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ROCKINGHAM PObT-DISPATOH. RICHMOND COUNTY. N. C.
Mis & County
EUerbe Personals.
The farmers in and around
Ellerbe seem to be getting blue
on account of cotton crops Ibeing
short this year.
Ellerbe is still growing. Roller
mill just completed.
Bennett Bank & Trust Co.'s
cotton ware house will be com
pleted in a few days.
Another new store for Ellerbe.
"Chautauqua Coming."
Mr. D. F. O'Brien was shaking
hands with friends and relatives
in Ellerbe a few days ago.
Mr. A. Z. Williams has returned
home from a ten days' visit in
Gaston county.
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Shaw are
visiting in Union county.
Miss Ester CHive, of Cameron,
is spending a few days with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Lentz.
Dr. D. B. Boger, of Charlotte,4
spent a few days with Dr. P. H.
Bennett
Mrs. T. C Covington and chil
dren spent - the week-end with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Ingram.
Misses Hattie Ellerbe and Lucy
Nichols spent the week-end with
Mr. J. A. Ingram.
Mrs. S. D. Ballard has returned
home from a few weeks' visit.
Mrs. Rosa Burroughs and
daughter, Helen, from Hamlet,
spent the week-end with Mrs. J.
M. Maness.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wicker, of
Rockingham, spent a few hours
with Mrs. J. R. Wall Sunday.
Misses Verlie and Mildred Wil
liams are spending a few days
with friends and relatives in Mt.
Gilead.
Little Miss Annie Pearl Webb
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Frank
Hunsucker.
Mrs. W. H. Lassiter and chil
dren spent last week with her
mother, Mrs. E. P. Gaddy.
Miss Gleen Lefler," of Mt. Gil
ead, is visiting Mrs. Linnie
Hurley.
Mr. and Mrs. Ruse Crawford
and daughters, of Albemarle,
were visiting Mr. Tom Crawford
Sunday.
Miss Ruby Reynolds has been
visiting Miss Pauline Bennett for
a few days.
Little Miss Katherine Williams
returned home Sunday from a
three weeks' visit with her
grandparents at Mt. Gilead.
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Warner
and sons, Jack and Billy, spent
Sunday in Troy.
Mr. arid Mrs. R. A. Easterling
left Tuesday morning for Char
lotte to visit relatives.
Miss Francis Hall and mother
returned to their home in Ashe
boro Saturday morning from a
few day's visit with son and
daughter, Mr. W. E. Hall and
Mrs. J. R. Wall.
Miss Madge Brown has been
visiting her brother, Mr. W. V
Brown.
Mr. and Mrs.' W. R. Williams
spent Saturday and Sunday with
relatives in Mt. Gilead.
Mr. Grady Dauson, from
Greensboro, is visiting his sister,
Mrs. D. C. Farlow.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Gaddy
visited in Ellerbe Sunday.
Mr. Ted Ingram is sick at this
writing, hope he will soon be out
again.
Miss Willow Dawkins is visit
ing her brothers for a few days.
Miss Maggie Bell Lrreene is
visiting her sister, Mrs. J F. Tol
bert.
Miss Juanita O'Brien spent the
week-end with her sister, Mrs. J.
R. Bennett.'
Mrs. J. W. Hailey, from Mon
roe, came Monday to spend I a
few days with her father, Mr.
Frank Hunsucker, and ; sister,
Mrs. W. H. Kelly
Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Proffitt,of
Yancey county, returned home
MondayafterJspendinga few
days' with their daughter, 'Mrs.
A. D. Nance.
Mr. Archie Chappel Jhas ac
cepted a position with the H. W.
F. Co.
Blue Jay.
Mangum Items.
Messrs. W. C. and Fletcher
Lisk, and Davis Hay wood went to
Rockingham Monday on business.
Miss Ruth Home and Mr.
Worth Rogers returned to Char
lotte Sunday after a ten days'
visit at Mr. W. L. Home's.
Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey of Spray
are visiting Mrs. Godfrey's moth
er, Mrs T. F. Stanback.
