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' l,' ,,'h T ) ft' r . 1 ft ON I A .:: ROBES BSTABLISHBlvl870. - Country, God and Truth. SINGLE COPIES 6 CENTS. VOL. XXX VH, NO. 6. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, MARCH 23. 1006. WHOLE NO. 2128 TWO COTTON HILLS FOR LUMBERTON Almaj lien o! Capital Stock Is Ssbscriled. HAKES THREE FOR OUR TOWN One Mill has for Its Promoters Stockholders In Lumberton Cotton Mills Will be a Seperate and Distinct Corporation. -Committee Appointed. Lumberton is to have two new -cotton mills. Much of the capi- tal stock of both has been sub-; -scribed and work will begin on the two new mills in a short time. Within the last few days the pro moters of both have been very active. We are glad to know that the people are manifesting such enterprise, for it means much for the town. The subscription books of one were opened Monday af ternoon, and already $50,000 of the capital stock has been sub scribed by local people. The name of the new mill has not been decided upon, but Dres den has been suggested. The mill be located in or near town. The enterprise has for its promoters a number of the stockholders in the Lumberton Cotton Mills, but the new con cern will be a separate and dis tinct corporation. The stock will be sold at $100 per share, and the public gener ally will be given an ooportunity to subscribe whatever amount they may wish. The following have been appointed a commit tee to solicit subscriptions: R. D. Caldwell, A. W. McLean, A. E. White Q. T.Williams and H. B. Jennings. THE OTHKK MILL. A representative of The Robe sonian had a conversation with one of the promoters of the other mill, which is being backed by stockholders of the First National Bank, Wednesday morning. He stated that their mill was an ab solute certainty. The mill, he said, will be capitalized at $125, 000. Already much of the amount is subscribed and the entire capi tal stock is in sight. This mill has for its promoters a number of prominent business men in Lumberton, as well as several cotton mill men not re siding here From the spirit that is mani fested it seems absolutely cer tain that the mill will be built. Among those who are taking sub scription to the stock of this mill are Sheriff McLeod and H. M. McAllister. The new mills will be quite an addition to the business enter prises of the town, and of course will mean the bringing into the city of a large number ot peo- 'ple. Few investments have paid better dividends than that of the Lumberton Cotton Mills, organized a few years ago. Any one wishing to secure stock can write to any of the committee at Lumberton. The rumor that other mills are to be built here has been current A for some time. Should these mills be built, as no doubt they will, it will place Lumber ton among the foremost cotton manufacturing Itowns in the State. We regret that the letter from our Ashpple correspondent was received too late for publication It will appear in nest issue. NEW TWO-STORY BUILDING. Earth Broken for Store I Mc Allister Hardware Company. Dirt was broken Tuesday for the foundation 'of the new build ing to be owned and occupied by the McAllister Hardware Compa ny. The building will be two stories in height, with a front age of 30 feet on Main street and a depth of 100 feet. A basement in the rear will be provided for the heating of the building by steam, the first building in Lumberton to have steam heat. The new building will be quite an addition to the business houses on Main street and will give this linn a most desirable! place for its bu sines. The com-i pany already has its warehouse at the rear of the new building The company, which now occu pies a building nearer the depot, on the other side of the street, hopes to get in the new home early in the autumn. Union Service Sunday. There will be a special Union Service at the First Baptist Church next Sunday morning from 10 to 12 o'clock, when the Sunday school and congrega tion will unite in worship. I he service promises to be of un usual interest. We are request ed to stata that a most cordial invitation is extended to the public, and members of the con gregation and Sunday School are especially urged to be pres - ent. GENERAL IDE STATES REPORT IS EXAGGERATED Says There fas no Unwanton Slaughter ot Women and Children-Ten Women Killed Washington, March 