspondence from every sec
tion of the county invited. Phone
182 your items.
SUBSCRIPTION KATES :
Oityur..-. $2-00
Six $1-25
Tin months 75
JOB WORK A SPECIALTY
CAM MORRISON for GOVERNOR!
Herbert Hoover has thrown
his hat in the ring. He is a re
ceptive candidate for the Repub
lican nomination for the Presi
dency.
Heretofore it had not been
known just what Hoover is
whether a Democrat or Republi:
can. But all doubts are now
dispelled. He is a Republican.
In his announcement he says it
the Republican nomination is
offered him at Chicago, he will
take it but it must be on a plat
form embodying an Americanized
peace treaty and "forward look
ing, liberal and constructive"
domestic issues. He places him
self at the disposal ot "the Re
publican party with the inde
pendent element of which I am
naturally affiliated."
With gardens well on the way,
the time-old complaint against
neighbor's chickens is already
being heard. Only yesterday a
good lady in Rockingham phoned
the editor and asked that he call
attention through the paper to
the outrageous carelessness of
some householders who fail to
keep their fowls in bounds.
There is as much reason in let
ting one's horse or cow wander
over a neighbor's garden or yard
as to let one's chickens. Do the
jight thing by keeping them up.
Aubrey L. Brooks, Greensboro
lawyer, on Tuesday announced
his candidacy for the U. S.
Senate. He will go before the
democratic voters of the state in
the primary June 5th. His op
ponent will be the present Sena
tor, Lee S. Overman.
" Mr. Brooks expects to win the
nomination through his champ
ionship of woman's suffrage.
As we understand the South
Carolina race for presidency, one
of the Republicans in that state
favors General Wood, but the
other has not made up his mind
The "wets" are up and at 'em
J. Sherwood Upchurch, of Ral
eigh, has announced his candi
dacy for the House on a plank
of "light wine and beer."
Morrison Club.
Immediately after the Demo
cratic convention adjourns Satur
day afternoon (3 o'clock,) Hon.
Cameron Morrison will address
the Democracy of Richmond
county; and at the same time a
Richmond County Morrison
Club will be organized.
Population of Concord an
nounced Wednesday is 9,903, an
increase of 1,188, of 13.6 per cent
over the census of 1910.
A Poem Worth While.
A subscriber has asked the
Post-Dispatch to publish the
words of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's
beautiful poem, "Laugh and the
World Laughs with You." This
poem was first published in the
New York Sun of February 25,
1883. The author has but re
cently died. The poem is as fol
lows: "Laugh and the world laughs with
you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the, sad old earth must borrow
its, mirth,
But has troubles senough of its
own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air.
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from the voice of care.
"Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go.
They want full measure of all your
pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all.
There are none to decline your nec
tared wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.
"Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by.
Succeed and give, and it helps you
live,
But no man can help you die.
There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a large and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain."
Ralph Page Makes Big Sale.
(From Moore County News.)
Ralph Page has sold to the
Farms Development Company
of Durham, which means J. O.
Cobb and associates, 4,500 acres
of land belonging to the Marston
Orchard Company and the New
foundland corporation. This is
across the line in Richmond
county, but is a continuation of
the Sandhills development. A
big tobacco scheme is in view
down that way.
OFFICERS OF HOKE OTTON MILL
ELECTED
At the orugnization meeting of the
Hote Cotton Mills Co., which is to
take over the cotton mill of the Rae
ford Power & Mfg. Co., the following
officers were elected: president Jno.
C. Rankin, Lowell; vice president,!
Sloan M. Robinson, Lowell; secre
tary am! treasurer, M. M. Tuttle,
who will move from Charlotte to
Raeford.
The above officers were elected di
rectors, together with M. W. McRae,
president of the Bank of Rocking
ham, and W. P. Covington, cashier
of the Bank of Hoke, Raeford.
As soon as the present orders arc
completed, the output will be chang
ed to tire fabric yarns, which are in
great demand at present. The Rae
ford cotton mill has 10,488 spindles,
of which 5,000 were installed in an
addition built in 1917.
