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- ' f r 41 i f ft hi if is ;; 0 v k-tr fin' ; 1 ! S ' ." ' ... : 1 IW V - 4 ft! i -I ft C 1 ri !? J I, M s . 'I. .1' , . ,'..- - U - if- 'h PAGE 14. WEEK'S NEWS III ROBESON Farmers' JUnion Educational Rally Big Success Court and Other Mat-, tcrs News and Other Inci dents of Interest (Special Star Correspondence.) Lumberton, N. C.', Nov. 11. Thi Farmers' Union Educational RaHy , held here yesterday, was a great suc cess, notwithstanding the fact that the day was anything but promising up to about noon. The crowd in attendance w as much larger than was expected by many, but of . course, was nothing to compare with' a similar occasion last yearf ' ; ;j; .''.- -,. '' ''::':Y:.- Those whp attended the rally yes terday -seemed to thoroughly enjoy the day and everything passed off pleas antly. The speaking as held at the Court House, beginning at 11:30, tne address of welcome ' being delivered .fcyMr. L. R. Varser, Mr. K.' M. Barnes, responding. , Governor-Kit-chin, who delivered the principal ad dress; was introduced by Mr. R. Caldwell. Assistant Secretary Hayes, of the Department of "Agriculture, was introduced by, Prof, Stacy, of; Row land. Congressman Godwin, Introduc ed Hon . C .' G.y Elliott, . chief of the drainage department. :. All the ad- dresses were received -with, close at-! tention. The Parkton Band was pres- ent and added much to the pleasure oi tho occasion by furnishing splendid music. -i- ,.- . ....- Mr' and Mrs, Geo.B McLsoct, had ae their euestsat dinnr nil tho er3, and the toand and several other prominent gentlemen. When ..ir. and Mrs. McLeod fail to irivR their vli rnra a good time, it's no use for others to try. la. the ''afternoon -the band gave a ; delightful - "concert on the lawn of Mr. McLeod's fesidenro. whlpli na greatly enjoyed by many people whp were attracted by the' sweet music. A1lAWAl1iA Al .1 . . . . - a;iuBciubi,,iub ua,y Beemea tO iDe one 'of much pleasure both for the visitors as well as the townspeople. . i ' 'The term of court which Monday morning has been grinding ' slowly but several .unfortunates-have been given positions on ,: tne chain crane. We have' not 9Mn to Tint . tin-' dcrstand the grand, jury handed in a Tfinort . which showed that the mam. 0- . v m, mm bcrs of that body Tiad not failed' to carry out tne court's instructions in re eard to' th6 ' iail delivrv this weov 'A a., result of the large quantities of poal that, is being put-in by our n'pnnlri- th wndd market. fip(ma ' n have taken a "tumibie; as during twe veek the very : Dest iat pine nag --been ' sold for 2.50 , per; cord delivered in tho trttrA ::TJon1ora , in .foal Rtovpn Dnd "grates are now receiving th& benefit or cop.i taking toe. piajce-oi wooa. ; -The most disagreeable night of th ' rfdir. Tilvlif nf -thio., iiroolr . ft vp-pntlAmfln after supper, who ' had not ' had 1 time -Where' is theiyoman who: sniffs at saving 1 $2.00 on a pair of shoes ? We believe every woman in these. ; womah, and if she will ; give .us a half hour of her time she days of high cost:of Uving wiU recognizethe jalue of this op s wU3eavelhis store vbetW .satisfied with her footwear, and ' portunity ; tosave a little on shoes AJte&Pv more itrtain that her feet look ftheir i best than she ever was - when sne is onereu styie anu-uuuy u i wn ihokc iter wunf , ; da why she-has been spending mow money for shoes that doil ore- Io not IOOK a mue oeuer, nt d un The woman who, has to -vvatc bless the -day lege. Woman's bnoe ane Jioi:. , " ' have to apologize Tfcrm rshpes. (QfSQJ cq nn n A no will huv her a nair of xJ . " w as stylish shoes wear, trim, neat, 01 ; Deauuiuny sou, ----- can bu :a collar ior belt orafjaboit This is making one dollar do the work of two. We believe we during tne day to look over that morn ing's Star, asked for hi3 ?aper that he night look over it while he enjoyed his cigar. He was informed that an other gentleman in' the vicinity had borrowed the taper for a little while and had failed to return it. , We have thrown away much valuable time try- ng to convince that sinner that he needed the Star,. but we can't convert h'm, and 'never will do so while Wis neighbors "continue to supply him free, of cost. But that Is not all. Tnursday morning tire gentleman who had borrowed the paper the day be fore, actually took from the overcoat pocket or his neighbor, jhis paper be fore breakfast, and forgot 'to -return it. Ye Gods and little fishes' . It.te said that when Juage Carter discharged , the grand jury yesterday lie made a talk that every citizen in the county, should have heard, bearing cn the condition of things in the coun ty.