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Vol. 4. No. 38
ROCKINGHAM, N. G, THURSDAY Afternoon, AUG. 18, 1921.
$2.00 PER YEAR
RHAM SCHOOLS TO
OPEN SEPT. 5TH
Several New Teachers to Fill
Vacancies in Splendid
Faculty of Last Term. J.
B. Lawrence to Teach Vo-
- cational Training. Splen
did Athlete. State College
Star. School Hours to be
Changed. Compulsory At
tendance Law Different
from Heretofore.
The city schools, white and
colored, will open Monday, Sep
tember 5th. The teachers select
ed for thecoming year are as
follows:
HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Kate Finley, (Principal) English.
Isabel Arrowood, Latin.
Lillian G. Allen, French and Science.
Mary B. Paris, History and Civics.
Annie May Ashcraft, of Monroe,
Mathematics.
Agnes E. Williams, Home Economics.
J. B. Lawrence, ol Statesville, Voca
tional Agriculture.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Meriel Groves, Principal
Hart Sheridan
Bernice Hornaday
Bessie Terry
Annie Glenn, of Gastonia
Kate Lea Owen
Maude Moore
Mabel Brooks
Rebecca Stimson
Nancy Stacy
Louise Gill.
It is thought that the faculty
for the coming year will compare
favorably with that of any pre
vious year. Of the new teachers
Continued on Page Five
21- Gar Circus Coming.
The advance man, Gardner Wil
son, of the Walter L. Main circus,
was in Rockingham Tuesday mhk
ing a (late for his slioW to be in
Hoekinghani Friday, Sept. 2nd. The
advance ear with till advertising!
posters, etc, will reach here Satur-
day in- Sunday.
he Walter L. Main circus is rat
ed as one of the beat of what might
be termed the smaller shows. By
"smaller" shows we have reference
to the huge Ringhng, and Barnum
& Bailey outfits. This circus trav
els in 24 70-foot cars, and is just
a bit larger than the Sparks circus
that showed in Itnekingham! last
Spring.
This Main circus is bound to .be
a good one, judging by the jumps it
makes. For instance, it played in
New York state all the Spring, then
through Pennsylvania, West Vir
ginia, Kentucky, now is in Tennes
see, and will be in Asiievme Aug,
22nd, then next day to Hickory, then
double back to Morristown, Tennes- Hamilton saw-mill; he had half a
aee, then back again into North j load On, and was driving down
Carolina at Statesville, then to Salis-1 an incline. Either a limb struck
bury, another long jump to Hender- j him, or he slipped; at any rate,
son, on to Rocky Mount. Dunn m j he fell to the ground in front of
Aug. SOth, rayetteviile the BtsWjfog wagon, and a wheel rolled
Maxton Sept. 1st, Rockingham Sept. Erectly across his neck, death
2nd, Lumberton the .'Jrd, Wilmington j resulting instantly,
the 5th. Yes, the circus is coming,! The young man was buried at
and no doubt the small hearts will; Mizpah this (Thursday) after
beat t!it faster in anticipation. noon.
MANY TAKE TREATMENT
Score Meeting County Physician at
Dispensary Points to Be Inoculated
FREE Against Typhoid Fever and
Diphtheria.
The campaign against typhoid
fever and diphtheria that is be
ing conducted for Richmond
county FREE by the State Board
of Health and County Commiss
ioners, is making splendid prog
ress. Dr. W. R. Mcintosh, the
county physician, and Carl Coley
acting as clerk, began the listed
rounds Monday, the first appoint
ment being at Roberdel No. 1
where 266 were inoculated against
typhoid fever.
Adults and children, white and
black, are taking the free treat
ment, and every person in the
county who has not been inocu
lated in the past three years
should by all means take advan
tage of this campaign. Each
point will be visited three more
times, and this will enable any
who may desire to do so to start
the treatments the coming week.
If any who were treated should
miss a meeting, they will have
opportunity in the next three
visitations to complete the series.
The treatment calls for three
inoculations.
The number inoculated at the
dispensaries on Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday are as fol
lows; the dispensary today
(Thursday) Is at Norman, Frut
chey's store and Ellerbe, and the
schedule for the other appoint
ments is given below:
Aug. 15th, Monday:
Typhoid Diphtheria
Roberdel 1 266
Ledbetter's 77 8
Aug. 16th, Tuesday:
Roberdel 2 . ...239 8
Hannah Pickett 109 .....16
Entwistle 44'. 2
Midwav 85 ...18
Aug. 1 7th. Wednesday:
Hoffman 48. 9
Hamlet '. 108 26
The schedule of dat": and places
of "free treatments is a follows:
clip this out for reference, and don't
fail to be on hand for each of the
Continued on page 8
Neck Broken by Wagon.
A wagon wheel rolled over
Casper Hinson's neck, in Wolf
Pit township, Wednesday after
noon, breaking it and instantly
killing him. Hinson, who is 17
years old and a son of of Mr.
