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. It .. ...i. f iiii.iti'uAifc,.ii MnJ:" i . .. ..( ... 1 1 OMAN UrfastClraOaUM Rb ... fM County. NitMr thu 1,M Reader. Unsary Paper, H UK y wbM X jraar Saaacrfptfea Eipr. X PImmImmi(m X 4 sAaXrtlatag Madlaa. m Itf.U, m)t . : ESTABLISHED 1870. Country, God and Truth. SINGLE COPIES 6 CENTS. VOL. XXXVII, NO. ll. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, APRIL 10. 1006. WHOLE NO. 2128 ROBES STRAWBERRY CROP , SLIGHTLY DAMAGED Frosts Haie Hot TSamttaA Th fM , More Than 10 Per Cent. WILL BE LARGER THAN EYER Coast Line Railway Company and Armour Company say They Will be Prenared to Handle Cron Shipments Will Com mence Soon. Farmers are now lookhig for ward to the berry season with much interest and there is much concern whether or not the rail wavs will be able to handle the large crop- The Coast Line peo- Dlesav there is corner to be no trouble when shipments begin and the Armour people state that there will be no shortage of cars, as there was last season. Cars are already being placed in the berrvbelt. The Carolina Fruit and Truckers Journal says: Telegraphic advices to The Journal of this city from Chad- bourn, Grists. Whiteville, Tabor, Ashpole and Cerro Gordo, N. C, Loris, Conway, Marion, Mullins, Florence, Lake City and Charles ton, S. C., on the Coast Line; Clarkton, Abbottsburg and Lum ber ton on the Seaboard Air Line road; Currie, Atkinson, Parkers- burg and Fayetteville, on the A. & Y. railroad; Rocky Point, Bur- caw. Wallace. Teachey's, Rose Hill, Warsaw, Faison, Mt. Olive, Goldsboro, on the W. & W. rail road: Kinston, LaGrange, New Bern, and Dover, on the A. and N. C. railroad, all announce that the, frosts last Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights did not dam ace the strawberry crop as a whole exceeding ten per cent. In many places the damage was so slight as to practically amount to nothing, and at only one or. two places was it reported as much as ten per cent. A great majority of points reported the damage at five per cent, many others saying it was so slight as to be narcuy considered any damage at all. This will be welcome news to the growers and shippers all over the district and the commission merchants and consumers throughout the country, for North and South Carolina as well as Virginia strawberries are shipped to moro than 37 of the 46 states in the union. The cold snap of this week, however, has set the crop back fully a week and shipments will barely begin about April 20th. But from that time you will see the greatest movement of stawberries out of this territory ever recorded in thehistory of the industry. This information we get from every part of the producing territory, and it comes from men who know whereof they speak and who are familiar with the situation is de tail. Commission merchants and dealers may therefore hold them selves in line and readiness for the "bumper" crop when ship ments do begin' The friut will be something fine from all ap pearances, as the vines" never looked more vigorous and heal thy. S. A. L. Oftlces to Atlanta. - New York, April 5. At the of fices of the Seaboard Air Line today it was said that the ques tion of removing the company's general offices from Portsmouth, Va., was not considered at yes terday 's meeting of the directors. It is reported that a proposition has been made to remove the general offices from Portsmouth to another city, and Atlanta, Ga., has been mentioned as the point to which to transfer may be made. Quits Seaboard. New York, April 9. At a meet ing of the directors of the Sea board Air Line Railway held here J. M. Barr resigned as president and general manager oftheiail way company, to take effecton April 89. Alfred Walter, of Bal timore, was elected as president, to take effect April at). Olflclals Get Busy. Officials f the Seaboard Line Railway are in the eitokiid say they propose steyififthere until thepresentcon- In of freight is relieved. I" i j ilder stood that a shf ;- ainma to be allowed and ainew ...... vf J MRS. H. S. M'LEAN DEAD. Other News Notes of Interest From Red Springs Red Springs, April 7. The people of this community were saddened to hear f the death, on J last Tuesday, of Mrs. H. S. . home in Raeford. The news of her death was a great shock to her many friends and relatives as she was ill only