Rev. Reid Andrews and family
of New York, visited relatives
here the latter part of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Maynor
and family and Misses Lucy and
Radie Tice, of Wadesboro visited
at Mr. T. H. Maynor's Sunday.
.Misses Mamie Currie and Ad
die Maynor and Mr. Ralph Mis
enheimer spent Monday after
noon in Wadesboro.
Mrs. M. A. Thompson has been
very sick for several days, but at
present is improving slowly.
The protracted meeting is still
running at Hebron. We have had
seventl noted preachers to assist
the regular pastor including Rev.
J. R. Andrews, of Rowland, Rev.
Mr. Schovill, of Wilmington and
Rev. Reid Andrews, of New
York.
"Bobolink"
Roberdel Notes.
Mr. N. C. Covington, of Greens
boro, spent last week with Mr.
W. R. Covington.
We are sorry to note that Mrs.
J. E. Covington has been quite ill.
Mrs. James Beverly, of Ben
nettsville, is here with relatives.
Miss Lorry McNeill, of Red
Springs, is with her sister, Mrs.
D. C. McNeill.
Miss Susan C. McRae is taking
her vacation with friends and
relatives in Gibson.
Mrs. Frank Medlin, of Hamlet,
spent the week-end with her
parent, Mrs. Shaw Dawkins.
Mrs. Bud Dawkins, of Ellerbe,
spent Thursday with Mrs. W. L.
Meeks.
Mrs. Annie Beverly has re
sumed work here after being
wth her mother, who has been
very ill.
Misses Kathleen Thomas, Mary
Reece LeGrand and Lura . Mc
Neill are at Mt. Gilead for a
short stay with relatives.
Miss Georgia Gibson is visil.
ing relatives in Hamlet this
week.
Miss Hattie Thrower, of Hbff
man, is spending a few days at
the home of her uncle, Calvin
Gibson. i
Odd-Fellows.
Odd-Fe owship is, distinctively
religious This does not mean
that it i a church, but it incul
cates the principles taught in the
Bible. It requires the acceptance
of no theological creed, but spec
ifically asserts .that the Holy
Bible is an integral part of Odd
Fellowship, ihere are certain
moral principles taught in the
Word of God of which every
Odd-Fellow is forcibly reminded
every time he comes into the
lodge, and that are brought to
the attention of all the brethren
in all the degrees. There are
others to which each of the de
grees is respectively devoted. In
the first class are the following:
1. We are taught to guard our
tongues. This is in harmony
witfc Ps. 39:1. "I said, I will take
heed to my ways that I sin not
with my tongue; I will keep my
mouth with a bridle."
2. We are not allowed to for
get that we are at all times under
the scrutiny of God's all-seeing
eye. This accords with Scrip
tures. Ps. 33:13, 14. "The Lord
looketh from heaven; He behold
eth all the sons ol men. From
the place of His habitation He
looketh upon the inhabitants of
the earth." Ps. 139:11, 12. "If
I say surely the darkness shall
cover me, even the night shall
be light about me. Yea, the
darkness hideth not from Thee;
darkness and light are both alike
to Thee." Prov. 15:3. "The eyes
of the Lord are in every place,
beholding the evil and the good."
3. We are taught that we are
under obligation to relieve the ne
cessities of a worthy brother indis
tress. 1 John 3:17. "Whoso hath
this world's goods, and seeth his
brother have need, and shutteth
up his bowels of compassion
from him, how dwelleth the love
of God in him?" There are other
Scriptures that teach these same
lessons.
No lodge can hold a meeting,
unless the Bible is in the lodge
room, and the ritual used in con
ferring some of the degrees is
largely a dramatizing in a most
impressive way of Bible history
by which Bible principle are ex
plified. The order has signs of various
kinds by which they may make
themselves known to each other
and may make known their needs
in time of danger or distress. Sis
ters of the Rebekah degree may
also inform any Odd-Fellow of
her connection with the order,
and may call on him for help or
protection without being under
stood by others who may see or
hear her, and may inform Odd
Fellows of her presence and
needs in the dark as well as the
light.