The real value of a heard of hogs
is set by the market price of pork-
Berkshires are the farmer's hog
because they produce the most and
best pork ot the least expense.
The Pinehurst Farm Public Sale
APRIL 14, 1920
offers 40 high class Berkshires, raised un
der natural conditions not pampened,
but just right to go out and make money
for their owners.
30 BRED GILTS
5 TRIED SOWS
5 BOARS
All registered stock; blood lines of the
best; ideal for starting or rounding out a
profitable heard of hogs, you can't afford
to buy other hogs; they eat a lot and don't
produce pork. You can afford to buy good
hoes ( they eat a lot and do produce pork)
at a price that gives you a profit on their
litters when sold for poHi, an often an even
better profit when sold for breeding pur
poses. The prices at the
PINEHURST FARM PUBLIC SALE
Wednesday, April 14, 1920
will be for practical values given
Horse races at the track in the afternoon.
You'll haoe a good time even if you
don't buy, so come anyway.
Write at once for catalogue to
Pinehuest Farms, Leonard Tuft ,
Piekr.t, N. C
L
DEATHS
Little Girl Dead.
Beverly Tucker, the sweet lit
tle daughter of Beverly T.Payne,
died Wednesday, March' 31st, at
11:55 o'clock a. m., after aft ill
ness of barely 24 hours with auto
intoxication. The little lady was laid to rest
under a mound of flowers this
(Thursday) morning at 11, the
service being conducted from the
residence by Rev. S. L. Rotter,
and the interment at Old Eastside
cemeteiy between the graves of
her mother and baby brother.
Beverly was born Oct. 2, 1917,
and was almost exactly two and
a half years old.
The pall-bearers were Hill and
Watt Parsons, W. N. Everett, Jr.,
and I. S. London.
The passing of this bright child
and the third bereavement in the
home is peculiarly sad. Her
mother. Mrs. Corneille Parsons
Payne, died Jan. 22nd, and on
Feb. 4th her infant brother, Wal
ter Parsons Payne, died. This
leaves now a heart-broken father
and a young sister, Manie Leak
Payne.
The spirit of this dear little
girl gently left its body, when
the Summone came; and what a
blessed reunion that must have
been!
Truly
"Death lies on her, like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field."
' CapL A. T. Cole Dead.
His friends were shocked to
learn Wednesday that Capt. Alex
ander Troy Cole had died sudden
ly at Lake Waccamaw, where he
and his wife were visiting Mr.
and Mrs. K. Clyde Council, the
latter his daughter.' Mr. and Mrs.
Cole had spent the winter in
Monroe and had been at Lake
Waccamaw but two weeks. He
was apparently as well as usual
but when he started to arise
early Wednesday morning, his
heart failed and he fell across the
bed, dead.
The remains were brought to
Rockingham this (Thursday)
morning, and the funeral service
was conducted by Rev. Mr. Or
mond. The interment was in
Eastside cemetery.
Capt. Co!e was born Nqy.JJ6,
1839, and was in his 8istyear.
He attended the University, leav
ing to join the Confederate army.
He was a member of the 4th
Cavalry and was a brave soldier,
wounded several times and cap
tured and in prison for 6 months.
In 1874 he was happily married
to Miss Caroline Covington. She
with the following children sur
vive: Harry C, of Charlotte; Mrs.
W. S. Blarney, of Monroe; A. T.
Cole Jr., New York; John W.
Cole, Rockingham,; W. B. Cole Jr.,
Monroe; Mrs. K. Clyde Council.
Lake Waccamaw.
The following were the pall
bearers: W. N. Everett, Leake
Covington, T. C. Leake, H. C.
Wall, Dr. J. M. Ledbetter, Henry
Ledbetter.
The honorary pall-bearers were
Arch Nicholson, Stephen Wall,
Tom Covington, John Cameron,
Sip Hart, John H. Everett, of
Bennettsville, Dr. Will Steele,
John Ledbetter.