a few hours Mrs. McLean was Miss Lizzie McDuffie before marriage. Quite a large crowd from here attended the funeral. Mrs. . r . u. Fearsall has re turned from a visit to relatives in Wilmington. She was accompa nied by Miss Florence Pearsall who expects to make an indefi nite stay here among friends Mr. and Mrs. A. T. McCallum went to Raeford Thursday t attend the funeral of Mrs. Mc Callums' sister-in-law, Mrs Wal ter Town send. Mrs. Wm. Vardell arrived from Fayetteville Wednesday for a short visit to her son, Dr. Var dell. From here she goes to Davidson. Rev. Mr. Thompson, of Aber deen,. spent last week with his daughter, Mrs. S. E. who has been quite ill. Mercer, Miss Virginia McCall, of Ben nettsville, spent a day in town last week, the guest Ethel Johnson. of Miss Mrs. Jno. T. McNeill has gone to Fayetteville to enter the St. Luke's Hospital for treatment Miss Sallie Sinclair, of Row land, visited relatives here last week. Mrs. J. E. Purcell is visiting relatives m Wilson this week. Mr. J. A. Huggins visited rela tives in South Carohna this week. Mrs. R. W. Livermore visited friends in Maxton last week Mrs. W. G. Butler is visiting relatives in Wilmington BUFFET LUNCHEON Given by Ladles Aid Society and Much Enjoyed. The Buffet Luncheon given by the Ladies Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church in the Court House Friday evening was a very enjoyable and successful affair. Refreshments were serv ed at tables on the rostrum. In addition to this there was a guess ing contest as to the contents of a cake. Mr. J. U. McCormick won the cake for the correct guess. Kecitations by Mrs. J. R. Poole and Misses Pauline Os borne, Irene McLeod and Eliza beth Baker were very much en joyed. About thiryt-five dollars for the manse fund was realized rom the evening's enter tain m ent. MAXTON NEWS NOTES. Mr. Currie Returns From Char lotteOther Items. Maxton, April 7. Dr. D. S. Currie returned from Charlotte Wednesday morning where he graduated at the North Carolina Medical College at that place. He leaves Monday for Davidson to take the quiz course there pre paratory to standing the exami nation before the State Board some time next month. Cards have been received here this week announcing the mar riage of Miss Virginia McColl of Bennettsville, S. C, to M., J. Chesley McCaskill, Jr., of this place on the 18th inst. Dr. Prince, of Ijaurinburg.was here Wednesday where he was called in consultation with the local doctors about the fiondition of Dr. H. W.McNatt who is quite sick. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Livermore, of Red Springs, were in town Wednesday night. Miss Leila Barnes is" the guest of Miss Pearl Morrison at Mc Coll, S. C. this week. Mr. Oscar Patterson.of Greens boro, was a visitor here. Wednes day. Miss Florence Wooten left Thursday afternoon for Lumber ton, where she will visit Miss Annie Neal McLean. Miss Bessie McNair went to McColl, S. C. Thursday night to visit friends. Dr. Luther McMillan, Vf Red Springs was in town Thursday. Misses Ina and Mary McNair and Mary McEachin of Laurin burg were visitors here last Thursday. Mrs. Kate Smith and Roy Mc Nair spent Thursday in Laurin burg with their many friends. With the exception of the Smiths, Joneses, and Browns there are few families as old as tlje Hills.,. . DEATH OF CAPT. WILLIS P. MOORE Funeral Held Sunday Afternoon a Raynnam OLDEST MASON IN THE COUNTY Passed AwaySatnrday Morning Survived by Three Daughters Burled With Masonic Honors Large Crowd the Funeral. Attended Capt. Willis P. Moore, one of the most prominent citizens of the county, die J Saturday morning at the home of his daughter, Mjs. Mary Thompson, at Ashpole. Had he lived until June he would have been 76 years of age. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock from As- bury Methodist church, near Raynham, of which he was a most aevoteu memoer. lie was ounea witn masonic nonors, a crowd of about sixty Masons at tending the service. Thirty of the number went from St. Al ban's Lodge, of which the de ceased was the oldest member. The pall bearers were the fol lowing named Masons: Messrs. Frank Gough, C. B. Townsend, C. B. Skipper, S. E. Britt, W. H. Humphrey and E. Fisher. The funeral service was con ducted by the Rev. Mr. Ashby, of Ashpole, pastor of the church. There was an attendance of friends and relatives estimated at one thousand people. No man in the county had moro friends and was better known than he. The deceased is survived by three daughters. Mrs. Ella Pace. Mrs. Mary Thompson and Mrs. Eliza Smith. Captain Moore was a second cousin of Dr. II. T. and Mr. Ira T. Pope. JEWISH PASSOVER. Next Monday the memory of all the world will turn to that greatest period of their history, the exodus from Egypt, which will be commemorated by the ob servance ot the holidays. Known as passover, or Paisahh, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, or HhaghaMatzoth. The term Passover is derived from the passing over of the Angel of Death over the houses of the Israelites, when ho slew the first born of the Egyptians. The Feast of Unleavened Bread is used because during the eight days observed by the Orthodox Jews and the seven days observ ed by the reformed Jews no leav en bread is eaten. This com memorates the fact that in the hurried departure from the per secutions of Egypt the children, of Irael were forced to carry as a means of sustenance the un baked dough, which was baked i by the heat of the sun in the desert. The first day of the Passover is the anniversary of the Exodus, The seventh day is the anniversa ry of the passing through the Red Sea. The first and second and sev enth and 8th days are observed by the Orthodox Jews as holy days. The reformed Jews ob serve only the first and seventh days are as holy days. The in tervening days are minor holi days. The holy days are observ ed by services in the synagogue in tne morning and evening and with family services led by the head of the house, after the eve ning services in the synagogue. A portion of tne service in the homes is devoted to recounting the history of the exodus from Egypt. At the morning services at the synagogue Tuesday bless ings for the giving of the dew are offered. At the morning ser vices at the synagogue on the seventh day, the anniversary of the passage through the Red sea, the Song of Moses is recounted. Columbia State. One Year's Growth. The statement of the First Na tionalBankis published in this issue of The Robesonian. It shows that the deposits have in creased in one year nearly one hundr-'d thousand dollars. April 0th, 1005, the amount of deposits was $32,840.37, and April 0th, 190G, it was $1 a 1,762.08. This record has few parallels in the banking institutions of the State. That man never lived who en joyed havinga waiter stand around and watch him eat, . . . REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. List of Deeds Filed With Register Bollock. The following deeds were filed in the office of the register of deeds during last week: East Carolina Land and Im provement Co, to J. B. Plummer, 2 lots in Parkton, consideration $150. F. J. Davis and wife to Brown Shaw Lumber Co., timber deed. $ 10. Daniel Ivey to Oliver Faircloth. zo acres, consideration, $40. Lavid Israel and wife to A. E. Israel, 57 acres on Lumber river. consideration $l'00. N. A. McLean and wife to A. W. McLean, undivided half in terest in tract of land in Lumber ton township, $2,750. J. W. Swann and wife to R. M Edwards 4 acres in Lumberton township, $125. Martm McKmnon to George Williams; one acre in Red Springs $750. Neill J. Revels and Sarah Revels to James C. Paul, one acre in lumberton, $20. William Love to A. Wilson, one lot m Ked Springs, consideration $275. H. McN. Lytch to Mary Mc Neill, one acre in Red Springs, $350. NeiJl J. Revels and wife to J C. Bond, It acres in Lumberton township, $18. Minnie McQueen and husband to J. B. Bullock, 70 acres in Al fordsville township.consideration $330. D. L. Dew and wife to Joseph Walters. 129 acres in St. Paul's township, consideration $1,000. A. V. McLean and wife to D C. McIntyre,onelotin Belvedere, consideration $425. W. M. Jones and wife to Archie and Charity Malloy. one lot in Maxton township, consideration $30. F. B. Peace to G. W. Byers, one lot m St. Paul's, considera tion $75. S. P. McNair and wife to Mc- Diarinid-Williams Lumber Co. 130 acres in Howellsville town ship, consideration $2,000. A. L. Broadwell ani wife to James , T. Barlur, 52 acres in Wishart's township, considera tion $800. BELLAMY NEWS ITEMS TheL. T. Cottingham Lumber Company's saw mill has shut down this week for repairs. Mr. I. J. Wilkins jjn to move to Bladenboro, where life is