- He is said to have made the state ment that during the past five years, according to figures, there had . been s greater number of homicides and murders committed in Robeson coun ty with its 50,000 population, -'than In the Dominion cf Canada, -with ' a p6pulation of 6,000,000. ' These are facts, to. put, the people to thinking. A-, wagon which would have added much to a big parade here .yesterday. appeared, on the street,- and caused much comment, some claiming that it had much political significance attach ed to it; while others did not mink so. The decoration consisted of a persim mon .tree well loaded with persim mons -.upon the .branches of which were four live o'possums with a dog standing at the root of the tree. Some said "Simmon " other said ' Kifcchin" would eat al the "Simmons" - in the State.' We are one. of those who do net ibelieve that' the person or persbns who decorateH the wagon ever dream ed; of such a thing" as a'ny such conr struction would be put on their effort to make things a-little interesting for the" school children. . We i were told last night that the outfit was gotten tip by ; one of the ; Governor's best friends. Others wanted ; to i say some '.cuss". word$ and claimed that It came with poor Jtaste ' v'::$ $ ." ' ; Messrs . - J , A . (Sandy V. Barker and G,: W. Barfield weat down, oa.tho Big swamp on ; a hunting. trlD - Monday night and had . tremendous fine luck. :Ve v are told that the Jr caught S two toons, three o'possuma, three "ole cats nd on fox. Mr .-1 Baiter, was . ihdls- poeed. Tuesday,, tout, we Jdid : not: hear now Mr . Barfield was getting . along. The dogs are .also, takirig a rest and nbt eating muchr'-'';.''5;4-;--'-' We have.it straight: that a leading Robeson county . citizen recentlywent to another county to try to" buy, a law yer, not to hire, but to buy. He knew that his own ounty had plenty of able lawyers, and he "knew toor that, he cculd not buy them. . ..They are 4 not for sale, but what be got Iwhea - he tried to purchase in . another county was a Dlenty.. When : ee made, ma rroooslttbn he was. told to so '"where theytlon't'shovel snoW;'' Right. - --Th new motion "picture show wfrich was thrown open to the public yester THE MORNING STAR, I .... . - -1 :..". -' V.-'" she dtscovered uie coi- i asJ sjie j eyer cared to - '- 1- -X' - . k. . . have the most complete siock , We have these in both the Wide and Narrow widths. As r .our stock of theses areimitedr;y6tt: had' - better not delay in .. v 'r:U . making youf purchased v , :Tt'X : ': ' L self day afternoon, was visited by large crowds during the evening and night. The show is equipped witn a Aew Ed ison machine and the latest . model, and the pictures , used to open the show were highly pleasing. The show will start every evening just as , soon as the . electric current is ; turned on and will run until 10 o'clock,; ; lumberton has been getting some mighty good hows so, far this season, and it isr expected that the '"Firing Line" which will be presented here Monday night will be one of the best of the entire season.' The snow will arrive here tomorrow evening, - from Newborn: '.- . y . ...... Among the-visitors An town yes terday was a man and his wife who brought in for sale six eggs and eight ounces of butter. That might - sound like they are, not large poultryor oow raisers, but .when, the price of these luxuries is considered that . Is not so small after all. . . The., proprietors of the Lumberton barber shop expect to be back at their old stand In the Columbia Hotel build ing by the middle of next week. - . A brokerage firm here received a few- days ago the first solidvcar , of tananas we ever heard of being, sbip ped to this. place. . y. :- - :-.'i'"- i Fresa string beans .were offerecr for sale here yesterday at a grocery store at 10. cents, a quart or. three quarts for a quarter. They were grown at Marion, S, C. " , It does seem that the Seaboard would drop a load or 'two of gravel at the passenger, station ' during wet weather such as we have been having the past few days, it is almost impos sible to board a train without wading through water from the waiting room to the train.. And for omslde lights at the station; they are not there. Turkeys ara beginning1 to make themselves heard in good many direc tions, but then Thanksgiving is only a little rover ihiee weeks off-Ci i o 1 There may be plenty of birds at this time, , but thf.ir days are - numbered. Two huntes yenerday brought .in ; 45 and sold them at 15 cents each.i :t , .r. j Yesterday as Goverhot Kitchin, Con pressman Godwin, Sepator. Cpbb and My.'Sandy- McLeod went up street in Mr : McLeod's automobile, one gentle man made the remark "there goes "a fine looking at of gentlemen." A young man who heard the remark, said: "Yes, but if that'ear was load ed " wth .Lumberton. girls It ' would ' be much more attractive." With all duv? respeict to the gentelmen ta the' car uiat. i-euiiirK snowea good Judgment ' The .iron brldsr the foot of- Fifth street - has been re- pairea ana is again open for travel. New timbers and a nrw 'floor have" beefi put in. The Vorfe Twas dpne done top; soon as the bridge rwas, ge t?ng to be dangerous in s,ome places. 