BIRTHS
The Post-Dispatch Job Department
is prepared on "short" notice to print
dainty birth announcement cards.
This doesn't mean a delay of several
days, but they are printed the same
day the order is placed.
Born, Tuesday night at Rober
del No. 2 to Mr. and Mrs. Charlie
Jenkins, a son.
To Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Stil-
well, Wednesday a. m., afeirl.
To Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Watkins,
Monday night, a girl.
To Mr. and Mrs. Richard H
Sessoms, Hannah Pickett mill,
Sunday, a girl.
THE TEST
By GEORGE ELMER COBB
(Copyright, mo. Western Newepaper Union)
Sweet was poverty, blessed wag the
contentment that came from patience
and sacrifice! When Arnold Gresham
looked back at the fevered career of
speculation and risk which had aged
him. ten years and realized the burden
that had well nigh crushed him, he
shuddered. Re had barely escaped
from bankruptcy. At the very verge
of losing money entrusted to him by
confiding clients, a sudden rise In
wheat had enabled him to Just clear
his trades. In the' frenzy of dread and
horror preceding that criminal moment
be had registered a solemn vow never
te tempt the grain market again.
It was Marjorle, his motherless
daughter, who had stood nobly, sym
pathetically by htm during the col
lapse following his narrow graze of
disaster. A second mother to the two
little ones of the family, a model
housekeeper, she had proven her worth
iness and practicability In a signal
manner.
"I feel like a man wVo has barely
escaped the Jaws of a devouring mon
ster." said Mr. GreshoiB. "If I had
lost al! that money for ray friends I
would never have lifted my head
again."
"Oh, papa ! then never tempt fortune
again. As It Is, everything Is gone
for us except the few thousands you
have in the bank. Let us he wise and
go away from the expensive, unnatural
life we have led to some quiet, pretty
town, where you could buy out a little
buslnws and where we could get a
modest, comfortable home where the
children could roam nt will amid fresh
air and sweet flowers. How happy we
would be !"
It was a little Eden of a place that
they finally secured.
"Oh, sister! look! look!" little Edna
startled her sister by crying out one
morning as Marjorle was trimming
some bushes In the garden, and Mar
jorle hurried to the gate at the call of
one of two men bearing between them
a limp figure. She recognized the two
men as workers In a quarry Just be
yond the town, and with startled con
cern her glance swept the colorless
face of their human burden.
"Is your father at home, Miss Gresh
am?" questioned one of the men.
"No, he has gone for a stroll," re
plied Marjorle. "What Is it? Will I
do?"
"Why, we found this young man
lying In the road neor one of the pits,"
explained the quarryroan. "See, his
pockets are turned Inside out and one
button hole of his vest torn out. A lot
of thieving trnmps have been camping
near the pits and have attacked and
robbed him. His purse and watch are
gone and the side of his head Is bat
tered and bleeding. We can't carry
him all the way to town. There Is no
hospital nearer than Durham, nnd he
may die if he Isn't taken care of."
"Bring him right In," directed the
warm-hearted Marjorle. "I will phone
for Dr. May and papa will be home
soon."
Mr. Gresham and the physician took
charge of the sufferer and Dr. May ad
vised that he be attended to In his
present refuge.
The victim of footpads lay In a
lethargy all the rest of that day. All
that Mr. Gresham found about- his per
son was a bulky envelope, which he
preceded to examine. Immediately
after Inspecting It he left the house In
an excited, abstracted manner. Mar
Jorie's curiosity was aroused. She
looked over the papers In the envelope.
Their contents enlightened and then
disturbed her considerably.
They represented a report of an in
vestigation for a lending city grain
house which Arthur Blake had made
In detail, and was bound for the city
when assailed. Marjorle comprehend
ed that the information was of the
greatest value as giving crop pros
pects and probable rises and falls In
prices. Who like her experienced old
father could appreciate and utilize this
knowledge? His emotion was ex
plained. The patient grew better that evening,
bnt Mr. Gresham did not return until
late. , Marjorie's spirits fell as she
awoke the next morning to And him
gone and the envelope with him. Her
worst fears were confirmed. Equipped
with precious exclusive Information,
he could turn hundreds Into thousands
on the exchange In a single hour.