going into the mercantile business. Mr. Preston Pate made a flying trip to the Ten-Mile section Sun day to see friends and relatives. The farmers of this section are very busy at present planting corn and preparing cotton land. There was quite a largo crowd out at Singletarvs Cross Roads church Sunday, but got an April tool, tor Kev. J. W. Brisson did not fill his regular appointment. We hear that Mr. Joe Branch. of Howellsville and Miss Nonia Smith, of R. F. D. 5., were united in matrimony Sunday at 4 p. m Mr. Troy Phillips officiating. Messrs. McKee and Walton were in our town Wednesday loomng ior a location ior a new saw mill which the former is go ing to erect here. FLORAL COLLEGE ITEMS. Floral College, April 7. Mr iNeiu Aiiora spent monday in Lumberton on business. Mr. W. L. Hill left last week for Charlotte, where he goes to accept a position as representa tive ot Tne Presbyterian Stand ard. Miss Lou Graham, who has been teaching the Allendale school was forced to close and return home on account of ill ness. Miss Etta McKay after an at tack of measles was able to re sume her studies at the S. P. C, Red Springs, last week Monday. The. school at McGirt's Bridge gave a concert last Friday night consisting ;6f recitations, plays, dialogues, etc., which was tho roughly enjoyed by all. The play "Red Riding Hood "especially de serves commendation. The com parative easewith which each pupil per formed his part was strikingly illustrated. . Dr. H. G. Hill's address on "Education" was concise and to the point. The whole make-up of the entertain ment shows much painstaking effort and the pupils and teacher are to be congratulated on their successful ventures. The school will continue for a month on the subscription basis. A. A.M. Many a man would be glad of an opportunity to decorate the grave of an enemy. . .; v . PRESIDENT HOORE TO VISIT COUNTY W1U lake Stfen Addresses in Interest ot Cotton Association ACREAGE WILL BE SAME There Will be Little If any In crease In Acreage this Year In Kooeson umnty-rarmers are Planning For Diversified Crops. President Chas. C. Moore, of the State Cotton Growers Asso ciation will make seven addresses in liobeson county during the month under the auspices of the County Cotton Grow ers Association. It is hoped that there will be large attendance at all of these meet ings. The work of the Associa tion must be carried forward with unabated zeal if its mission is accomplished. The schedule for President Moore follows: Raeford, April 17th, 2 p. m.: Red Springs, April 17th, 8 p. in.; Lumber Bridge, April 18th, 11 a. m.; St. .Pauls, April 18th. 2 p. m.; Rowland, April 18th, 8 p. m.. Ashpole, April 10th, 11 a. m.; Maxton, April K)th, 8:50 p. m. The addresses will no doubt be interesting. President Moore is greatly interested the work of th association, and more than this, he is a most interesting speaker. Vice President McKinnon, of the State Association, and President R. W. Livermore, of the county association, will accompany Mr. Moore on his tour over the county. Reports from a number -of the townships show that the acreage this year will be about the same as last year. In fact the reports show that there will not be a variation of more than two or three per cent, from the acreage last year. This shows all too well that the plant ers are determined to keep down the acreage. It is necessary to keep down the acreage.if the pricesare main tained. Every farmer should do his part by not planting more cotton this year than he did last Association has just commenced It can be made a power if the men who compose it will stand together. ASHPOLE NEWS ITEMS. Ashpole, Apr. t. Uards or in vitation are out for the marriage of Mr. Rouse, one of our most prominent young business men, and Miss Eva Ashley, the lovely young daughter of the late A. P. Ashley. Theceremony will take place on the eighteenth of the month in the Baptist church. We know of no Ashpole people who had to attend court last week except Dr. McPhaul who was a witness in the celebrated South ern Saw Mills case. Mr. I. T. Brown and wife and little daughter, of Philadelphus, were welcome visitors in town oyer Sunday the guests of rela tives. Dr. A. G. Floyd and son of Fair Bluff were here last Thurs day. Dr. Floyd being called here by the illness of his mother. Work is being pushed rapidly on the two