1 We are delighted to hear that tie old-time corn; ehuckings are coming into fashion again. -We have heard of several during the seison. Those bid tSme com, shucking Bongs carry V us back to other days which We, enjoyed, and which we would like to live over again.' , ' . . ren ifWWttoa election was pulled off in this State a few syears .... ... ...... ... ,. .. r .. .-. ' jJSIDdDDE WODo ILMIKGTO;. C.y STjafPATf, NOVEMBER 12, 3 ' l - ... ... .-.. . ' . . . v. . . - 50c $1.0& ort " for women . . ilff f , v - : ; SSW3 " t . , r (BUdDOGd true economy-1 at $3.00 for the Gun Metal and $350 for the Tans." These" . ; s are regular $4.00 shoes, and you can save from 50c to $i;Q0 - oi siyusn snoes on eacn pair. 2117 North Ftfdrilt ' Street -iVM-- ' - 1; IV IVessc filanagcr .v ago we remember 'pno gentleman, who wore "a.- white rbbbn pinned to his coat and almost denounced everyone who did nbtAthinka8 he talked.,. He was a regular "fir-eater." Yesterday we saw that man slip off with a friend and , "treat" him ttf a drink of whis key. Consistency, etc. . Prof. N. D. "Johnson, was a Lum berton visitor yesterday after an ab- tnce of four years.' ' For some time Piof. Johnson has beea a great suf ferer from rheumatism, so'mirrh so that he has been forced to give up bis - work of teaching. For many years' he was one of the leading ed ucators of, this section of the State. Messrs.' Rudolph Carlyle and S. F. Caldwell .left ;ia.st night for Greens boro on a.pJsAste..trip-:--T-Mr. C. B. Skipper is haying, material placed on his lot for the erection of, a handsome hew residence. 'IJt , ;. ;,t '. Rennert Is 'going; to bae a- biff lot s&le next Wednesday aitd fthen on Fri-j day the big Tfownsend estate at Raynr ham will be ' disposed of "at auction. The property, will , be sold in lots. Raynham, .being ia oneof the.best sections of ;;the ' county, ,.' these lot" should. bring fancy prices. . v X-TAFT'S ENGINfeERSREPdRT! Friends of Niagara Falls interested In ' .. Preservation of ,;JIelr'yPeaity;; , (Special Star Correspondence. Niagara Falls, N;-Y-. ov. 11. The millions of friends'" of Niagara Falls who fear that water, diverted; for the Erie Canal and power purposes rwill intefere 'with the "grandeu - of -v the scene, will be interested, in Uhe Report of United States - Array : engineers to be submitted to Congress at the. om ing session. Tht report" snows .aat the natural actionv of the- water the grinding away of the soft rock' shelf at the toe of the famous Horseshoe V is. what Jthreatens most to damage tae appearance "of, "the" Falls. 7 :'S- ' 1' The engineers "appointed by Mr. Taft while -he" was Seetety of War under. -President Roosevelt,;' repor that according: to - scientific measure ments the entire change maue fn the crest of theme'rican,Falls.Owing to water diversion amounts to -a -.lowering. Of tbe. sheet of water . by ,052 of a foot the lowering ;o! thefccrest of the Horseshoe being .5 of foot. " In fig ures more, intelligibie .this means' that the crest line-of th American Falls is lowered 5-8 of ah inch dut of ap av erage depth of . 24 inches, the lowering of the crest of the Horseshoe or .Ca nadian FallS being ,6 inches out of an average -depth of II incues-a - de-ereAse-Bd slirht that neither e keen- 1 est eye nor the" most ' deifcate camera can--observe it, i : j V ' m p-c xThe damage which. tne falls .have deni to -themselves is';' inj the very middle of the. Horseshoe Where the wa: ter has ' gouged Into ' the ; so-" rock a 20Tfootf deep,w Vhaped , notch. - This ac ts as a channel which draws away water, from the shallower' ends e the falls -and which is eating its way up stream at a , rate' -of more -than . five feet a year.-, ,-r . ,..,), . . . The report, a,ecomTivendsv; that the governments f-th state of New York and the Province of Ontario plan a - r ..... - . . 4 j in tftis "viclnityr ;We believe --,vsv tr'ar matter what , your taste and :AV; ladtea's Button. and Gun- 'JJ i We have just received a. shipment of Indies' Hih Ton Tans and Gun Metal Button :Bpo6 .that 1 sunken V-shaped dam above t-e notch. The swift-rushing water, striking against the apex of this concealed d.'