The patient's mind In his delirium
seemed always on those papers. The
fact that her father had practically
stolen them added to Marjorie's trou
bles. Just at dusk,' however, cheery
and with a smiling face Mr. Gresham
reappeared.
"You have been to the city, father,"
began Marjorle, trembling.
"Yes, daughter," came the ready re
ply. "Our patient here had some doc
uments of Immense value to his em
ployers. They they tempted me for a
moment, but, thank heaven, I had the
moral courage to deliver them where
they belonged. His employers order
that no expense be spared to make our
patient comfortable and well."
With a light, joyous heart now Mar
jorle gave time and attention to the
invalid. It was during his cUnrales
cence that he began to realize the
sweetness of her sympathizing pres
ence. And Arnold Gresham was glad
he nci Sonc his duty the day that ha
welcomed young Blake aa his son-in-law.
sews
The Market
"I'll give you five cents foh dat
egg," said Uncle Rasbnry.
"No, suh," replied Mr. Erastus Pink
ley. "I'll give you ten cents."
"No, suh."
"Put another wlf it an' m give you
two bits,"
"No, suh. An' I ain't got no moh
time to stan' here an' talk. If eggs Is
gine up dat fast, I's glneter put dishere
one lu cold storace."
NATURE Or UNDERTAKING.
"One class of men, they say, no
matter what effort they make, are
bound to go down hill."
"What class Is that?"
'Mountain climbers."
Advice.
When lovers quarrel,
Aa they will.
Old folks can help
By keeping mill.
f,
Hard Case.
"The lovers in the days of chivalry
must have had hard times when the
fathers kicked about anything."
"Why so?"
"Because then the fathers wore steel
boots."
Modem Caution.
Father So he asked you to marry
him? And are you sure that he is a
careful and cautious young man?
Daughter Oh, yes; he looked all
over the room first for a possible dic
taphone. Uncomplimentary.
Sister Well, Harold, isn't the baby
lovely?
Brother Yes er that Is to say
er about how old must a baby be be
fore It begins to look like a human
being?
The Woman Depositor.
"Sorry, madam, but your account Is
already overdrawn !"
"Well, what of it, young man?
Haven't I a right to do what I like with
my own account?" Life.
His Theory.
"How do you suppose Henrfr VH1
looked on the marrying habit?"
"That a man could stand It, but It
made a woman lose her head."
EXPLAINED.
"I tell every girl I meet she Is the
only girl I ever loved."
"How can you do It?"
"Well, why not? They're only girls."
Sure Enough.
The butcher In the slaughter house
Put on his apron white.
And chuckled to his fellow men:
"I'm dressed to kill, all right"
Self-Evident.
"Does the patient snore In his
sleep?"
"Well, I've never noticed him snor
ing at any other time."
Hard Case.
"Yonder man leads a hard life."
"In rtiat way?"
"He is always Itching for office and
as to scratch for a living."
Mmmmm Vrf ' vVaBaal
BP
IN A MAZE
By JESSIE E. SHERWIN
i Copy right. 1920, Western Newspaper Union)
"Here's number eleven, Hank,"
s:oke the foreman of the Leesville
Clarion, as he handed a sheet of man
uscript to his feUow compositor.
"'Love's Anguish,'" read Hank
E u ns, from the neat legible page. "Our
sorrowful contributor Is getting desper
ate. And look I here's a new dedication.
First It was to E.' Then after a cou
p e of the effusions It was 'Eunlcla.'
Now it's 'to Eunlcla L.' Of course that
means the pretty daughter of Judge
L: ncaster. Then again this persist
ent poet first. signed his effusions 'J,'
then 'Jerome.' Now its 'Jerome TV
' Yes, and the boss editor says his
fir I name Is Jerome Thurston. A pro
fessor over at the academy at our
ne','hborlng town of Glen wood."