W. R. Coppedge.
Resolution: MrsWarburton.
Rockingham Lodge 178, 1. 0. 0. F.
Whereas Almighty God in His
inscrutable wisdom has removed
the soul of Mrs. George Warbur
ton from earth to Heaven, be it
resolved by Rockingham Lodge
No. 178, 1. 0. O. F., that we ex
tend to Bro. Warburton and his
children our tenderest sympathy
in their sore bereavement, and
that the Secretary be instructed
to furnish a copy of this resol
ution to Bro. Warburton, and
copies to, the local papers for
publication.
W. R. Coppedge j
N. H. Mclnnis v Committee
ES. Reynolds J
Hannah-Pickett Items
Miss Marie Harper, from Gnsto
nia, is visiting frit mis at H. P.
Master Thomas McCaskill from
Bed Springs, came Sunday to spend
a few days with his mother, Mrs.
A. J. Kelly, at H. P.
Mr. Jack Hyatt is a proud owner
of a new Buick car.
Walter Clark from near Hamlet,
visited in our village Sunday.
Mrs. Nora Patterson and little
daughter, Melia, spent Sunday with
Mrs. V. L. Patterson.
Miss Sue Clark attended services
at Laurel Hill Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Lena Taylor from Pee Dee,
visited at Mrs. Sallie Mills Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Walker Mills from
near Hamlet, spent Saturday night
and Sunday with relatives at H. P.
Miss Sue Clark entertained her
Sunday school class of about 25 boys
and girls Saturday evening. The
class met at the home of Mrs. W. L.
Patterson and after a song service
and prayer by Mr. John Pate the
class marched to the home of Mrs.
A. J. Kelly where the dining room
was all ready with cake and cream.
Beautiful potted plants here and
there under the glow of electric
lights were the decoration, used.
The little ones soon ate their cream
and cake and went to their places of
abode. M. K.
Fell Laftt November.
"And if a house be divided against
itself, that house cannot stand."
O, well, it fell last November, and
we are under it Congress is in the
air Wvice sinking warships.
T. M. SHEPARD.
CENSUS FIGURES
Continued from Front Page
dren under 1") years of age; 10.5 pei
cent are young people 15 to 19 years
old; 33.0 per tent, about one-third,
BVB men and women in the prime of
life, being 20 to 44 years old; while
16.0 per cent, 45 years of age and
over, are well along in middle life
if they have not reached old age.
The urban population as compar
ed with the rural shows some rather
striking differences in age, the per
centage :l(l to ii yea 's of age being
41.0 for the urban population, as
compared with 30.0 for the rural,
wniie trie percautage under n
years of age is 31.7 in the urban
population as against 42.4 in the ru
ral. These differences may indicate
larger familiies of children in the I
country than in the city, but proba
bly indicate also the fact that coun
try children as they grow up have
a tendency to nock to the cities,
thereby increasing the active adult
population of the cities at the ex
pense of the rural districts.
Almost one-half of the population,
47.3 per cent, are old enough to vote,
being 21 or over. The males of mili
tary or lighting age, IS to 44, con
stitute 35.7 per cent of the male
population or 17.8 per cent of the
total population.
North Carolina; Illiteracy.
There are 241,445 illiterate persons
10 vears of age and over in the
state of North Carolina, "illiterate"
meaning unable to write. Of this
number 104,073 are native whites of
native parentage, 17i are of foreign j
or mixed parentage, ami 174 are of
foreign birth. The number of illit
erate negroes is 133,510. In the total
population ten years of age and
over the percentage of illiteracy is
13.1, which, it is gratifying to note,
shows a diminutionsinee 1010, when
it was IS. 5. In the case of the ne
groes, the pei centage declined from
31.0 to 245, and in the ruse 61 the
native white of native parentage
from 12.:! to S.2.