.m, will be deflected toward the ends of the falls and the falls will thereby regain something of their original nat ural appearance. SHEEP AND GOATS. Texas Association Will , Fight Free . Wool Republican Ticket - ; I Special Star Correspondence. ) San' Antonio, Texas Nov." 11. The Texas Sheep and Goat Raising Assoc iation prrposes fighting free wool and is' working now to raise a fund wiin which to eep a paid attorney in Wash ington this "Winter, to represent-the association in an"effort to -prevent the passage of a. free wooj bill or. other laws that might affect, the .future of the wool growing industry. If ,1s pointed out that during, the years of 1893 to 1897, when wool and mohair were the free list, wool brought such a h?w piice that SO per cent of the Texas .wool, growers were forced out of: business, .and .the , enormous de crease in the number of sneep; amount ed4 to 58 per cent, of the sheep stock bf Texas during those years. A. - , An uninstructed'ide' legation from Texas to the Repnibncan National Con vention next yeajr- is believed by some of -the leading Republicans -rof .' the State-to be the wish of iecilrA. Ivon. the! recognized "boss'; of the regulac. vaur I wim many an aenmq uruise. . , " Heans Itiaf you'fl find a joy complete - in roomy Stelion Shoes. .' ,N - (r - fmSfn a MinKf lsra Aini aI ii ir.. w viwuui u iwih ,i wit imiiucu luui icri - w 1911.1 ..,j-:.f ii . ' ' ..... II.-- V'li:T we can please any- ni personal hkes "are,- of style and per- High Top Tana. - r.letals. were-made for a Republican "organization" in the - State, and chairman -of the State Republican executive committee. . Col. jyon" U at present'on a-. hunt j on. his ranch in Mexico, but when-he returns is ex pected to make his wishes known. It is said Chairman Lyon came near breaking with President Taft a year ago, but a truce was arranged. An nouncement from him that" b-e wishes an uninstracted delegation will worry every one of Taft's appointees in. Tex as, who,' unwilling" to oppose' his de sires actively " and . openly, . are ' - just as unwilling to attend a national con vention ofjbeir partjv without stand ing vociferously for , the re.nomlnation Of Presidentt Taft.. . The activtiyof the LaJbollete cam paign bureau iand "the arguments ema nating from that source are causing, considerable uneasiness among the Re publicans In Texas that -wish -to see :'3J vV '' SCHOOL E RS WIDBOUN D. ; ; Many of,. Them Tug at Anchor Chains. .. j ' V . ;-vln HamptonRoads. ;r Norfolk, Va:,- Nov; y?Winoounfl, the majority of them", for "oyeT .two weeks, and one for 35 days, a fleet of 26 schooners, trading up and down the North Atlantic coast,- are now tugging impatiently ' at their; aacbor- chains -in HamptOa Roads,r while .tbir captaixis bemoan the 'vnfavorable!'wtn'da'.4n4''ng. '- ' - - -L -r A ;Jof Siplete in Roohiy Stetson Shoes ifiea'ns; that you do not H;1. 1 . a- LIU 'x. .1 f i comfortr I : style and ;pietenoe 1 J , !. :- No nightmare haunts any Stct-1 . son Shoe, the snabDiest style .or the .servative last. but liocpmtort be the domi nant consideration ask to see.the '- - 1 : Stetson Corndodger. PETERSON & RULFS Next to Murchison Bank. Stetsons cost more, by the .'. f . ' Y j . J I 4 11: ' " '! ure-the loss in. dollars and cents the delay is costing. According to a statement made by a well versed shipping authority to day, the fleet of wind janmwrH now tied up in Hampton Roads between Cape flenry.and Thimble .shoal liRlit, is the largest blockade of the past five years. ; . N Among the schooners winrlhouii'.l are the following: Lucie Wheat ley, Abbie H. "Gheen, N. H. Burrow, T. Morris Perot, 0.sH.13rown, Grace Van Dusen, . Zacheus Sherman, G reen leal Johnson, E. Ri Kirk, Lydia H. Jtoper, Charles Olcott, H. S. Lanfair, Wan en Adams, Henry JWeatherington, KHou M. Goldrar, Northland, Melvin P. Smith, 3: R: eel and Helen Housbrouck. ; ' Saved Many from Death I lW., L. Mock, of Mock, Ark., believes he has saved many lives in his years of experience in the drus hui-, ness. i "What I always like to do," wfites,' "is to recommend Dr. Kin? s New Discovery for weak, sore lmii;., tard colds, hoarseness, qlistinat; cbughs, la grippe, croup, asthma or other bronchial -affection, for I feci sure that a number of my nciElihoi' are alive and well today because thcr took-my advice to use it. I lion sil believe its the best throat and I'm! medicine that's made." Easy to prove hteVright. Get a trial bottle free. r regular 50c. or $1.00 bottle. Guaran ;ed W ?R r R: Bellamy.1" Here vou have cdmfdft, -com - satistactio n . most con-' pair bat less by the year 11) I -A7 -A V
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