Charlie Hinson, was driving a
pair of mules to a wide-tire
wagon in the woods near the old
UNFORTUNATE KILLING
Deputy John Chavis Shoots Tom Eng
lish in Marlboro County Last Thurs
day Night by Mistake for a Block
ader. English Died Ncx Night.
An unfortunate homicide oc
curred on Thursday night of last
week about a mile from the
Richmond county line, over in
Marlboro county, South Carolina,
John Wesley Chavis shooting and
killing his friend, Tom English,
by mistake. Both men are white,
and English leaves a wife and
five children; he was about 45
years old.
As near as the Post-Dispatch
can gather the facts, it seems
that Tom English had located a
blockade still on Thursday night
of last week about a mile from
the Richmond and Scotland lines.
Chavis, who was deputized bv
his brother who is a Rural Pol
iceman, told English to slip off
and get his brother and Sheriff
Weatherly, and that he himself
Continued On Page 2
. Boll Weevil in County.
There seems to be no doubt
about there now being boll wee
vil in Richmond county. On a
number of farms in Wolf Pit
township, near the South Caro
lina line, there was foand this
week numerous small bugs which
it is pretty well determined are
the real boll weevil. Mr. Jim
Dockery had a bottle full in town
Tuesday which he shook from a
stalk of cotton just below the
Seth Andrews house; and in other
fields surrounding are to be
found many of these pests.
Confederate Ueunion.
As stated in the Post-Dispatch last
week, Richmond county is to pay
the railroad fare of all Confederate
veterans who wish to attend the
reunion at Durham Aug. 2"rd and
Mth.
The tickets can be used at any
time from Friday, Aug. 19th, through
Aug. 2.")th. A certificate must be se
cured from the "Clerk of Court, and
an order from Auditor J. D. Coving
ton in the Register of. Deeds office,
and this order gets the free ticket.
It is to be hoped that many of our
county Johnny-Rebs will take ad
vantage of this free trip and attend
the reunion. They will be housed at
Trinity college, and of course fed
free.
To date the following have seen
Auditor Covington and signified
their intention to eo: F. L. Cole, E. C.
Cole, Sip Hart, D. G. Maple, W. H. Rob
erts, W. R. Dawkins.
New Paper at Hamlet.
W. H. Lindsay, who for 12 years
or so edited the Hamlet Messenger,
and who about, a year or so ago sold
same to Mr. Hanlyn, of the Hamlet
News, who thereupon consolidated
the two under the present name of
the News-Messenger, is now again
to venture into the newspaper game.
He last Saturday bought out the job
equipment of Woodward in Hamlet,
and will establish another newspa
per in Hamlet, the new venture to
be named the Hamlet Record
TWO WHITE MEN JAILED
BLOCKADING CHARGE
Kelly Faircloth and Ananias Vuncanon,
Both White Men of Beaver Dam
Township, in Rockingham Jail on
Charge of Blockading. Officers
Find Five Men at Still Near Marston
Saturday Morning. Four Escape.
Last Saturday morning officers
McDonald, Shores, Reynolds, Key
and Braswell closed in on a still
about two miles north of Marston,
and as result caught Ananias Vun
cannon, n white'man about 45 years
old. The officers surrounded the
still, but two young fellows station
ed on a hill gave the alarm, and the
three men at the still made a
break in the opposite direction.
One man, Vui cannon, had a shotgun
in his hands, and ran directly into , htimumt ( unman) amnions,
officers Shores and Braswell; he who after shooting his daughter,
dropped the gun and turned into turned the shot-gun on himself and
the swamp, but the officers caught j blew his face and part of his head
him. The other two men with him off. lhe parties are colored,
escaped. All were white men. The I Coorner A. M. Smith was summon
still was o' 100-gallons capacity, and to the Timmons house about mid
the liquid had just begun to boil, night Friday; he impannelled the
Five stands of beer were on hand, J
and this if the run had been com
pleted would doubtless have made
about 25 gallons of whiskey. The
still was of wooden sides, with gal
vanized top and bottom; the cap
was of wood and worm of copper,
The officers cut up the uotrit, and,
bron'ght the prisoner to Rockingham
where he was at once given a hear
ing before Squire Mollis. Attorney
Fred W. Rynum defended him,
though no evidence for the defense
was put on. He Was bound over to
Sept. 2lith term of Superior Court
under. $1,500 bond which he was
unable to furnish, and so was locked
in jail to await court.
On Thursday of last week Mrs.
Mary Toler was tried at Rocking
ham on charge of manufacturing
and keeping fcr sale, and was
hound to court under $200 bond.
which she gave. She lives about a
mile north of Hoffman. A still
had been fqund within ;i00 yards
of her home vnd two gallons of
whiskej in her house. The officers
believed that Kelly Faircloth, a
white man aged about 35 who with
! bis two children lived in the same
house with her, was engaged in
operating the still, and so on the
next night, Friday night, they had
eason to believe that he was on theN
point of leaving the county. Officers
Shores, Reynolds ami Key drove to
the bridge over Drowning Creek,
between Hoffman and Aberdeen,
Friday night and about 9 o'clock a
car passed in which Faircloth was
riding. The car was stopped on
the bridge, rod Faircloth arrested;
he was going to his brother's home,
below P.aefoid. He was brought to
Rockingham jail, and Saturday
mnmilnV' tftrn,a crtvAn 11 twvirinff hffnri I
"
Squire Mollis, Attorney Fred W.