stores of Mr. Frank Pitman on Main Street. The walls will soon be up. Mr. Jack Carter, of Maxton, spent a day in town last week on his way home from Wilmington. Miss Emeline Carpenter visited Miss Mamie McDaniel last week and took in the millinery opening. Messrs. Will Carlyle and Bill Bryant, of Lumberton, were here a short while on Thursday. Miss Agne Ashleywent to Lumberton last Wednesday on a shopping tour. Dr. and Mrs. F. H. Pitman spent last Wednesday in Lum berton. vv1- Death ol Preston Vann, Jr Preston, the little son of Prof and Mrs. P. S. Vann, died Satur day noon at their home at Robe son Institute, after an illness ol" several weeks. The funeral was held from the Institute Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock, the Rev. C. H. Durham, pastor of the First Baptist Church, conducting the service. The interment was at the cemetery just east of town. Subscribe for The Robesonian SUPERIOR COURT ADJOURNS. Verdict In Favor of Defendant In Case Against Billy Barf f eld. The case of Powell against iiarneid, claim and delivery pro- part of the time in Robeson superior uourt, since Thursday. it resulted in a verdict in favor of the defendant. This case is the outgrowth of the case tried before Justice Ira B. Townsend several weeks aj;o, in which Mr. Powell charged Mr.Barfleld with the larceny of a bale of cotton from his farm, several miles from town. After the hejtrinsr. Justice Townsend dismissed the case. The case was called for trial Thursday and a large number of witnesses were' examined for both the plaintiff and defendant. The evidence of the one side was almost exactly the opposite of the other. Every inch of ground was closely contested, the plain tiff endeavoring to establish his charge that defendant had stolen the cotton, and defendant endeav oring to prove his assertion that le produced it himself. The attorneys were: Messrs. David J. Lewis, of Whiteville; Wishart t Shaw and E. M. Britt, for the plaintiff; and Messrs. J. G. McCormick, S. Mclntyre and W. II. Kinlaw, for the defendant. Several strong and able speeches were made to the jury. When the verdict was returned, coun sel for the plaintiff made a mo tion for a now trial. This mo tion being overruled, notice of appeal was given. Saturday evening a number of judgments were signed, and t'..: cases not tried were continued to next term. Not the Sliiger But the Song. Thirty men, red-eyed and d is shoveled, lined up before a judge of the San Francisco police court It was the regular morning com pany of drunks and disorderlies. Some were old and hardened; others hung their heads m shame. Just as the momentary disorder attending the bringing of the prisoners nuieted down a strange thing happened. A strong, clear voice from below began singing ljiist night I lay sleeping, There came a dream so fair.' Last night? It had been for them all a nightmare or a drunken stupor. The song was such a contrast to the horrible fact that no one could avoid the sudden shock at the thought the song suggested. "I stood in old Jerusalem, Beside the temple there." The song went on. The judge had paused. He made a quiet inquiry. A former member of a famous opera company, known all over the country, was waiting trial for forgery. It was he who was singing in his cell. Meantime the song went on. Every man in the line showed emotion. One boy at the end of the line, after desperate effort at self-control, leaned against the wall, busied his face in his folded arms and sobbed, "O mother, mother!" The sobs cutting the weary hearts of the men who heard, and the song, still welling its way through the court room blended in the hush. At length one man protested: Judge," said he, have we got to submit to this? We're here to take our punishment, but this" He, too, began to sob. It was impossible to proceed with the business of the court, yet the judge gave no order to stop the song. The police ser geant, after a surprised effort to keeep the men in line, stepped back and waited with the rest. The song moved to its climax; Jeruralem, Jerusalem! Sing,for the night is o'er! losanna in the highest, hosanna for evermore!" In the ecstacy of melody the ast words rang out, and then there was a silence. The judge looked into the faces of the-meabefore him. There was not one who was not touched by the song; not one in whom some better