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ROCKINGHAM POST-DISPATCH, RICHMOND COUNTY, N. 0.
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We have just completed the opening and marking of our line of Christmas Goods,
and you are cordially invited to call and inspect them. Here you can find toys
to please the small boys and girls, also the larger boys and girls. Gifts for all
$25.00 DOLL FREE
We are giving away free a Beautiful Large Doll in connection with our Holiday Sale. This doll is
now on display in our Show Window on New street. With every purchase amounting to $1.00 in cash,
your name is written on a slip of paper and then deposited in a sealed box, and on Christmas Eve night at
10 o'clock the drawing will take place. A little girl will be selected to do the drawing, and after all the
names have been thoroughly mixed together she will then be blindfolded and take from the box containing
the names three slips. The person whose name appears on the first slip drawn will get the Beautiful $25.00
Doll, the next will receive $5.00 in cash, and the next $2.50 in cash.
This opportunity is given to all and the purchase of any article in our store entitles the purchaser
to place their names in the box.
Again extending you a cordial invitation to visit our store and assuring you that we appreciate
your patronage
Allen-Morse Company
P. S. Don't format that we carry a complete market in connection with our business, and have made special arrangements for our supply
of Pork Hams for Christmas and New Year's Day.
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SALE
AT THE
Rockingham 5, 10 & 25c Store
Beginning Friday, Dec. 8th
until Dec. 25th, we are going offer a few specials :
One lot $15.00 Trunks to go at - $10.00
One lot 9.50 Trunks to go at 5.00
One lot ohildren's hose, the old reliable Durham, to go ar less than cost.
We have a lot of aluminum ware, 99 per cent pure not the inferrior kind,
to go at greatly reduced prices. A lot of men s and boys' caps to go at a
very low price. A clean-up sale on ladies' and children's hats to make room
tor our Spring stock. A few ladies' hats, a little soiled, to go at 50c better
quality to go from 98c to $4.50. Baskets for everybody ranging from 10 to
75c. One Tot of rugs and druggets to go at greatly reduced prices.
We have a nice lot of Imported Dolls with real hair prices from 25c
to $2.25. Also a lot of Xmas toys to go as low as can be sold. And a lot of
other things too numerous to mention.
Since we have been in business we have tried to study the wants and
needs of our customers, and while we have a lot of goods from 5 to 25c, our
store now is more of a variety store. We handle the well known Singer
Sewing Machine and accessories, Talking Machines, records and needles.
We want to thank our friends and customers for the many favors
w shown us we have been in business. Remember you are always welome in
ft , our place, if it is only for inspection. Our motto is, to give the very best
ft goods possible for the money and a square deal to all.
ft Wishing all a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year.
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quiet in the
house. Outside
the snowflakes
were chasing
each other with
vigor and a
gayety and a
sense of the
merriment of
the season.
Voices could
he heard shouting across streets, wish
ing others "A Merry Christmas."
Now and again the wind blew loud
ly, but not shrilly nor harshly nor
with a wailing sound. The wind, too,
seemed to be quivering with hnppl
ness. All of nature had joined -together
to be as beautiful, as radiant,
lu honor of the day as possible.
The hills were covered with snow.
The branches of the trees were laden
with It. Icicles hung from eaves and
from corners of houses, and windows
were frosted with exquisite designs.
The shrubs, too, were covered with
snow. It looked more like fairyland
than anything else.
In the house they were waiting, wait
ing, waiting.
How tense and long seemed the wait.
How nervous, how frightful, and yet
how marvelous If all went well.
But Just suppose everything didn't
go well? Suppose anything happened T
doctor wutn i.uuuu
And he was flue, too.
But perhaps !:t- e:(iuted too much on
Lillian's strength. Bay had been sent
out of the room and lie had been alone
here now for so long.
At first he had -been so full of high
spirits. But the delay had been so
strange. Tliey hadn't told him there
would be any such delay. They had
simply sent him out of the room and
had said that everything was all right,
and that they'd .come and tell him
soon fo be back to see his child.
He would go upstairs. He couldn't
stand thl.s auotlter moment. Ati'i It
was so quiet. Ho had fancied If.
would not be quiet. Then he heard a
strange shrill voice.
How curiously it sounded. Was
that Lillian. She must be very ill to
have a voice sound so curiously. He
never heard it like thut.
They couldn't keep him from her.
She would want hltn, -too. Of course
she would !