' He'd be passable If he harped on
something else besides 'longing, lasting
lov.," commented Hank.
1 'or over two weeks each recurring
e . ion of the local paper had contain
ed verses from the pen .of this very
re..ilar contributor, and this was how
It l ad come about:
l'rofessor Jerome Thurston, thirty,
gerjte, but at heart full of tender sen
timent, had passed the' Lancaster place
one day when he was halted by the
sight of a young girl whose face was
to 1 1 in; the most entrancing he had ever
seen. Its owner was Joined by a young
lady nbout her own age.
"Who Is that lovely bemg?" he asked
amid his rapture of another passerby.
"Oh, that Is Miss Eunlcla Lancas
ter," came the wondering reply, and
the professor pursued his way in a
daze. Love fervent and Instantaneous
hod banished all other emotions.
Shy, reticent and rendered doubly
so by Inexperience and retiring ways,
the professor nursed his love In secret,
but it finally found expression In poesy.
He was a fair rhymester and a ready
writer.
Upon the day when the last poem
appeared In the paper two men met
in the village hotel.
"Well, have you found out who this
audacious poet Is?" Inquired the elder
of the twain.
"Yes, the editor told me. It Is, as
we suspected, the college professor
down at Glenwood."
"Well, he Is getting to the limit," re
plied the other. "I can't have Eunlcla
subjected to comment and ridicule.
The man must understand the circum
stances and Is clear out of his mind,
or seeks to annoy us."
"Yes, he must be stopped," was the
response. "I have a plan to frighten
him Into ceasing his strange poetic
bombardment."
At about dusk that same evening
these two Individuals lingered near a
little thicket at the outskirts of Glen
wood, at a spot Professor Thurston
passed every day In his regular stroll.
The latter finally appeared, his thought
ful face betraying abstraction, his
hunds linked behind him.
"What Is this, footpads?" he ex
claimed, as he was seized by the two
loiterers. He struggled, but they bore
away from the path and to a clear
space In the thicket.
"My friend," spoke the elder of the
two men, throwing a narrow case upon
the ground, "we have come here, to
demand satisfaction. I am the brother
of Miss Eunlcla Lancaster and this
gentleman Is her affianced husband."
"Her affianced husband," repeated
the professor in a hollow groan. "I
flld not know. I fancied her heart
whole. Woe Is me!"
"And," spoke the other man, "you
must at once recant your assumed de
votion for Miss Lancaster and cease
to persecute us with your ridiculous
poetical notoriety, or defend yourself
with one of the two loaded weapons
In that ease In a duel to the death."
"Recant the honest sentiments
of my soul?" cried the professor. "Nev
er! You Insist upon a battle. Be
It so. But If I kill you or if you kill
me? But what lists it. If Eunlcla to
to become the bride of another. I do
not care to live."
The professor shook with emotion
and his observers knew not whether
to regard him as a lunatic, or pity him
a an honest and hopeless lover.
"One last glace at the fairest face In
the universe, a photograph of my
Eunlcla which I received from the vil
lage photographer, and I am ready for
the sacrifice," spoke professor, draw
ing the object In question from a pock
et near to his heart. ,
"I say," bolted out Bob Lancaster,
observing the picture.
"Not Eunlcla at all," shouted her
fiance. "Why, my man, this Is not
Miss Lancaster, but she Is a cousin,
Miss Myrtle Colby."
The professor looked bewildered. He
blurted out his story of his first sight
of the Idol of his dreams. Slowly it
dawned upon him that his informant
had mistaken the lady he had pointed
out.
Good naturedly the brother and lover
of the i real Miss Lancaster helped
straighten out the tangle. Later such
fervent devotion appealed to sweet,
sympathetic Eunlcla Lancaster. She
insisted such fidelity should, not be
lost to the world, and saw to It that
the professor was Introduced to Myrtle.
The natural result brought happiness
to the professor, for he was a man of
attainments and probity, and Myrtle
la time loved him enough to trust bin
with her future.