impulse was not stirred. He did not call the cases singly a kind word of advice, and he dismissed' them all. No nian W,as fined or' sentenced to the work house that -morning. The song had done more eood than punishment could have ac complished. California Chris tian Advocate. The Poor Orphan. He's rever known a mother'! care, He's liad no one to love him. No sbel et from the stormy air. No Pa to push and shove him, No lefty, g and old family tree 1 To make ms heart throbs quick en- Ota. pity pity such aa he, 1 nt incubator chicken i HOWARD BEGINS LIFE SENTENCE tODHCted Of Murder Of GOTeMOr Wil- Ham Goebel, of Kentucky DRAMATIC SCKNE AT GATES Governor's Brother Sees man Safely Behind Bars-Prisoner was Handcuffed Saw Him Change Clothes at the Prison Smile Changes to Frown. Frankfort, Ky.. Aoril 9. Th. brother of the late G OV. William Goebel, who has been most rr. sistent for six years past in bring ing his murderers to justice, to. day followed Jim Howard, the man who has been three times convicted of having fired the fatal shot from ambush, within the gates of the State penitentiary here, where Howard tookun ser vice of the life sentence imposed upon him by a Franklin county jury for that crime. Mrs. How ard, the wife of the condemned man, was also of the party. A dramatic scene was present ed at the gates of the prison as she departed from him, and later, as Arthu r Goebel sat and watched the transforming of Howard from citizen into convict. The ordeal was a most trying one for the noted prisoner, and he showed it only in silence, and the absence of the smile which he wore when first he reached Frankfort to-day and was presented in the Circuit Court room for the formal giving of the commitment papers 1y Judge Stout to the county Sher iff. Howard was met upon his ar rival at the railroad station here by about 500 persons. They flocked around the Sheriff's party, accompanying it to the court house, and half the number fol lowed to the gates of the prison, which were closed to keep back the crowd. The prisoner was handcuffed en route from the sta tion to the courthouse, but was not manacled as he was later taken to the prison. The smile which he has worn throughout all of his trials, except when upon examination, did uot desert him as he walked through the streets of the city, nor until he had parted from his wife at theprison door, and had entered the inner portals of the institution. In its place then came the - .strained, hard, look which witnesses swore was upon his face immediately after the shooting of Goebel, and which came upon it when prose cuting lawyers were addressing the jury before whose members he was being tried for his life. PLANS FOR THE EXPOSITION. Affair Will Bank Among the Most Interesting Indastrla Ex hibits. Much interest has already been manifested by manufactures and dealers in cigars and tobac co, and by-growers of leaf tobac co, in the United States, Cuba and Porto Rico, in the Tobacco Trades Exposition to be held in Madison Square Garden, New York, next September. One of the strongest features of the Exposition, and one which will be decidedly educational, is a progressive display of tobacco from the several tobacco growing districts of the United States and' the islands, showing the weed in various stages of cultivation, and also how it is housed and cured before reaching the hands of the packers and manufacturers. The Exposition Company will award, through a jury, medals of , gold, silver and bronze for the best showing of tobacco in this . exhibit; also for the relative merits of the several kinds of eured leaf. , -Applications are already at hand for entrance in this branch of the Exposition from Cuba and Porto Rico,and these contestants will snow how the leaf is handled in the tropics, together with dwelling of the natives, and the present day cigar factories. , No effort will be spared by the Exposition Company to make' this an epoch marking affair. All convenience will be provided ex hibitors and the general visiting public. Provision has also been made for the designing and build- ing of the booths, which work is in charge of M. Bloom, a New York architect. He is a mean man who refuses to give praise where it is due.' -i T I t ' i . ; . , m t .r v. A 5 . ... ! ;. fit-1 - Lj. t J - V
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