Local News Items, Rockingham, April 3, 1919

From the Rockingham Post-Dispatch, April 3, 1919

Colored Child Burned

A 4-year-old child of John Adkins, colored, living near Midway Mill, was possibly fatally burned Wednesday morning. The child was alone in a room when its clothing caught fire. When discovered, quilts were wrapped around the child to smother the flames but not before practically all the clothing was burned from the little body.

Later: the child died at midnight Wednesday night.

Ellerbe Phone Line

The Ellerbe Telephone company will within the next two weeks begin construction of a line from Ellerbe to Norman. A toll booth will be established in R.V. Ussery’s store, Norman, and this connection will put the extreme northern part of the county in touch with the county-seat. The company will, immediately after this Norman line is finished, build a ‘through’ line to Rockingham. 

The line now in use is the one that goes by Roberdel and Green Lake church, leased from T.C. Leak. With completion of this new through line, the company will have two lines in operation to Rockingham, and thereby be the better enabled to give quick service.

Federal Court

The spring term of federal court convened at Laurinburg Wednesday morning and disposed of all business in one day. The following cases were handled:

--Charlie Goodwin submits to distilling; fined $75 and costs, amounting to $133.

--Colin Chavis submits to distilling; fined $100 and costs.

--Obie Jackson, colored, aged 11, sent to reformatory at Washington, D.C., for four years for stealing letters from Hamlet post office.

--W.P. Ingram fined $400 and costs. He offered at September term to submit to furnishing material for distilling. The jury found him guilty of simply furnishing material. Judgment was left open until this term. Judge Connor Wednesday fined him $400 and the costs.

Schools Closing

The Rohanen and the Steele’s Mills schools closed last Friday, and the Cameron and Pate schools in Marks Creek will close the 4^th.

Field Day April 12^th

Field Day exercises for the schools of the county will be held at Rockingham Saturday, April 12^th, beginning at 11 a.m. There will be no county commencement this year.

Commandery Initiates

Twenty-seven initiates are this afternoon being inducted into the Rockingham Commandery, Knight Templar: Z.V. Roberson, W.N. Robertson, H.C. Gibson, W.D. Freeman, B.P. Long, C.J. Byrd, T.P. Polk, W.J. Jeffreys, R.H. Halyburton, W.K. McNeill, H.P. Thompson, Dr. B.W. Williuamson, Bolivar Stark, G.W. Jones, C.E. Boyd, N.H. Jenerette, T.P. Wells, W.M. Debnam, L.E. Windham, B.B. Jeffreys, Dr. W.P. Webb, B.F. Palmer, S. Biggs, D.D. Perry, J.O. Bundy, J.E. Doster, M.J. Misenhardt.

Marriage Licenses

March 27—Comer Steele and Maude Nicholson, colored.

March 29—Arthur Hailey and Annie O’Netah Ingram, colored.

March 29—Daniel Bennett and Georgianna Smith, colored.

March 29—Frank Covington and Helen Martin, colored.

April 1—Albert Crockett and Corinna McNair, colored.

Births

Born Sunday night to Mr. and Mrs. M.P. McIntosh, Pee Dee No. 2, a son, James Samuel.

Military News

J.M. Smith, aged 19, son of Mrs. J.B. Smith, Ellerbe, is now in the navy at Charleston, having volunteered about a month ago.

W.L. Lampley, who was sent to Camp Jackson Sept. 6^th and who was in the quartermaster’s department, was given his honorable discharge March 20^th and is now at Cordova.

W.L. Covington Jr. was given his honorable discharge from the aviation supply office at Americus, Ga., several weeks ago and returned home the 24^th. He is now at his old job with McRae Grocery Company.

George O’Quinn of the 81^st division returned home three weeks ago from overseas—invalided home on account of flu from which he was very sick last fall. He has a brother, B.F., who is still overseas in Troop D, 15^th Calvary.

Henry C. Dockery arrived home Wednesday night from overseas. He was in the 306^th Trench Mortar Battery, which reached Camp Lee three weeks ago. He now has his honorable discharge and will return to Charlotte Sunday night to resume the practice of law with Mr. Cameron Morrison, with whom he was associated before going into the service last May.

Other News

John P. Thompson, colored, for 25 years freight laborer at the Seaboard depot here, is now driving for the express company.

The county chain-gang moved to the Everett Mill Monday and will be widening the driveway across the dam for the next 10 days.

The Window-Wall Company of Marietta, Ohio, has been chartered with a capitalization of $25,000. Jas. H. Warburton of Rockingham is vice-president and general manager of the company.

Jimmie McCollum spent Saturday and Sunday at home here. He is an operator in the relay office of the Western Union at Charlotte, and has been there for the past six months. Jimmie is the same smiling young fellow as of old, with a few more freckles added.

A colored boy, Daniel Webster Nicholson, was given a hearing before Squire Guthrie Monday charged with stealing a bicycle from V.J. McLaurin and the larceny of chickens from G.A. Patrick. He was found over to court under $50 bond on each charge, and in default of bond is now in jail awaiting nest week’s term of court.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Arenson went to Danville, Va., Saturday night to attend the funeral Sunday of her brother, Mr. Isaac Carwich. They returned Monday.

Mrs D.E. Shaw a few days ago shipped 20 Rufus Red Belgian hares to a purchaser in Tyler, Texas. H.C. Wall received from Wisconsin several weeks ago nine geese of an especially fine breed.

Mr. C.J. Jones, while shoeing a mule last Friday, was kicked in the face by the front part of a mule’s hind foot. His eye was closed and face discolored by the bruise, but no bones were broken and the discoloration will soon disappear.

A deed conveying 100 acres of the Milton Gibson estate near Gibson to J.C. Hunsucker was filed with the Register of Deeds of Scotland county in January, the consideration being $30,000. This $300 an acre sounds more like city property than farm lands.

The interior of Dockery-McNair Clothing Co. is to be made 40 or more feet deeper. Carpenters are at work now in tearing out the warehouse section in the rear of the store and this will give this progressive ladies’ and gents’ furnishings store much additional room. The adding of a ladies’ department to the store this spring necessitated this extra room.

The J.D. Horne home-place in Lilesville township, occupied by E.W. Gaddy, was burned Tuesday night. Rats was the cause.

Messrs. Sam and Sidney Hopkins, two progressive merchants of Rockingham, took out their second naturalization papers before Judge Conner in Federal court at Laurinburg Wednesday.

The largest transaction in real estate ever recorded by the Scotland county Register of Deeds was that in which Col. and Mrs. F.T. Gates conveyed 9,048 acres of sand-hill land in Laurel Hill township, Scotland county, to their four sons, Messrs. Fred L., Frank H., Russellk C., and Percival T. Gates. The paper was filed for record March 28^th and carried revenue documentary stamps to the amount of $72.50, fixing the value of the lands at $72,500.