He hurriedly ran up the stairs. The
doctor was at the top of the stall's.
"Walt a moment ; not so fast ; not so
fast," the doctor smiled. "I was com
ing to tell you."
"Couldn't you hnve let me come to
her? Did you have to wait until It
Hal awsfaP i&
aaflm
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Kay Clarke paced up and down the j
Soar and wondered how he could have
beta so happy so free from nervous
neat tar so long a time.
He bated the great beauty of Una
outside world. When he heard people
wishing each other "Merry Christinas"
ha almost hated their smiles and their
cheerful jrolces.
How deeply he loved Ltyjlan. She
war worth all Uie Christmas presents
In toe world I Of course. There were
no tiro ways about that
And the doctor had said with such
a genial, merry twinkle In his eyes:
"Well, I fancy the young son and
heir will be a Christmas present from
the missus to you 1"
Qe had laughed at the time, and
Lillian had Moahad and smiled and
laughed, too. The doctor was such
friendly old !- had been the
was all over to come and tell me?"
Bay said In a husky voice.
"She wanted it to be that way,"
the doctor said. Still he was smiling.
How could he smile at such a time?
How hard and inhuman doctors be
came. "I don't believe a word of It," he
said. "She wanted roe, I know. I
heard her cry. That was It. Ton
kept me from her. You wouldn't let
me go to her and she she wanted
me."
"My dear Ray, Just a minute," the
doctor said, but Bay had rushed pact
him and was in his wife's room. Tears
were In his eyes.
Ob, he'd never forgive himself that
ha had consented to do what the doe
tor had told him to when suddenly
he noticed that Lillian was looking at
him, her eyes wide open, smiling hap
pUy. "Did you hear him shout Out a
'Merry Christmas' to you. Bay?" she
asked.
"It was the baby who crledr
"Not a cry, my loye, "Merry Chrlst-
vll what Iia ulrl 1"
"Lillian, my own, my own," he mur
mured, and bent down over her. And
now the tears came freely, He didn't
cave it en about them. Nothing mat
tered. Tot the toars hey wax flat
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NOTICE OF SALE OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE.
Under and by virtue of the power
and authority vested in me, the un
uorsigned mortgagee, set forth in
that certain Mortage Deed executed
by W. K. Roddick and wife, Minnie
Hedilick, on the 8th, day of May,
1920, as will appe. from Book 131.
at Page 266, in Register of Deeds of
fice for Richmond County, North
Carolina, same being to secure the
payment of certain notes due and
payable to the undersigned and be
ing of even date of said mortgage.
default having been made in the
payment of said notes and the inter
est thereon after proper demands, I
will sell nt public auction to the
highest bidder for cash at the Court
House door in Rockingham North
Carolina, on Monday, December the
26th, 1921, within legal hours, all the
title and interest of the mortgagors
in and to the following described
real estate:
Beginning at a White Oak, two
white oak pointers, the beginning
comer a 130 acre tract on Dry
Fork, and runs as its first line W. 20
chains to a hickory; thence as its
second line S. 15 E. 41.25 chains to
the second corner of a 34 acre tract;
thence Y. 26.50 chairs to a corner
in the run of a branch, by a ledge
of rock on the East side of said
hianch; thence S. 22, E. 12.50 chains
to it comer, dogwood and sourwood
pointers; thence E. 2.50 chains to a
corner, Red oak and White oak
pointers; thence S. 10 Et 8.15 chains
to a rock pile in a line of 50 acres;
thence with Susan Covington's line
E. 26.50 chains to a comer in Dry
Fork; thence up the various courses
of said Dry Fork to the beginning,
containing 168 acres, more or less.
Said Mortgage having been given
to secure a part of the purchase
price for the afore-described lands.
This the 22nd day of Nov., 1921.
LEWIS C. DOCKERY,
' Mortgagee.
NOTICE!
We, the undersigned land owners, for
bid any and all persons from hunting
with gun or dog or trespassing; in anyway
whatever on our lands in Rockingham
Township. Violators will be punished to
the full entent of the law:
John W Lassiter W P McRae
Robert L Steele Henry C Wall
J Gus Covington W E Covington
T C Covington
Jess B Covington
ZOEUerbe
R L Nichols
R T Nichols
A C Nichols
Mrs. J C Dockery
PS Covington
John C Ellerbe
Mrs. MoHle F. Cote
J H Nichols
J C Nichols
WC Nichols
TC Leak, Agent