21. Sec retary Taft has received the fol lowing cablegram from Governor General Ide, at Manila, dated to day, relative to the Mount Dajo tight: "Newspaper reports from Ma nila, announcing the wanton slaughter of women and children at Mount Dajo, extremely sensa tional and in all essential details false. The situation occupied by Moro outlaws in the crater of the volcano, 2,100 feet high, was ex ceedingly difficult and required display of heroism on the part of the army, navy, and Filipinos and Moroc onstabulary, who rendered most valuable service. Some wo men and children were killed or wounded by preliminary shelling at a distance. Moros were out laws and fanatics and refused to surrender to the last, attempting repeatedly to murder our forces who were rescuing wounded Mo ros. Moro Sultan and leading Dattos rendered great assistance and the surrounding population is in great sympathy with the course taken to remove the gang of cut throats who were preying upon the community, retreating as occasion required to what they supposed to be impenetrable fast nesses, There was no killing anyone except such as was in dispensable to end the intolerable situation. Attack not ordered until every resource looking to possible adjustment exhausted. Troops and officers deserving of highest praise." Secretary Taft has also made public an exhaustive report from Major Hugh L. Scott, who was governor of the Moro provinces just preceding the engagement, respecting the habits of warfare of those people. Major Scott details his efforts BED SPRINGS BOTTLING Correspondence of The Robesonian. Red Springs, March 22. A bottling works plant is one of the new enterprises that will soon make a part of the progress of the town. The men who are building it insures success for it in advance. It is an incorporaxed company that is building it. The incorporators are B. W. Town send, Martin McKinnon and A. B. Pearsall. In view of the great i How of pure mineral water here j it is strange such a manufactory j had not been buill before. Car bonated water, high grade ginger ale and all kinds of soft drinks are to be made. It is to be one of the largest and best equipped plants of the kind in the State. By the first of April it will be in full operation. We are under obligations to Col. E. F. McRae for a copy of the official proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual session of the Farmers' National Congress. We have had time to give it only a cursory reading. It has its fads and fancies perhaps, but its ad dresses are full of figures that interest us. No doubt there is self jugglery made unconsciously and honestly in the use of many of them. It is forever true that he who would utilize the statis tics of figures in augmentation must watch himself if he would avoid insane conclusions, We lay down this publication near by, for we expect to study it more fully and carefully. A chemical engine is to be shipped here for exhibition in a few days. The town needs some provision for fighting fire. Of the worth of such an apparatus we know almost nothing. The crying need of the town, we are persuaded, is water works, an ample supply of water, always ready' plenty of hose, etc. to maintain order among the Mo ros, and says: "The policy of Gen. Wood in that archipeligo has always been to bring about peace and order as gently and with as little loss of life as possible. In every case where it! has been necessary to arrest Moros charged with crime and they had gone into the strongholds and called their friends and relatives about them to resist arrest, every possible effort, extending in some cases over weeks and months, has been made to bring about the arres without bloodshed. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Members of Important Deals In Robeson County Realty. The following deeds have been filed in the office of the Register within the last few days: B. F. McLean and wife to Wal- ter Leak. 22 acres in Maxton township, $500; C. T. Cashwell and others to Alma Lumber Company, 10 acres in Maxton township, $150; R. H. Hamer and wife to Alma Lumber Com pany, 102 acres in Alfordsville township, $738.75; Martha A.. Everett to Alma Lumber Com pany, land in Alfordsville town ship, $600; F. W. Kercher, to Alma Lumber Company, 545 near Short Swamp, $850; F. A. Fore and wife to Alma Lumber Company, 273 acres in Alfordsville township, for $106 and othervaluable considera tions; Edward S. Lathrop and wife to P. A. Fore, 35 acres, $537.10; E. K. and C. L. Hines to Alma Lumber Company, one lot in Maxton township, $250; SL TO HAVE WORKS PLANT Mr. Huggins has closed a con tract for replacing four of the stores that were burned in the late great fire. The new stores are to be.brick, of course, large, commodius and handsome. The Red Springs Drug Company will begin the replacing of its burnt Store as soon as practicable with an elegant building. The business of the town is expanding. Time merchants are increasing. The Red Springs Trading Company, the Sikes-Cur-Currie Company, Townsend and Thrower and W. H. Council, are doing this kind of business. Here tofore there was only one time firm. Mr. J. B. McColman and fam ily have moved to Hamlet. Very many regrets were expressed at their departure. They are ex cellent people. Mr. J. Allen Hug gins will occupy the residence he vacates. The acreage of cotton to be planted and amount of fertilizers to be used this year will be about the same hereabouts we learn as last year. Mr. Tom McLeod left Monday afternoon for his home in Quit man, Ga. He is one of our boys who has made his home in the South. Mrs. Fred Pearsall has re turned from a visit to her old home in Harnett. Miss Cammie McCaskill. of Maxton. is the truest of Miss Mary Eliza Robeson. Mr. R. S. Dickson, of Rowland, spent a day in the town the past week. Fayetteville Presbytery will meet at Laurel Hill church Tues day, 24th of April, at 1 1 a. m. Rev. Dr. C. G. Vardell returned from Savannah, Ga., last Satur day. R. Townsend and wife Lumber Company, 150 Alfordsville township, John D. Shaw, Jr., and Cook, commissioners, Lumber Company, 717 to Alma acres in $1,000: Leon T. to Alma acres i Alfordsville township, $7,200; Al len Edens and E,. H. McKinnon to Mrs Hattie Phillips, $550; Collins A. Bass and wife to Franklin B. Bass, 41 acres, $209; Fred Bass and others to Lenon Foley, 26 acres in White House township, $175; Martin Humph rey to L. Humphrey, 15 acres How ellsville township, Consideration, love and affection and $1.00 G. W. Goodman and wife to Alma Lumbejr Company, 200 acres in Maxton township, $1,100; Hector L.M cBryde and wifeito JamesB. Coppedge.lotinRed Springs,$400; D. L. Dew and wife to Univer. sity of North Carolina, $10; A. McA. Trawick to Neill Baker, 150 acres in Alfordsville town ship, $300; S. B. McLean to John Leach, lot in Maxton township, $500; John G. Watson to D. B. McKee, 95 acres in Britts town ship, $215; A. W. McLean and wife to D. B. McKee, timber deed, $2,750; R. R. Barnes and wife to J. C. Barnes, one lot in Sterlings township, $300; R. M. Patterson to Alex Patterson, 100 acres in Howellsville township, $375. Robeson Comes Third. The average price paid white school teachers in North Carolina is $29.63. New Hanover leads with $40 a month, but it has only fourteen outside of Wilmington. Wilson county comes next with $36.79; Robeson is third with $36.39. Pitt fourth with $37.36; and Wake next with $34.85. News and Observer. ' Does Not Drink Whiskey. Mr. J. A. Raine, who was given a hearing Monday before Mayor Thompson on the charge of as sault, requests us to state that he was not under the influence of whiskey at the time of the trou ble with Mr. Sykes. Friends of Mr. Raine says he has never been a drinking man. The cause for the assault was that Mr. Sykes had started the trouble by curs ing Mr. Raine, who regrets very much that the trouble occurred, the first time he was ever ar rested in his life. Pay Yonr Poll Tax. The attention of the various township executive committee men is called to the fact that it is a matter of extreme importance that poll tax be paid before May 1st in Order that persons liable for the same may vote in the com ing election. Every Democratic voter should give this matter at tention. Be sure to investigate and see that you have your tax receipt. Precinct committees should look after the voters in their townships and see that no votes are lost on this account. Greensboro Daily News, 20th: Miss Ila Humphrey, of Lumber- ton, N. C, is visiting Miss Cornie Clegg at the Hotel Clegg. Miss Humphrey was formerly a stu dent at the Greensboro Female College and is well known in the city. TWENTY MINERS LOSE LIVES IN SNOWS LIDE