Bynum defending him. No evidence
for the defense was introduced. The
Squire ordered hnn committed to
jail in default of a $1,000 bond, to
await Sept. 20th term of Superior
court. He is still in jail, not having
been able to furnish the required
bond.
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FATHER KILLS DAUGH
TER, THEN SELF
Edmund Timmons Friday
Night Killed Daughter in
Black Jack Township, Then
Kills Himself. Drunken
Rage.
Whiskey or extracts is responsi
hie for two lives being snuffed out
in Richmond county last Friday
night; and so needlessly, too.
,The homicide and suicide occurred
in Black Jack township, about a
mile from Blewctt Falls dam, on
the Ben Ussery farm on the night
j of Aug. 12th. The girl killed was
Hazester Timmons, aged about 10,
and the murderer was her own fath-
following as a jury: M. L. lucker,
A. P. Barrett, Leo Warburton, T. S.
Linton, A. L. Kendall and H. W.
Terry After investigating, the jury
rendered a decision that Hazester
Timmons came to her death from
gun-shot wounds at the hands of
her father, and that the father, Ed-
mund, then killed himself
From various accounts, the Post
Dispatch gathers the following ver
sion: Edmund Timmons, or Tillman, us
some called him, returned to his
home in Black Jack township last
Friday afternoon in an intoxicated
condition. He asked his daughter
Edna to fix him something to "eat.
Hazester remarked to Edna that
they had better take off their good
clothes so they would not be soiled;
this or the delay seemed to anger
Edmund. At any rate, the girls
went to their grandmother s and lat
er Edmund followed them With his
shotgun. He pulled the gun ou
Hazester and forced her to return
home with him. When within a
couple of hundred feet of the bouse
(about dusk) the girl evidently at
tempted to run, for she was found
out, of the path and a load of shot
j in her back. She lived probably an
hour. After shooting the girl, the
father then turned the gun on him-
self, presumably pulling the trig
ger with his toe. The load ranged
upward under his chin, taking off
the greater portion of the face and
j part of the head. He fell in his
j tracks, instantly killed, and within
(20 feet, of where his daughter lay
dying.
Youthful Offenders.
Two colored youths, A.ixando
' Cole and Willie BosticK, aged 13 and
,2 hrofcc in(() ,0 A,iCIMorse store
.Saturday night and wer" caught
red-handed.
A small amount of change was
missed from the open cash register
at the stwre on both Thursday night
and Friday nignt, and so on Satur
day night Mr. V. J. McLaurin "sat
up" after the store closed at 10
Continued on Page Five
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QUARTER MILLION
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104,673 Whites in State Over 10 Years
Old Illiterate. 133,516 Negroes.
In Richmond County 13.4 Percent
of Total Population Over 10 years
Old Illiterate, 7.2 Percent of Whites
and 22.6 of Negroes. Percentage of
Negroes in Total Population of
Richmond County Decreases from
46.9 in 1910 to 41.2 in 1920.
Interesting Census Figures Just
Announced for North Carolina.
North Carolina: Percentage Negro
By Counties.
The population of the State of
North Carolina is 09.7 per cent
white and 28.8 per cent negro, in
1910 the percentage negro wail 31.6.
The negro population, which was
097,843 in 1910, increased to 763,407
in 1920, an increase of 9.4 per cent.
The white population in the same
period increased from 1,500,511 to 1,
783,779, or 18.9 per cent.
The white population of the state
consists almost entiiely of native
Americans bom of native American
parents, the total native white of
native parentage being 1,765,203,
while the foreign element is repre
sented by 7,099 foreign-born whites,
5,737 native whites who had foreign
born parents, and 5,740 who had one
parent foreign born, tbe other being
native. Tbe total population indues
almost 11,824 Indians, 88 Chinese,
24 Japanese, and 1 Hindu.
In most counties of the state the
percentage of negroes has decreased
and in 37 of the 100 counties there
was also a decrease in the number of
negroes.
The percentage of negroes in the
total population of each county for
the census of 1920 compared with
1910, is as follows: In Richmond
county the percentage of negroes
for 1920 is 41.2 of the (':! popula
tion, as compared with 10. ten years
ago.
County. 1920 1910
Richmond 41.2 40.9
I Moore - .28.8 33.1
I Montgomery ..22.5 24.5
I Chatham 32.8 33.9
Anson 52.5 52.3
Scotland ... 59.0 55.2
Robeson -- -- 37.1 3.3.
Union 24.1 28.1
Stanly 12.9 10.7
Hoke 55.3
State -29.8 3t.O
Age in North Carolina.
According to the census of 1920,
40.4 per cent, or over two-fifths of
the people in the state of North
Carolina are either infants or chil-
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