Local Preacher Arrested for Sermon Being Too Soft on Germans, 1918

“Local Preacher Arrested,” from the Rockingham Post-Dispatch, Thursday afternoon, June 27, 1918

A white man who worked in Pee Dee Mill No. 1 named W. Tom Collins was arrested last Friday afternoon in the mill by Deputy Marshal Tomlinson of Fayetteville and carried before U.S. Commissioner Guthrie. He is charged with using words in a sermon on June 9^th at a school house near Morven that were calculated to give aid and comfort to the enemy (Germans). Mr. Guthrie required him to give a $500 bond for his appearance for trial on July 5^th.