There is more illiteracy in the
niral districts of the state than in
II, nWtnci 11... .,. a uu I,,,!..., I t ! I
in, . , iin. . p '"fs ' '
for the rural population anil !).;! for
for the rural population am I 0.3 for
the urban. Tor the native whit '
population of native parentage the
urban percentage of illiteracy is 4.0,
while the rural is 9.2. In the case
of the negro population the percent
age is 20.;i in the urban poulation as
against 2".T in the rural. 1
The following statement shows
the percentage of illiteracy in the
counties of North Carolina accord
ing to the returns of the Fourteenth
Census, which was taken in Janu
ary, 1920. An illiterate, as defined
in the census, is a person 10 years
of age or over who is unable to
write either in English or any other
language. The percentages are
based upon the total population 10
years of age ami over, or the total
native white or total negro, as the
case may be.
County. Totals Native Negro
Richmond 13.4
Moore 9.3
Montgomery 13.3
Chatham 12.4
Anson 20.1
Scotland 20.9
7.2 22.6
5.2 19. i
9.G 20.1
0.5 24.9
7.7 31.8
10.5 27.7
10.1 26.9
7.9 26.8
9.1 30.8
4.8 27.9
8.2 24.5
Robeson
.19.8
Union 12.4
Stanly 12.1
Hoke 17.8
State 13.1
North Carolina: School Attendance.
There are 460,696 children 7 to 13
years of age in the state of North
Carolina and of this number 400,846
or 87.0 per cent, were reported as
as attending school. In 1910 the per
centage attending school was 76.5,
thus indicating a gratifying im
provement as regards school attend
ance between 1910 and 1920. Of the
children 14 and 15 years of age in
1920, 77.4 per cent were attending
school, and of those 16 and 17 year?
of age 50.1 per cent.
Of the white children 7 to 13 years
of age 80.7 pe cent were attending
school in 1910 and 89.5 per cent in
1920. For colored children of the
same age the percentage in the same
interval increased from 68.6 to 81.3.
The percentage of children attend
ing schools was considerably larger
in the cities than in the country dis
tricts, the percentage of children in
the urban population 7 to 13 years
of age being 91.9, while in the rural
population it was 86.1. "Urban," ac
cording to the census diflnition, in
cludes all cities and other incorpor
ated places of 2,500 population or
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THE CAPITOL
DEPARTMENT STORE
The Live Store 114 Hay Street Always Reliaable
Fayetteville, N. C.
A
Removal Sale
Having outgrown the present location, we built
one of the finest stores in the State of North Carolina to
take care of our future business.
Before moving we will offer for sale every item
in our present store room. We don't want to move a
thing we rathei sacrifice every article than to move it.
Our big sale starts August 24th, 1921, with the
biggest sale of merchandise ever offered by any store.
Every article is inclueded in this great money saving
event.
We cannot enumraate every bargain; just come to
the store. You know when we advertise a sale we always
have the values to back it up, this time we will out do
any former sale ever held by us.
Remember the date and be on hand to share in the
benefits of the great Removal Sale.
The Capitol Department Store
Fayetteville, N. C.
Mr.
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WILMINGTON, N. C.
(For Wrightsville Beach)
Seashore Excursion
SEABOARD
AIR LINE RAILWAY
SATURDAY,
Unusual Opportunity to Spend a Complete
Week-End at the Seashore.
SURF BATHING - BOAT EXCURSIONS
FISHING - WONDERFUL SEA BREEZES
Round-Trip Fares :
Rockingham, N. C. $4.50
Hamlet, N. C.- $4.50
War Tax Not Included
Tickets will be sold
and 34 from Charlotte; and
to Hamlet
RETURNING, tickets will be good leaving Wilming
ton on all regular trains up to and including tram No. 13,
3:50 P. M. WEDNESDAY, August 24th,' 1921.
Tickets gqod in Parlor and Sleeping Cars upon
payment of PULLMAN FARES.
Children 5 Years of Age and Under 12, Half Fare
For Complete Information Apply to Ticket Agent, or
JONH T. WEST, Div. Pass. Agent. Charlotte. N. C.
J. B. DICKSON. Agent, Rockingham, N. C.
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via
Aug. 20
1921
for Regular trains Nos. 14, 20
all intermediate agency stations
more.
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