Snow In Colorado the Worst in Many Tears-Miners Take Relnge In Tunnel. Ourav. Col. . March 2 1 . - -It is feared that at least twenty mi ners have lost their lives in the snow slides which have cut off from all outside communication six hundred miners employed in the various mines within a radius of 20 miles from Ouray. The exact number of deaths will not be known for days. As many as 25 mines are completely iso lated. The damage may reach $1,000,000. At the Camp Bird mine, which is four miles from the Bird mill, a snow late last evening com pletely isolated 50 or more miners employed there, and as the pro vision house was carried away, it is certain they are in urgent need of feod. A party of two hundred miners started to their rescue today. The body of William J. Cressy, and Englishman, who lost his life in the slide at the Camp Bird mill, has been recovered. It is said there is 6o feet of snow at the high tower of the tramway of the Camp Bird and the snow is very deep all along the route of the tramway. In the Omaigan basin is snow from 150 to 300 feet deep. This will prevent work on the reconstruction of the tram way for several weeks. All the employees of the Camp Bird mine and mills, who took refuge in the tunnel to eseai; snow slides, reached Ouray to day, .coming over the mountain on snow shoes. Communication had today with several other mines shows that the men em ployed at thesemines are safe. By mistake, we stated in the last issue of The Robesonian that the amount Mr. L. T. Cottingham placed on the school bond of Treasurer McKenrie was $1,000. It should hare been $2,500. CONFERENCE WITH RAILWAY OFFICERS Traders Anxious to Sean Freight Ac comodations. NEW MUNICIPAL BUILDING Ground Is Being Broken for May ors flfee and Jall-PleasM ! With Growth of Robesonian Seotlsh Chief Installing New Engine-Local and Personal. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Maxton, March 22. J. S. Mc Rae, A. J. McKinnon and H. C. McNair have gone to Wilming ton to confer with the traffic offi cials of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, relative to furnishing transportation facilities for mel ons, cantaloupes and other truck for the. coming season. There are also delegates from other towns in the county, and as tfiey are all business men who gener ally get what they go after, sat isfactory results may be expected from their mission. Mr. B. C. Glass, has been succeeded in the wholesale gro cery business by the Adams Grain and Provision Company, of Charlotte, N. C, but the business will still be under the direction and management of Mr. Glass. In building up so large a business here in a comparatively short time, Mr. Glass has demon strated business ability of a high order. Success to him under the new regime. Ground is being broken and material delivered for the May or's office and jail soon to be built here. The present mayor and board of aldermen of our town are constantly making im provements and their record has been one of progress. Additional new machinery, in cluding an engine, has been in stalled in the Scottish Chief of ffice. The able and competent editor and manager of that paper is ever on the qui vive and may be counted on to give his patrons the best available. The growth and expansion ' of The Robesonian is noted with approval by its subscribers here. They are proud of their live and up-to-date county paper and have only good wishes for the sheet and its deserving and enterpris ing publishers. Mr. W.C. Currie, of Laurel Hill, was here Monday. Chalmers is always a popular visitor in Maxton. He has a "taking way" with him. Mr. R. M. McQueen and J. C. Sinclair, i)f Raeford, were in town recently. These gentlemen always receive a hearty welcome here. Dr. J. I). Croom, Sr., left Sat urday afternoon for an extended trip to Florida. Bon voyage to the Doctor! Mr. M. W. Cole, who went to Raleigh a few days since for op tical treatment, is reported to be improving. Capt. Tucker, of the lied Springs Military Academy, was reconnoitering lately in and about this burg. . There is a real live Wolf in Robeson no joke. Has it lair in Lumberton. Mr. F. L. Black is in Charlotte on legal business. Messrs. C. W. Blue and John Blue, of Aberdeen, and J. P. L. Armfield, of Fayetteville, were in town Thursday.'.
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